List and Reference Guide for Underappreciated and Ignored Films

List and Reference Guide for Underappreciated and Ignored Films

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See our extensive collection and reference guide to some of the greatest underappreciated and forgotten movies ever made. To find out more about each film, click on its title (not all titles are linked yet), and then purchase it on Amazon.

Three soldiers are used as scapegoats in a trial intended to highlight the wrongdoings of their superiors in this Australian New Wave classic.

A labor union organizer arrives in a beleaguered mining hamlet that has been cruelly and viciously oppressed and intimidated by the mining corporation.

Her millionaire husband invites a group of friends to play a mystery game akin to a scavenger hunt aboard his boat for a week after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run. It turns out that the game is too deadly and too genuine.

In 1797, Billy Budd (Terence Stamp) is a gullible and unsophisticated sailor in the British Navy. Billy is charged and put on trial for the death of the ship’s cruel master-at-arms.

A former U.S. intelligence agent who works as a freelancer attempts to locate a mystery package that the Russians and Irish are after.

An Interpol agent tries to reveal the involvement of a well-known financial institution in a global arms trafficking network.

A counterfeit duplicate of an incredibly rare currency bill is sold to a currency collector by two con artists in an attempt to defraud him.

After police reject her requests to capture the man who killed her husband, a woman takes matters into her own hands. She not only gets arrested for murder but also develops feelings for one of the officers.

A cartoonist from San Francisco turns into an amateur detective in the late 1960s and early 1970s who is obsessed with finding the Zodiac Killer, an unnamed person who terrorizes Northern California with a murderous rampage.

An unconventional romantic comedy about a young man who falls in love with a woman who doesn’t think genuine love exists.

FBI startup With his supervisor, Robert Hanssen, an agent who was tried for selling information to the Soviet Union, Eric O’Neill engages in a power struggle.

A doctor helps a compulsive gambler and is guided into the murky but fascinating world of stings, scams, and con artists by a smooth-talking thief.

The tale of Preston Tucker, the trailblazing auto designer, and his tragic attempt to upend the auto industry with his ground-breaking vehicle concept

For fans of vehicle chases and ’70s cinema, this caper picture by Walter Hill (48 Hours, The Warriors) is a must-see. It’s a really unique blend of noirish gritty action and slam-bang action. Bruce Dern and Ryan O’Neal are excellent as opposing sides of the law: the relentless investigator who has pursued him at all costs and the supernaturally talented getaway vehicle driver.

A general accuses the soldiers of cowardice for not attacking an enemy position, and their commanding officer is forced to defend them.

To look into the kidnapping of the president’s daughter, a special operations officer and his protégé are enlisted.

A couple leaves the city to live in the country, but their idyllic new community is slightly different from what they had anticipated.

The expedition goes horribly wrong as astronauts and their robotic canine AMEE (Autonomous Mapping Evaluation and Evasion) search for answers on Mars in an attempt to preserve a dying Earth.

A vagabond is mistaken for a hitman when he first arrives in a tiny hamlet, but things get complicated when the genuine hitman shows up.

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