Topic: Sects · Cults

Direction Chapman Way · Maclain Way

Plot 6 episodes. When the world's most controversial guru builds a utopian city deep in the Oregon desert, conflict with the locals escalates into a national scandal. A true story.

Direction Damon Lindelof · Tom Perrotta · Peter Berg · Mimi Leder

Cast Justin Theroux · Amy Brenneman · Christopher Eccleston · Carrie Coon

Plot TV Series (2014-2017). 3 Seasons. 28 Episodes. When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it......

Direction Dennis Gansel

Cast Jürgen Vogel · Frederick Lau · Jennifer Ulrich · Max Riemelt

Plot A high-school teacher assigned the thankless task of teaching autocracy as part of the school's project week decides to spice up his lessons by conducting a decidedly unorthodox experiment in...

Direction Sion Sono

Cast Takahiro Nishijima · Hikari Mitsushima · Sakura Ando · Hiroyuke Onoue

Plot Having grown up in a devout Christian family, Yu (Takahiro Nishijima) has always been a well-behaved kid. After his mother dies, his priest father is seduced by a woman who...

Direction Ahsen Nadeem

Plot It follows a filmmaker as he sets off find answers in a secretive Buddhist sect that has lived in an isolated monastery in Japan performing acts of extreme physical endurance...

Direction Alex Gibney

Cast Jason Beghe · Paul Haggis · Tom Cruise · John Travolta

Plot Based on Lawrence Wright’s National Book Award-winning book of the same name, documentarian Alex Gibney’s Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief explores the practices and alleged crimes committed...

Direction Robin Hardy

Cast Edward Woodward · Christopher Lee · Britt Ekland · Diane Cilento

Plot This controversial British cult classic, considered by its producer upon completion to be one of the worst films ever made, has been little seen since its brief theatrical release even...

Direction Gareth Evans · Timo Tjahjanto

Cast Fachry Albar · Hannah Al Rashid · Oka Antara · Andrew Suleiman

Plot Entitled Safe Haven, the Indonesia-set short movie concerns a documentary crew and its horribly doomed attempt to interview an apocalypse-cult leader at his compound.

Direction Jacques Tourneur

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

Plot 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...

Direction Larry Charles

Cast Bill Maher

Plot Bill Maher's take on the current state of world religion. From the Director of Borat. USA Release Date: october 3rd 2008.

Direction Marianne Hougen-Moraga · Estephan Wagner

Plot The inhabitants of a German colony in Chile share a dark past with violence and sexual abuse, but react in widely different ways when confronted with it today.

Direction Stanley Nelson

Direction José Estrada

Cast Ignacio López Tarso · Ofelia Guilmáin · Ana Martín · Carmen Montejo

Direction Drew Dowdle · John Erick Dowdle · Dennie Gordon

Cast Michael Shannon · Taylor Kitsch · John Leguizamo · Andrea Riseborough

Plot TV Miniseries (2018). 6 Episodes. The FBI and ATF seize religious leader, David Koresh's Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, in the spring of 1993.

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Tom Cruise · Nicole Kidman · Sydney Pollack · Marie Richardson

Plot A doctor (Tom Cruise) becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter after his wife (Nicole Kidman) admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met and chastising him for...

Direction Dana Rotberg

Cast Evangelina Sosa · Lilia Aragón · Roberto Sosa · Noé Montealegre

Direction Zachary Heinzerling

Plot A group of Sarah Lawrence College students fall under the influence of a friend's father, Larry Ray. The series follows the cult from its origins through its still-unfolding aftermath.

Direction Olmo Figueredo González-Quevedo · José F. Ortuño

Plot The young woman from Elche (Alicante) who in 2017 was captured by a sect. Her escape to Peru when she turned 18, the search for her by her family and...

Direction Hal Grant · Alex Weresow

Cast Leah Remini · Mike Rinder · Alex Weresow · Vicki Marshall

Plot A series featuring stories from former members of the Church of Scientology whose lives have been affected by the Church's harmful practices.

Direction Annette Baumeister · Kai Christiansen · Wilfried Huismann · Heike Bittner

Cast Salo Luna · Edeltraud Bohnau · Wolfgang Kneese · Willi Malessa

Plot 6 episodes. A colony of German Christians with a charismatic and manipulative leader establishes itself in Chile and becomes instrumental to the dictatorship.