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The 14 cult movies that you can not miss

The 14 cult movies that you can not miss

April 20, 2024

The world of audiovisual production is probably the sector and most influential factor in global culture, but it should be noted that the alma mater of this business is held by the American factory Hollywood, where the most important cult films have come from. the times.

In this sense, cult films are a reference at cultural, political and sociological level . They are capable of creating thoughts, opinions, fashions and even tendencies. Sometimes even, they are made with an intention to have an impact on the society of a given moment.

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14 most successful cult films

Following a general classification according to the opinions of the film experts, we present you the 14 essential cult films.


1. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Surely it is Stanley Kubrick's work that had the most impact on his most staunch fans s. The elements to classify it as a cult movie are violence, the cast that was made of the actors and the unexpected futuristic plot that caused so much fury for the time. This film is still used in the faculties of psychology today.

2. The Goonies (1985)

Adventures, hidden treasures, pirate ship in a cave, a group of endearing teenage friends . Who has never dreamed of being part of this movie? In the 80s he had a shocking success that marked the childhood / adolescence of his generations.


3. Mad Max (1979)

It was the movie that sent a very young Mel Gibson to stardom , in an unconventional film with very little budget, shot by an unknown Australian director who wanted to show the world what a society marked by the oil crisis would be like.

Police in hides and suicide persecutions, punk bikers that the only thing that amuses them is to terrorize the local population wherever they stop. Mad Max (Mel Gibson) represents the figure of the antihero who marked a turning point in the action cinema.

4. Pulp Fiction (1995)

Pulp Fiction, directed by Quentin Tarantino, was a novelty in the middle of s. XX . His way of filming the scenes and superimposing so many parallel and different stories at the same time, marked a before and after in the world of cinema. In addition, it has a cast of excellence and a soundtrack that was adapted to each scene of the film.


5. Robocop (1987)

A film that became banned in Europe given its high dose of violence . The private companies decide to take charge of the police security and for that they resort to the violence contracted to instill the terror. Solution? A half-man half machine that will take revenge on his killers with the same violence.

6. The Shining (1980)

Another cult movie that you can not miss . Stanley Kubrick returned to the stage to present one of the great landmarks in horror movies. A damn family that decides to spend the holidays in a haunted hotel, a son with psychotic visions and ghosts that mark the future of the film.

7. E.T. the extraterrestrial (1982)

ET is the most adorable extraterrestrial of its kind . That character who wanted to know the human ways of life and made friends with a small adolescent with whom he communicated through telepathic emotions. The film has all the ingredients to set up a cult movie: humor, friendship, tears and suspense.

8. Bring me the head of Alfredo García (1974)

One of the most unknown cult films by moviegoers . Well, this work of art supposed the director Sam Peckinpah the jump to fame in the seventies. The search for Alfredo García marks the plot of the film, full of violence and suspense until the last moment. The life of the main character is in danger if he does not find Alfredo, alive or dead.

9. Taxi Driver (1976)

A sublime Robert de Niro tells the unhappy life of a taxi driver in New York in the 70s . It is a film with sociological overtones to make presence of problems such as loneliness, political deception, prostitution or workers' rights.

10. Crystal Jungle (1988)

Never an action movie had been so original . In fact, experts consider it the only cult movie of its kind. European terrorists decide to storm a building to carry out a multi-million dollar robbery to a Japanese company. Can you think of something with more personality?

11. Breathless (1960)

Jean-Luc Godard marked a turning point in romantic tapes . The exceptionality of the camera movements, the sensuality and photography with which the film shot, has earned the title to the best romantic film of all time. Never before had the conventional couple relationships been transmitted with such originality.

12. The great Lebowski (1998)

The Coen brothers are specialists in making bizarre films , out of series. But it was with The Big Lebowski that they surprised the viewer. The story of a character on foot, unsuccessful and with a more than monotonous life, will take you to an adventure without having asked, and all for wanting to play bowling with friends.

13. Barbarella (1968)

Although feminist demands seem current, the director Roger Vadim wanted to transmit the discrimination of the female sex in the cinema , giving the main role to a woman, heroine of the future that shows all the sexual and intellectual power of the female figure.

14. The Warriors (1979)

Another film that shines for its unusual personality . The film shows the reality of the punk bands of the 70s that were so famous in the USA. The murder of a supreme leader of these bands marks the development of the film. Violence, suspense, social denunciation and friendship is what characterizes this great work.


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