Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "purity"

1. The Neon Demon (2016)

R | 117 min | Horror, Thriller

An aspiring model, Jesse, is new to Los Angeles. However, her beauty and youth, which generate intense fascination and jealousy within the fashion industry, may prove themselves sinister.

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn | Stars: Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks, Keanu Reeves, Karl Glusman

Votes: 104,176 | Gross: $1.33M

2. Teeth (I) (2007)

R | 94 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Still a stranger to her own body, a high school student discovers she has a physical advantage when she becomes the object of male violence.

Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein | Stars: Jess Weixler, John Hensley, Josh Pais, Hale Appleman

Votes: 46,574 | Gross: $0.35M

3. 8½ (1963)

Not Rated | 138 min | Drama

A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.

Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale, Sandra Milo

Votes: 125,481 | Gross: $0.05M

4. Dorian Gray (2009)

R | 112 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty eternally, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

Director: Oliver Parker | Stars: Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Rebecca Hall, John Hollingworth

Votes: 68,219

5. Pi (1998)

R | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.

Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Pamela Hart

Votes: 186,707 | Gross: $3.22M

6. Little Darlings (1980)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama

Two fifteen year-old girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be the first to lose their virginity while at a summer camp.

Director: Ron Maxwell | Stars: Tatum O'Neal, Kristy McNichol, Armand Assante, Matt Dillon

Votes: 6,608 | Gross: $34.33M

7. The Starling Girl (2023)

R | 117 min | Drama

17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.

Director: Laurel Parmet | Stars: Eliza Scanlen, Lewis Pullman, Jimmi Simpson, Wrenn Schmidt

Votes: 2,382

8. American Pie Presents: The Book of Love (2009 Video)

R | 93 min | Comedy

Ten years after the first American Pie movie, three new hapless virgins discover the Bible hidden in the school library at East Great Falls High.

Director: John Putch | Stars: Bug Hall, Kevin M. Horton, Brandon Hardesty, Eugene Levy

Votes: 49,538

9. Valmont (1989)

R | 137 min | Drama, Romance

France before 1789: When a widow hears that her lover is to marry her cousin's daughter, she asks the playboy Valmont to take the girl's virginity. But first she bets him, with her body as prize, to seduce a virtuous, young, married woman.

Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk

Votes: 14,330 | Gross: $1.13M

10. Poltergeist III (1988)

PG-13 | 98 min | Horror, Thriller

Carol Anne is staying with her aunt in a high-rise building, where the supernatural forces haunting her make their return.

Director: Gary Sherman | Stars: Heather O'Rourke, Tom Skerritt, Nancy Allen, Zelda Rubinstein

Votes: 20,555 | Gross: $14.11M

11. The White Ribbon (2009)

R | 144 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?

Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur

Votes: 77,813 | Gross: $2.22M

12. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)

R | 120 min | Biography, Drama

A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.

Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Hiroshi Mikami, Junya Fukuda

Votes: 13,881 | Gross: $0.44M

13. The Man Who Laughs (1928)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.

Director: Paul Leni | Stars: Mary Philbin, Conrad Veidt, Julius Molnar, Olga Baclanova

Votes: 8,109

14. Kundun (1997)

PG-13 | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History

From childhood to adulthood, Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Gyurme Tethong, Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin, Tenzin Yeshi Paichang

Votes: 30,550 | Gross: $5.53M

15. American Virgin (2009)

R | 88 min | Comedy

A night of debauchery threatens a sexually abstinent student's college standing.

Director: Clare Kilner | Stars: Jenna Dewan, Bo Burnham, Brianne Davis, Rob Schneider

Votes: 8,224

16. Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets (2023)

16+ | 45 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

Docuseries exploring the truth beneath the surface of reality TV's mega-family, The Duggars.

Stars: Derick Dillard, Jill Duggar Dillard, Brooke Arnold, Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Votes: 4,446

17. Au hasard Balthazar (1966)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama

The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette.

Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Anne Wiazemsky, Walter Green, François Lafarge, Jean-Claude Guilbert

Votes: 22,904 | Gross: $0.04M

18. Palindromes (2004)

Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama

Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.

Director: Todd Solondz | Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ellen Barkin, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Matthew Faber

Votes: 12,885 | Gross: $0.55M

19. Touch (1997)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

At the discovery of his ability to work miracles, Juvenal becomes a media sensation, but now he's prone to those who want to exploit him.

Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Bridget Fonda, Christopher Walken, Skeet Ulrich, LL Cool J

Votes: 2,756 | Gross: $0.41M

20. Billy Budd (1962)

Approved | 123 min | Adventure, Drama, War

When a kind-hearted sailor is made to join an English vessel at war in 1797, he finds himself caught between devotion to his crewmates and obedience to their hated, cruel master-at-arms.

Director: Peter Ustinov | Stars: Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Rogers

Votes: 4,929

21. Water (I) (2005)

PG-13 | 117 min | Drama

Set in colonial India against Gandhi's rise to power, it's the story of 8-year-old Chuyia, who is widowed and sent to a home to live in penitence; once there, Chuyia's feisty presence deeply affects the lives of the other residents.

Director: Deepa Mehta | Stars: Lisa Ray, John Abraham, Seema Biswas, Sarala Kariyawasam

Votes: 15,369 | Gross: $3.22M

22. Marketa Lazarová (1967)

Not Rated | 162 min | Drama, History, Romance

A grim portrayal of the shift from Paganism to Christianity in medieval central Europe - as a young virgin promised to God is kidnapped and raped by a marauder who her religious father seeks to kill in return.

Director: Frantisek Vlácil | Stars: Josef Kemr, Magda Vásáryová, Nada Hejna, Jaroslav Moucka

Votes: 6,055

23. Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)

PG | 121 min | Biography, Drama, History

Dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare.

Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Leigh Lawson, Kenneth Cranham

Votes: 4,967

24. The People I've Slept With (2012)

Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy

A promiscuous woman tries to find out who got her pregnant so she can get married and live a normal life.

Director: Quentin Lee | Stars: Karin Anna Cheung, Wilson Cruz, Archie Kao, Lynn Chen

Votes: 816

25. Sanshiro Sugata (1943)

Not Rated | 79 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Sugata, a young man, struggles to learn the nuance and meaning of judo, and in doing so comes to learn something of the meaning of life.

Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Yukiko Todoroki, Ryûnosuke Tsukigata

Votes: 5,654

26. Miracle in Milan (1951)

Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

An open-hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan.

Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Guglielmo Barnabò

Votes: 8,585

27. Passion (1982)

R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama

A film director has an inspirational crisis while working on the production, Passion, and struggles with the nature of work and art.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Radziwilowicz

Votes: 2,852

28. Rabbit Test (1978)

PG | 84 min | Comedy

Lionel's life turns around after a one-night stand on top of a pinball table... he becomes the world's first pregnant man!

Director: Joan Rivers | Stars: Billy Crystal, Alex Rocco, Joan Prather, Doris Roberts

Votes: 856

29. Les Visiteurs du Soir (1942)

Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

In medieval France, the Devil intervenes when one of his two envoys, sent to seduce and deceive mortals, falls instead for a victim.

Director: Marcel Carné | Stars: Arletty, Marie Déa, Fernand Ledoux, Alain Cuny

Votes: 2,469

30. The Quiet Duel (1949)

95 min | Drama

A surgeon gets syphilis from a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. The doctor's life is destroyed, but unlike the patient, he doesn't destroy others along with him.

Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanjô, Kenjirô Uemura

Votes: 3,923

31. Zoom Up: The Beaver Book Girl (1981)

63 min | Drama, Romance

After a young woman is viciously assaulted in an abandoned factory building, her attacker runs off, leaving a roll of money. Several years pass, and a photographer who specializes in ... See full summary »

Director: Takashi Kanno | Stars: Kumiko Hayano, Junko Mabuki, Yoshiko Sasaki, Takuya Hiramitsu

Votes: 92

32. Parsifal (1982)

PG | 255 min | Drama, Music

Richard Wagner's last opera has remained controversial since its first performance for its unique, and, for some, unsavory blending of religious and erotic themes and imagery. Based on one ... See full summary »

Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Stars: Edith Clever, Martin Sperr, Robert Lloyd, Michael Kutter

Votes: 334

33. Samurai Priest Vampire Hunter (2009)

R | 97 min | Action, Horror, Western

The comic book has come to life. Tim Thomerson is "Samurai Priest Vampire Hunter" and he is on an epic chase to track down a clique of vampires.

Directors: Jay Woelfel, Mark Terry | Stars: Tim Thomerson, Mark Hengst, Åsa Wallander, Ken Foree

Votes: 361

34. Love (1948)

69 min | Drama

In part one, a heartbroken woman talks to her ex-lover on the phone. In part two, a pregnant woman believes she is carrying the child of Saint Joseph.

Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Anna Magnani, Federico Fellini, Peparuolo, Amelia Robert

Votes: 1,953

35. United Red Army (2007)

Not Rated | 190 min | Crime, Drama

The film outlines Japanese students movements in the 60s, then shows the formation of the Japanese United Red Army, a communist armed resistance group.

Director: Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Maki Sakai, Arata Iura, Akie Namiki, Gô Jibiki

Votes: 887 | Gross: $0.00M

36. The Magician (I) (1926)

Passed | 83 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A magician/alchemist, seeking to create life, finds that he needs the "blood of a virgin" to continue his experiments. He sends out his dwarf assistant to pick out the right girl.

Director: Rex Ingram | Stars: Alice Terry, Paul Wegener, Firmin Gémier, Iván Petrovich

Votes: 869

37. Les ailes de la colombe (1981)

95 min | Drama, Romance

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Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Dominique Sanda, Michele Placido, Loleh Bellon

Votes: 285

38. Pamela's Prayer (1998)

Unrated | 57 min | Drama

A girl's life from her birth in 1969 to her wedding day in 1991.

Director: Dave Christiano | Stars: Serena Orrego, Rick Scheideman, Ted Kuenz, Sarah Padbury

Votes: 194

39. Pure (XV)

Comedy, Crime, Drama | Announced

Final entry in Adrian Tofei and Duru Yücel's trilogy which includes Be My Cat: A Film for Anne (2015) and We Put the World to Sleep.

Director: Adrian Tofei | Star: Duru Yücel

40. Daddy I Do (2010)

90 min | Documentary

The Purity Ball symbolizes a father's protection over his daughter's virginity, but how does this reflect in the choices she makes, understanding her sexuality, and knowing her worth as a ... See full summary »

Director: Cassie Jaye | Stars: Fari X, Amy Catherine Flynn, Cassie Jaye, Douglas Kirby

Votes: 81

41. Khawatir (2005–2015)

TV-14 | 25 min | Family, Reality-TV, Sci-Fi

A TV show devoted to help young people to be mature in their faith, work, and knowledge.

Star: Ahmad Al Shugairi

Votes: 4,459

42. A Respectable Family (2012)

90 min | Drama

Upon returning home to Iran after more than two decades abroad, visiting professor Arash is quickly thrust into a past he's spent his whole life trying to escape.

Director: Massoud Bakhshi | Stars: Babak Hamidian, Mehrdad Sedighian, Mehran Ahmadi, Ahoo Kheradmand

Votes: 551

43. Dangerous Calling (2008)

94 min | Horror, Thriller

A suspense thriller set in the world of small town church politics, Dangerous Calling follows the story of Pastor Evan Burke and his wife Nora as they assume leadership of First Baptist ... See full summary »

Directors: Jeremiah Daws, Josh Daws | Stars: Carrie Walrond Hood, Jackie Prucha, Stephen Caudill, Brandon O'Dell

Votes: 172

44. Steadfast (2016)

89 min | Drama

Since grade school, two teen girls' lives have been intertwined whether they like it or not. And mostly, they don't. Clair and Moriah share everything from teachers to a passion for dance, ... See full summary »

Director: Jason Boldt | Stars: Tayla Brennon, Natalie Carroll, James-Thomas Frank, Ashley King

45. Unseen Forces (1920)

Passed | 65 min | Drama

As children, Clyde meets Miriam, and seem to fall in love, but when they get older, a misunderstanding prevents their marrying, and he instead takes Winifred, a social climber, resulting in... See full summary »

Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Sylvia Breamer, Rosemary Theby, Conrad Nagel, Robert Cain

Votes: 45

46. Pan ni (1973)

113 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Ling Xi is a young man from a wealthy, respectable family in a relationship with Cindy, an underaged singer who suffers physical abuse from her father.

Director: Cheh Chang | Stars: David Chiang, Agnes Chan, Lung Ti, Ti Lu

Votes: 61

47. Purity Lost (2008)

8 min | Short

Two college students meet up but things quickly turn sideways when the boy, Damien, cheats on Eve. Soon Eve gets involved with some people in the narcotics trade but things go out of control when Damien tries to take her back.

Director: Kerry Riley | Stars: Kerry Riley, Dale Tormey

48. A Girl and a Dolphin (1979)

10 min | Animation, Short

A poetic study about the friendship of a girl and a dolphin.

Director: Rozaliya Zelma

Votes: 89

49. Bath Bomb (2018)

3 min | Short, Horror

Beware the dangers of bath bombs..

Director: Matt McWilliams | Stars: Gary Monte, Sarah Nicklin

Votes: 42

50. Beauty on the Beach (1950)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Romance

Mighty Mouse, the mightiest mouse of them all, swoops down from the skies to rescue Pearl Pureheart from death on the roller-coaster rails at the amusement park. Oil Can Harry, the meanest ... See full summary »

Director: Connie Rasinski

Votes: 46