Highly Underrated/Unknown Movies

[lefty]

I also rewatched it a few months ago and was astounded how ****** the direction, plotting, cinematography and acting were.

lefty

 

[oxfordamerican]

I also rewatched it a few months ago and was astounded how ****** the direction, plotting, cinematography and acting were.

lefty

When I watched it, I was astounded by how good all those things were. Perhaps if we watched it together it would be just okay.

 

[lefty]

Two things that are never going to happen: you and me watching a movie together and me watching that movie again.

lefty

 

[Bhowie]

That movie is awful

 

[Hayward]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(1980_film)

 

[freshcutgrass]

Nice list, although it's hard to call 9 1/2 Weeks or Metropolitan "highly underrated" or unknown.

While I realize it's a bit of an iconic 80's film, I get the feeling it is not taken seriously. I think it is still highly under rated...some of the best cinematography I've seen on this kind of film. And I had the impression it was kind of forgotten? Ok...how about Rourke's prior film... Cimino's Year of the Dragon? I really liked that one too. The female lead sucked, but she did have that cool loft apartment.


couple for the sci fi fans....

Cherry 2000 good fun.

Zardoz strange. No...make that really strange.

 

[Lionheart Biker]

Paris, Texas. A true hidden gem.

 

[Lord-Barrington]

Some of these are more obscure than others, but all fantastic films:

Sans Soleil (France, 1983)
The Face of Another (Japan, 1966)
Claire's Knee (France, 1970)
Love in the Afternoon (France, 1972)
Perfect Blue (Japan, 1997)
Tell No One (France, 2006)
Voices of a Distant Star (Japan, 2003)
The Girl Who Leaps Through Time (Japan, 2006)
Suicide Club (Japan, 2002)
La Sierra (Documentary, Colombia, 2005)
Memories of Murder (South Korea, 2003)
The Ballad fo Narayama (Japan, 1983)
Summer Hours (France, 2008)
The Secret of the Grain (France, 2008)

 

[oxfordamerican]

Splendor In The Grass

 

[Darkside]

Wild Strawberries. Not underrated, but not well known enough.

 

[freshcutgrass]

Wild Strawberries. Not underrated, but not well known enough.

By whom? Woody Allen and perhaps 47 other Americans have ever seen a Bergman film. I think it's safe to say that any "foreign" film is unknown to your garden variety "American". Wild Strawberries usually doesn't even make most people's top ten list of Bergman films.

 

[lefty]

Cherry 2000 is a good call. Along those lines...

A Boy and His Dog

lefty

 

[freshcutgrass]

Never seen that one. Watched a little of it...you're right, it is along those lines.

Another post apocalyptical "Mad max-ish film is....

Before Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles, Molly Ringwald starred in Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983). I thought this one was a lot of fun. I'm not really sure how unknown this film is though.

I hope I'm wrong about it's obscurity, but just in case I'm not, I happen to be watching one of the best road movies ever tonight...Two-Lane Blacktop (1971). Two guys racing their 55 chevy across the US. It stars Brian Wilson (yea, that Brian Wilson) as the mechanic and James Taylor (yea, that James Taylor) as the driver.

 

[lefty]

Both excellent choices.

Electra Glide in Blue for Robert Blake when he was vital.

Bless the Beasts and the Children

Some say Stanley Kramer was slumming, but it worked for me when I was a kid and hit an early '70s anti-hunting sweet spot.



lefty

 

[derfreshmaker]

There are couple of movies that I think should be in any list of the most underrated movies.

1. Eyes Wide Shut
2. Wake in Fright

Wake in Fright is great. If you feel like expounding, I'd be interested to hear why you feel Eyes Wide Shut should be more highly rated.

To add to the thread, people have different ideas about what is unknown, but off the top of my head, some favorite late 60s/early 70s satires/black comedies are the Loved One, the Telephone Book, and Putney Swope.