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

FilmYearDirectorSource
Labyrinth 1986 Jim Henson [1] [2]
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains 1982 Lou Adler [3]
Lady Chatterley 2006 Pascale Ferran [2]
The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges [1] [2]
Lady Frankenstein 1971 Mel Welles [4]
The Lady from Shanghai 1947 Orson Welles [2]
The Lady Gambles 1949 Michael Gordon [2]
Lady in the Lake 1946 Robert Montgomery [2]
Lady Snowblood 1973 Toshiya Fujita [2]
Lady Terminator 1988 Tjut Djalil [5] [6]
The Ladykillers 1955 Alexander Mackendrick [1]
Lagaan 2001 Ashutosh Gowariker [2]
Lapis 1966 James Whitney [6]
Land of the Dead 2005 George A. Romero [2]
Land of the Minotaur 1976 Kostas Karagiannis [4]
Land of the Pharaohs 1955 Howard Hawks [7] [2]
Lantana 2001 Ray Lawrence [2]
Lassie Come Home 1943 Fred M. Wilcox [2]
Last Action Hero 1993 John McTiernan [6]
The Last Dragon 1985 Michael Schultz [8]
The Last House on the Left 1972 Wes Craven [6] [1]
The Last Man on Earth 1964 Sidney Salkow and Ubaldo B. Ragona [9]
The Last Mitterrand 2005 Robert Guédiguian [2]
The Last Movie 1971 Dennis Hopper [1]
The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich [2]
The Last Seduction 1994 John Dahl [1] [2]
Last Summer 1969 Frank Perry [2]
Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci [10] [6] [2]
The Last Unicorn 1982 Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass [2]
The Last Waltz 1978 Martin Scorsese [1]
The Last Wave 1977 Peter Weir [11]
Last Woman on Earth 1960 Roger Corman [9]
Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais [2] [12]
Late Marriage 2001 Dover Kosashvili [2]
Laura 1944 Otto Preminger [7] [2] [12]
Laurin 1989 Robert Sigl [7]
Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean [2] [12]
The Leather Boys 1964 Sidney J. Furie [2]
Leave Her to Heaven 1945 John M. Stahl [2]
Leaving Las Vegas 1995 Mike Figgis [2]
The Song Remains the Same 1976 Peter Clifton and Joe Massot [6]
Legend 1985 Ridley Scott [2]
Legend of a Fighter 1982 Yuen Woo-ping [2]
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires 1974 Roy Ward Baker and Chang Cheh [6]
Legend of the Overfiend (also known as Urotsukidōji)1989Hideki Takayama [6]
The Legend of the Wolf Woman (also known as Werewolf Woman)1976 Rino Di Silvestro [4]
Legionnaire 1998 Peter MacDonald [2]
Lemonade Joe 1964 Oldřich Lipský [2]
Leningrad Cowboys Go America 1989 Aki Kaurismäki [2]
Lenny 1974 Bob Fosse [1]
Léon: The Professional 1994 Luc Besson [1]
The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti [2]
Let Me Die a Woman 1978 Doris Wishman [2]
Let the Right One In 2008 Tomas Alfredson [2]
Let's Get Lost 1988 Bruce Weber [2]
Let's Scare Jessica to Death 1971 John D. Hancock [3]
Liane, Jungle Goddess 1956 Eduard von Borsody [2]
The Lickerish Quartet 1970 Radley Metzger [11]
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger [2]
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter 1980 Connie Field [2]
Life of Brian (also known as Monty Python's Life of Brian)1979 Terry Jones [11] [6] [2]
The Life of Jesus (also known as La Vie de Jésus)1997 Bruno Dumont [2]
Life During Wartime 2009 Todd Solondz [6]
Lifeforce 1985 Tobe Hooper [9]
Light Sleeper 1992 Paul Schrader [1]
Lightning Over Water 1980 Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray [6]
Lili 1953 Charles Walters [2]
Lilith 1964 Robert Rossen [2]
Lilya 4-ever 2002 Lukas Moodysson [2]
The Limey 1999 Steven Soderbergh [1]
The Lion in Winter 1968 Anthony Harvey [2]
Liquid Sky 1982 Slava Tsukerman [13] [6] [1] [2]
Lisa and the Devil 1974 Mario Bava [6]
Lisztomania 1975 Ken Russell [2]
Little Big Man 1970 Arthur Penn [2]
Little Darlings 1980 Ronald F. Maxwell [3]
The Little Princess 1939 Walter Lang [2]
The Little Shop of Horrors 1960 Roger Corman [7] [14] [1]
Little Shop of Horrors 1986 Frank Oz [2]
Little Women 1994 Gillian Armstrong [2]
Live and Let Die 1973 Guy Hamilton [2]
The Lives of Others 2006 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck [2]
The Living Dead Girl (also known as La Morte Vivante)1982 Jean Rollin [15]
The Living End 1992 Gregg Araki [6]
Living in Bondage 1992Chris Obi Rapu [6]
Living in Oblivion 1995 Tom DiCillo [2]
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin 1971 Lucio Fulci [15]
Local Hero 1983 Bill Forsyth [16]
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 1998 Guy Ritchie [2]
The Locket 1946 John Brahm [2]
Logan's Run 1976 Michael Anderson [1] [2]
Lola Montès 1955 Max Ophüls [7] [2]
Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick [1] [2]
London After Midnight 1927 Tod Browning [6]
London to Brighton 2006 Paul Andrew Williams [2]
Lone Star 1996 John Sayles [2]
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx 1972 Kenji Misumi [2]
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1962 Tony Richardson [1]
Lonely Are the Brave 1962 David Miller [2]
The Long Good Friday 1980 John Mackenzie [1]
The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman [7] [6] [1] [2]
The Long Hair of Death 1964 Antonio Margheriti [1]
The Long Kiss Goodnight 1996 Renny Harlin [1]
The Long Riders 1980 Walter Hill [1]
The Long Walk Home 1990 Richard Pearce [2]
The Longest Yard 1974 Robert Aldrich [2]
Lords of Dogtown 2005 Catherine Hardwicke [6]
The Lord of the G-Strings: The Femaleship of the String 2003Terry M. West [6]
The Lord of the Rings 1978 Ralph Bakshi [2]
The Lord of the Rings 2001-3 Peter Jackson [5] [6] [2]
The Lost Boys 1987 Joel Schumacher [1]
Lost Continent 1951 Sam Newfield [9] [ dubious discuss ]
Lost Highway 1997 David Lynch [16] [6]
Lost Horizon 1937 Frank Capra [2]
Lost in La Mancha 2002Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe [2]
Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola [2]
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra 2001 Larry Blamire [14] [15]
The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder [1] [2]
Love and Death 1974 Woody Allen [6]
Love Finds Andy Hardy 1938 George B. Seitz [2]
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon 1998 John Maybury [2]
Love Mates (also known as Do You Believe in Angels?)1961 Lars-Magnus Lindgren [2]
Love Me Tender 1956 Robert D. Webb [6]
Love Streams 1984 John Cassavetes [14] [1]
The Loved One 1965 Tony Richardson [1]
The Loveless 1981 Kathryn Bigelow and Monty Montgomery [1] [2]
Lucifer Rising 1972 Kenneth Anger [6]
Lucky Number Slevin 2006 Paul McGuigan [2]
Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King 1972 Hans-Jürgen Syberberg [2]
Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro 1979 Hayao Miyazaki [2]
Lunacy 2005 Jan Švankmajer [15]
The Lure 2015 Agnieszka Smoczyńska [16]
Lust, Caution 2007 Ang Lee [2]

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