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

Film Year Director Source
Waiting for Guffman 1996 Christopher Guest [1]
Wake in Fright 1971 Ted Kotcheff [2]
A Walk to Remember 2002 Adam Shankman [2]
Waking Life 2001 Richard Linklater [3]
Walden (also known as Diaries, Notes, and Sketches) 1968 Jonas Mekas [4]
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 2007 Jake Kasdan [1]
Walk on the Wild Side 1962 Edward Dmytryk [5]
Walkabout 1971 Nicolas Roeg [citation needed]
Walker 1987 Alex Cox [6]
Walking and Talking 1996 Nicole Holofcener [7]
Wall Street 1987 Oliver Stone [7]
Wanda, the Sadistic Hypnotist (also known as The Sadistic Hypnotist) 1969 Greg Corarito [8]
The Wanderers 1979 Philip Kaufman [9]
The War Game 1966 Peter Watkins [8]
War of the Colossal Beast 1958 Bert I. Gordon [10]
The War of the Worlds 1953 Byron Haskin [8]
WarGames 1983 John Badham [11]
Warlock 1989 Steve Miner [12]
Warning Sign 1985 Hal Barwood [10]
The Warriors 1979 Walter Hill [13][14][15][1][8][5]
The Wasp Woman 1959 Roger Corman [10]
Watchmen 2009 Zack Snyder [16]
The Watcher in the Woods 1980 John Hough [17]
Watership Down 1978 Martin Rosen and John Hubley [18]
Waterworld 1995 Kevin Reynolds [8]
Wattstax 1973 Mel Stuart [19]
Wave Twisters 2001 Eric Henry and Syd Garon [20]
Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees 1991 David Blair [21]
Wayne's World 1992 Penelope Spheeris [22][23]
The Way of the Gun 2000 Christopher McQuarrie [24]
We Are Still Here 2015 Ted Geoghegan [25]
We Can't Go Home Again 1973 Nicholas Ray [8]
Wednesday's Child (also known as Family Life) 1971 Ken Loach [4]
Weekend 1967 Jean-Luc Godard [8][5]
Weekend at Bernie's 1989 Ted Kotcheff [26]
Weird Science 1985 John Hughes [27][28]
Welcome Home Brother Charles (also known as Soul Vengeance) 1975 Jamaa Fanaka [14][8]
Welcome to the Dollhouse 1995 Todd Solondz [8][5]
Werckmeister Harmóniák (Werckmeister Harmonies) 2000 Béla Tarr [29]
Werewolf of London 1935 Stuart Walker [30]
The Werewolf of Washington 1973 Milton Moses Ginsberg [31]
Werewolf Woman (also known as The Legend of the Wolf Woman) 1976 Rino Di Silvestro [31]
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (also known as New Nightmare) 1994 Wes Craven [8]
Westworld 1973 Michael Crichton [10][5]
Wet Hot American Summer 2001 David Wain [32][1]
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? 1969 Lee H. Katzin [5]
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich [8]
What Have You Done to Solange? 1972 Massimo Dallamano [33]
What's Up, Tiger Lily? 1966 Woody Allen and Senkichi Taniguchi [5]
When Harry Met Sally... 1989 Rob Reiner [8]
What We Do in the Shadows 2014 Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi [34][35]
When We Were Kings 1996 Leon Gast [5]
What's Opera, Doc? 1957 Chuck Jones [36]
When a Stranger Calls 1979 Fred Walton [37]
When Night Is Falling 1995 Patricia Rozema [8]
Where's Poppa? 1970 Carl Reiner [13]
Where the Boys Are 1960 Henry Levin [38]
Where the Wild Things Are 2009 Spike Jonze [39]
White Chicks 2004 Keenen Ivory Wayans [40][41][42]
White Dog 1982 Samuel Fuller [6][27]
White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh [43]
White Mischief 1988 Michael Radford [44]
White Zombie 1932 Victor Halperin [30][5]
Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Robert Zemeckis [45]
Who Killed Captain Alex? 2010 Nabwana Isaac Geoffrey Godfrey [46]
The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy [47][48][8][5]
The Wicker Man 2006 Neil LaBute [49]
The Wild Angels 1966 Roger Corman [8]
Wild at Heart 1990 David Lynch [8][5]
The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah [13][8][5]
Wild Guitar 1962 Ray Dennis Steckler [50]
Wild in the Streets 1968 Barry Shear [8]
The Wild One 1953 László Benedek [8][5]
Wild Seed 1965 Brian G. Hutton [51]
Wild Side 1995 Donald Cammell [52]
Wild Style 1983 Charlie Ahearn [15]
Wild Things 1998 John McNaughton [53]
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? 1957 Frank Tashlin [54]
Willard 2003 Glen Morgan [55]
William Winckler's Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove (also known as Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove) 2005 William Winckler [30]
Willow 1988 Ron Howard [56]
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971 Mel Stuart [43]
Willy's Wonderland 2021 Kevin Lewis [57]
Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders [15][8]
Wir Wunderkinder (Aren't We Wonderful?) 1958 Kurt Hoffmann [58]
Wise Blood 1979 John Huston [5]
Witchboard 1986 Kevin S. Tenney [59][60]
Witchcraft Through the Ages (also known as Häxan) 1922 Benjamin Christensen [14][51][61][8][30]
Witchfinder General (also known as The Conqueror Worm) 1968 Michael Reeves [13][14][8][5]
The Witches 1990 Nicolas Roeg [62]
Withnail and I 1987 Bruce Robinson [14][15][61][48][5]
Witness 1985 Peter Weir [2]
The Wiz 1978 Sidney Lumet [15]
The Wizard 1989 Todd Holland [63]
The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming [13][14][8][5]
The Wizard of Speed and Time 1979 Mike Jittlov [64]
Wizards 1977 Ralph Bakshi [65][66]
Wniebowzięci (The Ascended) 1973 Andrzej Kondratiuk [67]
WolfCop 2014 Lowell Dean [68]
Wolf Creek 2005 Greg McLean [69]
Wolfen 1981 Michael Wadleigh [31]
The Woman in Black 2012 James Watkins [70]
A Woman Under the Influence 1974 John Cassavetes [5]
The Women 1939 George Cukor [71]
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 Pedro Almodóvar [15][5]
Wonderland 1999 Michael Winterbottom [72]
Woodstock 1970 Michael Wadleigh [8]
World's Biggest Gang Bang 1995 John T. Bone [8]
The World's Greatest Sinner 1962 Timothy Carey [51]
The Wormwood Star 1956 Curtis Harrington [51]
WR: Mysteries of the Organism 1971 Dušan Makavejev [8]
Wrestlemaniac 2006 Jesse Baget [73]
Wristcutters: A Love Story 2006 Goran Dukić [74]
Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler [43]
Wyrmwood 2014 Kiah Roache-Turner [75]

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