List of cult films: W

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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
{{sortname|The|Wackness}}2008Jonathan Levine
{{sortname|The|Wages of Fear}}1953Henri-Georges Clouzot
Waiting for Guffman1996Christopher Guest
Waitress2007Adrienne Shelly
Wake Up and Dream1934Kurt Neumann
Walden (also known as Diaries, Notes, and Sketches)1968Jonas Mekas
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story2007Jake Kasdan
Walk on the Wild Side1962Edward Dmytryk
Walkabout1971Nicolas Roeg
WALL-E2008Andrew Stanton
Waltz with Bashir2008Ari Folman
Wanda1970Barbara Loden
Wanda, the Sadistic Hypnotist (also known as The Sadistic Hypnotist)1969Greg Corarito
{{sortname|The|Wanderers|dab=1979 film}}1979Philip Kaufman
{{sortname|The|Wannsee Conference|dab=film}}1984Heinz Schirk
War and Peace1967Sergei Bondarchuk
War Comes to America1945Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak
{{sortname|The|War Game}}1966Peter Watkins
War Hunt1962Denis Sanders
{{sortname|The|War Is Over|dab=1966 film}}1966Alain Resnais
War of the Colossal Beast1958Bert I. Gordon
{{sortname|The|War of the Gargantuas}}1966Ishirō Honda
{{sortname|The|War of the Worlds|dab=1953 film}}1953Byron Haskin
Warning Sign1985Hal Barwood
{{sortname|The|Warped Ones}}1960Koreyoshi Kurahara
{{sortname|The|Warriors|dab=film}}1979Walter Hill
{{sortname|The|Wasp Woman}}1959Roger Corman
{{sortname|The|Watchmaker of St. Paul}} (also known as The Clockmaker)1974Bertrand Tavernier
Watchmen2009Zack Snyder
Waterloo Bridge1940Mervyn LeRoy
Waterworld1995Kevin Reynolds
Wavelength1967Michael Snow
{{sortname|The|Way We Were}}1973Sydney Pollack
{{sortname|The|Wayward Cloud}}2005Tsai Ming-liang
We Can't Go Home Again1973Nicholas Ray
{{sortname|The|Wedding Singer}}1998Frank Coraci
Wednesday's Child (also known as Family Life)1971Ken Loach
Weekend1967Jean-Luc Godard
Welcome Home Brother Charles (also known as Soul Vengeance)1975Jamaa Fanaka
Welcome to the Dollhouse1995Todd Solondz
Went the Day Well?1942Alberto Cavalcanti
Werewolf of London1935Stuart Walker
{{sortname|The|Werewolf of Washington}}1973Milton Moses Ginsberg
Werewolf Woman (also known as The Legend of the Wolf Woman)1976Rino Di Silvestro
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (also known as New Nightmare)1994Wes Craven
Westworld1973Michael Crichton
Wet Hot American Summer2001David Wain
What a Carve Up!1961Pat Jackson
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?1969Lee H. Katzin
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?1962Robert Aldrich
What's New Pussycat?1965Clive Donner
What's Opera, Doc?1957Chuck Jones
What's Up, Doc?1972Peter Bogdanovich
What's Up, Tiger Lily?1966Woody Allen and Senkichi Taniguchi
When Harry Met Sally...1989Rob Reiner
When Night Is Falling1995Patricia Rozema
When Strangers Marry1944William Castle
When the Clouds Roll By1919Victor Fleming
When Time Ran Out1980James Goldstone
When We Were Kings1996Leon Gast
Where Eagles Dare1968Brian G. Hutton
Where's Poppa?1970Carl Reiner
Whisky Galore!1949Alexander Mackendrick
White Dog1982Samuel Fuller
White Heat1949Raoul Walsh
White Palace1990Luis Mandoki
{{sortname|The|White Ribbon}}2009Michael Haneke
{{sortname|The|White Snake Enchantress|dab=film}} (also known as Panda and the Magic Serpent, The Great White Snake, and The Tale of the White Serpent)1958Taiji Yabushita
White Sun of the Desert1970Vladimir Motyl
White Zombie1932Victor Halperin
Who Killed Brown Owl?2004Christine Molloy
Who Wants to Kill Jessie?1966Václav Vorlíček
{{sortname|The|Wicked Lady}}1945Leslie Arliss
{{sortname|The|Wicker Man|dab=1973 film}}1973Robin Hardy
Wide Sargasso Sea1993John Duigan
{{sortname|The|Wild Angels}}1966Roger Corman
Wild at Heart1990David Lynch
{{sortname|The|Wild Bunch}}1969Sam Peckinpah
Wild Grass2009Alain Resnais
Wild in the Streets1968Barry Shear
{{sortname|The|Wild One}}1953László Benedek
Wild Seed1965Brian G. Hutton
Wild Strawberries1957Ingmar Bergman
Wild Style1983Charlie Ahearn
Wild Target2010Jonathan Lynn
Wild Wild West1999Barry Sonnenfeld
William Winckler's Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove (also known as Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove)2005William Winckler
Willow1988Ron Howard
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory1971Mel Stuart
Wings of Desire1987Wim Wenders
Winstanley1975Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo
Winter Kills1979William Richert
{{sortname|The|Winter War|dab=film}}1989Pekka Parikka
Wisconsin Death Trip1999James Marsh
Wise Blood1979John Huston
Witchcraft Through the Ages (also known as Häxan)1922Benjamin Christensen
{{sortname|The|Witches|sort=Witches|dab=1990 film}}1990Nicolas Roeg
{{sortname|The|Witches of Eastwick|dab=film}}1987George Miller
Witchfinder General (also known as The Conqueror Worm)1968Michael Reeves
Withnail and I1987Bruce Robinson
Witness for the Prosecution1957Billy Wilder
{{sortname|The|Wiz|dab=film}}1978Sidney Lumet
{{sortname|The|Wizard of Oz|dab=1939 film}}1939Victor Fleming
Wolfen1981Michael Wadleigh
Woman in the Dunes1964Hiroshi Teshigahara
Woman in the Moon1929Fritz Lang
{{sortname|A|Woman Under the Influence}}1974John Cassavetes
The Women1939George Cukor
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown1988Pedro Almodóvar
Woodstock1970Michael Wadleigh
World's Biggest Gang Bang1995John T. Bone
{{sortname|The|World's Greatest Sinner}}1962Timothy Carey
{{sortname|The|Wormwood Star}}1956Curtis Harrington
{{sortname|The|Wounded Man|dab=film}}1983Patrice Chéreau
WR: Mysteries of the Organism1971Dušan Makavejev
Wrath of Daimajin1966Kazuo Mori
{{sortname|The|Wrestler|dab=2008 film}}2008Darren Aronofsky
Wuthering Heights1939William Wyler

References

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{{cite book | last1=Mathijs | first1=Ernest | last2=Mendik | first2=Xavier | year=2011 | title=100 Cult Films | series=BFI Screen Guides | publisher=Palgrave Macmillan | isbn=978-1-84457-408-7 }}

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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 }}

{{cite book | last=Peary | first=Danny | authorlink=Danny Peary | year=1983 | title=Cult Movies 2: 50 More of the Classics, the Sleepers, the Weird, and the Wonderful | publisher=Dell Publishing | isbn=978-0-440-51632-3 }}

{{cite book | last=Eiss | first=Jennifer | year=2010 | title=500 Essential Cult Movies: The Ultimate Guide | publisher=Sterling Publishing | isbn=978-1-4027-7486-7 }}

{{cite book | last=Everman | first=Welch D. | year=1995 | title=Cult Horror Films: From Attack of the 50 Foot Woman to Zombies of Mora Tau | series=Citadel Film Series | publisher=Citadel Press | isbn=978-0-8065-1425-3 }}

{{cite book | last=Everman | first=Welch D. | year=1995 | title=Cult Science Fiction Films: From The Amazing Colossal Man to Yog: The Monster from Space | series=Citadel Film Series | publisher=Citadel Press | isbn=978-0-8065-1602-8 }}

{{cite book | last1=French | first1=Karl | last2=French | first2=Philip | year=2000 | title=Cult Movies | series=Billboard Books | publisher=Watson-Guptill Publications | isbn=978-0-8230-7916-2 }}

{{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 }}

{{cite book | last=Paszylk | first=Bartłomiej | year=2009 | title=The Pleasure and Pain of Cult Horror Films: An Historical Survey | publisher=McFarland | isbn=978-0-7864-3695-8 }}

{{cite book | author=Rotten Tomatoes | year=2019 | chapter=Cult Leaders: Hard to love for many, loved very hard by some | title=Rotten Movies We Love: Cult Classics, Underrated Gems, and Films So Bad They're Good | publisher=Running Press | isbn=978-0-7624-9605-1 | pages=81–114 }}

{{cite book | last=Simpson | first=Paul | year=2010 | title=The Rough Guide to Cult Movies: The Good, the Bad and the Very Weird | edition=3rd | publisher=Rough Guides | isbn=978-1-84836-213-0 }}

{{cite book | last=Smith | first=Justin | year=2010 | title=Withnail and Us: Cult Films and Film Cults in British Cinema | series=Cinema and Society | publisher=I.B. Tauris | isbn=978-1-84885-092-7 }}

{{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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