Here we've displayed a list of the best Cult Leader films : Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple(2006), Curse of the Demon(1957), Meetings With Remarkable Men(1979), The Master(2012), Colonia(2015), Martha Marcy May Marlene(2011), The Bride With White Hair(1993), Young Sherlock Holmes(1985), The Mechanic(2011), Sound of My Voice(2011), Mandy(2018), The Endless(2017) ... ...
Documentary
USA
2006
85 Minutes
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Featuring never-before-seen footage, this documentary delivers a startling new look at the Peoples Temple, headed by preacher Jim Jones who, in 1978, led more than 900 members to Guyana, where he orchestrated a mass suicide via tainted punch.
Horror
UK
1957
82 Minutes
Dana Andrews Peggy Cummins Niall MacGinnis Maurice Denham Athene Seyler Liam Redmond Reginald Beckwith Ewan Roberts Peter Elliott Rosamund Greenwood Richard Leech
professor psychologist niece skeptic cult leader devil worshipper creepy eerie uneasy england london british museum paranormal satanism curse diary mystery transformation 1950s
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a parapsychology conference, only to find himself investigating the mysterious actions of Devil-worshiper Julian Karswell.
Biography
UK
1979
108 Minutes
Dragan Maksimovic Terence Stamp Athol Fugard Gerry Sundquist Bruce Myers Warren Mitchell Mikica Dimitrijevic Donald Sumpter Natasha Parry Faro Konjhodzic Tom Fleming
mystic prince teacher student cult leader passionate intense rome egypt asia georgia philosophy mysticism religion journey g.i. gurdjieff quest discovery 1880s
G.I. Gurdjieff is a spiritual teacher and mystic who, after a lifetime study, developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.
Drama
USA
2012
136 Minutes
Joaquin Phoenix Philip Seymour Hoffman Amy Adams Laura Dern Jesse Plemons Amy Ferguson Frank Bettag Leonida A. Bautista Ambyr Childers
drifter cult leader wife daughter follower gutsy fascinating tense san francisco coast household cult mentorship friendship postwar america rise temptation 1950s
A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by the Cause and its charismatic leader.
Romance, Mystery & Thriller, Drama, History
Germany|France|Luxembourg|UK|USA
2015
110 Minutes
Emma Watson Daniel Brühl Michael Nyqvist Richenda Carey Vicky Krieps Jeanne Werner Julian Ovenden August Zirner Martin Wuttke César Bordón Nicolás Barsoff
prisoner cult leader young woman love interest militant rebel bleak disturbing emotional frightening gutsy powerful sad chile cult headquarters prison embassy military coup cult love
A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody has ever escaped from.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2011
101 Minutes
Elizabeth Olsen Sarah Paulson John Hawkes Hugh Dancy Brady Corbet Christopher Abbott Maria Dizzia Julia Garner Louisa Krause
cult member sister brother-in-law cult leader runaway suspenseful thrilling catskills farmhouse family home connecticut lake cult sister relationship manipulation mental breakdown escape transformation 2010s
Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult.
Drama
Hong Kong
1993
92 Minutes
Brigitte Lin Leslie Cheung Francis Ng Elaine Lui Kit Ying Lam
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Cho Yat-Hang, the unwilling successor to the Wu-Tang clan throne and the unsure commander of the clan's forces in a war against an evil cult, falls in forbidden love with Lien Ni-Chang, a killer for the evil cult.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Adventure, Action
USA
1985
109 Minutes
Nicholas Rowe Alan Cox Sophie Ward Anthony Higgins Susan Fleetwood Freddie Jones Nigel Stock
detective friend professor cult leader inventor granddaughter frenetic fascinating amusing suspenseful boarding school pyramid england sherlock holmes murder investigation cult high school friendship discovery mystery
When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
2011
92 Minutes
Jason Statham Ben Foster Donald Sutherland Tony Goldwyn Jeff Chase Mini Anden James Logan Eddie J. Fernandez
assassin mentor son boss cult leader mobster disturbing thrilling tense suspenseful frightening outlandish mansion funeral coffee shop hotel airport gas station dangerous assignment chase
An elite hitman teaches his trade to an apprentice who has a connection to one of his previous victims.
Drama
USA
2011
84 Minutes
Christopher Denham Nicole Vicius Brit Marling Avery Kristen Pohl Davenia McFadden Kandice Stroh Richard Wharton Alvin Lam Christine Meyers Constance Wu Matthew Carey
documentarian filmmaker cult leader follower fascinating disturbing los angeles headquarters documentary filmmaking cult time travel beliefs pursuit transformation 2010s
Two documentary filmmakers attempt to penetrate a cult who worships a woman who claims to be from the future.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
UK|Belgium
2018
121 Minutes
Nicolas Cage Andrea Riseborough Linus Roache Ned Dennehy Olwen Fouere Richard Brake Bill Duke Line Pillet
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The enchanted lives of a couple in a secluded forest are brutally shattered by a nightmarish hippie cult and their demon-biker henchmen, propelling a man into a spiraling, surreal rampage of vengeance.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
USA
2017
111 Minutes
Aaron Moorhead Aaron Moorhead Justin Benson Callie Hernandez Tate Ellington Lew Temple James Jordan Shane Brady Kira Powell Emily Montague Peter Cilella
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As kids, they escaped a UFO death cult. Now, two adult brothers seek answers after an old videotape surfaces and brings them back to where they began.
Adventure, Fantasy, Action
USA
2001
129 Minutes
Brendan Fraser Rachel Weisz John Hannah Arnold Vosloo Oded Fehr Patricia Velasquez Freddie Boath Alun Armstrong Dwayne Johnson Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Shaun Parkes
explorer wife son mummy king cult leader suspenseful frenetic egypt desert underworld pyramid dead army visions mythology supernatural resurrection showdown adventure escape
The mummified body of Imhotep is shipped to a museum in London, where he once again wakes and begins his campaign of rage and terror.
Drama
USA|UK|France|Japan
2004
97 Minutes
Asia Argento Jimmy Bennett Dylan Sprouse Cole Sprouse Peter Fonda Ben Foster Ornella Muti Kip Pardue Michael Carmen Pitt Jeremy Renner John Robinson
drug addict son boyfriend truck driver cult leader teenage mother chilling dark disheartening grocery store atlantic city, n.j. meth lab household street mother/son relationship drug addiction sexual abuse prostitution religion family dysfunction
Seven-year-old Jeremiah is pulled from his foster home and thrown into a troubled life on the road with his teenage mother, Sarah.
Drama
UK|France|Germany|USA
1991
110 Minutes
Mikhail Baryshnikov Joan Cusack Peter Gallagher Ron Vawter Kate Valk Gregory Wallace Werner Klemperer
stockbroker ex-girlfriend cult leader homeless person sidekick mysterious man dreamy eerie offbeat new york city apartment sanitarium office recession insanity cult greed struggle fall mystery
Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat whom mysterious Dr. Ramirez and his hideous sidekick want as their latest victim.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
UK|USA|Canada
2019
108 Minutes
Riley Keough Severin Fiala Jaeden Martell Lia McHugh Richard Armitage Alicia Silverstone Katelyn Wells Dan Keough Lola Reid
father girlfriend young boy young girl cult leader bleak brooding dark disturbing frightening cabin lake family gathering blizzard isolation traumatic past survival discovery fall pursuit
A soon-to-be stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé's two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place.
Drama
USA
2018
110 Minutes
Matt Smith Hannah Murray Suki Waterhouse Annabeth Gish Chace Crawford Merritt Wever Sosie Bacon Bridger Zadina
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The tragic tale of an all-American girl who was transformed into a cold-blooded killer in the summer of 1969.
Horror
USA
1988
86 Minutes
Jennifer Rubin Bruce Abbott Richard Lynch Dean Cameron Harris Yulin Susan Barnes Elizabeth Daily Sy Richardson Missy Francis
young woman cult leader psychologist survivor detective friend gory frightful melodramatic compound hospital car river trauma cult suicide therapy nightmares violence escape
The lone survivor of a suicide cult wakes from a thirteen-year coma in a psychiatric ward, where other patients suddenly start dying under mysterious and gruesome circumstances.
Comedy
USA
2009
105 Minutes
Patrick Warburton Andy Dick Rena Sofer Jamie Alexander Elaine Hendrix
goofy detective stalker cult leader offbeat witty office town home schemes darkness investigation cult determination femme fatales 2000s
A film noir comedy about Rock Slyde, a down-and-out private detective that engages in a turf war with an upstart quasi-religious cult, The House of Bartology.
Comedy, Horror
USA
2019
88 Minutes
Hayley Griffith Ruby Modine Jerry O'Connell Rebecca Romijn Jordan Ladd Whitney Moore Arden Myrin Michael Polish Jeff Daniel Phillips A.J. Bowen
pizza delivery woman satanist cult leader cult member daughter husband demon amusing brash brutal campy dark disturbing frightening gory intense madcap melodramatic tense thrilling
A pizza delivery girl at the end of her financial rope has to fight for her life - and her tips - when her last order of the night turns out to be high society Satanists in need of a virgin sacrifice.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Canada|USA
2014
90 Minutes
Christina Cox Tina Ivlev Paula Trickey Rebekah Kennedy Blanca Blanco Matt Corboy Eric Scott Woods Joe Howard Mandy Levin
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A woman spends five years trying to get her brainwashed daughter back from a cult.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Spain
2016
96 Minutes
Daniel Grao Juana Acosta Goya Toledo Josean Bengoetxea Jon Kortajarena Ingrid García Jonsson Ana Gracia Maiken Beitia Ciro Miró Xabier Elorriaga Itsaso Arana
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A mass suicide involving members of a cult takes place in the Canary Islands. Gabriel's younger sister, Cordelia, who he hasn't seen for years, was one of the cult followers. Gabriel decides to travel there and find out what happened.
Horror, Fantasy
Canada
2012
95 Minutes
Adelaide Clemens Kit Harington Deborah Kara Unger Martin Donovan Malcolm McDowell Carrie-Anne Moss Sean Bean Roberto Campanella Radha Mitchell Erin Pitt Peter Outerbridge
teen girl father young man cult leader mentally ill person tense bleak suspenseful small town household cult father/daughter relationship past crimes supernatural secret identity discovery transformation rescue 2010s
When her adoptive father disappears, Sharon Da Silva is drawn into a strange and terrifying alternate reality that holds answers to the horrific nightmares that have plagued her since childhood.
Horror
USA
2016
93 Minutes
Jessica Alba Thomas Jane Lily Rabe Shannon Woodward Reid Scott Aleksa Palladino Ivy George Lenny Jacobson
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Twenty-five years after members of a religious cult committed mass suicide, the lone survivor returns to the scene of the tragedy with a documentary crew in tow.
Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Canada
2017
87 Minutes
Nina Kiri Jorja Cadence Ryan Barrett Nina Richmond Will King Caleigh Le Grand Colin Price Austin Duffy Julie C. Sheppard Sid McMillan
cult figure cult leader cult member demon woman dark bleak chilling brutal frightening gory forest church cabin demon worship demonic possession demons cult kidnapping occult
After she's kidnapped, a young woman begins to undergo a strange transformation.
Horror, Drama
Australia
2014
84 Minutes
Jane Elizabeth Barry David Macrae Geoff Pinfield Tom McCathie Rachel Torrance Ashleigh Gregory Zoe Imms Janice Paull
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While investigating the legend of a mysterious group of religious people living in the forest, a local news crew becomes trapped in the grasp of a doomsday cult, who are about to execute their final act of devotion and biblical punishment.
Mystery & Thriller
UK|Luxembourg
2003
90 Minutes
Madeleine Stowe Norman Reedus Bijou Phillips Mischa Barton Jonathan Rhys-Meyers Leo Gregory
mother daughter teen girl hitchhiker cult leader satanist disturbing eerie shocking england open road rest stop truck cult disappearance mother/daughter relationship search drugs satanism rescue
While on a late night road trip home, a woman must save her rebellious teenage daughter who runs off with a bizarre group of blood-letting psychos.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Mexico|Canada|Germany
2006
103 Minutes
Nicolas Cage Ellen Burstyn Kate Beahan Frances Conroy Molly Parker Leelee Sobieski Diane Delano Erika-Shaye Gair Sophie Hough Christa Campbell
police officer ex-fiancée daughter cult leader schoolteacher cult member thrilling dark tense suspenseful frightening island bar docks household festival classroom investigation cult human sacrifice
A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive, neo-pagan community.
Fantasy
USA
2016
90 Minutes
Johnny Rey Diaz Christina Licciardi Lindsay Sawyer Talia A. Davis Trae Ireland Isaac Reyes Fiona Rene Joseph Michael Harris Nick Principe Aaron Moses Randall Yarbrough
cult leader cult member supernatural being villain death melodramatic campy tense suspenseful fantasy world future supernatural cult threats saving the planet fantasy fairy tales danger death rescue
When a supernatural cult threatens Earth, Alice must assemble a team of fairy tale villains to face the literal forces of Death.
Drama
2004
150 Minutes
Jeremy Davies Bruno Kirby Clea DuVall Marguerite Moreau Allison Smith Whitney Dylan Mary Lynn Rajskub Hal Ozsan
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Charles Manson (Jeremy Davies) manipulates his followers into committing horrifying acts of murder in the summer of 1969.