Great Movies Very Few People Have Seen
by jasoninatree | created - 16 Dec 2010 | updated - 21 Jun 2020 | PublicSome of the greatest unknown movies ever made
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1. Love Exposure (2008)
Unrated | 237 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A bizarre love triangle forms between a young Catholic upskirt photographer, a misandric girl and a manipulative cultist.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Andô, Yutaka Shimizu
Votes: 15,921
This 4-hour epic is in my top 20 films of all time. A film about perversion, sin, disfunctional families, cult religions, but above all things, love.
2. Dead Man Drinking (2008)
89 min | Comedy
A discussion had by five friends results in four of them running off to house-sit for a long weekend while playing the game Killer, a schoolyard game where each player has to 'take out' ... See full summary »
Director: Rohan Harris | Stars: Jen Greiss, Peter Love, Hannah Moltoni, Kurtis Wakefield
Votes: 24
The new Clerks.
3. The Legend Is Born: Ip Man (2010)
Not Rated | 100 min | Action, Biography, Drama
Yip Man's resistance against invading foreigners, along with his romantic relations while under the tutelage of three Wing Chun masters.
Director: Herman Yau | Stars: Yu-Hang To, Yi Huang, Biao Yuen, Siu-Wong Fan
Votes: 32,771
An excellent entry in the chronicles of Ip Man.
4. Detective Dee: The Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010)
PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An exiled detective is recruited to solve a series of mysterious deaths that threaten to delay the inauguration of Empress Wu.
Director: Hark Tsui | Stars: Tony Ka Fai Leung, Chao Deng, Carina Lau, Bingbing Li
Votes: 11,880 | Gross: $0.46M
A Chinese, period, Sherlock Holmesian, martial-arts mystery.
5. Technotise: Edit & I (2009)
Not Rated | 100 min | Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
Belgrade 2074. Edit is a student. After a few failed exams she decides to implant a memory chip... but, something strange starts happening to her.
Directors: Aleksa Gajic, Nebojsa Andric, Stevan Djordjevic | Stars: Sanda Knezevic, Nebojsa Glogovac, Jelisaveta 'Seka' Sablic, Petar Kralj
Votes: 3,376
A great, complex, futuristic sci-fi from Serbia.
6. Kamikaze Girls (2004)
102 min | Comedy
Momoko, a strange and seemingly emotionless girl obsessed with 18th century France, befriends a Yanki biker and the two experience the ups and downs of their unusual lives in a rural Japanese town.
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima | Stars: Kyôko Fukada, Anna Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki Miyasako, Sadao Abe
Votes: 8,093
Two loner girls make unlikely friends.
7. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
Not Rated | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
A handsome prince rides a flying horse to faraway lands and embarks on magical adventures, which include befriending a witch, meeting Aladdin, battling demons and falling in love with a princess.
Directors: Lotte Reiniger, Carl Koch
Votes: 6,899
8. The Lost Skeleton Returns Again (2008)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy
Jerranium 90, a "little rock" that made all the papers, is buried deep within the Amazon. And everybody wants it, including crooked importer Handscomb Draile, slimy Gondreau Slykes, cheap ... See full summary »
Director: Larry Blamire | Stars: H.M. Wynant, Frank Dietz, Christine Romeo, Brian Howe
Votes: 775
An Ed Wood style mystery spoof.
9. Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge (2007)
109 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Yosuke, a typical slacker kid dozing his way through school, showing nothing in the way of ambition as he quietly mulls over the death of a close friend the year before. He is clever enough... See full summary »
Director: Takuji Kitamura | Stars: Yôsuke Asari, Terutaka Hasegawa, Hayato Ichihara, Itsuji Itao
Votes: 336
An ordinary high school boy develops a relationship with a girl who has to battle a giant chainsaw-wielding maniac every night.
10. Godkiller: Walk Among Us (2010)
Not Rated | 75 min | Animation, Sci-Fi
About a 16-year-old boy's odyssey through a post-nuke wasteland as he searches for a new heart to save his dying sister.
Director: Matteo Pizzolo | Stars: Danielle Harris, Lance Henriksen, Davey Havok, Justin Courtney Pierre
Votes: 455
A tank-girl style motion-comic with an excellent voice cast.
11. Der alte Affe Angst (2003)
92 min | Drama, Romance
Angst is the story of a sensitive stage director, Robert, and his beautiful girlfriend Marie, a doctor in a children's clinic. Their different attitudes toward life lead the two to constant... See full summary »
Director: Oskar Roehler | Stars: André Hennicke, Marie Bäumer, Vadim Glowna, Hilde Van Mieghem
Votes: 508
A very brutal portrayal of an Austrian psycho with an urge to kill. It's realistic nature makes this film so shocking and disturbing.
12. Entrails of a Beautiful Woman (1986)
68 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
A tortured and raped young girl mutates into a penis-headed demon and mutilates her captors.
Director: Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu | Stars: Megumi Ozawa, Ayako Ishii, Seira Kitagawa, Ken Yoshizawa
Votes: 881
Entrails Of A Beautiful Woman. Crazy Japanese exploitation.
13. Charlie & Boots (2009)
101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A father and son who travel from Victoria to Cape York to fulfill their lifelong ambition to fish off Australia's northern tip.
Director: Dean Murphy | Stars: Paul Hogan, Shane Jacobson, Roy Billing, Morgan Griffin
Votes: 1,681
14. No Impact Man: The Documentary (2009)
Not Rated | 93 min | Documentary
Follow the Manhattan-based Beavan family as they abandon their high consumption 5th Avenue lifestyle and try to live a year while making no net environmental impact.
Directors: Laura Gabbert, Justin Schein | Stars: Colin Beavan, Michelle Conlin
Votes: 1,588 | Gross: $0.10M
15. Midgets vs. Mascots (2009)
R | 85 min | Comedy
Follow 10 contestants as they compete for 1 million dollars in prize money.
Director: Ron Carlson | Stars: Rick Howland, Mark Hapka, Akie Kotabe, Brittney Powell
Votes: 724
16. The Aerial (2007)
99 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
This near-silent black and white film from Argentina tells the story of a city that has lost its voice, stolen by Mr. TV, and the attempts of a small family to win the voice back. Similar in design to early German expressionist films.
Director: Esteban Sapir | Stars: Alejandro Urdapilleta, Valeria Bertuccelli, Julieta Cardinali, Rafael Ferro
Votes: 4,610
17. Dean Spanley (2008)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
Set in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his son, but when the pair visit an eccentric Indian, they start a strange journey that eventually allows the old man to find his heart.
Director: Toa Fraser | Stars: Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Peter O'Toole
Votes: 3,824
18. The Boyfriend School (1990)
PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Romance
Cartoonist Gus has survived cancer treatment and now his romance novelist sister tries to find him a woman and guide him. Will they succeed?
Director: Malcolm Mowbray | Stars: Steve Guttenberg, Jami Gertz, Shelley Long, Kyle MacLachlan
Votes: 3,267 | Gross: $1.17M
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