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 |