Movies and TvShows featuring "religious-rite" theme.

In 1st-century Britannia, a Viking queen seeks revenge against the Roman Empire for the death of her father. With the help of a druid, she forms a political alliance and leads a rebellion against Roman tyranny.

In the harsh mountains of Tibet, a Tibetan shepherd loses his horse, a vital asset for his livelihood. Desperate, he steals another horse from a wealthy family. This decision sets off a chain of unfortunate events, including the death of his son, starvation, and isolation. The shepherd navigates a treacherous journey through the Himalaya mountain range in search of salvation and redemption. The film explores themes of survival, poverty, and the consequences of one's actions.

Dawn, a young white girl who has been kidnapped in infancy and reared by Mooda, an African woman who operates a canteen in the German cantonment, meets and falls in love with Tom Allen, an English rubber planter who is a prisoner of war. Shep Keyes, who has joined the German troops, covets her but realizes he cannot possess her because she is betrothed to the tribal god, Mulunghu. On the eve of the ceremony, he learns of her love for Tom. Tom, meanwhile, is sent back to England, and when the English take the territory from the Germans, Shep tries to incite the natives, who are experiencing a drought, against Dawn because of her love of a mortal. Tom learns from Mooda that Dawn was stolen from a white trader and finds her seeking refuge in a convent. Shep arouses the natives, but Dawn declares her faith in the white man's God, and a thunderstorm brings relief to the parched land, after which Tom claims her for his bride.

A smuggler hides from hit men with a Greek fisherman and his daughter.

A rapturous crime fable set in the Dominican Republic, Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias’ COCOTE follows Alberto, a kind-hearted gardener returning home to attend his father’s funeral. When he discovers that a powerful local figure is responsible for his father’s death, Alberto realizes that he’s been summoned by his family to avenge the murder. It’s an unthinkable act — especially for him, an Evangelical Christian. But as pressure mounts, he sees few ways out. Questions of faith, tradition and honor course through this electrifying film, which, seemingly at the speed of thought itself, jumps between film formats, colors, and aspect ratios, radically envisioning a community torn asunder by senseless violence.

Switzerland 1523. The mercenary Hansli Gyr returns with his soldiers from Italy to his home in the Oberland. They have fought for the Pope and now find a religious upheaval in Switzerland.

A disturbed sculptor assumes the identity of a small town priest and designs a game of divine madness for a unsuspecting town.

Documentary feature, re-edited for English-speaking countries, that gratuitously examines customs around the globe, focusing on repulsive sights and strange bits of knowledge about human customs

A boy fears that his upcoming first holy communion is actually a flesh-eating zombie initiation rite.

As a revolution ignites in the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal, the hidden lives of three young girls who are worshipped as gods unfolds. Their magical world of secret Tantric rituals, blood sacrifice and childish mischief is changed forever as the violence closes in.

In the small town of Pruchnik in the southeastern part of Poland villagers gather every year on Good Friday to "punish" Judas for his betrayal of Jesus. A larger-than-life straw puppet with a hooked nose is dragged through town, beaten, decapitated, burnt and thrown in the river. The film explores the thin line between pagan and Christian rites while exposing the sometimes brutal and blatantly anti-semitic undercurrents of Christian practice.