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, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, scary and weird films and TV shows about / with occult, murder, death, supernatural, religion, sect, fear, female nudity, macabre and gore plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as cult: Eyes Wide Shut (1999), The Call of Cthulhu (2005), Get Out (2017), Children of Sorrow (2012), Midsommar (2019), The Wicker Man (1973), The Endless (2017), The Ritual (2017), Bad Boy Bubby (1993), The Master (2012).

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 7.5
 372K
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
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, neo noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: marriage, voyeurism, obsession, sex, secret society, disguise, orgy, adultery, infidelity, lust, nudity, nude ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, seattle, usa
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The Call of Cthulhu (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min.
Story: A dying professor leaves his great-nephew a collection of documents pertaining to the Cthulhu Cult. The nephew begins to learn why the study of the cult so fascinated his grandfather. Bit-by-bit he begins piecing together the dread implications of ...
Style: scary, suspense, lovecraft, black and white, stylized ...
Plot: cthulhu, ancient mystery, nightmare, supernatural, investigation, cosmic horror, monster, kaiju, giant monster, obsession, secrets, existentialism ...
Time: 1920s, year 2005, 19th century, 20th century
Place: rhode island, louisiana
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 7.8
 688K
Get Out (2017)
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: suspense, twist ending, psychological thriller, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: racism, hypnosis, kidnapping, brainwashing, interracial romance, survival, paranoia, missing person, african american, female villain, revenge, african american protagonist ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, future, 21st century
Place: indiana, brooklyn new york city, new york
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Children of Sorrow (2012)
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, desert, danger, violence, murder, isolation, missing person, brainwashing, male nudity, religions or cults, death, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.1
 396K
Midsommar (2019)
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, enigmatic, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: paganism, ritual, religious cult, folk horror, community, nervous breakdown, pagan, rite, isolated community, burned alive, female protagonist, hallucinogenic drug ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: new york, europe, scandinavia, eastern europe
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 7.5
 91K
The Wicker Man (1973)
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: twist ending, creepy, controversial, psychotronic, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: folk horror, religion, paganism, ritual, occult, disappearance, investigation, island, female nudity, human sacrifice, secret society, nudity ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: scotland, fictional island, europe, united kingdom, scottish highlands
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 6.5
 49K
The Endless (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, 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, psychological thriller, lovecraft, mindfuck ...
Audience: adult
Plot: time loop, brothers, suicide, ufo, supernatural, brother brother relationship, brother, childhood trauma, camp, cosmic horror, danger, human nature ...
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 6.3
 118K
The Ritual (2017)
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, psychological, spooky, disturbing, demonic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lost in the woods, supernatural, forest, creature, paganism, ritual, hiking, supernatural horror, folk horror, monster, sole survivor, sacrifice ...
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
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 7.3
 15K
Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
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, black comedy, art house ...
Plot: incest, self discovery, mother son incest, sex with mother, dark humor, torture, captivity, mistaken identity, life is a bitch, sexual harassment, family problems, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, oceania, adelaide south australia
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 7.1
 185K
The Master (2012)
Genre: Drama, History
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, stylized, atmospheric, philosophical, surreal ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: right hand man, psychiatry, drifter, scientology, religion, mentor, religions or cults, brainwashing, bare breasts, male orgasm, society, mentor protege relationship ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 50s, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place: usa, san francisco, phoenix arizona, philadelphia, new york ...
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 6.3
 13K
The Conspiracy (2012)
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, mind bending, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot: secret society, conspiracy, found footage, human prey, corporation, uncover truth, new world order, manhunt, hidden truth, occult, secret movement, missing person ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Believers (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison (Martin Sheen) is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, psychological, suspenseful, bloody ...
Plot: ritual, voodoo, supernatural, child in peril, religion, murder, investigation, gory, brutality, torture, ritual murder, family relations ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa, minneapolis minnesota, brooklyn new york city
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 7.0
 105K
Martyrs (2008)
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, bloody, scary, brutal, splatter ...
Plot: torture, child abuse, violence, gory, kidnapping, brutality, revenge, afterlife, torment, fear, torture chamber, home invasion ...
Time: year 2008, year 2000, 2000s, year 1971, 21st century
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 5.9
 41K
The Void (2016)
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, stylized, surreal ...
Audience: date night
Plot: body horror, hospital, monster, cosmic horror, another dimension, insanity, macabre, murder, mutation, small town, isolation, human experiment ...
Time: 80s
Place: canada
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Sound of My Voice (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.
Style: thought provoking, surreal, tense, cerebral, suspenseful ...
Plot: manipulation, cult leader, sect, religions or cults, brainwashing, amnesia, investigation, journalist, twists and turns, time travel, uncover truth, exploitation ...
Time: year 2011, distant future, future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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 4.7
 8K
The Veil (2016)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story springs from the real-world headlines of religious cults and mass suicides. With Veil, it begins 30 years ago, when members of a religious cult known as Heaven's Veil take their own lives. The truth behind what really happened remains ...
Style: captivating, suspense, bleak, exciting, grindhouse ...
Plot: found footage, childhood trauma, supernatural, haunted by the past, abandoned house, childhood memory, suicide, hallucination, murder, possession, news report, poisoning ...
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Lesbian Vampires (1971)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany, Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.
Style: erotic, gothic, grindhouse, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot: lesbian vampire, vampire, lesbian, sexploitation, lesbian sex, supernatural, murder of a nude woman, female protagonist, obsession, sexy female vampire, sex show, striptease ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: spain, istanbul turkey, turkey, constantinople
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 6.6
 28K
Hellbound (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 150 min.
TV show
Story: Unearthly beings deliver bloody condemnations, sending individuals to hell and giving rise to a religious group founded on the idea of divine justice.
Style: apocalyptic, mysterious, captivating, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: cult leader, paranormal phenomena, supernatural, hell, death, crisis of faith, lynching, religious cult, creature, entity, angel, monster ...
Place: seoul
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 6.6
 118K
The Invitation (2015)
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, scary, dark, suspense, twist ending ...
Plot: dinner party, suspicion, conspiracy, suicide, obsession, deception, old friend, insanity, brutality, vengeance, survival, paranoid ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, year 2016
Place: america, los angeles
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 7.0
 57K
Colonia (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, France, Luxembourg, UK, USA
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, political, exciting ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: religious fanatic, kidnapping, religion, genocide, torture chamber, escape, sect, torture, military coup, prison, survival, military dictatorship ...
Time: 70s, year 2015, year 1973
Place: chile, peru, south america, latin america
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 6.5
 89K
Mandy (2018)
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: suspense, satanic, suspenseful, surreal, scary ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: revenge, lumberjack, cult leader, surrealism, mysticism, rage, kidnapping, biker gang, russian roulette, brutality, sadism, drug trip ...
Time: year 1983, 2010s, 80s, 20th century
Place: california, xian, usa
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 7.3
 373K
Hereditary (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: After their reclusive grandmother passes away, the Graham family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem ...
Style: psychological horror, spooky, disturbing, satanic, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: fear, supernatural horror, dysfunctional family, ghost, grief, demon, seance, supernatural, evil spirit, possession, secret society, funeral ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: utah, america
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As Above, So Below (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
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: suspense, scary, dark, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: found footage, supernatural, catacomb, underground, survival, archaeology, treasure hunt, claustrophobia, ancient mystery, confined, tunnel, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, iran
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 5.6
 11K
Borderland (2007)
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, scary, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: extreme violence, human sacrifice, murder, killing spree, evil, missing person, serial killer, drinking, insanity, bondage, occult, college ...
Place: mexico, latin america, usa, texas
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 7.9
 25K
Waco (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 292 min.
TV show
Story: The FBI and ATF seize religious leader, David Koresh's Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas in the spring of 1993. A six-part television series covering a deadly standoff between the federal government and the Branch Davidians spiritual ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, anime ...
Plot: true crime, siege, raid, fbi, cult leader, fbi agent, gunfight, criminal psychology, criminal justice, badass, religion, anti hero ...
Time: year 1993, 90s, 20th century
Place: texas, usa
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Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
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: psychological, disturbing, tense, independent film, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sexual abuse, rape, female protagonist, religion, hippie, mind control, paranoia, brainwashing, family drama, manipulation, character study, obsession ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: connecticut, new york, new york state, usa
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 5.5
 36K
Wrong Turn (2021)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jen and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course—and cross into land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden community of mountain dwellers who use deadly means to ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: backwoods, lost in the woods, murder, abduction, cannibalism, forest, community, cannibal, hunter, escape, fear, characters killed one by one ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: west virginia, virginia, appalachia
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Satanic Panic (2019)
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: horror comedy, psychological, slasher, dark comedy, disturbing ...
Audience: date night
Plot: satanic cult, coven, satanist, virgin, loss of virginity, cancer, loss of daughter, satanic ritual, satanism, curse, violence, exploitation ...
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 7.2
 102K
Videodrome (1983)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, disturbing, psychological, cerebral ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, body horror, hallucination, surrealism, television, mind control, virtual reality, insanity, suicide, brainwashing, dystopia, mind game ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place: pittsburgh, toronto ontario canada, usa, malaysia, canada ...
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 2.8
 2K
Snuff (1975)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada, Argentina
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The followers of a charismatic cult leader set out to murder a pregnant actress.
Style: grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: psychopath, biker, murder, lust, sexual promiscuity, filmmaking, sadism, graphic violence, rape, voyeur, promiscuity, cult leader ...
Time: 70s
Place: argentina, latin america
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