List of cult films: B

This is a list of cult films organized alphabetically by name. See List of cult films for main list.

FilmYearDirectorSource
The Baby1973Ted Post[1][2]
Bachelor Party1984Neal Israel[3]
Back to the Future1985Robert Zemeckis[4]
The Bad and the Beautiful1952Vincente Minnelli[3]
Bad Boy Bubby1994Rolf de Heer[2]
Bad Day at Black Rock1955John Sturges[3][5]
Bad Santa2003Terry Zwigoff[3]
Bad Taste1987Peter Jackson[6][4][7][2][3]
Bad Timing1980Nicolas Roeg[2]
Badlands1973Terrence Malick[8][2][3][5]
Bagdad Cafe1987Percy Adlon[3]
Baise-moi2000Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi[6][4][2][3]
Bambi1942David Hand[3]
Bananas1971Woody Allen[2]
Bande à part (Band of Outsiders)1964Jean-Luc Godard[9]
Bandit Queen1994Shekhar Kapur[3]
Bang the Drum Slowly1973John D. Hancock[3]
Barbarella1968Roger Vadim[10][9][4][2][3][5]
Barfly1987Barbet Schroeder[9][4][3]
The Barn of the Naked Dead (also known as Nightmare Circus and Terror Circus)1973Alan Rudolph[11]
Barry Lyndon1975Stanley Kubrick[2][3]
Barton Fink1991The Coen Brothers[9][5]
Basic Instinct1992Paul Verhoeven[4][3]
Basket Case1982Frank Henenlotter[10][9][7][2]
Batbabe: The Dark Nightie2009Zachary Snygg[4]
Batman1966Leslie H. Martinson[3]
Batman1989Tim Burton[4]
Batman & Robin1997Joel Schumacher[3]
Battle for Haditha2007Nick Broomfield[3]
The Battle of Algiers1966Gillo Pontecorvo[3]
The Battle of Brazil1996Jack Mathews[4]
The Battle of Britain1943Frank Capra[3]
The Battle of China1944Frank Capra[3]
The Battle of Russia1943Frank Capra[3]
Battle Royale2000Kinji Fukasaku[9][4][2][3][12]
Battlefield Earth2000Roger Christian[4][3]
Battles Without Honor and Humanity1973Kinji Fukasaku[3][12]
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima1973Kinji Fukasaku[12]
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode1974Kinji Fukasaku[12]
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics1974Kinji Fukasaku[12]
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War1973Kinji Fukasaku[12]
Battleship Potemkin1925Sergei Eisenstein[4][2][5]
Bay of Angels1963Jacques Demy[3]
Be Kind Rewind2008Michel Gondry[4][3]
Beach Party1963William Asher[3]
The Beast (also known as La Bête)1975Walerian Borowczyk[7][3]
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms1954Eugène Lourié[4]
The Beast with Five Fingers1946Robert Florey[4]
The Beast Within1982Philippe Mora[11]
The Beat That My Heart Skipped2005Jacques Audiard[3]
Beat the Devil1953John Huston[10][4][13]
Beau Brummell1954Curtis Bernhardt[3]
Beau Geste1926Herbert Brenon[3]
Beau Geste1939William A. Wellman[3]
Beau Hunks1931James W. Horne[3]
Beau Travail1999Claire Denis[3]
Beauty and the Beast1946Jean Cocteau[8][6][14][3]
The Bed Sitting Room1969Richard Lester[2][3]
Bedazzled1967Stanley Donen[10][3]
Bedtime for Bonzo1951Frederick de Cordova[8][3]
Bee Season2005Scott McGehee and David Siegel[3]
Begotten1989E. Elias Merhige[6][4][7]
The Beguiled1971Don Siegel[2]
Behind the Green Door1972Artie Mitchell & Jim Mitchell[8][6][4]
Being John Malkovich1999Spike Jonze[15][16]
Being There1979Hal Ashby[3]
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla1952William Beaudine[3]
The Believers1987John Schlesinger[4]
Bell, Book and Candle1958Richard Quine[3]
Belladonna of Sadness1973Eiichi Yamamoto[1]
Belle de Jour1967Luis Buñuel[4]
The Belles of St. Trinian's1954Frank Launder[3]
Ben1972Phil Karlson[11]
Ben-Hur1959William Wyler[3]
Benny's Video1992Michael Haneke[7]
Best in Show2000Christopher Guest[2][3]
The Best Man1964Franklin J. Schaffner[3]
The Best of Everything1959Jean Negulesco[2]
La Bête (also known as The Beast)1975Walerian Borowczyk[7]
La Bête Humaine (also known as The Human Beast and Judas Was a Woman)1938Jean Renoir[3]
Betsy's Wedding1990Alan Alda[3]
Better Off Dead1985Savage Steve Holland[15]
A Better Tomorrow1986John Woo[3][5]
Betty Blue1986Jean-Jacques Beineix[2]
Between Two Worlds (also known as Destiny)1921Fritz Lang[7]
The Beyond1981Lucio Fulci[4]
Beyond the Door1974Ovidio G. Assonitis[11]
Beyond the Time Barrier1960Edgar G. Ulmer[4]
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls1970Russ Meyer[8][6][9][1][16][4]
The Bible: In the Beginning...1966John Huston[3]
Bicycle Thieves1948Vittorio De Sica[3]
Big Bad Mama1974Roger Corman[3]
The Big Combo1955Joseph H. Lewis[2][3]
The Big Heat1953Fritz Lang[10][4][3]
The Big Knife1955Robert Aldrich[3]
The Big Lebowski1998The Coen Brothers[6][9][15][4][2][3]
The Big Racket1976Enzo G. Castellari[13]
The Big Silence (also known as The Great Silence)1968Sergio Corbucci[4][2][3]
The Big Sleep1946Howard Hawks[4][3]
Big Trouble in Little China1986John Carpenter[2]
Big Wednesday1978John Milius[2][3][5]
The Bigamist1953Ida Lupino[4]
Biggie & Tupac2002Nick Broomfield[3]
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey1991Peter Hewitt[4][5]
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure1989Stephen Herek[5]
Billy Jack1971Tom Laughlin[8]
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula1966William Beaudine[3]
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage1970Dario Argento[7][3]
Birdman of Alcatraz1962John Frankenheimer[3]
The Birds1963Alfred Hitchcock[3]
The Bishop's Wife1947Henry Koster[4]
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant1972Rainer Werner Fassbinder[3]
Black2005Sanjay Leela Bhansali[3]
Black2015Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah[13]
Black Caesar1973Larry Cohen[4][3]
The Black Cat1934Edgar G. Ulmer[17][4]
Black Christmas1974Bob Clark[7][3]
Black Emanuelle1975Albert Thomas[4]
Black God, White Devil1964Glauber Rocha[3]
Black Mama White Mama1973Eddie Romero[4]
Black Moon1975Louis Malle[16]
Black Narcissus1947Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger[2][3]
Black Sheep2006Jonathan King[2][3]
Black Sister's Revenge (also known as Emma Mae)1976Jamaa Fanaka[1]
Black Sunday1960Mario Bava[8][4][7][2][3][13]
Blackboard Jungle1955Richard Brooks[4][2][3]
Blackboards2000Samira Makhmalbaf[3]
Blacula1972William Crain[4][11][3]
Blade Runner1982Ridley Scott[17][6][14][15][4][2][3][5]
The Blair Witch Project1999Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez[4][2][3]
The Blancheville Monster1963Alberto de Martino[7]
The Blank Generation1976Ivan Kral and Amos Poe[4]
Blast of Silence1961Allen Baron[3]
Blast! (also known as The Final Comedown)1972Oscar Williams[4]
Blazing Saddles1974Mel Brooks[4][3]
Blessed Event1932Roy Del Ruth[3]
Blind Fury1989Phillip Noyce[3]
Blithe Spirit1945David Lean[3]
The Blob1958Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr.[9][16][4][2][3][5]
Blonde Ice1948Jack Bernhard[3]
Blood (also known as O Sangue)1989Pedro Costa[3]
Blood Camp Thatcher (also known as Escape 2000 and Turkey Shoot)1982Brian Trenchard-Smith[7]
Blood Diamond2006Edward Zwick[3]
Blood Feast1963Herschell Gordon Lewis[10][4][7][11][2][3]
Blood from the Mummy's Tomb1971Seth Holt[4]
Blood Money1933Rowland Brown[10]
The Blood on Satan's Claw1971Piers Haggard[4][7]
Blood Orgy of the She-Devils1973Ted V. Mikels[11]
Blood Simple1983The Coen Brothers[4][2][3]
The Blood Spattered Bride1972Vicente Aranda[4]
Blood Sucking Freaks1976Joel M. Reed[3]
The Blood Sword of the 99th Virgin1959Morihei Magatani[12]
Bloody Mama1970Roger Corman[2][3]
Blow Job1964Andy Warhol[4]
Blow Out1981Brian De Palma[3][5]
Blowup1966Michelangelo Antonioni[9][2][5]
The Blue Kite1993Tian Zhuangzhuang[3]
The Blue Lamp1950Basil Dearden[3]
Blue Steel1990Kathryn Bigelow[4]
Blue Sunshine1977Jeff Lieberman[6][4]
Blue Velvet1986David Lynch[17][9][14][16][4][2][3]
Blueberry2004Jan Kounen[13]
The Blues Brothers1980John Landis[9][15][4][3][5]
Bob le flambeur1956Jean-Pierre Melville[3]
Body and Soul1947Robert Rossen[3]
Body Heat1981Lawrence Kasdan[17][3]
The Body Snatcher1945Robert Wise[7]
Body Snatchers1993Abel Ferrara[4]
The Bodyguard (also known as Karate Kiba and Bodyguard Kiba)1973Ryuichi Takamori[12]
Bolero1984John Derek[4]
Bolt2008Chris Williams and Byron Howard[3]
Bonnie and Clyde1967Arthur Penn[3]
The Boogey Man1980Ulli Lommel[4]
Boogie Nights1997Paul Thomas Anderson[3]
The Book of Life1998Hal Hartley[3]
Das Boot1981Wolfgang Petersen[2][3][13]
Borat2006Larry Charles[3]
Born in Flames1983Lizzie Borden[1][4][3]
Borsalino1970Jacques Deray[3]
Bottle Rocket1996Wes Anderson[2]
Le Boucher (also known as The Butcher)1970Claude Chabrol[9]
Bound1996The Wachowskis[2]
Bound for Glory1975Clément Perron[3]
À bout de souffle (also known as Breathless)1960Jean-Luc Godard[10][4][5]
Bowling for Columbine2002Michael Moore[3]
Boxing Helena1993Jennifer Chambers Lynch[2]
A Boy and His Dog1975L. Q. Jones[10][3]
The Boy Friend1971Ken Russell[3]
The Boy from Mercury1996Martin Duffy[3]
Boys Don't Cry1999Kimberly Peirce[3]
The Boys from Brazil1978Franklin J. Schaffner[18][3][5]
The Boys in the Band1970William Friedkin[2][3]
Boys in the Sand1971Wakefield Poole[13]
Boyz n the Hood1991John Singleton[4]
The Brain Eaters1958Bruno VeSota[18]
The Brain from Planet Arous1957Nathan H. Juran[18]
Brain of Blood (also known as The Undying Brain)1971Al Adamson[11]
The Brain That Wouldn't Die1962Joseph Green[18]
Braindead (also known as Dead Alive)1992Peter Jackson[9][4]
The Brainiac1962Chano Ureata[3]
Bram Stoker's Dracula1992Francis Ford Coppola[4][3][13]
Brand upon the Brain!2006Guy Maddin[16]
Branded to Kill1967Seijun Suzuki[16][4]
The Brave Little Toaster1987Jerry Rees[3]
Brazil1985Terry Gilliam[6][16][4][2][3]
The Breakfast Club1985John Hughes[3]
Breakin'1984Joel Silberg[2]
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo1984Sam Firstenberg[3]
Breaking Away1979Peter Yates[3][13]
Breathless (also known as À bout de souffle)1960Jean-Luc Godard[10][2][5]
The Bribe1949Robert Z. Leonard[5]
Brick2005Rian Johnson[9][15][2]
The Bride (also known as The House That Cried Murder and Last House on Massacre Street)1973Jean-Marie Pélissié[11]
Bride of Frankenstein1935James Whale[10][6][4][5]
Bride of the Monster1955Ed Wood[18]
The Bride Wore Black1968François Truffaut[3]
Brides of Blood1968Eddie Romero and Gerardo de Leon[11]
Bridge to Terabithia2007Gábor Csupó[3]
Brief Encounter1945David Lean[2][3]
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia1974Sam Peckinpah[9][15][4][2][5]
Bringing Up Baby1938Howard Hawks[4][2][3][5]
Britannia Hospital1982Lindsay Anderson[3]
The Brood1979David Cronenberg[8][6][1][4][11][2][5]
Brother1997Aleksei Balabanov[3]
The Brother from Another Planet1984John Sayles[4]
Brothers of the Head2005Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe[3]
Bubba Ho-Tep2002Don Coscarelli[4][7][2]
Die Büchse der Pandora (also known as Pandora's Box)1929Georg Wilhelm Pabst[8]
A Bucket of Blood1959Roger Corman[4][2][3]
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (also called Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein)1948Charles Barton[3]
The Buddy Holly Story1978Steve Rash[3]
Buena Vista Social Club1999Wim Wenders[3]
Buffalo '661998Vincent Gallo[9][3]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer1992Fran Rubel Kuzui[15]
Build My Gallows High (also known as Out of the Past)1947Jacques Tourneur[8][9][4][5]
A Bullet for the General1966Damiano Damiani[4][2]
The Bullet Train1975Junya Sato[12]
Bullitt1968Peter Yates[3]
Bunny Lake Is Missing1965Otto Preminger[3]
Burden of Dreams1982Les Blank[4]
Burlesque2010Steve Antin[19]
Burn!1969Gillo Pontecorvo[8][3]
Burnt by the Sun1994Nikita Mikhalkov[3]
But I'm A Cheerleader1999Jamie Babbit[19]
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid1969George Roy Hill[3]
The Butcher (also known as Le Boucher)1970Claude Chabrol[9][3]
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker1981William Asher[1][13]

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