Bringemovies
← Browse Movies
The Burning Court
TITLE DETAILS

The Burning Court

1962-03-30 · 110 min · ★ 5.3

Horror · Drama · Mystery

A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. The man lives in an ancient, cursed castle. Soon people in the group start being killed off.

Open detail page

Trailers are previews, not full movies.

No authorized playback source configured. Use the legal watch options below.

Production details

Directors
Julien Duvivier
Production companies
Comacico, Taurus Film, International Productions
Countries
France, Italy
Status
Released

Top Cast

Jean-Claude BrialyJean-Claude BrialyMarc Desgrez
Claude RichClaude RichStéphane Desgrez
Édith ScobÉdith ScobMarie D'Aubray Boissand
Perrette PradierPerrette PradierLucie Desgrez
Nadja TillerNadja TillerNurse Myra Schneider
Walter GillerWalter GillerMichel Boissand
Antoine BalpêtréAntoine BalpêtréDr. Hermann
René GéninRené GéninFrédéric Henderson
Héléna MansonHéléna MansonAugusta Henderson
Frédéric DuvallèsFrédéric DuvallèsMathias Desgrez
Claude PiépluClaude PiépluInspector Krauss
Dany JacquetDany JacquetFrieda
Gabriel JabbourGabriel JabbourJacob Kramer, le bijoutier
Laurence Belval

Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.

Where to watch

Availability provided by JustWatch via TMDb. Offers can change. Provider links are listed on TMDb; full playback requires a separately authorized source.

Streaming

Cultpix

Rental

Amazon Video

Purchase

Amazon Video

With ads

Tubi TV

View authorized watch options on TMDb

Recommendations

Home Sweet Home: Rebirth
★ 5.9
Home Sweet Home: Rebirth2025Horror · Mystery

When a city is overrun with a demonically-possessed crowd, a cop must find the source of evil to save his family.

The Ritual Killer
★ 5.8
The Ritual Killer2023Drama · Mystery

Unable to process the death of his daughter, Detective Boyd embarks on a hunt for a serial killer who murders according to a brutal tribal ritual: Muti. The only person who can help Boyd is Professor Mackles, an anthropologist who hides an unspeakable secret. The line between sanity and madness thins as Boyd goes deeper into the killer’s world.

The Caveman's Valentine
★ 5.9
The Caveman's Valentine2001Drama · Mystery

Romulus, a misunderstood musician turned recluse hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave, finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree. The authorities, including his police officer daughter, claim the death is accidental. Romulus is convinced the man was murdered by a prominent art photographer but how can he prove he's right when everyone thinks he's insane?

Remember
★ 7.3
Remember2015Drama · Mystery

With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.

Giorgino
★ 6.4
Giorgino1994Horror · Drama

October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgino Volli searches for a group of children, which he had been the care-taker of before the first world war began. However, soon the searching becomes a part of hide-and-seek with death. Giorgino finds a village bordered with a treacherous marsh and rumours of wolves. There he also meets the mysterious Catherine....

Werewolf: The Beast Among Us
★ 5.9
Werewolf: The Beast Among Us2012Horror · Drama

Set in a 19th century village, a young man studying under a local doctor joins a team of hunters on the trail of a wolf-like creature.

Inspector Lavardin
★ 6.1
Inspector Lavardin1986Drama · Mystery

Inspector Lavardin is called to a provincial village to investigate a murder – only to find that one of his ex-lovers is the victim’s widow.

Starve Acre
★ 5.9
Starve Acre2024Horror · Drama

When their son starts acting strangely, a couple unwittingly allow dark and sinister forces into their home, awakening a long-dormant ancient evil rooted deep in the countryside.

The Tomb of Ligeia
★ 6.4
The Tomb of Ligeia1964Horror · Drama

Verden Fell is shattered after the death of his lovely wife. But, after an unexpected encounter with Lady Rowena Trevanion, Fell soon finds himself married again. Nevertheless, his late wife's spirit seems to hang over the dilapidated abbey that Fell shares with his new bride. Lady Rowena senses that something is amiss and, when she investigates, makes a horrifying discovery -- learning that Fell's dead wife is closer than she ever imagined possible.

Intruders
★ 5.9
Intruders2015Horror · Drama

Anna suffers from agoraphobia so crippling that when a trio of criminals break into her house, she cannot bring herself to flee. But what the intruders don't realize is that agoraphobia is not her only psychosis.

Older Gods
★ 6.1
Older Gods2023Horror · Mystery

After the disappearance of his troubled friend, American Chris Rivers travels to the remote Welsh countryside to investigate what happened – leading him to a dark apocalyptic cult.

Tom at the Farm
★ 6.8
Tom at the Farm2014Drama · Mystery

A young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother.

Suburbicon
★ 5.9
Suburbicon2017Drama · Mystery

In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect family turns to blackmail, revenge and murder.

Boys' School
★ 7.4
Boys' School1938Drama · Mystery

In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective - going to America. One night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them sees a man coming out from a wall. The next day, after he talks about it, he disappears. Then, the second one vanishes. Are they gone to their dreams? That's when the art teacher is murdered. Suspicions now are too high so the third one decides to investigate.

The Murdered House
★ 6.6
The Murdered House1988Drama · Mystery

After World War I, a young ex-soldier, Sébastien Monge, returns to his home village. Ignorant of his past, he learns that, 24 years before, his entire family was slain in their home one stormy night. Only Sébastien, then a four-month old baby, was spared. Whilst Sébastien is being seduced by Charmaine, Dupin is killed by someone else. Sébastien’s next victim, the miller Didon Pujol, is also murdered before he has a chance to take his revenge. Sébastien realises that someone is watching his every move and is going to extraordinary lengths to protect him. But who, and why..?

Nocebo
★ 6.0
Nocebo2022Horror · Mystery

A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino caregiver who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.

The Good Doctor
★ 6.2
The Good Doctor2011Drama · Mystery

Dr. Martin Blake, who has spent his life looking for respect, meets an 18-year-old patient named Diane, suffering from a kidney infection, and gets a much-needed boost of self-esteem. However, when her health starts improving, Martin fears losing her, so he begins tampering with her treatment, keeping Diane sick and in the hospital right next to him.

The Night Stalker
★ 6.9
The Night Stalker1972Horror · Mystery

Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into his own hands.

Mārama
★ 6.4
Mārama2026Horror · Drama · Mystery

1859. When a young Māori woman is summoned from New Zealand to North Yorkshire, she uncovers her horrific colonial heritage and is compelled to confront and destroy the titled Englishman who devastated her family.

The Surrender
★ 5.9
The Surrender2025Horror · Drama

A fraught mother-daughter relationship is put to a terrifying test when the family patriarch dies, and the grieving mother hires a mysterious stranger to bring her husband back from the dead.

Similar titles

Silent Running
★ 6.4
Silent Running1972Drama

After the entire flora goes extinct, ecologist Lowell maintains a greenhouse aboard a space station for the future with his android companions. However, he rebels after being ordered to destroy the greenhouse in favor of carrying cargo, a decision that puts him at odds with everyone but his mechanical companions.

Apocalypto
★ 7.7
Apocalypto2006Drama

Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.

Forbidden Love on the Shores of Greece
Not rated
Forbidden Love on the Shores of Greece2023Drama

A crotchety old woman heads out one morning to go bird-watching. Traveling to a nearby woods, in search of a spot to build her hide. She sets up camp and It's not long before she finds what she came for... and birds have nothing to do with it.

Avance et tu verras
Not rated
Avance et tu verras2025Drama

The sun rises over the dark, misty forest. It's springtime. Nature is lush. A man in his fifties walks warily along a hiking trail cut through tall ferns. He's not walking alone; something invisible is connected to him.

Virgin People
★ 5.1
Virgin People1984Drama

Three sisters live in a paradise where men are metaphorically and literally serpents of temptation.

The Swallow
Not rated
The Swallow2026Horror

Ziggy and her four friends journey out on a camping trip to a picturesque remote forest. But trespassing into an off-limits area, they awaken an uncanny terror in the woods... and a ravenous hunger from within the Earth. Soon, the ground itself is trying to swallow anything and anyone it comes into contact with and Ziggy and her friends have nowhere to run as every trembling step they take could be their last.

Dying Breed
★ 5.2
Dying Breed2008Horror

An extinct species, the Tasmanian tiger. A long-forgotten legend, “The Pieman” aka Alexander Pearce, who was hanged for cannibalism in 1824. Both had a desperate need to survive; both could have living descendants within the Tasmanian bush. Four hikers venture deep into isolated territory to find one of these legends, but which one will they come upon first?

Dancing With Death
Not rated
Dancing With DeathDrama

The journey of the Angel of Death's emissary, who accompanies an adventurer whose fate is sealed on his final mission to deliver an orphaned child to the remnants of his family after a brutal attack that murdered the child’s parents. Along the way, while Death is meant only to escort and seal destinies, he begins to examine the meaning and limits of his role, asking for the first time whether there are moments in which death is not merely an inevitable end, but, paradoxically, something that can save a life.

The Revenant
★ 7.5
The Revenant2015Drama

In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

The Last House on the Left
★ 6.5
The Last House on the Left2009Horror · Drama

When athletic teen Mari Collingwood opts to hang out with her friend Paige in town rather than spend an evening in with her parents vacationing at the family's remote lake house, it marks the beginning of a night no one is going to forget.

Batty
Not rated
BattyHorror · Mystery

Mayhem ensues in the remote countryside when people start dying at the hands of a mysterious masked figure.

Walden
★ 5.0
Walden2021Drama

After returning from a year-long Moon mission, Cassie, a NASA botanist, finds herself in a remote cabin in the woods, where her estranged twin sister, Stella, a former NASA architect, has found a new life with climate activist Bryan. Old wounds resurface as the sisters attempt to pick up the pieces of the rivalry that broke them apart.

Stormy Night
★ 7.1
Stormy Night2005Drama

After hiding together in an abandoned barn one stormy night, wolf Gabu and goat Mei pledge to be secret friends, despite being natural enemies. They must overcome hardship and persecution in hopes of finding another forest where they can be together in peace.

Invoking Yell
★ 6.7
Invoking Yell2023Horror · Mystery

Set in 1990s story of three twenty something women who venture into the woods to shoot a demo tape for their black metal band.

Wrong Turn
★ 6.4
Wrong Turn2003Horror

Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.

Black Angel
★ 6.4
Black Angel1980Horror

A knight returns home from the Crusades to find his village devastated by disease and his family gone. He roams the forest searching for them, until he finds a mysterious maiden who is being held prisoner by a black knight. In order to free her, he must confront her captor.

Broken
★ 4.7
Broken2007Horror

After dating a wonderful man, Hope comes back home, sees her daughter Jennifer and goes to sleep. She wakes-up in the woods with a psychopath...

Severed
★ 4.8
Severed2005Horror · Drama

A multi-national forestry company engages in genetic experimentation to increase logging yield in a remote section of forest...

La noche de las ponchongas
★ 6.3
La noche de las ponchongas2013Drama

Before going away to live in Barcelona, Jorge spends his last night with his three best friends in a forest near the town. When everything seems to indicate that it was a bad idea, something happens that none of them could have dreamt of: three older girls are sunbathing half-naked on the other side of the river.

Lurking Near
★ 6.5
Lurking Near2017Horror

As a forest scout he was ready to spend some nights on the mountain but nothing could prepare him for what was lurking near.

Your favorites

Recently viewed

Watch

Choose an authorized server.

Full video from an operator-configured authorized source. Official trailers use a separate player. If a server fails, retry or select another authorized server.

Legal watch options

Official trailer

Trailer preview only. Press Play to start.

Privacy choices

Favorites stay in your browser. Movie images load from TMDb. YouTube trailers contact YouTube only after you allow external media and choose a trailer. Advertising consent, if ads are enabled, is managed separately by the operator’s certified CMP.

Privacy policy

After allowing external media, choose the trailer button to load its player.