Eclipse themed movies that date back to 1907

1968

The American science fiction film’s opening sequence shows an eclipse of the Sun by both the Earth and the Moon. The three bodies and the camera (which is farther out in space) are aligned; the sequence starts with the Sun fully eclipsed to the camera, and shows the eclipse ending and the Sun becoming visible past the Earth and Moon.

1999

The Canadian documentary film explores divination in a humorous way and includes eclipses as part of its subject matter.

2006

The Yucatec Mayan-language action-adventure film, set in pre-Columbian Yucatan and Guatemala around the year 1511, Mayan leaders take advantage of a solar eclipse as a sign of an angry god whose blood thirst is satisfied by the leaders.

2022

An eclipse occurs during a pivotal moment in the final battle of the film.

1961

In the religious epic film about Barabbas, a solar eclipse takes place during a crucifixion scene. A real eclipse was filmed for the scene.

1981

In the American slasher films opening, three children are born during a solar eclipse, which leads them to grow up with violent personalities.

1949

The American film, based on Mark Twain’s 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, features an American protagonist from 1912 who wakes up in Arthurian Britain in AD 528 and uses his knowledge of an upcoming solar eclipse to his advantage.

2002

The English-language horror film features a house that was built for a supernatural ritual to sacrifice seven children for a solar eclipse that happens every forty years.

1995

In the American psychological thriller film, a housekeeper is sent home by her boss to witness a solar eclipse. In the midst of the eclipse, she confronts her abusive and alcoholic husband.

1981

The American fantasy film features the climactic battle with a dragon during a solar eclipse.

1994

The Canadian drama film features a kid who films a documentary about an upcoming solar eclipse.

1907

The French silent film shows a solar eclipse resulting from a consummation between the Sun and the Moon.

1940

In one of the segments of the American animated film, a solar eclipse takes place after dinosaurs go extinct, and the landscape is changed into a sea.

1994

The biographical drama film, set in 18th-century Europe, features a scene of singing during a solar eclipse.

1999

Vampires in a criminal gang raid a bank and attack people they find one night. Dawn appears to defeat them, but a solar eclipse turns the tide turns back in their favor.

2017

The American psychological horror film, based on Stephen King’s novel Gerald’s Game, features a solar eclipse in a memory flashback in which the female main character, a preteen at the time, is sexually assaulted.

2004

In the American superhero film, Hellboy has to open a gate to hell during a lunar eclipse.

2009

The American horror film, set in the 1980s, features a small-town university student who is hired to stay at a house in the middle of nowhere to take care of an old woman on the night of a full lunar eclipse.

1999

In the American drama film, the town of Babylon, New York experiences an hours-long solar eclipse, and it affects the world of the characters who wander the streets in memory and in search of meaning to their suburban lives.

2019

The English-language fantasy film features a solar eclipse that fully empowers the wicked sorceress Morgana.

1937

The British adventure film features in its climax one of the protagonists predicting a solar eclipse to their advantage.

1998

The American television film features a scientist who is zapped back to the time of King Arthur, and she predicts a solar eclipse to avoid being burned at the stake.

1985

The ending of this American medieval fantasy film, set in 13th-century Europe, features a solar eclipse foretold by a divine riddle. It brings an end to an infernal curse.

2003

The American animated family film about dinosaurs features a solar eclipse whose occurrence scares off predators.

2001

The English-language action-adventure film features a solar eclipse as part of a rare planetary alignment that allows access to a relic that can control space and time.

1986

In the American horror comedy film, the monstrous houseplant Audrey II is born as a result of a solar eclipse.

1935

Episode of the Our Gang series. When a solar eclipse creates confusion, two white boys escape church to go fishing. They come across a black church revival whose members are also confused, and afraid. Professor Lisa Yaszek said of the racist depiction, “Apparently somehow these black Americans don’t know what an eclipse is, so they have that very stereotypical reaction of confusion and fear, which causes chaos for the boys… the way it plays out is so stereotypical and really horrible.”

2017

The Spanish dark comedy film features a dinner party that takes place on the night of a lunar eclipse.

1966

Egyptian priests pass off a solar eclipse for the anger of the god Amun, bringing confusion into the minds of the rebellious people.

2000

In the American science fiction film, a criminal and other people trapped on a desert planet have to evade underground predatory creatures who go above ground when an eclipse occurs.

2016

In the Star Wars film, the Death Star–a spherical space station–briefly causes a solar eclipse over the holy city of Jedha shortly before firing on the city.

2023

In the supernatural horror film, a prequel to the 2017 film Verónica, a nun stares at a solar eclipse and damages her eyesight and eventually goes blind by Verónica.

1988

The American horror film, which focuses on the Book of Revelation and a battle over an unborn child, features a solar eclipse as a key plot device.

2017

In 1991 Madrid, while the rest of her classmates watch the solar eclipse of July 11, 1991, a teenager becomes possessed by a demon after using an Ouija board. In reality, the eclipse was not visible anywhere in Europe.

1980

The American young-adult horror film features the mystery of a girl who disappears in the woods of New England decades ago and concludes with a climactic scene featuring a solar eclipse.

2002

The American animated family film features a solar eclipse at the film’s climax.

2005

In the Australian horror film features a solar eclipse during a serial killer’s pursuit of a victim. Peter Shelley wrote in Australian Horror Films, 1973-2010, “The solar eclipse that is shown adds a yin-yang element to the treatment. The shadow over [the victim] Ben and a dark profile of the Swedish backpacker wearing a Mick-type hat creates the expectation of [the serial killer] Mick finding him.”