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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 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 1
2 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 3
3 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 4
4 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 8
5 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 9
6 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 12
7 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 13
8 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 16
9 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 17
10 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 18
11 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 19
12 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 20
13 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 22
14 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 23
15 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 26
16 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 27
17 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg 30
18 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 33
19 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 34
20 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 36
21 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 38
22 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 39
23 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 40
24 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 41
25 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 42
26 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 43
27 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 45
28 The Matrix 1999 Andy and Larry Wachowski 47
29 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 48
30 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 49
31 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 50
32 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 51
33 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 53
34 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 59
35 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 60
36 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 61
37 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 62
38 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 63
39 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 66
40 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 69
41 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 70
42 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 73
43 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 77
44 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 79
45 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 83
46 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 86
47 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 87
48 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 89
49 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 91
50 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 94
51 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 95
52 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 99
53 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 100
54 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 101
55 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 102
56 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 106
57 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 107
58 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 108
59 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 110
60 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 111
61 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 112
62 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 113
63 Seven 1995 David Fincher 118
64 Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau 119
65 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 123
66 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 125
67 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 127
68 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 132
69 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 134
70 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 135
71 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 138
72 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 139
73 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 143
74 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 148
75 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 149
76 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 150
77 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 152
78 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 157
79 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 159
80 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 161
81 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel 164
82 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 166
83 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 168
84 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 171
85 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 177
86 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand 185
87 Airplane! 1980 Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker 191
88 Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton 195
89 Grease 1978 Randal Kleiser 196
90 Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki 198
91 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry 199
92 Withnail & I 1987 Bruce Robinson 205
93 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 210
94 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 216
95 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner 228
96 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 230
97 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 232
98 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter 233
99 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene 235
100 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 239
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