This is a list of cult films organized alphabetically by name. See List of cult films for main list.
| Film |
Year |
Director |
Source
|
| D.O.A. |
1950 |
Rudolph Maté |
[1]
|
| Daddy Longlegs |
2009 |
Safdie brothers |
[2]
|
| Daimajin |
1966 |
Kimiyoshi Yasuda |
[3]
|
| Daisies |
1966 |
Věra Chytilová |
[2]
|
| Damn Yankees |
1958 |
George Abbott and Stanley Donen |
[4]
|
| Damnation Alley |
1977 |
Jack Smight |
[5]
|
| The Damned |
1969 |
Luchino Visconti |
[4]
|
| Dance, Girl, Dance |
1940 |
Dorothy Arzner |
[6][7][4]
|
| Dancer in the Dark |
2000 |
Lars von Trier |
[4]
|
| Danger: Diabolik |
1968 |
Mario Bava |
[4][1]
|
| Dangerous When Wet |
1953 |
Charles Walters |
[4]
|
| Dante's Inferno |
1911 |
Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe De Liguoro |
[8]
|
| Danton |
1983 |
Andrzej Wajda |
[4]
|
| Dark City |
1998 |
Alex Proyas |
[7][4]
|
| Dark Habits (also known as Entre tinieblas) |
1983 |
Pedro Almodóvar |
[4]
|
| The Dark Knight |
2008 |
Christopher Nolan |
[7][4]
|
| Dark Soldier D |
1998 |
Multiple |
[3]
|
| Dark Star |
1974 |
John Carpenter |
[9][7][1][4]
|
| Dark Water |
2002 |
Hideo Nakata |
[7][10]
|
| Dark Waters |
1994 |
Mariano Baino |
[11]
|
| Darkman |
1990 |
Sam Raimi |
[1]
|
| Daughters of Darkness |
1971 |
Harry Kümel |
[9][12][7][13]
|
| Dawn of the Dead |
1978 |
George A. Romero |
[12][7][1][4]
|
| Dawn of the Dead |
2004 |
Zack Snyder |
[4]
|
| The Dawn Patrol |
1938 |
Edmund Goulding |
[1]
|
| Day of the Animals |
1977 |
William Girdler |
[8]
|
| The Day of the Beast |
1995 |
Álex de la Iglesia |
[11]
|
| Day of the Dead |
1985 |
George A. Romero |
[7][4]
|
| Day of the Fight |
1951 |
Stanley Kubrick |
[4]
|
| The Day of the Jackal |
1973 |
Fred Zinnemann |
[4]
|
| The Day of the Locust |
1975 |
John Schlesinger |
[1][4]
|
| Day of the Woman (also known as I Spit on Your Grave) |
1978 |
Meir Zarchi |
[14][7][11][4]
|
| The Day the Earth Caught Fire |
1961 |
Val Guest |
[4]
|
| The Day the Earth Stood Still |
1951 |
Robert Wise |
[7][1]
|
| Day the World Ended |
1955 |
Roger Corman |
[7][5]
|
| Days of Heaven |
1978 |
Terrence Malick |
[1]
|
| Days of Wine and Roses |
1962 |
Blake Edwards |
[4]
|
| Dazed and Confused |
1993 |
Richard Linklater |
[14][7][1][4]
|
| Dead & Buried |
1981 |
Gary Sherman |
[5]
|
| Dead Alive (also known as Braindead) |
1992 |
Peter Jackson |
[14][7]
|
| Dead Man |
1995 |
Jim Jarmusch |
[2][1][4][8]
|
| Dead Man's Shoes |
2004 |
Shane Meadows |
[1]
|
| Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid |
1982 |
Carl Reiner |
[4]
|
| Dead of Night |
1945 |
Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer |
[15][11][1][16]
|
| Dead or Alive |
1999 |
Takashi Miike |
[7][3]
|
| The Dead That Walk (also known as Zombies of Mora Tau) |
1957 |
Edward L. Cahn |
[13]
|
| Deadly Weapons |
1974 |
Doris Wishman |
[12][7]
|
| Death Becomes Her |
1992 |
Robert Zemeckis |
[17]
|
| Death Line (also known as Raw Meat) |
1972 |
Gary Sherman |
[11]
|
| The Death of Dick Long |
2019 |
Daniel Scheinert |
[8]
|
| Death Proof |
2007 |
Quentin Tarantino |
[7]
|
| Death Race 2000 |
1975 |
Paul Bartel |
[18][7][1]
|
| Death Rides a Horse |
1967 |
Giulio Petroni |
[4]
|
| Death Ward #13 (also known as Don't Look in the Basement and The Forgotten) |
1973 |
S. F. Brownrigg |
[13]
|
| Death Wish |
1974 |
Michael Winner |
[1]
|
| Deathquake (also known as Magnitude 7.9) |
1980 |
Kenjirô Ohmori |
[3]
|
| Debbie Does Dallas |
1978 |
Jim Clark |
[12][7]
|
| The Decline of Western Civilization |
1981 |
Penelope Spheeris |
[19][7][1]
|
| The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years |
1988 |
Penelope Spheeris |
[14][19][18]
|
| The Decline of Western Civilization Part III |
1998 |
Penelope Spheeris |
[19]
|
| Deep Crimson |
1996 |
Arturo Ripstein |
[4]
|
| Deep End |
1970 |
Jerzy Skolimowski |
[6][4]
|
| The Deep End |
2001 |
Scott McGehee and David Siegel |
[4]
|
| Deep Red |
1975 |
Dario Argento |
[12][4]
|
| Deep Throat |
1972 |
Gerard Damiano |
[7][8]
|
| Deep Water |
2006 |
Louise Osmond and Jerry Rothwell |
[4]
|
| The Deer Hunter |
1978 |
Michael Cimino |
[4]
|
| Delicatessen |
1991 |
Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro |
[15][1][4][8]
|
| Deliverance |
1972 |
John Boorman |
[7][1][4]
|
| The Delta |
1996 |
Ira Sachs |
[4]
|
| Dementia 13 (also known as The Haunted and the Hunted) |
1963 |
Francis Ford Coppola |
[13]
|
| Demon Seed |
1977 |
Donald Cammell |
[7][5][1]
|
| The Demon Within (also known as The Happiness Cage and The Mind Snatchers) |
1972 |
Bernard Girard |
[13]
|
| Demonia |
1990 |
Lucio Fulci |
[4]
|
| Dersu Uzala |
1975 |
Akira Kurosawa |
[4]
|
| Desert Hearts |
1985 |
Donna Deitch |
[4]
|
| Deshdrohi |
2008 |
Jagdish A. Sharma |
[20]
|
| Desperate Living |
1977 |
John Waters |
[7]
|
| Destination Moon |
1950 |
Irving Pichel |
[4]
|
| Destiny (also known as Between Two Worlds) |
1921 |
Fritz Lang |
[11]
|
| Destroy All Monsters |
1968 |
Ishirō Honda |
[5]
|
| Detour |
1945 |
Edgar G. Ulmer |
[6][7][1][4][16]
|
| The Devil and Daniel Webster (also known as All That Money Can Buy) |
1941 |
William Dieterle |
[4]
|
| The Devil and Miss Jones |
1941 |
Sam Wood |
[4]
|
| Devil in a Blue Dress |
1995 |
Carl Franklin |
[4]
|
| The Devil in Miss Jones |
1973 |
Gerard Damiano |
[7]
|
| The Devil Rides Out |
1968 |
Terence Fisher |
[4]
|
| The Devil Wears Prada |
2006 |
David Frankel |
[4]
|
| The Devil-Doll |
1936 |
Tod Browning |
[4]
|
| The Devil's Advocate |
1997 |
Taylor Hackford |
[4]
|
| The Devil's Backbone |
2001 |
Guillermo del Toro |
[4]
|
| The Devil's Men (also known as Land of the Minotaur and Minotaur, The Mask of the Demons) |
1976 |
Kostas Karagiannis |
[13]
|
| The Devil's Nightmare |
1971 |
Jean Brismée |
[13]
|
| The Devil's Playground |
1976 |
Fred Schepisi |
[4]
|
| The Devil's Wedding Night |
1973 |
Luigi Batzella and Joe D'Amato |
[13]
|
| The Devils |
1971 |
Ken Russell |
[7][1][4][16]
|
| Le diable est parmi nous (also known as The Possession of Virginia and Satan's Sabbath) |
1972 |
Jean Beaudin |
[7]
|
| Les Diaboliques (also known as Diaboloque) |
1955 |
Henri-Georges Clouzot |
[1][4]
|
| Dial M for Murder |
1954 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
[16]
|
| Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (also known as Walden) |
1968 |
Jonas Mekas |
[4]
|
| Diary of a Country Priest |
1951 |
Robert Bresson |
[4]
|
| Diary of the Dead |
2007 |
George A. Romero |
[4]
|
| Die Hard |
1988 |
John McTiernan |
[7][4]
|
| Different from the Others |
1919 |
Richard Oswald |
[4]
|
| Dillinger |
1973 |
John Milius |
[1]
|
| Dillinger Is Dead |
1969 |
Marco Ferreri |
[2]
|
| The Dinner Game (also known as Le Dîner de Cons) |
1998 |
Francis Veber |
[14]
|
| Dirty Dancing |
1987 |
Emile Ardolino |
[12][7][4]
|
| Dirty Harry |
1971 |
Don Siegel |
[1][4]
|
| Dirty Pretty Things |
2002 |
Stephen Frears |
[4]
|
| The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie |
1972 |
Luis Buñuel |
[14][4]
|
| The Dish |
2000 |
Rob Sitch |
[4]
|
| Distant Voices, Still Lives |
1988 |
Terence Davies |
[4]
|
| District 9 |
2009 |
Neill Blomkamp |
[4]
|
| District 13 |
2004 |
Pierre Morel |
[4]
|
| Diva |
1981 |
Jean-Jacques Beineix |
[21][1][4]
|
| Divide and Conquer |
1943 |
Frank Capra |
[4]
|
| Il divo |
2008 |
Paolo Sorrentino |
[4]
|
| Django |
1966 |
Sergio Corbucci |
[12][7]
|
| Django the Bastard |
1969 |
Sergio Garrone |
[4]
|
| Do Gaz Zameen Ke Neeche |
1972 |
Tulsi Ramsay and Shyam Ramsay |
[20]
|
| Do the Right Thing |
1989 |
Spike Lee |
[4]
|
| Do You Believe in Angels? (also known as Love Mates) |
1961 |
Lars-Magnus Lindgren |
[4]
|
| Doctor X |
1932 |
Michael Curtiz |
[11]
|
| Dog Day Afternoon |
1975 |
Sidney Lumet |
[1][4]
|
| Dog Soldiers |
2002 |
Neil Marshall |
[18][1]
|
| Dog Star Man |
1965 |
Stan Brakhage |
[4]
|
| A Dog's Breakfast |
2007 |
David Hewlett |
[4]
|
| Dogtown and Z-Boys |
2001 |
Stacy Peralta |
[1]
|
| La dolce vita |
1960 |
Federico Fellini |
[7][4][16]
|
| Don't Look in the Basement (also known as Death Ward #13 and The Forgotten) |
1973 |
S. F. Brownrigg |
[13]
|
| Don't Look Now |
1973 |
Nicolas Roeg |
[1][4]
|
| Don't Torture a Duckling |
1972 |
Lucio Fulci |
[12]
|
| Don't Worry About Me |
2009 |
David Morrissey |
[4]
|
| Donkey Skin |
1970 |
Jacques Demy |
[8]
|
| Donnie Brasco |
1997 |
Mike Newell |
[4]
|
| Donnie Darko |
2001 |
Richard Kelly |
[12][14][18][7][1][4]
|
| Donovan's Brain |
1953 |
Felix E. Feist |
[13]
|
| Dont Look Back |
1965 |
D.A. Pennebaker |
[7][4]
|
| The Doom Generation |
1995 |
Gregg Araki |
[4]
|
| Double Indemnity |
1944 |
Billy Wilder |
[4][18]
|
| Le Doulos |
1962 |
Jean-Pierre Melville |
[1]
|
| Down By Law |
1986 |
Jim Jarmusch |
[1][4]
|
| Downfall |
2004 |
Oliver Hirschbiegel |
[4]
|
| Dr. Cyclops |
1940 |
Ernest B. Schoedsack |
[11]
|
| Dr. Dippy's Sanitarium |
1906 |
|
[4]
|
| Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine |
1965 |
Norman Taurog |
[4]
|
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb |
1964 |
Stanley Kubrick |
[21][2][7][1][4]
|
| Dr. Terror's House of Horrors |
1965 |
Freddie Francis |
[11][4]
|
| Dracula |
1931 |
Tod Browning |
[7]
|
| Dracula vs. Frankenstein |
1971 |
Al Adamson |
[13]
|
| Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary |
2002 |
Guy Maddin |
[4]
|
| Dracula's Dog (also known as Zoltan... Hound of Dracula) |
1977 |
Albert Band |
[14][13][4]
|
| The Dragon Flies (also known as The Man from Hong Kong) |
1975 |
Brian Trenchard-Smith |
[8]
|
| Dragon Princess |
1975 |
Yutaka Kohira |
[3]
|
| The Draughtsman's Contract |
1982 |
Peter Greenaway |
[1][4]
|
| Dream of Light |
1992 |
Víctor Erice |
[4]
|
| Dreamgirls |
2006 |
Bill Condon |
[4]
|
| Dreamscape |
1984 |
Joseph Ruben |
[1]
|
| Dressed to Kill |
1980 |
Brian De Palma |
[1][4]
|
| The Dresser |
1983 |
Peter Yates |
[4]
|
| The Driller Killer |
1979 |
Abel Ferrara |
[7][11][1]
|
| Drive |
2011 |
Nicolas Winding Refn |
[18][8]
|
| The Driver |
1978 |
Walter Hill |
[1][4]
|
| Drop Dead Fred |
1991 |
Ate de Jong |
[22]
|
| Drowning by Numbers |
1988 |
Peter Greenaway |
[4]
|
| Drugstore Cowboy |
1989 |
Gus Van Sant |
[7][1][4]
|
| Drunken Angel |
1948 |
Akira Kurosawa |
[4]
|
| Drunken Master |
1978 |
Yuen Woo-ping |
[4]
|
| Duck Amuck |
1953 |
Charles M. Jones |
[7]
|
| Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century |
1953 |
Charles M. Jones |
[4]
|
| Duck Soup |
1933 |
Leo McCarey |
[6][7][4][16]
|
| Duel |
1971 |
Steven Spielberg |
[1][4]
|
| The Duellists |
1977 |
Ridley Scott |
[1]
|
| Dumplings |
2004 |
Fruit Chan |
[4]
|
| Dune |
1984 |
David Lynch |
[7][1]
|
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