“I know a lot of films that other people don’t know,” Nan Goldin said when we asked for her Cult Vault. Over the last few years, we’ve mined the obsessive passions of directors and artists all over the world by asking them to share their underground film secrets. Along the way we’ve discovered some brilliantly obscure and unsung treasures, by asking filmmakers we love, who they love: Pedro Almodovar introduced us to his late friend Ivan Zulueta’s 1980 tale of drug addiction and vampirism Arrebato, and Bruce La Bruce gave us Frank Perry’s 1972 Play it as it Lays (“A jaded, realistic portrait of LA’s seamy underbelly that goes a long way toward explaining the Lohans of today.”). There was also Nick Broomfield’s idiosyncractic recommendation of a film entirely about a man trying to escape from a sandpit. Here’s all our discoveries so far….

Cult Vault #1: Bernard Rose on The Party

Cult Vault #2: Johan Grimonprez on The Lone Gunman

Cult Vault #3: Bruno Safadi on Belair

Cult Vault #4: Tom Dillico on Midnight Cowboy 

Cult Vault #5: François Ozon on Germany Year Zero

Cult Vault #6: Bruce LaBruce on The Driver's Seat

Cult Vault #7: Adam Green on Mother's Day

Cult Vault #8: Michael Robinson on The Day of the Locust

Cult Vault #9: Patrick Keiller on The Old Dark House

Cult Vault #10: Jonas Mekas on The Blonde Cobra

Cult Vault #11: Pedro Costa on Numero Zero by Jean Eustache

Cult Vault #12: Pedro Almodóvar on Rapture by Ivan Zulueta

Cult Vault #13: Jake West on Cannibal Girls

Cult Vault #14: Ry Ruso-Young on Abigail Child's Mayhem

Cult Vault #15: Lucy Walker on Streetwise

Cult Vault #16: Ken Loach on A Blonde in Love

Cult Vault #17: Duncan Jones on The Blood of Heroes

Cult Vault #18: Morgan Spurlock on Scanners

Cult Vault #19: Mike Leigh on Little Malcolm

Cult Vault #20: David Lynch on Sunset Boulevard

Cult Vault #21: Peter Strickland on Outer Space

Cult Vault #22: Michael Roemer on Nothing But a Man

Cult Vault #23: William Gibson on The Book of Life

Cult Vault #24: Alex Cox on Vengeance is Mine

Cult Vault #25: Rose McGowan on The Doom Generation 

Cult Vault #26: Mark Cousins on A Moment of Innocence

Cult Vault #27: Azazel Jacobs on Out of the Blue

Cult Vault #28: Mia Hansen-Løve on Adalen 31

Cult Vault #29: Jem Cohen on Investigation of a Flame

Cult Vault #30: Guy Maddin on Haxan

Cult Vault #31: Jennifer Lynch on Dad's in Heaven with Nixon

Cult Vault #32: Oren Moverman on In the Realm of the Senses

Cult Vault #33: Nick Broomfield on The Woman of the Dunes

Cult Vault #34: Gerado Naranjo on The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

Cult Vault #35: Bibis Makridis on Singapore Sling

Cult Vault #36:  Bruce LaBruce on Play It as It Lays

Cult Vault #37: Matt Porterfield on Streetwise

Cult Vault #38: Michal Marcza on Camera Buff

Cult Vault #39: Antonio Campos on The Rite

Cult Vault #40: Ulrich Seidl on Naked

Cult Vault #41: Alice Englert on Loves of a Blonde