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51. Witch Hunter Robin (2002–2003)
TV-PG | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Witches exist, and it is the mysterious organization STNJ's job to hunt them down. Robin is a recent trainee who joins up, and begins unraveling the secrets of both the witches and STNJ.
Stars: Akeno Watanabe, Steve Blum, Kari Wahlgren, Karen Strassman
Votes: 2,205
52. Convent of Sinners (1986)
89 min | Drama, Horror
Convent of Sinners is the story of Susanna, a young girl who is raped by her own father and sent to a convent for her sins, where she falls in love with a priest. The other nuns, however, ... See full summary »
Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: Eva Grimaldi, Karin Well, Gabriele Gori, Luciana Ottaviani
Votes: 471
53. Fire Over England (1937)
92 min | Adventure, History, Romance
During the reign of Elizabeth I, a young man's fervent devotion to the crown and to his sweetheart, a lady-in-waiting, lead him to battle for England's victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588.
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Flora Robson, Vivien Leigh, Raymond Massey
Votes: 1,989
54. The Witches' Sabbath (1988)
94 min | Drama
The freshly graduated psychiatrist David shall deliver an opinion about young Maddalena, who's on trial for murdering a hunter. She claims she's a witch and acted on behalf of the devil. ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Béatrice Dalle, Daniel Ezralow, Corinne Touzet, Jacques Weber
Votes: 387
55. Giordano Bruno (1973)
123 min | Biography, Drama, History
Fleeing from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) has found some protection in Venice. But the Roman Inquisition,... See full summary »
Director: Giuliano Montaldo | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Hans Christian Blech, Mathieu Carrière, Renato Scarpa
Votes: 982
56. Catacombs (1988)
R | 88 min | Horror
A demon is trapped in a monastery. 400 years later a young girl arrives at the monastery to study.
Director: David Schmoeller | Stars: Timothy Van Patten, Ian Abercrombie, Jeremy West, Laura Schaefer
Votes: 946
57. Destiny (1997)
135 min | Comedy, Drama, History
The story is set in the 12th century in Arab-ruled Spanish province Andalusia, where famed philosopher Averroes is appointed grand judge by the caliph and his liberal court judgments are ... See full summary »
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Nour El-Sherif, Layla Olwi, Mahmoud Hemida, Safia El Emari
Votes: 3,209
58. El Greco (2007)
119 min | Biography, Drama
The story of the uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known to the world as "El Greco".
Director: Yannis Smaragdis | Stars: Nick Clark Windo, Juan Diego Botto, Laia Marull, Lakis Lazopoulos
Votes: 4,952
59. Beyond the Limits (2003)
111 min | Horror, Thriller
Vivian tracks down Frederick, a caretaker at an old cemetery, to hear a story of two people connected by a mysterious past.
Director: Olaf Ittenbach | Stars: Darren Shahlavi, Russell Friedenberg, David Creedon, Natacza Boon
Votes: 1,236
60. The Reincarnation of Isabel (1973)
Unrated | 98 min | Horror
A group of vampires keep the body of a witch in a castle cellar. They require virgin blood to resurrect her. A party of people arrive and things kick off.
Director: Renato Polselli | Stars: Mickey Hargitay, Rita Calderoni, Raul Lovecchio, Christa Barrymore
Votes: 1,024
61. Inquisition (1977)
90 min | Horror
A witch-finder general falls in love with the village beauty, who has supposedly made a pact with the devil.
Director: Paul Naschy | Stars: Paul Naschy, Daniela Giordano, Mónica Randall, Ricardo Merino
Votes: 634
62. Galileo (1975)
PG | 145 min | Biography, Drama
This biopic is about Galileo Galilei, the seventeenth century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science. Galileo made himself one of the world's first telescopes and discovered the... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Topol, Edward Fox, Colin Blakely, Georgia Brown
Votes: 673
63. Xica da Silva (1996–1998)
60 min | Drama, Romance
In the Brazil Colonial period, an intelligent, seductive and vengefully ruthless slave rises to become a practical queen when an important contractor falls for her, much for the anger of a woman obsessed with him.
Stars: Taís Araújo, Drica Moraes, Victor Wagner, Carlos Alberto
Votes: 441
64. I, the Worst of All (1990)
R | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History
This fact-based film examines the life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Assumpta Serna), a Roman Catholic nun from Mexico City who, in the midst of the Spanish Inquisition, established herself... See full summary »
Director: María Luisa Bemberg | Stars: Assumpta Serna, Dominique Sanda, Héctor Alterio, Lautaro Murúa
Votes: 723 | Gross: $0.05M
65. The Headsman (2005)
R | 115 min | Drama
The story of time-tested loyalty of two friends during Europe's 16th-century Inquisition. Orphans Martin and Georg bond as children, but walk very different paths as adults. Georg follows ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Aeby | Stars: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Peter McDonald, Anastasia Griffith, Steven Berkoff
Votes: 1,078
66. Hepzibah - Sie holt dich im Schlaf (2010 TV Movie)
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Just before her 18th birthday, Kirsten leaves for a village called Selmen. All the girls kill themselves when they turn 18. Kirsten finds out that just before that, they all had problems ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Sigl | Stars: Eleanor Tomlinson, Finn Atkins, Christopher Elson, David Bamber
Votes: 275
67. Dirty Pictures (2000 TV Movie)
R | 104 min | Drama
A Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe.
Director: Frank Pierson | Stars: James Woods, Ann Marin, Craig T. Nelson, Diana Scarwid
Votes: 876
68. Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr (2018 Video Game)
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Enter the Chaos-infested Caligari Sector and purge the unclean with the most powerful agents of the Imperium of Man.
Stars: Timothy Banfield, Jeremy Brown, Madison Brunoehler, Amber Cunliffe
Votes: 79
69. Bloody Sin (I) (2011)
TV-MA | 90 min | Horror
A team of researchers investigates a European castle that was used for sadistic tortures during the inquisition, as well as horrifying and abominable Nazi experiments on innocent people. ... See full summary »
Director: Domiziano Cristopharo | Stars: Elda Alvigini, Simone Arrighi, Daniel Emilio Baldock, Lorenzo Balducci
Votes: 118
70. Le moine (1972)
94 min | Drama, Horror
Ambrosio is a monk who is sexually tempted by an emissary of the Devil, a young girl in monk's robes.
Director: Adonis Kyrou | Stars: Franco Nero, Nathalie Delon, Nicol Williamson, Nadja Tiller
Votes: 353
71. Eisenhorn: Xenos (2016 Video Game)
Action
inquisitor Eisenhorn is a brave man to believe in his old friend, in this action adventure video game comes to PC and android device, a supernatural curse is behind in his way to find the true inquisitor?
Director: Nader Auikhani | Stars: Mark Strong, Bea Holland, Charlie White, James Macnaughton
Votes: 21
72. The Executioner of Venice (1963)
90 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In Venice,during the Inquisition,Sandrigo Bembo,the son of the Doge Giovanni Bembo,is falsely accused of treason out of pure malice by the Grand Inquisitor Rodrigo Zeno.
Director: Luigi Capuano | Stars: Lex Barker, Guy Madison, Alessandra Panaro, Mario Petri
Votes: 227
73. España, la primera globalización (2021)
110 min | Documentary
Documentary about Spain's contribution to a time of discoveries and a first globalization.
Director: José Luis López-Linares | Stars: Antonio Valero, Rubén García Benito, Alicia Relinque, Abigail Horro Rodríguez
Votes: 323
74. L'hypothèse du tableau volé (1978)
66 min | Drama, Mystery
Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, ... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Jean Rougeul, Chantal Paley, Jean Raynaud, Daniel Grimm
Votes: 1,214
75. Storm: Letters van Vuur (2017)
100 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Storm Voeten, son of printer Klaas Voeten, becomes the target of a hunt by the Inquisition. Aided by Marieke, a mysterious girl living in the underground sewers of Antwerp, Storm is caught ... See full summary »
Director: Dennis Bots | Stars: Davy Gomez, Juna de Leeuw, Yorick van Wageningen, Angela Schijf
Votes: 672
76. Mia moglie è una strega (1980)
93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A witch being condemned to burn to death by the Holy Inquisition makes a contract with the devil to be reborn in our times...
Directors: Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia | Stars: Renato Pozzetto, Eleonora Giorgi, Lia Tanzi, Enrico Papa
Votes: 761
77. De Serpentis Munere (2021)
78 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In every man there lies a woman who can be awakened. The prohibited book De Serpentis Munere. Alchemical formulae able to change male DNA in female. Mysterious radioactive water. A biologist and a Vatican priest in search of the truth.
Director: Roberto Leoni | Stars: Guglielmo Scilla, Alexandra Dinu, Valentina Reggio, Joe Marino
Votes: 9
78. The Monk (1990)
106 min | Drama, Horror
The monk Ambrosio is renowned for his faith and his strength of will, a saint in the eyes of the populace. However, when he discovers the beautiful Matilda hidden in his own monastery, all his repressed passions begin to show themselves.
Director: Francisco Lara Polop | Stars: Paul McGann, Sophie Ward, Isla Blair, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
Votes: 97
79. Darkside Witches (2015)
TV-MA | 89 min | Horror
In 1589, six innocent women were accused from the inquisition of witchery in the small ligurian mountain.
Director: Gerard Diefenthal | Stars: Gerard Diefenthal, Barbara Bouchet, Anna Orso, Eleonora Albrecht
Votes: 572
80. The God Who Wasn't There (2005)
62 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Did Jesus exist? This film starts with that question, then goes on to examine Christianity as a whole.
Director: Brian Flemming | Stars: Sam Harris, Robert M. Price, Richard Carrier, Earl Doherty
Votes: 5,055
81.
A Ghost Story for Christmas (1971–1978)
Episode:
The Ash Tree
(1975)
32 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
"The Ash Tree" tells the tale of when an aristocrat inherits his family haunted estate.
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: Edward Petherbridge, Preston Lockwood, Barbara Ewing, Lalla Ward
Votes: 773
82. Case #1, Case #2 (1979)
53 min | Documentary, Drama
While the teacher is faced towards the blackboard, one of the students makes some funny noises. The teacher can't find the person who did that, so he decides to dismiss a group of students ... See full summary »
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Mehdi Azadbakht, Mohammadreza Barati, Hedayat Matin Daftari, Nader Ebrahimi
Votes: 795
83. Leaves From Satan's Book (1920)
TV-14 | 167 min | Drama
In 4 episodic tales of human suffering: the temptation of Jesus, the Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution and the Russo-Finnish war of 1918, Satan attempts to win God's favor.
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Helge Nissen, Halvard Hoff, Jacob Texiere, Hallander Helleman
Votes: 1,358
84. El rey pasmado (1991)
106 min | Comedy, History
After spending a night with a sensual prostitute, the King of Spain decides that he wants to see his wife naked. His decision causes a real revolution amidst his subjects.
Director: Imanol Uribe | Stars: María Barranco, Joaquim de Almeida, Laura del Sol, Gabino Diego
Votes: 874
85. Beyond the Walls (1985)
118 min | Drama, Romance
In the middle of the Spanish Golden Age, a Castilian convent is about to be closed and the nuns residing there dispersed. Then, one of the sisters comes up with a saving idea that could ... See full summary »
Director: Miguel Picazo | Stars: Carmen Maura, Mercedes Sampietro, Aurora Bautista, Assumpta Serna
Votes: 231
86. In the Name of the Pope King (1977)
105 min | Drama, History
In 1867, with Garibaldi's forces close to bringing Rome into the Italian kingdom, Monsignor Colombo da Priverno, a world-weary judge on the papal court, wants to resign, disgusted by the ... See full summary »
Director: Luigi Magni | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Danilo Mattei, Carmen Scarpitta, Giovannella Grifeo
Votes: 656
87. The Lord Inquisitor: Seed of Ambition (2017)
Short, Action, Sci-Fi
Warhammer 40k influenced movie.
Director: Erasmus Brosdau | Stars: Alan Kelly, Stephen Fawkes, Jean Pierre Morne Allers
Votes: 138
88. When the Moors Ruled in Europe (2005)
PG | 102 min | Documentary
This program contends that the popular perception of the Muslim occupation of Spain toward the end of the first millennium is largely wrong. The eighth century Muslim invasion of the ... See full summary »
Director: Timothy Copestake | Stars: Bettany Hughes, Antonio Almagro, Moussa Aouni, Pedro Chalmeta Gendrón
Votes: 203
89. God's Outlaw (1986)
Not Rated | 93 min | Biography, Drama, History
A dramatized biography of William Tyndale, the 16th Century reformer determined to translate the Bible into English, which illegal act set him at odds with the Catholic Church, Sir Thomas More and King Henry VIII.
Director: Tony Tew | Stars: Roger Rees, Bernard Archard, Keith Barron, Kenneth Gilbert
Votes: 248
90. La dinastía de Dracula (1980)
85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
In the 16th century, the Inquisition condemns Count Orloff, a vampire and sorcerer to death. In the 19th century, the vampire Madame Kostoff arrives in Mexico and buys the house where the vampire was buried and revives him.
Directors: Alfredo B. Crevenna, Claudia Becker | Stars: Fabián Aranza, Silvia Manríquez, Rubén Rojo, Magda Guzmán
Votes: 96
91. The Seven Ravens (2015)
103 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A young girl takes a hard task. She must try to save her brothers and get rid of the curse placed on them by their mother. It is a story of courage, perseverance, but also of the power of words, truth and true love.
Director: Alice Nellis | Stars: Martha Issová, Sabina Remundová, Lukás Príkazký, Václav Neuzil
Votes: 495
92. Goya - oder Der arge Weg der Erkenntnis (1971)
136 min | Drama
As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya - played by the great Lithuanian actor Donatas Banionis (The Red Tent, Solaris) - has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King ... See full summary »
Director: Konrad Wolf | Stars: Donatas Banionis, Olivera Katarina, Fred Düren, Tatyana Lolova
Votes: 384
93. Menocchio the Heretic (2018)
103 min | Drama, History
The story of a man who is incapable of betraying his principles.
Director: Alberto Fasulo | Stars: Marcello Martini, Maurizio Fanin, Carlo Baldracchi, Nilla Patrizio
Votes: 283
94. The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope (1983)
15 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
A horrifying, surrealist version of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" directed by the masterful animator Jan Svankmajer.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Star: Jan Zácek
Votes: 1,044
95. The Puppeteers (2017)
178 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Jakob Fugger's scheming to become as rich as Croesus from copper and silver mining as banker of the mighty in Catholic Christianity requires seeing the papacy to organize a European ... See full summary »
Stars: Samuel Schneider, Herbert Knaup, Sascha Alexander Gersak, Helen Woigk
Votes: 141
96. Our Heavenly Bodies (1920)
70 min | Documentary, Sci-Fi
Documentary on physics and astronomy.
Director: Hanns Walter Kornblum | Stars: Paul Bildt, Willy Kaiser-Heyl, Theodor Loos, Oscar Marion
Votes: 171
97. Born in Evin (2019)
95 min | Documentary
Filmmaker and actress, Maryam Zaree, and her quest to find out the circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious political prisons in the world.
Director: Maryam Zaree | Stars: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Maryam Zaree, Chowra Makaremi
Votes: 187
98. Cagliostro - Liebe und Leben eines großen Abenteurers (1929)
58 min | Horror, Thriller
Cagliostro, an Italian adventurer rises through the French aristocracy on account of his magical tricks, medical knowledge and ability to foretell the future. When he falls from grace after... See full summary »
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Hans Stüwe, Renée Héribel, Alfred Abel, Ivan Koval-Samborsky
Votes: 143
99. The Jew (1996)
91 min | Drama
Portugal, 1739, the reign of King João V, who tries to keep a delicate balance between the power of the Church and the interests of the Court. António José da Silva, nicknamed "the Jew", a ... See full summary »
Director: Jom Tob Azulay | Stars: Filipe Pinheiro, Dina Sfat, Mário Viegas, José Lewgoy
Votes: 137
100. Inquisitio (2012)
Drama, History
We write the year 1370, the time of the Inquisition. Two popes are fighting a fierce battle for domination in the Catholic Church: Clement VII in Avignon and Urbanus VI in Rome. Grand ... See full summary »
Stars: Aurélien Wiik, Vladislav Galard, Annelise Hesme, Lula Cotton-Frapier
Votes: 149