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

51. Second Name (2002)

98 min | Horror, Thriller

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". ... See full summary »

Director: Paco Plaza | Stars: Erica Prior, Trae Houlihan, Denis Rafter, Craig Stevenson

Votes: 1,422

52. Arcane Sorcerer (1996)

96 min | Horror

A seminary student, Giacomo Vigetti, is convicted by the Papal State of seducing a young girl. He is forced to flee and takes refuge with an excommunicated priest. Unfortunately, the priest... See full summary »

Director: Pupi Avati | Stars: Carlo Cecchi, Stefano Dionisi, Arnaldo Ninchi, Andrea Scorzoni

Votes: 918

53. Ghost Rig (2003)

R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Environmental activists encounter a mysterious and deadly presence.

Director: Julian Kean | Stars: Jaason Simmons, Bryan Carney, Juliet Diamond, Kerry Norton

Votes: 694

54. The Crooked Circle (1932)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Mystery

A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.

Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Zasu Pitts, James Gleason, Ben Lyon, Irene Purcell

Votes: 381

55. O lipotaktis (1970)

91 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A Greek army deserter hides out in a farm where a neglected wife and a passionate farm girl destructively compete on who should win his affection.

Director: Christos Kefalas | Stars: Hristos Politis, Franca Parisi, Stefanos Stratigos, Giorgos Oikonomou

Votes: 94

56. Happy Now (2001)

97 min | Comedy, Thriller

A teenage girl whose eerie resemblance to a local Welsh beauty queen killed 14 years earlier disturbs one of the men responsibile for her accidental death.

Director: Philippa Cousins | Stars: Philip Howe, Emmy Rossum, Robert Pugh, Sioned Jones

Votes: 585

57. The Valdemar Legacy (2010)

104 min | Horror, Mystery

Luisa Llorente, an expert on taxation of old buildings, had recently gone to the Victorian mansion Valdemar to conduct an inventory of property ownership. After she mysteriously disappeared... See full summary »

Director: José Luis Alemán | Stars: Daniele Liotti, Óscar Jaenada, Laia Marull, Silvia Abascal

Votes: 1,921

58. Blood Symbol (1992)

87 min | Horror

Centuries ago, the monks of the Cult of the Blood Symbol went searching for their "chosen one" whose blood, they believed, would make them immortal. Olam, the only living survivor of the ... See full summary »

Directors: Maurice Devereaux, Tony Morello | Stars: Micheline Richard, Trilby Jeeves, Anne-Marie Leduc, Sophie Dion

Votes: 88

59. Feast of Fear (2019)

64 min | Horror

A group of college students make a deal to have wishes granted with dire consequences.

Directors: Al Burke, John Lechago | Stars: Robert Davi, Clint Howard, John Karyus, Nicholas Cvjetkovich

Votes: 154

60. Cthulhu (2000)

Not Rated | 75 min | Horror, Thriller

Dan Upton is concerned about the influence of a young woman upon his friend Edward Derby. While a series of dismemberment killings in Arkham seems to be linked to a Cthulhu cult in nearby Innsmouth and Dunwich.

Director: Damian Heffernan | Stars: Paul Douglas, Melissa Georgiou, Malcolm Miller, James Payne

Votes: 142

61. The Silt Verses (2021 Podcast Series)

Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

Worshipers of an outlawed god, travel up the length of their deity's great black river on a dark road trip into the depths of unusual faith. As their pilgrimage lengthens acolytes Carpenter... See full summary »

Stars: Marlon Dance-Hooi, Marta Da Silva, Lucille Valentine, Sarah Griffin

Votes: 15

62. Camping Fun (2020)

Not Rated | 13 min | Short, Crime, Horror

Four friends set out to a remote getaway in Texas, unaware that they are being trailed by a sinister cult.

Directors: Thomas Burke, David Eimer | Stars: Hailey Marmolejo, Bonnie Sturdivant, Thomas Burke, David Eimer

Votes: 56

63. Siren: Blood Curse (2008 Video Game)

M | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Augsust 3, 2007 - the day an American camera crew went missing in a Japanese mountainside area. Prior to disappearance, the crew was investigating Hanuda, a village that vanished in 1976.

Directors: Keiichiro Toyama, Naoki Kondo | Stars: Stephen Fisher, Natsuki Okamoto, Jonathan Legg, Emma Howard

Votes: 147

64. David Icke: Beyond the Cutting Edge (2008)

380 min | Documentary

In this seven-hour presentation to 2,500 people at the Brixton Academy in London, David addresses all these questions and connects the dots between them to reveal a picture of life on earth that is truly beyond the cutting edge.

Director: Miki Zoric | Star: David Icke

Votes: 65

65. Shake Rattle & Roll 2k5 (2005)

110 min | Comedy, Horror

Bloodthirsty creatures are bent on revenge in the first ""Shake "Rattle and Roll"" movie in a decade. This is the seventh of the Shake, Rattle and Roll horror trilogy franchise. Shake ... See full summary »

Directors: Uro Q. Dela Cruz, Rico Maria Ilarde, Richard Somes | Stars: AiAi Delas Alas, Gloria Romero, Yasmien Kurdi, Rainier Castillo

Votes: 72

66. Break Free: Two People. Two Years. One Dream (2019)

120 min | Documentary, Adventure

When Lena and Ulli start the engine of their old Land Rover, Lady Terés, they have a plan: to drive from Hamburg to South Africa in six months. What they don't know yet is that they won't ... See full summary »

Director: Lena Wendt | Stars: Ulrich Stirnat, Lena Wendt, Fufu, Ziza

Votes: 254

67. The Valdemar Legacy II: The Forbidden Shadow (2010)

92 min | Horror, Mystery

Second part of the Valdemar saga. Ana and Eduardo are sent to assist in the investigation of the disappearance of Luisa. In the middle of the road they find Luisa escaping. At the end the three are kidnapped. A gruesome fate awaits.

Director: José Luis Alemán | Stars: Daniele Liotti, Óscar Jaenada, Laia Marull, Silvia Abascal

Votes: 1,008

68. The Mysteries of Myra (1916)

Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Myra Maynard, is plagued by a wide variety of metaphysical assaults by the corrupt Black Order, a secret organization which uses magic, curses and any supernatural means possible to achieve its ends.

Directors: Leopold Wharton, Theodore Wharton | Stars: Jean Sothern, Howard Estabrook, Allan Murnane, M.W. Rale

Votes: 33

69. The Lake Vampire (2018)

102 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Desperate to find a subject for his next novel, Ernesto Navarro follows the tracks of a mysterious killer, a man obsessed with drinking human blood and becoming immortal.

Director: Carl Zitelmann | Stars: Gerardo H. Fernández, Javier Figuera, Paul Gamez, Eduardo Gulino

Votes: 313

70. The Death and Resurrection Show (2013)

150 min | Documentary, Music

A music documentary exploring the turbulent, controversial and often unbelievable 30 year history of British post-punk industrial band Killing Joke.

Director: Shaun Pettigrew | Stars: Killing Joke, Jaz Coleman, Jimmy Page, Paul Vincent Raven

Votes: 282

71. Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2006 Video Game)

M | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror

An investigation leads the most famous detective of all time to the edge of the irrational as he thwarts the designs of a sect of the disciples of Cthulhu.

Stars: Rick Simmonds, David Riley, Andy Hoyle, Andy Turvey

Votes: 160

72. Head Hands Heart (2010)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

What unfolds against the backdrop of the story of Klára Knabelová (Viktorie Cermáková) and her relationships with three Austro-Hungarian Army officers is a parable of the collapse of the ... See full summary »

Director: David Jarab | Stars: Viktorie Cermáková, Roman Zach, Martin Finger, Ivana Uhlírová

Votes: 57

73. Unavowed (2018 Video Game)

Adventure, Fantasy, Horror

A demon possession caused you to tear a swath of bloodshed through New York. You are now free, but life as you knew it is over. Your only path is to join the Unavowed - an ancient society dedicated to stopping evil, no matter the cost.

Director: Dave Gilbert | Stars: Frank Todaro, Sandra Espinoza, Arielle Siegel, Logan Cunningham

Votes: 143

74. Demon Haunt (2009 Video)

90 min | Fantasy, Horror

A school teacher and her wheelchair-bound sister purchase a house that seems to be haunted by a strange supernatural force. Father LeCleur and his son Raymond are called in to vanquish the ... See full summary »

Director: Ted V. Mikels | Stars: Sean Morelli, John P. Baniqued, Olivia Dunkley, J.P. Edwards

Votes: 75

75. Black Dahlia (1998 Video Game)

T | Adventure, Crime, Fantasy

As WWII approaches, special agent Jim Pearson is assigned to investigate US industrialist's ties to the occult German pro-Nazi Thule Society. This leads to Jim's perilous decades-long search for the apocalyptic Black Dahlia gemstone.

Directors: Eric Trow, Lance Laspina | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Teri Garr, Darren Eliker, Michael Battista

Votes: 161

76. The Eye of Satan (1992 Video)

76 min | Horror

A hit-man is assigned to protect the daughter of a local gangster after her life is threatened by a rival organisation. When the hit-man is double-crossed by his employers he wreaks a violent supernatural revenge.

Director: David Kent-Watson | Stars: Cliff Twemlow, Ginette Gray, Max Beesley Snr, Brett Sinclair

Votes: 29

77. SoulMate: True Evil Never Dies (2012)

Horror, Thriller

History's most notorious Killer has come back from the dead and is killing again in a small sleepy town. Unable to get a lead, the police are forced to try an unconventional way to catch ... See full summary »

Director: Shawn Anthony Watts | Stars: Jessica Felice, Daniel Ross, Michael Alban, John C. Bailey

Votes: 70

78. Okaruto tanteidan: Shi-ningyô no hakaba (2006)

54 min | Horror

Nanami and Daisue join their high school's occult research club to investigate a curse surrounding a student who committed suicide after being possessed by the spirit of a doll. They go to "The Doll Cemetery" - but will they leave alive?

Director: Kiyoshi Yamamoto | Stars: Sayaka Hosaka, Hitomi Miwa, Kazunori Tani

Votes: 59

79. Salvation (III) (2013)

6 min | Short

An industrial and darkly surreal vision to the concept of the Seven Deadly Sins and 'Dante's Inferno', taken from Italian philosopher Dante Alighieri's 'Divine Comedy', SALVATION is a ... See full summary »

Director: Nico Amarca | Stars: Eric Austin, Adam Donovan, Jane Kivnick, Wednesday Sue

80. Sinner's Saint (2012)

11 min | Short, Action, Adventure

In this Bruce Joel Rubin style Angel Heart (1987) story, A Soldier is tested by his inner demons and must decide who he wants to become.

Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: David Fichtenmayer, Chad Figurido, Alexander Raye Pimentel

Votes: 42

81. Gandara Gandadu (1972)

Not Rated | 157 min | Drama

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Director: K.S.R. Das | Stars: Chalapathi Rao, Rajanala, Kantha Rao

82. Obliteration (1984)

40 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy

An experiment with a new kind of hallucinatory-drug from Africa goes terribly wrong for college student Jim Allen, and horrifically right for Professor Von Dorm. Jim is transported into ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Bunnell | Stars: Terrance Hines, Richard D. White, Paul Bunnell, Patricia Messina

Votes: 35

83. I Want You (2004)

PG-13 | 12 min | Short, Crime, Horror

The girl who appears in your nightmares can turn out to be the girl of your dreams, or is it the other way around?

Director: Sergi Rubió | Stars: Norman Roberts, Ellie Foumbi, Michael Chen, Ramón Ramos

84. Casual Hex (2014– )

Comedy

Follow the adventures of Natasha and Marina as they navigate the world using their own breed of (sort of) magick.

Stars: Brenna Gwyn Snowe, Athena Reddy, L. Anna Lenz

85. The Fiend Part II (1990)

30 min | Short, Horror

A group of friends discover an old book unleashing The Fiend.

Director: Darren J. Perry | Stars: Rajiv Ahluwalia, Christopher Brady, Martin Chambers, Gareth George

86. Sanctus Ex (2003)

Not Rated | 18 min | Short, Horror, Mystery

When a ritual goes wrong, young Locassana enters Hell. Confused, she wanders around, meeting its inhabitants, learning about their nature and their world.

Directors: Philipp Keydel, Simon Modery | Stars: Philipp Barth, Michael Cremers, Thilo Hübner, Philipp Keydel

Votes: 36

87. Archie Barrel Case: Hotel Imperial (2000 Video Game)

Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Part of a series of Russian humorous animated adventure games with mature content about 1930s hardboiled Chicago private eye Archie Barrel. In this game, a mobster hires Archie to watch his wife. Occult conspiracy is a-foot.

Director: Vitaliy Bardalim

88. Angel (1999–2004)
Episode: To Shanshu in L.A. (2000)

Unrated | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A scythe-wielding demon targets Angel's allies as Wolfram and Hart lawyers attempt to summon a powerful force from beyond.

Director: David Greenwalt | Stars: David Boreanaz, Charisma Carpenter, Alexis Denisof, Elisabeth Röhm

Votes: 2,220

89. Ark II (1976)
Episode: Don Quixote (1976)

23 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi

The ARK crew's efforts to disarm ancient explosives are complicated by a latter-day Don Quixote who is convinced the ARK is a giant white dragon and Jonah his nemesis the Black Knight.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: Terry Lester, Jean Marie Hon, José Flores, Moochie

Votes: 21

90. Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode: The Dæmons: Episode One (1971)

TV-PG | 25 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

The Doctor and Jo race to the village of Devil's End to prevent what the Doctor believes could be a disaster. With a midnight excavation due to take place, mysterious events are happening - not helped by the Reverend Magister.

Director: Christopher Barry | Stars: Jon Pertwee, Nicholas Courtney, Roger Delgado, Katy Manning

Votes: 655

91. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: Casting Director/Pentagram/A Little Ball (1979)

TV-G | 60 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

TV reporter Jane Garwood seeks help in finding out why her boyfriends keep dying. Sister Mary Theresa suffers a crisis of faith after a fellow nun's premature death. Felix Birdsong becomes the casting director of a Hollywood film.

Directors: George McCowan, Michael Vejar | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Phyllis Davis, Lisa Hartman

Votes: 81

92. Friday the 13th: The Series (1987–1990)
Episode: Hellowe'en (1987)

TV-14 | 45 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

On Halloween night, Micki and Ryan are visited by the ghost of their late uncle, who has returned from the underworld.

Director: Timothy Bond | Stars: John D. LeMay, Louise Robey, Chris Wiggins, R.G. Armstrong

Votes: 238

93. Inspector Morse (1987–2000)
Episode: The Day of the Devil (1993)

TV-14 | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A sociopathic but clever murderer who believes in the occult escapes from prison and returns to Oxford, and it is up to Morse to stop him.

Director: Stephen Whittaker | Stars: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Keith Allen, Harriet Walter

Votes: 750

94. Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996–1999)
Episode: The Substitute (1996)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A trio of Catholic students steal a severed hand and perform an incantation that resurrects an evil force from the past. Father Philip and Nick are sent to investigate what is going on at the school.

Director: Brad Turner | Stars: Derek de Lint, Martin Cummins, Robbi Chong, Patrick Fitzgerald

Votes: 63

95. Quantum Leap (1989–1993)
Episode: Blood Moon - March 10, 1975 (1993)

TV-PG | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Sam leaps into an English castle where the occupants practice vampire rituals. He must save the young wife of the castle owner.

Director: Alan J. Levi | Stars: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell, Ian Buchanan, Deborah Moore

Votes: 423

96. Father Brown (1974)
Episode: The Dagger with Wings (1974)

Not Rated | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A wealthy landowner in the West Country confesses to Father Brown that his adopted son has coerced him into dabbling into occultism in order to extend his life.

Director: Peter Jefferies | Stars: Kenneth More, David Buck, T.P. McKenna, David Swift

Votes: 64

97. Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode: The Dæmons: Episode Two (1971)

TV-PG | 24 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

With the Doctor frozen by the energy release from the barrow, Jo calls Yates and Benton for help, but when the Brigadier tries to join them he finds the village surrounded by a heat barrier.

Director: Christopher Barry | Stars: Jon Pertwee, Nicholas Courtney, Roger Delgado, Katy Manning

Votes: 567

98. Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode: The Dæmons: Episode Three (1971)

TV-PG | 24 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

The Doctor explains to his friends that the Master is trying to gain the power of the last of the Daemons, a race who influenced Earth's development, while the Master brings the rest of the village under his control.

Director: Christopher Barry | Stars: Jon Pertwee, Nicholas Courtney, Roger Delgado, Katy Manning

Votes: 555

99. Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode: The Dæmons: Episode Four (1971)

TV-PG | 24 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

The Master orders Bert to set a trap for the Doctor at the village while a concussed Jo makes for the cavern.

Director: Christopher Barry | Stars: Jon Pertwee, Nicholas Courtney, Roger Delgado, Katy Manning

Votes: 557

100. Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode: The Dæmons: Episode Five (1971)

TV-PG | 24 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

The Master decides to sacrifice Jo to Azal and when the Doctor and his friends try to intervene they come under attack from Bok.

Director: Christopher Barry | Stars: Jon Pertwee, Nicholas Courtney, Roger Delgado, Katy Manning

Votes: 564