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Top Cult Films (#1-100)

The IMDb lists following films as being a "cult favorite."

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 4
2 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 7
3 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 9
4 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 14
5 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 16
6 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 17
7 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 18
8 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 19
9 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 20
10 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 25
11 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 27
12 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 29
13 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 33
14 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 34
15 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 37
16 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 38
17 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 40
18 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 43
19 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 45
20 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 46
21 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 47
22 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 48
23 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 49
24 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 50
25 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 51
26 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 54
27 The Matrix 1999 Andy and Larry Wachowski 59
28 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 61
29 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 65
30 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 66
31 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 73
32 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 77
33 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 78
34 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 85
35 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 88
36 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 90
37 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 93
38 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 97
39 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 102
40 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 104
41 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 110
42 Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau 115
43 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 118
44 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 122
45 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 126
46 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 127
47 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 128
48 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 129
49 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 131
50 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 137
51 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 145
52 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 149
53 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 151
54 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 160
55 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 161
56 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 164
57 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 166
58 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 168
59 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 171
60 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel 173
61 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 179
62 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 188
63 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 191
64 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 196
65 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand 199
66 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 207
67 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 218
68 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 222
69 Withnail & I 1987 Bruce Robinson 227
70 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene 237
71 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock 238
72 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 249
73 Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby 256
74 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 260
75 Belle de Jour 1967 Luis Buñuel 261
76 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero 273
77 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma 275
78 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter 276
79 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner 279
80 Animal House 1978 John Landis 282
81 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 283
82 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell 287
83 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 292
84 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 294
85 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper 298
86 L'Âge d'or 1930 Luis Buñuel 301
87 Scream 1996 Wes Craven 305
88 Freaks 1932 Tod Browning 306
89 The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy 317
90 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson 320
91 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 Jim Sharman 333
92 Stand by Me 1986 Rob Reiner 336
93 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur 338
94 Dracula 1931 Tod Browning 340
95 The Blues Brothers 1980 John Landis 345
96 Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 John Hughes 347
97 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton 354
98 The Killer 1989 John Woo 355
99 Clerks. 1994 Kevin Smith 361
100 Un chien andalou 1929 Luis Buñuel 369
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