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1) Maleficent
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A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces a battle with the invading king's successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom, and perhaps to Maleficent's true happiness...
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Persian
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"Shideh and her young daughter, Dorsa, are left alone in a war-torn city when her husband is drafted and sent to the front lines. After a dud missile strikes their apartment building, a neighbor mysteriously dies and Dorsa's behavior becomes erratic. Shideh scoffs at her superstitious neighbor's warning that the missile carries an ancient curse, Shideh now realizes that the malevolent force in her home is infinitely more evil and terrifying than the...
3) The grudge
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After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a single mother and young detective try to investigate and solve the case. Later, she discovers the house is cursed by a vengeful ghost that dooms those who enter it with a violent death. Now, she runs to save herself and her son from demonic spirits from the cursed house in her neighborhood.
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Tara Haldon is like every other teenage girl struggling through high school, but she carries around a dark mark on her family name. She’s related to the notorious ax murderess Lizzie Borden, and her gruesome ancestry sets her as an outcast and weighs on her like a curse of what she may become. Tara begins to question her own sanity and guilt when she starts experiencing schizophrenic symptoms and people around her are mysteriously murdered. To regain...
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Inflicted with a deadly curse, a young warrior named Ashitaka sets out to the forests of the west in search of the cure that will save his life. Once there, he becomes inextricably entangled in a bitter battle that matches Lady Eboshi and a proud clan of humans against the forest's animal gods, who are led by the brave Princess Mononoke, a young woman raised by wolves.
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The fantastic journey of Belle, a bright and independent young woman who takes her father's place as the prisoner of a beast in his castle. As Belle befriends the castle's enchanted staff, she and the Beast slowly begin to look beyond their initial reactions to each other and see who they truly are. But back in Belle's village, her father's fears for her safety drive him to rally the villagers to free Belle from the castle--a plan that goes awry,...
7) Spell
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English
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When a man crash lands in rural Appalachia, he is held captive by a Hoodoo practitioner, and must break free from her dark magic in order to save his family before the rise of the blood moon.
8) The grudge 2
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English
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Karen's sister, Audrey, been affected by the supernatural curse. Audrey is trying to find the origin of the hate infected curse and find a way to free herself. The quest involves families who are living in Chicago, a photojournalist from Hong Kong, and three schoolgirls from Tokyo's International High School. This group of unrelated strangers try to find and stop the curse before it becomes too late.
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日本語
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When cat-allergic Junpei Kosaka damages a statue of a cat deity, the cats don't just get his tongue, they put theirs in his mouth! Now cursed with the ability to understand felines, Junpei must perform one hundred great favors for cat-kind or face the fate of being turned into a cat himself! (Hey, would you want to spend the rest of your life licking your own backside?) Life quickly becomes a purrfect hell as every cat in the neighborhood starts sending...
10) In fabric
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A lonely woman recently separated from her husband, who visits a bewitching London department store for a dress that will transform her life. She is fitted with a flattering, blood-red gown -- which, in time, will unleash a malevolent curse and unstoppable evil, threatening everyone in its path.
11) Maleficent
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English
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When the fairy Maleficent is stripped of her wings by a man who becomes king, Maleficent curses his infant princess daughter Aurora, only to realize that Aurora may be the one person to reunite the human and fairy worlds.
12) Good luck Chuck
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English
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It all started when Charlie Logan was ten years old. Breaking the cardinal rules of spin-the-bottle, Charlie refused to lip-lock with a demented Goth girl. She puts a hex on Charlie. Now, twenty-five years later, Charlie is a successful dentist and still, well, cursed. He discovers that every woman he's ever slept with has found true love - with the next guy after him. Before he knows it, Charlie has become a "good luck charm" for women. But, Charlie...
13) The nightshifter
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Portuguese
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Stenio works the graveyard shift in the morgue of a vast, violent city. He toils all night, but he's never alone, for Stenio can talk to the dead. And they talk back. But when the whispers of the dead reveal secrets of his own life, Stenio unleashes a curse that brings forth danger and darkness.
14) Impetigore
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Indonesian
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Feeling down on her luck and low on funds, Maya's spirits are lifted when she discovers her family home remains in the village she grew up in. She enlists the help of her best friend to go back to her hometown and claim her inheritance. But Maya is unaware that the people who live in the village have been trying to kill her to remove the curse that's plagued them for years. To make it out alive, Maya must unravel the twisted truth of her past.
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The Lion King: After the murder of his father, a young lion prince flees his kingdom only to learn the true meaning of responsibility and bravery.
The jungle book: An epic adventure about Mowgli, a man-cub who's been raised by a family of wolves. Mowgli finds he is no longer welcome in the jungle when fearsome tiger Shere Khan, who bears the scars of Man, promises to eliminate what he sees as a threat. Urged to abandon the only home he's ever known,...
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日本語
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It's not easy being teenage martial artist Ranma Saotome, but it's even worse when your martial artist father, Genma, takes you from home at an early age to go on a decade-long training mission. He doesn't speak a word of Chinese, and yet he insists upon bringing you to the cursed training ground known as Jusenkyo, where falling into one of the many springs there instantly turns you into whoever--or whatever-- drowned there last. And then, the two...
17) The gates
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In 1890s London, death-row inmate William Colcott places a curse on the prison and its inhabitants before his execution. Two paranormal investigators must stop William's spirit from escaping the prison and unleashing the gates of hell on London.
18) Pyewacket
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When you are dealing with demons, be careful what you wish or. In the ultra-unsettling occult nightmare, teenage Leah finds solace from the recent death of her father and from her strained relationship with her mother, by dabbling in the dark arts. It all seems like harmless fun at first, until a blowout argument leads Leah to do the unthinkable: put a death curse on her mother.
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