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 |