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.

Disco

2019

Norwegian

5.2

♡ 8

67%

Jorunn Myklebust Syversen Director

Nicolai Cleve Broch as

Fredericke Rustad Hellerud as

Øyvind Gulli as Øyvind

Andreas Preus Efskin as Pastor Trond

On the surface 19-year-old Mirjam's life appears perfect. She is a world champion freestyle disco dancer and the pride of her modern, evangelical church. Yet her body is calling out for help and at the dance world championships, where she is defending her title, she collapses on stage. Her family's solution is for her to focus more on her faith. In search of answers, she turns to a stricter, more conservative church.

Witchfinder General

1968

English

6.7

♡ 11

94%

66%

based on novel or book

religious fundamentalism

witch burning

Michael Reeves Director

Wilfrid Brambell as Master Loach

Vincent Price as Matthew Hopkins

Ian Ogilvy as Richard Marshall

Alf Joint as Sentry

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.

The Rapture

1991

English

6.3

♡ 15

66%

religion and supernatural

religious fanaticism

Thriller

Michael Tolkin Director

Carole Davis as Angie

Scott Burkholder as Evangelist

Will Patton as Foster

Sam Vlahos as Wayne

A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God – only to have her faith continually tested in ways beyond what she could have imagined.

Colonia

2015

English

7.0

♡ 170

29%

Florian Gallenberger Director

Daniel Brühl as Daniel

Paul Herwig as Embassy Attaché

Emma Watson as Lena

Julian Ovenden as Roman

A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.

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.

See No Evil

2006

English

5.1

♡ 53

9%

Gregory Dark Director

Samantha Noble as Kira

Luke Pegler as Michael

Michael J. Pagan as Tye

Rachael Taylor as Zoe

A group of delinquents are sent to clean the Blackwell Hotel but little do they know reclusive psychopath Jacob Goodnight has holed away in the rotting hotel. When one of the teens is captured, those who remain band together to survive against the brutal killer.

The Order

2001

English

4.7

♡ 15

13%

Sheldon Lettich Director

Alon Aboutboul as Avram

Sofia Milos as Lt. Dalia Barr

Vernon Dobtcheff as Prof. Oscar Cafmeyer

Jean-Claude Van Damme as Rudy Cafmeyer / Charles Le Vaillant

When Rudy, an artifacts smuggler, goes to Jerusalem to rescue his kidnapped archeologist father, he faces deportation by a scheming police chief. Now, to find his dad and recover a sacred scroll, he'll have to outwit officials and a ruthless sect. With the help of a beautiful Israeli cop, Rudy battles a faction of religious zealots determined to see a holy war at all costs.

The Physician

2013

English

7.2

♡ 70

74%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

religious fundamentalism

Philipp Stölzl Director

Stellan Skarsgård as Barber

Ben Kingsley as Ibn Sina

Michael Jibson as Stratford Monk

Wilfried Hochholdinger as Tavern Guest

England, 1021. Rob Cole, a boy born in a miserable mining town, swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to the remote Isfahan, in Persia, where he meets Ibn Sina, the greatest healer of his time.

The Apparition

2018

French

♡ 3

73%

Xavier Giannoli Director

Anatole Taubman as Anton Meyer

Aurore Broutin as Cécile

Vincent Lindon as Jacques Mayano

Gérard Dessalles as Stéphane Mornay

Jacques Mayano, a French journalist who has lived a traumatic experience, is recruited by the Vatican to be part of a task force that must investigate the veracity of a supernatural apparition allegedly happened in a small French village.

Brimstone

2016

English

7.0

♡ 200

45%

Martin Koolhoven Director

Paul Anderson as Frank

Emilia Jones as Joanna

Dakota Fanning as Liz

Guy Pearce as The Reverend

In the menacing inferno of the old North-American West, Liz is a genuine survivor who is hunted by a vengeful preacher for a crime she didn’t commit.

Coven

2020

Basque

6.4

♡ 9

historically inaccurate

History

inquisition

religious fanaticism

religious fundamentalism

Thriller

witchcraft

Pablo Agüero Director

Luis Fernández de Eribe as

Amaia Aberasturi as Ana

Daniel Chamorro as Cirujano

Amalia Robin as Criada Sra. Lara 1

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.

God's Not Dead 2

2016

English

4.4

♡ 84

10%

Harold Cronk Director

Trisha LaFache as Amy Ryan

Hayley Orrantia as Brooke Thawley

Ray Wise as Peter Kane

David A.R. White as Rev. Dave

When a high school teacher is asked a question in class about Jesus, her reasoned response lands her in deep trouble and could expel God from the public square once and for all.

Embrace of the Serpent

2015

Spanish

7.8

♡ 38

97%

inspired by real stories

oscar nominated

religious fanaticism

Ciro Guerra Director

Brionne Davis as Evan

Antonio Bolivar as Old Karamakate

Jan Bijvoet as Theo

Nilbio Torres as Young Karamakate

The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.

Frailty

2001

English

7.2

♡ 56

76%

Bill Paxton Director

Cynthia Ettinger as Cynthia Harbridge

Bill Paxton as Dad Meiks

Matthew McConaughey as Fenton Meiks

Rebecca Tilney as Teacher

A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."

Porky's II: The Next Day

1983

English

5.0

♡ 16

10%

religious fundamentalism

teaching

Bob Clark Director

Eric Christmas as Carter

Bob Clark as Klan Member

Cyril O'Reilly as Tim

Kaki Hunter as Wendy

When the students of Angel Beach High decide to stage "An Evening With Shakespeare," their efforts are threatened by Miss Balbricker, who views the works of Shakespeare as obscene. She enlists the help of Reverend Bubba Flavel, a religious fanatic who brings along his flock of followers to pressure the school into shutting down the production.

Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism

2023

English

5.4

♡ 9

Nick Kozakis Director

Rosemary Traynor as Barbara

Tim Pocock as Daniel James King

John Wood as Detective Chambers

Dan Ewing as Ron Levonde

Lara is a woman tormented, torn between science and faith. Pushed by her husband to seek treatment from a congregation of zealots, a ruthless exorcist will try to save her soul by putting an innocent woman through hell.

The Trial of Joan of Arc

1962

French

7.4

♡ 10

100%

62%

based on a true story

Robert Bresson Director

Michael Williams as Englishman

Donald O'Brien as English Priest

Nicolas Bang as Garde

Florence Delay as Jeanne d'Arc

Rouen, Normandy, 1431, during the Hundred Years' War. After being captured by French soldiers from an opposing faction, Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orléans, is unjustly tried by an ecclesiastical court overseen by her English enemies.

Saint Maud

2019

English

♡ 53

92%

Rose Glass Director

Jennifer Ehle as Amanda

Lily Frazer as Carol

Morfydd Clark as Maud

Caoilfhionn Dunne as Nurse

Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up hints of a dark past, it becomes clear there is more to sweet Maud than meets the eye.

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