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1. Guyana: Cult of the Damned (1979)
R | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Reverend Jim Jones, the priest of an independent church in the South American country Guyana, orders his followers to commit suicide. But not all of them follow him blindly and begin to think on their own.
Director: René Cardona Jr. | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Gene Barry, John Ireland, Joseph Cotten
Votes: 584
2. Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 192 min | Biography, Drama
The real-life story of the Peoples Temple cult led by Reverend Jim Jones and the events involving its move to Guyana and its eventual mass suicide.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Powers Boothe, Ned Beatty, Irene Cara, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 1,656
3. The House Without Frontiers (1972)
92 min | Drama
Country boy Daniel arrives in the big city looking for a job. He meets an old man who hires him to find Laura, a girl who has been abducted by an organization called 'The House Without Frontiers.'
Director: Pedro Olea | Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Isbert, Viveca Lindfors, José Orjas
Votes: 169
4. El Palmar de Troya (2020)
Documentary
Non-fiction series that offers an insider look to the Palmariana Church, a congregation that's always been surrounded by scandal, abuse and unlikely anecdotes.
Stars: José María Bello, Cristo García, Víctor García, Álvaro Martín Ronco
Votes: 289
5. Manuel y Clemente (1986)
89 min | Comedy
Manuel and Clemente, couple in the shower and in various scheming, try to do business with miraculous apparitions. Near the Sevillian town of El Palmar de Troya, in 1968, people begin to ... See full summary »
Director: Javier Palmero | Stars: Juan Jesús Valverde, Ángel de Andrés López, Milagros del Valle, Ana Gil
Votes: 46
6. Wild Wild Country (2018)
TV-MA | 67 min | Documentary, Crime
When Osho, the world's most controversial guru, builds an Utopian city deep in the Oregon country, conflict with the locals escalates into a national scandal.
Stars: Ma Anand Sheela, Philip Toelkes, Jane Stork, George Meredith
Votes: 35,119
7. Love Exposure (2008)
Unrated | 237 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A bizarre love triangle forms between a young Catholic upskirt photographer, a misandric girl and a manipulative cultist.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Andô, Yutaka Shimizu
Votes: 15,919
8. The Wicker Man (1973)
R | 88 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A puritan police sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl, who the pagan locals claim never existed.
Director: Robin Hardy | Stars: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland
Votes: 92,385 | Gross: $0.06M
9. Songs of Repression (2020)
88 min | Documentary, History
The inhabitants of a German colony in Chile share a dark past with violence and sexual abuse, but react in widely different ways when confronted with it today.
Directors: Marianne Hougen-Moraga, Estephan Wagner | Stars: Horst Schaffrik, Jürgen Szurgelies, Helga Bohnau, Dora Barr
Votes: 195
10.
The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode:
The Joy of Sect
(1998)
TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy
An evil cult called the Movementarians brainwashes the citizens of Springfield and it's up to Marge to get them back.
Directors: Jim Reardon, Steven Dean Moore | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith
Votes: 2,807
11.
Aquí no hay quien viva (2003–2006)
Episode:
Érase un par de bodas
(2006)
Comedy, Romance
Director: Laura Caballero | Stars: María Adánez, Malena Alterio, Carmen Balagué, Mariví Bilbao
Votes: 45
12. Le seminariste (1976)
93 min | Comedy
Daniela Sanguinetti of San Marzano is an aristocratic girl who, expelled from the college, joins as a hippie to a community of Hare Krishna in Rome.
Director: Guido Leoni | Stars: Gabriele Di Giulio, Daniela Doria, Gisela Hahn, Paola Tedesco
Votes: 26
13. The Killing of America (1981)
R | 90 min | Documentary, Crime
A documentary of the decline of America. It features footage (most exclusive to this film) from race riots to serial killers and much, much more.
Director: Sheldon Renan | Stars: Chuck Riley, Ed Dorris, Thomas Noguchi, Sirhan Sirhan
Votes: 2,371
14. Rasputin (1981)
104 min | Biography, Drama, History
Details the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.
Director: Elem Klimov | Stars: Aleksey Petrenko, Anatoliy Romashin, Velta Line, Alisa Freyndlikh
Votes: 1,686
15. Patty Hearst (1988)
R | 108 min | Biography, Drama
In the 1970s, Patricia Hearst is abducted by American revolutionaries, but eventually joins their cause instead.
Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Natasha Richardson, William Forsythe, Ving Rhames, Frances Fisher
Votes: 2,348 | Gross: $1.22M
16. Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006)
86 min | Documentary, History
Featuring never-before-seen footage, this documentary delivers a startling new look at the Peoples Temple, headed by preacher Jim Jones who, in 1978, led more than 900 members to Guyana, where he orchestrated a mass suicide via tainted punch.
Director: Stanley Nelson | Stars: Rebecca Moore, Janet Shular, Tim Carter, Stanley Clayton
Votes: 5,642
17. Holy Smoke (1999)
R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama
Ruth's been brainwashed by a guru in Delhi, India. Her parents in Sydney hire a specialist in reversing this. Ruth is tricked to return to Australia and is isolated in an outback cabin with the specialist. It gets messy.
Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel, Julie Hamilton, Sophie Lee
Votes: 15,653 | Gross: $1.76M
18. Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
R | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult.
Director: Sean Durkin | Stars: Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, John Hawkes, Christopher Abbott
Votes: 55,835 | Gross: $2.98M
19. Split Image (1982)
R | 110 min | Drama, Romance
An uprooted young man is lured into an unnamed religious sect by a beautiful girl. Every moment with the group brings him more and more under the control of the cult's leader.
Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Michael O'Keefe, Karen Allen, Peter Fonda, James Woods
Votes: 1,130 | Gross: $0.26M
20. The Master (2012)
R | 138 min | Drama, History
A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by the Cause and its charismatic leader.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Jesse Plemons
Votes: 186,289 | Gross: $16.38M
21. Bowfinger (1999)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy
When a desperate movie producer fails to get a major star for his bargain-basement film, he decides to shoot the film secretly around him.
Director: Frank Oz | Stars: Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Heather Graham, Christine Baranski
Votes: 73,978 | Gross: $66.38M
22. Waco (2018)
TV-14 | 49 min | Crime, Drama, History
The FBI and ATF seize religious leader David Koresh's Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas in the spring of 1993.
Stars: Michael Shannon, Taylor Kitsch, Andrea Riseborough, Paul Sparks
Votes: 25,660
23. Ticket to Heaven (1981)
PG | 108 min | Drama
David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph L. Thomas | Stars: Nick Mancuso, Saul Rubinek, Meg Foster, Kim Cattrall
Votes: 872
24. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
R | 161 min | Comedy, Drama
A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch
Votes: 848,773 | Gross: $142.50M
25. The Sacrament (2013)
R | 99 min | Horror, Thriller
A news team trails a man as he travels into the world of Eden Parish to find his missing sister, where it becomes apparent that this paradise may not be as it seems.
Director: Ti West | Stars: Joe Swanberg, AJ Bowen, Kentucker Audley, Amy Seimetz
Votes: 20,918 | Gross: $0.01M
26. The Hunted (1995)
R | 110 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
An American businessman visiting Nagoya, Japan, meets a woman in a hotel bar. Returning to her room, 3 ninjas kill her and wound him, but he sees the ninja boss' face. Now, he's the prime target of a dangerous ninja cult.
Director: J.F. Lawton | Stars: Christopher Lambert, John Lone, Joan Chen, Yoshio Harada
Votes: 5,699 | Gross: $6.61M
27. Waco: The Rules of Engagement (1997)
Not Rated | 165 min | Documentary, History
A reassessment of the tragedy at Waco that left 76 members of the Branch Davidian religious sect dead.
Director: William Gazecki | Stars: Dan Gifford, Jim Cavanaugh, Dick DeGuerin, Clive Doyle
Votes: 3,734
28. Waco: Madman or Messiah (2018)
TV-14 | 90 min | Documentary
Told by survivors, news clips and audio recordings of David Koresh. It tells the story of how he rose to power as their "prophet" and then fell from glory in the standoff and fire that made history.
Stars: Mike Caruso, Chris Urquhart, Elizabeth Stuart-Morris, Abbie McDonald
Votes: 1,322
29.
American Justice (1992– )
Episode:
The Manson Family Murders
(1992)
TV-PG | Documentary, Crime, History
In the late 60's Charles Manson became a cult leader to followers who were known as family members, they were also heavily into marijuana and LSD. Showing his power over them, he would give... See full summary »
Stars: Susan Atkins, Vincent Bugliosi, Paul J. Fitzgerald, Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme
30. Edelweiss (2021)
Documentary, Drama, Thriller
Stars: Christian Checa, Iván Ugalde, Alejandro Gasco, Javier Godino
Votes: 37
31.
Faits divers, l'Histoire à la une (2021)
Episode:
The Jonestown Massacre: An American Apocalypse (1978)
(2017)
TV-14 | 25 min | Documentary, Crime, History
It is 1978, Guyana. Reverend Jim Jones held an apocalyptic mass. Its' outcome? The sacrifice of 918 members of the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, an American cult founded in the mid-... See full summary »
Directors: Emmanuel Blanchard, Dominique Kalifa | Stars: John Hall, Nathalie Luca, Enrico Pozzi, Caroline Rolland-Diamond
32. Holy Hell (2016)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, Drama
An inside look at Buddhafield, a West Hollywood cult formed by a charismatic teacher in the 1980s that eventually imploded.
Director: Will Allen | Stars: Will Allen, Dimitrius Pulido, Phillipe Coquet, David Christopher
Votes: 6,069 | Gross: $0.02M
33. Waco: American Apocalypse (2023)
TV-MA | 47 min | Documentary, Crime
It showcases what happened in 1993 in Waco, Texas when cult leader David Koresh faced off against the federal government in a 51-day siege.
Stars: David Thibodeau, Chris Whitcomb, Lee Hancock, Bob Ricks
Votes: 7,806
34. Waco: The Aftermath (2023)
TV-14 | Crime, Drama, History
Five-part drama series portraying the searing aftermath of the disastrous Waco standoff at the Branch Davidian compound - an event that galvanized American militia movements and helped radicalize Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.
Stars: Michael Shannon, Giovanni Ribisi, Keean Johnson, Abbey Lee
Votes: 3,593
35. Woman in Witness Protection (1997)
131 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A vain actress who witnessed a serious crime is guarded by 2 cops as she goes about her daily affairs.
Director: Jûzô Itami | Stars: Nobuko Miyamoto, Masahiko Nishimura, Yuji Murata, Kazuya Takahashi
Votes: 329
36.
Mindhunter (2017–2019)
Episode:
Episode #2.5
(2019)
TV-MA | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Bill's devastating family situation spills over during his interview with Holden's holy-grail subject: Charlie Manson. Wendy's new romance heats up.
Director: Andrew Dominik | Stars: Sonny Valicenti, Holt McCallany, Stacey Roca, Michael Cerveris
Votes: 6,211
37. Manson (1973)
R | 83 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Documentary on Charles Manson and his family. Has a number of insightful interviews with many family members most notably Squeaky and Sandy (Blue and Red). There is also a history of Manson... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Hendrickson, Laurence Merrick | Stars: Bobby Beausoleil, Mary Brunner, Vincent Bugliosi, Bruce Davis
Votes: 1,117
38. Cease to Exist (2007)
84 min | Documentary, Crime, Music
"Cease To Exist" explores the music motive to the Manson murders and uncovers Charles Manson's relationship with Beach Boys' drummer Dennis Wilson and record producer Terry Melcher.
Director: Ryan Oksenberg | Stars: Colin Moneymaker, Al Jardine, Dennis Wilson, Brian Wilson
Votes: 88
39. The Six Degrees of Helter Skelter (2009)
Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary, Crime
"The Six Degrees of Helter Skelter" walks in the footsteps of the Manson Family, visiting over 40 locations related to the infamous Tate/LaBianca murders, and tying together the dozens of ... See full summary »
Director: Mike Dorsey | Stars: Ron Hale, Craig Harvey, Nikki Medlin, Scott Michaels
Votes: 717
40.
Biography (1987– )
Episode:
Charles Manson: Journey Into Evil
(1995)
TV-14 | 50 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary on Charles Manson.
Stars: Judy Muller, Charles Manson, Vincent Bugliosi, Dominick Dunne
Votes: 159
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