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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 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 2
3 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 3
4 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 4
5 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 5
6 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 7
7 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 8
8 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 9
9 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 10
10 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 11
11 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 12
12 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 13
13 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 14
14 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 15
15 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 16
16 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 18
17 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 19
18 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 20
19 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 21
20 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 23
21 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 24
22 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 26
23 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 27
24 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg 29
25 The Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 32
26 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 33
27 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 35
28 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 36
29 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 38
30 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 39
31 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 40
32 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 41
33 The Matrix 1999 Andy and Larry Wachowski 42
34 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 43
35 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 44
36 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 46
37 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 47
38 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 48
39 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 49
40 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 51
41 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 53
42 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 54
43 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 55
44 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 56
45 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 58
46 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 59
47 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 60
48 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 61
49 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 64
50 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 65
51 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 66
52 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 71
53 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 74
54 M 1931 Fritz Lang 75
55 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 76
56 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 77
57 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 78
58 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 81
59 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 83
60 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 85
61 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 87
62 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 91
63 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 93
64 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 94
65 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 95
66 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 96
67 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 98
68 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 101
69 Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau 105
70 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 107
71 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 111
72 Seven 1995 David Fincher 112
73 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 113
74 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 114
75 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 115
76 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 116
77 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 117
78 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 118
79 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 122
80 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 123
81 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 124
82 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 128
83 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 129
84 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 130
85 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 131
86 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 132
87 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 133
88 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 134
89 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 136
90 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 139
91 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 147
92 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 149
93 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 150
94 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 157
95 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 158
96 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 160
97 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 162
98 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 163
99 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 173
100 Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki 174
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