Top Abandoned Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Freddie Highmore

Sarah Bolger

David Strathairn

Mary-Louise Parker

The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)

6.7 2.9K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.

Plot: sibling relationship, parent child relationship, elves, fairy, twin brother, family relationships, single mother, twins, ...

Cast

Chad Michael Collins

Ryan Robbins

Manuel Rodriguez-Saenz

Josh Brener

Sniper: No Nation (2026)

6.7 75 votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Canada

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: R

Story: Brandon Beckett and Agent Zero lead a rescue mission in Costa Verde when their friends are taken hostage.

Plot: sequel, behind enemy lines, special operation, extraction mission, terrorist cell, tactical action, military thriller, ambush operation, ...

Cast

Tara Basro

Marissa Anita

Asmara Abigail

Christine Hakim

Impetigore (2019)

6.7 243 votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: Indonesia, South Korea

Duration: 106 min.

Story: A woman inherits a house in her ancestral village, but she's unaware that members of the community have been trying to locate and kill her to remove the curse that has plagued them for years.

Plot: cemetery, pregnancy, village, black magic, gore, cult, abandoned house, puppet master, ...

Cast

Charlize Theron

Kim Basinger

Jennifer Lawrence

Joaquim de Almeida

The Burning Plain (2008)

6.6 469 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance

Country: Argentina, United States of America

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic events, suggest an unusual connection between them. But what is their secret?

Plot: waitress, forbidden love, single father, extramarital affair, abandoned by mother, mother daughter relationship

Cast

Noriko Sakai

Shingo Katsurayama

Yui Ichikawa

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Emi Yamamoto

Ju-on: The Grudge 2 (2003)

6.5 390 votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: Japan

Duration: 92 min.

Story: When the cast and crew of a paranormal TV reality program decide to shoot in the house of the original Saeki hauntings, a series of strange events unfold at the location.

Plot: pregnancy, abandoned house, sequel, revenge, spirit, vengeful ghost, occult, tv production, ...

Place: japan

Cast

Anthony Mackie

Morena Baccarin

Maddie Hasson

Danny Boyd Jr.

Elevation (2024)

6.4 1.0K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: Post-apocalyptic survivors find refuge in the Rocky Mountains to hide from giant, insect-like creatures that can't live above 8,000 feet. However, when one of them needs life-saving supplies, they risk it all to venture into the danger zone.

Plot: mine, colorado, alien, hospital, alien invasion, ski lift, abandoned mine, monsters, ...

Cast

Richard Carlson

Barbara Rush

Charles Drake

Joe Sawyer

It Came from Outer Space (1953)

6.3 252 votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 80 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona. Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...

Plot: spacecraft, small town, arizona, alien life-form, meteorite, astronomer, black and white, school teacher, ...

Cast

Ella Rubin

Michael Cimino

Belmont Cameli

Maia Mitchell

Until Dawn (2025)

6.3 1.5K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

Story: One year after her sister Melanie mysteriously disappeared, Clover and her friends head into the remote valley where she vanished in search of answers. Exploring an abandoned visitor center, they find themselves stalked by a masked killer and horrifically murdered one by one...only to wake up and find themselves back at the beginning of the same evening.

Style: haunting

Plot: witch, abandoned house, survival, memory loss, time loop, bear trap, slasher, exploding body, ...

Cast

Pierce Brosnan

Linda Hamilton

Arabella Field

Jamie Renu00e9e Smith

Dante's Peak (1997)

6.2 2.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Volcanologist Harry Dalton comes to the sleepy town of Dante's Peak to investigate the recent rumblings of the dormant volcano the burg is named for. Before long, his worst fears are realized when a massive eruption hits, and immediately, Harry, the mayor and the townspeople find themselves fighting for their lives amid a catastrophic nightmare.

Plot: rescue, small town, helicopter, lava, mayor, evacuation, natural disaster, motel, ...

Cast

Tom Selleck

Steve Guttenberg

Ted Danson

Margaret Colin

3 Men and a Baby (1987)

6.2 1.1K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guy's girlfriends.

Plot: new york city, baby, bachelor, roommates, adoption, parenthood, fatherhood, abandoned baby

Cast

Milla Jovovich

Brian Krause

Lisa Pelikan

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Courtney Barilla

Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991)

6.2 1.3K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In this sequel to the 1980 classic, two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventually become tanned teenagers in love.

Plot: island, marooned, family abandonment, pacific island, deserted island, tropical island, abandoned by mother, abandoned, ...

Cast

Adrien Brody

Glenn Fleshler

Richie Merritt

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Chandler DuPont

Clean (2022)

6.2 454 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Tormented by a past life, garbage man Clean attempts a life of quiet redemption. But when his good intentions mark him a target of a local crime boss, Clean is forced to reconcile with the violence of his past.

Plot: new york city, garbageman, gangster, abandoned house, drug use, revenge, garbage truck, pawnshop, ...

Cast

Sid Lucero

Beauty Gonzalez

Marco Masa

Aiden Patdu

Outside (2024)

6.1 164 votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: Philippines

Duration: 142 min.

Audience: R

Story: A family retreats to an isolated farm during a zombie outbreak, but years of painful secrets take a toll as they navigate their desolate world.

Style: tense

Plot: village, post-apocalyptic future, abandoned house, survival, zombie, psychological thriller, family, survival horror, ...

Cast

Sandra Bullock

Regina King

Enrique Murciano

Ernie Hudson

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005)

5.7 2.0K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After her triumph at the Miss United States pageant, FBI agent Gracie Hart becomes an overnight sensation -- and the new "face of the FBI". But it's time to spring into action again when the pageant's winner, Cheryl, and emcee, Stan, are abducted.

Plot: ship, undercover agent, ransom, drag queen, fbi, press conference, sequel, miss america, ...

Cast

Richard Gere

Uma Thurman

Jacob Elordi

Michael Imperioli

Oh, Canada (2024)

5.7 101 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America, Israel

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his late seventies, Fife is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life.

Plot: infidelity, regret, husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, montreal, canada, flashback, cancer, ...

Time: vietnam war, 1960s

Cast

Francesca Reale

Nicholas Hamilton

Adeline Rudolph

Jake Manley

Do Not Enter (2026)

5.5 119 votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: A group of young explorers investigates an old abandoned hotel, only to encounter a strange supernatural being and a competing group looking for a legendary hidden treasure.

Plot: hotel, new jersey, based on novel or book, supernatural creature, million in cash, urban exploration, abandoned building, urban explorers, ...

Cast

Ester Uddu00e9n

Daniel Larsson

Anja Landgru00e9

Bahar Pars

Black Lake (2016) TV Show

5.5 23 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: Sweden

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-MA

Story: An unsettling chain of events are set into motion when a group of young friends an visit an abandoned ski resort in the far reaches of Sweden. The remote and neglected Black Lake has been closed for years when Johan invites his friends to stay there. He dreams of reopening the isolated hotel and restoring it to a luxury ski resort, but what begins as a fun research trip soon takes a sinister turn as the group is gripped by a series of unexplained and disturbing events. They soon uncover the real reason Black Lake was abandoned all those years before, and solving the mystery rapidly becomes a matter of life and death.

Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)

5.4 903 votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: R

Story: Years before Father Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil’s soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa.

Plot: based on novel or book, nazi, africa, vatican (holy see), religion and supernatural, exorcism, possession, prequel, ...

Time: 1940s

Place: kenya, east africa

Cast

Stellan Skarsgu00e5rd

Gabriel Mann

Clara Bellar

Billy Crawford

Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist (2005)

5.3 425 votes

Genre: Drama, Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: Father Merrin takes a sabbatical from the Church to devote himself to history and archaeology as he struggles with his shattered faith.

Plot: based on novel or book, nazi, faith, africa, vatican (holy see), religion and supernatural, exorcism, possession, ...

Place: east africa

Cast

Michael Berryman

Kevin Spirtas

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John Bloom

Janus Blythe

The Hills Have Eyes Part 2 (1985)

4.3 286 votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: R

Story: A motocross team on their way to trial a new super-fuel head out across the desert lead by Rachel, who, unbeknownst to the rest of the group, is a survivor of the cannibal clan which menaced the Carter family several years before.

Plot: bus ride, sequel, cannibal, desert, multiple murder, motorcycle chase, abandoned mine, abandoned building, ...

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