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Directed by John Boorman,
Rospo PallenbergOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
Fantasy,
HorrorThemes Films about children,
Films about religion,
Demons in filmActors Linda Blair,
Max von Sydow,
Richard Burton,
Louise Fletcher,
James Earl Jones,
Kitty WinnRating38%
Philip Lamont, a priest struggling with his faith, attempts to exorcise a possessed South American girl who claims to "heal the sick". However, the exorcism goes wrong and a lit candle sets fire to the girl's dress, killing her. Afterwards, Lamont is assigned by the Cardinal to investigate the death of Father Lankester Merrin, who had been killed four years prior in the course of exorcising the Assyrian demon Pazuzu from Regan MacNeil. The Cardinal informs Lamont (who has had some experience at exorcism, and has been exposed to Merrin's teachings) that Merrin is up on posthumous heresy charges due to his controversial writings. Apparently, Church authorities are trying to modernize and do not want to acknowledge that Satan as an actual evil entity exists., 1h31
Directed by William FriedkinOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Musical,
WesternThemes Films about television,
Musical filmsActors Sonny Bono,
Cher,
George Sanders,
Norman Alden,
Lennie Weinrib,
Larry DuranRating45%
Sonny and Cher appear as themselves in this spoof of various genres, including mysteries, westerns and spy thrillers. The plot revolves around a film contract offered to Sonny by powerful executive Mr. Mordicus, played by George Sanders, who also plays the antagonist in each of Sonny's ideas for the proposed film, which are played out in a number of skits featuring music and dancing by the star duo., 1h56
Directed by Fraser Clarke HestonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
Action,
HorrorThemes Films about religion,
Demons in filmActors Max von Sydow,
Ed Harris,
Bonnie Bedelia,
J. T. Walsh,
Amanda Plummer,
Ray McKinnonRating62%
A mysterious proprietor named Leland Gaunt (von Sydow), claiming to be from Akron, Ohio, opens a new antiques store called "Needful Things" in the small town of Castle Rock, Maine. The store sells various items of great personal worth to the residents (some of which, like a pendant that eases pain or a toy which predicts the outcome of horse races, are clearly supernatural). Gaunt demands payment both in cash and in small "favors", usually pranks played by his customers on their neighbors. Gaunt's first customer is a kid named Brian Rusk (Meier) who buys off a rare baseball card in exchange for a prank., 1h50
Directed by William Peter BlattyOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
Fantastic,
HorrorThemes Films about children,
Films about religion,
Demons in film,
Serial killer filmsActors George C. Scott,
Ed Flanders,
Jason Miller,
Scott Wilson,
Brad Dourif,
Nicol WilliamsonRating64%
The film begins with the point of view of someone wandering through the streets of Georgetown, a voice informing us "I have dreams... of a rose... and of falling down a long flight of stairs." The point of view shows a warning of evil about to arrive later that night at a church. Demonic growls are heard. Leaves and other street trash suddenly come flying into the church as a crucifix comes to life. It then cuts to Lieutenant William F. Kinderman (George C. Scott) at a crime scene, where a 12-year-old boy named Thomas Kintry has been murdered., 1h42
Directed by Neil LaButeOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
Comedy,
Horror,
CrimeThemes Films about religion,
Political films,
Dystopian filmsActors Nicolas Cage,
Ellen Burstyn,
Kate Beahan,
Frances Conroy,
Leelee Sobieski,
Molly ParkerRating38%
Policeman Edward Malus (Nicolas Cage) receives news from his ex-fiancée, Willow Woodward (Kate Beahan), that their daughter, Rowan (Erika Shaye Gair), is missing. He travels to the Western United States and takes a ship cruise to a coastal area where he gets a pilot (Matthew Walker) to take him to an island off the coast of Washington State where a group of neo-pagans live., 1h58
Directed by William Peter BlattyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
Comedy,
Horror comedy,
HorrorThemes Medical-themed films,
Psychologie,
Films about religion,
Films about psychiatry,
Comedy horror films,
Films set in psychiatric hospitalsActors Stacy Keach,
Scott Wilson,
Jason Miller,
Ed Flanders,
Neville Brand,
George DiCenzoRating67%
In the 1970s, a large castle is used by the US Government as an insane asylum for military personnel. Among the many patients there is a former astronaut, Billy Cutshaw (Scott Wilson), who aborted a moon launch and was dragged screaming from the capsule, suffering from an apparent mental breakdown., 1h50
Directed by Darren AronofskyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Horror,
CrimeThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about drugs,
Films about sexuality,
Films about television,
Erotic films,
LGBT-related films,
Films about prostitution,
Films about psychiatry,
Films set in psychiatric hospitals,
LGBT-related film,
Lesbian-related filmsActors Ellen Burstyn,
Jared Leto,
Jennifer Connelly,
Marlon Wayans,
Christopher McDonald,
Louise LasserRating82%
During the summer in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, elderly widow Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) constantly watches television, particularly infomercials hosted by Tappy Tibbons (Christopher McDonald). After receiving an unexpected phone call that she has won a spot to participate on a television game show, she becomes obsessed with regaining the youthful appearance she possesses in an old photograph from her son Harry's (Jared Leto) graduation many years earlier. In order to fit into her old red dress seen in the picture, the favorite one of her deceased husband Seymour, she goes on a crash diet. In order to reach her goal sooner, she goes to a doctor to discuss weight loss. The doctor gives her a prescription for weight-loss amphetamine pills throughout the day and a sedative at night. Harry warns her about amphetamine dependence and risk of life-threatening consequences, but she rebuffs him and insists that the chance to be on television has given her a reason to live. As the months go by, Sara's tolerance for the pills adjust and as a result she is no longer able to feel the same high the pills once gave her. When her invitation has still not arrived, she wrongfully increases her dosage from double to triple and, as a result, begins to suffer from amphetamine psychosis. Soon, her delusions worsen and she is driven to the brink of madness when she suffers a hallucination that she appears on the game show as the principal subject while being attacked by her monstrous, anthropomorphized refrigerator., 2h38
Directed by Wim WendersOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Thriller,
Action,
Adventure,
RomanceThemes Films about computing,
Seafaring films,
Post-apocalyptic films,
Films about religion,
Transport films,
Films set in the future,
Political films,
Road movies,
Cyberpunk films,
Dystopian films,
Disaster filmsActors Solveig Dommartin,
William Hurt,
Sam Neill,
Tom Waits,
Max von Sydow,
Chick OrtegaRating67%
The film takes place in late 1999. India has an out-of-control nuclear satellite in orbit that is about to re-enter the atmosphere at any time, contaminating large areas of the Earth. This has caused a massive panic, with everyone trying to flee the likely impact sites. Caught in a traffic jam, impatient and disconnected Claire Tourneur (Solveig Dommartin) escapes the highway congestion by taking a side road. Her dashboard computer system announces she has left the map zone database and is on her own. She then has a couple of odd encounters, first with a pair of bank robbers (which leaves her with a large amount of cash), then with a hitchhiker being pursued by an armed party. Claire discovers, after falling in love with the enigmatic fugitive, that he is the son of a scientist (played by Max von Sydow), and has absconded with the prototype of a secret research project. Multiple government agencies and freelance bounty hunters are chasing him to recover the device., 1h44
Directed by M. J. BassettOrigin United-kingdomGenres Science fiction,
Fantastic,
Fantasy,
Action,
AdventureThemes Films set in Africa,
Films about slavery,
Films about magic and magicians,
Films about religion,
Demons in film,
Witches in filmActors James Purefoy,
Max von Sydow,
Rachel Hurd-Wood,
Pete Postlethwaite,
Jason Flemyng,
Alice KrigeRating60%
The film opens in North Africa, 1600, with the English mercenary Solomon Kane as he leads his ship's crew into battle against the Ottoman occupiers of a fortress town. After defeating the defenders, Kane and his men raid the fortress, where most of the crew are killed by demons. Kane fights his way to the throne room, but, before he can loot the riches, he is confronted by a demon that tells him his soul is forfeit to Satan. Solomon rejects his fate and jumps out a window. Following this encounter, Solomon returns to England and finds sanctuary in a monastery. After a prophetic dream, the abbot apologetically expels Kane, and Kane travels by foot to his ancestral estate, from which he had been expelled in his youth after defying his father. Along the way, he is ambushed by robbers who mock his vow of pacifism and leave him for dead. He is found and treated by the Crowthorns, a family of Puritans traveling west to the New World. When the Crowthorns are slaughtered by corrupted followers of the evil sorcerer Malachi, Kane renounces his vows and swears to avenge their deaths and rescue Meredith Crowthorn, who has been marked by a witch and kidnapped by the Masked Rider, Malachi's lieutenant., 1h43
Directed by William FriedkinOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
HorrorThemes Films about animals,
Théâtre,
Natural horror films,
Films about spiders,
Films about insects,
Films based on playsActors Ashley Judd,
Michael Shannon,
Viola Lynn Collins,
Brían F. O'Byrne,
Harry ConnickRating60%
Agnes White is a waitress at a gay bar living in a run-down motel in rural Oklahoma. Unable to move on from the disappearance of her son some years previously, she engages in drug and alcohol binges with her lesbian friend, R.C. Lately, she has been plagued by silent telephone calls that she believes are being made by her abusive ex-husband, Jerry Goss, who has recently been released from prison.