| The OA (2016) | 7.8 | |
| The Crimson Rivers (2000) | 6.9 | |
| Maze (2007) | 7.5 | |
| Gondhal (2025) | 9.2 | |
| Rona (2025) | 8.9 |
Ritual movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant ritual movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, scary, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing and weird films and TV shows about / with ritual, supernatural, occult, murder, folk horror, female nudity, macabre, blood, cult and death 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 ritual: Midsommar (2019), A Dark Song (2016), The Ritual (2017), The Green Inferno (2013), The Wicker Man (1973), Ready or Not (2019), Hereditary (2018), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), The Bride (2017), The Other Lamb (2019).
Best films
New films
| Rona (2025) | 8.9 | |
| Nahual (2025) | 3.5 | |
| GodHead (2026) | ||
| Bring Her Back (2025) | 7.1 | |
| Dashavatar (2025) | 7.7 |
List of ritual movies
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: Drama, Horror
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.
Style:
suspense, exciting, disturbing, spooky, suspenseful ...
Plot:
occult, ritual, black magic, occult ritual, demon, angel, paranormal phenomena, supernatural power, female protagonist, folk horror, supernatural, paranormal activity ...
Place:
ireland, wales
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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
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Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: Chile, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of student activists travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest. However, once they arrive in this vast green landscape, they soon discover that they are not alone… and that no good deed goes unpunished.
Style:
bloody, scary, disturbing, brutal, slasher ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
jungle, cannibal, cannibalism, torture, gory, eating human flesh, sadistic horror, survival, ant, decapitation, sadistic violence, amazon ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
south america, peru, america, chile, latin america ...
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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
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230K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A bride's wedding night takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws force her to take part in a terrifying game.
Style:
horror comedy, scary, suspense, brutal, dark comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
game, rite, satanic cult, hide and seek, ritual, wedding, pursuit, family curse, fiancee, murder, woman kills a man, twists and turns ...
Time:
2010s, year 1989, year 2019, 80s
Place:
illinois, canada
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448K
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, satanic, psychological, demonic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dysfunctional family, fear, supernatural horror, supernatural, occult, demon, grief, trauma, seance, ghost, attic, possession ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
utah, america
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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
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
This is a story of a small town girl named Nastya. Her newly married husband Ivan drives her to his hometown to meet his family. Upon their arrival Nastya feels she made a wrong decision: she is surrounded by weird people and she sees creepy photos ...
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, enigmatic, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
wedding, family curse, ritual, old mansion, ghost, redemption, love and romance, abduction, vengeance, paranormal, freak, apparition ...
Time:
1800s, 2010s, 19th century
Place:
russia
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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: 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 ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the 1980s, college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret.
Style:
creepy, spooky, suspenseful, frightening, gothic ...
Plot:
ritual, satanic cult, supernatural, female protagonist, macabre, satanic ritual, haunted house, devil, sacrifice, lunar eclipse, female college student, religious cult ...
Time:
80s, year 2009, year 2000, y2k, 20th century ...
Place:
new jersey, california
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12K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A frustrated, angry teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to evoke a witch to kill her mother.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, demonic, post-horror ...
Plot:
occult, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, witch, black magic, ritual, curse, folk horror, murder, woods, supernatural, mental disorder ...
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 ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, serious, scary, surreal ...
Plot:
supernatural, ritual, grief, danger, dealing with death, folk horror, occult, pagan, haunted by the past, isolation, spouse in danger, small town ...
Place:
ireland
Is relevant?
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of ...
Style:
sexy, creepy, surreal, suspense, mysterious ...
Plot:
voodoo, superstition, black magic, zombie, anthropologist, hallucination, nightmare, surrealism, buried alive, torture, supernatural, religion ...
Time:
80s, 70s, year 1978, year 1985
Place:
haiti, boston, caribbean
Is relevant?
23K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is pursued by the entire town. ...
Style:
suspense, lovecraft, surprise ending, atmospheric, satanic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
nightmare, cthulhu, body horror, small town, curses spells and rituals, chase, monster, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, supernatural, ritual, sea, sacrifice ...
Place:
spain, galicia, europe
Is relevant?
126K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Prairie Johnson, blind as a child, comes home to the community she grew up in with her sight restored. Some hail her a miracle, others a dangerous mystery, but Prairie won’t talk with the FBI or her parents about the seven years she went missing.
Style:
enigmatic, mysterious, sensual, erotic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
parallel universe, alternate dimension, captive, disappearance, mysticism, alternate reality, supernatural power, blindness, forbidden love, mysterious disappearance, ritual, supernatural ...
Time:
future
Place:
san francisco
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A fraught mother-daughter relationship is put to a terrifying test when the family patriarch dies, and the grieving mother hires a mysterious stranger to bring her husband back from the dead.
Style:
psychological horror, supernatural thriller, suspense, sinister, tension ...
Plot:
ritual, mother daughter relationship, supernatural, loss, grief, resurrection, desperation, occult, trauma, mourning, family drama, mysterious stranger ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.
Style:
psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, surprise ending, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
devil, lawyer, supernatural, pact with the devil, deal with the devil, satan, law firm, plot twist, trial, courtroom, demon, courtroom drama ...
Time:
year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, florida, southern usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Kelly, a young woman, has been plagued by nightmares of a burning man her entire life. Upon entering college, she pledges a sorority that forces them to perform an initiation night prank. With several of her friends, she breaks into a store and ...
Style:
slasher, sexy, scary, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, ritual, campus, sorority, murder, female protagonist, nightmare, prank, female nudity, secret, mental institution, danger ...
Time:
80s
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Christine gets her big chance at modelling when she applies at Sybil Waite's agency. Together with Christine's sister Betty they go to a castle for the weekend for a photo shoot. Sybil has lured Christine to the castle for more than ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, independent film ...
Plot:
witch, occult, witchcraft, lesbian incest, ritual, exploitation, curses spells and rituals, coven, virgin sacrifice, sex horror, supernatural, bare breasts ...
Time:
70s
Place:
england, london, europe
Is relevant?
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, satanic, bloody ...
Plot:
voodoo, ritual, supernatural, satanic cult, child in peril, brutality, violent, religion, murder, female nudity, animal sacrifice, folk horror ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa, minneapolis minnesota, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Horror
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Set in the Channel Islands on the eve of D Day, two Kiwi commandos, sent to destroy German gun emplacements to distract Hitler's forces away from Normandy, discover a Nazi occult plot to unleash demonic forces to win the war.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, demonic, creepy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
black magic, ritual, military, supernatural, demon, nazi occultism, world war two, occult, soldier, succubus, island, deadly creature ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place:
europe, new zealand, france
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Two years after defeating a satanic cult led by his babysitter Bee, Cole's trying to forget his past and focus on surviving high school. But when old enemies unexpectedly return, Cole will once again have to outsmart the forces of evil.
Style:
horror comedy, slasher, demonic, dark, funny ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
satanic cult, ritual, deal with the devil, supernatural horror, cheerleader, male virgin, loss of virginity, blood, husband wife relationship, murder, satanism, game ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, suspenseful, suspense, gothic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
plot twist, occult, ghost, twists and turns, voodoo, witchcraft, supernatural, supernatural horror, macabre, rite, ritual, black magic ...
Time:
2000s, year 2000, year 2005, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, southern usa
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they ...
Style:
suspense, sexy, suspenseful, serious, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, murder, investigation, police investigation, murder mystery, police officer, demon, whodunit, ritual, police detective, secret society, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, alps, france, paris france
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Follows socially awkward teenager Ryan, who discovers that the night his sister disappeared she had played ‘The Elevator Game’ — a ritual conducted in an elevator in which players attempt to travel to another dimension using a set of rules ...
Style:
bleak, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, scary ...
Plot:
elevator, ritual, supernatural, alternate dimension, monster, supernatural horror, urban legend, supernatural being, curses spells and rituals, superhuman powers, another dimension, supernatural power ...
Time:
2020s
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, India
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Grieving over the loss of her son, a mother struggles with her feelings for her daughter and her husband. She seeks out a ritual that allows her say goodbye to her dead child, opening the veil between the world of the dead and the living. Her ...
Style:
spooky, suspenseful, bleak, rough, scary ...
Plot:
shaman, evil spirit, ghost, nightmare, death, car accident, temple, death of son, supernatural, suicide attempt, drowning, exhumation ...
Place:
india
Is relevant?
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Karn, and Amy Locane star in this supernatural horror tale about a mummy with a heart that bears a power beyond that of our world. When the mummy attacks archaeologist Dr. Trelawny, his colleagues have to trace the source ...
Style:
independent film, gothic, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic ...
Plot:
mummy, egyptology, ritual, curse, murder, supernatural, ruby, blood, reincarnation, resurrection, coma, monster ...
Time:
90s
Place:
egypt, california, san francisco, africa, usa ...
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