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Top Cult Films (#1-200)

The IMDb lists following films as being a "cult film" or a "cult favorite"

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 1
2 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 2
3 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 3
4 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 4
5 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 5
6 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 6
7 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 8
8 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 9
9 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 10
10 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 11
11 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 13
12 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 14
13 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 15
14 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 16
15 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 17
16 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 18
17 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 19
18 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 22
19 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 23
20 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 24
21 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 25
22 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg 26
23 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 27
24 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 30
25 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 31
26 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 33
27 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 34
28 The Matrix 1999 Lana and Lilly Wachowski 35
29 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 36
30 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 38
31 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 41
32 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 42
33 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 43
34 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 44
35 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 45
36 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan 47
37 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 48
38 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 50
39 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 51
40 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 52
41 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 58
42 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 59
43 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 60
44 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 61
45 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 63
46 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 65
47 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 66
48 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 67
49 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 71
50 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry 76
51 Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki 79
52 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 80
53 WALL•E 2008 Andrew Stanton 82
54 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 83
55 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 85
56 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 86
57 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 88
58 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 95
59 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 96
60 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 97
61 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 98
62 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 101
63 Seven 1995 David Fincher 102
64 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 103
65 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 105
66 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter 106
67 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 107
68 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 108
69 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 109
70 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 110
71 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 111
72 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 112
73 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 113
74 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 115
75 Amélie 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 119
76 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch 124
77 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 125
78 City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles 128
79 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 129
80 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 130
81 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 132
82 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 133
83 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 136
84 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 137
85 The Lion King 1994 Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff 138
86 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 139
87 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 140
88 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene 141
89 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 142
90 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 144
91 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 145
92 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 Guillermo del Toro 146
93 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 150
94 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog 151
95 Beauty and the Beast 1991 Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise 154
96 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 156
97 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 157
98 Inception 2010 Christopher Nolan 158
99 Airplane! 1980 Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker 164
100 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner 166
101 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 167
102 Ghostbusters 1984 Ivan Reitman 169
103 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 171
104 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks 175
105 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 176
106 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 177
107 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 179
108 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 181
109 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 183
110 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel 186
111 Oldboy 2003 Chan-wook Park 190
112 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Ang Lee 191
113 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks 192
114 Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby 199
115 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 202
116 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton 203
117 Akira 1988 Katsuhiro Ôtomo 204
118 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 211
119 Eraserhead 1977 David Lynch 220
120 The Fly 1986 David Cronenberg 223
121 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone 225
122 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick 226
123 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 227
124 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 228
125 Freaks 1932 Tod Browning 235
126 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand 236
127 Beauty and the Beast 1946 Jean Cocteau 237
128 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese 238
129 The Truman Show 1998 Peter Weir 242
130 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen 247
131 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 248
132 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 249
133 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock 251
134 The Professional 1994 Luc Besson 253
135 The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy 255
136 Children of Men 2006 Alfonso Cuarón 258
137 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky 259
138 Shaun of the Dead 2004 Edgar Wright 260
139 Toy Story 3 2010 Lee Unkrich 261
140 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Robert Zemeckis 264
141 Princess Mononoke 1997 Hayao Miyazaki 265
142 Fantasia 1940 James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield 266
143 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 268
144 The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski 269
145 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 270
146 Inglourious Basterds 2009 Quentin Tarantino 272
147 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 Quentin Tarantino 274
148 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma 278
149 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 279
150 The Blair Witch Project 1999 Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez 281
151 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 288
152 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 289
153 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 292
154 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 294
155 The Road Warrior 1981 George Miller 295
156 The Iron Giant 1999 Brad Bird 296
157 The Nightmare before Christmas 1993 Henry Selick 297
158 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy 298
159 Suspiria 1977 Dario Argento 302
160 Un chien andalou 1929 Luis Buñuel 304
161 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero 307
162 RoboCop 1987 Paul Verhoeven 308
163 The Producers 1967 Mel Brooks 309
164 Toy Story 2 1999 John Lasseter 310
165 Withnail & I 1987 Bruce Robinson 313
166 Belle de Jour 1967 Luis Buñuel 317
167 Dances with Wolves 1990 Kevin Costner 318
168 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson 319
169 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 320
170 Rushmore 1998 Wes Anderson 323
171 Stand by Me 1986 Rob Reiner 325
172 Hiroshima mon amour 1959 Alain Resnais 326
173 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 328
174 Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 John Hughes 334
175 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 336
176 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 Wes Craven 342
177 The Blues Brothers 1980 John Landis 343
178 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003 Gore Verbinski 344
179 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 346
180 Predator 1987 John McTiernan 347
181 Shrek 2001 Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson 353
182 Twelve Monkeys 1995 Terry Gilliam 354
183 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 359
184 Animal House 1978 John Landis 360
185 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 362
186 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 363
187 Clerks. 1994 Kevin Smith 364
188 Grease 1978 Randal Kleiser 365
189 Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini 367
190 The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch 368
191 Evil Dead II 1987 Sam Raimi 369
192 Ghost in the Shell 1995 Mamoru Oshii 374
193 Le Samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville 375
194 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 379
195 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 Jim Sharman 386
196 Dazed and Confused 1993 Richard Linklater 389
197 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais 392
198 Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan 1982 Nicholas Meyer 393
199 Slumdog Millionaire 2008 Danny Boyle 394
200 Let the Right One in 2008 Tomas Alfredson 395
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