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Society (🇺🇸 1989) Brian Yuzna's debut blends body horror with class satire, climaxing in a notorious orgy of flesh-melting practical effects.

#bodyhorror #cultcinema #horrorfilm #brianyuzna #80shorror #practicaleffects #cultclassic #horrorcomedy #shunting
February 15, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (🇺🇸/🇯🇵 1985) Paul Schrader's triptych biography of novelist Yukio Mishima, blending staged literary adaptations with documentary footage.

#paulschrader #mishima #arthouse #biopic #japanesecinema #cultfilm #philipglass #80scinema #worldcinema
February 15, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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Kanashimi no Belladonna (🇯🇵 1973) Eiichi Yamamoto's psychedelic animated feature adapts a 19th-century text on witchcraft through watercolor visuals and erotic imagery.

#animation #japaneseanimation #psychedelic #arthouse #cultcinema #anime #eroticart #witchcraft #70sfilm #experimentalfilm
February 15, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Opera (🇮🇹 1987) Dario Argento's slasher set in a Milanese opera house, with needles taped under the heroine's eyes to force her to watch each murder.

#giallo #DarioArgento #italianhorror #horrorfilm #cultcinema #slasher #80shorror #operafilm #argento
February 15, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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Futureworld (🇺🇸 1976) Sequel to Westworld, with Peter Fonda and Blythe Danner uncovering a conspiracy at the rebuilt Delos resort.

#scifi #sciencefiction #70sscifi #cultcinema #dystopia #peterfonda #blythedanner #westworld #retrofuturism #androidfilm #technothriller
February 15, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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A Clockwork Orange (🇬🇧/🇺🇸 1971) Stanley Kubrick adapts Anthony Burgess's dystopian novel about ultraviolence and state-mandated behavioral conditioning.

#stanleykubrick #dystopia #scifi #cultcinema #britishfilm #70sfilm #arthouse #socialcommentary #adaptation
February 15, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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Black Swan (🇺🇸 2010) Darren Aronofsky's psychological thriller about a ballerina's descent into madness as she prepares for Swan Lake.

#blackswan #darrenaronofsky #psychologicalthriller #natalieportman #cultcinema #arthouse #ballet #thriller #2010s
February 15, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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Whore (🇬🇧 1991) Ken Russell's raw street-level drama about a Los Angeles prostitute, starring Theresa Russell, made as a direct response to the sanitized fantasy of Pretty Woman.

#kenrussell #theresarussell #cultcinema #britishfilm #drama #90sfilm #prostitution #losangeles #independentfilm
February 15, 2026 at 11:11 AM
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Les Nuits de la pleine lune (🇫🇷 1984) Fourth entry in Éric Rohmer's Comedies and Proverbs series, starring Pascale Ogier.

#ericrohmer #frenchcinema #arthouse #80sfilm #newwave #drama #romancedrama #cultcinema #worldcinema #pascaleogier
February 15, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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Leviathan (🇫🇷/🇬🇧 2012). Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel's sensory ethnography documentary shot aboard a North Atlantic fishing trawler.

#documentary #sensoryethnography #experimentalfilm #arthouse #harvardsel #cultcinema #fishingboat #avantgarde #nonfiction
February 15, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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Leo Sonnyboy (🇩🇪 1991) Uwe Frießner's Berlin drama follows a young man's drift through the city's underworld.

#germancinema #drama #berlinfilm #arthouse #worldcinema #90sfilm #cultfilm #uwefriessner #germanfilm
February 15, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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Contempt (🇫🇷/🇮🇹 1963). Jean-Luc Godard's meditation on marriage and cinema, featuring Brigitte Bardot and Jack Palance.

#cultcinema #horrorfilm #exploitation #grindhouse
February 15, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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La chiave (🇮🇹 1983). Tinto Brass's erotic drama set in 1940s Venice, adapted from Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.

#horrorfilm #cultcinema #cultmovies #eurocinema #italiancinema #tintobrass #eroticcinema #artfilm #80sfilm #tanizaki #venezia #eurocult #vintagemovies
February 15, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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Tourist Trap (🇺🇸 1979). Charles Band-produced slasher with telekinetic mannequins and a genuinely unnerving performance from Chuck Connors.

#cultcinema #horrorfilm #exploitation #grindhouse
February 15, 2026 at 10:20 AM