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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters(2013)

1h 28min | Fantasy, Horror, Action
3.0/5 (with 3,083 votes)

After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell-bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them, Hansel and Gretel have become the hunted, and must face an evil far greater than witches... their past.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame(1996)

G
| 1h 31min | Drama, Animation, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 2,268 votes)

At the urging of his gargoyle pals, Quasimodo leaves Notre Dame tower against the wishes of his guardian, the evil Judge Claude Frollo. He ventures out to the Festival of Fools and finds his first true friend, a Romani woman named Esmeralda, who entrusts him with a secret. When the secret is revealed, Quasi soon finds himself fighting to save the people and city he loves.

Seventh Son(2014)

PG
| 1h 42min | Adventure, Fantasy
2.7/5 (with 1,153 votes)

John Gregory, who is a seventh son of a seventh son and also the local spook, has protected the country from witches, boggarts, ghouls and all manner of things that go bump in the night. However John is not young anymore, and has been seeking an apprentice to carry on his trade. Most have failed to survive. The last hope is a young farmer's son named Thomas Ward. Will he survive the training to become the spook that so many others couldn't?

Fear Street: 1666(2021)

1h 53min | Mystery, Horror
3.6/5 (with 692 votes)

In 1666, a colonial town is gripped by a hysterical witch-hunt that has deadly consequences for centuries to come, and it's up to teenagers in 1994 to finally put an end to their town's curse, before it's too late.

Directed by Leigh Janiak - With Kiana Madeira, Benjamin Flores Jr., Randy Havens, Matthew Zuk, Fred Hechinger, Sadie Sink, ...

Darkness Falls(2003)

1h 26min | Thriller, Horror
2.8/5 (with 249 votes)

A vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now grown up, who has survived her before.

Witch Hunt(2021)

1h 32min | Horror
3.4/5 (with 119 votes)

In a modern America where witches are real and witchcraft is illegal, a sheltered teenager must face her own demons and prejudices as she helps two young witches avoid law enforcement and cross the southern border to asylum in Mexico.

Assassination Nation(2018)

1h 48min | Thriller, Horror, Comedy
3.1/5 (with 365 votes)

High school senior Lily and her friends, Bex, Em and Sarah live in a haze of texts, posts, selfies and chats just like the rest of the world. So, when an anonymous hacker starts posting details from the private lives of everyone in their small town, the result is absolute madness leaving Lily and her friends questioning whether they'll live through the night.

Directed by Sam Levinson - With Odessa Young, Suki Waterhouse, Hari Nef, ABRA, Bella Thorne, Bill Skarsgård, ...

Warlock(1989)

1h 43min | Horror, Fantasy, Action
3.2/5 (with 156 votes)

In 17th century New England, witch hunter Giles Redferne captures an evil warlock, but the conjurer eludes death with supernatural help. Flung into the future, the warlock winds up in the 1980s and plans to bring about the end of the world. Redferne follows the enchanter into the modern era and continues his mission, but runs into trouble in such unfamiliar surroundings. With the help of a young woman, can Redferne finally defeat the warlock?

Witchfinder General(1968)

1h 27min | Drama, History, Horror
3.3/5 (with 93 votes)

England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins, a monster disguised as a man who wanders from town to town offering his services as a witch hunter.

Coven(2020)

1h 32min | Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 126 votes)

French Basque Country, year 1609. The men of a small fishing village have gone to sea. Judge Rostegui, who has been charged by the king with ridding the country of the devil's wiles, arrests Ana and her friends and accuses them of witchcraft.

Directed by Pablo Agüero - With Àlex Brendemühl, Amaia Aberasturi, Daniel Chamorro, Daniel Fanego, Iñigo de la Iglesia, Asier Oruesagasti, ...

The Reckoning(2021)

1h 51min | Horror, Drama
3.4/5 (with 85 votes)

In the aftermath of the Great Plague and amidst the subsequent witch-hunts against women, a young widow grapples with the tragic death of her husband in a society completely consumed by fear and death. Because she rejects the advances of her landlord, she is falsely accused of being a witch and thrown in jail for a crime she didn’t commit. She must endure physical persecution at the hands of England’s most ruthless witch-hunter and face her own inner demons as the devil himself starts to work his way into her mind.

Twins of Evil(1971)

1h 27min | Horror
3.3/5 (with 62 votes)

While dabbling in Satanism, Count Karstein resurrects Mircalla Karnstein who initiates him into vampirism. As a rash of deaths afflicts the village, Gustav the head of Puritan group leads his men to seek out and destroy the pestilence. One of his twin nieces has become inflicted with the witchcraft but Gustav's zeal and venom has trapped the innocent Maria, threatening her with a tortuous execution, whilst Frieda remains free to continue her orgy of evil.

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Salem Witch Trials(2002)

3.2/5 (with 15 votes)

Salem, Massachusetts. A small town—with no clear governing body—became embroiled in a scandal that forever stands as one of the darkest chapters in American history. For those accused of witchcraft by their neighbors and friends, there was little chance of clearing their names; the mass paranoia that ravaged through the community took the lives of 19 innocent men and women.

Directed by Joseph Sargent - With Kirstie Alley

Day of Wrath(1943)

1h 37min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 91 votes)

In a Danish village in the early 1600s, a young woman named Anne, whose mother was thought to be a witch, develops sympathy toward an old woman, Marte, who is accused of witchcraft. The intervention of Anne's older but kindly husband, Pastor Absalon saved her mother -- but now, urged on by his overbearing mother, he refuses to help Marte. When Absalon's son returns home and is attracted to Anne, it's a matter of time before her family destiny catches up with her.

Devil's Bride(2016)

1h 48min | Drama, History
3.0/5 (with 27 votes)

Anna’s story takes place on Åland Island in 1666, during the beginning of the most widespread and systematic witch-hunts in Scandinavian history. In all, 16 women were convicted of being in league with the devil, and seven of them were executed. For Judge Psilander, who has mastered the newest witch theories of the time, the trials are meant to cleanse the island of superstition, to have science and common sense prevail. The main character, the intelligent and stubborn Anna, gets an intimate view of the events, having just started working as a maid in the judge’s house. To Anna’s misfortune, she falls intensely in love with her friend Rakel’s husband Elias, but his infatuation with her quickly fades. A hurt and jealous Anna decides to get revenge and falsely reports Rakel to Judge Psilander. It’s only when Rakel is arrested, and things get out of hand, that Anna realizes the gravity of her doings.

Directed by Saara Cantell - With Tuulia Eloranta, Magnus Krepper, Elín Petersdóttir, Claes Malmberg, Kaija Pakarinen, Antti Reini, ...

Cry of the Banshee(1970)

1h 31min | Horror
2.7/5 (with 26 votes)

In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her occult powers to curse his family, enlisting unknowing help from one of the household.

Witch(2023)

Small town, England. 1575. William embarks on a journey to prove the innocence of his wife, Twyla, falsely accused of being a witch and will be put to death if found guilty. William must hunt down the real witch, to save Twyla from death.

The Witches of Salem(1957)

2h 25min | Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 16 votes)

Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a witch in revenge. A series of tragic trials soon befall Salem as fear and suspicion blur the lines of reality.

Witchouse(1999)

1h 12min | Horror
2.4/5 (with 8 votes)

On Mayday 1998 in the town of Dunwich, Massachusetts, Elizabeth gathers together a group of specially selected friends for a rather odd party. It turns out that she is the descendent of a malevolent witch named Lilith who was burned at the stake precisely three hundred years ago. Now Elizabeth hopes to resurrect her dreadful ancestor and has a specific (and murderous) need for the guests she has chosen.

Directed by David DeCoteau

Debbie Does Demons(2022)

1h 14min | Horror

The latest picture from cult director Donald Farmer.

Akelarre(1984)

1h 49min | Drama, History
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

A small village in Navarre, Spain, XVII century. Garazi's grandmother is burned at the stake when accussed of being a witch and convicted by an inquisitor, something that brings Garazi under suspicion and eventually into prison, where she is atrociously tortured and humiliated.

The Devonsville Terror(1983)

1h 22min | Horror
2.5/5 (with 10 votes)

Dr. Worley investigates a 300-year-old witch's curse in the New England town of Devonsville. Three liberated, assertive women move into town, which angers the bigoted, male-dominated town fathers. One of the women is a reincarnation of the witch, who proceeds to exact revenge on them.

Directed by Ulli Lommel - With Suzanna Love

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.

The Hunting of the President(2004)

1h 30min | Documentary
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Previously unreleased material outlines the campaign against Bill Clinton's presidency, from his days in Arkansas up to his impeachment trial.

Famous Love Affairs(1961)

1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.

Directed by Michel Boisrond

Anna Göldin, letzte Hexe(1991)

1h 45min | History, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A native of Sennwald, Anna Göldi arrived in Glarus in 1765. For seventeen years, she worked as a maidservant for Johann Jakob Tschudi, a physician. Tschudi reported her for having put needles in the bread and milk of one of his daughters, apparently through supernatural means. Göldi at first escaped arrest, but the authorities of the Canton of Glarus advertised a reward for her capture in the Zürcher Zeitung on February 9, 1782. Göldi was arrested and under torture, admitted to entering in a pact with the Devil, who had appeared to her as a black dog. She withdrew her confession after the torture ended, but was sentenced on June 18, 1782 to execution by decapitation. The charges were officially of "poisoning" rather than witchcraft, even though the law at the time did not impose the death penalty for non-lethal poisoning.

Three Brave Men(1956)

1h 28min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A lawyer takes the case of a Navy clerk who sues after he's fired for suspected Communist beliefs.

Studies on Hysteria(2012)

8min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

Short film about a young man discovering pants in a nudist world. A parable of the societal intolerance to anything different.

Maid of Salem(1937)

1h 26min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.

The Burning Times(1990)

57min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

A 1990 Canadian documentary, presenting a feminist revisionist account of the Early Modern European witchcraft trials. It features interviews with feminist and Neopagan notables, such as Starhawk, Margot Adler, and Matthew Fox. The Burning Times is the second film in the National Film Board of Canada's Women and Spirituality series, following Goddess Remembered.

Directed by Donna Read - With Starhawk, Matthew Fox, Margot Adler
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