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14 films tagged cults

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  • 2025 · Thriller

    Taken in as a child by an assassins' society that trains its killers as dancers, Eve grows up in the trade and goes after the people who killed her father. Wall to wall fighting, in the John Wick world.

    • Strongly fast
    • Clearly plot-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Ballerina

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2025 · Mystery

    A private eye in Bakersfield looks into the death of a woman who called her scared the day before, and the trail leads to a church with a very hands-on reverend. Loose and jokey, and it keeps stopping to flirt.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Honey Don't!

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Sacrifice

    Little-known

    2025 · Comedy

    A film star trying to get his career back is abducted along with two others by a group who believe that sacrificing three people will save humanity. Played for laughs, with a big cast.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Sacrifice

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Opus

    Little-known

    2025 · Horror

    A young journalist is one of six people invited to a reclusive pop star's Utah compound to hear his first album in thirty years, where the staff all belong to his following. The unease starts early and builds.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Opus

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Tin Soldier

    Little-known

    2025 · Action

    A former soldier goes inside a cult that recruits army veterans, run by a charismatic leader, to get his wife back. Straight action, with a military handler on the outside.

    • Clearly plot-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Tin Soldier

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • The Home

    Little-known

    2025 · Horror

    A graffiti artist works off a vandalism charge as caretaker of a retirement home, and is told to stay off the fourth floor. The residents start behaving strangely, and he goes up anyway.

    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Home

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2026 · Horror

    Straight on from 28 Years Later, a boy is taken in by a gang of Satan-worshipping killers, while a doctor building a temple out of the bones of the dead forms a bond with one of the infected. Grim and bloody, and it gives the cult as much room as the monsters.

    • Strongly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Burn

    Little-known

    2026 · Drama

    A girl raised by cult parents and beaten by her father runs away and lands in Tokyo's Kabukicho, where she falls in with the kids living around the square. Rough and loud, and hard in places.

    • Strongly heavy
    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Burn

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2019 · Horror

    A grieving American woman tags along with her boyfriend and his friends to a midsummer festival at a remote Swedish commune where the sun barely sets. Long, very bright, and it takes its time.

    • Strongly heavy
    • Clearly slow

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Midsommar

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2012 · Drama

    A drifting navy veteran with a bad drinking problem attaches himself to the leader of a new movement in post-war America. Slow and loose, mostly the two of them circling each other.

    • Strongly character-driven
    • Strongly slow
    • Strongly realistic
    • Clearly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Master

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2018 · Horror

    After her difficult mother dies, a miniature artist and her family begin coming apart, and something in the house does not feel finished. Long, quiet and building; the frights are mostly not the jumping kind.

    • Strongly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Hereditary

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2011 · Drama

    A young woman escapes a farm commune and moves in with her sister, unable to say where she has been. It cuts between the two without telling you which one you are in.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly character-driven
    • Strongly heavy
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Martha Marcy May Marlene

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • The Endless

    Little-known

    2017 · Science fiction

    Two brothers go back for a day to the camp they escaped as teenagers, where nobody has aged and something is wrong with the sky. Made cheaply, and the rules take a while.

    • Clearly heavy
    • Clearly complicated

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Endless

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2004 · Thriller

    A nineteenth-century settlement has an agreement with the creatures in the surrounding woods, and a young man wants to cross them for medicine. Slow and hushed.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Village

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.