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1. The House That Jack Built (2018)
R | 152 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
In five episodes, failed architect and vicious sociopath Jack recounts his elaborately orchestrated murders -- each, as he views them, a towering work of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer in the Pacific Northwest.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman, Siobhan Fallon Hogan
Votes: 92,180 | Gross: $0.09M
2. The Curse of La Llorona (2019)
R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her own small kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm.
Director: Michael Chaves | Stars: Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velasquez, Marisol Ramirez
Votes: 57,733 | Gross: $54.73M
3. A Dark Song (2016)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
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.
Director: Liam Gavin | Stars: Steve Oram, Catherine Walker, Susan Loughnane, Mark Huberman
Votes: 21,442
4. The White Ribbon (2009)
R | 144 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur
Votes: 77,700 | Gross: $2.22M
5. The Message (1976)
PG | 177 min | Biography, Drama, History
This epic historical drama chronicles the life and times of Prophet Muhammad and serves as an introduction to early Islamic history.
Director: Moustapha Akkad | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Michael Ansara, Johnny Sekka
Votes: 50,875
6. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
R | 120 min | Biography, Drama
A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.
Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Hiroshi Mikami, Junya Fukuda
Votes: 13,809 | Gross: $0.44M
7. The Believers (1987)
R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Cal Jamison, a police psychologist, is forced to deal with a series of ritualistic murders and a malevolent cult.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Martin Sheen, Helen Shaver, Harley Cross, Robert Loggia
Votes: 8,118 | Gross: $18.75M
8. Angela (1995)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama
Rebecca Miller's riveting drama examines how two sisters cope with their mother's mental illness.
Director: Rebecca Miller | Stars: Miranda Rhyne, Charlotte Eve Blythe, Anna Thomson, John Ventimiglia
Votes: 1,059
9. Amen. (2002)
Not Rated | 132 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Michel Duchaussoy
Votes: 14,982 | Gross: $0.27M
10. God on Trial (2008 TV Movie)
86 min | Drama, War
Awaiting their inevitable deaths at one of the worst concentration camps, a group of Jews make a rabbinical court to decide whether God has gone against the Holy Covenant and if He is the one guilty for their suffering.
Director: Andy De Emmony | Stars: Joseph Muir, Josef Altin, Ashley Artus, Alexi Kaye Campbell
Votes: 3,915
11. The Rape of Europa (2006)
Unrated | 117 min | Documentary, History, War
The story of Nazi Germany's plundering of Europe's great works of art during World War II and Allied efforts to minimize the damage.
Directors: Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, Nicole Newnham | Stars: Joan Allen, E. Randol Schoenberg, Maria Altmann, Wolfgang Fischer
Votes: 1,659
12. Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster (1965)
Unrated | 79 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A Martian princess and a doctor replace the women on Mars, destroyed by atomic war, by raiding Puerto Rico while a shot down android terrorizes all.
Director: Robert Gaffney | Stars: Marilyn Hanold, James Karen, Lou Cutell, Nancy Marshall
Votes: 1,795
13. The Great Journey (2004)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Romance
Reda, a young French-Moroccan guy and his old father drive from the south of France to Mecca in order for the father to do his pilgrimage. At first distant, they gradually learn to know each other.
Director: Ismaël Ferroukhi | Stars: Nicolas Cazalé, Mohamed Majd, Jacky Nercessian, Ghina Ognianova
Votes: 2,572
14. Ga-Rei-Zero (2008– )
TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Action, Drama
Follows two friends, daughters of exorcists, who are now members of the government's secret Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Division that fights demons when they appear in Japan.
Stars: Minori Chihara, Kaoru Mizuhara, Shin'ya Takahashi, Alexis Tipton
Votes: 778
15. Against the sky Supreme (2021– )
10 min | Animation, Action, Drama
The entire universe is divided into the inner universe and the outer universe. The two universes are enemies of each other. The outer universe is ruled by demons, and the inner universe is ... See full summary »
Votes: 100
16. Spit and Ashes (2019)
73 min | Fantasy, Mystery
Spit and Ashes is a reimagining of the historical violence waged against women by patriarchal forces in the name of religion, medicine and family. The High Priestess embodies the wild, ... See full summary »
Director: Maria Beatty | Stars: Sadie Lune, Dion de Rossi, Daniel Maszkowicz
Votes: 14
17. Khawatir (2005–2015)
TV-14 | 25 min | Family, Reality-TV, Sci-Fi
A TV show devoted to help young people to be mature in their faith, work, and knowledge.
Star: Ahmad Al Shugairi
Votes: 4,363
18. Silent Möbius (1998)
TV-PG | 30 min | Animation, Action, Crime
A team of policewomen with supernatural powers try to protect the Earth from an alien invasion known as the Lucifer Hawks.
Stars: Naoko Matsui, Hiromi Tsuru, Chieko Honda, Maya Okamoto
Votes: 191
19. How We Breathe (1920)
8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Animated scientific diagrams show how oxygen is carried to cells in the human body (and carbon dioxide is carried away) through blood vessels, and how blood is pumped by the heart and purified by the lungs.
Director: Jacob Leventhal
20. Water Woman (2012)
3 min | Short, Drama
Shoshanna Gleich's answer to her prayer on how to make a contribution to protecting water. The poem and dance on rollers skates by water as Water Woman is the answer to Shoshanna's prayer.
Director: Shoshanna Gleich | Star: Shoshanna Gleich
21. Action of the Heart (1919)
5 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Animated diagrams illustrate the biological functions of the human heart and the circulatory system.
22. Devotion (IV) (2022)
Not Rated | 7 min | Short, Horror
When a disillusioned priest sacrifices members of his congregation over Easter weekend, his latest victim will need more than faith to survive.
Director: Jacob Byrd | Stars: Marc Sylwestrzak, Melissa Browne, Chelsea Newell, Floyd Strayer
23. Purification (2013)
5 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
Seville, December 2008. Cardinale Alessandro Zacchia II decided to purify a young Polish nun to free her from her sinful past.
Director: Monika K. Adler | Stars: David Lucas, Barbara Sierant
24. Involuntary Memory (2014)
4 min | Short
The descendant of a Gulag internee undergoes repressed trauma borne from a history of genocide across generations. He attempts to exorcise the still present collective memory through a disturbing re-enactment.
Director: Monika K. Adler | Star: Aeon Rose
25. Water from the Sun: The Coober Pedy Solar Still (1967)
15 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Nicholas Alexander | Star: Roger Neill Morse
27. Purification
Documentary | Filming
"Purification" is a beautiful emotional journey about humanity that wants to make their life more comfortable and joyful throughout its history, but when the rapacity controls man, the ... See full summary »
Director: Seg Kirakossian
28.
Monsters (1988–1990)
Episode:
Sin-Sop
(1990)
TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A nice, young, southern faith healer uses the miraculous cleansing ability of the corpse of the most evil man in the world to run a small, popular, sin-extraction business. A female reporter and a cynical psycho-killer try to debunk him.
Director: P.J. Pesce | Stars: Richard Borg, Christine Dunford, Christopher Shaw, Charlotte Booker
Votes: 84
29.
The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode:
The Grell
(1999)
TV-PG | 44 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An alien slave belonging to the species Grell rescues his owner's family after their plane is shot down in an attack by the Grell rebellion.
Director: Jorge Montesi | Stars: Ted Shackelford, Maurice Dean Wint, Britt McKillip, Blair Slater
Votes: 245
30.
Rituals of the World (2018–2020)
Episode:
Peru: Masters of Chaos
(2020)
TV-PG | 27 min | Documentary, Adventure
Follow Jenny, a young woman who has crossed Peru to ask the sacred lakes to heal her medical issue. For seven centuries, shamans have drawn their power to heal from the Huaringas, sacred lagoons located on the border of Peru and Ecuador.
Director: Agnès Molia | Star: Anne-Sylvie Malbrancke
31.
Architecture et géographie sacrée (1978–1985)
Episode:
Le serpent à plumes et les peuples du cinquième soleil
(1985)
54 min | Documentary
Director: Paul Barbaneagra | Star: Michel Bouquet
32.
Architecture et géographie sacrée (1978–1985)
Episode:
Osiris: Dieu de la résurrection
(1985)
49 min | Documentary
Director: Paul Barbaneagra | Star: Michel Bouquet
33.
NurdRage (2009– )
Episode:
Make Dioxane from Antifreeze
(2017)
10 min | Documentary
Dioxane can be made by the dehydration of ethylene glycol commonly found in antifreeze. However, a number of side products are created in the reaction so most of the effort comes in the ... See full summary »
Star: NurdRage
34.
Sam and Colby: The Paranormal (2015– )
Episode:
The Whaley: USA's Most Haunted House
(2023)
Not Rated | 69 min | Adventure, History, Horror
On a brand new epic year, the team investigates the haunted and historical Whaley House. A house with a dark history of theft, marriage and suicide. Also, a prediction of an epic new season for the franchise.
Directors: Colby Brock, Sam Golbach | Stars: Sam Golbach, Colby Brock, Brian Awadis, Lexi Hensler
Votes: 8
35.
Star Wars: Visions (2021– )
Episode:
Aau's Song
(2023)
TV-PG | 15 min | Animation, Short, Action
An alien child who longs to sing is raised by her loving, but stern father to stay quiet because of the calamitous effect her voice has on the crystals in the nearby mines.
Directors: Daniel Clarke, Nadia Darries | Stars: Mpilo Jantjie, Dineo du Toit, Tumisho Masha, Cynthia Erivo
Votes: 1,511