Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "communicating-with-the-dead"

1. The Sixth Sense (1999)

PG-13 | 107 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist, starts treating a young boy, Cole, who encounters dead people and convinces him to help them. In turn, Cole helps Malcolm reconcile with his estranged wife.

Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams

Votes: 1,051,661 | Gross: $293.51M

2. Beetlejuice (1988)

PG | 92 min | Comedy, Fantasy

The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Annie McEnroe

Votes: 340,255 | Gross: $73.71M

3. Ghost Whisperer (2005–2010)

TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy

Melinda Gordon, a newly married woman, possesses the gift of communicating with the dead. With her best friend Andrea's assistance, she helps the earthbound spirits to find peace and cross over.

Stars: Jennifer Love Hewitt, David Conrad, Camryn Manheim, Christoph Sanders

Votes: 49,812

4. Poltergeist (1982)

PG | 114 min | Horror, Thriller

A family's home is haunted by a host of demonic ghosts.

Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight

Votes: 179,630 | Gross: $76.61M

5. Haunted Mansion (2023)

PG-13 | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A single mom named Gabbie hires a tour guide, a psychic, a priest and a historian to help exorcise her newly bought mansion after discovering it is inhabited by ghosts.

Director: Justin Simien | Stars: LaKeith Stanfield, Rosario Dawson, Owen Wilson, Tiffany Haddish

Votes: 42,805

6. Being Human (2008–2013)

TV-14 | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A werewolf, a vampire, and a ghost try to live together and get along.

Stars: Lenora Crichlow, Russell Tovey, Aidan Turner, Sinéad Keenan

Votes: 26,543

7. The Frighteners (1996)

R | 110 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

After a tragic car accident that kills his wife, a man discovers he can communicate with the dead, and he uses that gift to con people. However, when a demonic spirit appears, he may be the only one who can stop it from killing the living and the dead.

Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin

Votes: 95,520 | Gross: $16.76M

8. Veronica (I) (2017)

TV-MA | 105 min | Horror, Mystery

Madrid, 1991. A teen girl finds herself besieged by an evil supernatural force after she played Ouija with two classmates.

Director: Paco Plaza | Stars: Sandra Escacena, Bruna González, Claudia Placer, Iván Chavero

Votes: 47,589

9. Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)

PG-13 | 99 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her daughters add a new stunt to bolster their seance scam business by inviting an evil presence into their home, not realizing how dangerous it is.

Director: Mike Flanagan | Stars: Elizabeth Reaser, Lulu Wilson, Annalise Basso, Henry Thomas

Votes: 73,130 | Gross: $35.14M

10. Hereafter (2010)

PG-13 | 129 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

An American construction worker, a French journalist and a London school boy set out on a spiritual journey after death touches their lives in different ways.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Matt Damon, Cécile de France, Bryce Dallas Howard, Thierry Neuvic

Votes: 95,490 | Gross: $32.75M

11. White Noise (I) (2005)

PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

An architect's desire to speak with his wife from beyond the grave becomes an obsession with supernatural repercussions.

Director: Geoffrey Sax | Stars: Michael Keaton, Deborah Kara Unger, Ian McNeice, Chandra West

Votes: 50,822 | Gross: $56.39M

12. Ouija (II) (2014)

PG-13 | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.

Director: Stiles White | Stars: Olivia Cooke, Ana Coto, Daren Kagasoff, Bianca A. Santos

Votes: 56,962 | Gross: $50.86M

13. Biutiful (2010)

R | 148 min | Drama, Romance

A man dying of cancer tries his best to leave the world on his own terms.

Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib, Guillermo Estrella

Votes: 94,629 | Gross: $5.10M

14. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)

PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

While attending his brother's wedding, a serial womanizer is haunted by the ghosts of his past girlfriends.

Director: Mark Waters | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Emma Stone, Michael Douglas

Votes: 94,627 | Gross: $55.25M

15. Lady in White (1988)

PG-13 | 113 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

An author tells the story of how, as a young boy growing up in a 1960s small town, he was haunted after witnessing the murder of a little girl.

Director: Frank LaLoggia | Stars: Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco, Katherine Helmond

Votes: 8,053 | Gross: $1.71M

16. An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

An American man unwittingly gets involved with French werewolves who have developed a serum allowing them to transform at will.

Director: Anthony Waller | Stars: Tom Everett Scott, Julie Delpy, Vince Vieluf, Phil Buckman

Votes: 26,994 | Gross: $26.57M

17. ParaNorman (2012)

PG | 92 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A misunderstood boy takes on ghosts, zombies and grown-ups to save his town from a centuries-old curse.

Directors: Chris Butler, Sam Fell | Stars: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Anna Kendrick, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Tucker Albrizzi

Votes: 109,954 | Gross: $56.00M

18. Blithe Spirit (2020)

PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writer's block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife, which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years.

Director: Edward Hall | Stars: Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Michele Dotrice

Votes: 8,563

19. Help! My House Is Haunted (2018– )

60 min | History, Mystery, Thriller

A team of paranormal experts travel the UK looking into instances of paranormal activity in the homes of ordinary people.

Stars: Barri Ghai, Jayne Harris, Ian Lawman, Ian Shaw

Votes: 394

20. Shocker (1989)

R | 109 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.

Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Michael Murphy, Mitch Pileggi, John Tesh, Heather Langenkamp

Votes: 17,714 | Gross: $16.55M

21. Ghostwriter (1992–1995)

TV-Y | 30 min | Family, Fantasy, Horror

A group of kids solves local crimes, capers, and mysteries in their neighborhood, with the help of a ghost who can only communicate through writing and words.

Stars: David López, Blaze Berdahl, Todd Alexander, Sheldon Turnipseed

Votes: 2,808

22. Tales from the Crypt (1972)

PG | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Five strangers get lost in a crypt and, after meeting the mysterious Crypt Keeper, receive visions of how they will die.

Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Ralph Richardson, Geoffrey Bayldon

Votes: 13,021 | Gross: $1.70M

23. Extra Ordinary (2019)

R | 94 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Rose, a mostly sweet and lonely Irish driving instructor, must use her supernatural talents to save the daughter of Martin (also mostly sweet and lonely) from a washed-up rock star who is using her in a Satanic pact to reignite his fame.

Directors: Mike Ahern, Enda Loughman | Stars: Maeve Higgins, Barry Ward, Will Forte, Claudia O'Doherty

Votes: 11,542

24. Tales of Terror (1962)

Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Three tales of terror involve a grieving widower and the daughter he abandoned; a drunkard and his wife's black cat; and a hypnotist who prolongs the moment of a man's death.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Vincent Price, Maggie Pierce, Leona Gage, Peter Lorre

Votes: 8,385

25. The InBetween (2019)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

A woman with the ability to speak to the dead helps detectives solve murder cases.

Stars: Harriet Dyer, Justin Cornwell, Cindy Luna, Anne-Marie Johnson

Votes: 4,301

26. Black Rainbow (1989)

R | 103 min | Horror, Thriller

A medium has a vision of a hit-man killing his target. The vision comes true, and the same hit-man is assigned to kill her. Her drunk father/manager doesn't believe she has the gift, and a curious journalist tries to protect her.

Director: Mike Hodges | Stars: Rosanna Arquette, Jason Robards, Tom Hulce, Mark Joy

Votes: 2,016

27. Our House (I) (2018)

PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A young genius accidentally invents a device that amplifies the paranormal activity within his family's house, possibly bringing back the spirits of loved ones, and unleashing things far worse.

Director: Anthony Scott Burns | Stars: John Ralston, Thomas Mann, Percy Hynes White, Lucius Hoyos

Votes: 9,068

28. Phenomena (2023)

TV-MA | 94 min | Horror

Three middle-aged women who investigate paranormal events are put to the test when their leader Father Pilón disappears. Inspired by the real Hepta Group.

Director: Carlos Therón | Stars: Belén Rueda, Gracia Olayo, Toni Acosta, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba

Votes: 3,003

29. Rory O'Shea Was Here (2004)

R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama

When the kinetic Rory moves into his room in the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, his effect on the home is immediate. Most telling is his friendship with Michael, a young man with cerebral palsy and nearly unintelligible speech. Somehow, Rory understands Michael, and encourages him to experience life outside the confines of home.

Director: Damien O'Donnell | Stars: James McAvoy, Steven Robertson, Romola Garai, Alan King

Votes: 16,026 | Gross: $0.02M

30. Hello, It's Me (2015 TV Movie)

TV-G | 85 min | Drama, Romance

Two years after her husband dies in a sudden accident, Annie and her two children are left to cope with the loss.

Director: Mark Jean | Stars: Kellie Martin, Kavan Smith, Erin Pitt, Jack Fulton

Votes: 1,311

31. 1 Mile to You (2017)

TV-14 | 104 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

After a teenager's friends die in an accident, he finds running allows him to remember them perfectly. Running, however, also brings him notoriety. He is caught between keeping the past alive and making new memories in the present.

Director: Leif Tilden | Stars: Graham Rogers, Tim Roth, Stefanie Scott, Thomas Cocquerel

Votes: 2,810

32. What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004)

Not Rated | 109 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama

A fictional photographer's quest to spiritually rediscover herself is interspersed with documentary footage of scientists and theologians discussing the philosophical aspects of quantum physics.

Directors: William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente | Stars: Marlee Matlin, Elaine Hendrix, John Ross Bowie, Robert Bailey Jr.

Votes: 13,848 | Gross: $10.94M

33. The Foxes of Hydesville (2023 Podcast Series)

Crime, Talk-Show, Thriller

Inspired by the true story of the Fox Sisters. This 9-episode swirling family epic (starring Carey Mulligan) follows the infamous mediums as they rise to fame in the 19th century when they ... See full summary »

Stars: Carey Mulligan, Mckenna Grace, Phoebe Tonkin, Christina Brucato

Votes: 88

34. Sam and Colby: The Paranormal (2015– )

Not Rated | Adventure, History, Horror

Two of some of the most famous paranormal investigators in current time, investigate the most haunted places known to man.

Stars: Sam Golbach, Colby Brock, Corey Scherer, Elton Castee

Votes: 51

35. Alison's Birthday (1981)

99 min | Horror, Mystery

A young girl is subjected to a reign of terror so that her soul can be transferred to the body of an old crone.

Director: Ian Coughlan | Stars: Joanne Samuel, Lou Brown, Bunney Brooke, John Bluthal

Votes: 1,251

36. What the Bleep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole (2006)

PG | 156 min | Documentary, Drama

Interviews with scientists and authors, animated bits, and a storyline involving a deaf photographer are used in this docudrama to illustrate the link between quantum mechanics, neurobiology, human consciousness and day-to-day reality.

Directors: William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente | Stars: Marlee Matlin, Elaine Hendrix, Barry Newman, Armin Shimerman

Votes: 2,923 | Gross: $0.14M

37. Jamie Marks Is Dead (2014)

Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Based on the novel "One For Sorrow" by Christopher Barzak, Jamie Marks is Dead is the story of a murdered high school boy who returns as a ghost looking for the love and friendship he never had when he was alive.

Director: Carter Smith | Stars: Morgan Saylor, Noah Silver, Cameron Monaghan, Brett DelBuono

Votes: 2,763

38. Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal (2008– )

TV-14 | 60 min | Documentary, Reality-TV

Psychic/Medium Chip Coffey and clinical psychologist/director Dr. Lisa Miller help psychic children and their families cope, validate, empower and understand psychic abilities.

Stars: Chip Coffey, Edy Nathan, Lisa Miller, Chris Fleming

Votes: 374

39. Hex (1980)

Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Fantasy, Horror

A man who believes that he has murdered his wife, sees her return as a vengeful ghost.

Director: Chih-Hung Kuei | Stars: Ni Tien, Jung Wang, Szu-Chia Chen, Kwok-Choi Hon

Votes: 627

40. 99.9 (1997)

Unrated | 110 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Lara, host of a radio call-in show dealing in psychic phenomena, discovers her estranged lover has been found dead in a small Spanish village.

Director: Agustí Villaronga | Stars: María Barranco, Terele Pávez, Ruth Gabriel, Ángel de Andrés López

Votes: 550

41. Songs My Mother Taught Me (2018)

14 min | Short, Horror

After Bobby and Lydia lose their mother to cancer, life becomes a difficult feat, especially for Bobby. In an attempt to cheer up her brother, Lydia throws a Halloween party with a close ... See full summary »

Director: Doug Cook | Stars: Julian Robino, Ace Hicks, Brock Morgan, Jane Moffat

42. Soul Mate (2005– )

60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

A ballerina is murdered and reincarnates as an indigenous woman. Her journey for spiritual justice takes her back to her past family and romance.

Stars: Eduardo Moscovis, Flávia Alessandra, Priscila Fantin, Drica Moraes

Votes: 316

43. 23:59 (2011)

R | 78 min | Horror

An army recruit was found dead during a 24km road march. After the death of the recruit, strange things started to happen, haunting all the soldiers in the barracks.

Director: Gilbert Chan | Stars: Tedd Chan, Stella Chung, Philip Hersh, Henley Hii

Votes: 1,028

44. HypeMyke: Paranormal Investigation (2019– )

25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Thriller

HypeMyke and his friends investigate paranormal activity.

Stars: Nicholas Morgan, Jesse Baron, Michel Orekhov, Moussi

Votes: 8

45. Italian Ghost Stories (2011)

82 min | Horror, Mystery

The dead never forget.

Directors: Tommaso Agnese, Gabriele Albanesi, Marco Farina, Andrea Gagliardi, Roberto Palma, Stefano Prolli, Omar Protani | Stars: Daniele De Angelis, Primo Reggiani, Laura Gigante, Guja Quaranta

Votes: 128

46. Ghost Phone: Phone Calls from the Dead (2011)

PG-13 | 84 min | Comedy, Mystery

William Pierce (Nelson Franklin) is a practical, rational man who suddenly finds himself face to face with the paranormal when he starts receiving phone calls from the dead on the cell ... See full summary »

Director: Jeffrey F. Jackson | Stars: Nelson Franklin, Melissa Ordway, Anne Gee Byrd, David Clennon

Votes: 45

47. Lust in Hell 2: Farewells (2010 Video)

Not Rated | 83 min | Horror

Shinzo recovers from her attack with the help of a doctor. But soon she is forced to fight back demons in order to protect her new friends.

Director: Tadashi Shimizu | Stars: Mari Sakurai, Ryo Ishii, Yûna Mizumoto, Tomomi Ohe

Votes: 49

48. Life After (III) (2021)

Approved | 75 min | Documentary

People throughout the world believe in life after death and that spirits are trying to contact the living. In this compelling documentary the Science of paranormal investigation is put to ... See full summary »

Director: Jeremy Norrie | Stars: Debbie Jordan-Kauble, Pete King, Rick McCallum, Tony Rathman

Votes: 10

49. Windblown (2019)

20 min | Short, Thriller

After the unexpected death of her brother, Beth Reeves seeks solace in her family's New England cottage. Things go badly.

Directors: Usher Morgan, Katie Vincent | Stars: Susan Gallagher, Jacob A. Ware, Katie Vincent

Votes: 13

50. Haunted Down Under (2019– )

Horror

A group of women investigate the haunting's of Australia. No method of communication is off limits, with the team using all type of equipment from Thermal and SLS cameras to Ouija boards. ... See full summary »

Stars: Nadine Gray, Celine Mackie, Caitlin Stewart, Hailey Lilley

Votes: 16