Your Favorite Underappreciated Movies

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Movies that weren't critically acclaimed or a super popular blockbuster

I've always liked these movies
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Sure Thing
The Flamingo Kid
Babette's Feast
El Norte
Testament
Monsieur Hire (Fr)
Diva (Fr)
The Good Thief

 

[whormoan]

The Game

 

[Brock]

What's eating Gilbert Grape.

 

[NES]

Legend
Evil Dead/Army of Darkness
Death to Smoochy
Gilber Grape
A Scanner Darkly
Shaun of the Dead
Envy
Tenacious D pick of destiny

 

[celticGreen+]

25th Hour (really one of the best films I've ever seen)
Brother (Takeshi Kitano, Omar Epps)
Sugar Hill
Over The Edge (1979)
Down by Law

 

[quantumleap]

"Zapped!" with Scott Baio. I don't know why I like this so much. Probably because it deals with someone with supernatural powers.

 

[Romanowski]

Bottle Rocket - (All Wes Anderson movies)

Pi

Primer

Ladyhawke

 

[celticGreen+]

Bottle Rocket - (All Wes Anderson movies)

Pi

Primer

Ladyhawke

Primer was great - love the timelines folks have drawn-up at wikipedia.

 

[wilheim]

Underapprecied IMHO.

A Soldier's Story 1984 - star Denzel Washington
Ronin - 1998, star Robert De Niro
Boondocks Saints - 1999,star William Defoe
Munich - 2005, director Steven Spielberg
Nixon - 1995, Dir. Oliver Stone star Anthony Hopkins




wil.

 

[DennizdaMenace]

Runaway Train

Lady In White

Bad Lieutenant

Under the Same Moon

Brokedown Palace

 

[FairWarning]

I'll second Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The Game

Spaceballs
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
Colors
Eight Men Out

 

[trytrytry]

something wicked this way comes

 

[dominicdg]

i agree with wil on boondock Saints. I love that movie.

Spaceballs was great to.

 

[BradtheBloke]

True Romance
Tarantino movie with Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Brad Pitt, Val Kilmer, Christopher Walken, Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper, James Gandolfini, Samuel L. Jackson, Cris Penn, Tom Sizemore, and even Balky from Perfect strangers or whatever that show was from the 80's

 

[kbhirsch]

House of Games

 

[SlashednThrashed]

Conan the Barbarian (IMO Arnolds best film)
Conan the Destroyer
White Heat - (Cagney Gangsta Classic)
Surviving the Game
Cheech & Chong - Nice Dreams
Bad Santa

 

[RobFunk]

Secret window

 

[WorldNumberOne]

this is spinal tap...

not many have seen it . those who have , have seen it multiple times.

one of the funniest movies ever made .

 

[dominicdg]

Hook. That Peter Pan movie.

 

[billhill999]

Bad Santa

It's on Spike right now.

Mine are Stripes and The Breakfast Club.