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.

#3. Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006)

Storyline: Featuring never-before-seen footage, this documentary delivers a startling new look at the Peoples Temple, headed by preacher Jim Jones who, in 1978, led more than 900 members to Guyana, where he orchestrated a mass suicide via tainted punch.

Plot Keywords: cult leader, minister, survivor, cult member, shocking, disturbing, dark ...

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#4. Night of the Demon (1957)

Storyline: Dr. John Holden ventures to London to attend a paranormal psychology symposium with the intention to expose devil cult leader Julian Karswell. Holden is a skeptic and does not believe in Karswell's power. Nonetheless, he accepts an invitation to stay at Karswell's estate, along with Joanna Harrington, niece of Holden's confidant who was electrocuted in a bizarre automobile accident. Karswell secretly slips a parchment into Holden's papers that might possibly be a death curse. Recurring strange events finally strike fear into Holden, who believes that his only hope is to pass the parchment back to Karswell to break the demonic curse.

Plot Keywords: professor, psychologist, niece, skeptic, cult leader, devil worshipper, creepy ...

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#5. Meetings With Remarkable Men (1979)

Storyline: The story of G.I. Gurdjieff and his travels to achieve enlightenment and inner growth. Beginning with his childhood, the movie follows his journeys through Central Asia as he discovers new levels of spirituality through music, dance and near-encounters with death.—Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>

Plot Keywords: mystic, prince, teacher, student, cult leader, passionate, intense ...

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#7. Colonia (2015)

Storyline: Lena and Daniel, a young couple become entangled in the Chilean military coup of 1973. Daniel is abducted by Pinochet's secret police and Lena tracks him to a sealed off area in the South of the country, called Colonia Dignidad. The Colonia presents itself as a charitable mission run by lay preacher Paul Schäfer but, in fact, is a place nobody ever escaped from. Lena decides to join the cult in order to find Daniel. Based on true events.

Plot Keywords: prisoner, cult leader, young woman, love interest, militant, rebel, bleak ...

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#8. Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)

Storyline: Martha has run away from an abusive hippie-like cult where she was living as Marcy May for two years. She turns to her sister and brother-in-law who take her in and want to help her. The problem is Martha is having a hard time separating dreams from reality and when haunting memories of her past keep resurfacing, she may need more help than anyone is able to give her.

Plot Keywords: cult member, sister, brother-in-law, cult leader, runaway, suspenseful, thrilling ...

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#9. The Bride With White Hair (1993)

Storyline: The sensitive swordsman Cho Yi-Hang is tired of his life. He is the unwilling successor to the Wu-Tang clan throne and the unsure commander of the clan's forces in a war against foreign tribes and an evil cult. One day, he meets the beautiful Lien, a killer for the evil cult who is equally unsatisfied with her situation, but their love angers both the Wu-Tang clan and the evil cult.—Erik Gregersen <erik@astro.as.utexas.edu>

Plot Keywords: swordsman, warrior, twin, cult leader, witch, sorcerer, striking ...

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#10. Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)

Storyline: Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Rowe) and John Watson (Alan Cox) meet as boys in an English Boarding school. Holmes is known for his deductive ability even as a youth, amazing his classmates with his abilities. When they discover a plot to murder a series of British business men by an Egyptian cult, they move to stop it.

Plot Keywords: detective, friend, professor, cult leader, inventor, granddaughter, frenetic ...

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#11. The Devil's Own (1966)

Storyline: Gwen Mayfield (Joan Fontaine) suffers a mental collapse after a showdown with a witch doctor while performing missionary work in Africa. Once she recuperates, she starts teaching at a private school in England and gets to know Linda (Ingrid Brett), one of her students. Linda's boyfriend claims that there is a cult that is going to sacrifice her, and Gwen begins to investigate the wild rumors. This leads her to a confrontation with powerful cult leader Stephanie Bax (Kay Walsh).

Plot Keywords: headmistress, journalist, cult leader, brother, witch doctor, teen girl, creepy ...

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#12. Mandy (2018)

Storyline: Taking place in 1983, Red is a lumberjack who lives in a secluded cabin in the woods. His artist girlfriend Mandy spends her days reading fantasy paperbacks. Then one day, she catches the eye of a crazed cult leader, who conjures a group of motorcycle-riding demons to kidnap her. Red, armed with a crossbow and custom Axe, stops at nothing to get her back, leaving a bloody, brutal pile of bodies in his wake.

Plot Keywords: outcast, cult leader, cult member, couple, kidnapper, brutal, tense ...

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#13. The Mechanic (2011)

Storyline: Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham) is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code and unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. It's a job that requires professional perfection and total detachment, and Bishop is the best in the business. But when his mentor and close friend Harry (Donald Sutherland) is murdered, Bishop is anything but detached. His next assignment is self-imposed - he wants those responsible dead. His mission grows complicated when Harry's son Steve (Ben Foster) approaches him with the same vengeful goal and a determination to learn Bishop's trade. Bishop has always acted alone but he can't turn his back on Harry's son. A methodical hit man takes an impulsive student deep into his world and a deadly partnership is born. But while in pursuit of their ultimate mark, deceptions threaten to surface and those hired to fix problems become problems themselves.

Plot Keywords: assassin, mentor, son, boss, cult leader, mobster, disturbing ...

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#14. Sound of My Voice (2011)

Storyline: Two documentary filmmakers are determined to expose the truth about Maggie, the mysterious leader of a secretive cult who claims to be from the year 2054. Although they believe that everything is nothing more than a fraud, the filmmakers end up driven by her charisma.

Plot Keywords: documentarian, filmmaker, cult leader, follower, fascinating, disturbing, los angeles ...

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#15. The Endless (2017)

Storyline: This mind-bending thriller follows two brothers who receive a cryptic video message inspiring them to revisit the UFO death cult they escaped a decade earlier. Hoping to find the closure that they couldn't as young men, they're forced to reconsider the cult's beliefs when confronted with unexplainable phenomena surrounding the camp. As the members prepare for the coming of a mysterious event, the brothers race to unravel the seemingly impossible truth before their lives become permanently entangled with the cult.

Plot Keywords: brother, cult leader, cult member, creature, camper, chilling, dark ...

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