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Cult Films / After Dark

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".

Jackie Brown (1997)

7.5/10
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Pam Grier, Samuel L Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Robe...

This flavourful adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel 'Rum Punch' is reset in Southern California. Pam Grier plays a flight attendant who's been traffi... Read more

Local Hero (1983)

7.5/10
Director: Bill Forsyth
Starring: Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster, Fulton MacKay

The delicate ecological balance of a small unspoiled Scottish village is threatened by the plans of a wealthy oilman. 'Local Hero' is a tender, very f... Read more

If.... (1968)

7.7/10
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan

A daringly anarchic vision of British society, set in a boarding school in late-sixties England. Before Kubrick made his mischief iconic in 'A Clockwo... Read more

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

8.3/10
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Jared Leto, Marlon Wayans, Jennifer Connelly, Ellen Burstyn

As powerful an anti-drug statement as it is a drama, director Aronofsky's ('Pi') visually hypnotic film graphically tracks the downward spiral of four... Read more

Ichi the Killer (2001)

7.1/10
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori, Shinya Tsukamoto

Welcome to a world where violence is a virtue and depravity is a way of life. This is the underside of Shinjuku, and the home of Kakihara, a sadistic... Read more

His Girl Friday (1940)

8/10
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Rosalind Russell

This must-see film has Cary Grant as a conniving editor and Rosalind Russell as a star reporter (and his ex-wife), with Ralph Bellamy as the mama's bo... Read more

True Romance (1993)

7.9/10
Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Gary Oldman

Another explosive cocktail from the pen of Quentin Tarantino ('Reservoir Dogs', 'Pulp Fiction'). This is a 90's twist on the young lovers-on-the-lam g... Read more

The Wicker Man (1973)

7.6/10
Director: Robin Hardy
Starring: Britt Ekland, Christopher Lee, Edward Woodward, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt

A British police officer goes to a small island off Scotland to find a missing girl, only to discover that the islanders practice a Celtic religion wh... Read more

Flying High! ( aka Airplane! ) (1980)

6.5/10
Director: David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams
Starring: Julie Hagerty, Robert Hays, Robert Stack, Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges

A funny spoof of 'Airport'-type disaster movies with non-stop hilarity that holds up to the end. Starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, R... Read more

The Believer (2001)

7.2/10
Director: Henry Bean
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Summer Phoenix, Theresa Russell, Billy Zane

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, "The Believer" is a daring and gripping portrayal of a young Jewish man living an imposs... Read more