Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way

poster The House of Darkness
The House of Darkness
17mn - Drama
A potentially violent patient in an insane asylum is calmed when he hears a nurse playing the piano. But shortly afterwards he breaks free, eludes his pursuers, and acquires a gun. He soon comes to a hous…
poster Mighty Like a Moose
Mighty Like a Moose
23mn - Comedy, Romance
After a homely married couple separately undergo plastic surgery, they unwittingly plan an extramarital affair with each other.
poster Dangerous Charter
Dangerous Charter
76mn - Drama, Thriller
When struggling fishermen discover an abandoned luxury yacht with a corpse aboard, they think their salvage claim will solve their financial woes. But their dream windfall becomes a deadly nightmare as th…
poster Roadside Massacre
Roadside Massacre
83mn - Horror
Five college friends take a detour while traveling to their spring break destination. They end up in the remote mountain town of Blueridge, where Karen (Marina Resa) believes her older sister went missing…
poster Not Wanted
Not Wanted
(5/5)
91mn - Drama
After a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out-of-wedlock baby, her guilt compels her to kidnap another child.
poster Sodom and Gomorrah
Sodom and Gomorrah
(3.0/5)
98mn - Drama
Exposed to bad influences since childhood, Mary, a young girl is pushed by her mother to approach an elderly banker by the name of Harber. After almost driving her fiancee to suicide and seducing his ment…
poster The Dull Sword
The Dull Sword
4mn - Comedy, Animation
A samurai purchases a new sword only to find it is already dull. When he returns to the dull looking merchant to complain, something quite unexpected happens.
poster Fire in the Dark
Fire in the Dark
(3.4/5)
124mn - Drama, Short
A 75-year old widow with battles herself as she struggles with being a burden to those she loves. Though determined not to rely on her children, she is forced to move in with her daughter after a serious …
poster An Indian Summer
An Indian Summer
17mn - Romance
A lonely old widower arrives in town and seeks out a pleasant boarding place. The house he selects may be pleasant and homelike, but most of all it is owned by a widow, and managed by her daughter. The wi…
poster Twisted Minds
Twisted Minds
81mn - Drama, Horror
Local banker Bruno Adani's life is turned upside down when his stepbrother, Greg Tillney's darkened past catches up with him.
poster Don't Say Its Name
Don't Say Its Name
84mn - Horror, Thriller
After environmental activist Kharis Redwater is called back to the living world by her mother Mary Lynn after a questionable “accident” that cost Kharis her life, an ancient spirit is reborn outside of a …
poster Rent Control
Rent Control
95mn - Romance, Comedy, Short
Aspiring actors in New York try to keep the death of one's aunt a secret so they can stay in her cheap apartment.
poster Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
26mn - Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
poster Kill or Cure
Kill or Cure
11mn -
Laurel portrays a commercial traveller, hawking a patent medicine cried Professor I.O. Dine's Knox-All: that name is the funniest joke in this movie, which ain't sayin' much. I should point out that this …
poster Hunting Souls
Hunting Souls
93mn - Horror
Hunting Souls is the story of an American couple who are dealing with the hardships of caring for their sick child. They discover that they are being hunted by a demon.
poster The Enchanted Well
The Enchanted Well
3mn - Fantasy
A witch curses a town's well.
poster The Brahmin and the Butterfly
The Brahmin and the Butterfly
2mn - Comedy, Fantasy
A man attempts to engender a transformation of a giant worm into a butterfly.
poster Sequoia
Sequoia
(3.1/5)
86mn - Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young man meets a 23-year-old cancer patient on the way to the park and disrupts her plan to commit suicide.
poster The Little Tease
The Little Tease
25mn - Drama
The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost grown, she vented her witcheries on her unsuspecting parents and the wild things of her mountain home. Bu…
poster The Unwanted
The Unwanted
95mn - Drama, Horror, Mystery
Carmilla comes to a rural town where her mother mysteriously disappeared years earlier. She is aided in her quest by an emotionally troubled local girl, with whom she becomes romantically involved. Their …
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