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?
Copied from Sleestakk’s original list.
sensoria has logged 44 out of 100 movies in Danny Peary's Cult Movies. Back to Lists Overview.
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Year Released | Watched | Viewed On |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75 | Tell Your Children | Louis J. Gasnier | 1938 | No | N/A |
| 100 | Wizard of Oz, The | Victor Fleming | 1939 | No | N/A |
| 17 | Dance, Girl, Dance | Dorothy Arzner | 1940 | 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 |
| 15 | Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | 1941 | Yes | 02/28/2021 |
| 57 | Maltese Falcon, The | John Huston | 1941 | Yes | 08/24/2023 |
| 40 | I Walked with a Zombie | Jacques Tourneur | 1943 | Yes | 12/10/2024 |
| 14 | Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | 1943 | Yes | 11/27/2023 |
| 52 | Laura | Otto Preminger | 1944 | Yes | 03/13/2014 |
| 19 | Detour | Edgar G. Ulmer | 1945 | No | N/A |