List of cult films: W

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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 Wackness 2008 Jonathan Levine [1]
The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot [1]
Waiting for Guffman 1996 Christopher Guest [2]
Waitress 2007 Adrienne Shelly [1]
Wake Up and Dream 1934 Kurt Neumann [1]
Walden (also known as Diaries, Notes, and Sketches)1968 Jonas Mekas [1]
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 2007 Jake Kasdan [2]
Walk on the Wild Side 1962 Edward Dmytryk [3]
Walkabout 1971 Nicolas Roeg [1]
WALL-E 2008 Andrew Stanton [1]
Waltz with Bashir 2008 Ari Folman [1]
Wanda 1970 Barbara Loden [1]
Wanda, the Sadistic Hypnotist (also known as The Sadistic Hypnotist)1969 Greg Corarito [4]
The Wanderers 1979 Philip Kaufman [5]
The Wannsee Conference 1984 Heinz Schirk [1]
War and Peace 1967 Sergei Bondarchuk [1]
War Comes to America 1945 Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak [1]
The War Game 1966 Peter Watkins [4] [1]
War Hunt 1962 Denis Sanders [1]
The War Is Over 1966 Alain Resnais [1]
War of the Colossal Beast 1958 Bert I. Gordon [6]
The War of the Worlds 1953 Byron Haskin [4] [1]
Warning Sign 1985 Hal Barwood [6]
The Warriors 1979 Walter Hill [7] [8] [9] [2] [4] [3]
The Wasp Woman 1959 Roger Corman [6]
The Watchmaker of St. Paul (also known as The Clockmaker)1974 Bertrand Tavernier [1]
Watchmen 2009 Zack Snyder [1]
Waterloo Bridge 1940 Mervyn LeRoy [1]
Waterworld 1995 Kevin Reynolds [4] [1]
Wavelength 1967 Michael Snow [1]
The Way We Were 1973 Sydney Pollack [1]
The Wayward Cloud 2005 Tsai Ming-liang [1]
We Can't Go Home Again 1973 Nicholas Ray [4]
The Wedding Singer 1998 Frank Coraci [1]
Wednesday's Child (also known as Family Life)1971 Ken Loach [1]
Weekend 1967 Jean-Luc Godard [4] [3]
Welcome Home Brother Charles (also known as Soul Vengeance)1975 Jamaa Fanaka [8] [4]
Welcome to the Dollhouse 1995 Todd Solondz [4] [3]
Went the Day Well? 1942 Alberto Cavalcanti [1]
Werewolf of London 1935 Stuart Walker [10]
The Werewolf of Washington 1973 Milton Moses Ginsberg [11]
Werewolf Woman (also known as The Legend of the Wolf Woman)1976 Rino Di Silvestro [11]
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (also known as New Nightmare)1994 Wes Craven [4]
Westworld 1973 Michael Crichton [6] [3] [1]
Wet Hot American Summer 2001 David Wain [12] [2]
What a Carve Up! 1961 Pat Jackson [1]
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? 1969 Lee H. Katzin [3]
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich [4] [1]
What's New Pussycat? 1965 Clive Donner [1]
What's Opera, Doc? 1957 Chuck Jones [1]
What's Up, Doc? 1972 Peter Bogdanovich [1]
What's Up, Tiger Lily? 1966 Woody Allen and Senkichi Taniguchi [3] [1]
When Harry Met Sally... 1989 Rob Reiner [4]
When We Were Kings 1996 Leon Gast [3]
When Night Is Falling 1995 Patricia Rozema [4]
When Strangers Marry 1944 William Castle [1]
When the Clouds Roll By 1919 Victor Fleming [1]
When Time Ran Out 1980 James Goldstone [1]
When We Were Kings 1996 Leon Gast [1]
Where Eagles Dare 1968 Brian G. Hutton [1]
Where's Poppa? 1970 Carl Reiner [7]
Whisky Galore! 1949 Alexander Mackendrick [1]
White Dog 1982 Samuel Fuller [1]
White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh [13] [1] [5]
White Palace 1990 Luis Mandoki [1]
The White Ribbon 2009 Michael Haneke [1]
The White Snake Enchantress (also known as Panda and the Magic Serpent, The Great White Snake, and The Tale of the White Serpent)1958Taiji Yabushita [1]
White Sun of the Desert 1970 Vladimir Motyl [1]
White Zombie 1932 Victor Halperin [10] [3] [1]
Who Killed Brown Owl? 2004 Christine Molloy [1]
Who Wants to Kill Jessie? 1966 Václav Vorlíček [1]
The Wicked Lady 1945 Leslie Arliss [1]
The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy [14] [15] [4] [3] [1] [5]
Wide Sargasso Sea 1993 John Duigan [1]
The Wild Angels 1966 Roger Corman [4] [1]
Wild at Heart 1990 David Lynch [4] [3] [1]
The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah [7] [4] [3] [1]
Wild Grass 2009 Alain Resnais [1]
Wild in the Streets 1968 Barry Shear [4]
The Wild One 1953 László Benedek [4] [3] [1]
Wild Seed 1965 Brian G. Hutton [16]
Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman [5]
Wild Style 1983 Charlie Ahearn [9]
Wild Target 2010 Jonathan Lynn [1]
Wild Wild West 1999 Barry Sonnenfeld [1]
William Winckler's Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove (also known as Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove)2005 William Winckler [10]
Willow 1988 Ron Howard [1]
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971 Mel Stuart [13] [1]
Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders [9] [4] [1] [5]
Winstanley 1975 Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo [1]
Winter Kills 1979 William Richert [1]
The Winter War 1989 Pekka Parikka [1]
Wisconsin Death Trip film) 1999 James Marsh [1]
Wise Blood 1979 John Huston [3] [1]
Witchcraft Through the Ages (also known as Häxan)1922 Benjamin Christensen [8] [16] [17] [4] [10]
The Witches 1990 Nicolas Roeg [1]
The Witches of Eastwick 1987 George Miller [1]
Witchfinder General (also known as The Conqueror Worm)1968 Michael Reeves [7] [8] [4] [3] [1] [5]
Withnail and I 1987 Bruce Robinson [8] [9] [17] [15] [3] [1] [5]
Witness for the Prosecution 1957 Billy Wilder [1]
The Wiz 1978 Sidney Lumet [9] [1]
The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming [7] [8] [4] [3]
Wolfen 1981 Michael Wadleigh [11]
Woman in the Dunes 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara [1]
Woman in the Moon 1929 Fritz Lang [1]
A Woman Under the Influence 1974 John Cassavetes [3] [1]
The Women 1939 George Cukor [1]
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 Pedro Almodóvar [9] [3] [1]
Woodstock 1970 Michael Wadleigh [4] [1]
World's Biggest Gang Bang 1995 John T. Bone [4]
The World's Greatest Sinner 1962 Timothy Carey [16]
The Wormwood Star 1956 Curtis Harrington [16]
The Wounded Man 1983 Patrice Chéreau [1]
WR: Mysteries of the Organism 1971 Dušan Makavejev [4]
The Wrestler 2008 Darren Aronofsky [1]
Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler [13]

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