Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "castle-on-a-hill"

1. A Cure for Wellness (2016)

R | 146 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps, but soon suspects that the spa's treatments are not what they seem.

Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth, Ivo Nandi

Votes: 109,748 | Gross: $8.11M

2. Conan the Destroyer (1984)

PG | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Conan leads a ragtag group of adventurers on a quest for a princess.

Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones, Olivia d'Abo, Wilt Chamberlain

Votes: 85,409 | Gross: $31.04M

3. Frankenstein (1931)

Passed | 70 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.

Director: James Whale | Stars: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, John Boles

Votes: 79,801

4. Dracula (1931)

Passed | 75 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.

Directors: Tod Browning, Karl Freund | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Dwight Frye

Votes: 58,703

5. Northanger Abbey (2007 TV Movie)

PG | 84 min | Drama, Romance

A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.

Director: Jon Jones | Stars: Geraldine James, Michael Judd, Julia Dearden, Gerry O'Brien

Votes: 16,216

6. Twins of Evil (1971)

R | 87 min | Horror

A religious sect led by Gustav Weil hunts all women suspected of witchcraft, killing a number of innocent victims. Young Frieda, Gustav's niece, will involve herself in a devilish cult, and become an instrument of Justice in the region.

Director: John Hough | Stars: Peter Cushing, Dennis Price, Mary Collinson, Madeleine Collinson

Votes: 6,505

7. Tale of Tales (2015)

R | 134 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

From the bitter quest of the Queen of Longtrellis, to two mysterious sisters who provoke the passion of a king, to the King of Highhills obsessed with a giant Flea, these tales are inspired by the fairytales by Giambattista Basile.

Director: Matteo Garrone | Stars: Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, John C. Reilly

Votes: 31,237 | Gross: $0.08M

8. BloodRayne (2005)

R | 95 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

In the eighteenth century, a vampire escapes from the freak show, in which she once participated, and teams up with a group of vampire slayers to kill the man who raped her mother.

Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Kristanna Loken, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Rodriguez, Michael Madsen

Votes: 37,218 | Gross: $2.41M

9. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Not Rated | 75 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.

Director: James Whale | Stars: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson

Votes: 53,314 | Gross: $4.36M

10. Dracula's Daughter (1936)

Unrated | 71 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

When Countess Marya Zaleska appears in London, mysterious events occur that lead Dr. Von Helsing to believe that the Countess must be a vampire.

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden, Marguerite Churchill, Edward Van Sloan

Votes: 8,024

11. Ronia: The Robber's Daughter (1984)

Not Rated | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Ronja, the only child of robber chief Mattis must learn to survive the dangers of her local wilderness. In secret she also befriends Birk, the son of a rivaling robber Borka.

Director: Tage Danielsson | Stars: Hanna Zetterberg, Dan Håfström, Börje Ahlstedt, Lena Nyman

Votes: 12,132

12. Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)

R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Baron Frankenstein creates two "zombies" - one male, one female - planning to mate them in order to create a master race.

Directors: Paul Morrissey, Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Monique van Vooren

Votes: 6,945 | Gross: $10.25M

13. Son of Frankenstein (1939)

Approved | 99 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Returning to the ancestral castle long after the death of the monster, the son of Dr. Frankenstein meets a mad shepherd who is hiding the comatose creature. To clear the family name, he revives the creature and tries to rehabilitate him.

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill

Votes: 11,711

14. The Haunted Palace (1963)

Not Rated | 87 min | Horror

Charles Dexter Ward arrives at a small village to visit the house he inherited from his ancestor who died there 100 years ago.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Vincent Price, Debra Paget, Lon Chaney Jr., Frank Maxwell

Votes: 8,476 | Gross: $2.62M

15. Count Dracula's Great Love (1973)

85 min | Horror

The Transylvanian vampire searches for a virgin sacrifice to resurrect his long-dead daughter.

Director: Javier Aguirre | Stars: Paul Naschy, Rosanna Yanni, Haydée Politoff, Mirta Miller

Votes: 1,205

16. The Vampire Happening (1971)

Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Horror

An American actress inherits a castle in Transylvania. What she doesn't know is that her ancestor, the Baroness Catali, was in actuality a vampire countess, and emerges from her tomb to ravage the nearby village and Catholic seminary.

Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Pia Degermark, Thomas Hunter, Yvor Murillo, Ingrid van Bergen

Votes: 723

17. The Devil's Wedding Night (1973)

R | 83 min | Horror

Lady Dracula uses Dracula's ring to lure beautiful girls to her castle, where she murders them so she can bathe in their blood.

Directors: Luigi Batzella, Joe D'Amato | Stars: Mark Damon, Rosalba Neri, Esmeralda Barros, Enza Sbordone

Votes: 1,040

18. Lady of Csejte (2015)

Not Rated | 106 min | Horror

Based on a story of Countess Bathory, a serial killer in 16th century Transylvania who supposedly killed hundreds of children.

Director: Andrei Konst | Stars: Svetlana Khodchenkova, Isabelle Allen, Pavel Derevyanko, Ada Condeescu

Votes: 752

19. Gritta of the Rats' Castle (1985)

79 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

The tale of young Gritta who lives with her father, an unsuccessful inventor. When her new stepmother tries to put her away in a convent she discovers some dark secrets there.

Director: Jürgen Brauer | Stars: Nadja Klier, Hermann Beyer, Suher Saleh, Fred Delmare

Votes: 166

20. Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks (1974)

PG | 89 min | Horror

Brazzi plays mad Dr. Frankenstein, Dunn is an evil dwarf and Lugosi (no relation to Bela) is a Neanderthal man. Add a monster named Hulk, and some nude women for sexploitation value.

Director: Dick Randall | Stars: Rossano Brazzi, Michael Dunn, Edmund Purdom, Gordon Mitchell

Votes: 1,263

21. Blue Jeans (1975)

TV-14 | 93 min | Drama

A young free-spirited drifter falls in love for an older man, who might be her long-lost father.

Director: Mario Imperoli | Stars: Gloria Guida, Paolo Carlini, Annie Carol Edel, Gianluigi Chirizzi

Votes: 394

22. The Magician (I) (1926)

Passed | 83 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A magician/alchemist, seeking to create life, finds that he needs the "blood of a virgin" to continue his experiments. He sends out his dwarf assistant to pick out the right girl.

Director: Rex Ingram | Stars: Alice Terry, Paul Wegener, Firmin Gémier, Iván Petrovich

Votes: 866

23. The Kingdom of the Fairies (1903)

Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Adventure, Fantasy

In this spectacular free adaptation of the popular theatre play "La Biche au Bois", the valiant Prince Bel-Azor pursues a baleful old witch to her impregnable castle, to save the beautiful young Princess Azurine.

Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Georges Méliès, Marguerite Thévenard, Bleuette Bernon, André Deed

Votes: 1,825

24. Memorias de Leticia Valle (1979)

101 min | Drama

Based on the 1945 Memorias de Leticia Valle Memoirs of Leticia Valle is the fictionalized diary of an eleven-year-old girl who records an "inconceivable" seduction.

Director: Miguel Ángel Rivas | Stars: Ramiro Oliveros, Jeannine Mestre, Fernando Rey, Emma Suárez

Votes: 42

25. Lycantropus (2006 Video)

72 min | Horror

A beautiful woman takes in an injured man found on her doorstep. Townspeople are attacked in the woods surrounding a castle. The beautiful couple living there may know more than they let on.

Director: Pasquale Fanetti | Stars: Oxana Edelweiss, Denis Gruia, Aureliu Surulescu, Corneliu Gipa

Votes: 6

26. The Mysteries of the Chateau de De (1929)

27 min | Documentary, Short

Two masked men playing dice in a bar leave, get in a car, and drive to the ruins of a castle on a hill. There. they find a modern chateau filled with contemporary furniture and abstract art. Time to roll the dice.

Director: Man Ray | Stars: Man Ray, Jacques-André Boiffard, Georges Auric, Le Comte de Beaumont

Votes: 725

27. Movie Macabre (1981–1993)
Episode: Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks (1984)

TV-14 | 103 min | Comedy, Horror

Join Elvira on a journey to visit a castle where

Director: Larry Thomas | Stars: Rossano Brazzi, Bill Cable, Cassandra Peterson

Votes: 37

28. Movie Macabre (1981–1993)
Episode: The Devil's Wedding Night (1983)

TV-14 | Comedy, Horror

A quest for the mythical Ring of Vermougglian leads the Schiller brothers to Transylvania and Castle Dracula, where they find more than they bargained for in the castle's current resident and her undead servant.

Director: Larry Thomas | Stars: Cassandra Peterson, Eve Smith

Votes: 23

29. Time Team (1994– )
Episode: Wemyss, Fife (2005)

Not Rated | Documentary, History

Jonathan's Cave, Sloping Cave and Well Cave at Wemyss have had continuous use since Pictish times. They dig through many layers of occupation. Is there a passageway between Well cave and MacDuff castle above?

Director: Michael Douglas | Stars: Tony Robinson, Mick Aston, Phil Harding, Carenza Lewis

Votes: 21

30. Time Team (1994– )
Episode: Dungannon, Northern Ireland (2008)

Not Rated | 47 min | Documentary, History

A former military compound is between reverting back to a council open space. From illustrations there was a castle here. But where? The adjacent communication mast does not help geophys, nor does military grade concrete covering.

Director: Michael Douglas | Stars: Tony Robinson, Mick Aston, Phil Harding, Stewart Ainsworth

Votes: 11

31. Movie Macabre (1981–1993)
Episode: Count Dracula's Great Love (1982)

TV-14 | Comedy, Horror

Four women spend the night in an old deserted sanitarium on a mountain.

Director: Larry Thomas | Star: Cassandra Peterson

Votes: 27

32. Movie Macabre (1981–1993)
Episode: Frankenstein (1982)

TV-14 | Comedy, Horror

What can be better than watching one of the classic horror films of all time with Elvira?

Star: Cassandra Peterson

33. Time Team (1994– )
Episode: Castle Hill, Crewkerne, Somerset (2012)

Not Rated | 49 min | Documentary, History

For generations a family of Somerset farmers have been wondering if there was ever actually a castle on top of 'Castle Hill'. Records show there was a Norman castle in the area, but they are not clear about exactly where.

Director: Tony Lee | Stars: Tony Robinson, Mary-Ann Ochota, Mick Aston, Phil Harding

Votes: 16