List of cult films: W

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

FilmYearDirectorSource
The Wackness2008Jonathan Levine[1]
The Wages of Fear1953Henri-Georges Clouzot[1]
Waiting for Guffman1996Christopher Guest[2]
Waitress2007Adrienne Shelly[1]
Wake Up and Dream1934Kurt Neumann[1]
Walden (also known as Diaries, Notes, and Sketches)1968Jonas Mekas[1]
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story2007Jake Kasdan[2]
Walk on the Wild Side1962Edward Dmytryk[3]
Walkabout1971Nicolas Roeg[1]
WALL-E2008Andrew Stanton[1]
Waltz with Bashir2008Ari Folman[1]
Wanda1970Barbara Loden[1]
Wanda, the Sadistic Hypnotist (also known as The Sadistic Hypnotist)1969Greg Corarito[4]
The Wanderers1979Philip Kaufman[5]
The Wannsee Conference1984Heinz Schirk[1]
War and Peace1967Sergei Bondarchuk[1]
War Comes to America1945Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak[1]
The War Game1966Peter Watkins[4][1]
War Hunt1962Denis Sanders[1]
The War Is Over1966Alain Resnais[1]
War of the Colossal Beast1958Bert I. Gordon[6]
The War of the Gargantuas1966Ishirō Honda[7]
The War of the Worlds1953Byron Haskin[4][1]
Warning Sign1985Hal Barwood[6]
The Warped Ones1960Koreyoshi Kurahara[7]
The Warriors1979Walter Hill[8][9][10][2][4][3]
The Wasp Woman1959Roger Corman[6]
The Watchmaker of St. Paul (also known as The Clockmaker)1974Bertrand Tavernier[1]
Watchmen2009Zack Snyder[1]
Waterloo Bridge1940Mervyn LeRoy[1]
Waterworld1995Kevin Reynolds[4][1]
Wavelength1967Michael Snow[1]
The Way We Were1973Sydney Pollack[1]
The Wayward Cloud2005Tsai Ming-liang[1]
We Can't Go Home Again1973Nicholas Ray[4]
The Wedding Singer1998Frank Coraci[1]
Wednesday's Child (also known as Family Life)1971Ken Loach[1]
Weekend1967Jean-Luc Godard[4][3]
Welcome Home Brother Charles (also known as Soul Vengeance)1975Jamaa Fanaka[9][4]
Welcome to the Dollhouse1995Todd Solondz[4][3]
Went the Day Well?1942Alberto Cavalcanti[1]
Werewolf of London1935Stuart Walker[11]
The Werewolf of Washington1973Milton Moses Ginsberg[12]
Werewolf Woman (also known as The Legend of the Wolf Woman)1976Rino Di Silvestro[12]
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (also known as New Nightmare)1994Wes Craven[4]
Westworld1973Michael Crichton[6][3][1]
Wet Hot American Summer2001David Wain[13][2]
What a Carve Up!1961Pat Jackson[1]
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?1969Lee H. Katzin[3]
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?1962Robert Aldrich[4][1]
What's New Pussycat?1965Clive Donner[1]
What's Opera, Doc?1957Chuck Jones[1]
What's Up, Doc?1972Peter Bogdanovich[1]
What's Up, Tiger Lily?1966Woody Allen and Senkichi Taniguchi[3][1]
When Harry Met Sally...1989Rob Reiner[4]
When Night Is Falling1995Patricia Rozema[4]
When Strangers Marry1944William Castle[1]
When the Clouds Roll By1919Victor Fleming[1]
When Time Ran Out1980James Goldstone[1]
When We Were Kings1996Leon Gast[3][1]
Where Eagles Dare1968Brian G. Hutton[1]
Where's Poppa?1970Carl Reiner[8]
Whisky Galore!1949Alexander Mackendrick[1]
White Dog1982Samuel Fuller[1]
White Heat1949Raoul Walsh[14][1][5]
White Palace1990Luis Mandoki[1]
The White Ribbon2009Michael Haneke[1]
The White Snake Enchantress (also known as Panda and the Magic Serpent, The Great White Snake, and The Tale of the White Serpent)1958Taiji Yabushita[1]
White Sun of the Desert1970Vladimir Motyl[1]
White Zombie1932Victor Halperin[11][3][1]
Who Killed Brown Owl?2004Christine Molloy[1]
Who Killed Captain Alex?2010Nabwana I.G.G.[15]
Who Wants to Kill Jessie?1966Václav Vorlíček[1]
The Wicked Lady1945Leslie Arliss[1]
The Wicker Man1973Robin Hardy[16][17][4][3][1][5]
Wide Sargasso Sea1993John Duigan[1]
The Wild Angels1966Roger Corman[4][1]
Wild at Heart1990David Lynch[4][3][1]
The Wild Bunch1969Sam Peckinpah[8][4][3][1]
Wild Grass2009Alain Resnais[1]
Wild in the Streets1968Barry Shear[4]
The Wild One1953László Benedek[4][3][1]
Wild Seed1965Brian G. Hutton[18]
Wild Strawberries1957Ingmar Bergman[5]
Wild Style1983Charlie Ahearn[10]
Wild Target2010Jonathan Lynn[1]
Wild Wild West1999Barry Sonnenfeld[1]
William Winckler's Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove (also known as Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove)2005William Winckler[11]
Willow1988Ron Howard[1]
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory1971Mel Stuart[14][1]
Wings of Desire1987Wim Wenders[10][4][1][5]
Winstanley1975Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo[1]
Winter Kills1979William Richert[1]
The Winter War1989Pekka Parikka[1]
Wisconsin Death Trip1999James Marsh[1][15]
Wise Blood1979John Huston[3][1]
Witchcraft Through the Ages (also known as Häxan)1922Benjamin Christensen[9][18][19][4][11]
The Witches1990Nicolas Roeg[1]
The Witches of Eastwick1987George Miller[1]
Witchfinder General (also known as The Conqueror Worm)1968Michael Reeves[8][9][4][3][1][5]
Withnail and I1987Bruce Robinson[9][10][19][17][3][1][5]
Witness for the Prosecution1957Billy Wilder[1]
The Wiz1978Sidney Lumet[10][1]
The Wizard of Oz1939Victor Fleming[8][9][4][3]
Wolfen1981Michael Wadleigh[12]
Woman in the Dunes1964Hiroshi Teshigahara[1]
Woman in the Moon1929Fritz Lang[1]
A Woman Under the Influence1974John Cassavetes[3][1]
The Women1939George Cukor[1]
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown1988Pedro Almodóvar[10][3][1]
Woodstock1970Michael Wadleigh[4][1]
World's Biggest Gang Bang1995John T. Bone[4]
The World's Greatest Sinner1962Timothy Carey[18]
The Wormwood Star1956Curtis Harrington[18]
The Wounded Man1983Patrice Chéreau[1]
WR: Mysteries of the Organism1971Dušan Makavejev[4]
Wrath of Daimajin1966Kazuo Mori[7]
The Wrestler2008Darren Aronofsky[1]
Wuthering Heights1939William Wyler[14]

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