2020s ghost films

Bhooth Bangla is a 2026 Indian Hindi-language comedy horror film directed by Priyadarshan and produced by Akshay Kumar, Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor under Balaji Motion Pictures and Cape of Good Films. The film stars Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal, Jisshu Sengupta, Rajpal Yadav, Tabu and Wamiqa Gabbi.

Baramulla is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language supernatural horror thriller film directed by Aditya Suhas Jambhale and produced under Jio Studios and B62 Studios. It stars Manav Kaul and Bhasha Sumbli in the lead roles. The film was released on 7 November 2025 on Netflix. It received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics with praise for the performances and cinematography.

2021 film directed by Jason Reitman

The Black Phone is a 2021 American supernatural horror film directed by Scott Derrickson from a screenplay he wrote with C. Robert Cargill, based on the 2004 short story by Joe Hill. It is the first installment in the Black Phone franchise. It stars Mason Thames as Finney, a teenage boy abducted by a serial child killer known colloquially as the Grabber. When Finney encounters a mystical black rotary phone in captivity, he uses it to plot his escape by communicating with the ghosts of the Grabber's slain victims. Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, and James Ransone also feature in the principal cast. Derrickson and Cargill produced The Black Phone in association with Blumhouse Productions CEO Jason Blum. Universal Pictures oversaw the film's commercial distribution, and funding was sourced through a pact with Blumhouse and tax subsidies from the North Carolina state government.

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is a 2021 American supernatural horror film directed by Michael Chaves, with a screenplay by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick from a story by Johnson-McGoldrick and James Wan. The film is a sequel to The Conjuring (2013) and The Conjuring 2 (2016), and the seventh installment in The Conjuring Universe. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprise their roles as paranormal investigators and authors Ed and Lorraine Warren, with Ruairi O'Connor, Sarah Catherine Hook in her feature film debut, and Julian Hilliard also starring. Wan and Peter Safran return to produce the film, which is based on the trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson, a murder trial that took place in 1981 Connecticut, in addition to The Devil in Connecticut, a book about the trial written by Gerald Brittle.

2024 film directed by Tim Burton

The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants is a 2025 American animated adventure comedy film based on the SpongeBob SquarePants television series created by Stephen Hillenburg. Directed by series veteran Derek Drymon, it stars the show's regular voice cast alongside George Lopez, Ice Spice, Arturo Castro, Sherry Cola, Regina Hall, and Mark Hamill. The plot follows SpongeBob on a quest to prove his bravery by adventuring with the ghost pirate, The Flying Dutchman, through the Underworld. It is the fourth theatrical film based on the series, following 2020's Sponge on the Run, and the sixth film overall.

2021 film directed by Edgar Wright

2024 film directed by Gil Kenan

2022 film directed by Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou

Black Phone 2 is a 2025 American supernatural horror film directed by Scott Derrickson who co-wrote it with C. Robert Cargill. It serves as a sequel to The Black Phone (2021), is the second feature film and third overall installment in the Black Phone film series. The film stars Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, and Ethan Hawke reprising their roles from the first film, with Demián Bichir also joining the cast. The story sees siblings Finney and Gwen, along with their friend Ernesto, head to a winter youth camp to uncover a mystery regarding the first victims of the Grabber, whose ghostly presence now haunts the camp.

2024 film directed by Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg

2023 film directed by Justin Simien

2024 film directed by Steven Soderbergh

2024 film directed by Malcolm Washington

2020 film by Remi Weekes

2021 film directed by Evan Spiliotopoulos

2021 film directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini

Good Boy is a 2025 American independent supernatural horror film directed by Ben Leonberg, who co-wrote it with Alex Cannon. It stars Leonberg's dog, Indy, alongside Shane Jensen, Arielle Friedman, and Larry Fessenden. The film follows Indy as he attempts to rescue his owner, a young man with a chronic lung disease, who is engulfed by a supernatural presence lurking in his late grandfather's rural home.

2020 film directed by Floria Sigismondi

2022 film directed by Sean Anders

2020 film directed by Anees Bazmee

Shamshera is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language period action drama film directed by Karan Malhotra and produced by Aditya Chopra. The film stars Ranbir Kapoor in a dual role, alongside Sanjay Dutt, Vaani Kapoor, Ronit Roy, and Saurabh Shukla. It follows the captivity of an oppressed warrior tribe during the British Raj.

2023 film directed by Christopher Landon

2024 film directed by Noémie Merlant

upcoming American film directed by Jacob Chase

2024 anime film

2024 film by Anees Bazmee

2023 film by Paco Plaza

2021 film directed by William Brent Bell

2021 film directed by Kirk Thatcher

2020 film by Christopher Smith

upcoming film directed by Ti West

2022 film directed by Paul Leyden

2022 film directed by Silas Howard

2021 film directed by Paween Purijitpanya

2020 film by Stefano Mordini

2022 Japanese film

film by Sundar C

2021 film directed by Deepak Sundarrajan

2023 Tamil film directed by P. Vasu