Movies by Lists - Edgar Allan Poe Movies (43 [49]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| Avenging Conscience or ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’, ThePrevented from dating his sweetheart by his uncle, a young man turns his thoughts to murder. | 1914 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Crime, Drama, Horror | 6.4 (1.3K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Black Cat [Two Evil Eyes], TheTwo horror tales based on short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, directed by famed horror directors George A. Romero and Dario Argento. A greedy wife kills her husband, but not completely; a sleazy reporter adopts a strange black cat. | 1990 | Dario Argento, George A. Romero | Horror | 6.1 (6.9K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Black Cat, TheAmerican honeymooners in Hungary become trapped in the home of a Satan-worshipping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident. | 1934 | Edgar G. Ulmer (*) | Adventure, Crime, Horror, Romance, Thriller | 7.0 (10.9K votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Black Cat, TheElderly Henrietta Winslow lives in an isolated mansion with her housekeeper and beloved cats. As her health fails, her greedy relatives gather in anticipation of her death. | 1941 | Albert S. Rogell | Comedy, Mystery | 6.1 (1.9K votes) | 70 | 20231013 |
| Bucket of Blood [The Tell-Tale Heart]A young man is driven mad by his obsession with the repulsive diseased eye of the old man who cares for him. | 1934 | Brian Desmond Hurst | Horror | 5.7 (96 votes) | 55 | 20240313 |
| Buried AliveA husband finds out that his wife and her lover are trying to kill him. | 1990 | Frank Darabont (*) | Horror, Romance, Thriller | 6.5 (4.4K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Crime of Doctor Crespi, TheA crazed scientist invents a serum that induces a catatonic state in whoever it is injected into. He uses the serum to paralyze his enemies, so that he can bury them alive. | 1935 | John H. Auer | Crime, Horror, Mystery | 5.6 (271 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale HeartWhile called the Tell Tale Heart, the plot differs significantly from Poe's short story of the same name. | 1960 | Ernest Morris | Horror | 5.8 (507 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Eerie Tales [Unheimliche Geschichten]A demon, a reaper, and the ghost of a prostitute read gothic short stories and act them out. | 1919 | Richard Oswald | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery | 6.6 (543 votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Fall Of The House Of UsherAllan visits the sinister Usher family mansion, where his friend Roderick is painting a portrait of his sickly wife Madeline. The portrait seems to be draining the life out of Madeline, slowly leading to her death. | 1928 | Jean Epstein | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 7.3 (3.9K votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Fall of the House of Usher, The1950. Horror. A traveller arrives at Usher mansion to visit his friend Roderick (Kaye Tendeter) and discovers that Roderick and his sister (Gwen Watford) have been inflicted with a strange disease. | 1950 | Ivan Barnett | Horror | 4.6 (495 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Fall of the House of Usher, TheAn avant-garde take on Poe's classic story of a traveller taking shelter at a household under a mysterious curse. | 1928 | James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber | Short, Horror | 6.8 (1.4K votes) | 13 | 20240313 |
| Fall of the House of Usher, TheTHE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER is the original film (made by Curtis Harrington when he was in high school) from which USHER is based. | 1942 | Curtis Harrington | Short, Horror | 5.4 (115 votes) | 10 | 20240727 |
| Haunted Palace, TheCharles Dexter Ward arrives at a small village to visit the house he inherited from his ancestor who died there 100 years ago. | 1963 | Roger Corman (*) | Horror | 6.8 (6.8K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| House of UsherUpon entering his fiancée's family mansion, a man discovers a savage family curse and fears that his future brother-in-law has entombed his bride-to-be prematurely. | 1960 | Roger Corman (*) | Drama, Horror | 7.0 (13.1K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| House of Usher, TheSinister thriller based on Edgar Allan Poe's classic story. Jill uncovers a terrifying secret at the funeral of her best friend who disappeared years earlier and whose twin brother was Jill's lover. | 2006 | Hayley Cloake | Drama, Thriller | 3.9 (752 votes) | 81 | 20240316 |
| Living Dead, The [Unheimliche Geschichten]A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down. | 1932 | Richard Oswald | Comedy, Sci-Fi, Horror | 6.4 (115 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Masque of the Red Death, TheA European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land. | 1964 | Roger Corman (*) | Drama, Horror | 7.0 (14K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Murders in the Rue MorgueParis...at the turn of the century. Inspector Vidocq investigates a series of unexplained murders at a Grand Guignol-type theatre...where the players have suddenly become real-life victims. Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe. | 1971 | Gordon Hessler | Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 5.2 (1.4K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Murders in the Rue MorgueA mad scientist seeks to mingle human blood with that of an ape, and resorts to kidnapping women for his experiments. | 1932 | Robert Florey | Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance | 6.4 (4.3K votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Murders in the Rue Morgue, TheA detective comes out of retirement to help his daughter's fiance prove that he did not commit a series of murders. | 1986 | Jeannot Szwarc | Crime, Mystery, Horror | 5.7 (1.3K votes) | 100 | 20240205 |
| Mystery of Marie RogetA detective tries to unravel the strange circumstances surrounding the death of a young actress. | 1942 | Phil Rosen (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 5.9 (194 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| The Oblong BoxAristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Sir Edward occasionally escapes and causes havoc around the town. | 1969 | Gordon Hessler | Horror | 6.0 (3.4K votes) | 96 | 20220423 |
| Pendulum, the Pit and Hope, The [Kyvadlo, jáma a nadeje]A horrifying, surrealist version of Edgar Allan Poe's ""The Pit and the Pendulum"" directed by the masterful animator Jan Svankmajer. | 1983 | Jan Svankmajer (*) | Animation, Short, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | 7.6 (1K votes) | 15 | 20231001 |
| Pest in Florenz, DieSuddenly appearing in Florence, an evil seductress causes Cesare, the city's ruler, and his son to both fall madly in love with her. The son, killing his father before an order to torture the woman can be carried out, then turns the | 1919 | Otto Rippert | Drama, History, Horror | 6.5 (180 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Phantom of the Rue MorgueWhen several women are found mutilated and murdered, the Paris police are baffled as to who the killer may be. All evidence points to Dupin, but soon it becomes apparent that it is someone (or something) stronger and deadlier than a | 1954 | Roy Del Ruth | Crime, Horror, Mystery | 5.9 (959 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Pit and the PendulumIn the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor. | 1961 | Roger Corman (*) | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 7.1 (14.1K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Pit and the Pendulum, TheHorror film set in 1492 Toledo, Spain, depicting the cruel deeds of a monk named Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition. | 1991 | Stuart Gordon | Horror, Romance | 6.0 (4.7K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Pit and the Pendulum, The [Le Puits et Le Pendule]Adaptation of Edgar Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. | 1964 | Alexandre Astruc | Horror | 7.4 (126 votes) | 37 | 20211228 |
| Premature Burial, TheAn artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him. | 1962 | Roger Corman (*) | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.5 (4K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Raven, TheA magician, who has been turned into a raven, turns to a former sorcerer for help. | 1963 | Roger Corman (*) | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror | 6.6 (11.5K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Raven, TheDr. Vollin is a brilliant but unstable surgeon with a morbid obsession for instruments of torture. He saves the life of Jean Thatcher, a beautiful young socialite injured in an automobile accident and becomes increasingly attracte... | 1935 | Lew Landers | Crime, Horror | 6.8 (6.6K votes) | 61 | 20240313 |
| Sealed Room, TheA king exacts vengeance upon his faithless mistress and her lover. | 1909 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Short, Drama, History, Thriller | 6.0 (834 votes) | 11 | 20211228 |
| Specter Haunts Europe, A [Prizrak brodit po Evrope]Set in an imaginary land where the threat of revolution spurs the Emperor to seek exile in one of the most distant parts of his realm. There he meets Elka, the daughter of a revolutionary who has been banished here due to his conf... | 1923 | Vladimir Gardin | Unknown | 6.2 (17 votes) | 0 | 20240709 |
| Spirits of the Dead [Histoires extraordinaires]Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel princess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil. | 1968 | Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 6.5 (6.2K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Tales of TerrorThree 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. | 1962 | Roger Corman (*) | Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (7.1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Tell Tale Heart, TheA haunting account of a tormented man who continually re-admits himself into a medical facility, in a futile attempt to escape from his pending madness. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Tell-Tale Heart". | 2016 | John La Tier | Thriller | 3.5 (285 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Tell-Tale Heart, TheIn this classic Edgar Allan Poe story, a man commits a murder, but afterward the victim's beating heart torments the murderer's mind. | 1941 | Jules Dassin | Crime, Mystery, Short, Horror | 6.8 (907 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
| Tell-Tale Heart, TheWhile called the Tell Tale Heart, the plot differs significantly from Poe's short story of the same name. | 1960 | Ernest Morris | Horror | 5.8 (506 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Tell-Tale Heart, TheA madman tells his tale of murder, and how a strange beating sound haunted him afterward. | 1953 | Ted Parmelee | Animation, Short, Crime, Horror | 7.5 (2.2K votes) | 8 | 20240110 |
| Tomb of Ligeia, TheA man's obsession with his dead wife drives a wedge between him and his new bride. | 1964 | Roger Corman (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 6.5 (6K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Tomb, The [Ligeia]An engaged writer falls under the spell of a mysterious temptress who steals souls. | 2009 | Michael Staininger | Horror, Thriller | 3.7 (1.8K votes) | 89 | 20240630 |
| Two Evil Eyes [Due occhi diabolici]Two horror tales based on short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, directed by famed horror directors George A. Romero and Dario Argento. A greedy wife kills her husband, but not completely; a sleazy reporter adopts a strange black cat. | 1990 | Dario Argento, George A. Romero | Horror | 6.1 (6.9K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| The Pit and the Pendulum | 1913 | Alice Guy | Short, Drama, Horror | 5.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Pit and the Pendulum | 2009 | David DeCoteau | Horror, Thriller | 2.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Morgue Street | 2012 | Alberto Viavattene | Short, Horror, Thriller | 4.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Tell-Tale Heart | 1953 | J.B. Williams | Horror, Short | 6.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Terroir | 2014 | John Jopson | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Maska crvene smrti | 1969 | Branko Ranitovic, Pavao Stalter | Animation, Short, Horror | 6.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |