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Jennifer Eiss's 500 Essential Cult Movies

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From the book by Jennifer Eiss. The list is arranged by chapter. Each chapter starts with a top 10 (in alphabetical order), followed by the "best of the rest" (in alphabetical order).

#1-83: Dramatic Situatons
#84-133: Gripping Tales
#134-165: Lights, Camera…!
#166-228: Visionary Universes
#229-280: Criminal Underworlds
#281-360: Tales of Terror
#361-432: Cult Humor
#433-453: The Wild Wild West
#454-502: Film Lab

Source: https://www.amazon.com/500-Essential-Cult-Movies-Ultimate/dp/1402774869

1
80%

All About Eve

 

 

2
73%

Black Narcissus

 

 

3
72%

Blackboard Jungle

 

 

4
71%

Easy Rider

 

 

5
77%

Harold and Maude

 

 

6
76%

The Lost Weekend

 

 

7
84%

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

 

 

8
73%

The Outsiders

 

 

9
91%

The Shawshank Redemption

 

 

10
74%

The Swimmer

 

 

11
73%

Betty Blue

 

 

12
66%

The Addiction

 

 

13
78%

Almost Famous

 

 

14
78%

Amores Perros

 

 

15
71%

The Beguiled

 

 

16
72%

The Best of Everything

 

 

17
76%

Big Wednesday

 

 

18
76%

The Boys in the Band

 

 

19
70%

Breakin'

 

 

20
78%

Brief Encounter

 

 

21
72%

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

 

 

22
75%

Battleship Potemkin

 

 

23
65%

Carny

 

 

24
60%

Cisco Pike

 

 

25
68%

Cockfighter

 

 

26
75%

The Experiment

 

 

27
65%

The Dawn Patrol

 

 

28
75%

Days of Heaven

 

 

29
74%

The Devils

 

 

30
68%

Don't Look Now

 

 

31
71%

The Duellists

 

 

32
71%

Far from Heaven

 

 

33
71%

Five Easy Pieces

 

 

34
74%

Funny Games

 

 

35
78%

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

 

 

36
59%

Ghosts... of the Civil Dead

 

 

37
73%

Ghost World

 

 

38
60%

The Girl on a Motorcycle

 

 

39
49%

Glen or Glenda

 

 

40
71%

House of Games

 

 

41
75%

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

 

 

42
82%

Come and See

 

 

43
69%

In the Company of Men

 

 

44
70%

Kids

 

 

45
66%

The Killing of Sister George

 

 

46
74%

The Lady Eve

 

 

47
72%

Contempt

 

 

48
74%

Lenny

 

 

49
69%

Going Places

 

 

50
71%

Light Sleeper

 

 

51
73%

Lolita

 

 

52
75%

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

 

 

53
77%

Love Streams

 

 

54
71%

Marnie

 

 

55
68%

Martin

 

 

56
75%

Midnight Cowboy

 

 

57
69%

Mommie Dearest

 

 

58
57%

Mudhoney

 

 

59
71%

My Own Private Idaho

 

 

60
73%

The Naked Kiss

 

 

61
65%

Naked Tango

 

 

62
66%

The Ninth Configuration

 

 

63
80%

Paris, Texas

 

 

64
74%

Rebel Without a Cause

 

 

65
45%

Tell Your Children

 

 

66
75%

Rushmore

 

 

67
74%

Salvador

 

 

68
75%

The Servant

 

 

69
56%

Showgirls

 

 

70
72%

Sid and Nancy

 

 

71
81%

Sunset Boulevard

 

 

72
76%

Sweet Smell of Success

 

 

73
79%

Taxi Driver

 

 

74
62%

Tracks

 

 

75
71%

To Sleep with Anger

 

 

76
76%

Three Colors: Blue

 

 

77
74%

Three Colors: White

 

 

78
79%

Three Colors: Red

 

 

79
74%

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

 

 

80
66%

Walk on the Wild Side

 

 

81
70%

The Wild One

 

 

82
67%

Wise Blood

 

 

83
78%

A Woman Under the Influence

 

 

84
74%

Blood Simple

 

 

85
76%

Cape Fear

 

 

86
75%

Deliverance

 

 

87
76%

Dirty Harry

 

 

88
80%

M

 

 

89
83%

Memento

 

 

90
78%

Mildred Pierce

 

 

91
77%

The Night of the Hunter

 

 

92
72%

Straw Dogs

 

 

93
80%

Vertigo

 

 

94
64%

84C MoPic

 

 

95
78%

Ace in the Hole

 

 

96
73%

Angel Heart

 

 

97
68%

Apartment Zero

 

 

98
72%

Assault on Precinct 13

 

 

99
70%

At Close Range

 

 

100
63%

Bad Timing

 

 

101
50%

Baise-moi

 

 

102
72%

Blow-Up

 

 

103
54%

Boxing Helena

 

 

104
70%

Caché

 

 

105
75%

The Conversation

 

 

106
67%

Cutter's Way

 

 

107
82%

Das Boot

 

 

108
68%

The Day of the Locust

 

 

109
74%

Dead Man's Shoes

 

 

110
67%

D.O.A.

 

 

111
69%

Dressed to Kill

 

 

112
74%

Duel

 

 

113
58%

Hells Angels on Wheels

 

 

114
76%

The Hill

 

 

115
76%

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

 

 

116
79%

Le Samouraï

 

 

117
71%

Manhunter

 

 

118
75%

The Manchurian Candidate

 

 

119
72%

La Femme Nikita

 

 

120
69%

Panic in the Streets

 

 

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