Subgenre Sampler
      Cult: 1365 Films to Buy & Rent
	  		 
	        
Hooked: Anti-Drug Films from the 30's to the 70's (1935-1979) 
- Dir.  Various
 
- Typically alarmist and all the funnier for it this set of nine "educational" shorts never lets research get in the way of putting the fear into…
 
Maniac (1934) 
- Dir. Dwain Esper
Feat. Horace B. Carpenter, Bill Woods 
- Named as one of the "100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made" in The Official Razzie Movie Guide, this early sexploitation/horror shocker was loosely…
 
Betty Boop - The Ultimate Collection (1933-1939) 
- Dir. Max Fleisher
 
- An early cartoon sensation, Betty Boop flashed her curves and batted her eyelids across Depression–era America in an amusing, slightly…
 
Duck Soup (1933)
 
- Dir. Leo McCarey
Feat. Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx… 
- A commercial bomb when released, this has since emerged as The Marx Brothers' tour–de–force, and the most popular among fans on account…
 
King Kong (1933)
 
- Dir. Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Feat. Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong 
- An iconic classic of cinema that literally smashed new ground in terms of special effects, and must have had unwitting audiences of the day…
 
Las Hurdes (Land Without Bread) (1933) 
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
 
- Surrealist non–fiction short film focused around Las Hurdes, the poorest region of Western Spain. An unnervingly straight travelogue delivered…
 
Freaks (1932)
 
- Dir. Tod Browning
Feat. Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams 
- The only film in history to exploit real–life 'mutants' is actually a sensitive and fascinating piece of cinema history. Perhaps misunderstood…
 
Un Chien Andalou (1928)
 
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Salvador Dali 
- Bunuel and Salvador Dali collaborated for this sensational short film that blew the lid off convention in a way history could never repeat. A…
 
Haxan (Witchcraft Through the Ages) (1921)
 
- Dir. Benjamin Christensen
 
- This dramatised tour of the history of witchcraft is an unsettling brew of black masses and torture chambers, by which the director was clearly…
 
50 Worst Movies Ever Made 
 
- An appropriately schlocky, American–centered countdown of the 'worst movies ever made', ranging from classic cult items like "Glen or Glenda"…