51 Top Ghost Movies to Watch in 2023

A young doctor is sent into a coma after a bad car accident. As her soul waits in between this life and the next, she haunts the tenant of her old apartment. While they continually butt heads, they work together to uncover what has happened to her and hopefully wake her up.

The famous Wham! song comes to life in this holiday romantic comedy about a young woman who works at a year-round Christmas store who breaks a string of bad luck when she meets a charming and handsome man, Tom. As their relationship blossoms, life and the city around her comes to life until she finds out the true source of her connection to Tom.

A young boy goes to live with his eccentric aunt and uncle. Hearing a mysterious ticking sound, his curiosity leads him to the unfortunate release of the undead. As the dark forces threaten his town, his uncle, aunt, and crazy neighbor go to work fighting evil.

A young cello prodigy finds herself caught between this life and the next after an almost fatal car accident. She must make an important decision in order to make it back to the land of the living.

In this hilarious comedy, Ricky Gervais plays a dentist who finds himself seeing ghosts after a near-death experience at a routine medical procedure. Driven to distraction by all the ghosts trying to get his attention and help, he decides to assist an old friend in making peace with the past.

The ghost of a former pilot mentors a young pilot and witnesses the young man fall in love with the woman he left behind.

In this classic Kevin Costner film, a young family man begins hearing a voice telling him, “If you build it, they will come.” Despite appearances, he feels called to create a ball field in his cornfield. His completed ball field draws out the ghosts of famous baseball players who play games in his cornfield.

In this modern comedic take on the classic holiday tale A Christmas Carol, Bill Murray takes on the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the character Frank Cross. Frank is a successful albeit shrewd and selfish executive who is visited by three ghosts on the eve of Christmas Day. His night seeing himself in a new light through his ghostly guests changes him forever.

A seance goes haywire when a medium accidentally summons a writers deceased first wife instead of helping him with his writer’s block. Whether dead or alive, getting stuck in the middle of a love triangle is never a good thing!

Scooby and the gang work together to solve a case that involves an ghost dog that could cause a worldwide dog apocalypse. Will Scooby Doo save the day again and discover his ultimate destiny?

Tyler Perry does it again in this hilarious Halloween comedy featuring the lovable and sassy Madea. A night of ghouls, zombies, and other terrors is in store for Madea and her friends when they bust a Halloween frat party.

In the fifth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) is pursued by a rival pirate captain and crew of ghosts.

On the eve of his brother’s wedding, a womanizing serial bachelor is visited by ghosts of his past girlfriends that help him discover where he went wrong and if there might be hope for a healthy relationship in the future.

A mother, haunted by her traumatic memories of slavery, is also physically haunted by a ghost which drives away her family for more than 10 years. An old friend comes to help rid her home of the poltergeist only to invite a strange visitor named Beloved.

A young woman, determined to stay in Paris and a personal shopper to a model, uses a medium to contact her late brother. While she’s unable to make direct contact she begins to receive mysterious texts on her phone.

In this hilarious Disney classic, the ghost of Blackbeard is conjured up in modern day and the spirit begins to haunt a local college track coach until he completes a good deed. The unlikely duo manage to crack the case on a local crime gang and create an unlikely friendship in the process.

We could probably call every Harry Potter movie a ghost film, considering how many ghosts roam the calls of Hogwarts. But in the second installment of this epic series, we meet the pouty (yet endearing) Moaning Myrtle, who haunts the bathroom where Harry, Ron, and Hermione brew their Polyjuice Potion. With the help of Myrtle and a host of other characters, the trio descends in the Chamber of Secrets to save the students of Hogwarts.

A young boy named Miguel’s dream to become a musician goes against his families wishes. Despite their rules, the boy embarks on an epic journey into the Land of the Dead to discover the truth behind his family’s past and the reality behind his personal idol.