Ritual Movies

"Tourou et Bitti", an eight minute documentary concerning a ritual in Niger, is yet another example of Rouch's excellence in creating documentaries...

Nathan is thirteen years old boy. Driven by his new friend Malik, he prepares himself for a strange ritual to become a member of a teens gang.

Documentary film making at its best as it narrates very exotic and esoteric rituals of the primitive peoples of Africa.

For over 30 years, the so-called First Transmission video from Psychic TV, has been the stuff of, well, “snuff film” legend. First...

Mondo-style documentary in which a movie crew travels to newly independent Papua New Guinea to capture the customs and culture of the cannibal...

The 11th and scary psychic documentary!! Includes six tapes; "The illusion of channel 0", "The camera is alive.", "remaining pictures", "Rain housing...

A young woman's story of possession and healing in rural Rajasthan

An ambitious teen conducts an ancient ritual to enact petty revenge on those who she believes have wronged her.

The Pharmacratic Inquisition is a provocative film from Gnostic Media that makes the argument that virtually all of the mythology, symbolism, and...

After her mother’s death, Sarah lives isolated with her aunt. One night, she confesses experiencing the feeling of a presence, something...

"Mammy Water" is mother sea, source of food. Jean Rouch filmed this short documentary in the Gulf of Guinea, in Ghana, where is held a colorful...

The story concerns a man bound to death and a young girl, following a path of ritualistic transfiguration to ultimately become completely free as...

Five Japanese carpenters came to Boston that summer to reconstruct a Kyoto silkweaver's 150 year old townhouse that had been packed in crates and...

Thirteen years after her seemingly normal father goes on a killing spree, a college senior and friends return to her hometown to uncover the secret...

A young couple, Jana and Sami, prepare a religious ritual so that Jana can get in contact with her late friend.

Through a traditional cleansing ceremony in a popular market, Oliver, a young man, will try to release all the weight that he has been carrying for...

Three American late teens travel to Japan to escape a sad past and have some fun but end up trapped in a house with a demented Japanese host family...

Deep in the heart of FIU Miami, a group of students stumbles upon an ancient ritual hidden beneath the campus grounds. What starts as a curiosity...

A young woman guides a man through a mysterious forest. In his eyes, everything seems normal, until he comes across two women waiting for him in a...