List of cult films: I

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

FilmYearDirectorSource
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang1932Mervyn LeRoy[1]
I Bury the Living1958Albert Band[2][3]
I Don't Want to Be Born1975Peter Sasdy[1]
I Drink Your Blood1970David E. Durston[4][1]
I Eat Your Skin1971Del Tenney[5]
I Know Where I'm Going!1945Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger[1]
I Married a Monster from Outer Space1958Gene Fowler[6]
I Married a Witch1942René Clair[1]
I Saw What You Did1965William Castle[7][4]
I Spit on Your Grave (also known as Day of the Woman)1978Meir Zarchi[8][4][2][1]
I Walked with a Zombie1943Jacques Tourneur[6][9][10][4][2][3][1]
I Was a Male War Bride1949Howard Hawks[1]
I Was a Teenage Werewolf1957Gene Fowler[4][5]
I Was Born, But...1932Yasujirō Ozu[1]
I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse1973Fernando Arrabal[4]
I'll Cry Tomorrow1955Daniel Mann[1]
I'll Never Forget What's'isname1967Michael Winner[1]
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka1988Keenan Ivory Wayans[7][11]
I'm Not There2007Todd Haynes[4][1]
Ice Station Zebra1968John Sturges[1]
Ichi the Killer2001Takashi Miike[9][8][4][1][12]
Idiocracy2006Mike Judge[4]
The Idiot1951Akira Kurosawa[1]
Idiot Box1996David Caesar[1]
The Idiots1998Lars von Trier[3]
Les idoles1968Marc'O[8]
if....1968Lindsay Anderson[4][1][13]
Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS1974Don Edmonds[4][1]
Imitation of Life1959Douglas Sirk[14][4][1]
The Immoral Mr. Teas1959Russ Meyer[13]
In a Lonely Place1950Nicholas Ray[14][1]
In Bruges2008Martin McDonagh[9][4][3][1]
In Cold Blood1967Richard Brooks[1]
In the Company of Men1997Neil LaBute[3]
In the Dark2004Marc Cinquanta[1]
In the Mood for Love2000Wong Kar-wai[1]
In the Realm of the Senses1976Nagisa Ōshima[4][3][1]
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome1954Kenneth Anger[4]
The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant1971Anthony M. Lanza[15]
The Incredible Melting Man1977William Sachs[15]
The Incredible Shrinking Man1957Jack Arnold[10][16][3][1][13]
The Incredibles2004Brad Bird[1]
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies1963Ray Dennis Steckler[3]
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love1995Maria Maggenti[1]
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade1989Steven Spielberg[4]
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom1984Steven Spielberg[4]
Infernal Affairs2002Andrew Lau and Alan Mak[3][1]
L'Inferno (also known as Dante's Inferno)1911Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe De Liguoro[17]
Inferno1980Dario Argento[4]
The Inglorious Bastards1978Enzo G. Castellari[4]
Inglourious Basterds2009Quentin Tarantino[4]
Inland Empire2006David Lynch[16][4]
Innerspace1987Joe Dante[4]
Inserts1975John Byrum[3]
Insomnia1997Erik Skjoldbjærg[1]
An Inspector Calls1982Michael Simpson[1]
Intermezzo1936Gustaf Molander[1]
Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem2003Kazuhisa Takenouchi[3]
Intolerable Cruelty2003Joel Coen[1]
Intolerance1916D. W. Griffith[1][13]
Invaders from Mars1953William Cameron Menzies[10]
The Invasion2007Oliver Hirschbiegel[4]
Invasion of Astro-Monster1965Ishirō Honda[12]
Invasion of the Body Snatchers1956Don Siegel[6][11][4][3][13]
Invasion of the Body Snatchers1978Philip Kaufman[4][5][13]
Invasion of the Saucer Men1957Edward L. Cahn[15]
Invocation of My Demon Brother1969Kenneth Anger[9][4][1]
The Iron Giant1999Brad Bird[11][1]
The Iron Horse1924John Ford[4]
Iron Man2008Jon Favreau[1]
Ironweed1987Héctor Babenco[1]
Irréversible2002Gaspar Noé[4][3]
Is Anybody There?2008John Crowley[1]
Ishtar1987Elaine May[1]
The Island of Dr. Moreau1977Don Taylor[15]
Island of Lost Souls1932Erle C. Kenton[16][1]
Island of Terror1966Terence Fisher[15]
The Isle2000Kim Ki-duk[4]
It1927Clarence G. Badger[1]
It Always Rains on Sunday1947Robert Hamer[1]
It Came from Beneath the Sea1955Robert Gordon[5]
It Conquered the World1956Roger Corman[5]
It Happened One Night1934Frank Capra[1]
It Lives Again (also known as It's Alive II)1978Larry Cohen[5]
It! The Terror from Beyond Space1958Edward L. Cahn[15]
It's a Gift1934Norman McLeod[6]
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World1963Stanley Kramer[14]
It's a Wonderful Life1946Frank Capra[6][9][4][1][13]
It's Alive1974Larry Cohen[4]
The Italian Job1969Peter Collinson[1][13]
Ivan the Terrible, Part I1944Sergei Eisenstein[1]
Ivan the Terrible, part II: The Boyars' Plot1958Sergei Eisenstein[1]
Ivan's Childhood1962Andrei Tarkovsky[1]
Ivul2009Andrew Kötting[1]

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