Highest-Rated Movies about 'Cult Leader', Sort by Popularity

Kiss of Evil (1963), Rabbit (2017), Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006), Night of the Demon (1957), Meetings With Remarkable Men (1979), The Master (2012), Colonia (2015), Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Cult Leader movies.

#16. Crying Freeman (1995)

Storyline: A lethal assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, is seen swiftly and mercilessly executing three Yakuza gangsters by a beautiful artist. She is captivated by the grace of his kill and later falls in love with him. An intense power struggle for the leadership of the Yakuza Clans ensues as they seek vengeance for the death of their leader. They soon realise the fatal mistake of underestimating the deadly skills of the Crying Freeman.

Plot Keywords: artist, killer, cult leader, assassin, police captain, brutal, profound ...

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#17. The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)

Storyline: The dysfunctional twenty-three-year-old Sarah takes her six-year-old natural son Jeremiah from the home of his beloved foster parents with the support of the social service to live with her. Along the years, the boy shares her insane and low lifestyle and is introduced to booze and drugs and mentally, physically and sexually abused by Sarah, her lovers and her religiously fanatic family.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: drug addict, son, boyfriend, truck driver, cult leader, teenage mother, chilling ...

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#18. The Mummy Returns (2001)

Storyline: Many years ago, in Ancient Egypt, the Scorpion King led a menacing army, but when he sold his soul to Anubis, he was erased from history. Now he is only a myth...or is he? Rick and Evelyn O'Connell are still discovering new artifacts, along with their 8 year old son Alex. They discover the Bracelet of Anubis. But someone else is after the bracelet. High Priest Imhotep has been brought back from the dead once again and wants the bracelet, to control the Scorpion King's army. That's not the only problem. Imhotep now has Alex and with the bracelet attached to him, doesn't have long to live.

Plot Keywords: explorer, wife, son, mummy, king, cult leader, suspenseful ...

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#19. Apostle (2018)

Storyline: The year is 1905. Thomas Richardson travels to a remote island to rescue his sister after she's kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult demanding a ransom for her safe return. It soon becomes clear that the cult will regret the day it baited this man, as he digs deeper and deeper into the secrets and lies upon which the commune is built.

Plot Keywords: sister, cult leader, cult member, murderer, brother, brutal, gory ...

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#21. Lord of Illusions (1995)

Storyline: During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult, who are waiting for the resurrection of their leader Nix. 13 years ago, Nix was gunned down by his best trainee Swann. In the meantime Swann is advanced to a popular illusionist like David Copperfield and is married to the charming Dorothea. She hires D'Amour to protect Swann against the evil cult members. A short time later Swann is killed by one of his own tricks and the occurrences are turning over, and it crackles between Dorothea and D'Amour.

Plot Keywords: magician, mentor, wife, private investigator, cult leader, young boy, suspenseful ...

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#22. The Lodge (2019)

Storyline: A soon-to-be-stepmom is snowed in with her fiance's two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations finally begin to thaw between the trio, strange and frightening events threaten to summon psychological demons from her strict religious childhood.—Callum Price

Plot Keywords: father, girlfriend, young boy, young girl, cult leader, bleak, brooding ...

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#25. Charlie Says (2018)

Storyline: Three young women were sentenced to death in the infamous Manson murder case, but when the death penalty was lifted, their sentence became life imprisonment. One young graduate student was sent in to teach them - and through her we witness their transformations as they face the reality of their horrific crimes.—Guinevere Turner

Plot Keywords: murderer, graduate student, cult leader, cult member, victim, bleak, uneasy ...

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#27. Bad Dreams (1988)

Storyline: In the mid-'70s, a cult group called Unity Field commits mass suicide, but a young girl survives. After being in a coma for thirteen years she wakes up in a psyche ward, not remembering the incident. The psychiatrist tries to help her remember, but she begins seeing the leader of the cult talking to her from the grave, and the other members of her therapy group begin to commit suicide around her. Or is it suicide?—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>

Plot Keywords: young woman, cult leader, psychologist, survivor, detective, friend, gory ...

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#29. Crimes of the Mind (2014)

Storyline: The true story of Carolyn's Raeburn's daughter who graduated from high school at the age of 16. Laura was bright, popular and enthusiastic about the future, but the summer before she was to begin college, an event occurred changing forever the lives of her and her family. Laura visited a boarding ranch in the country to learn horseback riding. And there, she entered a world dominated by a strange and fearsome woman who took control of Laura's mind. She was groomed to replace the woman's dead daughter. Carolyn spent the next five years of her life, much of her sanity and more than half a million dollars to get her daughter back.—anonymous

Plot Keywords: woman, kidnapped child, kidnapper, mother, cult leader, intense, disturbing ...

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#30. The Cliff (2016)

Storyline: Gabriel is a Assistant District Attorney from Bilbao, Basque Country (north to Spain) whose happy life with his work and his wife Patricia shakes after to receive a calling where he is noticed that his younger sister, Cordelia, has died after a mass suicide of a sect who lived in the island of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, who jump of a cliff to crash against the sea. Moving to the island, Gabriel meets Helena, Cordelia's friend and former housemate, because the two are required to identify the only one corpse not identified clearly. Realizing that Cordelia isn't the corpse they see, Gabriel moves to Helena's house in order to wait news from Inspector Santana, a woman very implicated in the investigation after the disappearance of a cop who she secretly infiltrated in the sect to find evidences of illegal activities. But tired of the waiting, Gabriel and Helena decide investigate by their own risk the sect and their members, trying to discover what caused the suicide and if Cordelia could be still alive...—Chockys

Plot Keywords: lawyer, sister, cult member, cult leader, suicidal person, thrilling, engaging ...

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