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".
6.7/10
A provocative examination of voyeurism and the power of images from Atom Egoyan. Elias Koteas plays an insurance adjuster who secretly likes giving aw... Read more
Buckaroo Banzai is a skilled neurosurgeon and physicist who becomes bored with his scientific and medical work and embarks on a career as a rock star... Read more
7.6/10
Buckaroo Banzai is a skilled neurosurgeon and physicist who becomes bored with his scientific and medical work and embarks on a career as a rock star... Read more
Billy Batson is granted the power to become Captain Marvel, the world's mightiest mortal, in order to stop the sinister Scorpion from completing a wea... Read more
6.3/10
Shock comic Andrew Dice Clay stars as rock-'n'-roll private dick Ford Fairlane, whose expertise is called upon when a heavy metal singer is mysterious... Read more
7.5/10
The outrageous tale of three drag queens who hit the road in a pink bus called Priscilla and head to Alice Springs to perform a cabaret show. Terence... Read more
7.5/10
The outrageous tale of three drag queens who hit the road in a pink bus called Priscilla and head to Alice Springs to perform a cabaret show. Terence... Read more
3.8/10
This sci-fi schlocko concerns a crazed scientist who, hoping to create the perfect henchman, renders a crook invisible. Unfotunately, the unseen under... Read more
7.4/10
Using Patricia Highsmith's novel, 'Ripley's Game', Wenders has made a spellbinding existential thriller which moves from the docks of Hamburg to the s... Read more
5.9/10
A group of radical Vietnam vets become broadcasting pirates and take on a Presidential candidate in this crazy comedy. The vets and their leader, "Cap... Read more