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Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies 

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Entertainment Weekly's list of the fifty best cult movies of all time. There's a reason why these are the best cult classic movies.
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This Is Spinal Tap is listed (or ranked) 1 on the list Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies
Dir. by Rob Reiner (1984), starring Billy Crystal, Fran Drescher & Anjelica Huston

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The Rocky Horror Picture... is listed (or ranked) 2 on the list Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies
Dir. by Jim Sharman (1975), starring Susan Sarandon, Tim Curry & Meat Loaf

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Freaks is listed (or ranked) 3 on the list Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies
Dir. by Tod Browning (1932), starring Wallace Ford, Edward Brophy & Roscoe Ates

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Harold and Maude is listed (or ranked) 4 on the list Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies
Dir. by Hal Ashby (1971), starring Ruth Gordon, Tom Skerritt & Bud Cort

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Pink Flamingos is listed (or ranked) 5 on the list Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies
Dir. by John Waters (1972), starring John Waters, Divine & Mink Stole

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The Texas Chainsaw Massa... is listed (or ranked) 6 on the list Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies
Dir. by Marcus Nispel (2003), starring Jessica Biel, R. Lee Ermey & Mike Vogel

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Repo Man is listed (or ranked) 7 on the list Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies
Dir. by Alex Cox (1984), starring Jimmy Buffett, Emilio Estevez & Harry Dean Stanton

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Scarface is listed (or ranked) 8 on the list Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies
Dir. by Howard Hawks and Richard Rosson (1932), starring Jean Harlow, Boris Karloff & Paul Muni

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Blade Runner is listed (or ranked) 9 on the list Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies
Dir. by Ridley Scott (1982), starring Harrison Ford, Daryl Hannah & Sean Young

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The Shawshank Redemption... is listed (or ranked) 10 on the list Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies
Dir. by Frank Darabont (1994), starring Morgan Freeman, Rita Hayworth & Tim Robbins

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Five Deadly Venoms is listed (or ranked) 11 on the list Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies
Dir. by Chang Cheh (1978), starring Philip Kwok, Chiang Sheng & Feng Lu

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Plan 9 from Outer Space ... is listed (or ranked) 12 on the list Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies
Dir. by Ed Wood (1959), starring Tor Johnson, Bunny Breckinridge & Joanna Lee

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Brazil is listed (or ranked) 13 on the list Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies
Dir. by Terry Gilliam (1985), starring Robert De Niro, Bob Hoskins & Ian Holm

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Eraserhead is listed (or ranked) 14 on the list Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies
Dir. by David Lynch (1977), starring Jack Nance, Jeanne Bates & Jack Fisk

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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! ... is listed (or ranked) 15 on the list Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies
Dir. by Russ Meyer (1965), starring Tura Satana, Susan Bernard & Stuart Lancaster
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The Warriors is listed (or ranked) 16 on the list Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies
Dir. by Walter Hill (1979), starring Mercedes Ruehl, Robert Townsend & James Remar

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Dazed and Confused is listed (or ranked) 17 on the list Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies
Dir. by Richard Linklater (1993), starring Ben Affleck, Milla Jovovich & Matthew McConaughey

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Hard Boiled is listed (or ranked) 18 on the list Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies
Dir. by John Woo (1992), starring Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung Chiu Wai & Philip Kwok

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Evil Dead II is listed (or ranked) 19 on the list Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies
Dir. by Sam Raimi (1987), starring Bruce Campbell, Kassie DePaiva & Ted Raimi

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The Mack is listed (or ranked) 20 on the list Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies
Dir. by Michael Campus (1973), starring Richard Pryor, Juanita Moore & Roger E. Mosley

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Pee-wee's Big Adventure ... is listed (or ranked) 21 on the list Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies
Dir. by Tim Burton (1985), starring Phil Hartman, Morgan Fairchild & Tim Burton

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An Andalusian Dog is listed (or ranked) 22 on the list Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies
Dir. by Luis Buñuel (1929), starring Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Luis Buñuel & Simone Mareuil
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Akira is listed (or ranked) 23 on the list Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies
Dir. by Katsuhiro Otomo (1988), starring Takeshi Kusao, Mami Koyama & Tesshō Genda

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The Toxic Avenger is listed (or ranked) 24 on the list Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies
Dir. by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz (1984), starring Marisa Tomei, Mitch Cohen & R. L. Ryan

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Willy Wonka & the Ch... is listed (or ranked) 25 on the list Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies
Dir. by Mel Stuart (1971), starring Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson & Tim Brooke-Taylor

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