500 Essential Cult Movies: The Ultimate Guide By Jennifer Eiss

A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.

A group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.

A new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty.

Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware.

Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.

The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.

A newly admitted mental patient helps his docile companions defy the tyrannical head nurse.

In a small Oklahoma town in 1964, the rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, heats up when one gang member accidentally kills a member of the other.

A banker convicted of uxoricide forms a friendship over a quarter century with a hardened convict, while maintaining his innocence and trying to remain hopeful through simple compassion.

A man spends a summer day swimming home via all the pools in his quiet suburban neighborhood.

A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.

A New York philosophy grad student turns into a vampire after getting bitten by one, and then tries to come to terms with her new lifestyle and frequent craving for human blood.

A high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.

An amateur dog fighter, a supermodel, and a derelict assassin, all separately struggling to find love, find their lives transformed by a devastating car wreck in Mexico City.

While recuperating in a Confederate girls' boarding school, a Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women's hearts, causing them to turn on each other, and eventually, on him.

An expose of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher ups.

Character study about the lives of some California surfers from the early 1960s to the 1970s as the Vietnam War interrupts their carefree life.

Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual accidentally intrudes on a homosexual party.

A struggling young jazz dancer meets up with two break-dancers. Together they become the sensation of the street crowds.

Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.

An American barroom pianist and his prostitute girlfriend go on a trip through the Mexican underworld to collect the bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

Tired of her dull job as a waitress, Donna decides to join two carnival hustlers and see what life in their field is like.

A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 kilos of confiscated marijuana in one weekend.

In the Deep South, a veteran cockfighter vows to remain silent until one of his birds wins a championship, and gambles with his loves and possessions to make ends meet.