Movies: Ritual

An adopted eight-year-old Peruvian boy wants to look like his typically Dutch father; however, an encounter with a band of Peruvian-Indian street musicians will inspire him to find his roots....

A collection of videos that spotlight all kinds of terror "tragedies", not limited to psychic phenomena such as fights, violence, and passing by. It captures many horrors that occur close to human beings, such as "black money finance" where the wife'...

A documentary on the surviving syncretic pagan midwinter customs of the British Isles, focusing on nine ritual celebrations ranging from the Moray Firth in the north, the Somerset Levels in the south, Humberside in the east, and County Kerry in the w...

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A crafty child who wants to see his mother again after her death, finds a way to do it....

An exorcism goes terribly wrong as the entity searches for a stronger host....

A struggling You Tuber Bayden Redshaw and his brother Dylan John Redshaw and best friend Jordan Stopforth decide to do a YouTube video about a new urban legend that went viral in 2010, they decide to summon this urban legend in a ritual after seeing ...

A coven of witches gather in Vermont in a feminist collective’s transporting short that shakes off patriarchal scrutiny during the women’s ceremony, where they’re free to remake reality before our eyes. TRANSFORMATIONS creates an intoxicating alchemy...

Mia has locked herself inside her recently deceased mother's rundown, crumbling house. Armed with a litany of books detailing ancient cultures and rituals, she tries desperately to reach out to the other side and speak to her mother. But when she suc...

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A teenage girl is prepared for a mysterious ritual....

Ukwaluka is an ancient circumcision ritual for young men still widely practiced by the Xhosa in South Africa. It marks the transition from youth to manhood. A boy who has just undergone circumcision sits in semi-darkness in a simple hut on a hill, fa...

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After her mother’s death, Sarah lives isolated with her aunt. One night, she confesses experiencing the feeling of a presence, something malicious and relentless....

The story concerns a man bound to death and a young girl, following a path of ritualistic transfiguration to ultimately become completely free as dead. A frightening tale of evil excess, demented sorcery and lurid ritual. An original experimental s...

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A five-year visual ethnography of traditional yet practical orchestration of Semana Santa in a small town where religious woodcarving is the livelihood. An experiential film on neocolonial Philippines’ interpretation of Saints and Gods through many f...

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Expelled from paradise, Lilith chooses the human race as the target of her fury. Imprisoned by a group of witches for centuries, she ends up being accidentally released by a young and tormented religious....

A young couple, Jana and Sami, prepare a religious ritual so that Jana can get in contact with her late friend....