Ritual Movies

When wannabe-singer Oscar is fired from her band and her boyfriend walks out, she heads to a remote cabin in the woods outside a ghost town called...

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

Sacred explores cultural and religious ritual as it relates to life’s cycles: birth, adolescence, marriage, aging and other key passages of...

Dottie, a lonely and bored woman becomes obsessed with James, a new employee at the vintage store where she works. When Dottie discovers a spell that...

He really likes Poughkeepsie Crispies. Maybe too much. A darkly funny, minimalist loop of repetition, ritual, and barely-hinged performance.

The communal justice system accuses Don Evaristo, 80 years old, of the murder of his granddaughter Yana-Wara, 13 years old. During the hearing,...

"Mammy Water" is mother sea, source of food. Jean Rouch filmed this short documentary in the Gulf of Guinea, in Ghana, where is held a colorful...

Manager-summoning control freak Kallie Jones attempts to rescue her husband from a "wellness center" with the help of a washed-up expert Cult Buster.

At the beginning of the story, Alp and Furkan go for a walk. Alp hears a sound through the forest as he walks along the path. This sound is the first...

The documentary focuses on the annual Mani Rimdu festival of Tibet and Nepal, an event which encapsulates the Himalayan Buddhist experience.

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...

Three American late teens travel to Japan to escape a sad past and have some fun but end up trapped in a house with a demented Japanese host family...

In a quest to rediscover the spiritual values of his own people, an African filmmaker from the Gourmantche tribe of Burkina Faso visits an Aboriginal...

A group of friends get trapped in a haunted abbey with no easy way of escaping.

A young boy inadvertently stumbles upon a questionably familiar house.

Through her child’s eyes, Patpro will go through three periods of the history of her indigenous people, in the heart of the Brazilian forest....

A five-year visual ethnography of traditional yet practical orchestration of Semana Santa in a small town where religious woodcarving is the...

In a remote village, a young girl named Suriram goes mysteriously missing. Maimon, who is deaf and mute, is the prime suspect in the case because she...

For over 30 years, the so-called First Transmission video from Psychic TV, has been the stuff of, well, “snuff film” legend. First...

In the same vein as Meri's other documentations, this one takes advantage of the glasnost policy to discuss the social and ecologic impact of the...