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".
Hilarious, tasteless series of sketches that lampoon TV commercials, porn movies, kung fu epics and other staples of American culture. With appearance... Read more
An early Stanley Kubrick classic about an elaborate race track robbery filmed with total artistic freedom using a multilayered simultaneous storyline.... Read more
Cincinnati cardiologist Steven Murphy (Colin Farrell) lived an ordinary existence with his wife (Nicole Kidman) and kids...but on the quiet, he mainta... Read more
An early Stanley Kubrick classic about an elaborate race track robbery filmed with total artistic freedom using a multilayered simultaneous storyline.... Read more
Robert De Niro is an obsessive stand-up comic performing in front of cardboard cut-outs in is mum's basement. Jerry Lewis is the host of a talk show t... Read more
This joyfully creepy and surrealistic Danish medical thriller/satire, is full of jaded New Age practices, a nationalistic neurologist longing for his... Read more
Ken Russell unearths a tale written by Bram Stoker ('Dracula') about an ancient pagan snake cult flourishing in the modern English countryside, and ad... Read more
When a German U-Boat torpedoes a British ship during World War I, its survivors (Doug McClure and Susan Penhaligon) are taken onboard. But after getti... Read more
After serving a year in prison a drug dealer is released and decides to go back to making porn movies; but the money men want something new. Affronte... Read more
The freakish and bizarre inhabitants of Royston Vasey are unleashed on an unsuspecting world in this movie spawned from the cult TV series. All the f... Read more