Cult classic movies and TV shows – page 3

List of cult classic movies

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Being John Malkovich (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Spike Jonze’s debut feature film is a love story mix of comedy and fantasy. The story is about an unsuccessful puppeteer named Craig, who one day at work finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for ...
Style: surreal, psychological, cerebral, cult classic, mind bending ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: surrealism, puppeteer, subconscious, psychology, satire, lesbianism, body swapping, body swap, philosophy, actor, existentialism, manipulation ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
 8.0
 1.4M
Titanic (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 194 min.
Story: 84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called ...
Style: romantic, emotional, touching, sentimental, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: titanic, love story, disaster, love, ship, tragedy, forbidden love, love and romance, ocean, fall in love, tragic love, survival ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, year 1997, edwardian era, 90s ...
Place: atlantic ocean, britain, iran, nova scotia, america ...
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 8.0
 734K
Groundhog Day (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer and mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
Style: feel good, romantic, philosophical, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, teens, family outing ...
Plot: time loop, existentialism, small town, redemption, time travel, groundhog day, life & death, life philosophy, time warp, fall in love, time, destiny ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1993, future
Place: pennsylvania, usa, america, persia, pittsburgh
Is relevant?
 6.7
 67K
Scanners (1981)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their ...
Style: bloody, tense, cerebral, cult classic, cult horror ...
Plot: body horror, exploitation, psychic power, conspiracy, investigation, scientist, murder, supernatural ability, social misfits, misfit, pregnant woman, telekinesis ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: canada
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 6.6
 189K
The Running Man (1987)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight ...
Style: rough, futuristic, cult classic, exciting, tech noir ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: dystopian future, cyberpunk, distopia, chase, chases and races, dystopic future, prison, danger, dishonesty, rivalry, tough heroes, social commentary ...
Time: future, near future, 80s, 20th century, year 2019 ...
Place: los angeles, california
Is relevant?
 7.5
 225K
Dark City (1998)
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Style: neo noir, suspense, atmospheric, tech noir, mind bending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: memory, investigation, alternate reality, cyberpunk, distopia, amnesia, alien race, dream, virtual reality, mind control, memory loss, dystopian future ...
Time: future, year 1998, distant future, 1940s, 90s ...
Place: persia
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 7.7
 242K
Blue Velvet (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Style: neo noir, surreal, dark, cerebral, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, small town, voyeurism, sadomasochism, sex scene, violence, dark humor, abuse, sex, nightclub, sexual humiliation, serial killer ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1986
Place: canada
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 7.9
 303K
Boogie Nights (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a ...
Style: sexy, stylized, erotic, cult classic, black comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: sex, porn industry, drug abuse, multiple storylines, addiction, drug, cocaine, adult filmmaking, adultery, drug addiction, voyeurism, nudity ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 1997, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 7.0
 158K
A Serious Man (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A Serious Man is the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been ...
Style: cult classic, black comedy, philosophical, ironic, cerebral ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, midlife crisis, rabbi, existentialism, teacher, suburban life, synagogue, divorce, bar mitzvah, jewish stereotype, life, religion ...
Time: year 2009, 60s, 2000s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: minnesota, bolivia, usa, poland, israel ...
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The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return spacecraft. A British science-fiction film from director Nicolas ...
Style: atmospheric, cult classic, surreal, cerebral, erotic ...
Plot: space and aliens, alien invasion, surrealism, alien, sex scene, satire, female nudity, dystopia, nudity, alien life-form, hallucination, scientist ...
Time: 20th century, year 1976, distant future, 70s
Place: usa, new mexico, new york
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 7.2
 22K
Quadrophenia (1979)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While after, he shops for tailored suits and rides his scooter as part of the London Mod scene.
Style: cult classic, surreal, stylized, melancholic, depressing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: motorcycle, coming of age, music, gang, rock, pharmacy, rock and roll, dancing, teenage boy, sex scene, street fight, love interest ...
Time: year 1965, 20th century, year 1979, 60s, 70s
Place: england, london, britain, europe, brighton ...
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 5.6
 12K
Cherry 2000 (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his perfect mate leads them into the ...
Style: cult classic, apocalyptic, exciting, grindhouse, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, cyborgs, androids, dystopia, robot, cyberpunk, sexy woman, female robot, heroic mission, post apocalyptic, androids and robots, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time: future, near future, year 1987, year 2017, 2010s ...
Place: nevada, las vegas, reno nevada
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 8.0
 905K
Donnie Darko (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Style: psychological, surreal, mind bending, atmospheric, philosophical ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot: mental illness, imaginary friend, schizophrenia, psychology, time travel, insanity, parallel universe, suburbs, surrealism, time loop, trippy, schizophrenic ...
Time: 80s, year 2001, 2000s, future, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, america, usa, virginia, harvard university
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 6.4
 174K
Friday the 13th (1980)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
Style: slasher, suspense, classic horror, cult classic, teen horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, maniac, camp, gory, summer camp, revenge, psycho killer, teenager, disturbed individual, summer, blood ...
Time: 1950s, 80s, year 2016, 70s, 20th century ...
Place: new jersey, usa
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Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When trucker, Jack Burton agreed to take his friend, Wang Chi to pick up his fiancee at the airport, he never expected to get involved in a supernatural battle between good and evil. Wang's fiancee has emerald green eyes, which make her a ...
Style: humorous, cult classic, exciting, stylized, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, date night, manly
Plot: martial arts, monster, truck driver, black magic, kung fu, good versus evil, magic, truck, prophecy, mythology, kidnapping, friendship ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, california, usa, north america, hong kong ...
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 8.1
 374K
Chinatown (1974)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double ...
Style: neo noir, detective, atmospheric, cult classic, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: private detective, corruption, femme fatale, investigation, police, whodunit, murder, twists and turns, conspiracy, murder mystery, father daughter incest, domestic violence ...
Time: 20th century, year 1937, 1930s, year 1974
Place: los angeles, california, usa, eastern europe, pacific ocean ...
Is relevant?
 8.1
 779K
Fargo (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to ...
Style: neo noir, black comedy, dark comedy, atmospheric, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: small town, snow, dark humor, crime gone awry, ransom, kidnapping, murder, satire, foul language, police, psychopath, winter ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1987, year 1996
Place: minnesota, minneapolis minnesota, north dakota, usa, persia
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 6.5
 44K
The Howling (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
Style: scary, gothic, cult classic, creepy, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: werewolf, serial killer, transformation, psychiatrist, macabre, shapeshifting, creature feature, group therapy, outdoor sex, murder, supernatural, lost in the woods ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, los angeles
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 5.4
 106K
Drive Angry (2011)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Milton is a hardened felon who has broken out of Hell, intent on finding the vicious cult who brutally murdered his daughter and kidnapped her baby. He joins forces with Piper, a sexy, tough-as-nails waitress with a 69 Charger, who's also ...
Style: cult classic, road movie, bloody, satanic, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: revenge, kidnapping, supernatural, sex scene, satanic cult, car chase, violent, violence, female pubic hair, fantasy world, race against time, gunfight ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 1950s, 50s, 80s ...
Place: new orleans, colorado, oklahoma, louisiana, usa
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City of the Living Dead (1980)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young woman has visions that suggest the eruption of the living dead into the world through a portal, spurred on by the suicide of a priest.
Style: scary, bloody, disturbing, splatter, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, gory, suicide, violent, curse, extreme violence, buried alive, darkness, living dead, small town, ouija, apocalypse ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1980, 80s
Place: new england, usa, savannah georgia, new york, georgia ...
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The Way of the Gun (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man.
Style: cult classic, clever, neo noir, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, twists and turns, gunfight, ransom, money, violence, gangster, crime gone awry, pregnancy, hostage, criminal, car chase ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place: bolivia, mexico
Is relevant?
 7.1
 126K
Heathers (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.
Style: black comedy, teen, witty, cult classic, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen fantasy, adult ...
Plot: murder, high school, dark humor, suicide, murderous pair, teenage girl, coming of age, friendship, satire, teenage life, insanity, sociopath ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: ohio, usa, california, canada
Is relevant?
 7.6
 169K
Lost Highway (1997)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgangers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Style: surreal, neo noir, mind bending, atmospheric, confusing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, murder, insanity, doppelganger, nightmare, sex scene, time loop, parallel universe, graphic violence, transformation, hallucination, promiscuous woman ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1997, near future
Place: los angeles, persia, north america
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 7.0
 25K
The Hidden (1987)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An alien is on the run in America. To get his kicks, it kills anything that gets in its way, and uses the body as a new hiding place. This alien has a goal in life; power. Hotly pursued by another alien (who's borrowed the body of a dead FBI ...
Style: suspense, atmospheric, cult classic, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien, violence, car chase, buddy cop, fbi, mind control, chase, twists and turns, revenge, space and aliens, alien invasion, robbery ...
Time: future, 80s
Place: los angeles, california
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The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five college friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods.
Style: scary, bloody, mind bending, slasher, lovecraft ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: monster, creature, supernatural, woods, cabin in the woods, survival, trapped, cosmic horror, fear, zombie, death, werewolf ...
Time: year 2012, 20th century, year 2000, year 2009, 2000s ...
Place: usa, seattle
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 8.1
 995K
The Terminator (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical ...
Style: tech noir, apocalyptic, suspenseful, cult classic, breathtaking ...
Audience: boys' night, date night, kids, teens, manly ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, cyborgs, time travel, cyberpunk, man versus machine, terminator, androids, androids and robots, dystopia, time machine, on the run, sent to the past ...
Time: 80s, future, 20th century, near future, year 1984 ...
Place: los angeles, usa, north america, mexico, california
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 7.1
 225K
Spaceballs (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue. Along the way, they meet Yogurt, who puts Lone Starr wise to the power ...
Style: parody, spoof, funny, cult classic, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: space opera, space and aliens, space travel, space battle, wilhelm scream, satire, alien, farce, star wars, outer space, stupidity, rescue ...
Time: future, 80s
Place: space western
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 3.0
 36K
Troll 2 (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young child is terrified to discover that a planned family trip is to be haunted by vile plant-eating monsters out of his worst nightmare...
Style: cult classic, scary, humorous, funny, cult horror ...
Audience: kids
Plot: witch, small town, little creatures, sexual innuendo, person on fire, exploitation, creature, stupidity, seduction, profanity, child in peril, destiny ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
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A Boy and His Dog (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog Blood are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War 4, where survivors must battle for food, shelter, and sexual companionship in the ...
Style: cult classic, surreal, humorous, futuristic, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dog, post apocalypse, dystopia, desert, distopia, nuclear holocaust, wedding, survival, wasteland, dystopian future, violent, escape ...
Time: future, year 1975, 2020s, 21st century
Place: phoenix arizona, oklahoma
Is relevant?
 7.5
 47K
Deep Red (1975)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.
Style: suspense, gothic, psychological, scary, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, gory, murder, psychopath, manic, intrigue, murder mystery, female serial killer, danger, haunted by the past, amateur detective, darkness ...
Time: 70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe, canary islands, lebanon ...
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