Cult Films generally have limited but very special appeal. They are usually strange, quirky, offbeat, eccentric, oddball, or surreal. They may have outrageous, weird, cartoony characters or plots, and garish sets. They are often considered controversial because they step outside standard narrative and technical conventions. Cult films cut across many film genres (science fiction, horror, melodrama, etc.), and though they can be very stylized, they are often flawed or unusual in some striking way. To make a little sense of this unique genre, scroll the motherlode below, or take a side road by clicking a blue sub-heading to yer left...
Visiting "Television Shows" and the "Cult Television" sub-feature may be worth checking out, also the "Animation" feature and the "Cult Animation" or "JapAnime" sub-feature will help with the bigger picture..
Right: Henry (Jack Nance) is "Eraserhead".
7.1/10
An unusual, chilling psychological number about a schizophrenic man (Peter Green) who is released from an institution and gasping for human connection... Read more
5.8/10
Black, beautiful, brawny Tamara Dobson stars as Cleopatra Jones, the U.S. special agent with a style all her own! Plenty of violence and action as 6'2... Read more
7.8/10
Kevin Smith's engagingly foul-mouthed and funny independent comedy tracks a 'typical' day at a New Jersey convenience store. Follow philosophical coun... Read more
7.4/10
Dante and Randal are back, 10 years after we last saw them. And Dante is still at the Quick Stop and Randal is still hassling customers in the video... Read more
7.3/10
When members of a dance troupe are lured to an empty school, drug-laced sangria causes their jubilant rehearsal to descend into a dark and explosive n... Read more
5.9/10
Nutrition teacher Miss Novak accepts a job at an elite school and forms a close bond with five students, but a relationship ends up taking a dangerous... Read more
6/10
An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge on a Georgia forest where a huge black bear goes on a murderous rampage after uninten... Read more
"Senses drowned in forbidden pleasures". An innocent young girl is lured to the glamour of the big city, where she falls into the grasp of a dastardly... Read more
7.3/10
Acclaimed cult director Monte Hellman's adaptation of Charles Willeford's powerful novel stars Warren Oates as Frank Mansfield, a master cockfighter w... Read more
6.5/10
During rehearsals for Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya", Paul Giamatti finds his soul growing so heavy under the weight of the material that his whole life begi... Read more