Cult film

A cult film is a movie that attracts a small but devoted group of fans, usually failing to achieve considerable success outside that group.

Cult films within a particular culture

An instance of how cults differ between culture can be seen in the cult status of British comedic actor Norman Wisdom?s films in Albania. Wisdom?s films, in which he usually played a family man worker who outsmarts his boss, were some of the few Western films considered acceptable by the county?s communist rulers, thus Albanians grew familiar and attached to Wisdom. Curiously, he and his films are now acquiring nostalgic cult status in Britain. Similarly, the American film It's a Wonderful Life, which features an exploitative capitalist as its villain, was allowed in the USSR, giving it a cult status in Russia.

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British - Comedic - Actor - Norman Wisdom - Albania - Communist - American - It's a Wonderful Life - Capitalist - Villain - USSR - Russia

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Another example is the place of The Wizard of Oz in American gay culture. Although a widely viewed and historically important film in greater American culture, it has gained a special meaning to many gay men who see probably unintended gay themes in the film. Gay men have refered to themselves as "friends" of Dorothy.

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The Wizard of Oz - American gay culture - Dorothy

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