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

1. The Northman (2022)

R | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A young Viking prince is on a quest to avenge his father's murder.

Director: Robert Eggers | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Ethan Hawke

Votes: 253,815 | Gross: $34.23M

2. Flash Gordon (1980)

PG | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.

Director: Mike Hodges | Stars: Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow, Topol

Votes: 61,559

3. From Hell (2001)

R | 122 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

After five ritualistic murders are committed in 1888 London, Inspector Abberline's assignment is to investigate the "Jack the Ripper" murders. Along with a string of mutilated prostitutes, he uncovers a conspiracy involving the government.

Directors: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes | Stars: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm, Robbie Coltrane

Votes: 164,249 | Gross: $31.60M

4. Death Sentence (2007)

R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Nick Hume is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life, until one gruesome night he witnesses something that changes him forever. Transformed by grief, Hume eventually comes to the disturbing conclusion that no length is too great when protecting his family.

Director: James Wan | Stars: Kevin Bacon, John Goodman, Kelly Preston, Garrett Hedlund

Votes: 74,841 | Gross: $9.53M

5. Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018)

R | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

An illustrious British boarding school becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site, unleashing unspeakable horror.

Director: Crispian Mills | Stars: Jassa Ahluwalia, Asa Butterfield, Jamie Blackley, Finn Cole

Votes: 16,301 | Gross: $0.00M

6. Poison Ivy: The Secret Society (2008 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Thriller

Daisy starts college and meets Blake. She finds herself up against a secret sisterhood, The Ivies, that maybe was involved in a student's death 6 months earlier.

Director: Jason Hreno | Stars: Miriam McDonald, Shawna Waldron, Ryan Kennedy, Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe

Votes: 2,386

7. The Coed and the Zombie Stoner (2014)

Unrated | 91 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

When a nerdy sorority girl falls in love with a zombie, it's only a matter of time before a zombie apocalypse is unleashed on campus. The sorority girl discovers that weed is the cure--now ... See full summary »

Director: Glenn Miller | Stars: Catherine Annette, Grant O'Connell, Jamie Noel, Aaron Caleb

Votes: 1,579

8. The Wound (2017)

Unrated | 88 min | Drama, Romance

Xolani, a lonely factory worker, travels to the rural mountains with the men of his community to initiate a group of teenage boys into manhood.

Director: John Trengove | Stars: Nakhane, Bongile Mantsai, Niza Jay, Thobani Mseleni

Votes: 2,089 | Gross: $0.03M

9. Un borghese piccolo piccolo (1977)

122 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A meek middle-aged man finally takes justice into his own hands.

Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Shelley Winters, Vincenzo Crocitti, Renzo Carboni

Votes: 3,053

10. Sisters of Death (1977)

PG | 87 min | Mystery, Thriller

During an all-girl secret society initiation, one of the new members is killed playing Russian Roulette. Many years later the survivors are invited for a reunion to a lavish estate.

Director: Joe Mazzuca | Stars: Arthur Franz, Claudia Jennings, Cheri Howell, Sherry Boucher

Votes: 1,231

11. Revenge of the Nerds (1991 TV Movie)

24 min | Comedy

Unaired pilot based on the movie of the same name.

Director: Peter Baldwin | Stars: Rob Stone, Lightfield Lewis, Grant Gelt, Robbie Rist

Votes: 332

12. Secrets (1983)

R | 77 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Teen girl in 1963 finds freemasonry items in her late fathers briefcase including condoms and a book of rites. The book is taken to school and the girls form their own club. The mother finds the condoms and makes wrong assumption.

Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Helen Lindsay, John Horsley, Anna Jones, Daisy Cockburn

Votes: 73

13. Mutants (2016)

17 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

In the summer of 1996, life throws a curveball in the face of Keven Guénette; and it strikes. Guided by his paraplegic baseball coach, Keven discovers the mutation, sex and love.

Director: Alexandre Dostie | Stars: Joseph Delorey, Tanya Quirion, Jérémy Labonté, Francis La Haye

Votes: 74

14. Titan (2021)

18 min | Short, Drama

Thirteen-year-old Nathan is about to join Malik and his gang for a strange integration ritual.

Director: Valery Carnoy | Stars: Phénix Brossard, Jef Cuppens, Marcel Degotte, Killyan Guetchoum-Robert

Votes: 114

15. The Oddsockeaters (2016)

83 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

The Oddsockeaters are small creatures, who live alongside us humans and are responsible for socks that go missing when we only have one left from a pair - the odd sock. They eat socks, but only one from each pair.

Director: Galina Miklínová | Stars: Krystof Hádek, Jan Maxián, David Novotný, Ondrej Trojan

Votes: 301

16. The Pack (2020)

94 min | Drama, Sport

David, a talented 16-year-old-goalie freshly diagnosed with diabetes, joins a new ice-hockey team, the Wolves, where he becomes the outsider, bracing the avalanche of bullying that gradually gains speed.

Director: Tomas Polensky | Stars: Tomás Dalecký, Tomás Mrvík, Michal Dluhos, Anastázie Chocholatá

Votes: 164

17. Cinco (II) (2010)

151 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

A creative horror movie made up of five unique short films tied together by a similar theme.

Directors: Ato Bautista, Cathy Garcia-Sampana, Frasco Mortiz, Nick Olanka, Enrico C. Santos | Stars: Sam Concepcion, AJ Perez, Robi Domingo, Baron Geisler

Votes: 112

18. The Good Fellows (1943)

Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Romance

The title of Grand Caesar in the Ancient Order of Noblest Romans of Wakefield, Indiana keeps Jim "Pop" Helton so involved and distracted that he forgets to pay the family's bills, nearly ... See full summary »

Director: Jo Graham | Stars: Cecil Kellaway, Helen Walker, Mabel Paige, James Brown

Votes: 41

19. Nejkrásnejsí hádanka (2008)

98 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Matej, a likable shepherd, has a good heart, cleverness to spare and, apart from puzzles, he also likes Majdalenka, the daughter of the farmer he works for. Majdalenka reciprocates his love... See full summary »

Director: Zdenek Troska | Stars: Jan Dolanský, Veronika Khek Kubarová, Ladislav Potmesil, Tatjana Medvecká

Votes: 177

20. Meidän poikamme merellä (1933)

109 min | Drama, Music

Add a Plot

Director: Erkki Karu | Stars: Georg Malmstén, Kati Aspelin, Aku Käyhkö, Jaakko Korhonen

Votes: 43

21. Par-dessus le mur (1961)

101 min | Drama

A young couple settles in the outer suburbs of Paris.They watch their neighbors live .Here,family life is compromised by the father's affair ;the mother,left to her own devices,

Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Silvia Monfort, François Guérin, Pierre Larquey, Christian Fourcade

Votes: 11

22. Dracula 4: The Shadow of the Dragon (2013 Video Game)

Adventure, Fantasy, Horror

Adventure game about a female art restorer suffering from a terminal condition who is asked by her boss, Metropolitan Museum of Art director, to investigate a portrait that mysteriously reappeared in Europe after the boat it was on sank.

Stars: Paul Bandey, Matthew Géczy, Mirabelle Kirkland, Barbara Scaff

Votes: 7

23. Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon (2008 Video Game)

Adventure, Fantasy, Horror

In 1920, a priest is sent to Transylvania by the Vatican to examine a female candidate for sainthood. Upon arriving there however, he discovers that she had died during an epidemic of what she believed to be vampirism.

Director: Benoît Hozjan | Stars: Paul Bandey, Jodi Forrest, David Gasman, Sharon Mann

Votes: 42

24. Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990–2000)
Episode: The Tale of the Lonely Ghost (1992)

Not Rated | 22 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A girl who desperately wants to be friends with her snotty cousin and her group of friends agrees to spend the night in the haunted house next door to become part of the group.

Director: D.J. MacHale | Stars: Laura Bertram, Pauline Little, Laura Levin, Sheena Larkin

Votes: 1,136

25. Derrick (1974–1998)
Episode: Ein sehr trauriger Vorgang (1993)

59 min | Crime, Drama

Horst's pals take him to a brothel to celebrate his birthday. Later that night they go to Albert's home. Albert makes a phone call. Soon after that the door bell rings and three shots are fired in the stairwell.

Director: Theodor Grädler | Stars: Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Christiane Hörbiger, Holger Handtke

Votes: 55

26. Once Upon a Time... Man (1978–1981)
Episode: Le Cro-Magnon (1978)

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

The Cro-Magnon.

Director: Albert Barillé | Stars: Annie Balestra, Albert Barillé, Yves Barsacq, Claude Bertrand

Votes: 89

27. P.J. (1997–2009)
Episode: Esclavage (2000)

Crime, Thriller

Zéphira, a young Malian woman has fallen from a window and she is wounded.The aunt of the woman says that she takes care of her niece who has come from Mali.Near the Saint Martin canal the ... See full summary »

Director: Benoît d'Aubert | Stars: Bruno Wolkowitch, Marc Betton, Charles Schneider, Valérie Bagnou-Beido

Votes: 5

28. P.J. (1997–2009)
Episode: Garde à vue (2000)

Crime, Thriller

A young woman ,employee of FRANCE-TELECOM arrives at the police station because a customer called Pélissier had debts and the company cut his phone line.So Plélissier, very angry, attacked ... See full summary »

Director: Gérard Vergez | Stars: Bruno Wolkowitch, Marc Betton, Charles Schneider, Valérie Bagnou-Beido

29. P.J. (1997–2009)
Episode: Police en danger (2002)

51 min | Crime, Thriller

When Agathe was going home, a young man went out of a car, followed her and attacked her.The other young men in the car called him to stop and to go away.In the hospital Agathe says the the... See full summary »

Director: Gérard Vergez | Stars: Bruno Wolkowitch, Charles Schneider, Marc Betton, Valérie Bagnou-Beido

30. The Family (2019)
Episode: Submersion (2019)

TV-14 | 50 min | Documentary, Mystery

Journalist Jeff Sharlet details his days living at Ivanwald, a men's residence where he discovers the Family's allegiance to Jesus - and to power.

Director: Jesse Moss | Stars: Jeff Sharlet, Gannon Sims, Carla Von Bernewitz, Mary McCutcheon

Votes: 255

31. The Head (2020– )
Episode: Episode I (2020)

TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A small scientific team remains isolated during the Winter at an Antarctic Research Station to continue their research in the fight against climate change. When spring comes, the entire team are either dead or missing

Director: Jorge Dorado | Stars: John Lynch, Katharine O'Donnelly, Alexandre Willaume, Richard Sammel

Votes: 573

32. Young Justice (2010–2023)
Episode: Targets (2011)

TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Red Arrow has to protect one villain from another in order to ensure that peace talks between two warring nations go well.

Director: Christopher Berkeley | Stars: Crispin Freeman, Danica McKellar, Nolan North, Khary Payton

Votes: 3,162

33. TopTenz (2010– )
Episode: 10 Cults with Incredibly Bizarre Beliefs (2021)

12 min | Documentary

Often masquerading a 'new' religions, cult have been around since the dawn of civilization. But in recent time they seem to be popping up everywhere. So how do you tell a cult form a ... See full summary »

Star: Simon Whistler

34. Hochelaga (2020– )
Episode: The Mystery of the Copiale Cipher (2020)

10 min

The Copiale Cipher is a collection of initiation rituals of a little known German society called the Oculists that practiced eye surgery. This is known thanks to efforts of Kevin Knight who... See full summary »

Star: Tommie Trelawny

35. Dofus: The Treasures of Kerubim (2013)
Episode: Chasse à Truche (2013)

13 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Joris wants to go on an adventure, so Kerubim gives him a clothespin and tells him the story of his initiation at the Ecaflip temple.

Stars: Saïd Amadis, Julie-Ann Dean, Sauvane Delanoë, Jean-Claude Donda

36. Quantico (2015–2018)
Episode: Fear and Flesh (2018)

TV-PG | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In tracking down the origin of a deadly strain of tuberculosis threatening Americans, Ryan must go undercover and infiltrate a white supremacist organization.

Director: Alex Kalymnios | Stars: Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Jake McLaughlin, Johanna Braddy, Russell Tovey

Votes: 510

37. Chicago P.D. (2014– )
Episode: Sisterhood (2018)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Intelligence tracks down a vigilante killing rapists and Burgess questions whether the men who attacked her sister have really been punished.

Director: Rohn Schmidt | Stars: Jason Beghe, Jon Seda, Jesse Lee Soffer, Tracy Spiridakos

Votes: 456