Cult Movies
Delicately riding the line between pulp and art, these films refuse to be marginalized, lower budgets and lack of Hollywood gloss be damned.
| Spine # | Title | Director | Country | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 63 |
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Carnival of Souls | Herk Harvey | United States, | 1962 |
| 539 |
|
House | Nobuhiko Obayashi | Japan, | 1977 |
| 948 |
|
The Princess Bride | Rob Reiner | United States, | 1987 |
| 820 |
|
Fantastic Planet | René Laloux | France, | 1973 |
| 260 |
|
Eyes Without a Face | Georges Franju | France, | 1960 |
| 1267 |
|
Sorcerer | William Friedkin | United States, | 1977 |
| 1264 |
|
The Wiz | Sidney Lumet | United States, | 1978 |
| 51 |
|
Brazil | Terry Gilliam | United Kingdom, | 1985 |
| 119 |
|
Withnail and I | Bruce Robinson | United Kingdom, | 1987 |
| 1252 |
|
Performance | Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg | United Kingdom, | 1970 |
| 594 |
|
Godzilla | Ishiro Honda | Japan, | 1954 |
| 1238 |
|
Gummo | Harmony Korine | United States, | 1997 |
| 1235 |
|
Happiness | Todd Solondz | United States, | 1998 |
|
Nowhere | Gregg Araki | United States, | 1997 | |
|
The Doom Generation | Gregg Araki | United States, | 1995 | |
|
Totally F***ed Up | Gregg Araki | United States, | 1993 | |
| 654 |
|
Repo Man | Alex Cox | United States, | 1984 |
| 175 |
|
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Terry Gilliam | United States, | 1998 |
| 58 |
|
Peeping Tom | Michael Powell | United Kingdom, | 1960 |
| 1204 |
|
Trainspotting | Danny Boyle | United Kingdom, | 1996 |
| 1207 |
|
The Heroic Trio / Executioners | |||
| 248 |
|
Videodrome | David Cronenberg | Canada, | 1983 |
| 1185 |
|
After Hours | Martin Scorsese | United States, | 1985 |
| 1131 |
|
Pink Flamingos | John Waters | United States, | 1972 |
| 725 |
|
Eraserhead | David Lynch | United States, | 1977 |
| 625 |
|
Eating Raoul | Paul Bartel | United States, | 1982 |
|
Freaks | Tod Browning | United States, | 1932 | |
| 200 |
|
The Honeymoon Killers | Leonard Kastle | United States, | 1969 |
| 17 |
|
Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Italy, | 1976 |
| 1157 |
|
Daisies | Věra Chytilová | Czechoslovakia, | 1966 |
| 1152 |
|
Lost Highway | David Lynch | United States, | 1997 |
| 909 |
|
Night of the Living Dead | George A. Romero | United States, | 1968 |
| 586 |
|
Island of Lost Souls | Erle C. Kenton | United States, | 1932 |
| 1137 |
|
Frownland | Ronald Bronstein | United States, | 2007 |
| 1179 |
|
Targets | Peter Bogdanovich | United States, | 1968 |
| 1138 |
|
Daddy Longlegs | Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie | United States, | 2009 |
| 360 |
|
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Two Takes by William Greaves | William Greaves | United States, | |
| 951 |
|
True Stories | David Byrne | United States, | 1986 |
| 1059 |
|
Crash | David Cronenberg | Canada, | 1996 |
| 1175 |
|
Inland Empire | David Lynch | United States, | 2006 |
| 1101 |
|
Uncut Gems | Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie | United States, | 2019 |
| 1057 |
|
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Jim Jarmusch | United States, | 1999 |
| 1100 |
|
The Incredible Shrinking Man | Jack Arnold | United States, | 1957 |
| 1036 |
|
Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits | |||
|
Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman | ||||
| 1000 |
|
Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975 | |||
| 1007 |
|
Until the End of the World | Wim Wenders | Germany, | 1991 |
| 994 |
|
Local Hero | Bill Forsyth | United Kingdom, | 1983 |
| 977 |
|
Blue Velvet | David Lynch | United States, | 1986 |
| 712 |
|
Scanners | David Cronenberg | Canada, | 1981 |
| 608 |
|
Harold and Maude | Hal Ashby | United States, | 1971 |
| 123 |
|
Grey Gardens | David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer | United States, | 1976 |
| 38 |
|
Branded to Kill | Seijun Suzuki | Japan, | 1967 |
| 929 |
|
Female Trouble | John Waters | United States, | 1974 |
| 919 |
|
Dead Man | Jim Jarmusch | United States, | 1995 |
| 835 |
|
Valley of the Dolls | Mark Robson | United States, | 1967 |
| 164 |
|
Solaris | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet Union, | 1972 |
| 833 |
|
Cat People | Jacques Tourneur | United States, | 1942 |
| 761 |
|
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders | Jaromil Jireš | Czechoslovakia, | 1970 |
|
The Complete Lady Snowblood | ||||
|
Eclipse Series 37: When Horror Came to Shochiku | ||||
| 18 |
|
The Naked Kiss | Samuel Fuller | United States, | 1964 |
| 182 |
|
Straw Dogs | Sam Peckinpah | United States, | 1971 |
| 220 |
|
Naked Lunch | David Cronenberg | Canada, | 1991 |
| 134 |
|
Häxan | Benjamin Christensen | Denmark, | 1922 |
| 898 |
|
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | David Lynch | United States, | 1992 |
| 91 |
|
The Blob | Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. | United States, | 1958 |
| 872 |
|
Ghost World | Terry Zwigoff | United States, | 2001 |
| 37 |
|
Time Bandits | Terry Gilliam | United Kingdom, | 1981 |
| 390 |
|
Sweet Movie | Dušan Makavejev | France, | 1974 |
| 404 |
|
Robinson Crusoe on Mars | Byron Haskin | United States, | 1964 |
| 77 |
|
And God Created Woman | Roger Vadim | France, | 1956 |
| 338 |
|
Equinox | Jack Woods | United States, | 1970 |
| 896 |
|
The Lure | Agnieszka Smoczyńska | Poland, | 2015 |
| 836 |
|
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | Russ Meyer | United States, | 1970 |
| 179 |
|
I Am Curious | |||
|
Eclipse Series 9: The Delirious Fictions of William Klein | ||||
| 415 |
|
The Naked Prey | Cornel Wilde | United States, | 1965 |
| 611 |
|
Being John Malkovich | Spike Jonze | United States, | 1999 |
| 89 |
|
Sisters | Brian De Palma | United States, | 1973 |
| 506 |
|
Dillinger Is Dead | Marco Ferreri | Italy, | 1969 |
| 454 |
|
Europa | Lars von Trier | Denmark, | 1991 |
| 863 |
|
Multiple Maniacs | John Waters | United States, | 1970 |
| 571 |
|
Black Moon | Louis Malle | France, | 1975 |
| 544 |
|
Head | Bob Rafelson | United States, | 1968 |
| 925 |
|
Midnight Cowboy | John Schlesinger | United States, | 1969 |
| 191 |
|
Jubilee | Derek Jarman | United Kingdom, | 1978 |
| 165 |
|
Man Bites Dog | Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoit Poelvoorde | Belgium, | 1992 |
| 414 |
|
Two-Lane Blacktop | Monte Hellman | United States, | 1971 |
|
Eclipse Series 35: Maidstone and Other Films by Norman Mailer | ||||
| 364 |
|
Monsters and Madmen | |||
| 533 |
|
Crumb | Terry Zwigoff | United States, | 1995 |
|
Eclipse Series 33: Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr. | ||||
| 440 |
|
Brand upon the Brain! | Guy Maddin | Canada, | 2006 |
| 352 |
|
Jigoku | Nobuo Nakagawa | Japan, | 1960 |
| 199 |
|
Schizopolis | Steven Soderbergh | United States, | 1996 |
| 551 |
|
Cronos | Guillermo del Toro | Mexico, | 1993 |
| 92 |
|
Fiend Without a Face | Arthur Crabtree | United Kingdom, | 1958 |
| 247 |
|
Slacker | Richard Linklater | United States, | 1991 |
| 821 |
|
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Stanley Kubrick | United States, | 1964 |
| 20 |
|
Sid & Nancy | Alex Cox | United Kingdom, | 1986 |
| 12 |
|
This Is Spinal Tap | Rob Reiner | United States, | 1984 |