Ritual Movies

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...

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

After an agonizing school year bruises his relationship with his well-liked older brother Jonah, socially awkward Teddy meets Cole, a disarming boy,...

A young vlogger (Vithor), obsessed with gaining fame by exploiting supernatural beliefs, must confront a fierce Board Demon he awakened. He is forced...

When an introspective Count searching for his missing brother comes across his deranged elder sibling instead, their conflict grows inevitable.

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

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...

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

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...

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

Traffic is delayed on the edge of a roadwork site, but what are the council workers doing? A privileged encounter with a secret somber ritual of...

Siblings invite their friends to their inherited yet abandoned farmhouse only to become victims of a demonic ritual.

“To begin a new chapter, you must close the last — even if it hurts to turn the page.” Savage Song is a poetic short film that...

Two friends are spending the night in the forest. During the night, one of them wakes up and witnesses something he will never forget.

A withdrawn teenage girl forms a close bond with a mysterious newcomer, slowly becoming entangled in a tight-knit community where belonging, trust,...

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

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...

Chilling paranormal portmanteau following a researcher who stumbles across a collection of disturbing video evidence she has obtained from a...

An Armenian funeral meal takes an unexpected turn.

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...