Cult Movies is a 1981 book by Danny Peary, consisting of a series of essays regarding what Peary described as the 100 most representative examples of the cult film phenomenon. This is a list of those films. Interesting that what Peary considered “cult” in 1981 are now classic films. How many have you seen?
Javitron has logged 7 out of 100 movies in Danny Peary's Cult Movies. Back to Lists Overview.
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Year Released | Watched | Viewed On |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | All About Eve | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1950 | No | N/A |
| 74 | Red Shoes, The | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1948 | No | N/A |
| 62 | Out of the Past | Jacques Tourneur | 1947 | No | N/A |
| 43 | It's a Wonderful Life | Frank Capra | 1946 | No | N/A |
| 5 | Beauty and the Beast | Jean Cocteau | 1946 | No | N/A |
| 19 | Detour | Edgar G. Ulmer | 1945 | No | N/A |
| 52 | Laura | Otto Preminger | 1944 | No | N/A |
| 40 | I Walked with a Zombie | Jacques Tourneur | 1943 | No | N/A |
| 57 | Maltese Falcon, The | John Huston | 1941 | No | N/A |
| 25 | Fantasia | Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, T. Hee, Ford Beebe Jr., Jim Handley, Hamilton Luske, Paul Satterfield, William Roberts, Ben Sharpsteen, Samuel Armstrong, James Algar, David Hand | 1940 | No | N/A |