Demon (2015), Beyond the Hills (2012), Into Great Silence (2005), Harakiri (1962), Baraka (1992), The Nun (1966), Mishima (1985), The Holy Mountain (1973) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Ritual movies.
Storyline: Maria is 14 years old. Her family is part of a fundamentalist Catholic community. Maria lives her everyday life in the modern world, yet her heart belongs to Jesus. She wants to follow him, to become a saint and go to heaven - just like all those holy children she's always been told about. So Maria goes through 14 stations, just like Jesus did on his path to Golgatha, and reaches her goal in the end. Not even Christian, a boy she meets at school, can stop her, even if in another world, they might have become friends, or even more. Left behind is a broken family that finds comfort in faith, and the question if all these events were really so inevitable. STATIONS OF THE CROSS is an indictment and, at the same time, the legend of a saint. It's a story of religion, devotion and radical faith, and the film itself comes along just as radical as the subject matter, telling the story in only 14 fixed-angle long shots, allowing the viewer to contemplate the interactions on screen in an entirely different way than in a traditional film.—German Films Quarterly 1/2014
Plot Keywords: religion, faith, sacrifice, family, morality, extremism, catholicism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After his wife, Alice, tells him about her sexual fantasies, William Harford sets out for a night of sexual adventure. After several less than successful encounters, he meets an old friend, Nick Nightingale - now a musician - who tells him of strange sex parties when he is required to play the piano blindfolded. All the men at the party are costumed and wear masks while the women are all young and beautiful. Harford manages to find an appropriate costume and heads out to the party. Once there, however, he is warned by someone who recognizes him, despite the mask, that he is in great danger. He manages to extricate himself but the threats prove to be quite real and sinister.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, erotic, marital crisis, sexual fantasy, mystery, surrealism, jealousy ...
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: revenge, honor, tragedy, moral dilemma, family, loyalty, sacrifice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A comedy concert film that captures the on-stage performance and inspirational success story of Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias.
Plot Keywords: dance, coming of age, adolescence, identity, female, mystery, ritual ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.
Plot Keywords: documentary, experimental film, visual poetry, globalization, social change, modernity, urban life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When her mentally ill mother passes away, a woman named Annie (Toni Collette) and her husband (Gabriel Byrne), son (Alex Wolff) and daughter (Milly Shapiro) all mourn her loss. The family turn to different means to handle their grief, including Annie and her daughter both flirting with the supernatural. They each begin to have disturbing, otherworldly experiences linked to the sinister secrets and emotional trauma that have been passed through the generations of their family.
Plot Keywords: horror, psychological thriller, supernatural, family tragedy, cult, demonic possession, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During the dead of winter, a troubled young woman (Emma Roberts) embarks on a mysterious journey to an isolated prep school where two stranded students (Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Boynton) face a sinister threat from an unseen evil force.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, supernatural, demonic, possession, mystery, psychological horror ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) are a young American couple with a relationship on the brink of falling apart. But after a family tragedy keeps them together, a grieving Dani invites herself to join Christian and his friends on a trip to a once-in-a-lifetime midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village. What begins as a carefree summer holiday in a land of eternal sunlight takes a sinister turn when the insular villagers invite their guests to partake in festivities that render the pastoral paradise increasingly unnerving and viscerally disturbing.—A24 Releasing
Plot Keywords: horror, psychological thriller, cult, folk horror, sweden, ritual, breakup ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A professor (Christopher Lee) sends a coed to a Massachusetts village where he and a witch (Patricia Jessel) lead the living dead.
Plot Keywords: horror, suspense, supernatural, curse, murder, mystery, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Period piece about a Brazil that is no more. This movie is the sequel to "God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun" (Deus e o diabo na terra do sol), and takes place 29 years after Antonio das Mortes killed Corisco (the "Blond Devil"), last of the Cangaceiros. In "the old days", Antonio's function in life was exterminate these bandits, on account of his personal grudges against them. His life had been meaningless for the last 29 years, but now, a new challenge awaits him. When a Cangaceiro appears in Jardim Das Piranhas, the local Land Baron (Jofre Soares), an old man, does what seems obvious to him: he calls Antonio das Mortes, killer of Cangaceiros. At first, Antonio is ecstatic. His life has gained new meaning. But soon it becomes obvious that this new Cangaceiro (named Coirana) is no Corisco, but an idealist. An idealist of the sixties in the garb of the forties. A leader to the hopeless and the hungry. Antonio das Mortes begins to reconsider his feelings towards Coirana and his followers...—Cristian Redferne <Harlock@prodigy.com>
Plot Keywords: western, political allegory, violence, revolution, folklore, symbolism, antihero ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A series of dances inspired by composer Isaac Albéniz's "Iberia" suite.
Plot Keywords: documentary, culture, music, dance, art, travel, landscape ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A story within a story. In Australia's Northern Territory, a man tells us one of the stories of his people and his land. It's a story of an older man, Minygululu, who has three wives and realizes that his younger brother Dayindi may try to steal away the youngest wife. So, over a few days and several trips to hunt and gather, Minygululu tells Dayindi a story set in the time of their ancestors when a stranger came to the village and disrupted the lives of a serious man named Ridjimiraril, his three wives, and his younger brother Yeeralparil who had no wife and liked to visit his youngest sister-in-law. Through stories, can values be taught and balance achieved?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: australian film, indigenous culture, epic, oral history, wilderness survival, cultural heritage, mythology ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the countryside of England, the Duc de Richleau a.k.a Nicholas welcomes his old friend Rex Van Ryn that has flown to meet him and Simon Aron, who is the son of an old friend of them that had passed away but charged them the task of watching the youngster. Nicholas and Rex unexpectedly visit Simon that is receiving twelve mysterious friends. Sooner Nicholas, who is proficient in black magic, learns that the guests are member of a satanic cult and Simon and his friend Tanith Carlisle will be baptized by the powerful leader Mocata to serve the devil. The two friends abduct Simon and Tanith expecting to save their souls but Mocata summons the Angel of Death and the Goat of Mendes to help him in a battle between the good and the forces of evil.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: horror, supernatural, cult, black magic, exorcism, occult, ritual ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An ex-bullfighter who gets turned on by killing, a lady lawyer with the same fetish and a young man driven insane by his religious upbringing - these are the main characters in this stylish black comedy about dark sides of human nature.—Dragan Antulov <dragan.antulov@altbbs.fido.hr>
Plot Keywords: violence, erotic, crime, thriller, black comedy, murder, desire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Minami, a junior member of a Japanese underworld organisation, is sent on a road trip with a senior colleague, Ozaki. Ozaki is to be bumped off, as he is now a liability to the organisation. On the way Ozaki disappears under mysterious circumstances.
Plot Keywords: surrealism, horror, comedy, absurd, violence, psychological thriller, cult film ...
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