List of cult films: B

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

FilmYearDirectorSource
The Baby 1973 Ted Post [1] [2]
Bachelor Party 1984 Neal Israel [3]
Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis [4]
The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Vincente Minnelli [3]
Bad Boy Bubby 1994 Rolf de Heer [2]
Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges [3] [5]
Bad Santa 2003 Terry Zwigoff [3]
Bad Taste 1987 Peter Jackson [6] [4] [7] [2] [3]
Bad Timing 1980 Nicolas Roeg [2]
Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick [8] [2] [3] [5]
Bagdad Cafe 1987 Percy Adlon [3]
Baise-moi 2000 Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi [6] [4] [2] [3]
Bambi 1942 David Hand [3]
Bananas 1971 Woody Allen [2]
Bande à part (Band of Outsiders)1964 Jean-Luc Godard [9]
Bandit Queen 1994 Shekhar Kapur [3]
Bang the Drum Slowly 1973 John D. Hancock [3]
Barbarella 1968 Roger Vadim [10] [9] [4] [2] [3] [5]
Barfly 1987 Barbet Schroeder [9] [4] [3]
Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick [2] [3]
Barton Fink 1991 The Coen Brothers [9] [5]
Basic Instinct 1992 Paul Verhoeven [4] [3]
Basket Case 1982 Frank Henenlotter [10] [9] [7] [2]
Batbabe: The Dark Nightie 2009 Zachary Snygg [4]
Batman 1966 Leslie H. Martinson [3]
Batman 1989 Tim Burton [4]
Batman & Robin 1997 Joel Schumacher [3]
Battle for Haditha 2007 Nick Broomfield [3]
The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo [3]
The Battle of Brazil 1996 Jack Mathews [4]
The Battle of Britain 1943 Frank Capra [3]
The Battle of China 1944 Frank Capra [3]
The Battle of Russia 1943 Frank Capra [3]
Battle Royale 2000 Kinji Fukasaku [9] [4] [2] [3]
Battlefield Earth 2000 Roger Christian [4] [3]
Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1973 Kinji Fukasaku [3]
Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei Eisenstein [4] [2] [5]
Bay of Angels 1963 Jacques Demy [3]
Be Kind Rewind 2008 Michel Gondry [4] [3]
Beach Party 1963 William Asher [3]
The Beast (also known as La Bête)1975 Walerian Borowczyk [7] [3]
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms 1954 Eugène Lourié [4]
The Beast with Five Fingers 1946 Robert Florey [4]
The Beast Within 1982 Philippe Mora [11]
The Beat That My Heart Skipped 2005 Jacques Audiard [3]
Beat the Devil 1953 John Huston [10] [4]
Beau Brummell 1954 Curtis Bernhardt [3]
Beau Geste 1926 Herbert Brenon [3]
Beau Geste 1939 William A. Wellman [3]
Beau Hunks 1931 James W. Horne [3]
Beau Travail 1999 Claire Denis [3]
Beauty and the Beast 1946 Jean Cocteau [8] [6] [12] [3]
The Bed Sitting Room 1969 Richard Lester [2] [3]
Bedazzled 1967 Stanley Donen [10] [3]
Bedtime for Bonzo 1951 Frederick de Cordova [8] [3]
Bee Season 2005 Scott McGehee and David Siegel [3]
Begotten 1989 E. Elias Merhige [6] [4] [7]
The Beguiled 1971 Don Siegel [2]
Behind the Green Door 1972 Artie Mitchell & Jim Mitchell [8] [6] [4]
Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze [13] [14]
Being There 1979 Hal Ashby [3]
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla 1952 William Beaudine [3]
The Believers 1987 John Schlesinger [4]
Bell, Book and Candle 1958 Richard Quine [3]
Belladonna of Sadness 1973 Eiichi Yamamoto [1]
Belle de Jour 1967 Luis Buñuel [4]
The Belles of St. Trinian's 1954 Frank Launder [3]
Ben 1972 Phil Karlson [11]
Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler [3]
Benny's Video 1992 Michael Haneke [7]
Best in Show 2000 Christopher Guest [2] [3]
The Best Man 1964 Franklin J. Schaffner [3]
The Best of Everything 1959 Jean Negulesco [2]
La Bête (also known as The Beast)1975 Walerian Borowczyk [7]
La Bête Humaine (also known as The Human Beast and Judas Was a Woman)1938 Jean Renoir [3]
Betsy's Wedding 1990 Alan Alda [3]
Better Off Dead 1985 Savage Steve Holland [13]
A Better Tomorrow 1986 John Woo [3] [5]
Betty Blue 1986 Jean-Jacques Beineix [2]
Between Two Worlds (also known as Destiny)1921 Fritz Lang [7]
The Beyond 1981 Lucio Fulci [4]
Beyond the Door 1974 Ovidio G. Assonitis [11]
Beyond the Time Barrier 1960 Edgar G. Ulmer [4]
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 1970 Russ Meyer [8] [6] [9] [1] [14] [4]
The Bible: In the Beginning... 1966 John Huston [3]
Bicycle Thieves 1948 Vittorio De Sica [3]
Big Bad Mama 1974 Roger Corman [3]
The Big Combo 1955 Joseph H. Lewis [2] [3]
The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang [10] [4] [3]
The Big Knife 1955 Robert Aldrich [3]
The Big Lebowski 1998 The Coen Brothers [6] [9] [13] [4] [2] [3]
The Big Silence (also known as The Great Silence)1968 Sergio Corbucci [4] [2] [3]
The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks [4] [3]
Big Trouble in Little China 1986 John Carpenter [2]
Big Wednesday 1978 John Milius [2] [3] [5]
The Bigamist 1953 Ida Lupino [4]
Biggie & Tupac 2002 Nick Broomfield [3]
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey 1991 Peter Hewitt [4] [5]
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure 1989 Stephen Herek [5]
Billy Jack 1971 Tom Laughlin [8]
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula 1966 William Beaudine [3]
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970 Dario Argento [7] [3]
Birdman of Alcatraz 1962 John Frankenheimer [3]
The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock [3]
The Bishop's Wife 1947 Henry Koster [4]
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 1972 Rainer Werner Fassbinder [3]
Black 2005 Sanjay Leela Bhansali [3]
Black Caesar 1973 Larry Cohen [4] [3]
The Black Cat 1934 Edgar G. Ulmer [15] [4]
Black Christmas 1974 Bob Clark [7] [3]
Black Emanuelle 1975Albert Thomas [4]
Black God, White Devil 1964 Glauber Rocha [3]
Black Mama White Mama 1973 Eddie Romero [4]
Black Moon 1975 Louis Malle [14]
Black Narcissus 1947 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger [2] [3]
Black Sheep 2006 Jonathan King [2] [3]
Black Sister's Revenge (also known as Emma Mae)1976 Jamaa Fanaka [1]
Black Sunday 1960 Mario Bava [8] [4] [7] [2] [3]
Blackboard Jungle 1955 Richard Brooks [4] [2] [3]
Blackboards 2000 Samira Makhmalbaf [3]
Blacula 1972 William Crain [4] [11] [3]
Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott [15] [6] [12] [13] [4] [2] [3] [5]
The Blair Witch Project 1999 Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez [4] [2] [3]
The Blancheville Monster 1963 Alberto de Martino [7]
The Blank Generation 1976 Ivan Kral and Amos Poe [4]
Blast of Silence 1961 Allen Baron [3]
Blast! (also known as The Final Comedown)1972 Oscar Williams [4]
Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks [4] [3]
Blessed Event 1932 Roy Del Ruth [3]
Blind Fury 1989 Phillip Noyce [3]
Blithe Spirit 1945 David Lean [3]
The Blob 1958 Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr. [9] [14] [4] [2] [3] [5]
Blonde Ice 1948 Jack Bernhard [3]
Blood (also known as O Sangue)1989 Pedro Costa [3]
Blood Camp Theater (also known as Escape 2000 and Turkey Shoot)1982 Brian Trenchard-Smith [7]
Blood Diamond 2006 Edward Zwick [3]
Blood Feast 1963 Herschell Gordon Lewis [10] [4] [7] [11] [2] [3]
Blood from the Mummy's Tomb 1971 Seth Holt [4]
Blood Money 1933 Rowland Brown [10]
The Blood on Satan's Claw 1971 Piers Haggard [4] [7]
Blood Orgy of the She-Devils 1973 Ted V. Mikels [11]
Blood Simple 1983 The Coen Brothers [4] [2] [3]
The Blood Spattered Bride 1972 Vicente Aranda [4]
Blood Sucking Freaks 1976 Joel M. Reed [3]
Bloody Mama 1970 Roger Corman [2] [3]
Blow Job 1964 Andy Warhol [4]
Blow Out 1981 Brian De Palma [3] [5]
Blowup 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni [9] [2] [5]
The Blue Kite 1993 Tian Zhuangzhuang [3]
The Blue Lamp 1950 Basil Dearden [3]
Blue Steel 1990 Kathryn Bigelow [4]
Blue Sunshine 1977 Jeff Lieberman [6] [4]
Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch [15] [9] [12] [14] [4] [2] [3]
The Blues Brothers 1980 John Landis [9] [13] [4] [3] [5]
Bob le flambeur 1956 Jean-Pierre Melville [3]
Body and Soul 1947 Robert Rossen [3]
Body Heat 1981 Lawrence Kasdan [15] [3]
The Body Snatcher 1945 Robert Wise [7]
Body Snatchers 1993 Abel Ferrara [4]
Bolero 1984 John Derek [4]
Bolt 2008 Chris Williams and Byron Howard [3]
Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn [3]
The Boogey Man 1980 Ulli Lommel [4]
Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson [3]
The Book of Life 1998 Hal Hartley [3]
Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen [2] [3]
Borat 2006 Larry Charles [3]
Born in Flames 1983 Lizzie Borden [1] [4] [3]
Borsalino 1970 Jacques Deray [3]
Bottle Rocket 1996 Wes Anderson [2]
Le Boucher (also known as The Butcher)1970 Claude Chabrol [9]
Bound 1996 The Wachowskis [2]
Bound for Glory 1975 Clément Perron [3]
À bout de souffle (also known as Breathless)1960 Jean-Luc Godard [10] [4] [5]
Bowling for Columbine 2002 Michael Moore [3]
Boxing Helena 1993 Jennifer Chambers Lynch [2]
A Boy and His Dog 1975 L. Q. Jones [10] [3]
The Boy Friend 1971 Ken Russell [3]
The Boy from Mercury 1996 Martin Duffy [3]
Boys Don't Cry 1999 Kimberly Peirce [3]
The Boys from Brazil 1978 Franklin J. Schaffner [16] [3] [5]
The Boys in the Band 1970 William Friedkin [2] [3]
Boyz n the Hood 1991 John Singleton [4]
The Brain Eaters 1958 Bruno VeSota [16]
The Brain from Planet Arous 1957 Nathan H. Juran [16]
Brain of Blood (also known as The Undying Brain)1971 Al Adamson [11]
The Brain That Wouldn't Die 1962Joseph Green [16]
Braindead (also known as Dead Alive)1992 Peter Jackson [9] [4]
The Brainiac 1962Chano Ureata [3]
Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992 Francis Ford Coppola [4] [3]
Brand upon the Brain! 2006 Guy Maddin [14]
Branded to Kill 1967 Seijun Suzuki [14] [4]
The Brave Little Toaster 1987 Jerry Rees [3]
Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam [6] [14] [4] [2] [3]
The Breakfast Club 1985 John Hughes [3]
Breakin' 1984Joel Silberg [2]
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo 1984 Sam Firstenberg [3]
Breaking Away 1979 Peter Yates [3]
Breathless (also known as À bout de souffle)1960 Jean-Luc Godard [10] [2] [5]
The Bribe 1949 Robert Z. Leonard [5]
Brick 2005 Rian Johnson [9] [13] [2]
The Bride 1973Jean-Marie Pélissié [11]
Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale [10] [6] [4] [5]
Bride of the Monster 1955 Ed Wood [16]
The Bride Wore Black 1968 François Truffaut [3]
Brides of Blood 1968 Eddie Romero and Gerardo de Leon [11]
Bridge to Terabithia 2007 Gábor Csupó [3]
Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean [2] [3]
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974 Sam Peckinpah [9] [13] [4] [2] [5]
Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks [4] [2] [3] [5]
Britannia Hospital 1982 Lindsay Anderson [3]
The Brood 1979 David Cronenberg [8] [6] [1] [4] [11] [2] [5]
Brother 1997 Aleksei Balabanov [3]
The Brother from Another Planet 1984 John Sayles [4]
Brothers of the Head 2005Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe [3]
Bubba Ho-Tep 2002 Don Coscarelli [4] [7] [2]
Die Büchse der Pandora (also known as Pandora's Box)1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst [8]
A Bucket of Blood 1959 Roger Corman [4] [2] [3]
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (also called Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein)1948 Charles Barton [3]
The Buddy Holly Story 1978 Steve Rash [3]
Buena Vista Social Club 1999 Wim Wenders [3]
Buffalo '66 1998 Vincent Gallo [9] [3]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1992 Fran Rubel Kuzui [13]
Build My Gallows High (also known as Out of the Past)1947 Jacques Tourneur [8] [9] [4] [5]
A Bullet for the General 1966 Damiano Damiani [4] [2]
Bullitt 1968 Peter Yates [3]
Bunny Lake Is Missing 1965 Otto Preminger [3]
Burden of Dreams 1982 Les Blank [4]
Burlesque 2010 Steve Antin [17]
Burn! 1969 Gillo Pontecorvo [8] [3]
Burnt by the Sun 1994 Nikita Mikhalkov [3]
But I'm A Cheerleader 1999 Jamie Babbit [17]
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill [3]
The Butcher (also known as Le Boucher)1970 Claude Chabrol [9] [3]
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker 1981 William Asher [1]

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