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101 Cult Movies You Must See Before You Die

A list created by sleestakk

Same as the 101 Horror Movies list but this pocket book was published by Barron’s. When perusing the book at the library I debated not making this list after seeing The Blues Brothers on the back cover. In what time and place on god’s green earth is The Blues Brothers a “cult movie” — a film adapted from a popular TV show bit that most American adults from a certain age would know, a movie so hugely successful it spawned a sequel and restaurant / concert venue chain. Baffling choice. In fact, as I create this list there are a few baffling selections. Just see below.

Can think of a dozen films that should’ve been included (and def some that should not be here) but it’s not my list. At least this list highlights other films that I have not yet seen or logged, cult movie or otherwise. For the record, I’ve logged 62 of 101 of these. (the most amusing unlogged title is THE METAL YEARS which I’ve probably seen two dozen times in my lifetime).

Movies on 101 Cult Movies You Must See Before You Die List
Rank	Title	Director(s)	Year Released
1	Un Chien Andalou	Luis Buñuel	1929
2	Tell Your Children	Louis J. Gasnier	1938
3	Sullivan's Travels	Preston Sturges	1941
4	Out of the Past	Jacques Tourneur	1947
5	Sunset Boulevard	Billy Wilder	1950
6	Night of the Hunter, The	Charles Laughton	1955
7	Rebel Without a Cause	Nicholas Ray	1955
8	Blob, The	Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.	1958
9	Plan 9 from Outer Space	Edward D. Wood Jr.	1959
10	Jazz on a Summer's Day	Bert Stern	1960
11	Servant, The	Joseph Losey	1963
12	Shock Corridor	Samuel Fuller	1963
13	Band of Outsiders	Jean-Luc Godard	1964
14	Scorpio Rising	Kenneth Anger	1969
15	Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!	Russ Meyer	1965
16	Blow-Up	Michelangelo Antonioni	1966
17	Chelsea Girls	Andy Warhol, Paul Morrissey	1966
18	Persona	Ingmar Bergman	1966
19	Barbarella	Roger Vadim	1968
20	Idols, The	Marc-Gilbert Guillaumin	1968
21	Easy Rider	Dennis Hopper	1969
22	Beyond the Valley of the Dolls	Russ Meyer	1970
23	El Topo	Alejandro Jodorowsky	1970
24	Butcher, The	Claude Chabrol	1970
25	Lickerish Quartet, The	Radley Metzger	1970
26	Performance	Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell	1970
27	Harold and Maude	Hal Ashby	1971
28	Two-Lane Blacktop	Monte Hellman	1971
29	Vampyros Lesbos	Jesús Franco	1971
30	Vanishing Point	Richard C. Sarafian	1971
31	Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The	Luis Buñuel	1972
32	Harder They Come, The	Perry Henzell	1972
33	Pink Flamingos	John Waters	1972
34	Super Fly	Gordon Parks Jr.	1972
35	Sisters	Brian De Palma	1973
36	Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia	Sam Peckinpah	1974
37	Ali: Fear Eats the Soul	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	1974
38	Night Porter, The	Liliana Cavani	1974
39	Phantom of the Paradise	Brian De Palma	1974
40	Grey Gardens	Albert Maysles, Ellen Giffard, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer	1976
41	Rocky Horror Picture Show, The	Jim Sharman	1975
42	Sholay	Ramesh Sippy	1975
43	Tommy	Ken Russell	1975
44	Last Wave, The	Peter Weir	1977
45	Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!	John De Bello	1978
46	Day of the Woman	Meir Zarchi	1978
47	Wiz, The	Sidney Lumet	1978
48	Dracula's Dog	Albert Band	1977
49	Mad Max	George Miller	1979
50	Life of Brian	Terry Jones	1979
51	Warriors, The	Walter Hill	1979
52	Blues Brothers, The	John Landis	1980
53	Ms .45	Abel Ferrara	1981
54	Time Bandits	Terry Gilliam	1981
55	Basket Case	Frank Henenlotter	1982
56	Fitzcarraldo	Werner Herzog	1982
57	Wild Style	Charlie Ahearn	1982
58	Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The	W.D. Richter	1984
59	This Is Spinal Tap	Rob Reiner	1984
60	Toxic Avenger, The	Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz	1984
61	Blue Velvet	David Lynch	1986
62	Hitcher, The	Robert Harmon	1986
63	Manhunter	Michael Mann	1986
64	Withnail & I	Bruce Robinson	1987
65	Amazon Women on the Moon	Joe Dante, John Landis, Robert K. Weiss, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton	1987
66	Barfly	Barbet Schroeder	1987
67	Princess Bride, The	Rob Reiner	1987
68	Wings of Desire	Wim Wenders	1987
69	Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, The	Penelope Spheeris	1988
70	Hairspray	John Waters	1988
71	Alice	Jan Švankmajer	1988
72	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	Pedro Almodóvar	1988
73	Heathers	Michael Lehmann	1989
74	Mystery Train	Jim Jarmusch	1989
75	Frankenhooker	Frank Henenlotter	1990
76	Barton Fink	Joel Coen	1991
77	Braindead	Peter Jackson	1992
78	Dazed and Confused	Richard Linklater	1993
79	Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The	Stephan Elliott	1994
80	Clerks	Kevin Smith	1994
81	Shallow Grave	Danny Boyle	1994
82	City of Lost Children, The	Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro	1995
83	La Haine	Mathieu Kassovitz	1995
84	Showgirls	Paul Verhoeven	1995
85	Crash	David Cronenberg	1996
86	Twilight of the Ice Nymphs	Guy Maddin	1997
87	Big Lebowski, The	Joel Coen	1998
88	Buffalo '66	Vincent Gallo	1998
89	Dinner Game, The	Francis Veber	1998
90	Run Lola Run	Tom Tykwer	1998
91	Rushmore	Wes Anderson	1998
92	Office Space	Mike Judge	1999
93	Battle Royale	Kinji Fukasaku	2000
94	Memento	Christopher Nolan	2000
95	Donnie Darko	Richard Kelly	2001
96	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	John Cameron Mitchell	2001
97	Ichi the Killer	Takashi Miike	2001
98	Room, The	Tommy Wiseau	2003
99	Kamikaze Girls	Tetsuya Nakashima	2004
100	Napoleon Dynamite	Jared Hess	2004
101	Brick	Rian Johnson	2006