List of cult films: C

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

FilmYearDirectorSource
Cabaret1972Bob Fosse[1]
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari1919Robert Wiene[2][3][4][1]
The Cable Guy1996Ben Stiller[5]
Caché2005Michael Haneke[4]
Café Flesh1982Stephen Sayadian[2][6][3]
La Cage aux Folles1978Édouard Molinaro[7][3][1]
Caged Heat1974Jonathan Demme[7][3][1]
Calendar1993Atom Egoyan[1]
Caliber 91972Fernando Di Leo[1]
California Split1974Robert Altman[8]
Caligula1979Tinto Brass[3]
Calvaire2005Fabrice Du Welz[9]
Camille1936George Cukor[1]
Can't Stop the Music1980Nancy Walker[1]
The Candidate1972Michael Ritchie[1]
Candy Mountain1987Robert Frank and Rudy Wurlitzer[1]
Cannibal Ferox1981Umberto Lenzi[3][4]
Cannibal Girls1973Ivan Reitman[3]
Cannibal Holocaust1980Ruggero Deodato[6][3][9][1]
The Cannibal Man1972Eloy de la Iglesia[3]
Cannibal! The Musical1993Trey Parker[5][3][1]
The Cannonball Run1981Hal Needham[4]
Cape Fear1962J. Lee Thompson[4][1]
Capricorn One1978Peter Hyams[1]
Captain Blood1935Michael Curtiz[3][10]
Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter1974Brian Clemens[1]
Captivity2007Roland Joffé[1]
Capturing the Friedmans2003Andrew Jarecki[4][1]
Carandiru2003Héctor Babenco[1]
Caravaggio1986Derek Jarman[1]
Carnal Knowledge1971Mike Nichols[4]
Carnival of Souls1962Herk Harvey[5][11][3][4][1]
Carny1980Robert Kaylor[4]
Carrie1976Brian De Palma[3][1]
Carry On Cleo1964Gerald Thomas[8]
Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (also known as Don't Lose Your Head)1967Gerald Thomas[1]
Carry On Follow That Camel (also known as Follow That Camel)1967Gerald Thomas[1]
Carry On Up the Khyber (also known as Up the Khyber)1968Gerald Thomas[1]
The Cars That Ate Paris1974Peter Weir[1]
Cartouche1962Philippe de Broca[1]
Casa de los babys2003John Sayles[1]
Casablanca1942Michael Curtiz[7][6][3][8]
The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn1956Joseph Sterling[1]
Casino1995Martin Scorsese[1]
Casino Royale1967Multiple[4]
Casino Royale2006Martin Campbell[1]
The Castle1997Rob Sitch[1]
Castle in the Sky1986Hayao Miyazaki[1]
Cat Ballou1965Elliot Silverstein[4]
Cat City1986Béla Ternovszky[1]
The Cat Concerto1947William Hanna and Joseph Barbera[1]
Cat People1942Jacques Tourneur[11][3][1][10]
Cat-Women of the Moon1953Arthur Hilton[12]
Catch My Soul (also known as Santa Fe Satan)1974Patrick McGoohan[3]
Catch-221970Mike Nichols[1]
Catwoman2004Pitof[3][1]
Cecil B. Demented2000John Waters[1]
The Celebration1998Thomas Vinterberg[4][1]
The Cell2000Tarsem Singh[13]
The Celluloid Closet1996Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman[1]
Cemetery Girls (also known as The Velvet Vampire)1971Stephanie Rothman[10]
Cemetery Man1994Michele Soavi[4]
Chafed Elbows1966Robert Downey Sr.[3]
Chained Heat1983Paul Nicholas[1]
Chainsaw Sally2004Jimmyo Burril[3]
Chameli Ki Shaadi1986Basu Chatterjee[14]
Champion of Death (also known as Karate Bullfighter)1975Kazuhiko Yamaguchi[15]
Un chant d'amour1954Jean Genet[3]
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith1978Fred Schepisi[1]
Charley Varrick1973Don Siegel[1]
Charlie Chan at the Opera1936H. Bruce Humberstone[1]
Chashme Buddoor1981Sai Paranjpye[14]
Chelsea Girls1966Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey[16][3]
The Chess Player1927Raymond Bernard[1]
Chicken Run2000Peter Lord and Nick Park[1]
Chicks in White Satin1993Elaine Holliman[1]
Un Chien Andalou1929Luis Buñuel[6][17][3][8]
Child's Play1988Tom Holland[4]
Child's Play 31991Jack Bender[3][1]
Children of Men2006Alfonso Cuarón[1]
Children of Paradise1945Marcel Carné[18][1]
The Children's Hour1961William Wyler[1]
Chilly Scenes of Winter1979Joan Micklin Silver[2]
Chinatown1974Roman Polanski[1]
A Chinese Ghost Story1987Ching Siu-Tung[3][1]
Chinese Opium Den1894Thomas Edison[3]
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang1968Ken Hughes[1]
Chloe2009Atom Egoyan[1]
Choose Me1984Alan Rudolph[2]
Chopper2000Andrew Dominik[4][1]
A Chorus Line1985Richard Attenborough[1]
Christiane F.1981Uli Edel[3][4]
Christine1983John Carpenter[1]
Christmas on Mars2008Wayne Coyne[3]
A Christmas Story1983Bob Clark[4]
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach1968Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet[1]
Chungking Express1994Wong Kar-wai[1]
Chūshingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki (also known as 47 Ronin)1962Hiroshi Inagaki[1]
Ciao! Manhattan1972John Palmer and David Weisman[3]
The Cincinnati Kid1965Norman Jewison[1]
Cinema Paradiso1988Giuseppe Tornatore[1]
Cinemania2002Angela Christlieb and Stephen Kijak[1]
The Circus1928Charlie Chaplin[1]
Circus of Horrors1960Sidney Hayers[1]
Cisco Pike1972Bill L. Norton[4]
La Cité des enfants perdus (also known as The City of Lost Children)1995Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro[16]
Citizen Kane1941Orson Welles[7][3][1]
City of God2002Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund[1]
The City of Lost Children (also known as La Cité des enfants perdus)1995Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro[16][1]
The City of Lost Souls2000Takashi Miike[15]
City of Men2007Paulo Morelli[1]
City of the Living Dead1980Lucio Fulci[3]
City on Fire1987Ringo Lam[3]
Civilization1916Reginald Barker, Thomas H. Ince, and Raymond B. West[1]
Clash of the Titans1981Desmond Davis[4]
Claws of Iron (also known as Claws of Steel and Tetsu no tsume)1951Nobuo Adachi[15]
Clean, Shaven1993Lodge Kerrigan[1]
Clerk1989Manoj Kumar[14]
Clerks1994Kevin Smith[16][5][4][1]
Clockers1995Spike Lee[3]
The Clockmaker (also known as The Watchmaker of St. Paul)1974Bertrand Tavernier[1]
A Clockwork Orange1971Stanley Kubrick[18][5][19][3][4][1][8][10]
The Clones of Bruce Lee1980Joseph Kong and Nam Gi-Nam[10]
Close Encounters of the Third Kind1977Steven Spielberg[3][1]
Close-Up1990Abbas Kiarostami[1]
Closely Watched Trains1966Jiří Menzel[1]
Cloverfield2008Matt Reeves[1]
The Clowns (also known as I clowns)1970Federico Fellini[1]
The Club1980Bruce Beresford[1]
Clue1985Jonathan Lynn[5]
Clueless1995Amy Heckerling[1]
Cobra Verde1987Werner Herzog[1]
Cobra Woman1944Robert Siodmak[3]
Cockfighter1974Monte Hellman[4][1]
Cocksucker Blues1972Robert Frank[1]
Coffy1973Jack Hill[6][3][1]
Cold Fever1995Friðrik Þór Friðriksson[1]
The Collector1965William Wyler[1]
College1927James W. Horne and Buster Keaton[3]
The Color of Pomegranates1969Sergei Parajanov[1]
Colossus: The Forbin Project1970Joseph Sargent[1]
Com Licença, Eu Vou à Luta1986Lui Farias[1]
Come and See1985Elem Klimov[4][1]
Commando1985Mark L. Lester[5]
La Commune (Paris, 1871)2000Peter Watkins[10]
The Company of Wolves1984Neil Jordan[8]
Conan the Barbarian1982John Milius[3][4][1]
Coneheads1993Steve Barron[1]
Confessions of a Cheat (also known as Le Roman d'un tricheur and The Story of a Cheat)1936Sacha Guitry[8]
The Conformist1970Bernardo Bertolucci[1]
The Connection1961Shirley Clarke[3]
The Conqueror Worm (also known as Witchfinder General)1968Michael Reeves[7][6][3][4][1][8]
The Consequences of Love2004Paolo Sorrentino[1]
Contempt1963Jean-Luc Godard[4]
Content2010Chris Petit[1]
Control2007Anton Corbijn[3][1]
Convent of the Sacred Beast (also known as School of the Holy Beast and The Transgressor)1974Norifumi Suzuki[15]
The Conversation1974Francis Ford Coppola[4][1]
Coogan's Bluff1968Don Siegel[4]
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover1989Peter Greenaway[3][4][1][8]
The Cool and the Crazy1958William Witney[3]
Cool Hand Luke1967Stuart Rosenberg[1]
Cool Runnings1993Jon Turteltaub[1]
Cool World1992Ralph Bakshi[1]
Coonskin1975Ralph Bakshi[1]
Le Corbeau1943Henri-Georges Clouzot[1]
The Corpse Grinders1971Ted V. Mikels[20][1]
Cosh Boy (also known as The Slasher)1953Lewis Gilbert[1]
The Cottage2008Paul Andrew Williams[1]
The Cotton Club1984Francis Ford Coppola[1]
Count Dracula's Great Love1973Javier Aguirre[20]
Countess Dracula1971Peter Sasdy[4]
Coup de Torchon (also known as Clean Slate)1981Bertrand Tavernier[1]
The Court Jester1955Melvin Frank and Norman Panama[1]
The Cove2009Louie Psihoyos[1]
The Craft1996Andrew Fleming[13][4]
The Cranes Are Flying1957Mikhail Kalatozov[1]
Crank2006Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor[5]
Crash1996David Cronenberg[16][11][3][1]
The Crawling Hand1963Herbert L. Strock[12]
Craze1974Freddie Francis[20]
Crazed Beast (also known as Savage Beast Goes Mad and Kurutta yaju)1976Sadao Nakajima[15]
The Crazies1973George A. Romero[20]
The Creator's Game1999Bruce Troxell[1]
Creature from the Black Lagoon1954Jack Arnold[1]
Creature of the Walking Dead1965Jerry Warren[20]
The Creeping Unknown (also known as The Quatermass Xperiment)1955Val Guest[4]
The Cremator1969Juraj Herz[9][1]
The Crime of Monsieur Lange1936Jean Renoir[1]
Crimewave1985Sam Raimi[4]
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz1955Luis Buñuel[1]
The Crimson Pirate1952Robert Siodmak[1]
Cronos1993Guillermo del Toro[11][4]
Cross of Iron1977Sam Peckinpah[1]
The Crossing2018Bai Xue[10]
Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul2005Fatih Akın[1]
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon2000Ang Lee[1]
Croupier1998Mike Hodges[1]
The Crow1994Alex Proyas[1]
Crumb1994Terry Zwigoff[11][4][1]
Cry of the Banshee1970Gordon Hessler[3]
Cry-Baby1990John Waters[3][1][10]
Cube1997Vincenzo Natali[3][4][10]
Cul-de-sac1966Roman Polanski[4][8]
Cure1997Kiyoshi Kurosawa[3][21]
The Curse of Frankenstein1957Terence Fisher[9][1]
Curse of the Devil (also known as El Retorno de Walpurgis and The Return of Walpurgis)1973Carlos Aured[20]
The Curse of Willow Song2020Karen Lam[10]
Cutter's Way1981Ivan Passer[18][4][1][8]
Cutthroat Island1995Renny Harlin[3]

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