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Movies: Best "family curse" Movies


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Practical Magic(1998)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 44min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Fantasy
3.4/5 (with 635 votes)

Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.

The Curse of Sleeping Beauty(2016)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 29min | Fantasy, Horror
2.6/5 (with 94 votes)

Thomas Kaiser inherits an ancestral mansion that has been in his family for generations — only to learn that he has also inherited an ancient curse stemming back to the Crusades. Forced into his new role as “protector” — the guardian appointed to keep the evil demons in the house at bay — Thomas teams with an ambitious local realtor and paranormal cleric to unravel the mystery of the house, while struggling to awaken the beautiful Briar Rose, held captive in a terrifying netherworld seen previously in his dreams.

Directed by Pearry Teo

Moloch(2022)

1h 39min | Horror
3.0/5 (with 35 votes)

Betriek lives at the edge of a peat bog in the North of the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a random stranger one night, Betriek sets out to find an explanation. The more she digs, the more she becomes convinced that she is being hunted by something ancient.

Directed by Nico van den Brink

I Married a Witch(1942)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 14min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 79 votes)

Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find happiness in their marriages. At present, politician Wallace Wooley, who is running for state governor, is about to marry his sponsor's daughter.

Jinxed(2013)

3.4/5 (with 45 votes)

Meet the Murphys, a family with never ending bad luck. "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong," it's Murphy's law! Over a century ago a witch put a magical curse on their great-great grandfather and the whole family has been jinxed for generations! After Meg Murphy (played by Big Time Rush's Ciara Bravo) and her family's house is destroyed in yet another freak accident, the family moves into their grandfather's house in Harvest Hills. In a not-so-strange case of bad luck, Meg's nemesis Ivy is also spending the summer in town. But things start to look up, kind of, when Meg meets a local boy named Brett and he casts another spell on her, a love spell that is! With help from her brother Charlie, Meg more determined than ever, must break the hex on her catastrophically cursed family! Watch this doomed teen try for a normal existence in a world full of hijinks!

Directed by Stephen Herek

Bloodworth(2010)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 45min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 14 votes)

E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - after forty years of roaming. The wife he walked out on has withered and faded, his three sons are grown and angry. Warren is a womanizing alcoholic, Boyd is driven by jealousy to hunt down his wife and her lover, and Brady puts hexes on his enemies from his mamma's porch. Only Fleming, the old man's grandson, treats him with the respect his age commands, and sees past all the hatred to realize the way it can poison a man's soul. It is ultimately the love of Raven Lee, a sloe-eyed beauty from another town, that gives Fleming the courage to reject this family curse.

Twice-Told Tales(1963)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h | Horror, Romance / Love, Mystery, Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 31 votes)

3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", a demented father is innoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story "The House of the Seven Gables", The Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and while in the midst of arguing over inheritance, a stranger arrives.

Cat Girl(1957)

1h 16min | Horror
2.2/5 (with 5 votes)

A psychiatrist treats a woman who is convinced that she turns into a killer leopard because of a family curse.

Directed by Alfred Shaughnessy - With Barbara Shelley, Robert Ayres, Kay Callard

Daughter of the Dragon(1931)

1h 10min | Crime, Drama
2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

At her Chinese father's bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective.

Savage Hunt of King Stakh(1979)

3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

A mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. A young ethnographer, Andrej Bielarecki, comes here to research local folk legends….

Directed by Valeri Rubinchik - With Boris Khmelnitsky, Boris Plotnikov, Igor Klass, Aleksandr Kharitonov

Kriya(2020)

1h 36min | Horror, Fantasy, Comedy
1.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A DJ encounters a beautiful woman at a club, goes back to her home, and finds himself thrust into a nightmare odyssey of ritual magic, patriarchal death customs, and family conflict most unusual.

The Hound of the Baskervilles(1972)

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Holmes and Dr. Watson tackle the case of a curse on the Baskerville bloodline in this ABC Movie of the Week adaptation.

Directed by Barry Crane - With Stewart Granger
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Caroltyn(2022)

1h 20min | Horror, Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

When a mysterious illness targets several children in the small town of Caroltyn, young single mom Kofi is forced to confront the past and the heartbreaking family traumas that haunt her.

You’re Family Now(2021)

20min | Horror
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

This short film is about a young woman who visits her husband's inherited family home for the first time, and quickly discovers she has married into more than just family.

Ruddigore(1967)

For centuries, the Murgatroyd family, the Baronets of Ruddigore, have been under a witch's curse — commit a crime every day, or die in agony. Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd, the rightful heir, has run away to live as innocent peasant Robin Oakapple in the Cornish village of Rederring, sticking his brother Despard with the curse. But on the very day that "Robin" is to marry sweet, beautiful Rose Maybud, it all falls apart. Can Sir Ruthven outwit a picture gallery full of his ancestors' ghosts to save the day?