List of cult films: D

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

Film Year Director Source
D.O.A. 1950 Rudolph Maté [1]
Daddy Longlegs 2009 Safdie brothers [2]
Daisies 1966 Věra Chytilová [2]
Damn Yankees 1958 George Abbott and Stanley Donen [3]
Damnation Alley 1977 Jack Smight [4]
The Damned 1969 Luchino Visconti [3]
Dance, Girl, Dance 1940 Dorothy Arzner [5][6][3]
Dancer in the Dark 2000 Lars von Trier [3]
Danger: Diabolik 1968 Mario Bava [3][1]
Dangerous When Wet 1953 Charles Walters [3]
Danton 1983 Andrzej Wajda [3]
Dark City 1998 Alex Proyas [6][3]
Dark Habits (also known as Entre tinieblas) 1983 Pedro Almodóvar [3]
The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan [6][3]
Dark Star 1974 John Carpenter [7][6][1][3]
Dark Water 2002 Hideo Nakata [6]
Dark Waters 1994 Mariano Baino [8]
Darkman 1990 Sam Raimi [1]
Daughters of Darkness 1971 Harry Kümel [7][9][6][10]
Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero [9][6][1][3]
Dawn of the Dead 2004 Zack Snyder [3]
The Dawn Patrol 1938 Edmund Goulding [1]
The Day of the Beast 1995 Álex de la Iglesia [8]
Day of the Dead 1985 George A. Romero [6][3]
Day of the Fight 1951 Stanley Kubrick [3]
The Day of the Jackal 1973 Fred Zinnemann [3]
The Day of the Locust 1975 John Schlesinger [1][3]
Day of the Woman (also known as I Spit on Your Grave) 1978 Meir Zarchi [11][6][8][3]
The Day the Earth Caught Fire 1961 Val Guest [3]
The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise [6][1]
Day the World Ended 1955 Roger Corman [6][4]
Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick [1]
Days of Wine and Roses 1962 Blake Edwards [3]
Dazed and Confused 1993 Richard Linklater [11][6][1][3]
Dead & Buried 1981 Gary Sherman [4]
Dead Alive (also known as Braindead) 1992 Peter Jackson [11][6]
Dead Man 1995 Jim Jarmusch [2][1][3]
Dead Man's Shoes 2004 Shane Meadows [1]
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982 Carl Reiner [3]
Dead of Night 1945 Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer [12][8][1][13]
Dead or Alive 1999 Takashi Miike [6]
The Dead That Walk (also known as Zombies of Mora Tau) 1957 Edward L. Cahn [10]
Deadly Weapons 1974 Doris Wishman [9][6]
Death Becomes Her 1992 Robert Zemeckis [14]
Death Line (also known as Raw Meat) 1972 Gary Sherman [8]
Death Proof 2007 Quentin Tarantino [6]
Death Race 2000 1975 Paul Bartel [15][6][1]
Death Rides a Horse 1967 Giulio Petroni [3]
Death Ward #13 (also known as Don't Look in the Basement and The Forgotten) 1973 S. F. Brownrigg [10]
Death Wish 1974 Michael Winner [1]
Debbie Does Dallas 1978 Jim Clark [9][6]
The Decline of Western Civilization 1981 Penelope Spheeris [16][6][1]
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years 1988 Penelope Spheeris [11][16][15]
The Decline of Western Civilization Part III 1998 Penelope Spheeris [16]
Deep Crimson 1996 Arturo Ripstein [3]
Deep End 1970 Jerzy Skolimowski [5][3]
The Deep End 2001 Scott McGehee and David Siegel [3]
Deep Red 1975 Dario Argento [9][3]
Deep Throat 1972 Gerard Damiano [6]
Deep Water 2006 Louise Osmond and Jerry Rothwell [3]
The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino [3]
Delicatessen 1991 Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro [12][1][3]
Deliverance 1972 John Boorman [6][1][3]
The Delta 1996 Ira Sachs [3]
Dementia 13 (also known as The Haunted and the Hunted) 1963 Francis Ford Coppola [10]
Demon Seed 1977 Donald Cammell [6][4][1]
The Demon Within (also known as The Happiness Cage and The Mind Snatchers) 1972 Bernard Girard [10]
Demonia 1990 Lucio Fulci [3]
Dersu Uzala 1975 Akira Kurosawa [3]
Desert Hearts 1985 Donna Deitch [3]
Deshdrohi 2008 Jagdish A. Sharma [17]
Desperate Living 1977 John Waters [6]
Destination Moon 1950 Irving Pichel [3]
Destiny (also known as Between Two Worlds) 1921 Fritz Lang [8]
Destroy All Monsters 1968 Ishirō Honda [4]
Detour 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer [5][6][1][3][13]
The Devil and Daniel Webster (also known as All That Money Can Buy) 1941 William Dieterle [3]
The Devil and Miss Jones 1941 Sam Wood [3]
Devil in a Blue Dress 1995 Carl Franklin [3]
The Devil in Miss Jones 1973 Gerard Damiano [6]
The Devil Rides Out 1968 Terence Fisher [3]
The Devil Wears Prada 2006 David Frankel [3]
The Devil-Doll 1936 Tod Browning [3]
The Devil's Advocate 1997 Taylor Hackford [3]
The Devil's Backbone 2001 Guillermo del Toro [3]
The Devil's Nightmare 1971 Jean Brismée [10]
The Devil's Playground 1976 Fred Schepisi [3]
The Devil's Wedding Night 1973 Luigi Batzella and Joe D'Amato [10]
The Devils 1971 Ken Russell [6][1][3][13]
Le diable est parmi nous (also known as The Possession of Virginia and Satan's Sabbath) 1972 Jean Beaudin [6]
Les Diaboliques (also known as Diaboloque) 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot [1][3]
Dial M for Murder 1954 Alfred Hitchcock [13]
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (also known as Walden) 1968 Jonas Mekas [3]
Diary of a Country Priest 1951 Robert Bresson [3]
Diary of the Dead 2007 George A. Romero [3]
Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan [6][3]
Different from the Others 1919 Richard Oswald [3]
Dillinger 1973 John Milius [1]
Dillinger Is Dead 1969 Marco Ferreri [2]
The Dinner Game (also known as Le Dîner de Cons) 1998 Francis Veber [11]
Dirty Dancing 1987 Emile Ardolino [9][6][3]
Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel [1][3]
Dirty Pretty Things 2002 Stephen Frears [3]
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel [11][3]
The Dish 2000 Rob Sitch [3]
Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 Terence Davies [3]
District 9 2009 Neill Blomkamp [3]
District 13 2004 Pierre Morel [3]
Diva 1981 Jean-Jacques Beineix [18][1][3]
Divide and Conquer 1943 Frank Capra [3]
Il divo 2008 Paolo Sorrentino [3]
Django 1966 Sergio Corbucci [9][6]
Django the Bastard 1969 Sergio Garrone [3]
Do Gaz Zameen Ke Neeche 1972 Tulsi Ramsay and Shyam Ramsay [17]
Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee [3]
Do You Believe in Angels? (also known as Love Mates) 1961 Lars-Magnus Lindgren [3]
Doctor X 1932 Michael Curtiz [8]
Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet [1][3]
Dog Soldiers 2002 Neil Marshall [15][1]
Dog Star Man 1985 Stan Brakhage [3]
A Dog's Breakfast 2007 David Hewlett [3]
Dogtown and Z-Boys 2001 Stacy Peralta [1]
La dolce vita 1960 Federico Fellini [6][3][13]
Don't Look in the Basement (also known as Death Ward #13 and The Forgotten) 1973 S. F. Brownrigg [10]
Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg [1][3]
Don't Torture a Duckling 1972 Lucio Fulci [9]
Don't Worry About Me 2009 David Morrissey [3]
Donnie Brasco 1997 Mike Newell [3]
Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly [9][11][15][6][1][3]
Donovan's Brain 1953 Felix E. Feist [10]
Dont Look Back 1965 D.A. Pennebaker [6][3]
The Doom Generation 1995 Gregg Araki [3]
Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder [3][15]
Le Doulos 1962 Jean-Pierre Melville [1]
Down By Law 1986 Jim Jarmusch [1][3]
Downfall 2004 Oliver Hirschbiegel [3]
Dr. Cyclops 1940 Ernest B. Schoedsack [8]
Dr. Dippy's Sanitarium 1906 [3]
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine 1965 Norman Taurog [3]
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick [18][2][6][1][3]
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors 1965 Freddie Francis [8][3]
Dracula 1931 Tod Browning [6]
Dracula vs. Frankenstein 1971 Al Adamson [10]
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary 2002 Guy Maddin [3]
Dracula's Dog (also known as Zoltan... Hound of Dracula) 1977 Albert Band [11][10][3]
The Draughtsman's Contract 1982 Peter Greenaway [1][3]
Dream of Light 1992 Víctor Erice [3]
Dreamgirls 2006 Bill Condon [3]
Dreamscape 1984 Joseph Ruben [1]
Dressed to Kill 1980 Brian De Palma [1][3]
The Dresser 1983 Peter Yates [3]
The Driller Killer 1979 Abel Ferrara [6][8][1]
Drive 2011 Nicolas Winding Refn [15]
The Driver 1978 Walter Hill [1][3]
Drowning by Numbers 1988 Peter Greenaway [3]
Drugstore Cowboy 1989 Gus Van Sant [6][1][3]
Drunken Angel 1948 Akira Kurosawa [3]
Drunken Master 1978 Yuen Woo-ping [3]
Duck Amuck 1953 Charles M. Jones [6]
Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century 1953 Charles M. Jones [3]
Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey [5][6][3][13]
Duel 1971 Steven Spielberg [1][3]
The Duellists 1977 Ridley Scott [1]
Dumplings 2004 Fruit Chan [3]
Dune 1984 David Lynch [6][1]

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