List of cult films: P

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

FilmYearDirectorSource
Pale Flower1964Masahiro Shinoda[1]
Palindromes2004Todd Solondz[2]
Pan's Labyrinth2006Guillermo del Toro[3][1]
Panda and the Magic Serpent (also known as The Great White Snake Enchantress and The Tale of the White Serpent)1958Taiji Yabushita[1]
Pandora's Box (also known as Die Büchse der Pandora)1929G. W. Pabst[4][2][1][5]
The Panic in Needle Park1971Jerry Schatzberg[2][1]
Panic in the Streets1950Elia Kazan[3]
Panic in Year Zero!1962Ray Milland[1]
Pantyhose Hero1990Sammo Hung[1]
Paperhouse1988Bernard Rose[1]
Papillon1973Franklin J. Schaffner[1]
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills1996Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky[1]
The Parallax View1974Alan J. Pakula[6][3][1]
Paranormal Activity2007Oren Peli[2]
Parents1989Bob Balaban[1]
Paris Blues1961Martin Ritt[1]
Paris, Texas1984Wim Wenders[3][1]
The Passenger1975Michelangelo Antonioni[1]
The Passion of Joan of Arc1928Carl Theodor Dreyer[2]
The Passion of the Christ2004Mel Gibson[2]
Passport to Pimlico1949Henry Cornelius[1]
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid1973Sam Peckinpah[3][1]
Pather Panchali1955Satyajit Ray[1]
Paths of Glory1957Stanley Kubrick[1]
Pearl2022Ti West[7]
Peeping Tom1960Michael Powell[4][8][2][3][1][5]
Pee-wee's Big Adventure1985Tim Burton[9]
Peggy Sue Got Married1986Francis Ford Coppola[2]
The Peking Man1997Junya Sato[10]
Penny Serenade1941George Stevens[1]
Perfect1985James Bridges[1]
Perfect Blue1997Satoshi Kon[1][7]
Performance1970Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg[4][11][12][2][3][1][5]
Persona1966Ingmar Bergman[11]
Personal Best1982Robert Towne[2][1]
Le petit amour (also known as Kung Fu Master)1988Agnès Varda[2]
Pete Kelly's Blues1955Jack Webb[1]
Petulia1968Richard Lester[4][1]
Phantasm1979Don Coscarelli[9][13]
The Phantom Carriage1921Victor Sjöström[14]
The Phantom Empire1935Otto Brower and B. Reeves Eason[1]
Phantom from Space1953W. Lee Wilder[15]
The Phantom of the Opera1925Rupert Julian[16][2][14]
Phantom of the Paradise1974Brian De Palma[6][11][9][3]
The Phantom Planet1961William Marshall[13]
The Phantom Tollbooth1970Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow, Dave Monahan[1]
The Phenix City Story1955Phil Karlson[3]
Pi1998Darren Aronofsky[9][3][1]
The Piano1993Jane Campion[1]
Pickpocket1959Robert Bresson[1]
Pickup on South Street1953Samuel Fuller[1]
Picnic at Hanging Rock1975Peter Weir[6][1]
Pig2021Michael Sarnoski[7]
Pigsty (also known as Porcile)1969Pier Paolo Pasolini[2]
"Pimpernel" Smith1941Leslie Howard[5]
Pink Flamingos1972John Waters[4][17][11][9][8][2][3][1]
Pink Floyd – The Wall1982Alan Parker[2]
Piranha1978Joe Dante[17][2][13][3]
The Pirate1948Vincente Minnelli[2]
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End2007Gore Verbinski[2]
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl2003Gore Verbinski[2]
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest2006Gore Verbinski[2]
The Pit1981Lew Lehman[15]
Plan 9 from Outer Space1959Ed Wood[4][17][11][9][2][14][15][3][1][5]
Planet of the Apes1968Franklin J. Schaffner[2][3][1]
Planet of the Vampires1965Mario Bava[13]
La Planète sauvage (also known as Fantastic Planet)1973René Laloux[8][2][13]
Planet Terror2007Robert Rodriguez[2]
Play It Again, Sam1972Herbert Ross[2]
Play Misty for Me1971Clint Eastwood[3][1]
The Player1992Robert Altman[1]
The Playhouse1921Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline[1]
Playing the Field (also known as L'arbitro)1974Luigi Filippo D'Amico[1]
Pleasantville1998Gary Ross[1]
The Pledge2001Sean Penn[1]
Point Blank1967John Boorman[3][1][5]
Point Break1991Kathryn Bigelow[9][2][1]
Poison1991Todd Haynes[2]
Poison Ivy1992Katt Shea[7]
Police1985Maurice Pialat[1]
Police Academy1984Hugh Wilson[18]
Poltergeist1982Tobe Hooper[1]
Polyester1981John Waters[19][3]
Pootie Tang2001Louis C.K.[9]
Porcile (also known as Pigsty)1969Pier Paolo Pasolini[2]
Porco Rosso1992Hayao Miyazaki[1]
Porgy and Bess1959Otto Preminger[1]
The Pornographer2001Bertrand Bonello[1]
Portrait of Jason1967Shirley Clarke[1]
The Poseidon Adventure1972Ronald Neame[1]
Possession1981Andrzej Żuławski[19][14]
The Possession of Virginia (also known as Le diable est parmi nous and Satan's Sabbath)1972Jean Beaudin[2]
The Postman1997Kevin Costner[1]
The Postman Always Rings Twice1981Bob Rafelson[3][1]
Il Posto1961Ermanno Olmi[1]
A Prairie Home Companion2006Robert Altman[1]
Precious2009Lee Daniels[1]
Prelude to War1942Frank Capra[1]
The President's Analyst1967Theodore J. Flicker[1]
The Prestige2006Christopher Nolan[1]
Pretty Baby1978Louis Malle[6][1]
Pretty Poison1968Noel Black[4]
The Price of Power1969Tonino Valerii[1]
Primate1974Frederick Wiseman[1]
Primer2004Shane Carruth[2][3][1]
Primitive London1965Arnold L. Miller[2]
Prince of Darkness1987John Carpenter[2]
The Prince of Tides1991Barbra Streisand[1]
The Princess Bride1987Rob Reiner[11][8][1][7]
Princess Mononoke1997Hayao Miyazaki[2][3][1]
The Prisoner of Zenda1937John Cromwell[1]
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes1970Billy Wilder[1]
The Private Lives of Adam and Eve1960Mickey Rooney and Albert Zugsmith[1]
Prizzi's Honor1985John Huston[1]
The Producers1967Mel Brooks[4][2][3][1][5]
Prophecies of Nostradamus1974Toshio Masuda[10]
Prophecy1979John Frankenheimer[2]
A Prophet2009Jacques Audiard[1]
Prospero's Books1991Peter Greenaway[3]
The Prowler1981Joseph Zito[3]
Predator1987John McTiernan[2]
Psych-Out1968Richard Rush[2]
Psycho1960Alfred Hitchcock[20][16][2][1]
Psycho Beach Party2000Robert Lee King[1]
Psychomania1973Don Sharp[2][3]
Pulgasari1985Shin Sang-ok[9]
Pulp Fiction1994Quentin Tarantino[9][2][1]
Punisher: War Zone2008Lexi Alexander[9]
Punishment Park1971Peter Watkins[2]
Purana Mandir1984Tulsi Ramsay and Shyam Ramsay[21]
Purple Noon1960René Clément[1]
Pursued1947Raoul Walsh[1]
Putney Swope1969Robert Downey, Sr.[9]
Pygmalion1938Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard[1]
The Pyramid1976Gary Kent[19]

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