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1. Backwoods (2019)
15 min | Short, Horror
1907, Massachusetts. A scholar drifts from his path and finds himself in a house he takes for deserted. Deserted, apart from a beguiling book containing dark secrets that exerts a powerful hold over those who come into contact with it.
Director: Ryan Mackfall | Stars: Ciaran Clarke, Kevin Horsham, Noah Wallace
Votes: 105
2. Witchhammer (1970)
107 min | Drama, History, Horror
In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects.
Director: Otakar Vávra | Stars: Vladimír Smeral, Elo Romancik, Josef Kemr, Sona Valentová
Votes: 2,835
3. Stones of Death (1988)
R | 88 min | Horror
The residents of a housing development find themselves in trouble after they discover that their development was built on top of a sacred aboriginal graveyard, on which a curse was placed upon anyone who disturbed it.
Director: James Bogle | Stars: Zoe Carides, Tom Jennings, Eric Oldfield, Kerry McKay
Votes: 355
4. Tilbury (1987 TV Movie)
56 min | Drama, Horror, War
In the year 1940 when there were British forces in Iceland, a country boy goes to Reyjavik to work for the army. He also wants to know what became of his childhood sweetheart. He soon ... See full summary »
Director: Viðar Víkingsson | Stars: Róbert Arnfinnsson, Helga Bernhard, Kristján Franklin Magnúss, Karl Ágúst Úlfsson
Votes: 328
5. Beasts (1977)
103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
One dark and stormy night a pretty girl arrives on a small island. She becomes an excuse for the turbulence and evil that springs when a man forgets his dignity and becomes a beast.
Director: Zivko Nikolic | Stars: Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Viktor Starcic, Rados Bajic, Dragomir Bojanic-Gidra
Votes: 223
6. Lokis. Rekopis profesora Wittembacha (1970)
100 min | Fantasy, Horror
A pastor studying folklore in remote parts of 19th century Lithuania is invited to stay with a young nobleman. His mother is sequestered and mad. It seems she has been attacked by a bear as... See full summary »
Director: Janusz Majewski | Stars: Józef Duriasz, Edmund Fetting, Gustaw Lutkiewicz, Malgorzata Braunek
Votes: 670
7. Il demonio (1963)
98 min | Drama, Horror
A lonely, sexually-uninhibited young peasant is subjected to an exorcism after she hexes a man who rejects her advances.
Director: Brunello Rondi | Stars: Daliah Lavi, Frank Wolff, Anna María Aveta, Tiziana Casetti
Votes: 1,139
8. Spirit of Itchi (2020)
87 min | Horror
XIX century. A big misfortune happened on the land of one wealthy family in Yakutia. As time passed, fear was forgotten and farmers started settling here again. But ghosts of this land will reveal secrets of forgotten history.
Director: Kostas Marsan | Stars: Alexander Andreev, Anna Flegontova, Matrena Kornilova, Nadezhda Lukinova
Votes: 263
9. The Rites of May (1976)
105 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
During a return to his provincial home, a young man gets involved with a woman who is ultimately possessed by her sister's spirit, paving the way to revealing the painful truth about her unsolved disappearance.
Director: Mike De Leon | Stars: Tommy Abuel, Mario Montenegro, Mona Lisa, Charo Santos-Concio
Votes: 520
10. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
97 min | Drama, Romance
A timeless Carpathian story - the young Ivan falls in love with the daughter of his father's killer among the Hutsul people of Ukraine.
Director: Sergei Parajanov | Stars: Ivan Mikolaychuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva, Spartak Bagashvili
Votes: 8,451
11. The Stalls of Barchester (1971 TV Movie)
45 min | Horror
While cataloging the library of Barchester Cathedral, a scholar finds a diary detailing the events surrounding the mysterious death of an Archdeacon some 50 years earlier. The first of the BBC's famed 'A Ghost Story for Christmas'.
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: Robert Hardy, Clive Swift, Thelma Barlow, Will Leighton
Votes: 913
12. A Warning to the Curious (1972 TV Movie)
50 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An archaeologist goes treasure hunting along the English coast in search of a lost, fabled crown that supposedly helps protect Great Britain against invasion, but uncovers something much more sinister.
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Julian Herington, John Kearney
Votes: 1,637
13. The Stone Tape (1972 TV Movie)
90 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A research team from an electronics company moves into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Greeley witnesses a ghost, team director... See full summary »
Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Michael Bryant, Jane Asher, Iain Cuthbertson, Michael Bates
Votes: 1,882
14. Sorceress (1987)
Unrated | 97 min | Drama, History
A Dominican friar visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics. Despite the opposition of the local priest and the indifference of the villagers, he finds a seemingly perfect ... See full summary »
Director: Suzanne Schiffman | Stars: Tchéky Karyo, Christine Boisson, Jean Carmet, Raoul Billerey
Votes: 235
15. The Territory (1981)
100 min | Drama, Horror
A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods. Foolishly unprepared to deal with Mother Nature and their situation, they wander around lost for days and weeks, ... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Geoffrey Carey, John Paul Getty III, Jeffrey Kime, Camila Mora-Scheihing
Votes: 293
16. Arcadia (II) (2017)
78 min | Documentary
From the earliest days of movie-making to the present day, through rare and unseen footage, we see the changing relationship the British have with their land. From images of local ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Wright | Stars: Laura Rennie, Ian Sexon
Votes: 288
17. Photographing Fairies (1997)
R | 106 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Photographer Charles Castle is dazed with grief after the death of his girlfriend. He goes off to war and works in the trenches as photographer. After the war, still grieving, Charles receives some photographs that claim to be of fairies.
Director: Nick Willing | Stars: Toby Stephens, Emily Woof, Ben Kingsley, Frances Barber
Votes: 2,851
18. Simon, the Magician (1999)
100 min | Drama
In this surrealistic movie from the director of My 20th Century, the French police seek help from Simon, a visionary living in Budapest to solve a murder case. Whilst in Paris, Simon falls ... See full summary »
Director: Ildikó Enyedi | Stars: Péter Andorai, Julie Delarme, Péter Halász, Hubert Koundé
Votes: 862
19. Across the River (2013)
92 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The story revolves around an ethologist working in the remote woods, trapping animals and mounting cameras on them so that he can monitor their behavior remotely. The resulting recordings ... See full summary »
Director: Lorenzo Bianchini | Stars: Renzo Gariup, Marco Marchese, Lidia Zabrieszach
Votes: 1,656
20. The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
Passed | 107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A nineteenth-century New Hampshire farmer makes a pact with Satan for economic success, then enlists famed orator Daniel Webster to extract him from his contract.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon
Votes: 5,606
21. O Amuleto de Ogum (1974)
112 min | Drama
To entertain some thieves, a blind guitar player tells them the story of a man from the Northeast of Brazil, involved with criminals living in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, who allegedly ... See full summary »
Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Stars: Ney Santanna, Anecy Rocha, Jofre Soares, Maria Ribeiro
Votes: 189
22. Noites de Iemanjá (1971)
86 min | Mystery
Neglected wife tells husband about mysterious deaths occurred by the influence of Iemanjá, Afro-Brazilian deity, goddess of the waters.
Director: Maurice Capovilla | Stars: Joana Fomm, Newton Prado, Roberto Maya, Assunta Perez
Votes: 23
23. As Filhas do Fogo (1978)
98 min | Horror, Thriller
Woman living in São Paulo goes to Gramado, South of Brazil, to visit a friend of hers. Together, they meet an odd woman who engages in strange experiences in parapsychology. From then on, bizarre events are bound to happen.
Director: Walter Hugo Khouri | Stars: Paola Morra, Karin Rodrigues, Rosina Malbouisson, Maria Rosa
Votes: 146
24. The Ash Tree (1975 TV Movie)
32 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Man of leisure Sir Richard (Edward Petherbridge) receives notification that his Uncle has died, bequeathing him his stately country manor and all its lands. On his return to England he ... See full summary »
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: Edward Petherbridge, Preston Lockwood, Barbara Ewing, Lalla Ward
Votes: 765
25. Black Sabbath (1963)
Approved | 97 min | Horror
Boris Karloff hosts a trio of horror stories concerning a stalked call girl, a vampire-like monster who preys on his family, and a nurse who is haunted by her ring's rightful owner.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Michèle Mercier, Lidia Alfonsi, Boris Karloff, Mark Damon
Votes: 13,907
26. The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe (1974)
100 min | Horror
Director José Mojica Marins travels to spend Christmas with friends on their small farm and write the screenplay for his next film. But he observes eerie things in the house. His friends ... See full summary »
Director: José Mojica Marins | Stars: José Mojica Marins, Jofre Soares, Walter Stuart, Geórgia Gomide
Votes: 311
27. The City of the Dead (1960)
PG-13 | 76 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young college student arrives in a sleepy Massachusetts town to research witchcraft; during her stay at an eerie inn, she discovers a startling secret about the town and its inhabitants.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Patricia Jessel, Dennis Lotis, Christopher Lee, Tom Naylor
Votes: 8,515
28. Eye of the Devil (1966)
Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, Mystery
Workers employed at a French vineyard quietly follow old pagan rituals that call for the life of the marquis owner to save his crops during dry seasons.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: David Niven, Sharon Tate, Deborah Kerr, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 3,218
29. Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973)
PG | 80 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
A young girl who returns to her hometown to see her dying father finds herself being drawn into a web of vampirism and witchcraft.
Director: Richard Blackburn | Stars: Lesley Taplin, Cheryl Smith, William Whitton, Hy Pyke
Votes: 2,465
30. Maurice (1987)
R | 140 min | Drama, Romance
Two English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: James Wilby, Rupert Graves, Hugh Grant, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 23,571 | Gross: $3.13M
31. Love from Mother Only (2003)
21 min | Horror, Short, Fantasy
Filho is a miserable bastard. He's divided between the duty of nursing his fanatic mother and his obsessive lust for Formosa - a whore of Satan . His dilemma casts him into an abyss of ... See full summary »
Director: Dennison Ramalho | Stars: Everaldo Pontes, Débora Muniz, Vera Barreto Leite, José Salles
Votes: 341
32. Nang Nak (1999)
100 min | Action, Horror, Romance
Mak goes home from war and lives together with his wife and baby happily until a friend decides to reveal a secret.
Director: Nonzee Nimibutr | Stars: Inthira Charoenpura, Winai Kraibutr, Manit Meekaewjaroen, Pramote Suksatit
Votes: 1,918
33. The Owl Service (1969–1970)
200 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
Three teenagers discover a mysterious set of owl and flower-patterned dinner plates in the attic and the magical ancient legend of the "Mabinogion" comes to life once again in their Welsh valley.
Stars: Dorothy Edwards, Gillian Hills, Michael Holden, Francis Wallis
Votes: 229
34. Revenge of the Dead (1983)
R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery
Stefano, a young journalist, buys a used typewriter and accidentally sees that some text is still readable on the ribbon. He manages to reconstruct the story of a scientist, Paolo Zeder, ... See full summary »
Director: Pupi Avati | Stars: Gabriele Lavia, Anne Canovas, Paola Tanziani, Cesare Barbetti
Votes: 2,480
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