List of cult films: P

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

FilmYearDirectorSource
Pale Flower 1964 Masahiro Shinoda [1]
Palindromes 2004 Todd Solondz [2]
Pan's Labyrinth 2006 Guillermo del Toro [3] [1]
Panda and the Magic Serpent (also known as The Great White Snake Enchantress and The Tale of the White Serpent)1958Taiji Yabushita [1]
Pandora's Box (also known as Die Büchse der Pandora)1929 G. W. Pabst [4] [2] [1] [5]
The Panic in Needle Park 1971 Jerry Schatzberg [2] [1]
Panic in the Streets 1950 Elia Kazan [3]
Panic in Year Zero! 1962 Ray Milland [1]
Pantyhose Hero 1990 Sammo Hung [1]
Paperhouse 1988 Bernard Rose [1]
Papillon 1973 Franklin J. Schaffner [1]
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills 1996 Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky [1]
The Parallax View 1974 Alan J. Pakula [6] [3] [1]
Paranormal Activity 2007 Oren Peli [2]
Parents 1989 Bob Balaban [1]
Paris Blues 1961 Martin Ritt [1]
Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders [3] [1]
The Passenger 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni [1]
The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer [2]
The Passion of the Christ 2004 Mel Gibson [2]
Passport to Pimlico 1949 Henry Cornelius [1]
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973 Sam Peckinpah [3] [1]
Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray [1]
Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick [1]
Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell [4] [7] [2] [3] [1] [5]
Pee-wee's Big Adventure 1985 Tim Burton [8]
Peggy Sue Got Married 1986 Francis Ford Coppola [2]
Penny Serenade 1941 George Stevens [1]
Perfect 1985 James Bridges [1]
Perfect Blue 1997 Satoshi Kon [1]
Performance 1970 Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg [4] [9] [10] [2] [3] [1] [5]
Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman [9]
Personal Best 1982 Robert Towne [2] [1]
Le petit amour (also known as Kung Fu Master)1988 Agnès Varda [2]
Pete Kelly's Blues 1955 Jack Webb [1]
Petulia 1968 Richard Lester [4] [1]
Phantasm 1979 Don Coscarelli [8] [11]
The Phantom Carriage 1921 Victor Sjöström [12]
The Phantom Empire 1935 Otto Brower and B. Reeves Eason [1]
Phantom from Space 1953 W. Lee Wilder [13]
The Phantom of the Opera 1925 Rupert Julian [14] [2] [12]
Phantom of the Paradise 1974 Brian De Palma [6] [9] [8] [3]
The Phantom Planet 1961 William Marshall [11]
The Phantom Tollbooth 1970 Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow, Dave Monahan [1]
The Phenix City Story 1955 Phil Karlson [3]
Pi 1998 Darren Aronofsky [8] [3] [1]
The Piano 1993 Jane Campion [1]
Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson [1]
Pickup on South Street 1953 Samuel Fuller [1]
Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 Peter Weir [6] [1]
Pigsty (also known as Porcile)1969 Pier Paolo Pasolini [2]
"Pimpernel" Smith 1941 Leslie Howard [5]
Pink Flamingos 1972 John Waters [4] [15] [9] [8] [7] [2] [3] [1]
Pink Floyd – The Wall 1982 Alan Parker [2]
Piranha 1978 Joe Dante [15] [2] [11] [3]
The Pirate 1948 Vincente Minnelli [2]
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 2007 Gore Verbinski [2]
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003 Gore Verbinski [2]
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 2006 Gore Verbinski [2]
The Pit 1981Lew Lehman [13]
Plan 9 from Outer Space 1959 Ed Wood [4] [15] [9] [8] [2] [12] [13] [3] [1] [5]
Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner [2] [3] [1]
Planet of the Vampires 1965 Mario Bava [11]
La Planète sauvage (also known as Fantastic Planet)1973 René Laloux [7] [2] [11]
Planet Terror 2007 Robert Rodriguez [2]
Play It Again, Sam 1972 Herbert Ross [2]
Play Misty for Me 1971 Clint Eastwood [3] [1]
The Player 1992 Robert Altman [1]
The Playhouse 1921 Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline [1]
Playing the Field (also known as L'arbitro)1974 Luigi Filippo D'Amico [1]
Pleasantville 1998 Gary Ross [1]
The Pledge 2001 Sean Penn [1]
Point Blank 1967 John Boorman [3] [1] [5]
Point Break 1991 Kathryn Bigelow [8] [2] [1]
Poison 1991 Todd Haynes [2]
Police 1985 Maurice Pialat [1]
Police Academy 1984 Hugh Wilson [16]
Poltergeist 1982 Tobe Hooper [1]
Polyester 1981 John Waters [17] [3]
Pootie Tang 2001 Louis C.K. [8]
Porcile (also known as Pigsty)1969 Pier Paolo Pasolini [2]
Porco Rosso 1992 Hayao Miyazaki [1]
Porgy and Bess 1959 Otto Preminger [1]
The Pornographer 2001 Bertrand Bonello [1]
Portrait of Jason 1967 Shirley Clarke [1]
The Poseidon Adventure 1972 Ronald Neame [1]
Possession 1981 Andrzej Żuławski [17] [12]
The Possession of Virginia (also known as Le diable est parmi nous and Satan's Sabbath)1972 Jean Beaudin [2]
The Postman 1997 Kevin Costner [1]
The Postman Always Rings Twice 1981 Bob Rafelson [3] [1]
Il Posto 1961 Ermanno Olmi [1]
A Prairie Home Companion 2006 Robert Altman [1]
Precious 2009 Lee Daniels [1]
Prelude to War 1942 Frank Capra [1]
The President's Analyst 1967 Theodore J. Flicker [1]
The Prestige 2006 Christopher Nolan [1]
Pretty Baby 1978 Louis Malle [6] [1]
Pretty Poison 1968 Noel Black [4]
The Price of Power 1969 Tonino Valerii [1]
Primate 1974 Frederick Wiseman [1]
Primer 2004 Shane Carruth [2] [3] [1]
Primitive London 1965 Arnold L. Miller [2]
Prince of Darkness 1987 John Carpenter [2]
The Prince of Tides 1991 Barbra Streisand [1]
The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner [9] [7] [1]
Princess Mononoke 1997 Hayao Miyazaki [2] [3] [1]
The Prisoner of Zenda 1937 John Cromwell [1]
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 1970 Billy Wilder [1]
The Private Lives of Adam and Eve 1960 Mickey Rooney and Albert Zugsmith [1]
Prizzi's Honor 1985 John Huston [1]
The Producers 1967 Mel Brooks [4] [2] [3] [1] [5]
Prophecy 1979 John Frankenheimer [2]
A Prophet 2009 Jacques Audiard [1]
Prospero's Books 1991 Peter Greenaway [3]
The Prowler 1981 Joseph Zito [3]
Predator 1987 John McTiernan [2]
Psych-Out 1968 Richard Rush [2]
Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock [18] [14] [2] [1]
Psycho Beach Party 2000 Robert Lee King [1]
Psychomania 1973 Don Sharp [2] [3]
Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino [8] [2] [1]
Punisher: War Zone 2008 Lexi Alexander [8]
Punishment Park 1971 Peter Watkins [2]
Purana Mandir 1984 Tulsi Ramsay and Shyam Ramsay [19]
Purple Noon 1960 René Clément [1]
Pursued 1947 Raoul Walsh [1]
Putney Swope 1969 Robert Downey, Sr. [8]
Pygmalion 1938 Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard [1]
The Pyramid 1976 Gary Kent [17]

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