BFI's 100 Cult Films
An official iCheckMovies list (adopted from Timec).
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"Some films should never have been made. They are too unsettling, too dangerous, too challenging, too outrageous and even too badly made to be let loose on unsuspecting audiences.
Yet these films, from the shocking Cannibal Holocaust to the apocalyptic Donnie Darko, from the destructive Tetsuo to the awfully bad The Room, from the hilarious This Is Spı¨nal Tap to the campy Showgirls, from the asylum of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari to the circus of Freaks, from the gangs of The Warriors to the gangsters of In Bruges and from the flamboyant Rocky Horror Picture Show to the ultimate cool of The Big Lebowski, have all garnered passionate fan followings.
Cult cinema has made tragic misfits, monsters and cyborgs, such as Edward Scissorhands or Blade Runner's replicants, heroes of our times. 100 Cult Films explains why these figures continue to inspire fans around the globe. Cult film experts Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik round up the most cultish of giallo, blaxploitation, anime, sexploitation, zombie, vampire and werewolf films, exploring both the cults that live hidden inside the underground (Nekromantik, Café Flesh) and the cult side of the mainstream (Dirty Dancing, The Lord of the Rings, and even The Sound of Music).
100 Cult Films is a true trip around the world, providing a lively and illuminating guide to films from more than a dozen countries, across nine decades, representing a wide range of genres and key cult directors such as David Cronenberg, Terry Gilliam and David Lynch."
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2001: A Space Odyssey
1968, in 45 top lists Check -
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Akira
1988, in 22 top lists Check -
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Ms .45
1981, in 5 top lists Check -
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Bad Taste
1987, in 6 top lists Check -
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Baise-moi
2000, in 3 top lists Check -
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Begotten
1989, in 3 top lists Check -
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Behind the Green Door
1972, in 1 top list Check -
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La belle et la bête
1946 — a.k.a. Beauty and the Beast, in 26 top lists Check -
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
1970, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Big Lebowski
1998, in 26 top lists Check -
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Blade Runner
1982, in 36 top lists Check -
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Blue Sunshine
1977, in 2 top lists Check -
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Brazil
1985, in 22 top lists Check -
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The Bride of Frankenstein
1935 — a.k.a. Bride of Frankenstein, in 19 top lists Check -
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The Brood
1979, in 5 top lists Check -
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Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
1920 — a.k.a. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, in 31 top lists Check -
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Café Flesh
1982, in 1 top list Check -
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Cannibal Holocaust
1980, in 6 top lists Check -
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Casablanca
1942, in 39 top lists Check -
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Un chien andalou
1929 — a.k.a. An Andalusian Dog, in 25 top lists Check -
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Coffy
1973, in 3 top lists Check -
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Les lèvres rouges
1971 — a.k.a. Daughters of Darkness, in 6 top lists Check -
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Dawn of the Dead
1978, in 15 top lists Check -
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Deadly Weapons
1974, in 1 top list Check -
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Debbie Does Dallas
1978, in 1 top list Check -
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Profondo rosso
1975 — a.k.a. Deep Red, in 9 top lists Check -
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Dirty Dancing
1987, in 10 top lists Check -
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Django
1966, in 5 top lists Check -
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Donnie Darko
2001, in 21 top lists Check -
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Non si sevizia un paperino
1972 — a.k.a. Don't Torture a Duckling, in 3 top lists Check -
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Edward Scissorhands
1990, in 10 top lists Check -
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Emanuelle e gli ultimi cannibali
1977 — a.k.a. Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals, in 2 top lists Check -
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Emmanuelle
1974, in 2 top lists Check -
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Enter the Dragon
1973, in 14 top lists Check -
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Eraserhead
1977, in 20 top lists Check -
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The Evil Dead
1981, in 8 top lists Check -
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Fight Club
1999, in 19 top lists Check -
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Flaming Creatures
1963, in 9 top lists Check -
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Freak Orlando
1981, in 1 top list Check -
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Freaks
1932, in 19 top lists Check -
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Ginger Snaps
2000, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Gods Must Be Crazy
1980, in 2 top lists Check -
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Gojira
1954 — a.k.a. Godzilla, in 12 top lists Check -
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The Harder They Come
1972, in 7 top lists Check -
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Harold and Maude
1971, in 22 top lists Check -
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Häxan
1922, in 17 top lists Check -
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Hellraiser
1987, in 3 top lists Check -
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La montaña sagrada
1973 — a.k.a. The Holy Mountain, in 9 top lists Check -
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La casa dalle finestre che ridono
1976 — a.k.a. The House with Laughing Windows, in 4 top lists Check -
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I Walked with a Zombie
1943, in 11 top lists Check
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