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Midnight Special(2016)

3.1/5 (with 843 votes)

A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.

The Master(2012)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 17min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 1,303 votes)

Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.

Children of the Corn(1984)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 33min | Horror, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 418 votes)

A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.

Mandy(2018)

FSK: 18+ years
| 2h 2min | Horror, Action, Thriller, Fantasy
3.1/5 (with 814 votes)

The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.

The Lodge(2020)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 48min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 508 votes)

When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.

The Silence(2019)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 31min | Horror, Drama, Thriller, Fantasy
3.0/5 (with 653 votes)

With the world under attack by deadly creatures who hunt by sound, a teen and her family seek refuge outside the city and encounter a mysterious cult.

El Topo(1970)

FSK: 18+ years
| 2h 5min | Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
3.6/5 (with 252 votes)

El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.

Sweetwater(2013)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 36min | Western, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 84 votes)

In the late 1800s, a fanatical religious leader, a renegade Sheriff, and a former prostitute collide in a blood triangle on the rugged plains of the New Mexico Territory.

Manodrome(2023)

1h 35min | Drama, Thriller
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Ralphie is an Uber driver and aspiring bodybuilder who is inducted into a libertarian masculinity cult and loses his grip on reality when his repressed desires are awakened.

The Other Lamb(2020)

1h 37min | Horror, Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 76 votes)

For her entire life, the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah has known. Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women she lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd, a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark side. But when her insular world is rocked by a series of nightmarish visions and disturbing revelations, Selah begins to question everything about her existence—including her allegiance to the increasingly dangerous Shepherd.

Children of the Corn: Runaway(2018)

1h 22min | Horror
2.5/5 (with 17 votes)

The plot of Children of the Corn: Runaway follows a young pregnant Ruth who escapes a murderous child cult in a small Midwestern town. She spends the next decade living anonymously in an attempt to spare her son the horrors that she experienced as a child. She lands in the small Oklahoma town, but something is following her. Now, she must confront this evil or lose her child.

Backwoods(2008)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 25min | Horror, Thriller, TV Movie
2.3/5 (with 20 votes)

A group of friends embark on a camping trip for a ten-year high school reunion. Their celebration soon turns into a battle for survival when they realize that the locals, who are not what they seem, are hunting them down.

Directed by Martin Jay Weiss - With Ryan Merriman
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My Scientology Movie(2016)

1h 39min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 123 votes)

Following a long fascination with the religion and with much experience in dealing with eccentric, unpalatable and unexpected human behavior, the beguilingly unassuming Theroux won't take no for an answer when his request to enter the Church's headquarters is turned down. Inspired by the Church's use of filming techniques, and aided by ex-members of the organization, Theroux uses actors to replay some incidents people claim they experienced as members in an attempt to better understand the way it operates. In a bizarre twist, it becomes clear that the Church is also making a film about Louis Theroux.

Directed by John Dower

Holy Hell(2016)

1h 40min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 50 votes)

An inside look at a West Hollywood cult formed by a charismatic teacher in the 1980s that eventually imploded.

Directed by Will Allen

Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness(1995)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 20min | Horror
2.7/5 (with 11 votes)

Misa Kuroi is an adorable high-school girl who arrives at her new school when it is falling under an evil supernatural force. Trying to figure out who's behind the supernatural attack, Misa also has to deal with assumptions by her fellow classmates that believe she is the one behind it all. Misa and twelve other students are kept late after school hours one day to retake an exam. Then, after sunset, the entire school is deserted, and the students find themselves trapped inside and their teacher no where to be found. One by one, the thirteen students are picked up and disposed of in horrific and graphic fashion. It is up to Misa to try and gain the trust of her fellow students so that she can protect them and stop the evil before it's too late.

Savage Messiah(2002)

1h 34min | Drama, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 8 votes)

Savage Messiah is a docudrama about Roch "Moïse" Thériault, the charismatic former leader of a small religious group based near Burnt River, Ontario, Canada. Between 1977 and 1989 he held sway over as many as 12 adults and 26 children. He used all of the nine women as concubines, and probably fathered most of the children in the group. During his reign, Thériault mutilated several members. His major crime was to kill Solange Boilard, his legal wife, by disembowelment while trying to perform surgery on her. He was arrested for assault in 1989, and convicted of murder in 1993. Along with Clifford Olsen and Paul Bernardo, Thériault is considered one of Canada's most notorious criminals.

Second Name(2002)

2.8/5 (with 19 votes)

After the suicide of her beloved father, the biologist Daniella Logan visits her catatonic mother in a mental institution to tell the tragic event and her mother calls her "Josephine". Daniella goes to the cemetery and finds that her father's grave had been opened and his corpse was profaned. She decides to investigate, and receives a message of a diabetic priest, Father Elias, who tells her about an ancient fanatic religious sect of followers of Abraham that kills the first child. Later, she meets a weird man, Toby Harris, who claims to be his legitimate father. Daniella continues seeking the truth about her origins and discloses very dark secrets about her family and friends.

Directed by Paco Plaza - With Craig Hill, Teresa Gimpera, Richard Collins-Moore, Saskia Giró

The Stranglers of Bombay(1959)

3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

In 1826 British-ruled India, the secret Cult of Thugee demonstrates their worship of their goddess, Kali, by the mutilation and mass murder of thousands of Indians while pirating the shipments of the British East-Indian Tea Company. As the British military leaders play down the implications of the piracy and disappearances, a lone captain realizes that they are not just coincidence and sets out to uncover the source of the deviltry, at the risk of his career. Based on history.

Biohazard 4: Incubate(2006)

1h 37min | Horror, Action, Animation
3.9/5 (with 11 votes)

A special CGI film made-for DVD summarizing the story of the Resident Evil 4 game, excluding a couple of scenes for narrative consistency. Leon S. Kennedy, now a federal agent, is hired to rescue the president's daughter from a sinister cult.

The Fiend(1972)

1h 31min | Horror
2.6/5 (with 8 votes)

Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness and murder. No woman is safe when Kenny's religious mania overpowers him and leads to a rampage of carnage and chaos!

Nightfall(1988)

1h 23min | Science Fiction
2.2/5 (with 7 votes)

The people of the planet Aeon, blessed with three suns, have never experienced night. When an archeological excavation uncovers evidence of an ancient catastrophe, all signs point towards the impending darkness of the very Nightfall. Panic erupts as the suns slowly disappear one by one. Science struggles against superstition as the people race to comprehend the approaching Nightfall... the end of the world as they know it. Based on Isaac Asimov's classic story "Nightfall" voted "The Greatest Science-Fiction Story of All Time.".

Directed by Paul Mayersberg - With Alexis Kanner, Sarah Douglas, David Birney, Andra Millian

Louis Theroux: America's Most Hated Family in Crisis(2011)

3.8/5 (with 24 votes)

Following up on his 2007 documentary, The Most Hated Family in America, Louis Theroux returns to Topeka, Kansas, for a week-long visit with the Westboro Baptist Church. He again joins the Phelps family on their controversial pickets where they try to antagonise communities with offensive slogans and anti-gay placards. But four years on from Louis's last visit, there are signs of disarray in the Phelps clan. A series of defections of family members has shaken up the church.

Servants of Twilight(1991)

1h 35min | Horror, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 9 votes)

Based on the novel by Dean R. Koontz, this action packed thriller features Bruce Greenwood as a private detective hired to protect a little boy from a fanatical religious cult that believe he is the antichrist fortold in the book of Revelations.

Vares - The Path Of The Righteous Men(2012)

1h 33min | Action, Crime
2.9/5 (with 8 votes)

The body of a young woman whose heart has been ripped out of her chest is found in a remote are in Finland. The finder of the body, a dismissed pastor, hires private investigator Jussi Vares to investigate the crime. Vares uncovers a criminal ring involved in extortion, religious scams, exploitation of minors and stock market speculation.

Directed by Anders Engström - With Antti Reini

The Dunwich Horror(2009)

2.4/5 (with 13 votes)

In Louisiana, in the wicked Whateley House, Lavina delivers two babies whose fate is written. Ten years later, three scholars of the occult discover that one page of the “Necronomicon,” the unspeakable book, is missing and the Black Brotherhood has summoned the ancient gate keeper to free legions of evil gods and monsters from the dimension of chaos.

Directed by Leigh Scott - With Griff Furst

Manuel y Clemente(1986)

1h 29min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Manuel and Clemente, couple in the shower and in various scheming, try to do business with miraculous apparitions. Near the Sevillian town of El Palmar de Troya, in 1968, people begin to say that the Virgin appears and the two friends take advantage of the situation. Soon a network of economic interests and credulity is created that makes it easier for Manuel and Clemente to achieve their goal: a monumental basilica, a religious order of nuns, priests and bishops of their own, and even a pope, Gregory XVII. Satire on the curious origin of the Palmarian Catholic Church and its unique founders.

Directed by Javier Palmero - With Ángel de Andrés López, Héctor Alterio, Alfonso del Real, Luis Escobar Kirkpatrick, Manuel Collado Álvarez, Rosario García Ortega, ...

Ticket to Heaven(1981)

1h 48min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 5 votes)

David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles David's chilling transformation into a gaunt, mindless shadow of his former self...and his ultimate salvation when friends and family launch a plan to kidnap and deprogram him.

Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World(2002)

50min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Masters of Darkness: Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World.

Ungodly Acts(2015)

1h 30min | Drama, TV Movie, Thriller
2.3/5 (with 5 votes)

Inspired by actual events. When Melissa Cooper's body is found hanging from a swing set, the 27-year-old's death is initially ruled a suicide. But two weeks later a young man, Adam, comes forward claiming he murdered Melissa on the orders of her husband, Daniel Cooper.

Far from the Trees(1972)

1h 40min | Documentary
2.8/5 (with 4 votes)

An unprejudiced portrait of Spanish folklore and a crude analysis in black and white of its intimate relationship with atavism and superstition, with violence and pain, with blood and death; a story of terror, a journey to the most sinister and ancestral Spain; the one that lived far from the most visited tourist destinations, from the economic miracle and unstoppable progress, relentlessly promoted by the Franco regime during the sixties.

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