Highest-Rated Movies about 'Dark Past'

Marianne (2019), Graves End (2005), The Hole (2009), Haunted (1995), Wide Awake (2006), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), The Accountant (2016), Strait-Jacket (1964) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Dark Past movies.

#16. Like Minds (2006)

Storyline: The forensic psychiatric Sally Rowe is called by Detective Martin Mackenzie to analyze the profile of the teenager Alex Forbes, who was found in a train station holding the body of his schoolmate Nigel Colby and with powder in his hand. Alex discloses his relationship with Nigel, who believes that they were descendants of the Templar Knights, and how Nigel used the power of his mind to control him. Mackenzie believes that Alex is the killer, but Susan investigates the family of Nigel under pressure of Alex's father, and finds that all of them belong to an ancient and powerful secret society.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, murder mystery, boarding school, dark secrets, british film, crime drama, mind games ...

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#17. Lights Out (2016)

Storyline: A man called Paul is working after hours and is murdered by a supernatural entity in the shadow. When his son, the boy Martin, is frightened by the same creature, he sees his mother Sophie talking to an imaginary friend called Diana in the shadow of her room. Martin does not sleep anymore during the night. His older step sister Rebecca who lives alone is summoned by the social assistant. She brings Martin home and recalls her own experience with Diana years ago when she was young. Rebecca and her boyfriend Bret investigate the connection of Sophie with Diana and come up to a scary revelation about their past.

Plot Keywords: horror, supernatural, ghost, darkness, psychological thriller, family, mother ...

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#18. My Bloody Valentine (1981)

Storyline: Valentine's Day is coming around and the young people of the small mining town of Valentine's BLuffs are organising a party. A few decades earlier an explosion at the mine trapped six miners underground. One, Harry Warden, survived, though in a deranged state. Warden is sent to a mental hospital but escapes and murders those he deems responsible for the mine accident. Now people are being brutally murdered again, and the townsfolk suspect that it is the work of Harry Warden.

Plot Keywords: horror, slasher, masked killer, gory, revenge, serial killer, 1980s ...

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#20. Mama (2013)

Storyline: Jeffrey Desange, senior partner of an investment brokerage, has a breakdown after a financial collapse and kills several co-workers and his estranged wife and kidnaps his two young daughters, Victoria and Lily. When they're found five years later, they're taken in by their uncle (their father's twin brother) and his girlfriend. Macabre events soon make the new guardians suspect that a supernatural evil force named Mama has attached itself to the girls.

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, supernatural, ghost, mystery, psychological horror, dark ...

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#21. Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)

Storyline: In 1967 Los Angeles, a young widow named Alice Zander works out of her suburban home as a spiritual medium, accompanied by her daughters, 15-year-old Paulina "Lina" and 9-year old Doris. The family is still reeling over the recent death of Roger, Alice's husband and the kids' father. At Lina's suggestion, Alice incorporates a Ouija board into her readings. While trying out the board, she unknowingly contacts a spirit named Marcus that begins to possess Doris. Alice receives a notice that the bank intends to foreclose on their home. Doris contacts the board for help, believing she is communicating with her dead father. The spirit leads her to a secret compartment behind the basement wall containing a pouch of cash. When she gives the money to her mother, the family has an Ouija session, believing they can contact Roger. When the board answers a question only Roger would know the answer to, a thrilled Alice begins believing that they are in contact with her dead husband..

Plot Keywords: horror, supernatural, paranormal, exorcism, evil spirits, family tragedy, demonic possession ...

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#22. Child's Play (1972)

Storyline: Paul Reis returns to the exclusive Catholic prep school he graduated from nine years earlier as a gym teacher. He is reunited with his former mentor and English teacher, the affable and gregarious Joseph Dobbs, the most popular member of the faculty and advisor to the junior class, and Jerome Malley, a strict disciplinarian and teacher of classical languages, whose old-fashioned methods make him heartily disliked by his pupils. Reis finds himself caught in between the two men in a struggle for the hearts, minds, and souls of the boys. Malley, nicknamed "Lash" by his students has ruled out retirement, and Dobbs, who feels that Malley has lost touch with the students, hopes to inherit the senior class. Even though Malley's mother is dying an agonizing death from cancer, the Latin and Greek teacher refuses to surrender his position as head of the senior class to a man whose motives he questions. The tensions on the faculty are mirrored in the student body, which has endured a rash of malicious hazing and ritualistic violence that no one on the staff seemingly understands.—duke1029@aol.com

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, psychological horror, supernatural, revenge, murder ...

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#23. February (2015)

Storyline: Two Catholic schoolgirls Kat (Kiernan Shipka) and Rose (Lucy Boynton) get left behind at their boarding school over winter break as the other girls leave, where it's rumored that the nuns are satanists. Meanwhile, a disturbed mental patient Joan (Emma Roberts), an escapee, is picked up by an elderly couple (James Remar and Lauren Holly) who drive her on a determined trip to the same school, where the girls must face the supernatural and demonic possession.

Plot Keywords: thriller, horror, supernatural, school, dark, mystery, psychological horror ...

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#25. I Still See You (2018)

Storyline: Bella Thorne stars in this spellbinding and romantic supernatural thriller. Ten years after an apocalyptic event left the world haunted by ghosts, Roni (Thorne) receives a threatening message from beyond the grave. Joining forces with a mysterious classmate, Kirk, Roni descends into a shadow world that blurs the bounds of the living and the dead-and begins a desperate race against time to stop a cunning killer.

Plot Keywords: supernatural, thriller, mystery, horror, teen, ghosts, paranormal ...

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#26. Gothika (2003)

Storyline: Dr. Miranda Grey is a psychiatrist who works in a penitentiary, in the mental institution sector. She is married with Dr. Douglas Grey, the chief of department where Dr. Pete Graham also works. Chloe Sava, a patient of Dr. Miranda formerly abused by her stepfather, claims that she is frequently raped by the devil in her cell. After leaving the asylum in a stormy night, Dr. Miranda has a car accident, and when she wakes up, she is an inmate of the institution, being accused of an horrible crime and having no memory of the incident.

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, supernatural, psychological, crime, ghost ...

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#27. Bad Dreams (1988)

Storyline: In the mid-'70s, a cult group called Unity Field commits mass suicide, but a young girl survives. After being in a coma for thirteen years she wakes up in a psyche ward, not remembering the incident. The psychiatrist tries to help her remember, but she begins seeing the leader of the cult talking to her from the grave, and the other members of her therapy group begin to commit suicide around her. Or is it suicide?—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, psychological horror, supernatural, cult, survivor, trauma ...

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#28. The Hole (2009)

Storyline: Susan and her sons Dane and Lucas Thompson move from Brooklyn to Bensonville, in the countryside. Dane is upset with the constant changes of address and the family has lived in many cities. Lucas and Dane befriend their next door neighbor, the gorgeous Julie and the brothers find a bottomless hole in the basement of their house locked with several padlocks. They take the locks off and soon they are haunted by their darkest fears. Further, they believe that the hole might be a gateway to hell.

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, teen, supernatural, dark, psychological terror ...

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#30. The Legacy (2006)

Storyline: When Paris hipster Celine (Olga Legrand) learns she has inherited a castle in an isolated area outside Tbilisi, Georgia, she travels with her friends Patricia (Sylvie Testud) and Jean (Stanislas Merhar) to examine her new property. After hiring interpreter Nikolai (Pascal Bongard), they set out on a lengthy bus trip to the castle. While in transit, they meet a young man (Giorgi Babluani) whose grandfather is preparing to die in the hopes of ending a violent feud.

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, supernatural, revenge, family secrets, curse ...

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