Purgatory

An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and the peaceful inhabitants are all famous dead outlaws and criminals such as Doc Holiday and Wild Bill Hickok who must redeem themselves before gaining admittance to Heaven... or screw up and go to Hell.

Cast

Sam Shepard

as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock

Eric Roberts

as Blackjack Britton

Randy Quaid

as Doc Woods / Doc Holliday

Peter Stormare

as Cavin Guthrie

Brad Rowe

as Leon 'Sonny' Miller

Donnie Wahlberg

as Deputy Glen / Billy the Kid

JD Souther

as Brooks / Jesse James

Amelia Heinle

as Rose / Betty McCullough

Shannon Kenny

as Dolly Sloan / Ivy

John Dennis Johnston

as Lamb / 'Lefty' Slade

Reviews

John Chard

To think some of you used to be my heroes. There quite often comes a time when a film fan who is so enamoured with a specific genre or style of film making, comes across a picture that one knows is far from perfect if deconstructed frame by frame, but still loves it with every breath they take. P...

Wuchak

Last chance for the marginally good plucked from the incorrigibly wicked RELEASED TO TV IN 1999 and directed by Uli Edel, “Purgatory” chronicles events circa 1888 when a gang of outlaws led by Blackjack Britton (Eric Roberts) holds up in a mysterious hidden town called Refuge where the inhabitant...

Similar Movies

Switch

Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall in love with him. If not, Steve's soul will become the property of the devil. But the devil hedges his bet, and Steve is reincarnated as a woman named Amanda Brooks.

⭐ 5.9

Faraway Eyes

Michael, a struggling actor, dies right after a bad breakup. He finds himself awakening in a very bright room with a very strange lady and learns that he is in singles Purgatory, where he must find his soul mate in order to cross over to the other side. With limited time to find true love among other recently deceased single New Yorkers, Michael must navigate the new customs of a ghostly dating life... as if dating in life wasn't hard enough already.

⭐ 5.0

Dante's Inferno

The classic tale of Dante's journey through hell, loosely adapted from the Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré. This historically important film stands as the first feature from Italy and the oldest fully-surviving feature in the world, and boasts beautiful sets and special effects that stand above other cinema of the era.

⭐ 6.6

The Eyes of Dante

He is considered the greatest European poet of the Middle Ages and his work unfolds the whole panopticon of occidental education – theology, philosophy, sciences, politics and literature. But who has really read it, the “Divine Comedy”? Who knows more of its creator Dante Alighieri than that he had an eagle-like profile and was in love with a woman named Beatrice? 700 years after Dante’s death, the filmmaker Adolfo Conti travels through Italy with Dante’s words in mind and eyes to see the world as Dante did. As the film encounters the beauty of arts and the Tuscan landscape, the forces of nature, a dramatic life story is unfolded.

⭐ 6.6

Candle

Confined to an endlessly burning waiting room, a dying sedentary woman experiences herself blurring in and out of her body. In her last remaining fragments she tries to make amends with her spirit before her remaining fragments either decay or create.

⭐ 0.0

Outward Bound

A group of strangers find themselves aboard an unmanned ship, surrounded by fog and uncertain of their destination. As they attempt to make sense of their situation, the group of passengers discover a commonality that changes their perception of the nature of their journey. The film was later remade, with some changes, as Between Two Worlds (1944).

⭐ 5.9

No Exit

The scene is a tawdry hotel room in Limbo, where several damned souls are gathered. At first, the group fails to comprehend where they are or why they're there. When the horrible truth dawns upon them, they carp and snipe at one another, blaming everyone but themselves for their dismal fate.

⭐ 6.0

Purgatorium

After his death, a young man stuck in purgatory attempts to cope with the afterlife.

⭐ 10.0

Exvallis

Tragedy sends a young woman on a voyage through the wilderness of death and time.

⭐ 0.0

Into the Ether

The hidden pasts of a recluse and a petty criminal collide in a realm lost from time and reason.

⭐ 0.0

Until Death

Alex and Chiara die in a car crash just after getting married. In the purgatory where they are now trapped, they are asked to make a decision : stay together or split up for good, as they are slyly advised in the afterlife.

⭐ 10.0

MEMENTO MORI

A man must relive his memories to determine his place in the afterlife.

⭐ 0.0

Halloween II

Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois. Meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister.

⭐ 5.3

Das kleine Arschloch und der alte Sack - Sterben ist Scheiße

The little asshole's grandfather, the old bag, has fallen into the coffin at a funeral and been buried alive. It's no surprise that instead of going to heaven, the old sack goes straight to hell. The little asshole and his dog Peppi, whom he inherited from Mrs. Mövenpick, try everything in their power to snatch the old bag from the clutches of the devil and do not shy away from dubious cloning techniques and black magic.

⭐ 5.7

God of Pain

A man wakes up in the middle of the street with no idea where he is or how he ended up there. Soon he is forced to confront the demons he is battling within before a gateway to the underworld unlocks the secret of Algea the God of Pain.

⭐ 6.8

Triangle

When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong.

⭐ 6.9

Sorcerer

Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

⭐ 7.4

Flowers

An abstract, surreal horror film centering on six dead women waking up in the crawl space below their killer's house.

⭐ 5.0

Astral City: A Spiritual Journey

The selfish Dr. André Luiz dies and awakes in the limbo called "Umbral". After a painful period in the gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought in a white light to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"). He finds a place of harmony, where people live in peace awaiting

⭐ 7.2