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
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13 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher R -
22 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino R -
69 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel & Ethan Coen R -
72 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan R -
126 Shaun of the Dead 2004 Edgar Wright R -
147 American History X 1998 Tony Kaye R -
149 Office Space 1999 Mike Judge R -
203 12 Monkeys 1995 Terry Gilliam R -
218 Army of Shadows 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville NR -
235 Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki PG -
238 Oldboy 2003 Chan-wook Park R -
296 Let the Right One In 2008 Tomas Alfredson R -
333 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly R -
335 Clerks. 1994 Kevin Smith R -
337 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 James Foley R -
348 Beetlejuice 1988 Tim Burton PG -
359 American Psycho 2000 Mary Harron R -
370 Army of Darkness 1992 Sam Raimi R -
439 Serenity 2005 Joss Whedon PG13 -
445 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky NC17 -
458 They Live 1988 John Carpenter R -
533 Hard Boiled 1992 John Woo R -
551 Dazed and Confused 1993 Richard Linklater R -
564 Brick 2005 Rian Johnson R -
607 Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang 2005 Shane Black R -
616 House 1977 Nobuhiko Ôbayashi NR -
640 Battle Royale 2000 Kinji Fukasaku NR -
661 Heathers 1988 Michael Lehmann R -
665 Naked 1993 Mike Leigh NR -
678 The Iron Giant 1999 Brad Bird PG -
680 Near Dark 1987 Kathryn Bigelow R -
692 Synecdoche, New York 2008 Charlie Kaufman R -
715 Clue 1985 Jonathan Lynn PG -
735 The Vanishing 1988 George Sluizer NR -
750 Dead Alive 1992 Peter Jackson NR -
783 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998 Terry Gilliam R -
788 Delicatessen 1991 Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet NR -
797 The Fall 2006 Tarsem Singh R -
849 Zodiac 2007 David Fincher R -
884 Dead Man 1995 Jim Jarmusch R -
952 Heavenly Creatures 1994 Peter Jackson R -
957 Primer 2004 Shane Carruth PG13 -
982 Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg R -
993 Bottle Rocket 1996 Wes Anderson R -
1037 Audition 1999 Takashi Miike NR -
1039 The Boondock Saints 1999 Troy Duffy R -
1048 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover 1989 Peter Greenaway NC17 -
1062 Starship Troopers 1997 Paul Verhoeven R -
1069 Hedwig and The Angry Inch 2001 John Cameron Mitchell R -
1108 Rounders 1998 John Dahl R -
1113 Fallen Angels 1995 Wong Kar-Wai R -
1139 Point Break 1991 Kathryn Bigelow R -
1145 [REC] 2007 Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza R -
1152 Real Genius 1985 Martha Coolidge PG -
1156 The Limey 1999 Steven Soderbergh R -
1187 Millennium Actress 2001 Satoshi Kon PG -
1234 Mysterious Skin 2004 Gregg Araki NC17 -
1241 Punch-Drunk Love 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson R -
1243 American Movie 1999 Chris Smith R -
1246 Highlander 1986 Russell Mulcahy R -
1274 Sexy Beast 2000 Jonathan Glazer R -
1374 Black Dynamite 2009 Scott Sanders R -
1377 Lost Highway 1997 David Lynch R -
1400 Man Bites Dog 1992 Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde NC17 -
1438 Zoolander 2001 Ben Stiller PG13 -
1475 Wet Hot American Summer 2001 David Wain R -
1482 Enter the Void 2009 Gaspar Noé NR -
1493 The Host 2006 Bong Joon Ho NR -
1554 Bound 1996 The Wachowskis R -
1580 Kung Fu Hustle 2004 Stephen Chow R -
1603 Irreversible 2002 Gaspar Noé NR -
1643 Ichi the Killer 2001 Takashi Miike NR -
1650 Buffalo '66 1998 Vincent Gallo NR -
1673 Napoleon Dynamite 2004 Jared Hess PG -
1682 Pump up the Volume 1990 Allan Moyle R -
1702 The Triplets of Belleville 2003 Sylvain Chomet PG13 -
1703 Team America: World Police 2004 Trey Parker R -
1704 Satantango 1994 Béla Tarr R -
1723 Pi 1998 Darren Aronofsky R -
1730 My Own Private Idaho 1991 Gus Van Sant R -
1754 Martyrs 2008 Pascal Laugier R -
1774 UHF 1989 Jay Levey PG13 -
1810 The Last Seduction 1994 John Dahl R -
1831 King of New York 1990 Abel Ferrara R -
1832 I Am Cuba 1964 Mikhail Kalatozov NR -
1849 The Descent 2005 Neil Marshall R -
1901 Quick Change 1990 Howard Franklin R -
1904 Exotica 1994 Atom Egoyan R -
1984 Sonatine 1993 Takeshi Kitano R -
2009 Slacker 1991 Richard Linklater R -
2079 A Tale of Two Sisters 2003 Jee-woon Kim R -
2116 Road House 1989 Rowdy Herrington R -
2155 The Devil's Advocate 1997 Taylor Hackford R -
2196 Darkman 1990 Sam Raimi R -
2224 Inside 2007 Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury R -
2246 The House of the Devil 2009 Ti West R -
2262 Slither 2006 James Gunn R -
2272 Ginger Snaps 2000 John Fawcett NR -
2352 In the Company of Men 1997 Neil LaBute R -
2367 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Stanley Kubrick R -

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