Witch doctor movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant witch doctor movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense and dark films and TV shows about / with witch doctor, survival, death, violence, blood, supernatural, danger, religion, fear and flashback plots mostly in Drama, Horror and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Philippines and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as witch doctor: Spell (2020), Native Dancer (2008), The Quack (1982), 6 Souls (2010), Dances with Wolves (1990), Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), Kung Fu (1972), Yesterday (2004), The Chosen One (2019), Lost Bayou (2019).
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A father survives a plane crash in rural Appalachia, but becomes suspicious of the elderly couple who take him in to nurse him back to health with the ancient remedies.
Style:
suspense, atmospheric, scary, psychotronic, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
voodoo doll, evil force, spell, escape, prisoner, folk horror, supernatural, witchcraft, satanism, macabre, paranormal phenomena, paranormal activity ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
appalachia, west virginia
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Kazakhstan, France, Germany, Russia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Aidai the baksy, or witch doctor, lives in the mountains and helps people. She uses mysterious actions to cure the sick and to give infertile couples children. As capitalist forces begin to encroach on tradition, the first casualty is any ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, art house, mythical ...
Plot:
shaman, witch doctor, good versus evil, mysticism, healer, life is a bitch, social problems, conflict, mob hit, organized crime, fighting crime, female protagonist ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
caucasus
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A famous surgeon is beaten by drunken bullies, loses his memory and cannot recollect who he was before. He gets to a village, lives in a not so well to do family and becomes the Quack - he slowly regains his talent for medicine and saves the lives ...
Style:
touching, atmospheric, serious, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
memory loss, life is a bitch, surgeon, losing-it hero, prodigy, daughter, love and romance, witch doctor, healer, polish, village life, amnesia ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
poland
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39K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished.
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, fairy tale ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
supernatural, supernatural horror, murder, psychiatrist, twists and turns, doctors and patients, split personality, voodoo, child in peril, witch doctor, demon, female psychiatrist ...
Time:
year 2000, 80s, 2000s, 1910s, 21st century
Place:
usa, canada
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
Wounded Civil War soldier, John Dunbar tries to commit suicide – and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
Style:
scenic, touching, sentimental, visually stunning, inspirational ...
Plot:
american civil war, native american, self discovery, culture clash, friendship, native, courage, tribe, native american white relationships, pride and honor, wolf, prairie ...
Time:
19th century, 90s, ancient times, 1860s, year 1990 ...
Place:
south dakota, nebraska, america, usa, kansas ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can the combined faith and knowledge of a Vatican investigator and a hypnotic research specialist free her from its grasp?
Style:
demonic, scary, cult horror, religious horror, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
possession, exorcism, demon, good versus evil, demonic possession, priest, supernatural, surrealism, psychic, teenage girl, fire, hypnosis ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
washington d.c., africa, usa, latin america, new york state ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, atmospheric, gloomy ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, shaolin, wild west, on the run, temple, haunted by the past, vegetarian, flashback, kung fu classic, fugitive, man with no name ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century
Place:
usa, new mexico, arizona
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.
Style:
sincere, touching, uplifting, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
aids, hopes, parents and children, family problems, injustice, life is a bitch, down on your luck, witch doctor, hiv, secret, girl, strong female lead ...
Place:
south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
Determined to bring a Zika vaccine to the remote Pantanal, three doctors clash with a faith healer and are pulled deeper into the mysteries of his cult.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, medical drama ...
Plot:
doctor, epidemic, witch doctor, religious cult, occult, trap, physician, vaccine, tribe, problem, religions or cults, secrets ...
Place:
south america
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A struggling addict ventures into the Louisiana swamps to reconnect with her estranged faith healer father, only to discover he is hiding a troubling secret aboard his houseboat.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
swamp, family relations, father daughter relationship, secret, addiction, witch doctor, drug addiction, drug abuse, heroin addict, father and daughter, drug overdose, family drama ...
Place:
louisiana
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Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
The Desmond - the building's pleasant sounding name hides a troubled past. The high rise has a long history of fires, murders, madness and even colonial era genocide upon the site. The towering building has stood empty for the better part of a ...
Style:
slasher, psychotronic, suspense, bleak, mind bending ...
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, haunting, television crew, cursed, cameraman, security guard, abandoned building, curse, skyscraper, death, tv crew ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Philippines, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A fashion designer hires a nanny from the Philippines to assist her in caring for her family while she is suffering from what she believes is a tick-related illness. The nanny uses traditional Filipino folk healing techniques to help her, but in the ...
Style:
suspenseful, supernatural thriller, captivating, psychological, mystical ...
Plot:
designer, secret, mysticism, life is a bitch, undercover, female protagonist, illness, witch doctor, fighting illness, macabre, paranoia, haunting ...
Place:
london
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A grisly murder occurs on the small remote island known as Paradise. After a night of gambling, two of the players are found mutilated. Deok-Su, the missing third player, quickly becomes the suspect. As the 17 residents of Paradise Island try to ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, twisted, tension, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, small town, uncover truth, social relations, whodunit, isolation, estrangement, under the surface, downfall, witch doctor, police investigation, family relations ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Maximillian, the lone survivor of a race of vampires, comes to Brooklyn in search of a way to live past the next full moon. His ticket to survival is Rita, a NYPD detective who doesn't know she's half vampire -- and Maximillian will do ...
Style:
black comedy, gothic, humorous, parody, scary ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
vampire, dangerous attraction, supernatural, good versus evil, destiny, blaxploitation, gangster, nightmare, villain, blood, abandoned ship, mind control ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, new york state ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
TV show
Story:
After an encounter with a faith healer, a young man finds refuge at a commune where disciples are forced to give up everything for God.
Style:
bleak, dark, art house
Plot:
religious sect, religious fanaticism, coercion, claustrophobia, brainwashing, witch doctor, commune, manipulation, identity crisis, obedience, isolation, moral ambiguity ...
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Genre: Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In the summer of 1859, a widowed physician reluctantly agrees to take a recently freed slave and her mysterious Caucasian daughter on a five-day journey through the bloody West to find a distant town's Faith Healer. The woman believes her ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, sinister, intense, bleak ...
Plot:
racial tension, moral ambiguity, supernatural, haunting, witch doctor, racism, journey, character study, ethical dilemma, grief, road trip, isolation ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
With the fate of the frontier hanging in the balance, a former cavalry officer is called back into action to rescue a beautiful maiden from the clutches a band of renegade Black Claw Indians led by a frightening medicine man.
Style:
tense, exciting, light, captivating, period piece ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rivalry, rescue, woman in danger, escapades, danger, old west, showdown, rescue mission, cowboy, heroism, witch doctor, native american ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story of a lone drifter who has come to the end of a violent and bloody journey. He has the power to consume the sins of evil-doers.
Style:
captivating, suspense, serious, tense, dark ...
Plot:
supernatural, redemption, one against many, sin, lone hero, violent, good versus evil, preacher, manhunt, fight, religious, anti hero ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, and life threatening ventures from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. 8000 miles ...
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, breathtaking, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, pow, survival, human spirit, gulag, confined, captivity, wehrmacht, danger, wilderness survival, nazi, fugitives ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, year 1937, year 1947, year 1951 ...
Place:
germany, ussr, soviet union, siberia, tehran iran ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her aid, but the village is spread the word that the child born as a child God and an atheist would think exploit to their advantage the "miracle ...
Style:
emotional, poignant
Plot:
religious, moral ambiguity, moral dilemma, compassion, character study, superstition, poverty, family drama, mysticism, witch doctor, miraculous event, ignorance ...
Time:
60s
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394K
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Music, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Canada
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
Style:
period piece, southern gothic, dark fantasy, gothic, psychotronic ...
Plot:
supernatural horror, vampire, profanity, brother brother relationship, twins, ku klux klan, vampirism, loss of brother, eaten alive, native american, plantation, graphic violence ...
Time:
1930s, 90s, 20th century, year 1932, year 1992 ...
Place:
mississippi, chicago, north america
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
As the first nomadic tribes wander across the vast wilderness of the infant planet they confront hostilities created by the harsh environment and each other. After a massive volcanic eruption a tribal chief is killed and his two sons fight for ...
Style:
independent film, grindhouse, prehistoric, classic horror, serious ...
Plot:
cave woman, twins, caveman, volcanic eruption, earthquake, female nudity, exploitation, witch doctor, desert, mute, women, prehistoric animal ...
Time:
stone age, prehistoric times, year 1971, prehistory
Place:
england
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in New Mexico.
Style:
natural horror, psychotronic, suspense, scary, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
killer animal, creature feature, animal attack, bat, plague, vampire, killer bat, native, cave, desert, poison gas, witch doctor ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new mexico
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Genre: Adventure, Horror, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A photographer in the rain forest is captured by wild natives, and after months of living with them, he marries the chief's daughter and helps protect the village from a vicious cannibal tribe.
Style:
sexy, underground horror, disturbing, grindhouse, suspense ...
Plot:
jungle adventure, jungle, exploitation, photograph, bare chested male, nude bathing, eating human flesh, cannibalism, photographer, gory, photography, passion ...
Time:
70s
Place:
thailand, asia, burma
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A research scientist (William Hurt) explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological, surreal, scary ...
Plot:
drug, science, surrealism, obsession, experiment gone awry, male nudity, hallucination, body horror, transformation, psychology, mad scientist, insanity ...
Time:
20th century, future, 70s, year 1967, 60s ...
Place:
harvard university, bronx new york city, san francisco, california, boston ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A community rushes to a faith healer after learning that one of them was miraculously healed from a deadly disease by the same person. They are torn apart afterwards as the healing brings them a terrible curse that wreaks harm and death.
Style:
gothic, suspense, bleak, slasher, religious horror ...
Plot:
occult, mystery woman, evil spirit, dark past, curse, female psychopath, cure, surrealism, macabre, characters killed one by one, survival, paranormal ...
Place:
the philippines
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Not quite a religious film, not quite a coming-of-age story, not quite a kiddie flick, and not quite a supernatural horror movie, Taliesin Jones's identity crisis nonetheless reveals a sweet examination of one child and his thoughts on God.
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, sentimental, independent film
Plot:
teenage boy, miraculous event, coming of age, self discovery, family problems, family life, parents and children, dysfunctional family, redemption, hopes, secret society, christianity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
wales
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Sheldon Bart (Fred Ward) is a drifter, and a small-time con man. He meets his old friend, Brother Bud (Harry Dean Stanton), a big-time con man into faith healing and fencing stolen cars, at his revival tent outside a small town. While he's ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
ufo, con man, alien, witch doctor, religion, supermarket, evangelist, alcoholic, broken heart, flying saucer, eccentricity, shoplifting ...
Time:
year 1985
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A circus owner and a lady trapper trek into the African jungle to capture a giant gorilla for his circus.
Style:
natural horror, psychotronic, independent film, weird
Plot:
kaiju, giant monster, king kong, dinosaur, jungle adventure, monkey, macabre, giant ape, skeleton, jungle, witch doctor, gorilla ...
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650
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An Ancient Mayan curse is awakened in the ancient temples in Mexico, and people are killed in strange and gory ways by an invisible force.
Style:
slasher, suspense, mystical
Plot:
human sacrifice, evil power, pyramid, gas station, black magic, witch doctor, demon, curse, loss of father, nudity, folk horror, american abroad ...
Place:
central america, mexico
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