Cult Movies

Ondi Timoner’s cult music documentary returns after 20 years, remastered and extended, to explore rock’s most volatile friendship.

From three hundred million miles away…invaders from Mars!

Peter Weir’s debut feature - a favourite of Kubrick's - is a mordant black comedy satirising small-town life and a gem of Ozploitation cinema.

Takashi Miike burst to prominence with this disturbing tale of a deadly young woman who turns the tables on her middle-aged suitor.

Bridgett M. Davis’s comedy about an aspiring young Black actress who lands her first major role, but there’s a big problem: it requires a nude scene.

Five strangers explore their fantasies over a period of five days in Stephen Dwoskin's remarkable experimental film.

A witchfinder traverses 17th-century England executing those he suspects of witchcraft.

A key film of the Black Film Workshop movement - this London-set visual mosaic captures the richness and complexity of 1980s Black British life.

Bizarre and unsettling sex fantasy from Shinya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo), about a woman blackmailed by a stranger into enacting his wildest fantasies.

Michael Mann’s chilling and stylish adaptation of Thomas Harris’ bestseller introduced Hannibal Lecktor to cinema audiences for the first time.

The disturbing true story of a pair of twisted lovers who posed as siblings to seduce, con and - if necessary - kill.

This 1930s public information film, an extraordinary combination of paranoia and naivety, was later embraced as an underground classic.

Christopher Marlowe's 16th century play is radically adapted by Derek Jarman in one of his most powerful films, starring Tilda Swinton.

Kurosawa’s classic about a drifting samurai who plays two gangs off against each other, famously remade as A Fistful of Dollars.

Cult 'found footage' war film following a Vietnam patrol unit from the perspective of an embedded combat cameraman.

Hiroshi Teshigahara's mystifying, serene and provocative fable about an entomologist who becomes trapped in a young widow’s desert shack.

Teruo Ishii's landmark ‘ero-guro’ film tells three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era.

In this bizarre erotic family drama, a young widow pretends to be a cow for her senile father-in-law, who's a farmer.

A revenge mission leads two young women to the heart of a deranged cult, in Pascal Laugier’s notoriously brutal and unflinching horror.

An elite group of female agents join to form The Doll Squad, with a mission to save the world from a diabolical madman intending to wreak havoc.

Takeshi Kitano directs and stars as a Japanese gangster who’s exiled to Los Angeles, where he builds a drugs empire that soon attracts Mafia interest.

Cronenberg's early horror sees a mad scientist experimenting with parasites that turn residents of a high-rise apartment into ferocious nymphomaniacs.

A timid Long Island skater-girl befriends a New York City-based skateboarding crew in Crystal Moselle's Sundance-nominated coming-of-age tale.