Favourite cult films

As I am watching Rocky Horror Picture Show right now, I wonder about other cult films and if anyone else watches this movie? What are your favorite cult films?

RHPS can only be watched at the ikky movie theater here in Munich on a saturday night, its just even more part of the cult being a part of the Guiness book of world records.

Do people get on stage and dress up and such?

You get a funpack, that contains stuff. Like sprinkly stuff. Ask and you shall receive. Or else turn 360 degrees around when you're buying a ticket. The Lucky Bag stuff hanging on the wall? Buy it. Or memorise finely and recreate at home. And I did.

Office Space
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Big Lebowski
American Werewolf in London

can't get on stage, but we did dress up... makes event more fun.

Amber, you never, EVER do anything else while watching RHPS!
The Usual Suspects.

Diva

Betty Blue

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Although I recently bought the BB DVD and it was more explicit than I remembered when I saw it years ago at the cinema (in the UK).

I could watch these films ceaselessly although the BB story has some pertinent bits which I find too sad.

Tampopo

Snatch

Starship Troopers

Pulp fiction

The dont invole dressing up and being silly but they still all remain incredibly funny.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – what a dam good film – I cannot believe that I don’t have a DVD copy of it – I try not to think that it was filmed in Spain though.

The Exorcist – scariest film of all time except the stupid bit were the mother is on the phone and the girl is in the background running up and down the stairs on her back like a spider.

The Devils

Psycho

King Kong (stupid but was watched every Xmas until a certain age)

Mad Max

Clock Work Orange (not my favourite but was or is a cult film)

Bridge Over the River Kwai

Gladiator
Ben-Hur
Quo Vadis – Peter Ustinov (as Nero) at his best

What defines cult anyway?

La Haine
Bad Boy Bubby
Renaissance
The Legend Of Boggy Creek
Bubba Ho-Tep
Fright Night
The Iron Giant
The Keep
NightWatch
The Matador
Picnic At Hanging Rock
Southern Comfort
The Fisher King
Shaun Of The Dead

Repo Man
Withnail & I

I have A Clockwork Orange too...Also both versions of Donnie Darko.

I must be the only person on this planet that hasn't seen the film or the live show of The Rocky Horror Picture Show - It did come to Munich not so long ago I guess I should have seen it then.

Paris, Texas

Oh how I love this film - when he trains the lass like a gymnast and she does the "Hai!" arms up end of routine pose hahhahhaa If you have it, lend it to me forthwith.

Another 2 favourites of mine too, great camera work, amazing images, the music all works.
Don't really know what cult means here either.

I'd add:
Hard Boiled - the doves! Shooting with both hands! Death! Gore! Chow Yung Fat!
Aguirre, the wrath of god or Nosferatu - nobody does scary mental intense like Kinski, he's hypnotic
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman - I like food films and there's serious food in there, like an Asian "Babette's Feast"
Chinese Ghost Story part I - One of the funniest films ever made, for me at least
Romper Stomper/Once Were Warriors - La Haine goes south
Harold & Maude - When I'm really old, I wanna be like Maude haha

And someone has to mention it: The Big Lebowski
Heathers? But that reminds me of TT some days

I also like:
Swingers
Requiem for a Dream
Scarface
Better off Dead
Sixteen Candles

I don't think Boondock Saints is, but it is a great movie!!!

Blowup

And even though it is really a mini-series rather than a film: Lars von Trier's The Kingdom
The little girl ghost gets me every time. Funny, bleak, heartbreaking, heartwarming, horrific, romantic, the lot all at the same time.

Classic!

True Romance

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

All the National Lampoon's series of movies, particularly: Animal house, Vacation, and European Vacation.
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I really enjoy the very first Police Academy - especially when those two cops get stuck in that gay club.

NOFXmike SNAP

what about The Elephant Man and Eraser Head

Dr Strangelove

Well, when it was shown at uni I walked out.

I know it's a classic film and has a deserved cult following (deserved in many ways) but it just didn't work for me.

& I'm impressed no one seems to want to approach it, but: The Sound of Music

...the third highest grossing film of all time if you adjust for inflation, only beat out by Gone with the Wind and Star Wars.

I think you are right - I can stand poofsters and gays - but these trans-sexuals especially the pre-operational ones with the tits and dicks give me the creeps.

I dont care for the dressing up in womens underwear but the movie is funny...

Pee Wee Herman movies!!! For some reason those movies crack me up everytime...

Surprised no one mentioned it, but Apocalypse Now (the Redux version rocks, if you havent seen it, do it. +45 Minutes!)

Full Metal Jacket.

Agree on La Haine, Pb- thats a hell of a flick.

THE WIRE Is so vastly underrated, should be the cult of cult. But then, its not a movie. Or maybe it is 4 movies each lasting about 12 hours.

Ofcourse, Sin City.

Pat Garret & Billy the Kid

Bad Lieutenant

And i agree on Elephant Man and Eraserhead, Lynch kicks ass.

Then of course:
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction

Natural Born Killers

Chungking Express

Ishi the Killer

Dawn of the Dead (the Original)
Night of the living Dead
Land of the Dead - soon-to-be classic, pretty good at exposing the political nature of zombie films in general.

They Live - Also obvious in its political implications

Cannibal Holocaust (aka Nackt und Zerfleischt)

I wonder where Pee Wee is now - I think his career was ruined after that incident in the Florida movie house.

And, on a different note, "Mon Oncle" de Jaques Tati is great too.
And everybody should have watched Koyaanisquatsi. Twice a day until he gets it.

It's a Wonderful Life

The Ten Commandments

Blazing Saddles

The Magnificent Seven

Breakfast at Tiffany's

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

I think Tombstone is one hell of a film also the Bounty mutiny films, old and newer versions.
One film I watch every now and again is Don Juan de Marco – totally stupid plot but it is made into movie magic by two of the greatest actors of our time and I really enjoy watching those two actors together.

Not his best film, bit iffy about the agenda signposting and the wholesale lifting of that Carnival of Souls scene? It's beautifully done but still an homage.

Ah! Carnival of Souls.

The Princess Bride
Anchorman
A Life Aquatic
The Red Balloon
Dead Man (pretty much any Jim Jarmusch film)
Pans Labyrinth
The Last Starfighter
Braindead
Ed Wood
Edward Scissorhands
The Thing
Forbidden Planet
The Emerald Forest
Red Dawn
Near Dark
Cronos
Old Boy
1942
The Wild Bunch
Kagemusha
I pretty much have all these films should anyone wish to exchange movies, or pm for a list.

Ah! The monsters of The Id.

The Thing - saw that at the cinema when it first came out - I had to leave before the end as my wife was too scared - she couldn't stand being alone with my dog after that either.
Alien - saw that when it first came out at Odeon Leicester Square, London - scared the hell out of me.

Blade Runner! Has to be mentioned!
The Others
Abros Los Ojos
Carandiru
Acción mutante
La Scorta
Black Cat, White Cat
Battle Beyond The Stars
The Player
The Long Good Friday
Wolfen
Smoke
Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Terror
Flash Gordon
Four Brothers
Airplane! ("Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue!")
Amore Perros
Indien ("bi gern im Aussendienst - bi a Cowboy", another one for Sin there)
Mar adentro.
Heat

Two of my favorites. I dont think anyone has said these two,

Trainspotting

and

Fight Club, .. really amazing film. I like the way films jump every which way and makes sense

and there was also stories on records, ... War of the Worlds, is cult, well before Tommy Cruise come and messed it up.

one more

The Deer Hunter, dont know if its cult. Robert De Niro, damm he looks, ..like a man..

Anyone know the name of the film I saw once – about some guy he has lost his memory and he has these pieces of paper with writing on them pined to him that gradually puts together pieces of the puzzle (the plot) – it keeps jumping from one scene to another and I think it ends up going around in circles. I would like to find out more about it.

That would be Memento.

Wolfen, yes, had forgotten about that. That and Night of the Living Dead spooked me off late-night dog-walking in the park for a good while.

Sir Henry at Rawlinson End.
And what Niki List was doing before he made Müllers Büro - Malaria. Love those cocktails. Don't know if it's a cult film though, because it's impossible to get hold of (yeah, cult films can be scarce all right, but what if they're completely unobtainable?)
All of W.C. Fields. And Mae West.

Damn, how could i forget those!

I watched this again the other week and it really is a masterpiece. For those who think "Apocalypse Now" is the ultimate Vietnam movie, watch this.

Some of the suggestions on here I would not consider cult ( including the Deer Hunter)

My nominations :
Withnail and I
The Castle

How did my topic title get changed? I don't spell Favorite that way so I know it wasnt me.

nevermind,

No one mentions Snakes on a Plane?

the great escape

Cult or Classic? I think some of you have crossed the two lines.

Yeah, I hate when the British moderators do that too.

Anyway, my list of favorite cult movies:

Clerks
Bagdad Cafe
Diva
Betty Blue
La Femme Nikita
Bladerunner
Monty Python's Life Of Brian
Monty Python & The Holy Grail
The Warriors
Dazed And Confused
Bad Lieutenant
The Shawshank Redemption
This Is Spinal Tap
The Seventh Seal
Re-Animator
Ghosts Of The Civil Dead
Once Were Warriors
Reefer Madness (1936)
THX-1138
Easy Rider
The Devils
Up In Smoke
Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
Big Trouble In Little China
Army Of Darkness
Groundhog Day
Se7en
Reservoir Dogs
American Psycho
Scarface (1983)

The movies of Tim Burton such as Batman, Sleepy Hollow and Big Fish
David Lynch's movies especially Eraserhead, Wild At Heart and Blue Velvet
The movies of Werner Herzog such as Fitzcarraldo, Nosferatu and Aguirre, The Wrath of God
The movies of Jim Jarmusch especially Stranger Than Paradise and Down By Law
Stanley Kubrick's movies such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Barry Lyndon and A Clockwork Orange
Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, The Last Temptation of Christ and Goodfellas

And finally, almost everything made by the Coen Brothers, especially:
Blood Simple
Fargo
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Miller's Crossing
The Big Lebowski
and The Man Who Wasn't There

And my favorite cult movie: Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time In The West


Jack Nance in Eraserhead.