Ritual Movies

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

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

A collection of videos that spotlight all kinds of terror "tragedies", not limited to psychic phenomena such as fights, violence, and passing by. It...

A twisted tale of two unemployed graduates who embark on a journey to make it in a world where you need more than what you have to get what you want.

An empathic, young plant doctor gifted with extrasensory powers and an emotionally fragile, isolated artist, must rescue each other to rediscover the...

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

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...

Filmed in May 1971 in Niger, this short documentary records a possession ritual performed by the Simiri people in response to a locust invasion. The...

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

In the wake of a failed exorcism, a grieving father does "whatever it takes" to destroy the entity that took his daughter, even if that means...

Josh’s beloved Grandpa Joe has passed on... and they never even got to say goodbye. So, Josh’s wife, Lori plans to do a séance as...

A hard-headed tomboy spots the unlikely solution to all her problems in an all-male religious ritual.

A queer and trans found family create a death ritual that weaves together the inextricable experiences of grief and eros, community and country.

Documentary film making at its best as it narrates very exotic and esoteric rituals of the primitive peoples of Africa.

Billie, a twenty something burnout, is tasked with house-sitting for her aunt and uncle, but after inviting some friends over, becomes convinced her...

An examination of occultism as practiced in different parts of the world.

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

With its recognisable bright red cap with white spots, the fly agaric (amanita muscaria) seems like the archetype of the fairy tale toadstool. But it...

When a recent widow moves to New Zealand from India, she's forced to confront her grief by completing an ordinary ritual in an extraordinary...