List of cult films: C

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

FilmYearDirectorSource
Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse [1]
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1919 Robert Wiene [2] [3] [4] [1]
The Cable Guy 1996 Ben Stiller [5]
Caché 2005 Michael Haneke [4]
Café Flesh 1982 Stephen Sayadian [2] [6] [3]
La Cage aux Folles 1978 Édouard Molinaro [7] [3] [1]
Caged Heat 1974 Jonathan Demme [7] [3] [1]
Calendar 1993 Atom Egoyan [1]
Caliber 9 1972 Fernando Di Leo [1]
California Split 1974 Robert Altman [8]
Caligula 1979 Tinto Brass [3]
Calvaire 2005 Fabrice Du Welz [9]
Camille 1936 George Cukor [1]
Can't Stop the Music 1980 Nancy Walker [1]
The Candidate 1972 Michael Ritchie [1]
Candy Mountain 1987 Robert Frank and Rudy Wurlitzer [1]
Cannibal Ferox 1981 Umberto Lenzi [3] [4]
Cannibal Girls 1973 Ivan Reitman [3]
Cannibal Holocaust 1980 Ruggero Deodato [6] [3] [9] [1]
The Cannibal Man 1972 Eloy de la Iglesia [3]
Cannibal! The Musical 1993 Trey Parker [5] [3] [1]
The Cannonball Run 1981 Hal Needham [4]
Cape Fear 1962 J. Lee Thompson [4] [1]
Capricorn One 1978 Peter Hyams [1]
Captain Blood 1935 Michael Curtiz [3]
Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter 1974 Brian Clemens [1]
Captivity 2007 Roland Joffé [1]
Capturing the Friedmans 2003 Andrew Jarecki [4] [1]
Carandiru 2003 Héctor Babenco [1]
Caravaggio 1986 Derek Jarman [1]
Carnal Knowledge 1971 Mike Nichols [4]
Carnival of Souls 1962 Herk Harvey [5] [10] [3] [4] [1]
Carny 1980Robert Kaylor [4]
Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma [3] [1]
Carry On Cleo 1964 Gerald Thomas [8]
Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (also known as Don't Lose Your Head)1967 Gerald Thomas [1]
Carry On Follow That Camel (also known as Follow That Camel)1967 Gerald Thomas [1]
Carry On Up the Khyber (also known as Up the Khyber)1968 Gerald Thomas [1]
The Cars That Ate Paris 1974 Peter Weir [1]
Cartouche 1962 Philippe de Broca [1]
Casa de los babys 2003 John Sayles [1]
Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz [7] [6] [3] [8]
The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn 1956Joseph Sterling [1]
Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese [1]
Casino Royale 1967Multiple [4]
Casino Royale 2006 Martin Campbell [1]
The Castle 1997 Rob Sitch [1]
Castle in the Sky 1986 Hayao Miyazaki [1]
Cat Ballou 1965 Elliot Silverstein [4]
Cat City 1986Béla Ternovszky [1]
The Cat Concerto 1947 William Hanna and Joseph Barbera [1]
Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur [10] [3] [1]
Cat-Women of the Moon 1953 Arthur Hilton [11]
Catch My Soul (also known as Santa Fe Satan)1974 Patrick McGoohan [3]
Catch-22 1970 Mike Nichols [1]
Catwoman 2004 Pitof [3] [1]
Cecil B. Demented 2000 John Waters [1]
The Celebration 1998 Thomas Vinterberg [4] [1]
The Cell 2000 Tarsem Singh [12]
The Celluloid Closet 1996 Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman [1]
Cemetery Man 1994 Michele Soavi [4]
Chafed Elbows 1966 Robert Downey Sr. [3]
Chained Heat 1983Paul Nicholas [1]
Chainsaw Sally 2004 Jimmyo Burril [3]
Chameli Ki Shaadi 1986 Basu Chatterjee [13]
Un chant d'amour 1954 Jean Genet [3]
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith 1978 Fred Schepisi [1]
Charley Varrick 1973 Don Siegel [1]
Charlie Chan at the Opera 1936 H. Bruce Humberstone [1]
Chashme Buddoor 1981 Sai Paranjpye [13]
Chelsea Girls 1966 Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey [14] [3]
The Chess Player 1927 Raymond Bernard [1]
Chicken Run 2000 Peter Lord and Nick Park [1]
Chicks in White Satin 1993Elaine Holliman [1]
Un Chien Andalou 1929 Luis Buñuel [6] [15] [3] [8]
Child's Play 1988 Tom Holland [4]
Child's Play 3 1991 Jack Bender [3] [1]
Children of Men 2006 Alfonso Cuarón [1]
Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné [16] [1]
The Children's Hour 1961 William Wyler [1]
Chilly Scenes of Winter 1979 Joan Micklin Silver [2]
Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski [1]
A Chinese Ghost Story 1987 Ching Siu-Tung [3] [1]
Chinese Opium Den 1894 Thomas Edison [3]
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1968 Ken Hughes [1]
Chloe 2009 Atom Egoyan [1]
Choose Me 1984 Alan Rudolph [2]
Chopper 2000 Andrew Dominik [4] [1]
A Chorus Line 1985 Richard Attenborough [1]
Christiane F. 1981 Uli Edel [3] [4]
Christine 1983 John Carpenter [1]
Christmas on Mars 2008 Wayne Coyne [3]
A Christmas Story 1983 Bob Clark [4]
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach 1968 Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet [1]
Chungking Express 1994 Wong Kar-wai [1]
Chūshingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki (also known as 47 Ronin)1962 Hiroshi Inagaki [1]
Ciao! Manhattan 1972John Palmer and David Weisman [3]
The Cincinnati Kid 1965 Norman Jewison [1]
Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore [1]
Cinemania 2002Angela Christlieb and Stephen Kijak [1]
The Circus 1928 Charlie Chaplin [1]
Circus of Horrors 1960 Sidney Hayers [1]
Cisco Pike 1972 Bill L. Norton [4]
La Cité des enfants perdus (also known as The City of Lost Children)1995 Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro [14]
Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles [7] [3] [1]
City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund [1]
The City of Lost Children (also known as La Cité des enfants perdus)1995 Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro [14] [1]
City of Men 2007Paulo Morelli [1]
City of the Living Dead 1980 Lucio Fulci [3]
City on Fire 1987 Ringo Lam [3]
Civilization 1916 Reginald Barker, Thomas H. Ince, and Raymond B. West [1]
Clash of the Titans 1981 Desmond Davis [4]
Clean, Shaven 1993 Lodge Kerrigan [1]
Clerk 1989Manoj Kumar [13]
Clerks 1994 Kevin Smith [14] [5] [4] [1]
Clockers 1995 Spike Lee [3]
The Clockmaker (also known as The Watchmaker of St. Paul)1974 Bertrand Tavernier [1]
A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick [16] [5] [17] [3] [4] [1] [8]
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg [3] [1]
Close-Up 1990 Abbas Kiarostami [1]
Closely Watched Trains 1966 Jiří Menzel [1]
Cloverfield 2008 Matt Reeves [1]
The Clowns (also known as I clowns)1970 Federico Fellini [1]
The Club 1980 Bruce Beresford [1]
Clue 1985 Jonathan Lynn [5]
Clueless 1995 Amy Heckerling [1]
Cobra Verde 1987 Werner Herzog [1]
Cobra Woman 1944 Robert Siodmak [3]
Cockfighter 1974 Monte Hellman [4] [1]
Cocksucker Blues 1972 Robert Frank [1]
Coffy 1973 Jack Hill [6] [3] [1]
Cold Fever 1995 Friðrik Þór Friðriksson [1]
The Collector 1965 William Wyler [1]
College 1927 James W. Horne and Buster Keaton [3]
The Color of Pomegranates 1969 Sergei Parajanov [1]
Colossus: The Forbin Project 1970 Joseph Sargent [1]
Com Licença, Eu Vou à Luta 1986 Lui Farias [1]
Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov [4] [1]
Commando 1985 Mark L. Lester [5]
The Company of Wolves 1984 Neil Jordan [8]
Conan the Barbarian 1982 John Milius [3] [4] [1]
Coneheads 1993 Steve Barron [1]
Confessions of a Cheat (also known as Le Roman d'un tricheur and The Story of a Cheat)1936 Sacha Guitry [8]
The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci [1]
The Connection 1961 Shirley Clarke [3]
The Conqueror Worm (also known as Witchfinder General)1968 Michael Reeves [7] [6] [3] [4] [1] [8]
The Consequences of Love 2004 Paolo Sorrentino [1]
Contempt 1963 Jean-Luc Godard [4]
Content 2010 Chris Petit [1]
Control 2007 Anton Corbijn [3] [1]
The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola [4] [1]
Coogan's Bluff 1968 Don Siegel [4]
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover 1989 Peter Greenaway [3] [4] [1] [8]
The Cool and the Crazy 1958 William Witney [3]
Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg [1]
Cool Runnings 1993 Jon Turteltaub [1]
Cool World 1992 Ralph Bakshi [1]
Coonskin 1975 Ralph Bakshi [1]
Le Corbeau 1943 Henri-Georges Clouzot [1]
The Corpse Grinders 1971 Ted V. Mikels [18] [1]
Cosh Boy (also known as The Slasher)1953 Lewis Gilbert [1]
The Cottage 2008 Paul Andrew Williams [1]
The Cotton Club 1984 Francis Ford Coppola [1]
Count Dracula's Great Love 1973 Javier Aguirre [18]
Countess Dracula 1971 Peter Sasdy [4]
Coup de Torchon (also known as Clean Slate)1981 Bertrand Tavernier [1]
The Court Jester 1955 Melvin Frank and Norman Panama [1]
The Cove 2009 Louie Psihoyos [1]
The Craft 1996 Andrew Fleming [12] [4]
The Cranes Are Flying 1957 Mikhail Kalatozov [1]
Crank 2006 Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor [5]
Crash 1996 David Cronenberg [14] [10] [3] [1]
The Crawling Hand 1963 Herbert L. Strock [11]
Craze 1974 Freddie Francis [18]
The Crazies 1973 George A. Romero [18]
The Creator's Game 1999 Bruce Troxell [1]
Creature from the Black Lagoon 1954 Jack Arnold [1]
Creature of the Walking Dead 1965 Jerry Warren [18]
The Creeping Unknown (also known as The Quatermass Xperiment)1955 Val Guest [4]
The Cremator 1969 Juraj Herz [9] [1]
The Crime of Monsieur Lange 1936 Jean Renoir [1]
Crimewave 1985 Sam Raimi [4]
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz 1955 Luis Buñuel [1]
The Crimson Pirate 1952 Robert Siodmak [1]
Cronos 1993 Guillermo del Toro [10] [4]
Cross of Iron 1977 Sam Peckinpah [1]
Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul 2005 Fatih Akın [1]
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Ang Lee [1]
Croupier 1998 Mike Hodges [1]
The Crow 1994 Alex Proyas [1]
Crumb 1994 Terry Zwigoff [10] [4] [1]
Cry of the Banshee 1970 Gordon Hessler [3]
Cry-Baby 1990 John Waters [3] [1]
Cube 1997 Vincenzo Natali [3] [4]
Cul-de-sac 1966 Roman Polanski [4] [8]
Cure 1997 Kiyoshi Kurosawa [3]
The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 Terence Fisher [9] [1]
Curse of the Devil (also known as El Retorno de Walpurgis and The Return of Walpurgis)1973Carlos Aured [18]
Cutter's Way 1981 Ivan Passer [16] [4] [1] [8]
Cutthroat Island 1995 Renny Harlin [3]

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