The Ballad of Narayama (1983), Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011), Blade (1998), Wheel of Time (2003), The Plague of the Zombies (1966), The Craft (1996), His Majesty O'Keefe (1953), 47 Ronin (2013) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Ritual movies.
Storyline: In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse he or she would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: grandmother, son, elderly woman, wife, shocking, chilling, moving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.
Plot Keywords: death, samurai, lord, suspenseful, japan, courtyard, ritual ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a world where vampires walk the earth, Blade has a goal. His goal is to rid the world of all vampire evil. When Blade witnesses a vampire bite Dr. Karen Jenson, he fights away the beast and takes Jenson back to his hideout. Here, alongside Abraham Whistler, Blade attempts to help heal Jenson. The vampire Quinn who was attacked by Blade, reports back to his master Deacon Frost, who is planning a huge surprise for the human population.
Plot Keywords: vampire, vampire hunter, mentor, mother, love interest, doctor, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog's photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India.
Plot Keywords: werner herzog, buddhist, filmmaker, emotional, india, tibet, time ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Young workers are dying because of a mysterious epidemic in a little village in Cornwall. Doctor Thompson is helpless and asks professor James Forbes for help. The professor and his daughter Sylvia travel to Thomson. Terrible things happen soon, beyond imagination or reality. Dead people are seen near an old, unused mine. Late people seem to live suddenly. Professor Forbes presumes that black magic is involved and someone has extraordinary power. He doesn't know how close he is: the dead become alive because of a magic voodoo-ritual, and so they must serve their master as mindless zombies...—Matthias Luehr <mluehr@htwm.de>
Plot Keywords: zombie, villager, doctor, squire, engaging, suspenseful, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A new girl moves to a new city with her family to start a new life. She meets up with the girls who are very interested in the occult and together, the four of them have a seemingly unstopable power. They can do anything, from getting thier dream guys to like them to... the possibilities are limitless.
Plot Keywords: witch, high-school student, abused woman, suicidal person, friend, psychic, chilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1870, Yankee sea captain O'Keefe finds himself stranded after a mutiny on the Micronesian island of Yap, where the financial potential of copra (dried cocoanut) excites him. But a German company already has a monopoly...and very low production because hard work is alien to dwellers in paradise. On a later voyage, between affairs with island maidens, O'Keefe struggles to find the key to the wealth of Yap. But before he can carve out the empire of his dreams, he must also contend with assorted villains...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: sea captain, trader, medicine man, chief, slave trader, love interest, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: While hunting in the forest, Lord Asano of Ako and his samurai find a young half-breed and take him with them to live in the castle. Several years later, Lord Asano holds a tournament to welcome the Shogun to Ako. The night after the tournament, Lord Asano is bewitched into hurting Lord Kira of Nagato, and is punished into committing seppuku by the Shogun. Realizing that it was a Lord Kira's evil plot, the samurais and the half-breed sets out for revenge against the Shogun's order.
Plot Keywords: lord, warrior, outcast, love interest, daughter, emotional, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sophia Howard rents a house in the countryside of Wales and hires the occultist Joseph Solomon to contact her son that was kidnapped and murdered by teenagers practicing black magic. Along the days, Sophia follows the guidance of Solomon in rituals to purify her soul. However Sophia has a hidden agenda that jeopardizes their lives.
Plot Keywords: occultist, grieving mother, dead person, bleak, brooding, chilling, creepy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On his deathbed, the reigning king bestows power to an unexpected heir who must find strength within himself to unite his people against the violent crusades which threaten their freedom.
Plot Keywords: pagan, king, heir, pope, queen, rival, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In order to get rain for the arid region in Rajasthan, India, two royal families, from Mirtagarh and Surjangarh, have come together with their warriors, and fought with each other annually, with the winner getting the honor to sacrifice a baby buffalo. When England returned Jaswant Singh comes home with his caucasian wife, he is appalled at the slaughter and warlike conditions. But fate binds him that he is also to continue the family tradition, and as a result his wife leaves him. Years later, children from both these royal families return from England, and are friends with each other. Vinay is friendly with Vikram, and wants to wed Neelima. Will these young people succeed in stopping this bloodshed, and put an end to this rivalry, or will they also be fated to continue this deadly tradition.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
Plot Keywords: young man, best friend, cousin, uncle, minister, love interest, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A frustrated, angst-ridden teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to evoke a witch to kill her mother.
Plot Keywords: teen girl, mother, demon, evil spirit, brash, chilling, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jonathan Drake, while attending his brother's funeral, is shocked to find the head of the deceased is missing. When his brother's skull shows up later in a locked cabinet, Drake realizes an ancient curse placed upon his grandfather by a tribe of South American Jivaro Indians is still in effect and that he himself is the probable next victim. That night he is awakened by the approach of an Indian, his lips sewed together with string, and wielding a curare-tipped bamboo knife.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: anthropologist, scientist, brother, native, tribesman, chilling, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On Christmas Eve, in the Styxx Club in Paris, the troublemaker Bart and his scum friends, Thaï and Ladj, meet the bartender Yasmine and the customer Eve, and after a fight of Bart in the nightclub, Eve invites the group to go to her house in the country. While on the road near the cottage, they are introduced by Eve to the weird shepherd and housekeeper, Joseph, whose wife is pregnant. Joseph feels a sort of attraction for Bart, and during this Christmas night, Joseph discloses his real intentions.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: priest, satan, gory, sultry, frightening, paris, country house ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Still grieving the death of nine-year-old Alice - their only child - at the jaws of a crazed dog, vet Patrick and pharmacist Louise relocate to the remote town of Wake Wood where they learn of a pagan ritual that will allow them three more days with Alice. The couple find the idea disturbing and exciting in equal measure, but once they agree terms with Arthur, the village's leader, a far bigger question looms - what will they do when it's time for Alice to go back?—Bloody-Disgusting.com
Plot Keywords: mother, father, daughter, dog, village elder, dark, eerie ...
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