Modern Cult Films (1997-2021)

[claws]

By today's standards, anything older than 25 years is a "classic" as in "old". This rule also applies to cars and music (classic rock). I tried to come up with a list in RC's Cult Film thread but I found it to be impossible to narrow it down. My original list for modern cult films contains 161 movies but I was able to shave off 11. These are movies I've seen and wiki claims are cult films. Feel free to share your faves and make your list as long as you like. Here's mine:

1. Fight Club (1999)
 2. The Matrix (1999)
 3. Memento (2000)
 4. V for Vendetta (2005)
 5. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
 6. Joker (2019)
 7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
 8. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
 9. Snatch (2000)
 10. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
 11. Donnie Darko (2001)
 12. Sin City (2005)
 13. The Big Lebowski (1998)
 14. 300 (2006)
 15. City of God (2002)
 16. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
 17. Shrek (2001)
 18. Drive (2011)
 19. The Notebook (2004)
 20. Zombieland (2009)
 21. Oldboy (2003)
 22. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
 23. Watchmen (2009)
 24. American Psycho (2000)
 25. Zodiac (2007)
 26. Pacific Rim (2013)
 27. Hot Fuzz (2007)
 28. Unbreakable (2000)
 29. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
 30. Saw (2004)
 31. The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
 32. Cloverfield (2008)
 33. The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
 34. The Machinist (2004)
 35. Mean Girls (2004)
 36. The Devil's Advocate (1997)
 37. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
 38. Mulholland Drive (2001)
 39. Pineapple Express (2008)
 40. Being John Malkovich (1999)
 41. Equilibrium (2002)
 42. Con Air (1997)
 43. Starship Troopers (1997)
 44. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
 45. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
 46. Stardust (2007)
 47. Dredd (2012)
 48. Hulk (2003)
 49. Zoolander (2001)
 50. Office Space (1999)
 51. Crank (2006)
 52. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
 53. Scary Movie (2000)
 54. The Fountain (2006)
 55. Pitch Black (2000)
 56. Cube (1997)
 57. Dogma (1999)
 58. Let the Right One In (2008)
 59. The Girl Next Door (2004)
 60. The Descent (2005)
 61. Coraline (2009)
 62. A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
 63. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
 64. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
 65. Machete (2010)
 66. Dark City (1998)
 67. Godzilla (1998)
 68. Grindhouse (2007)
 69. xXx (2002)
 70. Pi (1998)
 71. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
 72. REC (2007)
 73. Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010)
 74. Event Horizon (1997)
 75. Galaxy Quest (1999)
 76. The Waterboy (1998)
 77. Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
 78. From Hell (2001)
 79. The Virgin Suicides (1999)
 80. The Lighthouse (2019)
 81. Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
 82. Spring Breakers (2012)
 83. Dude, Where's My Car? (2000)
 84. Snakes on a Plane (2006)
 85. Lost Highway (1997)
 86. Man on the Moon (1999)
 87. Happy Death Day (2017)
 88. Antichrist (2009)
 89. Jennifer's Body (2009)
 90. Ghost World (2001)
 91. The Faculty (1998)
 92. The Host (2006)
 93. The Fall (2006)
 94. Attack the Block (2011)
 95. Anaconda (1997)
 96. Super Troopers (2001)
 97. Splice (2009)
 98. The Devil's Rejects (2005)
 99. Small Soldiers (1998)
 100. Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
 101. Bone Tomahawk (2015)
 102. A Cure for Wellness (2016)
 103. The Room (2003)
 104. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
 105. Trick 'r Treat (2007)
 106. House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
 107. Slither (2006)
 108. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
 109. The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)
 110. Audition (1999)
 111. Trollhunter (2010)
 112. Unfriended (2014)
 113. Go (1999)
 114. The Wicker Man (2006)
 115. Mandy (2018)
 116. Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)
 117. Mystery Men (1999)
 118. Half Baked (1998)
 119. A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
 120. Lake Placid (1999)
 121. Session 9 (2001)
 122. Night Watch (2004)
 123. The Rules of Attraction (2002)
 124. Sharknado (2013)
 125. Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
 126. Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
 127. Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002)
 128. Ginger Snaps (2000)
 129. Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)
 130. The House of the Devil (2009)
 131. Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
 132. Idle Hands (1999)
 133. The Loved Ones (2009)
 134. Ravenous (1999)
 135. John Dies at the End (2012)
 136. Orgazmo (1997)
 137. Femme Fatale (2002)
 138. May (2002)
 139. Bug (2006)
 140. Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
 141. The Way of the Gun (2000)
 142. Fido (2006)
 143. Black Christmas (2006)
 144. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)
 145. Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010)
 146. The Opposite of Sex (1997)
 147. Blood and Chocolate (2007)
 148. Stuck (2007)
 149. Sint (2010)
 150. The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2001)     

[indianasmith]

You left off SUCKER PUNCH.  I tried to start a cult around that movie!!

[claws]

It wasn't listed in wiki's cult films beginning with the letter "S" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cult_films:_S

[Archivist]

Great list. There are quite a few here that I have yet to see, and this list will make it easier to check those boxes.

[Alex]

I wonder how they define a cult movie for their list?

[Allhallowsday]

By today's standards, anything older than 25 years is a "classic" as in "old". ...

Hardly.  ISHTAR isn't classic.  THE MANITOU ain't no classic.  How old are you?  Turning 30?   

[bob]

1 The Room
2 Birdemic: Shock and Terror
3 Sharknado
4 The Big Lebowski
5 Machette
6 Man on the Moon
7 Office Space
8 Donnie Darko
9 Act of Valor
10 American Psycho
11 American History X
12 Amerros Perros
13 Anchorman
14 Army of Darkess
15 Antichrist
16 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
17 Battle Royal
18 Being John Malkovich
19 Beatlejuice
20 Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
21 Birdman
22 Best in Show
23 Blade Runner 2049
24 Brand upon the Brain!
25 Dead Silence
26 Death to Smootchy
27 Dogma
28 Carlito's Way
29 Cars
30 Con Air
31 Eraserhead
32 Cloverfield
33 The Evil Dead
34 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
35 Evil Dead 2
36 Fight Club
37 Finding Forrester
38 From Hell
39 Hobo With a Shotgun
40 In Bruges
41 Jacob's Ladder
42 John Wick
43 Jerry Maguire
44 A Knight's Tale
45 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
46 Kingsman: The Secret Service
47 Kill Bill Volume 1
48 Grindhouse
49 Kill Bill Volume 2
50 Dredd
51 Law Abiding Citizen
52 Mad Max: Fury Road
53 Mulholland Drive
54 The Matrix
55 Memento
56 Oldboy
57 Puppet Master
58 Punch Drunk Love
59 Requiem For a Dream
60 Rushmore
61 The Royal Tenanbaums
62 Saw
63 Scary Movie
64 Team America: World Police
65 V For Vendetta
66 The Waterboy
67 Zodiac
68 Zombieland

[Allhallowsday]

THE FAVOURITE (2018)  Have you seen it?  Recommended to those not easily offended.  And funny!  Most of all, grotesque. 

UP (2009) If that is not a cult film, I'd be stunned.  Unless of course, everybody loves it as much as me. 

KILL BILL VOL. 1 (2003)

KILL BILL VOL. 2 (2004)  Loads of comic book violence and joys in both; culminating in the coolest trailer trash ninja moment in all cinema.  These were designed to be cult films, loaded with offensive moments you can't help but laugh at. 

[RCMerchant]

I liked I SAW THE DEVIL (2010).
Does that count?
Because I love that movie!

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[RCMerchant]

ICHI THE KILLER (2001)

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[Rev. Powell]

These are just ones I like, and I don't know for sure if wiki lists them as cult films. Most of them are marked such in the IMDB. A few are new but I feel they have a pretty strong case for being embraced as cult films. It was hard, but I cut it down to 100 movies.

1.   The Fifth Element (1997)
2.   Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
3.   Millennium Actress (2001)
4.   Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
5.   Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
6.   Spirited Away (2001)
7.   Six-String Samurai (1998)
8.   The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
9.   After Last Season (2009)
10.   Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
11.   Big Man Japan (2007)
12.   It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
13.   No Smoking (2007)
14.   Sita Sings the Blues (2008)
15.   A Town Called Panic (2009)
16.   Audition (1999)
17.   Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
18.   Battle Royale (2001)
19.   Being John Malkovich (1999)
20.   The Big Lebowski (1998)
21.   Bubba Ho-tep (2002)
22.   Cube (1997)
23.   Dark City (1998)
24.   Donnie Darko (2001)
25.   Enter the Void (2009)
26.   Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
27.   Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
28.   Fight Club (1999)
29.   Ink (2009)
30.   INLAND EMPIRE (2006)
31.   Jackie Brown (1997)
32.   Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
33.   Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
34.   Little Otik (2000)
35.   Mandy (2018)
36.   Memento (2000)
37.   Oldboy (2003)
38.   Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
39.   Paprika (2006)
40.   Pi (1998)
41.   The Room (2003)
42.   Shaun of the Dead (2004)
43.   Sin City (2005)
44.   Survive Style 5+ (2004)
45.   Synecdoche, New York (2008)
46.   Waking Life (2001)
47.   The American Astronaut (2001)
48.   Antichrist (2009)
49.   Black Swan (2010)
50.   Blade Runner 2045 (2017)
51.   The Blair Witch Project (1999)
52.   Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
53.   Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)
54.   Bronson (2008)
55.   Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)
56.   The Butcher Boy (1997)
57.   The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
58.   Cowards Bend the Knee, or, the Blue Hands (2003)
59.   Dead Leaves (2004)
60.   Dogville (2003)
61.   Elevator Movie (2004)
62.   Enemy (2013)
63.   Escape from Tomorrow (2013)
64.   Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
65.   A Field in England (2013)
66.   The Forbidden Room (2015)
67.   Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
68.   Grosse Point Blank (1997)
69.   Happiness (1998)
70.   Inherent Vice (2014)
71.   Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway (2019)
72.   John Dies at the End (2012)
73.   Let the Corpses Tan (2017)
74.   The Lobster (2015)
75.   The Love Witch (2016)
76.   Mind Game (2004)
77.   mother! (2017)
78.   Mr. Nobody (2009)
79.   My Winnipeg (2007)
80.   Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
81.   Perfect Blue (1997)
82.   Reflections of Evil (2002)
83.   Rubber (2010)
84.   Run Lola Run (1998)
85.   Rushmore (1997)
86.   A Scanner Darkly (2006)
87.   Shakespeare's Sh*tstorm (2020)
88.   Silent Hill (2006)
89.   Skins (2017)
90.   Sorry to Bother You (2018)
91.   Spring Breakers (2012)
92.   Swiss Army Man (2016)
93.   Taxidermia (2006)
94.   Tideland (2005)
95.   Titus (1999)
96.   Tokyo Gore Police (2008)
97.   The Twentieth Century (2019)
98.   Under the Silver Lake (2018)
99.   Under the Skin (2013)
100.   What We Do in the Shadows (2014)