List of cult films: M

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

Film Year Director Source
M 1931 Fritz Lang
Mac and Me 1988 Stewart Raffill
Macabre 1958 William Castle
MacGruber 2010 Jorma Taccone
The Machine Gun Dragon 1976 Akihisa Okamoto
Machine-Gun Kelly 1958 Roger Corman
The Mack 1973 Michael Campus
Macunaíma 1969 Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
Mad Dog Morgan 1976 Philippe Mora
Mad Hot Ballroom 2005 Marilyn Agrelo
Mad Love 1935 Karl Freund
Mad Max 1979 George Miller
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior 1981 George Miller
The Mad Monster 1942 Sam Newfield
Mädchen in Uniform (Girls in Uniform) 1931 Leontine Sagan
Magic Boy 1959 Akira Daikubara and Taiji Yabushita
Magical Mystery Tour 1967 The Beatles and Bernard Knowles
The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles
Magnitude 7.9 (also known as Deathquake) 1980 Kenjirô Ohmori
Maîtresse 1975 Barbet Schroeder
Mala Noche 1986 Gus Van Sant
The Mind Snatchers (also known as The Demon Within and The Happiness Cage) 1972 Bernard Girard
Malcolm X 1992 Spike Lee
Malpertuis (also known as The Legend of Doom House) 1971 Harry Kümel
The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston
Mama, There's a Man in Your Bed 1989 Coline Serreau
Mamma Mia! 2008 Phyllida Lloyd
Man Bites Dog 1992 Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde
A Man Escaped 1956 Robert Bresson
Man Facing Southeast 1986 Eliseo Subiela
The Man from Hong Kong (also known as The Dragon Flies) 1975 Brian Trenchard-Smith
The Man from Planet X 1951 Edgar G. Ulmer
Man Hunt 1941 Fritz Lang
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit 1956 Nunnally Johnson
Man of the West 1958 Anthony Mann
The Man on the Roof 1976 Bo Widerberg
Man on Wire 2008 James Marsh
The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976 Nicolas Roeg
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford
The Man Who Wasn't There 2001 Joel Coen
The Man Who Would Be King 1975 John Huston
Man with a Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov
The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 Otto Preminger
The Man with Two Brains 1983 Carl Reiner
The Man Who Turned to Stone 1957 László Kardos
The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer
Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen
Manhunter 1986 Michael Mann
Mania (also known as The Flesh and the Fiends) 1960 John Gilling
Maniac 1934 Dwain Esper
Maniac Cop 1988 William Lustig
The Manitou 1978 William Girdler
Manos: The Hands of Fate 1966 Harold P. Warren
Mansion of the Doomed 1976 Michael Pataki
The Manster 1959 George P. Breakston and Kenneth G. Crane
Marathon Man 1976 John Schlesinger
Marihuana 1936 Dwain Esper
Mariken van Nieumeghen 1974 Joe Stelling
Mark of the Vampire 1935 Tod Browning
El Mariachi 1992 Robert Rodriguez
Marnie 1964 Alfred Hitchcock
The Marriage of Maria Braun 1976 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Married Life 2007 Ira Sachs
Mars Attacks! 1996 Tim Burton
Martin 1977 George A. Romero
Marty 1955 Delbert Mann
Martyrs 2008 Pascal Laugier
Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore 1996 Sarah Jacobson
Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary 1975 Juan López Moctezuma
La maschera del demonio (also known as Black Sunday) 1960 Mario Bava
M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman
The Mask 1961 Julian Roffman
The Masque of the Red Death 1964 Roger Corman
Massacre at Central High 1976 Rene Daalder
Mata Hari 1931 George Fitzmaurice
Matango 1963 Ishirō Honda
Matilda 1996 Danny DeVito
Matinee 1993 Joe Dante
The Matrix 1999 The Wachowskis
A Matter of Life and Death 1946 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman
Mean Girls 2004 Mark Waters
Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese
Medea 1969 Pier Paolo Pasolini
Medium Cool 1969 Haskell Wexler
The Medusa Touch 1978 Jack Gold
Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli
Meet the Feebles 1989 Peter Jackson
Meet the Parents 2000 Jay Roach
Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan
The Men 1950 Fred Zinnemann
Men in Black 1997 Barry Sonnenfeld
Mera Naam Joker 1970 Raj Kapoor
Merci la vie (also known as Thank You, Life) 1991 Bertrand Blier
Mesa of Lost Women 1953 Herbert Tevos and Ron Ormond
Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Maya Deren and Alexandr Hackenschmied
The Message 1976 Moustapha Akkad
Message from Space 1978 Kinji Fukasaku
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster 2004 Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang
Miami Connection 1987 Richard Park and Y.K. Kim
Midnight 1982 John A. Russo
Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger
Midnight Express 1978 Alan Parker
Midnight Run 1988 Martin Brest
The Mighty 1998 Peter Chelsom
The Mighty Peking Man 1977 Ho Meng-hua
The Milagro Beanfield War 1988 Robert Redford
Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz
Miller's Crossing 1990 The Coen Brothers
The Million Eyes of Sumuru 1967 Harry Alan Towers
The Millionairess 1960 Anthony Asquith
Minbo 1992 Juzo Itami
Minnie and Moskowitz 1971 John Cassavetes
Minotaur, The Mask of the Demons (also known as The Devil's Men and Land of the Minotaur) 1976 Kostas Karagiannis
Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton
MirrorMask 2005 Dave McKean
Misery 1990 Rob Reiner
The Misfits 1961 John Huston
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985 Paul Schrader
The Mission 1986 Roland Joffé
The Missouri Breaks 1976 Arthur Penn
Modern Times 1936 Charlie Chaplin
Modesty Blaise 1966 Joseph Losey
Mommie Dearest 1981 Frank Perry
Mondo Cane 1962 Gualtiero Jacopetti
Mondo Hollywood 1967 Robert Carl Cohen
Mondo Trasho 1969 John Waters
Monkey Business 1931 Norman Z. McLeod
Monsoon Wedding 2001 Mira Nair
Monster from Green Hell 1957 Kenneth G. Crane
The Monster That Challenged the World 1957 Arnold Laven
Monsieur Verdoux 1947 Charlie Chaplin
La Morte Vivante (also known as The Living Dead Girl) 1982 Jean Rollin
The Monster Squad 1987 Fred Dekker
Monte Walsh 1970 William A. Fraker
Monterey Pop 1968 D.A. Pennebaker
Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones
Monty Python's Life of Brian (also known as Life of Brian) 1979 Terry Jones
Moon 2009 Duncan Jones
The Moon and the Sledgehammer 1971 Philip Trevelyan
The Moon in the Gutter 1983 Jean-Jacques Beineix
Moonlighting 1982 Jerzy Skolimowski
More 1969 Barbet Schroeder
Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment 1966 Karel Reisz
Mortal Inheritance 1996 Andy Amenechi
The Most Dangerous Game (also known as The Hounds of Zaroff) 1932 Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel
The Most Terrible Time in My Life 1993 Kaizo Hayashi
Motel Hell 1980 Kevin Connor
The Mother 2003 Roger Michell
Mother's Day 1980 Charles Kaufman
Moulin Rouge 1952 John Huston
Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann
The Movie Orgy 1968 Joe Dante
Mr. India 1987 Shekhar Kapur
Mr. Nice Guy 1997 Sammo Hung
Mr. Nobody 2009 Jaco Van Dormael
Mr. Reliable 1996 Nadia Tass
Ms .45 (also known as Angel of Vengeance) 1981 Abel Ferrara
Mudhoney 1965 Russ Meyer
Mughal-e-Azam 1960 K. Asif
Mulholland Drive 2001 David Lynch
Multiple Maniacs 1970 John Waters
Murder a la Mod 1968 Brian De Palma
Murder She Said 1961 George Pollock
Murder, My Sweet (also known as Farewell, My Lovely) 1944 Edward Dmytryk
Muriel's Wedding 1994 P. J. Hogan
The Music Box 1932 James Parrott
The Music Lovers 1971 Ken Russell
Mutual Appreciation 2005 Andrew Bujalski
My Best Fiend 1999 Werner Herzog
My Bloody Valentine 1981 George Mihalka
My Cousin Vinny 1992 Jonathan Lynn
My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford
My Favorite Year 1982 Richard Benjamin
My Life as a Dog 1985 Lasse Hallström
My Life Without Me 2003 Isabel Coixet
My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava
My Name Is Bruce 2007 Bruce Campbell
My Name Is Joe 1998 Ken Loach
My Name Is Julia Ross 1945 Joseph H. Lewis
My Name Is Nobody 1973 Tonino Valerii
My Neighbor Totoro 1988 Hayao Miyazaki
My Own Private Idaho 1991 Gus Van Sant
My Super Ex-Girlfriend 2006 Ivan Reitman
My Winnipeg 2007 Guy Maddin
Myra Breckinridge 1970 Michael Sarne
The Mysterians 1957 Ishirō Honda
Mysterious Island 1961 Cy Endfield
Mystery Men 1999 Kinka Usher
Mystery Train 1989 Jim Jarmusch