List of cult films: P

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

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FilmYearDirectorclass="unsortable" | Source
Pale Flower1964Masahiro Shinoda
Palindromes2004Todd Solondz
Pan's Labyrinth2006Guillermo del Toro
Panda and the Magic Serpent (also known as The Great White Snake Enchantress and The Tale of the White Serpent)1958Taiji Yabushita
Pandora's Box (also known as Die Büchse der Pandora)1929G. W. Pabst
{{sortname|The|Panic in Needle Park}}1971Jerry Schatzberg
Panic in the Streets1950Elia Kazan
Panic in Year Zero!1962Ray Milland
Pantyhose Hero1990Sammo Hung
Paperhouse1988Bernard Rose
Papillon1973Franklin J. Schaffner
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills1996Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
{{sortname|The|Parallax View}}1974Alan J. Pakula
Paranormal Activity2007Oren Peli
Parents1989Bob Balaban
Paris Blues1961Martin Ritt
Paris, Texas1984Wim Wenders
{{sortname|The|Passenger|dab=1975 film}}1975Michelangelo Antonioni
{{sortname|The|Passion of Joan of Arc}}1928Carl Theodor Dreyer
{{sortname|The|Passion of the Christ}}2004Mel Gibson
Passport to Pimlico1949Henry Cornelius
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid1973Sam Peckinpah
Pather Panchali1955Satyajit Ray
Paths of Glory1957Stanley Kubrick
Peeping Tom1960Michael Powell
Pee-wee's Big Adventure1985Tim Burton
Peggy Sue Got Married1986Francis Ford Coppola
{{sortname|The|Peking Man}}1997Junya Sato
Penny Serenade1941George Stevens
Perfect1985James Bridges
Perfect Blue1997Satoshi Kon
Performance1970Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg
Persona1966Ingmar Bergman
Personal Best1982Robert Towne
{{sortname|Le|petit amour}} (also known as Kung Fu Master)1988Agnès Varda
Pete Kelly's Blues1955Jack Webb
Petulia1968Richard Lester
Phantasm1979Don Coscarelli
{{sortname|The|Phantom Carriage}}1921Victor Sjöström
{{sortname|The|Phantom Empire}}1935Otto Brower and B. Reeves Eason
Phantom from Space1953W. Lee Wilder
{{sortname|The|Phantom of the Opera|dab=1925 film}}1925Rupert Julian
Phantom of the Paradise1974Brian De Palma
{{sortname|The|Phantom Planet}}1961William Marshall
{{sortname|The|Phantom Tollbooth|dab=film}}1970Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow, Dave Monahan
{{sortname|The|Phenix City Story}}1955Phil Karlson
Pi1998Darren Aronofsky
{{sortname|The|Piano}}1993Jane Campion
Pickpocket1959Robert Bresson
Pickup on South Street1953Samuel Fuller
Picnic at Hanging Rock1975Peter Weir
Pigsty (also known as Porcile)1969Pier Paolo Pasolini
{{sort|1=Pimpernel Smith|2="Pimpernel" Smith}}1941Leslie Howard
Pink Flamingos1972John Waters
Pink Floyd – The Wall1982Alan Parker
Piranha1978Joe Dante
{{sortname|The|Pirate|dab=1948 film}}1948Vincente Minnelli
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End2007Gore Verbinski
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl2003Gore Verbinski
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest2006Gore Verbinski
{{sortname|The|Pit|dab=1981 film}}1981Lew Lehman
Plan 9 from Outer Space1959Ed Wood
Planet of the Apes1968Franklin J. Schaffner
Planet of the Vampires1965Mario Bava
{{sortname|La|Planète sauvage}} (also known as Fantastic Planet)1973René Laloux
Planet Terror2007Robert Rodriguez
Play It Again, Sam1972Herbert Ross
Play Misty for Me1971Clint Eastwood
{{sortname|The|Player|dab=1992 film}}1992Robert Altman
{{sortname|The|Playhouse|dab=film}}1921Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline
Playing the Field (also known as L'arbitro)1974Luigi Filippo D'Amico
Pleasantville1998Gary Ross
{{sortname|The|Pledge|dab=film}}2001Sean Penn
Point Blank1967John Boorman
Point Break1991Kathryn Bigelow
Poison1991Todd Haynes
Police1985Maurice Pialat
Police Academy1984Hugh WilsonPaul Simpson, "The Rough Guide to Cult Movies: The Good, The Bad and the Very Weird", Rough Guides UK, 2010.
Poltergeist1982Tobe Hooper
Polyester1981John Waters
Pootie Tang2001Louis C.K.
Porcile (also known as Pigsty)1969Pier Paolo Pasolini
Porco Rosso1992Hayao Miyazaki
Porgy and Bess1959Otto Preminger
{{sortname|The|Pornographer}}2001Bertrand Bonello
Portrait of Jason1967Shirley Clarke
{{sortname|The|Poseidon Adventure|dab=1972 film}}1972Ronald Neame
Possession1981Andrzej Żuławski
{{sortname|The|Possession of Virginia}} (also known as Le diable est parmi nous and Satan's Sabbath)1972Jean Beaudin
{{sortname|The|Postman|dab=film}}1997Kevin Costner
{{sortname|The|Postman Always Rings Twice|dab=1981 film}}1981Bob Rafelson
{{sortname|Il|Posto}}1961Ermanno Olmi
{{sortname|A|Prairie Home Companion|dab=film}}2006Robert Altman
Precious2009Lee Daniels
Prelude to War1942Frank Capra
{{sortname|The|President's Analyst}}1967Theodore J. Flicker
{{sortname|The|Prestige|dab=film}}2006Christopher Nolan
Pretty Baby1978Louis Malle
Pretty Poison1968Noel Black
{{sortname|The|Price of Power}}1969Tonino Valerii
Primate1974Frederick Wiseman
Primer2004Shane Carruth
Primitive London1965Arnold L. Miller
Prince of Darkness1987John Carpenter
{{sortname|The|Prince of Tides}}1991Barbra Streisand
{{sortname|The|Princess Bride|dab=film}}1987Rob Reiner
Princess Mononoke1997Hayao Miyazaki
{{sortname|The|Prisoner of Zenda|dab=1937 film}}1937John Cromwell
{{sortname|The|Private Life of Sherlock Holmes}}1970Billy Wilder
{{sortname|The|Private Lives of Adam and Eve}}1960Mickey Rooney and Albert Zugsmith
Prizzi's Honor1985John Huston
{{sortname|The|Producers|dab=1967 film}}1967Mel Brooks
Prophecies of Nostradamus1974Toshio Masuda
Prophecy1979John Frankenheimer
{{sortname|A|Prophet}}2009Jacques Audiard
Prospero's Books1991Peter Greenaway
{{sortname|The|Prowler|dab=1981 film}}1981Joseph Zito
Predator1987John McTiernan
Psych-Out1968Richard Rush
Psycho1960Alfred Hitchcock
Psycho Beach Party2000Robert Lee King
Psychomania1973Don Sharp
Pulgasari1985Shin Sang-ok
Pulp Fiction1994Quentin Tarantino
Punisher: War Zone2008Lexi Alexander
Punishment Park1971Peter Watkins
Purana Mandir1984Tulsi Ramsay and Shyam Ramsay
Purple Noon1960René Clément
Pursued1947Raoul Walsh
Putney Swope1969Robert Downey, Sr.
Pygmalion1938Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard
{{sortname|The|Pyramid|dab=1976 film}}1976Gary Kent

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{{cite book | last=Peary | first=Danny | authorlink=Danny Peary | year=1981 | title=Cult Movies: The Classics, the Sleepers, the Weird, and the Wonderful | publisher=Dell Publishing | isbn=978-0-440-51647-7 }}

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{{cite book | last=Peary | first=Danny | authorlink=Danny Peary | year=1989 | title=Cult Movies 3: 50 More of the Classics, the Sleepers, the Weird, and the Wonderful | publisher=Dell Publishing | isbn=978-0-283-99806-5 }}

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{{cite book | last=Havis | first=Allan | year=2008 | title=Cult Films: Taboo and Transgression | publisher=University Press of America | isbn=978-0-7618-3967-5 }}

{{cite book | last=Macias | first=Patrick | year=2001 | title=TokyoScope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion | publisher=Viz Media | isbn=978-1-56931-681-8 }}

{{cite book | last=Olson | first=Christopher J. | year=2018 | title=100 Greatest Cult Films | publisher=Rowman & Littlefield | isbn=978-1-4422-0822-3 }}

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{{cite book | last=Roychoudhury | first=Amborish | year=2018 | title=In a Cult of Their Own: Bollywood Beyond Box Office | publisher=Rupa | isbn=978-8129151353 }}

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{{cite book | last1=De Chirico | first1=Millie | last2=Murry | first2=Quatoyiah | year=2022 | title=TCM Underground: 50 Must-See Films from the World of Classic Cult and Late-Night Cinema | series=Turner Classic Movies | publisher=Running Press | isbn=978-0-7624-8000-5 }}

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