Movies: Witch hunt

  • 1970
    Cry of the Banshee

    Cry of the Banshee (1970)

    Cry of the Banshee

    5.31970HD

    In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her occult powers to curse his family, enlisting unknow...

    Cry of the Banshee
  • 2016
    Devil's Bride

    Devil's Bride (2016)

    Devil's Bride

    5.92016HD

    Anna is a 16-year old in a village where women are accused of witchcraft. It's based on the witch hunts on Åland, Finland in the 1600s....

    Devil's Bride
  • 1967
    Historia de la frivolidad

    Historia de la frivolidad (1967)

    Historia de la frivolidad

    71967HD

    The Lecturer, leader of the Feminine League Against Frivolity, tells the history of eroticism and censorship from the beginning of time until the late 1960s....

    Historia de la frivolidad
  • 1991
    Anna Goldin, the Last Witch

    Anna Goldin, the Last Witch (1991)

    Anna Goldin, the Last Witch

    61991HD

    A native of Sennwald, Anna Göldi arrived in Glarus in 1765. For seventeen years, she worked as a maidservant for Johann Jakob Tschudi, a physician. Tschudi reported her for having put needles in the bread and milk of one of his daughters, apparently ...

    Anna Goldin, the Last Witch
  • 1961
    Famous Love Affairs

    Famous Love Affairs (1961)

    Famous Love Affairs

    4.21961HD

    Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis....

    Famous Love Affairs
  • 1937
    Maid of Salem

    Maid of Salem (1937)

    Maid of Salem

    5.91937HD

    When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a wit...

    Maid of Salem
  • 2004
    The Hunting of the President

    The Hunting of the President (2004)

    The Hunting of the President

    5.72004HD

    Previously unreleased material outlines the campaign against Bill Clinton's presidency, from his days in Arkansas up to his impeachment trial....

    The Hunting of the President
  • 1983
    The Devonsville Terror

    The Devonsville Terror (1983)

    The Devonsville Terror

    4.61983HD

    Dr. Worley investigates a 300-year-old witch's curse in the New England town of Devonsville. Three liberated, assertive women move into town, which angers the bigoted, male-dominated town fathers. One of the women is a reincarnation of the witch, who...

    The Devonsville Terror
  • 2022
    The Haunting of Pendle Hill

    The Haunting of Pendle Hill (2022)

    The Haunting of Pendle Hill

    2.22022HD

    When a respected historian vanishes investigating the infamous Pendle Witch Trials of 1612, his daughter must undertake a rescue mission while uncovering the truth about the evil Demdike....

    The Haunting of Pendle Hill
  • 2018
    Witch Hunt: The Mechanics of Mass Hysteria

    Witch Hunt: The Mechanics of Mass Hysteria (2018)

    Witch Hunt: The Mechanics of Mass Hysteria

    02018HD

    Between the end of the Middle Ages and the late 18th century, over 50,000 Europeans were persecuted, tortured and executed on charges of witchcraft. The pogrom was triggered by the book 'Malleus Maleficarum', published in 1486. Its detailed instructi...

    Witch Hunt: The Mechanics of Mass Hysteria
  • 2022
    Caroltyn

    Caroltyn (2022)

    Caroltyn

    2.62022HD

    When a mysterious illness targets several children in the small town of Caroltyn, young single mom Kofi is forced to confront the past and the heartbreaking family traumas that haunt her....

    Caroltyn
  • 2008
    Saving Africa's Witch Children

    Saving Africa's Witch Children (2008)

    Saving Africa's Witch Children

    02008HD

    This shocking documentary reveals the plight of young Nigerians branded as witches....

    Saving Africa's Witch Children
  • 1956
    Three Brave Men

    Three Brave Men (1956)

    Three Brave Men

    4.81956HD

    A lawyer takes the case of a Navy clerk who sues after he's fired for suspected Communist beliefs....

    Three Brave Men
  • 2020
    Hexenkinder

    Hexenkinder (2020)

    Hexenkinder

    02020HD

    The movie recalls children who suffered mental and physical harm both during the last century, particularly in religious orphanages, and during the time of early modernperiod witch-hunts. It shows that the mindsets and behavioural patterns of both ti...

    Hexenkinder
  • 1984
    Akelarre

    Akelarre (1984)

    Akelarre

    5.71984HD

    A small village in Navarre, Spain, XVII century. Garazi's grandmother is burned at the stake when accussed of being a witch and convicted by an inquisitor, something that brings Garazi under suspicion and eventually into prison, where she is atrociou...

    Akelarre
  • 2020
    Intolerance

    Intolerance (2020)

    Intolerance

    02020HD

    In 1890, in one of the villages of Ukrainian Polissia, a man died under mysterious circumstances. The locals blamed his wife, a young healer, and banished her from the village. When affliction came to the village, people believed they had been cursed...

    Intolerance
  • 2001
    Ghosts and Witches of Olde England

    Ghosts and Witches of Olde England (2001)

    Ghosts and Witches of Olde England

    02001HD

    For centuries the telling of ghost stories has been a much-loved English tradition, and it's not only phantom specters that delight a susceptible audience. Witches, both good and evil have also been included in such terrifying tales for as long as an...

    Ghosts and Witches of Olde England
  • 1969
    Kill the Poet

    Kill the Poet (1969)

    Kill the Poet

    01969HD

    Set during WWII when artists were being blacklisted in Communist witch-hunts, follows the star-crossed love story of a young poet and a young female painter from a wealthy family....

    Kill the Poet
  • 1969
    Kalkutún, Trial of the Witches

    Kalkutún, Trial of the Witches (1969)

    Kalkutún, Trial of the Witches

    01969HD

    In 1880, an inexperienced prosecutor must indict a group of people accused of witchcraft and murder on the island of Chiloé. Meanwhile, a young peasant girl, to save her grandfather from the condemnation of the state, must be initiated into witchcraf...

    Kalkutún, Trial of the Witches
  • 1981
    The Witch Hunt

    The Witch Hunt (1981)

    The Witch Hunt

    5.71981HD

    Having gone through many personal struggles, Eli (Lil Terselius) returns to her native village and begins to work on the farm of Ingeborg Eriksdotter (Anita Bjork), eventually tending a plot that once belonged to her family. But Eli has been gone a l...

    The Witch Hunt