Top rated academic movies on Shudder
Check out today’s highest ranked academic movies on Shudder! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best academic movies on Shudder, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 La Llorona (2019)
Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.
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- 2019-07-25 | Thriller / Horror
Cast
- María Mercedes Coroy, Sabrina De La Hoz
Rating
6.458
2 Detention (2019)
In the 1960s, two classmates go looking for their missing friends and teachers, all of whom took part in an illegal book club, only to come face to face with ghosts and deformed monsters that have taken over their school.
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- 2019-09-20 | Horror / Mystery
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- Gingle Wang, Jing-Hua Tseng
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6.745
3 Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021)
An exploration of the cinematic history of the folk horror, from its beginnings in the UK in the late sixties; through its proliferation on British television in the seventies and its many manifestations, culturally specific, in other countries; to its resurgence in the last decade.
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- 2021-09-09 | Documentary / History
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- Robert Eggers, Alice Lowe
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7.2
4 Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (2019)
Delving into a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and finally embraced them, this is the untold history of black Americans in Hollywood through their connection to the horror genre.
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- 2019-02-07 | Documentary
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- Meosha Bean, Ashlee Blackwell
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7.2
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5 Come True (2020)
Looking for an escape from her recurring nightmares, 18-year-old Sarah submits to a university sleep study, but soon realizes she's become the conduit to a frightening new discovery.
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- 2020-09-24 | Science Fiction / Horror
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- Julia Sarah Stone, Landon Liboiron
Rating
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5.966
6 Impetigore (2019)
A woman inherits a house in her ancestral village, but she's unaware that members of the community have been trying to locate and kill her to remove the curse that has plagued them for years.
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- 2019-10-17 | Horror / Thriller
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- Tara Basro, Ario Bayu
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6.681
7 Moloch (2022)
Betriek lives at the edge of a peat bog in the North of the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a random stranger one night, Betriek sets out to find an explanation. The more she digs, the more she becomes convinced that she is being hunted by something ancient.
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- 2022-05-19 | Horror
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- Sallie Harmsen, Alexandre Willaume
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5.9
8 Sea Fever (2020)
The crew of a West of Ireland trawler—marooned at sea—struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply.
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- 2020-06-12 | Thriller / Horror
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- Hermione Corfield, Ardalan Esmaili
Rating
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6.254
9 The Mortuary Collection (2020)
In the phantasmagorical town of Raven's End, a misguided young girl takes refuge in a decrepit old mortuary. The eccentric undertaker chronicles the strange history of the town through a series of twisted tales, each more terrifying than the last, but the young girl's world is unhinged when she discovers that the final story... is her own.
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- 2020-10-08 | Fantasy / Horror
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- Clancy Brown, Caitlin Custer
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6.747
10 The Reckoning (2021)
In the aftermath of the Great Plague and amidst the subsequent witch-hunts against women, a young widow grapples with the tragic death of her husband in a society completely consumed by fear and death. Because she rejects the advances of her landlord, she is falsely accused of being a witch and thrown in jail for a crime she didn’t commit. She must endure physical persecution at the hands of England’s most ruthless witch-hunter and face her own inner demons as the devil himself starts to work his way into her mind.
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- 2021-02-05 | Horror / Drama
Cast
- Charlotte Kirk, Sean Pertwee
Rating
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6.6
