Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "ancient-curse"

1. The Mummy (1999)

PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

At an archaeological dig in the ancient city of Hamunaptra, an American serving in the French Foreign Legion accidentally awakens a mummy who begins to wreak havoc as he searches for the reincarnation of his long-lost love.

Director: Stephen Sommers | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo

Votes: 461,762 | Gross: $155.25M

2. TMNT (2007)

PG | 87 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

When the world is threatened by an ancient evil, the Ninja Turtles must reunite and overcome their faults in order to stand against it.

Director: Kevin Munroe | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Mako, Chris Evans, Sarah Michelle Gellar

Votes: 69,287 | Gross: $54.15M

3. The Mummy (1932)

Approved | 73 min | Fantasy, Horror

A resurrected Egyptian mummy searches Cairo for the girl he believes to be his long-lost princess.

Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Arthur Byron

Votes: 30,162

4. Black Sunday (1960)

Approved | 87 min | Horror

A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant.

Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi, Ivo Garrani

Votes: 17,624

5. Cat People (1942)

Not Rated | 73 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph

Votes: 26,029 | Gross: $4.00M

6. Tad the Lost Explorer and the Emerald Tablet (2022)

PG | 90 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Tad accidentally unleashes an ancient spell, endangering the lives of his friends Mummy, Jeff, and Belzoni. With everyone against him and only helped by Sara, he sets off on an adventure to end the Curse of the Mummy.

Director: Enrique Gato | Stars: Óscar Barberán, Luis Posada, Michelle Jenner, Ana Esther Alborg

Votes: 1,879

7. Jumanji: Level One (2021)

15 min | Short, Action, Adventure

Takes place in 1869, before the events of the original movie. It will finally reveal how the cursed game came to be and the adventures of the first people who played Jumanji.

Director: Lance Kawas | Stars: Robert Laenen, Aqeel Ash-Shakoor, Malachi Myles, Roe Dayzon

Votes: 621

8. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

Not Rated | 87 min | Horror, Mystery

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, André Morell, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi

Votes: 12,388

9. Dolly Dearest (1991)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

A toy manufacturer buys the 'Dolly Dearest' factory in Mexico, where the malevolent spirit of Sanzia, a devil child, has taken refuge in one of the porcelain dolls, and eventually takes control of his daughter.

Director: Maria Lease | Stars: Denise Crosby, Sam Bottoms, Rip Torn, Chris Demetral

Votes: 3,454

10. Room 203 (2022)

Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Horror

Two best friends and roommates are terrified by the vengeful spirits dwelling in their apartment. Based on the novel published by Kobunsha and written by Nanami Kamon.

Director: Ben Jagger | Stars: Francesca Xuereb, Viktoria Vinyarska, Eric Wiegand, Scott Gremillion

Votes: 1,944

11. Rabid Grannies (1988)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Horror

Two sweet little old ladies fall victim to an ancient curse that transforms them into bloodthirsty killers!

Director: Emmanuel Kervyn | Stars: Catherine Aymerie, Caroline Braeckman, Richard Cotica, Danielle Daven

Votes: 2,041

12. The Curse of the Cat People (1944)

Passed | 70 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

The young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed befriends her father's dead first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.

Directors: Gunther von Fritsch, Robert Wise | Stars: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Ann Carter

Votes: 7,186

13. Prisoners of the Sun (2013)

TV-14 | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

A multinational expedition discovers a lost city beneath a pyramid, where they must stop the reawakened gods of ancient Egypt from initiating the Apocalypse.

Director: Roger Christian | Stars: John Rhys-Davies, David Charvet, Carmen Chaplin, Emily Holmes

Votes: 1,618

14. Mansion of the Living Dead (1982)

93 min | Horror

A group of vacationing waitresses visit a resort hotel on the Canary Islands, only to find that the former monastery's monks nearby have returned as living blind dead.

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Antonio Mayans, Mabel Escaño, Albino Graziani

Votes: 811

15. The Dead Are Alive! (1972)

R | 106 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A photographer on an archaeological expedition digging up Etruscan ruins in Italy begins to suspect that not all the Etruscans buried there are actually dead.

Director: Armando Crispino | Stars: Alex Cord, Samantha Eggar, John Marley, Nadja Tiller

Votes: 1,060 | Gross: $0.11M

16. The Fallen Ones (2005 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 89 min | Horror

An archaeologist finds the mummified remains of a giant--the offspring of a Fallen Angel and a human woman. Now he has to stop the terror he has unleashed.

Director: Kevin VanHook | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Kristen Miller, Geoffrey Lewis, Navid Negahban

Votes: 945

17. Noah's Shark (2021)

Not Rated | 71 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

A fame-seeking televangelist and his film crew team set out to find the fabled Noah's Ark, but discover it is guarded by both an ancient curse and a prehistoric great white shark.

Director: Mark Polonia | Stars: Jeff Kirkendall, Ryan Dalton, Jamie Morgan, Tim Hatch

Votes: 392

18. The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (1980 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 98 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery

After an archeological expedition discovers the tomb of the Egyptian king Tutankhamen, many of the scientists, engineers and workmen begin mysteriously dying off.

Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Eva Marie Saint, Robin Ellis, Raymond Burr, Harry Andrews

Votes: 386

19. The Beast and the Magic Sword (1983)

Not Rated | 120 min | Horror, Fantasy

In the 16th century, lycanthrope Waldemar Daninsky travels from his native Europe to Japan, seeking a way to cure himself of being a werewolf. Only a Japanese sorcerer named Kian and a magic silver sword can save him.

Director: Paul Naschy | Stars: Paul Naschy, Shigeru Amachi, Beatriz Escudero, Junko Asahina

Votes: 420

20. Viral (2024)

Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Post-production

As creators go missing after taking part in an online challenge, a small group looking for answers confronts their own dark secrets...and an evil force.

Director: Bryan Renaud | Stars: Sadieh Rifai, Deanna Reed-Foster, Janet Ulrich Brooks, Jessica Arden Napier

21. The Devil's Dolls (2016)

Not Rated | 85 min | Horror, Thriller

In the aftermath of the hunt for a serial killer, an ancient curse consumes a city, causing a series of brutal murders and pitting a detective against the clock to save his daughter's life.

Director: Padraig Reynolds | Stars: Christopher Wiehl, Kym Jackson, Tina Lifford, Samantha Smith

Votes: 1,857

22. Curse of Bigfoot (1975 TV Movie)

Unrated | 88 min | Horror

"Curse of Bigfoot" tells the tale of a group of high school students on an archaeological dig who discover a centuries old mummified body in a sealed cave.

Director: Dave Flocker | Stars: Bob Clymire, Jan Swihart, Bill Simonsen, Dennis Kottmeier

Votes: 779

23. Playhouse (2020)

87 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

In a remote Scottish castle, an irreverent writer faces terrifying consequences when his daughter falls prey to an evil curse lurking within the walls.

Directors: Fionn Watts, Toby Watts | Stars: Rebecca Calienda, Grace Courtney, Mathilde Darmady, Julie Higginson

Votes: 568

24. We Want Our Mummy (1939)

Approved | 18 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy

The stooges go to Egypt in search of the mummy of king Rutentuten for which a museum will pay a $5000 prize. They wind up in the mummy's tomb where they are harassed by some criminals ... See full summary »

Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dick Curtis

Votes: 643

25. Frank & Zed (2020)

90 min | Animation, Horror

Two reanimated corpses, dependent on each other for survival, live a life of solitude until a power-hungry magistrate tricks a group of villagers into attacking their lonely castle, fulfilling an ancient prophecy: The Orgy of Blood.

Director: Jesse Blanchard | Stars: Jerry Bell Jr., Aaron Booth, Randolph F. Christen, Chris Henry

Votes: 130

26. The Spaniard's Curse (1958)

Unrated | 80 min | Crime, Thriller

A man is convicted of murder. He denies murder, and uses an ancient curse to threaten those responsible for sentencing him to death.

Director: Ralph Kemplen | Stars: Tony Wright, Lee Patterson, Susan Beaumont, Michael Hordern

Votes: 250

27. Attack of the Mayan Mummy (1964 TV Movie)

Unrated | 77 min | Horror

Following the death of his sister, who was co-director with him of the Cowan Research Center in Pasadena, Dr. Frederick Munson was ousted and replaced by his widowed brother-in-law, Dr. ... See full summary »

Directors: Rafael Portillo, Jerry Warren | Stars: Nina Knight, Richard Webb, John Burton, Peter Mills

Votes: 188

28. The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West (1947)

Approved | 285 min | Drama, Mystery

The Vigilante, a masked government agent, is assigned to investigate the case of the "100 Tears of Blood", a cursed string of rare blood red pearls sought by a gang led by the unknown X-1 that may have been smuggled into the country.

Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Ralph Byrd, Ramsay Ames, Lyle Talbot, George Offerman Jr.

Votes: 129

29. Curses of the Witch (1927)

82 min | Drama, Horror

A newlywed couple suffer from the effects of a curse a witch put on the place they live in centuries earlier.

Director: Teuvo Puro | Stars: Einar Rinne, Heidi Blåfield, Irmeli Viherjuuri, Kaisa Leppänen

Votes: 161

30. Dark Streets of Cairo (1940)

Approved | 59 min | Adventure, Mystery

Jewel smugglers in Cairo try to pin their crimes on a kidnapped baron.

Director: László Kardos | Stars: Sigrid Gurie, Ralph Byrd, Eddie Quillan, George Zucco

Votes: 68

31. Bakala (2017)

15 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

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Director: Nikolas Lachajczak | Stars: Steve Wurramara, Derek Wurramara, Jeanna Wurramara, Morgan Wurramara

32. Powerslave (1996 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

The CIA sends in a commando team into Egypt to combat an evil presence in the area (the evil presence turns out to stem from an ancient pharoah's curse). The commando team's helicopter ... See full summary »

Director: Brian McNeely | Star: Don LaFontaine

Votes: 73

33. M*A*S*H (1972–1983)
Episode: Exorcism (1976)

TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy, Drama, War

To save the life of an elderly local who rejects an operation because he believes bad spirits surround the 4077th, Colonel Potter permits a Korean exorcism.

Director: Alan Alda | Stars: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit

Votes: 559

34. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: GeoCore (2000)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A chemist hired by a shady businessman to analyze a soil sample from the sacred ground of a Native American tribe is killed by something in it. Lindsay, Peter and everyone in the building are put in quarantine. A shaman offers her help.

Director: Jon Cassar | Stars: Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Joanne Vannicola, Colin Fox

Votes: 13

35. Quantum Leap (1989–1993)
Episode: The Curse of Ptah-Hotep - March 2, 1957 (1992)

TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

At an archaeological dig in Egypt Sam has to deal with an approaching sandstorm and a 3000 year old curse.

Director: Joe Napolitano | Stars: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell, Lisa Darr, John Kapelos

Votes: 428

36. The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1968–1969)
Episode: The Curse of Thut (1968)

Adventure, Animation

The mummy Thut has been searching for his lost love, Princess Marna. Huck and Tom recover the spider symbol he has dropped in his wanderings throughout the desert and return it to him. ... See full summary »

Director: Bruce Bilson | Stars: Michael Shea, Lu Ann Haslam, Kevin Schultz, Ted Cassidy

Votes: 14

37. Travel Man: 48 Hours in... (2015– )
Episode: Dubrovnik (2019)

Not Rated | 24 min | Documentary, Adventure, Comedy

Richard Ayoade begins his final stint presenting the wry travel series in Dubrovnik with Stephen Merchant. The pair take a Game of Thrones (2011) tour, a buggy safari and a ferry across to the cursed island of Lokrum.

Director: Nicola Silk | Stars: Richard Ayoade, Stephen Merchant

Votes: 73

38. World War Weird (2017– )
Episode: Episode #3.1 (2019)

Documentary, History, War

Bizarre events during wartime, featuring a Nazi anti-gravity device, phantom cities built during the Second World War, Stalin's cursed tomb and poultry of mass destruction.

Director: Mike Ibeji | Stars: Guy Walters, Alexandra Churchill, Joshua Levine, Klint Janulis

39. Weird or What? (2010–2012)
Episode: Monsters (2011)

TV-PG | 51 min | Documentary

Weird or What examines stories about real life monsters. It goes to Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and discusses the tale of the mysterious Mothman. It then goes to Newfoundland, Canada, to... See full summary »

Directors: Stephen Scott, Sean Turrell, Adrian Callender | Stars: William Shatner, Loren Coleman, Faye Leport, Joe Nickell

Votes: 23

40. Nightmare on Film Street (2016– )
Channel 666: THE MIDNIGHT HOUR (1985) (2023 Podcast Episode)

Horror

Slide that dial over to 'Channel 666' on the Nightmare on Film Street horror movie podcast. Your horror-loving hosts Kimmi and Jon are kicking it back to Halloween 1985, diving deep into The Midnight Hour.

Directors: Jonathan Dehaan, Kimberley Elizabeth | Stars: Jonathan Dehaan, Kimberley Elizabeth

41. Thunderbirds Are Go (2015–2020)
Episode: Tunnels of Time (2015)

TV-G | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

When Lady Penelope, Parker and a smitten Gordon investigate a newly discovered temple in South America, they soon fall foul of ancient booby traps. TB1 and TB2 investigate.

Directors: Theo Baynton, David Scott | Stars: David Menkin, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Rasmus Hardiker, Rosamund Pike

Votes: 74

42. The ComicWeb: Old Time Radio Programs (2014– )
Escape: Ring of Thoth (2018 Podcast Episode)

History

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Stars: Joan Banks, Thomas Freebairn-Smith, Jack Webb