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

1. Midsommar (2019)

R | 148 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A couple travels to Northern Europe to visit a rural hometown's fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.

Director: Ari Aster | Stars: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Vilhelm Blomgren, William Jackson Harper

Votes: 403,512 | Gross: $27.33M

2. Silent Hill (2006)

R | 125 min | Horror, Mystery

A woman, Rose, goes in search for her adopted daughter within the confines of a strange, desolate town called Silent Hill.

Director: Christophe Gans | Stars: Radha Mitchell, Laurie Holden, Sean Bean, Deborah Kara Unger

Votes: 244,076 | Gross: $46.98M

3. Moon Knight (2022)

TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Steven Grant discovers he's been granted the powers of an Egyptian moon god. But he soon finds out that these newfound powers can be both a blessing and a curse to his troubled life.

Stars: Oscar Isaac, Ethan Hawke, May Calamawy, Michael Benjamin Hernandez

Votes: 270,051

4. Blast from the Past (1999)

PG-13 | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A naive man comes out into the world after spending 35 years in a nuclear fallout shelter.

Director: Hugh Wilson | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, Sissy Spacek

Votes: 71,746 | Gross: $26.49M

5. 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: 186,242 | Gross: $16.38M

6. The Lodge (2019)

R | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A soon-to-be stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé's two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place.

Directors: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz | Stars: Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell, Lia McHugh, Richard Armitage

Votes: 57,880

7. Bubble Boy (2001)

PG-13 | 84 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Bubble Boy's been in a bubble all his life due to no immune system. A cute blonde girl befriends BB. Her boyfriend proposes and BB decides to travel across USA to Niagara Falls to stop the wedding.

Director: Blair Hayes | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Swoosie Kurtz, Marley Shelton, Danny Trejo

Votes: 35,281 | Gross: $5.00M

8. Audition (1999)

R | 115 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura

Votes: 89,261

9. Jumper (2008)

PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A young man with teleportation abilities suddenly finds himself in the middle of an ancient war between those like him and their sworn annihilators.

Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson

Votes: 323,653 | Gross: $80.17M

10. V/H/S (2012)

R | 116 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

When a group of misfits are hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for.

Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, David Bruckner, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez, Glenn McQuaid, Radio Silence, Joe Swanberg, Chad Villella, Ti West, Adam Wingard | Stars: Calvin Lee Reeder, Lane Hughes, Adam Wingard, Hannah Fierman

Votes: 68,373 | Gross: $0.10M

11. Arthdal Chronicles (2019–2023)

80 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

"Arthdal Chronicles" depicts the birth of civilization and nations in ancient times. It is a story of mythical heroes--their struggle, unity, and love of people living in a virtual land called Arth.

Stars: Jang Dong-Gun, Kim Ok-bin, Yoon Sa-bong, Park Hae-joon

Votes: 5,966

12. Apostle (2018)

TV-MA | 130 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

In 1905, a drifter on a dangerous mission to rescue his kidnapped sister tangles with a sinister religious cult on an isolated island.

Director: Gareth Evans | Stars: Dan Stevens, Richard Elfyn, Paul Higgins, Bill Milner

Votes: 59,058

13. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)

R | 107 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Alice returns to where the nightmare began: The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Iain Glen, Ali Larter, Shawn Roberts

Votes: 100,991 | Gross: $26.83M

14. The Silence (II) (2019)

PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

When the world is under attack from terrifying creatures who hunt their human prey by sound, 16-year old Ally Andrews (Kiernan Shipka), who lost her hearing at 13, and her family seek refuge in a remote haven.

Director: John R. Leonetti | Stars: Stanley Tucci, Kiernan Shipka, Miranda Otto, Kate Trotter

Votes: 50,843

15. Colonia (2015)

R | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History

A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody has ever escaped from.

Director: Florian Gallenberger | Stars: Emma Watson, Daniel Brühl, Michael Nyqvist, Richenda Carey

Votes: 57,182

16. Eaten Alive! (1980)

Not Rated | 92 min | Adventure, Horror

A young woman teams up with a mercenary to find her missing sister in the jungles of New Guinea where they find that a deranged leader of a religious cult has located his commune in an area inhabited by cannibals.

Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Robert Kerman, Janet Agren, Ivan Rassimov, Mel Ferrer

Votes: 4,599

17. Caprica (2009–2010)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Two families, the Graystones and the Adamas, live together on a peaceful planet known as Caprica, where a startling breakthrough in artificial intelligence brings about unforeseen consequences.

Stars: Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Paula Malcomson, Alessandra Torresani

Votes: 26,185

18. Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

When a grisly murder shocks Los Angeles in 1938, Detective Tiago Vega and his partner Lewis Michener become embroiled in an epic story that reflects the troubled history of the city.

Stars: Natalie Dormer, Daniel Zovatto, Kerry Bishé, Adriana Barraza

Votes: 10,665

19. 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: 35,099

20. Quo Vadis (1951)

Not Rated | 171 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.

Directors: Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann | Stars: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov

Votes: 16,744 | Gross: $24.29M

21. 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: 15,914

22. Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)

PG-13 | 109 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery

When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higgins

Votes: 23,408 | Gross: $19.74M

23. Help! (1965)

G | 92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical

Sir Ringo Starr finds himself the human sacrifice target of a cult, and his fellow members of The Beatles must try to protect him from it.

Director: Richard Lester | Stars: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr

Votes: 21,124 | Gross: $13.08M

24. The Path (2016–2018)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama

A man who converts to a controversial following suffers from a crisis of faith.

Stars: Aaron Paul, Michelle Monaghan, Emma Greenwell, Kyle Allen

Votes: 9,313

25. Postal (2007)

R | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

In the ironically named city of Paradise, a loser teams up with his cult-leading uncle to steal a peculiar bounty of riches from their local amusement park. The recently arrived Taliban have a similar focus, but a far more sinister intent.

Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Zack Ward, David Foley, Verne Troyer, Chris Coppola

Votes: 24,111 | Gross: $18.01M

26. Marked for Death (1990)

R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A retired DEA agent is out to hunt down and take out a Jamaican drug posse that has targeted he and his family for murder.

Director: Dwight H. Little | Stars: Steven Seagal, Joanna Pacula, Basil Wallace, Keith David

Votes: 24,314 | Gross: $46.04M

27. To the Devil a Daughter (1976)

R | 95 min | Horror

An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth.

Directors: Peter Sykes, Don Sharp | Stars: Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Honor Blackman, Denholm Elliott

Votes: 4,906

28. Svaha: The Sixth Finger (2019)

Not Rated | 122 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

Pastor Park works to expose suspicious religious groups. He's hired to look into the cult group Deer Mount. Meanwhile, Police Captain Hwang investigates a murder case and the main suspect is a member of the Deer Mount cult.

Director: Jae-hyun Jang | Stars: Lee Jung-jae, Jung Jin-young, Yoo Ji-tae, Min Tanaka

Votes: 4,896

29. Them That Follow (2019)

R | 98 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Set deep in the wilds of Appalachia, where believers handle death-dealing snakes to prove themselves before God, a pastor's daughter holds a secret that threatens to tear apart her community.

Directors: Britt Poulton, Dan Madison Savage | Stars: Olivia Colman, Kaitlyn Dever, Alice Englert, Jim Gaffigan

Votes: 3,908 | Gross: $0.16M

30. We Summon the Darkness (2019)

R | 91 min | Horror, Music, Thriller

Three best friends embark on a road trip to a heavy-metal show, where they bond with three aspiring musicians and head off to one of the girls' country home for an after-party.

Director: Marc Meyers | Stars: Alexandra Daddario, Keean Johnson, Maddie Hasson, Amy Forsyth

Votes: 11,879

31. Deutschland 83 (2015)

TV-MA | 42 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

Martin Rauch is recruited by the HVA to infiltrate the West Germany army. As a rookie spy, his decisions constantly put his cover at risk and force his agency to take extreme measures.

Stars: Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Ulrich Noethen, Sylvester Groth

Votes: 15,023

32. Save Me (2017–2019)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A young girl coming to a small town with her family. And through tragic events getting involved with a religious cult.

Stars: Jo Jae-yoon, Chun Ho-jin, Eom Tae-goo, Esom

Votes: 1,915

33. Julieta (2016)

R | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

After a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events involving her estranged daughter.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Emma Suárez, Adriana Ugarte, Daniel Grao, Inma Cuesta

Votes: 33,918 | Gross: $1.49M

34. South of Hell (2015)

60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A supernatural thriller set in South Carolina, South of Hell focuses on Maria Abascal, a stunning demon-hunter-for-hire whose power stems from within.

Stars: Mena Suvari, Zachary Booth, Lamman Rucker, Paulina Singer

Votes: 1,712

35. 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: 8,521

36. The Other Lamb (2019)

Unrated | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A girl born into an all-female cult led by a man in their compound begins to question his teachings and her own reality.

Director: Malgorzata Szumowska | Stars: Raffey Cassidy, Michiel Huisman, Denise Gough, Ailbhe Cowley

Votes: 5,548

37. Escaping Utopia (2024)

Documentary

New Zealand's most extreme religious cult, Gloriavale, and the true stories of people attempting to break free, including current and former members that have never gone on record before.

Votes: 48

38. 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: 6,066 | Gross: $0.02M

39. Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief (2015)

Not Rated | 119 min | Documentary

A documentary looking at the inner-workings of the Church of Scientology.

Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Paul Haggis, Jason Beghe, Spanky Taylor, David Miscavige

Votes: 40,912

40. Far Cry 4 (2014 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Crime

To fulfil his mother's dying wish, Ajay Ghale travels to Kyrat to scatter her ashes. Before he can accomplish this, though, he must end a civil war between the Golden Path and Min's forces.

Director: Patrick Methe | Stars: Troy Baker, Naveen Andrews, Janina Gavankar, Travis Willingham

Votes: 11,242

41. Divine Love (2019)

101 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

A woman uses her bureaucratic job to convince divorcing couples to stay together and is utterly committed to getting pregnant by her husband in a future of dance parties, ritualistic orgies and fundamentalist Christianity.

Director: Gabriel Mascaro | Stars: Dira Paes, Julio Machado, Antonio Pastich, Rubens Santos

Votes: 2,230

42. Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie (2010)

R | 76 min | Animation, Action, Fantasy

A squad of Ultramarines answer a distress call from an Imperial Shrine World. A full Company of Imperial Fists was stationed there, but there is no answer from them. The squad investigates to find out what has happened there.

Director: Martyn Pick | Stars: Terence Stamp, John Hurt, Sean Pertwee, Steven Waddington

Votes: 6,266

43. The Veil (I) (2016)

R | 93 min | Horror

Twenty-five years after members of a religious cult committed mass suicide, the lone survivor returns to the scene of the tragedy with a documentary crew in tow.

Director: Phil Joanou | Stars: Jessica Alba, Thomas Jane, Lily Rabe, Aleksa Palladino

Votes: 8,177

44. Resident Evil 4 (2005 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Horror

Six years after the events in Raccoon City, Leon Kennedy, now a federal agent, is sent to a rural part of Spain to rescue the U.S. President's kidnapped daughter, Ashley Graham from a sinister cult.

Directors: Shinji Mikami, Kuniomi Matsushita | Stars: Paul Mercier, Carolyn Lawrence, Rino Romano, Salli Saffioti

Votes: 15,263

45. Gunga Din (1939)

Approved | 117 min | Adventure, Comedy, War

In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.

Director: George Stevens | Stars: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Votes: 12,801

46. The Shrine (2010)

Not Rated | 85 min | Horror

Two female journalists and a photographer travel to Europe to investigate a series of mysterious disappearances, only to find themselves embroiled in a struggle against a kind of evil they never expected.

Director: Jon Knautz | Stars: Aaron Ashmore, Cindy Sampson, Meghan Heffern, Trevor Matthews

Votes: 14,292

47. Children of the Corn (2009 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 92 min | Horror, Thriller

While traveling, an unhappy married couple encounter a cult of murderous children who worship an entity called He Who Walks Behind the Rows.

Director: Donald P. Borchers | Stars: Robert Gerdisch, Jordan Schmidt, David Anders, Kandyse McClure

Votes: 6,444

48. Serial (1980)

R | 86 min | Comedy

It's the end of the 1970s. Hippies are assimilating, women are raising their consciousness, and men are becoming confused and ineffectual. Don't expect to be able to keep track of all the ... See full summary »

Director: Bill Persky | Stars: Martin Mull, Tuesday Weld, Sally Kellerman, Christopher Lee

Votes: 1,136 | Gross: $9.87M

49. The Devil's Hand (2014)

PG-13 | 86 min | Horror, Thriller

When young girls start to go missing within a religious cult, older followers fear a long-told prophecy while the younger members suspect abusive elders are killing them off.

Director: Christian E. Christiansen | Stars: Rufus Sewell, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Adelaide Kane, Leah Pipes

Votes: 4,187 | Gross: $0.00M

50. The Day Shall Come (2019)

Unrated | 87 min | Comedy, Crime

An impoverished preacher who brings hope to the Miami projects is offered cash to save his family from eviction. He has no idea his sponsor works for the FBI who plan to turn him into a criminal by fueling his madcap revolutionary dreams.

Director: Christopher Morris | Stars: Andrel McPherson, Miles Robbins, Marchánt Davis, Anna Kendrick

Votes: 4,182