Love and Other Cults

2017

Japanese

6.2

♡ 11

Eiji Uchida Director

Sairi Itô as Ai Shima Denden

Denden as Hisaya Kida

Katsuya Maiguma as Kazuharu Kitami

Yoshimasa Kondô as Tsunehiko Mita

Ai's mother sends her to live with a cult commune, where she remains for seven years. After the cult is broken up by the police, Ai struggles to fit in with society.

Sweetwater

2013

English

6.2

♡ 12

25%

37%

Action

Drama

husband wife relationship

religious fundamentalism

Thriller

Western

Logan Miller Director

Amy Madigan as Madame Bovary

Eduardo Noriega as Miguel

Jason Isaacs as Prophet Josiah

Ed Harris as Sheriff Jackson

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.

The Stranglers of Bombay

1959

English

6.2

♡ 7

Terence Fisher Director

Roger Delgado as Bundar

John Harvey as Burns

Marie Devereux as Karim

Warren Mitchell as Merchant

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.

The Other Lamb

2019

English

5.3

♡ 29

74%

Malgorzata Szumowska Director

Eve Connolly as Adriel

Isabelle Connolly as Eloise

Denise Gough as Sarah

Michiel Huisman as Shepherd

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.

Savage Messiah

2002

English

6.3

♡ 3

66%

Mario Azzopardi Director

Terry Haig as Judge at Roch's Trial

Isabelle Blais as Lise

John Dunn-Hill as Old Man at Farm

Polly Walker as Paula Jackson

As a small-town social worker investigates a commune headed by a spiritual leader calling himself Moses, she discovers a dead child, sadistic rituals, and ruthless mental and physical abuse.

The Dunwich Horror

2008

English

3.6

♡ 4

Leigh Scott Director

Kristen Quintrall as Caitlin Bowers

Dean Stockwell as Dr. Henry Armitage

Griff Furst as Professor Walter Rice

Jeffrey Combs as Wilbur

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.

Maniac Killer

1987

English

4.0

♡ 5

Andrea Bianchi Director

Bo Svenson as Count Silvano

Robert Ginty as Gondrand

Shailar Coby as Professor Roger Osborne

Stanley Kapoul as Sam

A murderous cult kidnaps French prostitutes and tortures them to death to "purify" them of their evil ways. The local pimps, understandably upset, set out after them, as does a man whose girlfriend was kidnapped by the cult and may still be held by them.

Second Name

2002

Spanish

5.4

♡ 4

5%

religious fundamentalism

suicide

Thriller

Paco Plaza Director

Toby Harper as Dr. Grant

Julie Nash as Night Nurse

Jim Arnold as Priest

Craig Stevenson as Toby Harris

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.

Goatling

2020

Portuguese

4.1

♡ 2

Luciano de Azevedo Director

Magui Bravi as Irmã

Sandra Emília as Mãe Velha

Ramon Brant as Son 1

Iuri Alvarenga as Son 2

Split into three chapters, "Cabrito" tells the story of a man haunted by his loved ones. The film begins with the story of his father and how the family became cannibal. The second part focuses on his mother and how she awakens the worst in her son with her twisted religiousness. The last part is focused on the main character's final catharsis, when he kidnaps his first love, Rosalita, and reproduces the inhuman bizarre caring to which he was subjected in his family relations.

Bloodbath

1975

Spanish

4.6

♡ 4

Silvio Narizzano Director

Dennis Hopper as Chicken

Faith Brook as Heather

Carroll Baker as Treasure

Ivonne Sentis as Virginia

Chicken, a desperate hippie junkie living in a small Spanish village, is finding it difficult to separate fantasy and reality. This isn't helped by the villagers practising magic and child sacrifice, or his involvement with a group of boozy expatriates lost in their own dreams and regrets.

Manodrome

2023

English

4.7

♡ 17

49%

John Trengove Director

Adrien Brody as Dad Dan

Riley Keough as Mother

Jesse Eisenberg as Ralphie

Caleb Eberhardt as Son aaron

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.

Highlander: The Source

2007

English

3.0

♡ 17

18%

Brett Leonard Director

Thekla Reuten as Anna Teshemka

Adrian Paul as Duncan MacLeod

Stephen Wight as Reggie Weller

Cristian Solimeno as The Guardian

The world is falling into chaos. As he roams a crumbling city, Duncan MacLeod, the Highlander, remembers happier times before the love of his life left... Hopeless and alone, MacLeod finds his way to a band of immortal companions, including his mysterious friend Methos, and a mortal, Watcher Joe Dawson. Together this small group sets out on a quest to find the origin of the first Immortal.

Nightfall

1988

English

2.6

♡ 7

12%

Paul Mayersberg Director

Jonathan Emerson as Architect

David Birney as Aton

Frederick Keeve as Cultist

Larry Hankin as Desert King

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."

An Angry Boy

2023

English

4.7

♡ 6

100%

psychological thriller

religious cult

Thriller

Andrew Fitzgerald Director

Eric Roberts as Andy

Graham Davidson as Cameron DeSanty

Logan Keeler as Carl

Imani Hanson as Mike Gosch

Having escaped a sadistic cult as a child, Owen must confront his past as his tormentors enter his new life. This time there's no escaping for anyone.

Children of the Corn: Runaway

2018

English

3.7

♡ 11

14%

John Gulager Director

Clu Gulager as Crusty

Blaine Maye as Malachi

Kevin Harvey as Rally

Marci Miller as Ruth / Teenage Ruth

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.

Holy Hell

2016

English

7.0

♡ 5

73%

Will Allen Director

Radhia Gleis as Herself

Julian Goldstein as Himself

Greg Gorey as Himself

Ronald Reagan as Himself - U.S. President

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

My Scientology Movie

2015

English

6.6

♡ 9

89%

59%

Action

Documentary

investigative journalism

John Dower Director

Paz de la Huerta as Herself

Tom Cruise as Himself

Ted Koppel as Himself, interviewer

Louis Theroux as Himself - Presenter

After being denied access to the Church of Scientology's headquarters, documentarian Louis Theroux teams up with ex-Scientology official Marty Rathbun to stage re-enactments of alleged abuses within the organization. Theroux soon discovers that the church is watching his every move.

The Silence

2019

English

5.4

♡ 186

Action

based on novel or book

post-apocalyptic future

John R. Leonetti Director

Kiernan Shipka as Ally

John Corbett as Glenn

Stanley Tucci as Hugh

Barbara Gordon as Woman with Shotgun

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.

The Theta Girl

2017

English

5.2

♡ 6

88%

Christopher Bickel Director

Bradley J. Petit as Club Goer

Cleveland Langdale as Coin

David Axe as Gordo

Mike Amason as Papa Shogun

Gayce, a take-no-shit young woman, deals a hallucinogenic drug called "theta," facilitating an audience for her friends' all-girl rock band. When Gayce's friends are brutally murdered, she must solve the mystery behind the murders and protect herself from the killer. She discovers the connections between theta and the murders - and learns a terrifying truth. That the world -- indeed her whole reality -- is not as it seems.

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Love and Other Cults

Sweetwater

The Stranglers of Bombay

The Other Lamb

Savage Messiah

The Dunwich Horror

Maniac Killer

Second Name

Goatling

Bloodbath

Manodrome

Highlander: The Source

Nightfall

An Angry Boy

Children of the Corn: Runaway

Holy Hell

My Scientology Movie

The Silence

The Theta Girl