This is a list of cult films organized alphabetically by name. See List of cult films for main list.
| Film |
Year |
Director |
Source
|
| The Tailor of Panama |
2001 |
John Boorman |
[1]
|
| The Taking of Pelham One Two Three |
1974 |
Joseph Sargent |
[2]
|
| The Taking of Power by Louis XIV |
1966 |
Roberto Rossellini |
[1]
|
| The Tale of the White Serpent (also known as Panda and the Magic Serpent and The Great White Snake) |
1958 |
Taiji Yabushita |
[1]
|
| Tales from the Crypt |
1972 |
Freddie Francis |
[3]
|
| Tales of Ordinary Madness |
1981 |
Marco Ferreri |
[1]
|
| Talk Radio |
1988 |
Oliver Stone |
[1]
|
| The Tall T |
1957 |
Budd Boetticher |
[4][5][1]
|
| Tampopo |
1985 |
Juzo Itami |
[1]
|
| Tank Girl |
1995 |
Rachel Talalay |
[6][5]
|
| Tarantula |
1955 |
Jack Arnold |
[7]
|
| Targets |
1968 |
Peter Bogdanovich |
[4][8][5][1][9][3]
|
| The Tarnished Angels |
1957 |
Douglas Sirk |
[1]
|
| Tarzan and His Mate |
1934 |
Cedric Gibbons |
[4][5][9]
|
| Tarzan the Ape Man |
1932 |
W. S. Van Dyke |
[5]
|
| Tarzan's New York Adventure |
1942 |
Richard Thorpe |
[1]
|
| The Tattooed Hitman |
1974 |
Kōsaku Yamashita |
[10]
|
| Taxi |
1998 |
Gérard Pirès |
[2]
|
| Taxi Driver |
1976 |
Martin Scorsese |
[11][5][2][1]
|
| Taza, Son of Cochise |
1954 |
Douglas Sirk |
[1]
|
| Team America: World Police |
2004 |
Trey Parker |
[1]
|
| Teaserama |
1955 |
Irving Klaw |
[2]
|
| Teenagers from Outer Space |
1959 |
Tom Graeff |
[12]
|
| Teen Wolf |
1985 |
Rod Daniel |
[1]
|
| Teeth |
2007 |
Mitchell Lichtenstein |
[1]
|
| Tell No One |
2007 |
Guillaume Canet |
[2]
|
| Tell Your Children (also known as Reefer Madness) |
1936 |
Louis J. Gasnier |
[4][6][13][14][15][5][2][1]
|
| Ten |
2002 |
Abbas Kiarostami |
[1]
|
| The Ten Commandments |
1956 |
Cecil B. DeMille |
[1]
|
| The Tenderness of Wolves |
1973 |
Ulli Lommel |
[5]
|
| Tenebrae |
1982 |
Dario Argento |
[5][2][1][3]
|
| Tentacles |
1977 |
Ovidio G. Assonitis |
[16]
|
| Terminal Island |
1973 |
Stephanie Rothman |
[5]
|
| The Terminator |
1984 |
James Cameron |
[1][9]
|
| Terminator 2: Judgment Day |
1991 |
James Cameron |
[5][1]
|
| The Terror |
1963 |
Roger Corman |
[5][16]
|
| The Terror of Tiny Town |
1938 |
Sam Newfield |
[1]
|
| Terror Circus (also known as The Barn of the Naked Dead and Nightmare Circus) |
1973 |
Alan Rudolph |
[16]
|
| The Terrornauts |
1967 |
Montgomery Tully |
[12]
|
| Tetsu no tsume (also known as Claws of Iron and Claws of Steel) |
1951 |
Nobuo Adachi |
[10]
|
| Tetsuo: The Iron Man |
1989 |
Shinya Tsukamoto |
[6][5]
|
| Tetsuro Tamba’s Great Spirit World |
1989 |
Teru Ishida |
[10]
|
| The Texas Chain Saw Massacre |
1974 |
Tobe Hooper |
[4][6][15][5][2][1][9]
|
| Thank God It's Friday |
1978 |
Robert Klane |
[17]
|
| Thank You for Smoking |
2005 |
Jason Reitman |
[1]
|
| Thank You, Life (also known as Merci la vie) |
1991 |
Bertrand Blier |
[1]
|
| That Sinking Feeling |
1979 |
Bill Forsyth |
[1]
|
| Theatre of Blood |
1973 |
Douglas Hickox |
[1]
|
| Thelma & Louise |
1991 |
Ridley Scott |
[1]
|
| Them! |
1954 |
Gordon Douglas |
[5][16]
|
| There Will Be Blood |
2007 |
Paul Thomas Anderson |
[1]
|
| There's Something About Mary |
1998 |
Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly |
[1]
|
| Thesis (also known as Tesis) |
1996 |
Alejandro Amenábar |
[5]
|
| They Live |
1988 |
John Carpenter |
[5][2][1][3]
|
| They Might Be Giants |
1971 |
Anthony Harvey |
[2]
|
| The Thief of Bagdad |
1924 |
Raoul Walsh |
[1]
|
| The Thief of Bagdad |
1940 |
Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger, and Tim Whelan |
[1]
|
| The Thin Blue Line |
1988 |
Errol Morris |
[1]
|
| The Thin Man |
1934 |
W. S. Van Dyke |
[1]
|
| The Thing |
1982 |
John Carpenter |
[15][5][2]
|
| The Thing from Another World |
1951 |
Christian Nyby |
[7]
|
| The Thing With Two Heads |
1972 |
Lee Frost |
[2]
|
| The Third Man |
1949 |
Carol Reed |
[1]
|
| Thirteen |
2003 |
Catherine Hardwicke |
[5][1]
|
| This Filthy Earth |
2001 |
Andrew Kötting |
[1]
|
| This Filthy World |
2006 |
Jeff Garlin |
[5]
|
| This Is Spinal Tap |
1984 |
Rob Reiner |
[6][13][15][8][5][2][1][9]
|
| This Island Earth |
1955 |
Joseph M. Newman |
[9]
|
| This Sporting Life |
1963 |
Lindsay Anderson |
[1]
|
| The Thomas Crown Affair |
1968 |
Norman Jewison |
[1]
|
| Thomasine & Bushrod |
1974 |
Gordon Parks Jr. |
[1]
|
| The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada |
2005 |
Tommy Lee Jones |
[1]
|
| Three Colours: Blue |
1993 |
Krzysztof Kieślowski |
[2][1]
|
| Three Colours: Red |
1994 |
Krzysztof Kieślowski |
[2]
|
| Three Colours: White |
1994 |
Krzysztof Kieślowski |
[2]
|
| Three Days of the Condor |
1975 |
Sydney Pollack |
[1]
|
| Three... Extremes |
2004 |
Fruit Chan, Park Chan-wook, Takashi Miike |
[18]
|
| Thriller – A Cruel Picture |
1973 |
Bo Arne Vibenius under the pseudonym Alex Fridolinski |
[6][5]
|
| Through a Glass Darkly |
1961 |
Ingmar Bergman |
[1]
|
| Thundercrack! |
1975 |
Curt McDowell |
[6][5]
|
| THX 1138 |
1971 |
George Lucas |
[12][2][1]
|
| Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (also known as ¡Átame!) |
1989 |
Pedro Almodóvar |
[5]
|
| Time Bandits |
1981 |
Terry Gilliam |
[13][8]
|
| The Time to Live and the Time to Die |
1985 |
Hou Hsiao-hsien |
[1]
|
| A Time to Love and a Time to Die |
1958 |
Douglas Sirk |
[1]
|
| The Time Travelers |
1964 |
Ib Melchior |
[12]
|
| Tin Men |
1987 |
Barry Levinson |
[1]
|
| The Tingler |
1959 |
William Castle |
[5][1]
|
| Titanic |
1997 |
James Cameron |
[5]
|
| TNT Jackson |
1974 |
Cirio Santiago |
[1]
|
| To Be and to Have |
2002 |
Nicolas Philibert |
[1]
|
| To Be or Not to Be |
1942 |
Ernst Lubitsch |
[11][1]
|
| To Die For |
1995 |
Gus Van Sant |
[1]
|
| To Kill a Mockingbird |
1962 |
Robert Mulligan |
[1]
|
| To Sleep with Anger |
1990 |
Charles Burnett |
[2]
|
| Together |
2000 |
Lukas Moodysson |
[2]
|
| Tokyo Decadence |
1992 |
Ryū Murakami |
[5]
|
| Tokyo Drifter |
1966 |
Seijun Suzuki |
[2][1]
|
| Tokyo Story |
1953 |
Yasujirō Ozu |
[1]
|
| Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis |
1988 |
Akio Jissoji |
[10]
|
| Tom Brown's Schooldays |
1951 |
Gordon Parry |
[1]
|
| Tombs of the Blind Dead |
1972 |
Amando de Ossorio |
[16]
|
| Tommy |
1975 |
Ken Russell |
[13][19][5]
|
| Tongues Untied |
1989 |
Marlon T. Riggs |
[1]
|
| Tony Rome |
1967 |
Gordon Douglas |
[1]
|
| Too Late the Hero |
1970 |
Robert Aldrich |
[2]
|
| The Toolbox Murders |
1978 |
Dennis Donnelly |
[16]
|
| Top Gun |
1986 |
Tony Scott |
[5]
|
| Top Hat |
1935 |
Mark Sandrich |
[4][5][9]
|
| Top Secret! |
1984 |
Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker |
[1]
|
| Topkapi |
1964 |
Jules Dassin |
[1]
|
| El Topo |
1970 |
Alejandro Jodorowsky |
[4][6][13][14][5][1]
|
| Topsy-Turvy |
1999 |
Mike Leigh |
[1]
|
| Torch Song Trilogy |
1988 |
Paul Bogart |
[1]
|
| Torremolinos 73 |
2003 |
Pablo Berger |
[1]
|
| Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law |
1998 |
Santiago Segura |
[1]
|
| Torso |
1973 |
Sergio Martino |
[16]
|
| Torture Dungeon |
1969 |
Andy Milligan |
[16]
|
| Torture Garden |
1967 |
Freddie Francis |
[1]
|
| Totally F***ed Up (also known as Totally Fucked Up) |
1993 |
Gregg Araki |
[1]
|
| Touch of Evil |
1958 |
Orson Welles |
[5][2][1][9]
|
| A Touch of Zen |
1971 |
King Hu |
[5]
|
| Touchez pas au grisbi (also known as Grisbi and Honour Among Thieves) |
1954 |
Jacques Becker |
[1]
|
| Touching the Void |
2003 |
Kevin Macdonald |
[2][1]
|
| The Tough Ones (also known as Rome, Armed to the Teeth) |
1976 |
Umberto Lenzi |
[6]
|
| Tout va bien |
1972 |
Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin |
[1]
|
| The Towering Inferno |
1974 |
John Guillermin |
[5]
|
| The Toxic Avenger |
1984 |
Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman |
[6][13][15][7][2][1]
|
| Toy Story |
1995 |
John Lasseter |
[1]
|
| Tracks |
1976 |
Henry Jaglom |
[2]
|
| Traffic |
2000 |
Steven Soderbergh |
[1]
|
| The Train |
1964 |
John Frankenheimer |
[1]
|
| Trainspotting |
1996 |
Danny Boyle |
[19][5][1]
|
| The Transformers: The Movie |
1986 |
Nelson Shin |
[1]
|
| The Transgressor (also known as Convent of the Sacred Beast and School of the Holy Beast) |
1974 |
Norifumi Suzuki |
[10]
|
| Transylvania 6-5000 |
1985 |
Rudy De Luca |
[1]
|
| Trap Them and Kill Them (also known as Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals) |
1977 |
Joe D'Amato |
[6][5][16]
|
| Trash |
1970 |
Paul Morrissey |
[4][5]
|
| The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
1948 |
John Huston |
[1]
|
| Trees Lounge |
1996 |
Steve Buscemi |
[1]
|
| Tremors |
1990 |
Ron Underwood |
[2]
|
| The Trial |
1962 |
Orson Welles |
[1]
|
| Trick 'r Treat |
2007 |
Michael Dougherty |
[15]
|
| The Trip |
1967 |
Roger Corman |
[17][5][2]
|
| A Trip to the Moon |
1902 |
Georges Méliès |
[1]
|
| The Triplets of Belleville |
2003 |
Sylvain Chomet |
[1]
|
| Triumph of the Will |
1935 |
Leni Riefenstahl |
[5][1]
|
| Trog |
1970 |
Freddie Francis |
[1]
|
| Troll 2 |
1990 |
Claudio Fragasso |
[5]
|
| Tron |
1982 |
Steven Lisberger |
[5][2]
|
| Troops |
1997 |
Kevin Rubio |
[5]
|
| Tropic Thunder |
2008 |
Ben Stiller |
[1]
|
| Trouble Every Day |
2001 |
Claire Denis |
[5]
|
| Trouble Man |
1972 |
Ivan Dixon |
[5][1]
|
| True Romance |
1993 |
Tony Scott |
[2]
|
| True Stories |
1986 |
David Byrne |
[8]
|
| The Truman Show |
1998 |
Peter Weir |
[1]
|
| Tucker: The Man and His Dream |
1988 |
Francis Ford Coppola |
[1]
|
| Turkey Shoot (also known as Escape 2000 and Blood Camp Thatcher) |
1982 |
Brian Trenchard-Smith |
[7][1]
|
| Turkish Delight |
1973 |
Paul Verhoeven |
[5][3]
|
| Tusk |
1980 |
Alejandro Jodorowsky |
[5]
|
| The Twelve Chairs |
1970 |
Mel Brooks |
[2]
|
| Twelve Monkeys (also known as 12 Monkeys) |
1995 |
Terry Gilliam |
[5]
|
| Twilight |
2008 |
Catherine Hardwicke |
[5]
|
| Twilight of the Ice Nymphs |
1997 |
Guy Maddin |
[13]
|
| Twilight's Last Gleaming |
1977 |
Robert Aldrich |
[2]
|
| Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me |
1992 |
David Lynch |
[8][2]
|
| Two for the Road |
1967 |
Stanley Donen |
[4]
|
| Two Mules for Sister Sara |
1970 |
Don Siegel |
[1]
|
| Two Thousand Maniacs! (also known as 2000 Maniacs) |
1964 |
Herschell Gordon Lewis |
[6][5]
|
| Two-Lane Blacktop |
1971 |
Monte Hellman |
[4][6][13][17][8][5][2][1][9]
|
| The Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera |
1996 |
Adam Simon |
[5]
|
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