Cult quality movies any one ?

[federico]

i would say

1- Taxi Driver, Scorsese

2- the Goodfellas, Scorsese

3- Le Cercle Rouge, Melville

so many great movies... oh and i forgot The Graduate, Mean Streets, The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Easy Rider and The Last Waltz and... and... and...

 

[watcharacters]

Not to be left out:

 

Hotel California  (2008)  (mostly actors unfamiliar to me)

 

"City of Ghosts"   (2002) with Matt Dillon, James Caan,  Gerard Depardieu and Stellan Skarsgard.

[Berkshire]

Not sure if these would be "cult" movies, but...

 

Pulp Fiction

Sin City

Inglorious Basterds

Raising Arizona

[watcharacters]

23 hours ago, giddyup said:

If there are subtitles available I try and add them to just about every movie I watch these days. It makes it easier for my Thai partner to understand the dialogue, and for me as well as my hearing isn't what it used to be.

 

 

I'm happy to have subtitles  on a movie but as often as not I find them more humorous that informative.

 

[Laza 45]

Most of the ones I like have been mentioned here at least a few times.. but American Beauty is one I haven't seen... also 'The Castle' from Australia..  

[Gandtee]

Wolf Creek!

[xylophone]

31 minutes ago, Laza 45 said:

Most of the ones I like have been mentioned here at least a few times.. but American Beauty is one I haven't seen... also 'The Castle' from Australia..

Ah yes, The Castle, Aussie offbeat humour/irony which many may not pick up.

 

A cult one, or near enough...……...Event Horizon.

[hanssna]

U Turn (1997). With Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez and Nick Nolte. Brilliant ! 

[Kurtf]

For me the best cult movie of all time is: Casablanca. So many quotable lines have become part of the American lexicon. “Here’s looking at you kid”.

[rwill]

Babies Day Out

 

[thailen]

The only South Africa film I ever saw(in 1980). "The Gods Must Be Crazy". Funny and thought-provoking!

 

[hkt83100]

1. Lawrence of Arabia

2. Once upon a time in the west

3. Chato's Land

4. Little Shop of Horrors

5. Zabriskie Point
 

[Peter Denis]

Small list of - mainly - non-mainstream quality movies:

• Dersu Uzala, from Akira Kurosawa
• Dodeskaden, from Akira Kurosawa
• Zorba the Greek
• The Big Lebowski, from the Coen Brothers
• Pennies from Heaven (both the US movie with Steve Martin, as well as the original TV series by Dennis Potter)
• Everything from Stanley Kubrick, e.g. 2001 A Space Oddysea, Doctor Strangelove and Full Metal Jacket
• The Men who Stare at Goats
• Most movies starring Kevin Spacey
• Amelie Poulain
• The Bear
• Festen
• ...

[Laza 45]

Excellent thread.. I've enjoyed this..  a few to look up that I haven't seen..   Probably mentioned already but.. 'No Country for Old Men'.. love the Coen brothers..

[lust]

Welcome to the dollhouse

run Lola run

requiem for a dream

Battle royale

[Laza 45]

6 minutes ago, Peter Denis said:

Small list of - mainly - non-mainstream quality movies:

• Dersu Uzala, from Akira Kurosawa
• Dodeskaden, from Akira Kurosawa
• Zorba the Greek
• The Big Lebowski, from the Coen Brothers
• Pennies from Heaven (both the US movie with Steve Martin, as well as the original TV series by Dennis Potter)
• Everything from Stanley Kubrick, e.g. 2001 A Space Oddysea, Doctor Strangelove and Full Metal Jacket
• The Men who Stare at Goats
• Most movies starring Kevin Spacey
• Amelie Poulain
• The Bear
• Festen
• ...

'Pennies from Heaven'.. the TV series..excellent..

 

[AlexRich]

I forgot another:

 

City of God ... a Brazilian movie, really excellent.

[Lacessit]

Dune

Blade Runner

2001 - A Space Odyssey

Mississipi Burning

In The Heat Of The Night

Bullitt

The French Connection

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

The Sting

Wake in Fright ( Australian )

Oncle Benjamin ( French )

Babette's Feast

The Gods Must be Crazy

Destiny of a Man ( Russian )

Dr. Zhivago

El Cid

Planet of the Apes

Starman

The African Queen

Enter the Dragon, The Way of the Dragon

House of the Red Lantern ( Chinese )

There's a Girl in my Soup

Love Actually

Modern Times

Dr. No

Battle of Britain

Once Were Warriors ( New Zealand )

The Last of the Mohicans

Braveheart

Shine

Schindler's List. I can't watch it without weeping.

 

[xylophone]

3 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Dune

Blade Runner

2001 - A Space Odyssey

Mississipi Burning

In The Heat Of The Night

Bullitt

The French Connection

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

The Sting

Wake in Fright ( Australian )

Oncle Benjamin ( French )

Babette's Feast

The Gods Must be Crazy

Destiny of a Man ( Russian )

Dr. Zhivago

El Cid

Planet of the Apes

Starman

The African Queen

Enter the Dragon, The Way of the Dragon

House of the Red Lantern ( Chinese )

There's a Girl in my Soup

Love Actually

Modern Times

Dr. No

Battle of Britain

Once Were Warriors ( New Zealand )

The Last of the Mohicans

Braveheart

 

Nice list but not really cult movies!

[PJPom]

Harold and Maude, great music.

Fargo, the remake with Billy Bob Thornton, never seen evil better portrayed.

Edge of darkness with Bob Peck, far better with Colonel Jedburgh than the bloody remake with Mel Gibson. Emmmmaaaa.

watch remake to see why I use the term bloody 

[Lacessit]

1 minute ago, xylophone said:

Nice list but not really cult movies!

Blade Runner, Dune and 2001 are not cult movies? The African Queen is not a cult movie? Enter the Dragon? We obviously differ.

[GroveHillWanderer]

A lot of those listed here are not cult movies. As was alluded to earlier, cult movies are ones that were not big box-office movies, not well-regarded or successful at the time but which became popular later - usually with a small sub-set of people who become fanatically devoted to the movies in question. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is perhaps the classic example of a cult movie.

 

Casablanca for instance, although it it's a great classic movie and one of my personal favourites, is not a cult movie.

[theguyfromanotherforum]

Deep Throat

[Antonymous]

Withnail and I (1987)

M.Hulot's Holiday (1954)

Lolita (1962) the James Mason, Shelley Winters original

Eraserhead (1977)

 

Eraserhead is truly my favourite 'cult' movie. David Lynch's surreal and very creepy masterpiece. WARNING: do not watch if 'expecting'. I made the terrible mistake years ago of giving the movie to a close friend whose wife had (unbeknownst to me) just had the good news that she was pregnant. They watched it that night...and didn't speak to me again for months!

[Bournville]

5555 90% of the movies mentioned are not even close to cult status.

[giddyup]

2 hours ago, watcharacters said:

 

 

I'm happy to have subtitles  on a movie but as often as not I find them more humorous that informative.

 

 Subtitles are supposed to be exactly the same as what is being said, unless you are talking foreign movies where speech can be open to some interpretation.

[turgid]

Primer - tiny budget time travel movie I enjoyed - plot not action.

Thief - Stars James Caan and is an early Michael Mann movie. Not sure if its cult but i've never met anyone else who has seen it and its good.

 

 

[Lacessit]

2 minutes ago, Bournville said:

5555 90% of the movies mentioned are not even close to cult status.

Perhaps many posters are responding with the movies they have enjoyed, or struck a chord. I suppose there has to be persnickety posters in the mix.

[androokery]

Amarcord
Mediterraneo
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)

[connda]

Evil Dead Trilogy.