Top 100 Cult Classic Movies List

#60 Cult Classic Movie

Harold and Maude (1971) PG

Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.

Director:

Hal Ashby

Writers:

Colin Higgins

Stars:

Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles

#59 Cult Classic Movie

The Elephant Man (1980) PG

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.

Director:

David Lynch

Writers:

Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren

Stars:

Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft

#58 Cult Classic Movie

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)

When an abused socialite grows to giant size because of an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt, she goes after her cheating husband with revenge on her mind.

Director:

Nathan Juran

Writers:

Mark Hanna

Stars:

Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers

#57 Cult Classic Movie

Surf Nazis Must Die (1987) R

When the son of a gun-wielding woman is murdered by neo-Nazi surf punks in the post-apocalyptic future, his Mama hunts them down for some bloodthirsty revenge.

Director:

Peter George

Writers:

Jon Ayre, Peter George

Stars:

Gail Neely, Robert Harden, Barry Brenner

#56 Cult Classic Movie

The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) R

Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return spacecraft, and meets Mary-Lou, a girl who falls in love with him. He does not count on the greed and ruthlessness of business here on Earth, however.

Director:

Nicolas Roeg

Writers:

Paul Mayersberg, Walter Tevis

Stars:

David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark

#55 Cult Classic Movie

The Wicker Man (1973) R

A police sergeant is sent to a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl whom the townsfolk claim never existed. Stranger still are the rites that take place there.

Director:

Robin Hardy

Writers:

Anthony Shaffer

Stars:

Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento

#54 Cult Classic Movie

Evil Dead II (1987) R

The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.

Director:

Sam Raimi

Writers:

Sam Raimi, Scott Spiegel

Stars:

Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks

#53 Cult Classic Movie

This Is Spinal Tap (1984) R

Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.

Director:

Rob Reiner

Writers:

Christopher Guest, Michael McKean

Stars:

Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest

#52 Cult Classic Movie

Tommy (1975) PG

A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the object of a religious cult.

Director:

Ken Russell

Writers:

The Who, Ken Russell

Stars:

Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed

#51 Cult Classic Movie

Fritz the Cat (1972)

A hypocritical swinging college student cat raises hell in a satiric vision of various elements on the 1960s.

Director:

Ralph Bakshi

Writers:

Ralph Bakshi, Robert Crumb

Stars:

Skip Hinnant, Rosetta LeNoire, John McCurry

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#50 Cult Classic Movie

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) PG

An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.

Director:

Stanley Kubrick

Writers:

Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern

Stars:

Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden

#49 Cult Classic Movie

Barbarella (1968) PG

Barbarella, an astronaut from the 41st century, sets out to find and stop the evil scientist Durand Durand, whose Positronic Ray threatens to bring evil back into the galaxy.

Director:

Roger Vadim

Writers:

Jean-Claude Forest, Claude Brulé

Stars:

Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg

#48 Cult Classic Movie

The Toxic Avenger (1984) R

Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.

Director:

Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman

Writers:

Lloyd Kaufman, Joe Ritter

Stars:

Andree Maranda, Mitch Cohen, Jennifer Babtist

#47 Cult Classic Movie

Hairspray (2007) PG

Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.

Director:

Adam Shankman

Writers:

Leslie Dixon, John Waters

Stars:

John Travolta, Queen Latifah, Nikki Blonsky

#46 Cult Classic Movie

Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) PG-13

Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.

Director:

Stephen Chiodo

Writers:

Charles Chiodo, Stephen Chiodo

Stars:

Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson

#45 Cult Classic Movie

Barton Fink (1991) R

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Director:

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Writers:

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Stars:

John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis

#44 Cult Classic Movie

Re-Animator (1985)

A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.

Director:

Stuart Gordon

Writers:

H.P. Lovecraft, Dennis Paoli

Stars:

Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton

#43 Cult Classic Movie

Flash Gordon (1980) PG

A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.

Director:

Mike Hodges

Writers:

Lorenzo Semple Jr., Michael Allin

Stars:

Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow

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#42 Cult Classic Movie

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) PG

An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.

Director:

Terry Gilliam

Writers:

Charles McKeown, Terry Gilliam

Stars:

John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley

#41 Cult Classic Movie

Joe's Apartment (1996) PG-13

A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches.

Director:

John Payson

Writers:

John Payson

Stars:

Jerry O'Connell, Megan Ward, Billy West

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