Cult
see all genres ›Setting aside “good taste” for better flavor, the cult film gains its name from the cult-like following it can inspire. Ritualistic midnight screenings are historically crucial ingredients for a film cult to develop. Cohering around particular directors, actors, genres and subcultures, the cult film manages to entertain via nostalgia long after the “use by” date has passed.
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Genres / Cult
SUB-GENRES · Camp · Exploitation · Hyperreality · Psychotronic · Schlock
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Devil Doll
Grab a good seat and don't look away from the stage, for the Great Vorelli (Bryant Haliday) is about to dazzle London with his eerie mixture of hypnotism and ventriloquism. However, there may be something a little too lifelike about his dummy, Hugo, who has the ability to walk across the stage all by himself. Now Vorelli has...Start your free trial to watch -
Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Buckle up for DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, the acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 9/11. We meet the romantic skyjackers who fought their revolutions and won airtime on the passenger planes of the 1960s and 1970s. By the 1990s, such characters were apparently no more, replaced on our TV screens...Start your free trial to watch -
Dinah East
In 1950s Hollywood, a transvestite fools the world into believing he is a glamorous movie diva. When he dies, the secret is out and the film proceeds to tell the story of his relationships with friends and intimates, including a lesbian wardrobe designer, a gay matinee idol (with whom he had an affair), a protective lawyer...Start your free trial to watch
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Dixie Dynamite
Moonshine Tom and his two down-home daughters Dixie and Patsy (Jane Anne Johnstone and Kathy McHaley) enjoy an idyllic existence in a backwater Georgia town until the sheriff (Christopher George) and the Feds bust his still. In the excitement, old Tom is “accidentally” killed. When Dixie and Patsy hear the news about their...Start your free trial to watch -
Doin' Time in Times Square
Described as the home video from hell, DOIN' TIME IN TIMES SQUARE documents the view and action outside director Charlie Ahearn's 43rd Street apartment window from 1981 to 1983. Charlie Ahearn, whose 1983 film WILD STYLE was a cult hip hop hit, was "blessed" with a generous view of the sleeze emporiums up...Start your free trial to watch -
Don Juan
A story of appetite and destruction, DON JUAN has been a staple of puppet theatre for centuries. Jan Svankmajer brings this tradition to vivid and at times uncanny life in this dynamic film adaptation. When we first see Philip and Maria, the lovers who inspire Don Juan’s wrath, they appear on the flattened plane of a stage....Start your free trial to watch
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Double Take
An Official Selection at both the Berlin and Sundance Film Festivals, Johan Grimonprez's DOUBLE TAKE is a unique film that combines early 60's advertising, hysterical Red Menace newsreels and Alfred Hitchcock (featuring his hilarious introductions to his TV show and movies, and interviews with actual Hitchcock impersonator...Start your free trial to watch
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Down Among the Z Men
An absent minded professor loses a top secret formula in the grocery shop. When it is found by "Bats of the Yard," he proudly attempts to return it to the professor. Crazy comedy ensues. Starring the legendary Goons (Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine).Start your free trial to watch -
Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde
Dr. Henry Pryde (Bernie Casey) is a noteworthy scientist who is working on an experimental remedy for liver damage. Along with his colleague, Dr. Billie Worth (Rosalind Cash), he perfects a serum that has the potential to reverse damaged liver tissue. Pryde also donates his services as a medical...Start your free trial to watch -
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
After garnering widespread acclaim with his mini-masterpiece THE HEART OF THE WORLD, Canadian cult auteur Guy Maddin concocted his most ravishingly stylized cinematic creation to date. Beautifully transposing the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s interpretation of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire yarn from stage to...Start your free trial to watch
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The Dragon Lives
The true story of Bruce Lee, a phenomenal legend and the greatest martial arts star the world has ever known. This biopic stars Bruce Li, a sixth-degree black belt in his own right, who studied with the great Lee. The film concentrates on Lee's college years, his training, his marriage and his mysterious...Start your free trial to watch -
Dream No Evil
Don't pay any attention to the turtleneck-sweatered snobs who demand that the negative to this classic be burned. It does have a script (even if it appears to have been written as they filmed). DREAM NO EVIL is about a deranged young woman searching for her father. Every time the continuity becomes too confusing, a narrator...Start your free trial to watch -
The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
A stunning visual fantasy adapted from the comics of Winsor McCay, which had appeared in the New York Telegram since 1904. Edwin S. Porter not only borrowed McCay's title but his dream-based narrative structure. Likewise, McCay's surreal imagery is convincingly realized on the screen using a variety of...Start your free trial to watch
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Dynamite Brothers
Before RUSH HOUR there was DYNAMITE BROTHERS, the first movie to team an African-American action star and an Asian Martial Arts star! It's action all the way from the ghettos of L.A. to the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown as Larry Chin and Stud Brown blast apart the secrets of the syndicate. Gang...Start your free trial to watch -
Effects
Joe Pilato stars as Dominic, a young and enterprising cinematographer who has ventured to a remote mountain retreat to provide camerawork and special effects on a low-budget horror movie. What he finds there is a skeleton crew made up of eccentric and unpredictable talents. Even worse, the director Lacey Bickle (John...Start your free trial to watch -
18 Secrets of Kung Fu
Li Tai must endure terrible hardship under his sadistic kung fu master in order to perfect his fighting technique. The ambitious young man finally has a chance to prove himself when his old master meets his match and Li has to use the eighteen secrets of kung fu to fight the challenger.Start your free trial to watch




