The Top 100 'A.V. Club's The New Cult Canon' Movies

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The Top 100 'A.V. Club's The New Cult Canon' Movies
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
Rating		 Your
Ranking
13 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher R -
23 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino R -
68 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel & Ethan Coen R -
70 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan R -
127 Shaun of the Dead 2004 Edgar Wright R -
145 Office Space 1999 Mike Judge R -
146 American History X 1998 Tony Kaye R -
202 Army of Shadows 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville NR -
203 12 Monkeys 1995 Terry Gilliam R -
226 Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki PG -
234 Oldboy 2003 Chan-wook Park R -
296 Let the Right One In 2008 Tomas Alfredson R -
333 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly R -
342 Clerks. 1994 Kevin Smith R -
349 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 James Foley R -
354 Beetlejuice 1988 Tim Burton PG -
359 American Psycho 2000 Mary Harron R -
387 Army of Darkness 1992 Sam Raimi R -
440 Serenity 2005 Joss Whedon PG13 -
449 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky NC17 -
458 They Live 1988 John Carpenter R -
521 Hard Boiled 1992 John Woo R -
564 Dazed and Confused 1993 Richard Linklater R -
574 Brick 2005 Rian Johnson R -
597 House 1977 Nobuhiko Ôbayashi NR -
614 Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang 2005 Shane Black R -
645 Battle Royale 2000 Kinji Fukasaku NR -
673 Heathers 1988 Michael Lehmann R -
675 Naked 1993 Mike Leigh NR -
678 The Iron Giant 1999 Brad Bird PG -
685 The Vanishing 1988 George Sluizer NR -
691 Synecdoche, New York 2008 Charlie Kaufman R -
697 Near Dark 1987 Kathryn Bigelow R -
723 Clue 1985 Jonathan Lynn PG -
760 Dead Alive 1992 Peter Jackson NR -
772 The Fall 2006 Tarsem Singh R -
794 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998 Terry Gilliam R -
812 Delicatessen 1991 Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet NR -
839 Zodiac 2007 David Fincher R -
907 Dead Man 1995 Jim Jarmusch R -
973 Primer 2004 Shane Carruth PG13 -
975 Heavenly Creatures 1994 Peter Jackson R -
989 Audition 1999 Takashi Miike NR -
1008 Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg R -
1023 Fallen Angels 1995 Wong Kar-Wai R -
1026 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover 1989 Peter Greenaway NC17 -
1049 Bottle Rocket 1996 Wes Anderson R -
1072 The Boondock Saints 1999 Troy Duffy R -
1084 Starship Troopers 1997 Paul Verhoeven R -
1091 Millennium Actress 2001 Satoshi Kon PG -
1100 Hedwig and The Angry Inch 2001 John Cameron Mitchell R -
1139 Rounders 1998 John Dahl R -
1152 Point Break 1991 Kathryn Bigelow R -
1153 [REC] 2007 Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza R -
1193 The Limey 1999 Steven Soderbergh R -
1204 Mysterious Skin 2004 Gregg Araki NC17 -
1226 American Movie 1999 Chris Smith R -
1234 Real Genius 1985 Martha Coolidge PG -
1245 Punch-Drunk Love 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson R -
1253 Sexy Beast 2000 Jonathan Glazer R -
1287 Highlander 1986 Russell Mulcahy R -
1350 Black Dynamite 2009 Scott Sanders R -
1355 Lost Highway 1997 David Lynch R -
1452 Zoolander 2001 Ben Stiller PG13 -
1476 I Am Cuba 1964 Mikhail Kalatozov NR -
1481 The Host 2006 Bong Joon Ho NR -
1498 Man Bites Dog 1992 Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde NC17 -
1538 Satantango 1994 Béla Tarr R -
1555 Bound 1996 The Wachowskis R -
1560 Enter the Void 2009 Gaspar Noé NR -
1565 Wet Hot American Summer 2001 David Wain R -
1610 Kung Fu Hustle 2004 Stephen Chow R -
1643 Irreversible 2002 Gaspar Noé NR -
1667 Napoleon Dynamite 2004 Jared Hess PG -
1686 Buffalo '66 1998 Vincent Gallo NR -
1695 Martyrs 2008 Pascal Laugier R -
1718 The Triplets of Belleville 2003 Sylvain Chomet PG13 -
1720 Ichi the Killer 2001 Takashi Miike NR -
1728 Team America: World Police 2004 Trey Parker R -
1731 Pump up the Volume 1990 Allan Moyle R -
1735 My Own Private Idaho 1991 Gus Van Sant R -
1764 The Last Seduction 1994 John Dahl R -
1791 Pi 1998 Darren Aronofsky R -
1821 UHF 1989 Jay Levey PG13 -
1844 The Descent 2005 Neil Marshall R -
1881 Exotica 1994 Atom Egoyan R -
1896 King of New York 1990 Abel Ferrara R -
2024 Sonatine 1993 Takeshi Kitano R -
2030 Quick Change 1990 Howard Franklin R -
2077 Slacker 1991 Richard Linklater R -
2097 Beau Travail 1999 Claire Denis NR -
2137 A Tale of Two Sisters 2003 Jee-woon Kim R -
2198 Road House 1989 Rowdy Herrington R -
2219 The Devil's Advocate 1997 Taylor Hackford R -
2227 Inside 2007 Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury R -
2250 Darkman 1990 Sam Raimi R -
2252 The House of the Devil 2009 Ti West R -
2255 Ginger Snaps 2000 John Fawcett NR -
2305 Slither 2006 James Gunn R -
2385 In the Company of Men 1997 Neil LaBute R -

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