Highest-Rated Movies about 'Witch Hunt', Sort by Popularity

Hagazussa: A Heathen's Curse (2017), The Conqueror Worm (1968), Halloweentown (1998), Stree (2018), The Haunted Palace (1963), The Wretched (2019), The Advocate (1993), Poor Butterfly (1986) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Witch Hunt movies.

#2. The Conqueror Worm (1968)

Storyline: A disturbing tale of evil set during the English Civil War. When Matthew Hopkins is appointed Witchfinder General by the Puritans under Cromwell, he is empowered to travel the countryside with his henchmen and collect a fee for each witch from whom he extracts a confession - a policy which is exploited to the full.

Plot Keywords: witch, priest, henchman, villager, dark, creepy, gripping ...

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#4. Stree (2018)

Storyline: Chanderi village is haunted for years by a witch whose called as Stree. She abducts men in dark leaving their clothes behind during the four day annual festival. Vicky young and handsome village tailor disbelief's these stories. He meets an Unnamed women whose in the village every year during the festival. Vicky and the women start getting close to each other. But his friends Jaana and Bitu get suspicious that till date only Vicky has seen the women and believe that she could be Stree.

Plot Keywords: witch, woman, man, airy, charming, dark, india ...

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#7. The Advocate (1993)

Storyline: Hoping to escape the complications of 15th-century Paris, young lawyer Richard Courtois (Colin Firth) takes a job as a public defender in a rural area. There he finds himself defending a pig accused of murdering a Jewish boy. Squaring off against a determined prosecutor (Donald Pleasence) and Catholic priest (Ian Holm), Richard defends the animal, which is owned by a beautiful gypsy woman, Samira (Amina Annabi). The medieval justice system and local superstitions mingle as the case plays out.

Plot Keywords: public defender, lord, catholic priest, gypsy, prosecutor, daughter, quirky ...

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#8. Poor Butterfly (1986)

Storyline: In May of 1945, the news of the fall of Berlin spread to Buenos Aires. Clara is the daughter of a socialist leader named Boris who has died unexpectedly. As Clara learns more about a father she hardly knew, she finds out slowly about his political involvement during the war. There is some unrest in Argentina, and soon, not even Clara's life is free from danger.—Geoffrey Skinner <gskinner@stanford.edu>

Plot Keywords: jew, nazi, socialist, father, dark, shocking, emotional ...

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#9. Yaaba (1989)

Storyline: A small village in Burkina Faso. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her 'Witch' but Bila himself calls her 'Yaaba' (grandmother). When Bila's cousin Nopoko gets sick it is Sana's medicine who saves her.—Mattias Thuresson

Plot Keywords: elderly woman, boy, witch, villager, cousin, medicine man, endearing ...

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#10. The Crucible (1996)

Storyline: A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved. Thrown into the mix are greedy preachers and other major landowners trying to steal others' land and one young woman infatuated with a married man and determined to get rid of his innocent wife. Arthur Miller wrote the events and the subsequent trials where those who demanded their innocence were executed, those who would not name names were incarcerated and tortured, and those who admitted their guilt were immediately freed as a parable of the Congressional Communist witch hunts led by Senator Joe McCarthy in 1950's America.

Plot Keywords: husband, wife, lover, young woman, judge, friend, emotional ...

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#11. The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)

Storyline: In the XVIII Century, in the countryside of England, the landsman Ralph Gower finds a skull with one eye and fur on the field. He summons the local judge to see his finding but it has disappeared. Meanwhile the local Peter Edmonton brings his fiancée Rosalind Barton to his aunt's house to marry her on the next day. However during the night Rosalind becomes insane and in the morning she is sent to an asylum and Peter sees a claw that has replaced her hand. Then Peter wakes up with a claw attacking him and he cuts it out, but he finds that he has hacked down his own hand. The local children have a strange behavior under the command of Angel Blake and they rape and kill others. In common, they have a strange fur on their skin. The judge returns from London and concludes that evil has possessed the children. What will he and his search party do?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: teen girl, judge, reverend, father, mother, boy, frightening ...

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#13. Warlock (1989)

Storyline: In Boston of 1691, a warlock is sentenced to death, but escapes magically into the future (our present), followed doggedly by the witch hunter. There he is searching for the three parts of the Devil's Bible, trailed by the witch hunter and the woman whose house he landed in. They must stop him, as the book contains the true name of God, which he can use to un-create the world.

Plot Keywords: warlock, hunter, young woman, roommate, psychic, creepy, suspenseful ...

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#15. Love at Stake (1988)

Storyline: The mayor and judge of Salem trump up the notorious witch trials in support of their land grab scam. The local clergy pursue justice, while the assistant minister also pursues the town baker, Sara Lee. The action is spiced up by pot-smoking Indians, female New England clam chowder wrestling, and the mischief of a real witch.—<rth@ece.arizona.edu>

Plot Keywords: assistant, mother, native american, witch, judge, wild, hilarious ...

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