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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
La La Land 2016 Damien Chazelle [1]
El laberinto del fauno (Pan's Labyrinth)2006 Guillermo del Toro [2]
Labyrinth 1986 Jim Henson [3]
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains 1982 Lou Adler [4]
The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges [3]
Lady Frankenstein 1971 Mel Welles [5]
The Lady from Shanghai 1947 Orson Welles [6] [7]
Lady in White 1988 Frank LaLoggia [8]
Lady Terminator 1988 Tjut Djalil [9] [10]
The Ladykillers 1955 Alexander Mackendrick [3]
The Lair Of The White Worm 1988 Ken Russell [11]
Lapis 1966 James Whitney [10]
Lake Placid 1999 Steve Miner [12] [13]
Lamhe 1991 Yash Chopra [14] [15] [16]
Land of the Minotaur 1976 Kostas Karagiannis [5]
Land of the Pharaohs 1955 Howard Hawks [17]
Laserblast 1978Michael Rae [18]
Last Action Hero 1993 John McTiernan [10]
The Last Dragon 1985 Michael Schultz [19]
The Last House on the Left 1972 Wes Craven [10] [3]
The Last Man on Earth 1964 Sidney Salkow and Ubaldo B. Ragona [20]
The Last Movie 1971 Dennis Hopper [3]
The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich [21]
The Last Samurai 2003 Edward Zwick [22]
The Last Seduction 1994 John Dahl [3]
The Last Starfighter 1984 Nick Castle [23]
The Last Sunset 1961 Robert Aldrich [24]
Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci [25] [10]
The Last Unicorn 1982 Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass [26] [27]
The Last Waltz 1978 Martin Scorsese [3]
The Last Wave 1977 Peter Weir [28]
The Last Witch Hunter 2015 Breck Eisner [29]
Last Woman on Earth 1960 Roger Corman [20]
Låt den Rätte Komma in (Let the Right One In)2008 Tomas Alfredson [30] [31]
Lat Sau San Taam (Hard Boiled)1992 John Woo [32]
Laura 1944 Otto Preminger [17]
Laurin 1989 Robert Sigl [17]
The Lawnmower Man 1992 Brett Leonard [33]
The Leather Boys 1964 Sidney J. Furie [34]
The Song Remains the Same 1976 Peter Clifton and Joe Massot [10]
Legend 1985 Ridley Scott [35]
The Legend of Billie Jean 1985 Matthew Robbins [36]
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires 1974 Roy Ward Baker and Chang Cheh [10]
Legend of the Overfiend (also known as Urotsukidōji)1989Hideki Takayama [10]
The Legend of the Wolf Woman (also known as Werewolf Woman)1976 Rino Di Silvestro [5]
Die Legende von Paul und Paula (The Legend of Paul and Paula)1973 Heiner Carow [37] [38] [39]
Leningrad Cowboys Go America 1989 Aki Kaurismäki [40]
Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses 1994 Aki Kaurismäki [40]
Lenny 1974 Bob Fosse [3]
Léon: The Professional 1994 Luc Besson [3]
The Leopard Man 1943 Jacques Tourneur [41] [42]
Leprechaun 1993 Mark Jones [43]
Les Misérables 2012 Tom Hooper [44]
Let Me Die a Woman 1978 Doris Wishman [45]
Let's Get Lost 1988 Bruce Weber [46]
Let's Scare Jessica to Death 1971 John D. Hancock [4]
Lethal Weapon 1987 Richard Donner [47]
Les Lèvres Rouges (Daughters of Darkness)1971 Harry Kümel [48] [49] [50]
The Lickerish Quartet 1970 Radley Metzger [28]
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 2004 Wes Anderson [51]
Life of Brian (also known as Monty Python's Life of Brian)1979 Terry Jones [28] [10]
Life During Wartime 2009 Todd Solondz [10]
Lifeforce 1985 Tobe Hooper [20]
Light Sleeper 1992 Paul Schrader [3]
Lightning Over Water 1980 Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray [10]
De Lift (The Lift)1983 Dick Maas [52] [53]
The Lighthouse 2019 Robert Eggers [54]
The Limey 1999 Steven Soderbergh [3]
Limite 1930 Mário Peixoto [55]
L'Immortel (22 Bullets)2010 Richard Berry [56]
Lionheart 1990 Sheldon Lettich [57]
Liquid Sky 1982 Slava Tsukerman [58] [10] [3]
Lisa and the Devil 1974 Mario Bava [10]
Lisztomania 1975 Ken Russell [59] [60]
Little Darlings 1980 Ronald F. Maxwell [4]
Little Giants 1994 Duwayne Dunham
The Little Prince 1974 Stanley Donen [61]
The Little Shop of Horrors 1960 Roger Corman [17] [62] [3]
Little Shop of Horrors 1986 Frank Oz [63]
The Living Dead Girl (also known as La Morte Vivante)1982 Jean Rollin [64]
The Living End 1992 Gregg Araki [10]
Living in Bondage 1992Chris Obi Rapu [10]
Living in Oblivion 1995 Tom DiCillo [65]
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin 1971 Lucio Fulci [64]
Lo Chiamavano Trinità (They Call Me Trinity)1970 Enzo Barboni [66]
Local Hero 1983 Bill Forsyth [67]
Le Locataire (The Tenant)1976 Roman Polanski [68] [69] [70] [71] [72]
Logan's Run 1976 Michael Anderson [3]
Lola Montès 1955 Max Ophüls [17]
Lola Rennt (Run, Lola, Run)1998 Tom Tykwer [73] [74]
Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick [3]
London After Midnight 1927 Tod Browning [10]
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1962 Tony Richardson [3]
The Long Good Friday 1980 John Mackenzie [3]
The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman [17] [10] [3]
The Long Hair of Death 1964 Antonio Margheriti [3]
The Long Kiss Goodnight 1996 Renny Harlin [3]
The Long Riders 1980 Walter Hill [3]
Long Pigs 2007Chris Power, Nathan Hynes [75]
Long Weekend 1978 Colin Eggleston [76]
Lord Love a Duck 1966 George Axelrod [77]
Lords of Dogtown 2005 Catherine Hardwicke [10]
Lord of Illusions 1995 Clive Barker [78]
Lord of the Flies 1963 Peter Brook [79]
The Lord of the G-Strings: The Femaleship of the String 2003Terry M. West [10]
The Lord of the Rings 1978 Ralph Bakshi [80]
The Lord of the Rings 2001-3 Peter Jackson [9] [10]
The Lost Boys 1987 Joel Schumacher [3]
Lost Continent 1951 Sam Newfield [20] [ dubious discuss ]
Lost Highway 1997 David Lynch [67] [10]
Lost in America 1985 Albert Brooks [81]
Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola [82]
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra 2001 Larry Blamire [62] [64]
The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder [3]
Love and Death 1974 Woody Allen [10]
Love at First Bite 1979 Stan Dragoti [83]
Love Mates (also known as Do You Believe in Angels?)1961 Lars-Magnus Lindgren [84]
Love Me Tender 1956 Robert D. Webb [10]
The Loved Ones 2009 Sean Byrne [85]
Love Jones 1997Theodore Witcher [86]
Love Story 1970 Arthur Hiller [87]
Love Streams 1984 John Cassavetes [62] [3]
The Love Witch 2016 Anna Biller [88]
The Loved One 1965 Tony Richardson [3]
The Loveless 1981 Kathryn Bigelow and Monty Montgomery [3]
Lucifer Rising 1972 Kenneth Anger [10]
Lunacy 2005 Jan Švankmajer [64]
The Lure 2015 Agnieszka Smoczyńska [67]

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