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Witchfinder General (1968)
14K
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
England is torn in civil strife as the Royalists battle the Parliamentary Party for control. This conflict distracts people from rational thought and allows unscrupulous men to gain local power by exploiting village superstitions. One of these men is Matthew Hopkins, who tours the land offering his services as a persecutor of witches.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, creepy, gothic, rough, atmospheric, suspense, controversial, stylized ...
Plot:
inquisition, witch, folk horror, torture, witch hunt, nudity, murder, vengeance, violence, exploitation, priest, sadism, macabre, soldier, occult, medieval, black magic, revenge, danger, clergy, religions or cults, devil, edgar allan poe, violent, monster ...
Time:
17th century, year 1968, 60s, 1960s
Place:
england, europe, latin america
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Most similar movies to Witchfinder General
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, scary and psychotronic films with plots about macabre, supernatural, danger, nude, cult, deadly and witch mostly in Horror, Drama and History genres. Some movies like Witchfinder General: Witchhammer (1970), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), Cry of the Banshee (1970), Viy (1967), Black Death (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A ruthless inquisitor spins the superstitions of local peasants into religious heresy, finding cause to accuse dozens of innocent men and women of witchcraft. The inquisitor targets nobles and merchants, whose property and goods are then ...
Style:
atmospheric, gothic, gothic horror, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
witch, burned at the stake, inquisition, medieval, torture, burned alive, torture chamber, witchcraft, occult, religions or cults, priest, church ...
Time:
middle ages, 20th century, year 1970, 17th century
Place:
eastern europe, czechoslovakia, europe, czech republic, central europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Satan-worshiper Prince Prospero invites the local nobility to his castle for protection against an oncoming plague, the Red Death. He orders his guests to attend a masked ball and, amidst an atmosphere of debauchery and depravity, notices the entry ...
Style:
gothic, grindhouse, suspense, surreal, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, macabre, edgar allan poe, medieval, supernatural, revenge, life & death, plague, good versus evil, folk horror, brutality, masquerade ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, victorian era
Place:
italy, europe
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her occult powers to curse his family, enlisting ...
Style:
grindhouse, classic horror, gothic, scary, serious ...
Plot:
witchcraft, folk horror, rape, witch, witch hunt, tudors, occult, curses spells and rituals, murder, edgar allan poe, stepmother, black magic ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages, medieval times, 17th century
Place:
england, europe
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in the church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.
Style:
scary, dark fantasy, gothic horror, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
witch, folk horror, curses spells and rituals, church, supernatural, supernatural ability, evil dead, corpse, danger, escapades, cossack, medieval ...
Time:
medieval times, middle ages, year 1967, 19th century
Place:
ukraine, soviet union, kiev ukraine, russia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to raise the dead. A fearsome knight joined by a cohort of soldiers and a young monk are ...
Style:
gothic, dark, atmospheric, bleak, period piece ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
medieval, plague, witch, knight, sword and sorcery, danger, monk, heroic mission, dealing with death, sword and shield, bubonic plague, pagan ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 14th century, year 2010
Place:
england, europe, london
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A young couple inherit a farm and hoping that the rural location might help to patch up their strained marriage, they move into it, only to be confronted by supernatural forces.
Style:
suspense, spooky, psychotronic, satanic
Plot:
folk horror, witch, coven, torture, sacrifice, paranormal, curses spells and rituals, macabre, darkness, reincarnation, birth, troubled marriage ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
new york, massachusetts
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100%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The movie is centered around the Salem Massachusetts witch trials of 1692. The movie is based on the play "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller. He also wrote the screen play adaptation.
Style:
talky, suspense, costume drama, gothic, period piece ...
Plot:
witch hunt, witch, salem witch trial, curse, courtroom drama, colonial america, politics, spell, twists and turns, vengeance, court, manipulation ...
Time:
17th century, 90s, 50s, 1950s
Place:
massachusetts, salem massachusetts, usa, north america, new england ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, Horror
Country: Bolivia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Maria Francisca, a wealthy young heiress and her friend Mariana De Castro, a young protestant widow, are accused of witchcraft and taken before the Inquisition of Lima, Peru . Maleficarum is the story of Francisca, a wealthy orphan and Mariana, her ...
Style:
twist ending, psychotronic, disturbing, bleak, queer horror ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sadism, torture chamber, rape, lesbian, cruelty, bondage, revenge, misogyny, murder, assassination, heiress, twists and turns ...
Time:
18th century
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the most brutal torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, scary, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
spanish inquisition, castle, torture, murder, insanity, vengeance, investigation, inquisition, monster, macabre, gory, edgar allan poe ...
Time:
middle ages, 15th century, 16th century, medieval times, 14th century ...
Place:
europe, spain
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Occasionaly Sir Edward escapes and causes havoc around the town.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, classic horror, scary ...
Plot:
edgar allan poe, curse, vengeance, danger, obsession, supernatural, zombie, serial killer, brother brother relationship, monster, murderer, bare breasts ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, year 1969, victorian era, year 1865
Place:
africa, london, england
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, History, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job.
Style:
disturbing, grindhouse, slasher, creepy, controversial ...
Plot:
witch hunt, folk horror, female nudity, sexual perversion, black magic, curses spells and rituals, devil, occult, witchcraft, inquisition, supernatural, violent ...
Time:
middle ages, 18th century
Place:
europe, austria
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
While dabbling in Satanism, Count Karstein resurrects Mircalla Karnstein who initiates him into vampirism. As a rash of deaths afflicts the village, Gustav the head of Puritan group leads his men to seek out and destroy the pestilence. One of his ...
Style:
gothic horror, sexy, satanic, scary, stylized ...
Plot:
vampire, sister sister relationship, curses spells and rituals, twins, twin sister, burned at the stake, female nudity, identical twins, nudity, satanic cult, puritan, orphan ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s, 20th century, 17th century, 16th century ...
Place:
central europe, europe, austria
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A young girl is caught up in a devil cult run by her evil uncle and cousin. She can trust no one and even people she thought were dead comes back to haunt her.
Style:
demonic, satanic, grindhouse, independent film, serious ...
Plot:
occult, satanic ritual, coven, witch, nudity, female nudity, zombie, devil, sadism, folk horror, curses spells and rituals, satan ...
Time:
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Similarity:
21%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The powers of good are pitted against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles with the charming but deadly Satanist, Mocata, for the soul of his friend. Mocata has the knowledge and the power to summon the forces of darkness and, as the ...
Style:
gothic, satanic, creepy, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
folk horror, coven, black magic, occult, supernatural, satanism, curses spells and rituals, witch, serial killer, zombie, psychopath, danger ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, West Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
gothic horror, gothic, grindhouse, classic horror, cult classic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
europe, transylvania, london, england, romania
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20%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The police and British security forces call in Professor Van Helsing to help them investigate Satanic ritual which has been occurring in a large country house, and which has been attended by a government minister, an eminent scientist and secret ...
Style:
gothic, sexy, classic horror, cult classic, satanic ...
Plot:
dracula, supernatural, vampire, zombie, occult, epidemic, satanist, macabre, medieval, gory, motorcycle, death ...
Time:
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Place:
london, england, europe, united kingdom, scotland yard
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses (Mal Arnold) runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses ...
Style:
slasher, disturbing, bloody, scary, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
serial killer, gory, macabre, human sacrifice, cannibalism, supernatural, violence, murder, visceral, psychopath, zombie, exploitation ...
Time:
60s, 80s
Place:
florida, usa, miami, egypt
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A young couple moves into an infamous New York apartment building to start a family. Things become frightening as Rosemary begins to suspect her unborn baby isn't safe around their strange neighbors.
Style:
psychological, classic horror, surreal, psychological horror, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
satanic cult, devil, pregnancy, paranoia, satanism, satanic ritual, witchcraft, secret society, supernatural horror, coven, occult, antichrist ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1965, year 1966, year 1968 ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, persia, eastern europe, usa ...
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The accidental unearthing of Satan’s earthly remains causes the children of 17th-century English village to slowly convert into a coven of devil worshipers.
Style:
satanic, slasher, gothic, grindhouse, gothic horror ...
Plot:
folk horror, rape, teenage girl, human sacrifice, occult, devil, satanism, beast, witchcraft, villainess, lust, femme fatale ...
Time:
18th century, victorian era, year 1971, 17th century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
gothic, classic horror, demonic, psychotronic, scary ...
Plot:
giant bird, bird attack, witchcraft, occult, witch, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, folk horror, witchery, spider, professor, rape accusation ...
Time:
60s
Place:
cornwall
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the shadow of Castle Dracula, the Prince of Darkness is revived by blood trickling from the head-wound of an unconscious priest attempting exorcism. And once more fear and terror strikes Transylvania as the undead Prince of Darkness stalks the ...
Style:
gothic, classic horror, period piece, grindhouse, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
dracula, supernatural, monster, castle, redheaded woman, priest, revenge, corpse, lightning, hanged girl, resurrection, superstition ...
Time:
1900s, 19th century
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Poland
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
During the Prussian army's invasion to Poland in 1793, a young Polish nobleman Jakub is saved from the imprisonment by a stranger who wants in return to obtain a list of Jakub's fellow conspirators. Following his mysterious saviour across ...
Style:
gothic, slasher, atmospheric, cult classic, creepy ...
Plot:
serial killer, mate swapping, strong sexual content, surrealism, folk horror, nun, female nudity, winter, half brother half brother relationship, backwoods slasher, symbolism, shooting ...
Time:
18th century, 1790s
Place:
prussia, eastern europe, europe, poland
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After a cult besieges her convent, a young nun goes with an army of Muslims to destroy the convent and kill who wronged her.
Style:
erotic, disturbing, gothic, controversial, slasher ...
Plot:
convent, nunsploitation, torture, castration, medieval, nun, exploitation, religion, catholic, female nudity, revenge, sect ...
Time:
middle ages, 15th century, 13th century
Place:
southern italy, europe, italy, xian
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Barbara Hershey stars as Carla Moran, a hard-working single mother until the night she is raped in her bedroom by someone - or something - that she cannot see. Despite skeptical psychiatrists, she is repeatedly attacked in her car, in the bath, and ...
Style:
creepy, terrifying, scary, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sexual abuse, rape, demon rape, female nudity, paranormal phenomena, sexual assault, ghost, haunted, invisibility, torment, woman in jeopardy, sex crime ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Biography, Horror
Country: Italy, West Germany, Spain, Liechtenstein
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Horror icon Christopher Lee, who worked with Jess Franco on several occasions, plays Lord George Jeffreys, the infamous and merciless judge and Lord Chancellor in England torn by strife between the reigning King James II and William of Orange. ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse, disturbing ...
Plot:
exploitation, torture, judge, dishonesty, false accusation, courtroom drama, life is a bitch, danger, tragic hero, prison, prison life, righting the wronged ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A warlock burned at the stake comes back and takes over the body of his great grandson to take his revenge on the descendents of the villages that burned him.
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, lovecraft, serious, tense ...
Plot:
curse, afterlife, edgar allan poe, mansion, burned alive, haunted house, cosmic horror, ghost, murder, mutant, haunted, cthulhu ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century
Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young med student struggling with her tuition fees is drawn into the shady world of underground body modification.
Style:
dark, sexy, disturbing, scary, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
torture, plastic surgery, revenge, amputation, surgery, rape and revenge, stripper, medical student, police detective, rape, female nudity, female killer ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ghoulish Count Dracula lures a naive estate agent, Jonathan Harker, to his decaying Transylvanian castle with the promise of easy money. But when he spies a portrait of the man's beautiful young wife Lucy, the vampire becomes obsessed and sets ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, dark, bleak, creepy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
vampire, blood, castle, melancholy, plague, nosferatu, death, rat, medieval, loneliness, insanity, solitude ...
Time:
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Place:
romania, transylvania, europe, germany, black sea ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A dramatised historical account of the rise and fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest accused of witchcraft following alleged demonic possessions of sexually repressed nuns.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, controversial, cult classic, surreal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
inquisition, religion, priest, surrealism, politics, nun, nunsploitation, witch, torture, clergy, violent, folk horror ...
Time:
17th century, medieval times, year 2016, middle ages, year 1971 ...
Place:
france, london, europe, england
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In Medieval England, a sadistic duke plots to kill off all the heirs to the throne of England so he can claim he title crown for himself.
Style:
independent film, period piece, disturbing, grindhouse, splatter ...
Plot:
torture, murder, exploitation, dungeon, medieval, sadism, royalty, palace intrigue, violent, macabre, castle, henchman ...
Time:
60s
Place:
england
Similarity:
18%
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