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".
6.9/10
Young L.A. punk Emilio Estevez gets an indoctrination into the sleazy world of car repossession by "repo man" Harry Dean Stanton in director Alex Cox'... Read more
6.9/10
Young L.A. punk Emilio Estevez gets an indoctrination into the sleazy world of car repossession by "repo man" Harry Dean Stanton in director Alex Cox'... Read more
6.7/10
A uniquely bizarre, gory, sci-fi, musical horror, and pet project of 'Saw' sequels director Darren Lynn Bousman. The year is 2056, and following an ep... Read more
7.8/10
Roman Polanski followed up his international breakthrough "Knife in the Water" with this controversial, chilling tale of psychosis. Catherine Deneuve... Read more
8.3/10
As powerful an anti-drug statement as it is a drama, director Aronofsky's ('Pi') visually hypnotic film graphically tracks the downward spiral of four... Read more
6.6/10
Writer-director Quentin Tarantino makes a startling debut with this story of a diamond heist gone wrong. A brain-twisting array of unexpected plot tur... Read more
6.6/10
Writer-director Quentin Tarantino makes a startling debut with this story of a diamond heist gone wrong. A brain-twisting array of unexpected plot tur... Read more
6.6/10
Star Jack Nicholson co-produced and wrote the screenplay for this highly charged western in which three innocent cowboys are wrongly mistaken for stag... Read more
7.5/10
A literate, magnificent Western about two aged gunfighter pals who reflect on the paths their lives have taken while guarding a gold shipment. Conside... Read more
5.8/10
Columbia attempted to catch the "beach party film" wave with this more serious look at three surf bums in Hawaii whose ambitions revolve around surfin... Read more