Jennifer Eiss's 90 Essential Cult Movies

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Like the official list “Jennifer Eiss's 500 Essential Cult Movies”, but only with the top 10 from each chapter of the book:

# 1–10: Dramatic Situatons
#11–20: Gripping Tales
#21–30: Lights, Camera…!
#31–40: Visionary Universes
#41–50: Criminal Underworlds
#51–60: Tales of Terror
#61–70: Cult Humor
#71–80: The Wild Wild West
#81–90: Film Lab

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    All About Eve

    1950, in 25 top lists Check
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    Black Narcissus

    1947, in 15 top lists Check
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    Blackboard Jungle

    1955, in 4 top lists Check
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    Easy Rider

    1969, in 17 top lists Check
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    Harold and Maude

    1971, in 22 top lists Check
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    The Lost Weekend

    1945, in 17 top lists Check
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    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    1975, in 35 top lists Check
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    The Outsiders

    1983, in 2 top lists Check
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    The Shawshank Redemption

    1994, in 24 top lists Check
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    The Swimmer

    1968, in 6 top lists Check
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    Blood Simple

    1984, in 10 top lists Check
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    Cape Fear

    1962, in 6 top lists Check
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    Deliverance

    1972, in 15 top lists Check
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    Dirty Harry

    1971, in 17 top lists Check
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    M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

    1931 — a.k.a. M, in 35 top lists Check
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    Memento

    2000, in 27 top lists Check
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    Mildred Pierce

    1945, in 17 top lists Check
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    The Night of the Hunter

    1955, in 34 top lists Check
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    Straw Dogs

    1971, in 11 top lists Check
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    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
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    The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the...

    1984, in 4 top lists Check
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    Death Race 2000

    1975, in 4 top lists Check
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    Escape from New York

    1981, in 5 top lists Check
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    First Blood

    1982, in 5 top lists Check
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    Gwoemul

    2006 — a.k.a. The Host, in 11 top lists Check
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    Mad Max

    1979, in 13 top lists Check
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    Race with the Devil

    1975, in 2 top lists Check
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    Tremors

    1990, in 3 top lists Check
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    Yôjinbô

    1961 — a.k.a. Yojimbo, in 19 top lists Check
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    The Warriors

    1979, in 8 top lists Check
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    Blade Runner

    1982, in 36 top lists Check
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    Brazil

    1985, in 23 top lists Check
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    The Day the Earth Stood Still

    1951, in 12 top lists Check
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    Labyrinth

    1986, in 4 top lists Check
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    El laberinto del fauno

    2006 — a.k.a. Pan's Labyrinth, in 33 top lists Check
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    Pi

    1998, in 6 top lists Check
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    Planet of the Apes

    1968, in 16 top lists Check
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    A Scanner Darkly

    2006, in 3 top lists Check
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    Star Wars

    1977, in 40 top lists Check
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    Videodrome

    1983, in 18 top lists Check
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    Badlands

    1973, in 23 top lists Check
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    Blue Velvet

    1986, in 27 top lists Check
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    Death Wish

    1974, in 3 top lists Check
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    Dog Day Afternoon

    1975, in 23 top lists Check
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    Lat sau san taam

    1992 — a.k.a. Hard Boiled, in 12 top lists Check
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    The Harder They Come

    1972, in 7 top lists Check
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    The Mack

    1973, in 2 top lists Check
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    Point Blank

    1967, in 15 top lists Check
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    The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

    1974, in 6 top lists Check
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    Touch of Evil

    1958, in 31 top lists Check
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