Topic: Witchcraft

Direction Yasuhiro Irie · Hiroshi Iketomi · Kazuo Miyake · Kiyomitsu Sato

Synopsis TV Series (2009-2012). 1 season. 64 episodes. Two brothers lose their mother to an incurable disease. With the power of "alchemy", they use taboo knowledge to resurrect her. The process fails, and as a toll for using this type of...

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast Thorkild Roose · Lisbeth Movin · Sigrid Neiiendam · Preben Lerdorff Rye

Synopsis Denmark, 1623. An old woman curses the local clergyman and his family as she is burned at the stake in this sobering and ghastly study of religious fanaticism.

Direction Akiyuki Shinbo

Synopsis TV Series (2011). 12 Episodes. Madoka is a kind, friendly, but ordinary second-year middle school girl. She wonders aloud what she should do if she can grant whatever you may wish through magic.

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Mia Farrow · John Cassavetes · Ruth Gordon · Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis In Rosemary's Baby (1968), a young couple, Rosemary and Guy, move into a historic New York apartment. After befriending their eccentric elderly neighbors, Rosemary becomes pregnant, but her joy turns to suspicion as she experiences bizarre pains and unsettling dreams....

Direction Seiji Mizushima · Norimitsu Suzuki · Masahiro Andô · Yasuhiro Irie

Synopsis Fullmetal Alchemist (TV Series) (2003) follows brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric in a world where alchemy blends science and magic. After a failed attempt to resurrect their deceased mother, Edward loses an arm and a leg, while Alphonse's soul is...

Direction Benjamin Christensen

Cast Elisabeth Christensen · Astrid Holm · Karen Winther · Maren Pedersen

Synopsis A historical view of witchcraft in seven parts and a variety of styles. First, there is a slide-show alternating inter-titles with drawings and paintings to illustrate the behavior of pagan cultures in the Middle Ages regarding their vision of demons...

Direction Dana Terrace · Aminder Dhaliwal · Stu Livingston · Stephen Sandoval

Synopsis A teenager finds herself stuck in the Demon Realm and battles the forces of evil alongside a rebellious witch and a pint-sized warrior.

Direction Otakar Vávra

Cast Elo Romancik · Vladimír Smeral · Sona Valentová · Josef Kemr

Synopsis A very popular movie on the medieval persecution of witches (inquisition).

Direction Rob Reiner

Cast Robin Wright · Cary Elwes · Mandy Patinkin · Chris Sarandon

Synopsis The Princess Bride (1987) is a whimsical tale of true love and high adventure. It follows the beautiful Buttercup, who is separated from her beloved farmhand, Westley, when he is presumed dead. Years later, she is betrothed to the nefarious...

Direction Masashi Kishimoto · Hayato Date · Atsushi Dakukawa · Hayato Takeda

Synopsis Naruto: Shippûden (TV Series) (2007) follows Naruto Uzumaki's journey as a older, more determined ninja. After two years of intense training, he returns to Konoha to reunite with friends and face greater threats. The series delves into his quest to...

Direction Mark Kirkland

Synopsis In "The Homega Man," Homer battles mutants after Springfield is annihilated by a neutron bomb. Then, Bart has his DNA mixed with a fly in "Fly vs. Fly." Finally, Marge is revealed to be a witch in colonial Springfield in...

Direction Hayao Miyazaki

Synopsis In Kiki's Delivery Service (1989), a young witch named Kiki embarks on a coming-of-age journey to a coastal town, as tradition dictates. With her talking black cat, Jiji, she starts a delivery service using her broomstick. As Kiki navigates the...

Direction Elizabeth Sankey

Cast Sophia Di Martino · Marion Gibson

Synopsis The relationship between cinematic portrayals of witches and postpartum depression, utilizing film history footage alongside personal testimony.

Direction Jac Schaeffer · Matt Shakman

Cast Elizabeth Olsen · Paul Bettany · Teyonah Parris · Kathryn Hahn

Synopsis WandaVision (TV Miniseries) (2021) follows Wanda Maximoff and Vision living an idyllic suburban life in a series of classic TV sitcom-inspired realities. As the couple navigates quirky neighbors and changing decades, unsettling cracks in their perfect world begin to emerge....

Direction James Clavell

Cast Michael Caine · Omar Sharif · Florinda Bolkan · Nigel Davenport

Synopsis Turgid epic set in the 23rd year of the Thirty Years War (year 1641). A thrilling epic about a regiment of soldiers who happen upon a secluded German valley that has gone untouched during the bloody Thiry Years War.

Direction Yoh Yoshinari · Yoshihiro Miyajima · Koji Aritomi · Tatsumi Fujii

Synopsis TV Series (2017). 25 Episodes. Akko Kagari is an ordinary girl who joins the renowned witch academy for witch girls, Luna Nova Academy. When she was younger, she went to Magical Festa, a magic show hosted by a witch named...

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Dana Andrews · Peggy Cummins · Niall MacGinnis · Maurice Denham

Synopsis Dr. John Holden ventures to London to attend a paranormal psychology symposium with the intention to expose devil cult leader, Julian Karswell. Holden is a skeptic and does not believe in Karswell's power. Nonetheless, he accepts an invitation to stay...

Direction Tim Burton

Cast Johnny Depp · Christina Ricci · Miranda Richardson · Michael Gambon

Synopsis In Sleepy Hollow (1999), a young constable, Ichabod Crane, is sent to the secluded village of Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of gruesome murders. The villagers believe the killings are the work of a supernatural headless horseman. As Crane...

Direction David Hand

Synopsis The classic tale, based on the original written in 1812 by the Brothers Grimm, tells the story of a young princess, Snow White. After the death of her mother, her father remarries an evil woman and unfortunately, her wicked stepmother...

Direction Raymond Rouleau

Cast Simone Signoret · Yves Montand · Mylène Demongeot · Alfred Adam

Synopsis Salem, 1692. Industrious farmer, John Proctor, has twice made love to 17-year-old Abigail, a youth he and his wife have taken in. (His wife Elisabeth has rebuffed him for seven months; she is puritanical and cold.) When she finds John...