Most films by Jim Jarmusch.
I can’t help it. At home, I stop short of the confetti and the water pistols, but I dance the Time Warp in the living room and hold up a lighter to “There’s a Light over at the Frankenstein Place.”
Oh yeah!! Forgot Mystery Train–and what’s the other one–Coffee & Cigarettes–can’t remember!:smack:
And:
**Stranger Than Paradise
Down by Law
Mystery Train
Night on Earth
Dead Man
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai **
Permanent Vacation was a little dull, I thought. I have Broken Flowers, but I haven’t got round to watching it yet.
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Happiness
Ghost World
Donnie Darko
Office Space
Howard the Duck
Spaceballs
A Clockwork Orange
Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter
I Did like Broken Flowers, too!
Big hits that weren’t exactly quirky? No. Funny movies, but not cult.
Heathers
Adventures of Baron von Munchausen
Ereaserhead
Donnie Darko
Off the top of my head…
Shadow of the Vampire
Goodbye Lenin
Burnt by the Sun
Ghost World
Thank you for Smoking
The question has been avoided, but let’s ask it: what’s a cult movie? I would have thought it would be a movie that did little or no box office, got little or no critical attention, but which subsequently exhibit unexpected signs of ongoing and significant life.
Let’s not get cult movies mixed up with mere Indie movies. I think for a movie to become a cult movie, it needs to have built up a significant fandom after it’s original box office release. Just being an offbeat movie isn’t enough. You need to be an offbeat movie that is appreciated above and beyond it’s pure entertainment value, and has a significant number of people who watch it ritually.
Not mentioned (as far as I can see.)
Showgirls
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Holy Mountain
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
I have three “Cult Movies” books by Danny Peary, who, as someone once said, must have spent half his adult life in a darkened movie theater. He explains cult movies, lists several in each book and writes thoughtful, in-depth articles about each one. ‘King Kong’ (original) is particularly interesting. There are many cult movies mentioned and I don’t have the books in front of me, I’ll come back later and list my favorites.
OK. Here are just a few cult movies listed and discussed:
Blade Runner
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Five Million Years to Earth
Liquid Sky
Night of the Hunter
The Quiet Man
The Road Warrior
Seconds
A Star is Born
Thief of Bagdad
Touch of Evil
Basket Case
Morgan!
Nightmare Alley
A Boy and His Dog
Picnic At Hanging Rock
White Heat
The Wicker Man (original)
Man Who Fell To Earth
All About Eve
Beauty and the Beast (original French, 1946)
The Brood
Eraserhead
Forbidden Planet
I Walked With a Zombie
Kiss Me, Deadly
Laura
Peeping TomPretty Poison
The Red Shoes
The Scarlet Empress
Sunset Boulevard
Tarzan and His Mate
Trash
Dance Girl, Dance
OK - taking the bolded bit as my definition of cult movie and also adding a movie which people watch ritually and/ or know the script backwards and forwards and quote from it regularly then for me the top cult movie has to be This is Spinal Tap
Which reminds me of The Last Days Of Man On Earth (aka: The Final Programme). I saw the two films in a double-feature at a revival theatre. I have both of them. (At least, I know I have The Man Who Fell To Earth. I think I have The Last Days Of Man On Earth.)
In the horror genre how about Vincent Price’s 2 greatest performances:
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
These incredibly subtle black comedies certainly have all the ingredients for cult films, whether they have any actual cult surrounding them or not.
Someone mentioned “Kiss Me Deadly” which I heartily second. Wonder why the companion film “The Long Wait” is so obscure, practically nobody but me has ever heard of it - produced around the same time, also by Mickey Spillane, also based on one of his own stories, this one starring Anthony Quinn.
I would also strongly second Dr. Strangelove!
I’m hesitant to post any, because I don’t know if they qualify for “cult” status or not, but some of my favourite non-critical darlings are Bull Durham and Raising Arizona. I recently watched Ghost Rider with Nicolas Cage, and I quite enjoyed it. I re-watched Constantine with Keanu Reeves last week, and I quite enjoyed that, too. I also enjoyed Clerks and Dogma.
I wish we had a cult classic movie theatre. 
There’s a difference between a “Cult” movie (one with a limited but appreciative following) and a “Crap” movie, and although the two distinctions often overlap, I’m not really sure they do in the two quoted examples.
(Or, to put it another way, everyone has different tastes but personally I think Ghost Rider and Constantine were the bad kind of crap films and definitely not worthy of “Cult” status).
Yes, Sorry I got the name wrong. One of my fav cult movies ever.
I liked “Pulp Fiction” because it took me years to understand it. Same way with Shawshank Redemption. It is full of small details that you slowly get the more you watch it. Tarantino is a genius.