| Videodrome (1983) | 7.2 | |
| The Believers (1987) | 6.1 | |
| Faults (2014) | 6.7 | |
| Colonia (2015) | 7.0 | |
| The Ritual (2017) | 6.4 |
Cult movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant cult movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, psychological, suspenseful, scary, disturbing and tense films and TV shows about / with cult, occult, death, violence, brutality, murder, supernatural, macabre, fear and ritual plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as cult: Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Midsommar (2019), The Wicker Man (1973), Get Out (2017), One of Us (2017), Bad Boy Bubby (1993), The Conspiracy (2012), Children of Sorrow (2012), The Master (2012), The Empty Man (2020).
Best films
New films
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
After Dr. Bill Hartford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly ...
Style:
sexual, sexy, psychological, artsy, creepy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
marriage, secret society, christmas, orgy, voyeurism, obsession, sex, disguise, dream, adultery, doctor, nudity ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, seattle, usa
Is relevant?
476K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
A young couple travels to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown and attend its mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly descends into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Style:
disturbing, psychedelic, brutal, frightening, spooky ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
paganism, ritual, religious cult, folk horror, community, rite, isolated community, pagan, sect, female protagonist, burned alive, human sacrifice ...
Time:
year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, europe, new york, eastern europe
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
Style:
creepy, dark, cult horror, twist ending, psychotronic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
folk horror, religion, paganism, occult, disappearance, ritual, human sacrifice, female nudity, temptation, sacrifice, investigation, conspiracy ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
scotland, fictional island, europe, united kingdom, scottish highlands
Is relevant?
804K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend ...
Style:
twist ending, psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
racism, hypnosis, brainwashing, interracial romance, kidnapping, paranoia, survival, female villain, african american, revenge, african american protagonist, neurosurgeon ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place:
brooklyn new york city, southern usa, indiana, new york
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A young journalist goes deep undercover within a mountain commune and becomes manipulated by a duplicitous cult leader.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
sect, amateur detective, journalist, media, self discovery, investigation, female friendship, disappearance, danger, investigative journalism, character study, riddles and clues ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia, Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Bad Boy Bubby is just that: a bad boy. So bad, in fact, that his mother has kept him locked in their house for his entire thirty years, convincing him that the air outside is poisonous. After a visit from his estranged father, circumstances force ...
Style:
disturbing, surreal, dark comedy, sexy, black comedy ...
Plot:
incest, mother son incest, self discovery, sex with mother, sexual harassment, torture, captivity, dark humor, mistaken identity, life is a bitch, family problems, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia, oceania, adelaide south australia, new zealand
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A documentary about conspiracy theories takes a horrific turn after the filmmakers uncover an ancient and dangerous secret society.
Style:
suspense, psychological horror, suspenseful, serious, satanic ...
Plot:
secret society, conspiracy, found footage, masked killer, human prey, corporation, new world order, manhunt, uncover truth, journalist, hidden truth, occult ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Simon Leach is a very, very sick man. Thriving on despair, pain, and panic, he unites a group of broken and desperate people in the middle of the desert. He showers them with the love and affection they’re so desperate for, but Simon has a much ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, suspense, dark, tense ...
Plot:
found footage, missing person, isolation, murder, danger, brainwashing, violence, religions or cults, death, male pubic hair, serial killer, witch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
199K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, philosophical, cerebral, surreal ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
psychiatry, scientology, right hand man, drifter, sex, female pubic hair, mentor, religion, bare breasts, religions or cults, brainwashing, writers ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, 1940s, year 1950 ...
Place:
usa, phoenix arizona, san francisco, alabama, pennsylvania ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
After a group of teens from a small Midwestern town begin to mysteriously disappear, the locals believe it is the work of an urban legend known as The Empty Man. As a retired cop investigates and struggles to make sense of the stories, he discovers ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful, lovecraft ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
occult, investigation, suicide, cosmic horror, supernatural, supernatural horror, death, hospital, grief, danger, demonic possession, evil spirit ...
Time:
2020s, 90s, 2010s, year 2019, 20th century ...
Place:
missouri, himalaya
Is relevant?
141K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them.
Style:
suspense, demonic, satanic, psychological, spooky ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
forest, lost in the woods, creature, supernatural, paganism, guilt, hiking, ritual, folk horror, murder, supernatural horror, sacrifice ...
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.
Style:
emotional, suspense, lovecraft, psychological thriller, mindfuck ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
time loop, childhood trauma, brothers, cosmic horror, sect, supernatural, brother brother relationship, brother, lake, camp, suicide, human nature ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the evening appears to be relaxed, Will soon gets a creeping suspicion that their charming host David is ...
Style:
psychological thriller, disturbing, scary, dark, bloody ...
Plot:
dinner party, suspicion, suicide, twists and turns, brutality, obsession, old friend, deception, paranoia, vengeance, shooting, pagan cult ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, year 2015
Place:
america, los angeles, california
Is relevant?
98K
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Pacific Northwest. 1983 AD. Outsiders Red Miller and Mandy Bloom lead a loving and peaceful existence. When their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed by a cult led by the sadistic Jeremiah Sand, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey ...
Style:
satanic, suspense, suspenseful, surreal, psychedelic ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
revenge, nightmare, surrealism, cult leader, biker gang, cosmic horror, drug trip, vengeance, lumberjack, rage, sadism, russian roulette ...
Time:
year 1983, 2010s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
xian, california, usa
Is relevant?
119K
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
Style:
disturbing, creepy, brutal, bloody, extreme horror ...
Plot:
torture, violence, revenge, child abuse, kidnapping, gory, brutality, death, abuse, torment, violent, hardcore ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2000, turn of the century, 2000s, year 1971 ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A pizza delivery girl is suddenly in for the fight of her young life when encountering a group of Satanists in need of a virgin to ritually sacrifice.
Style:
psychological, erotic, satanic, dark comedy, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
satanic cult, coven, satanist, virgin, satanic ritual, curse, satanism, loss of daughter, loss of virginity, cancer, sacrifice, violence ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in ...
Style:
sexy, independent film, psychological thriller, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rape, paranoia, mind control, escape, female protagonist, religion, sexualized violence, hippie, physical abuse, lake, home invasion, drugged ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
connecticut, new york state, new york, usa, california
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Belgium, USA, Denmark, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A haunting and nightmarish tale that tells the story of Selah, a young girl born into a repressive cult known as the Flock. The members of the Flock – all women and female children– live in a rural compound, and are led by one man, known only as ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, enigmatic, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
religious cult, religious leader, female protagonist, community, forest, cult leader, brutality, teenage sexuality, polygamy, woman, menstruation, coming of age ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Notorious serial killer Joe Carroll, after being found guilty of murdering 14 female students on the Virginia college campus where he taught literature, escapes from death row. The FBI calls former agent Ryan Hardy to consult on the case, as he was ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, dramatic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, fbi, mind game, serial murder, murderer, victim, criminal, murder, investigation, killing, religions or cults ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Three college students, Phil, Ed, and Henry take a road trip into Mexico for a week of drinking and carefree fun only to have Phil find himself a captive of a group of satanic Mexican drug smugglers who kill tourists and whom are looking for a group ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, homoerotic, satanic, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
killing spree, missing person, human sacrifice, u.s. mexico border, murder, evil, serial killer, occult, serial murder, drinking, bondage, college ...
Place:
mexico, latin america, usa, texas
Is relevant?
59K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, UK, Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.
Style:
suspense, harsh, psychological, emotional, political ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
religious fanatic, religion, genocide, dictatorship, torture chamber, sect, abuse, kidnapping, escape, torture, prison, man punching a woman ...
Time:
70s, year 2015, year 1973
Place:
chile, peru, germany, south america, italy ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Three 1960s California surfers fool around, drift apart and reunite years later to ride epic waves.
Style:
harsh, exciting, serious, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
surfing, coming of age, friendship, surfer, adolescence, surf, vietnam war, youth, follow your dream, adolescence vs adulthood, ocean, lifeguard ...
Time:
60s, year 1965, year 1968, year 1978, 70s ...
Place:
vietnam, usa, california, pacific ocean, tijuana mexico ...
Is relevant?
47K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew, only to discover that patients and ...
Style:
dark, lovecraft, creepy, spooky, satanic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
body horror, hospital, cosmic horror, another dimension, monster, macabre, violence, blood, small town, isolation, insanity, mutation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two disparate young women working for a company that conducts euthanasia are dispatched to a remote estate to perform a custom assisted-suicide ritual, but unwittingly summon the wraiths of a Death Cult that once inhabited the property.
Style:
suspense, bleak, dark, rough, scary ...
Plot:
ritual, haunting, missing person, death, ghost, supernatural, suicide, isolation, occult, macabre, claustrophobia, moral dilemma ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Margot, a documentary filmmaker, heads to a secluded Amish community in the hopes of learning about her long-lost mother and extended family. Following a string of strange occurrences and discoveries, she comes to realize this community may not be ...
Style:
scary, suspense, stylized, psychotronic, tense ...
Plot:
paranormal, paranormal activity, found footage, paranormal phenomena, supernatural, ghost, pagan cult, amish, folk horror, supernatural being, exorcism, mission ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
260K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The eerie and deserted ghost town of Silent Hill draws a young mother desperate to find a cure for her only child's illness. Unable to accept the doctor's diagnosis that her daughter should be permanently institutionalized for psychiatric ...
Style:
scary, dark, creepy, surreal, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, monster, demon, supernatural horror, survival, insanity, torture, macabre, ghost town, good versus evil, revenge, mysterious place ...
Time:
year 2006, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
west virginia, virginia, america, usa, canada
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
Style:
scary, dark, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
found footage, supernatural, catacomb, underground, archaeology, survival, treasure hunt, death, claustrophobia, ancient mystery, confined, tunnel ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, iran
Is relevant?
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young woman is committed to a psychiatric hospital and claims her newborn was stolen by a dark cult.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, dark, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
mental illness, supernatural, schizophrenia, occult, revenge, psychiatric hospital, kidnapping, supernatural horror, mental patient, child abduction, mentally unstable, female psychopath ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Farmer Vincent kidnaps unsuspecting travellers and is burying them in his garden. Unfortunately for his victims, they are not dead. He feeds his victims to prepare them for his roadside stand. His motto is: It takes all kinds of critters...to make ...
Style:
parody, gothic, dark comedy, scary, spoof ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cannibalism, cannibal, murder, psychopath, backwoods, violence, trap, butcher, rural setting, female nudity, farmer, satire ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1980, 70s
Place:
california, texas
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man buys a painting depicting witches being burned at the stake, one of whom bears an uncanny resemblance to his wife.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
witch, witchcraft, occult, bare chested male, reincarnation, supernatural, satanism, afterlife, danger, supernatural ability, ghost, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s
Place:
the philippines, manila philippines
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