Hidden Gems
This is a list of films recommended by Listolgy users. Films should have fewer than 500 votes on IMDb.
Short films here. Hidden Gems (Short Films)
Films with links have more than one recommendation.
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Twenty Four Eyes (1954, Keisuke Kinoshita)
The Fastest Gun Alive (1956, Russell Rouse)
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Heim ins Reich (2004, Claude Lahr)
cmonster
The Girl in the Picture (1986, Cary Parker)
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Blood and Concrete (1991, Jeffrey Reiner)
Desperate Remedies (1993, Stewart Main & Peter Wells)
Maze (2000, Rob Morrow)
The Strange Case of Señor Computer (2000, Tom Sawyer)
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Adventure (1945, Victor Fleming)
Cold Dog Soup (1990, Alan Metter)
Imposter
Twenty Four Eyes (1954, Keisuke Kinoshita)
Giants And Toys (1958, Yasuzo Masumura)
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Louisiana Story (1948, Robert J. Flaherty)
Kenji
The Chess Player (1927, Raymond Bernard)
Arsenal (1928, Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
People on Sunday (1930, Curt Siodmak & Robert Siodmak)
Lady of Musashino (1951, Kenji Mizoguchi)
Miss Oyu (1951, Kenji Mizoguchi)
Twenty Four Eyes (1954, Keisuke Kinoshita)
Tales of the Taira Clan (1955, Kenji Mizoguchi)
Cloud-Capped Star (1960, Ritwik Ghatak)
Elgar (1962, Ken Russell)
Two Stage Sisters (1965, Jin Xie)
Goto Isle of Love (1968, Walerian Borowczyk)
Pakeezah (1971, Kamal Amrohi)
Streetwise (1984, Martin Bell)
Yeelen (1987, Souleymane Cissé)
Abraham Valley (1993, Manoel de Oliveira)
Silences of the Palace (1994, Moufida Tlatli)
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Festival in Cannes (2001, Henry Jaglom)
Bright Leaves (2003, Ross McElwee)
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The End of St. Petersburg (1927, Vsevolod Pudovkin)
Nance
Les Parents Terribles (1948, Jean Cocteau)
Funeral Parade of Roses (1969, Toshio Matsumoto)
Le Chat (1971, Pierre Granier-Deferre)
Night of the Flood (1996, Bernar Hébert)
La Femme Défendue (1997, Philippe Harel)
Chance or Coincidence (1998, Claude Lelouch)
Quiconque Meurt, Meurt à Douleur (1998, Robert Morin)
À Hauteur D'Homme (2003, Jean-Claude Labrecque)
Thieves of Innocence (2005, Paul Arcand)
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The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time (1982, Jim Brown)
Oedipus
Two Arabian Knights (1927, Lewis Milestone)
The Mating Call (1928, James Cruze)
The Racket (1928, Lewis Milestone)
Noah's Ark (1928, Michael Curtiz)
Juninatten (1940, Per Lindberg)
My Man and I (1952, William A. Wellman)
The Wide Blue Road (1957, Gillo Pontecorvo)
Lizzie (1957, Hugo Haas)
Period of Adjustment (1962, George Roy Hill)
The Girl and the General (1967, Pasquale Festa Campanile)
The Subject Was Roses (1968, Ulu Grosbard)
Four Rode Out (1971, John Peyser)
pianoshootis
Grass (1925)
The Cat's-Paw (1934, Sam Taylor)
Blood of Jesus (1941, Spencer Williams)
The Member of the Wedding (1952, Fred Zinnemann)
Afraid to Die (1960, Yasuzo Masumura)
An Actor's Revenge (1963, Kon Ichikawa)
Portrait of Jason (1967, Shirley Clarke)
Chan Is Missing (1981, Wayne Wang)
Gang of Four (1988, Jacques Rivette)
I Am a Promise (1993)
professor
Villain (1971, Michael Tuchner)
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The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife (1991, Nick Broomfield)
Salaam Cinema (1995, Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
20 Fingers (2004, Mania Akbari)
SteveR
Street Angel (1928, Frank Borzage)
Daisy Kenyon (1947, Otto Preminger)
Park Row (1952, Samuel Fuller)
Floating Clouds (1955, Mikio Naruse)
Day of the Outlaw (1959, André De Toth)
Juvenile Court (1973, Frederick Wiseman)
Harmful Insect (2001, Akihiko Shiota)
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Macario (1960, Roberto Gavaldón)
Oh man, where to begin? I might recommend you lower the number of maximum IMDB votes. Hell, even 'Germany, Year Zero' (1948) only has 449 votes!
Here are some films I'd highly recommend with fewer than 200 IMDB votes:
Judex (1916)
Mother (1926)
The End of St. Petersburg (1927)
Robin Hood (1922)
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
Or a couple with about 300:
Earth (1930)
One Week (1920)
The Man Who Planted Trees (1987)
well here's some i like
Bang, Bang, You're Dead (2002)
187 (1997)
Thanks for your suggestions lukeprog. Sorry Rushmore, the ones you suggested are too high.
:-) oh yeah sorry, i didn't see that! my bad
Heh, well if you're going with 450 votes then 'Germany Year Zero' should squeak by, as previously mentioned, unless someone has voted on it since I mentioned it :-)
It will very soon probably push past the vote limit, but Tarnation is certainly worth a peek.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
A Touch of Class is also great. I have a tough time believing that a 70s romantic comedy that scored the Best Actress Oscar has only racked up 336 votes so far.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Don't worry if someone has already suggested a film that you thought of to put in. If a film appears more than once that's good. If i get alot more suggestions for the list from different people then i'll distinguish the ones that come up most.
Bright Leaves is also an excellent hidden gem.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Another film (this one with only 201 IMDB votes!) I really enjoyed was Festival in Cannes, though many found it talky.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
A few from me, though it looks like some mey be ready to break that 450 vote barrier:
Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
Giants And Toys (1958)
A Bucket Of Blood (1959)
Bay Of Angels (1963)
Double Suicide (1969)
10 Rillington Place (1971)
Battle Without Honor And Humanity (1973)
Real Life (1979)
Let Him Have It (1991)
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997)
Do any of people who have recommended films like ones from other lists?
For example, do I like any of the films suggested by others for this list? Is that what you're asking? If it is, then I haven't seen any of those suggested by others for this list.
Yeah, too bad.
I got these 3...
2LDK (2002) - D: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Maze (2000) - D: Rob Morrow
The Strange Case of Señor Computer (2000) - D: Tom Sawyer
off of my Little Seen Films I'd Recommend: 2000-2003 list.
5 more...
Blood and Concrete (1991)
Desperate Remedies (1993)
Man of the Century (1999)
Manny & Lo (1996)
What Happened Was... (1994)
..off of my Little Seen Films I'd Recommend: 1990-1999 list.
So when are you going to start watching?
This list isn't just for me. I was hoping that some films would get recommendations from a few different people. There're a few films that interest me but i would prefer them to be on more peoples list.
I just looked at your list for the 90s and i saw In the Soup in there, that is the first one that has more than 1 recommendation. Unfortunatley i'm the other person to recommend it.
Would this be better as a list than an article? Does one have more space than another?
Recommended:
The Accountant (1989) Alfred Molina (17 votes).
Villain (1971) - Richard Burton - chilling performance (69 votes).
Tex (1982) Matt Dillon (250 votes).
Accident (1967) - Dirk Bogarde, Michael Yorke, Stanley Baker (325 votes).
That Was Then... This Is Now (1988) Emilio Estevez (366 votes).
The first two are on my list of favourites
I can suggest avent garde movies, I don't know if that's your thing, but I have seen a few, so here goes.
Anything by Maya Deren
Invocation Of My Demon Brother - Kenneth Anger
Fireworks - K.A.
Puce Moment - K.A.
Etc.
I have no idea what you make of these if you do watch them, so don't blame me for a wasted hour or two, but these are unusual, and can be facinating, if you are the kind of person who appreciates exotic and occasionely mindboggling film.
A couple to add here...
Ripoux contre ripoux (1990)
Abigail's Party (1977)
Thanks to all for the input. It's a decent list now but still no film has been recommended more than once.
OK - here are the ones I've seen and/or I would recommend (endorse recommendations from others).
A Bucket Of Blood: I saw this many years ago, but I cannot recommend it because it was not very memorable.
10 Rillington Place: I can endorse / recommend this - truly creepy performance from Richard Attenborough - film now dated.
Abigail's Party: I can endorse / recommend this - fascinating, popular, I'm surprised this has such a low vote - perhaps because it was originally a TV film/play (I think).
A Touch of Class: I can endorse / recommend this, but not great.
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer: I can endorse / recommend this - fascinating, she was a victim too.
Thank you for that, especially for endorsing one of mine.
Now i have to figure out how i'm going to distinguish these.
I'd recommend:
Heim ins Reich (2004, Claude Lahr) (with the amazing number of 0 votes!)
But the film is excellent.
Let me think about others.
A documentry from Luxembourg, no wonder it has <5 votes, that is the lowest so far. What's it about?
It is about the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg during World War II.
But I think it is not just interesting for Luxembourg, but also for others, as it has already been broadcast on Belgian TV channels for example.
Loads of my favourite films are hidden gems.
The wonderful Sansho the Bailiff has just > 500 votes in imdb, and another Mizoguchi masterpiece Ugetsu > 1000. Also by the great man, with < 500 votes: Story of the Late Chrysanthemums, The Life of Oharu, Tales of the Taira Clan, Chikamatsu Monogatari, The Loyal 47 Ronin, Miss Oyu...
Also (?= not sure how many votes, but hidden treasures anyway):
Maborosi (Kore-eda)
The Green Ray (Rohmer)
Alice in the Cities (Wenders)
Abraham Valley (Oliveira)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Ophuls)?
Late Spring (Ozu)
The Colour of Pomegranates (Paradjanov)
Celine and Julie go Boating (Rivette)
A Day in the Country (Renoir)?
Spirit of the Beehive (Erice) > 500
Eternity and a Day (Angelopoulos)
Early Summer (Ozu)
Casque d'Or (Becker)
Pakeezah (Amrohi)
Street of Crocodiles (Quay bros)
Tale of Tales (Norstein)
Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov)?
Cloud-Capped Star (Ghatak)
Senso (Visconti)
Night of the Shooting Stars (Taviani bros)?
Cheers for so many films. Late Spring is the first film mentioned that i've seen, too bad i didn't enjoy it.
Really? And that's one with a very high imdb rating. Sansho has the highest rating, at 9.0, so it's very annoying it doesn't get a chance at the top 250, which favours well-known Hollywood films.
The only reason i've seen it is because i rented Tokyo Story and it came with that.
'The Man with a Movie Camera', which Kenji recommended, is from 1929. However, it has way too many votes to be listed here.
I didn't check the directors name and put in a recent film. Cheers.
I thought I saw this one mentioned the other day, but I can't remember where it was:
The Grey Fox (1982) - The best film I’ve seen that covers the modernization of the old west in the early 1900’s. Richard Farnsworth, former great Hollywood stuntman made everyone wish he'd switched to acting when Ben Johnson did. It's a cryin' shame nothing as good as this would come around for him until "The Straight Story" 17 years later.
Another movie that's on my list of old favorites is:
Resurrection (1980) - A fascinating study on established beliefs and the strengths they have to overpower anything having to do with re-interpretation. One of Ellen Burstyn's greatest roles in my opinion. A absolute coincidence here that Richard Farnsworth had a small part in this film.
Kafka (1992)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1991)
Unsung Heroes (1996)
Shadrach (1999)
FLight of the Phoenix (1965)
Devil In A Blue Dress (1996)
A Lesson Before Dying (1999)
The Crossing (2000)
Do you mean Steven Soderbergh's Kafka?
Just curious why you didn't include Resurrection. Is it because it has 489 reviews instead of 450?
Yeah. I have to keep it low or there'll be to many. I have few that are just over 450 aswell.
Made In Britain (Alan Clarke)
Abigail's Party (Mike Leigh)
Meantime (Mike Leigh)
Naked (Mike Leigh)
On The Edge (Jim Sheridan)
A Room For Romeo Brass (Shane Meadows)
Dead Man's Shoes (Shane Meadows)
Last Resort (Pawel Pawlikowski)
My Summer Of Love (Pawel Pawlikowski)
Millions (Danny Boyle)
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise (Danny Boyle)
Under The Skin (Carine Adler)
Dear Frankie (Shona Auerbach)
Small Faces (Gillies McKinnon)
Correction: On The Edge was directed by John Carney. Jim Sheridan was a producer on the film.
Cheers for the films. I think that it's great you've seen A Room For Romeo Brass and Small Faces and liked them. I'm a fan of Boyle, how do Millions and Vacuuming compare with his others? I also want to see Dead Man's Shoes so i'll add that to my must see list.
I'd say Millions is Boyle's best since Trainspotting. I really like Frank Cottrell Boyce as a writer, and combined with Boyle's style they make a great team. He gets the best out of the kids who lead Millions too. Vaccuuming is a raucously funny film. Timothy Spall is on top form in this.
I make a point of keeping up to date on British films. Although our industry is a struggling one at grass roots, we do still produce some gems. Meadows, Boyle, Pawlikowski, and Leigh make films that I can identify with the most. They deserve more support from our industry, particularly from the nations cinema chains.
Made In Britain   (1982, Alan Clarke) starring Tim Roth - great choice. (299 votes)
I can also recommend this one.
Adventure(1945, Victor Fleming) 103 votes
Cold Dog Soup(1990, Alan Metter) 132 votes
Companeros(1970, Sergio Corbucci) 176 votes
The Fastest Gun Alive(1956, Russell Rouse) 238 votes
Keoma(1976, Enzo Castellari) 256 votes
Firecreek(1968, Vincent McEveety) 301 votes
Teenagers From Outer Space(1959, Tom Graeff) 362 votes
The Outlaw(1943, Howard Hughes) 365 votes
Eee! What fun!
The Girl in the Picture (1986)
Wing Chun (1994)
Ah, I have found another movie I'd suggest:
L'Arroseur Arrosé (1895, frères Lumière)
I dunno if you accept shorts on your list. The film has a runtime of 1 minute.
One More: A Box of Moonlight. John Turturro movie about an anal retentive construction manager who gets stranded during his away-job and learns to lighten up with the help of The Kid (Sam Rockwell)
I can't add that because it has over 450 votes, sorry about that.
And a few other (shorts):
Jídlo (Food) 1992 --> 137 votes
Moznosti dialogu (Dimensions of Dialogue) 1982 --> 104 votes
The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia 1990 --> 73 votes
Meat Love 1989 --> 37 votes
Hra s kameny (Game with Stones) 1965 --> 22 votes
All of these are by Jan Svankmajer.
Cheers for the additions. I'm gonna make short films seperate.
Yup, excellent idea.
Another hidden gem:
Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (1920, Paul Wegener)
Here's a few more, along with IMDB vote totals:
Robin Hood (1922) 137 votes
The Lost World (1925) 359 votes
Earth (1930) 306 votes
Man of Aran (1934) 200 votes
Louisiana Story (1948) 140 votes
It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) 424 votes
Salesman (1969) 337 votes
Tomorrow (1972) 175 votes
Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976) 286 votes
Cheers, that gives the list two new repeats.
I've seen Adventure (1945) and kinda liked it, but wouldn't call it a 'gem'. I've seen The Lost World (1925) and thought it was innovative but pointless crap. I'm surprised to see Night of the Shooting Stars (1982) has so few votes, but definitely agree that it's a great movie.
I like this list and hope more Listologists pay attention to it.
Oh yes, and: are you accepting shorts? If you are, I'd recommend putting them in a second section, or perhaps a seperate list ("Hidden Gems (shorts)" or something).
Thank you for your interest in the list. I accept any films you like.
I have a list for shorts, Hidden Gems (Short Films). It doesn't have alot on it right now, but i've noticed you're interested in shorts. I'll make the IMDB votes smaller when i get recommendations.
Thanks for not dwelling on my idiotic blind laziness.
I have to take issue for a minute with you calling The Lost World "pointless crap." It's an important predecessor to King Kong, a film that might not have been made (or made as well) if not for the experience gained on World. Besides this, it is one of the more entertaining of the silent action-adventure films and truly evokes a sense of wonder. I've seen it quite a few times, and would recommend it to any listologists interested in silent film. A great new print of it was released just two or three years ago.
Johnny Waco
Thank you for defending your stance. From a puppet standpoint, it does seem to be the most direct feature-length predecessor to King Kong. The technology of both pictures is impressive, but to me King Kong and especially The Lost World are like the modern day Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within or The Polar Express: important steps forward with technology but little more, and certainly not great narratives.
Street Angel (1928) - 56 votes on IMDb
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) - 189 votes on IMDb
Daisy Kenyon (1947) - 120 votes on IMDb
Late Spring (1949) - 376 votes on IMDb
Park Row (1952) - 85 votes on IMDb
Floating Clouds (1955) - 81 votes on IMDb
Day of the Outlaw (1959) - 98 votes on IMDb
The House is Black (1963) - 14 votes on IMDb
Charulata (1964) - 204 votes on IMDb
Deathdream (1972) - 189 votes on IMDb
Juvenile Court (1973) - 5 votes on IMDb
Edvard Munch (1974) - 75 votes on IMDb
Tale of Tales (1979) - 94 votes on IMDb
Where is My Friend's House? (1987) - 304 votes on IMDb
Elephant (1989) - 81 votes on IMDb
A Moment of Innocence (1996) - 195 votes on IMDb
Harmful Insect (2002) - 70 votes on IMDb
The World (2004) - 37 votes on IMDb
Devil’s Playground (2002)
Vor (1997)
Footlight Parade (1933)
Still Breathing (1997)
Thanks for the additions. I could only add two of yours Penny because the others were over 450.
I'll second Charulata, The Adventures of Prince Achmed and Twenty Four Eyes. And add: The Chess Player (Bernard), Madchen in Uniform (Sagan), Salt for Svanetia (Kalatazov), Lady of Musashino (Mizoguchi), The Saragossa Manuscript (Has), Two Stage Sisters (Xie Jin), Goto Isle of Love (Borowczyk), Yeelen (Cissé), Silences of the Palace (Tlatli), Arsenal (Dovzhenko) and 2 brilliant animations, Street of Crocodiles (Quay bros) and Tales of Tales (Norstein)
Cheers. I have a list for short films here.
Two other films I enjoyed with less than 450 votes:
Fantômas se déchaîne (1965, André Hunebelle, Haroun Tazieff)
Fantômas contre Scotland Yard (1967, André Hunebelle)
Were the films released like that or in English for the UK and US?
As both are French-Italian coproductions, these are the original titles.
296 votes for Cal (1984) by Pat O'Connor (who, strangely enough, has become a woman on imdb.com...).
That reminds me: Fantomas Against Fantomas (1914, Louis Feuillade).
I've touted The Weavers: Wasn't That A Time for a long time. Long before A Mighty Wind came along and took it as a template [even before Bob Roberts which basically inverts the movie.] If you liked that mockumentary at all it is worth watching Wasn't That A Time just for the visual/physical quote Michael McKean makes of Pete Seeger's stride when he makes his entrance. McKean must've loved doing that. The tribute paid to Lee Hays in the documentary is refracted into a tribute to all the folk singers of the '50s and '60s by the mockumentary. Yep, even the crappy ones, the ones with questionable politics and, yup, especially the blacklisted ones... like The Weavers. It might also be worth it for the line Lee Hays delivers about the Reagan administration in America: "Be of good cheer. This too shall pass. I've had kidney stones so I should know."
I'm sure that the dirt is now flying out of his grave. He must be spinning awfully fast.
Cheers. I had a look at the link, should i add The Eyes of Tammy Faye aswell?
Thank you for clicking and reading above and beyond the call of duty. I had no idea that The Eyes of Tammy Faye would come in just under the 450-vote wire. I had a lot of fun watching it but that was in an honest to goodness theater. I don't think that it rises to the level of "a gem of a movie." But if you're charming and cute and your local video place will often throw in a free documentary rental on a warm Wednesday afternoon in April... then I'd certainly watch it.
Okay, so it's not that often and I didn't have to be charming and I'm not very cute but it was a Wednesday.
Lol. For my films I put in any one that i'd give 4/5 rating and above. You say you had fun watching it so i'll put it in.
Incredible! This classic has not even got 450 votes!
Cheers.
Would you remove from my suggestions Fantomas Against Fantomas, Judex and Adventure? A strange request, I know, but looking back on them now I wouldn't really call them 'gems.' I'll replace them with others, I promise. :-)
That's the right thing to do. You've seen alot of films so i'm sure you have a few.
It would be interesting to make a group list for Hidden Gems (Music Albums, sorted by genre). But there isn't quite a database for music like their is for movies in the IMDB, so how would one decide if it's a 'hidden' gem? Any ideas? Any interest?
I was thinking of doing a similar list. It would be a collection of Eps, B-side albums and Live Albums, but no 'Best of' albums. Here are a few i'd put in -
Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada (Godspeed You Black Emperor)
Complete B-sides (Pixies)
I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings (Radiohead)
It would be diffucult doing your list without something like IMDB. You could ask others who know alot about music to be judges. Or you could get peoples top 20, but i don't think you'd have enough.
I always use allmusic.com
It's not quite as good as imdb but it's pretty good for most purposes.
I'm so anal. Would you remove The Adventures of Prince Achmed from my list? I think I'll just recommend movies for this list that I truly consider 'masterpieces', whatever other people contribute. Anywhere, here are some you can add:
Floating Weeds
The Burmese Harp
The Life of Oharu
Gertrud
Thanks for continuing to maintain this list!
Cheers. It's good that you continue to look at the list, and care what's in your section. Have you mangaged to see any on the list? I've only managed to watch one of the many i would like to see.
'Fraid not, and it may be a while before I get there. So many movies to see!
Here's a few movies that I'd reccommend:
Two Arabian Knights (1927) 51 imdb votes.
The Mating Call (1928) 37 imdb votes.
The Racket (1928) 52 imdb votes.
Noah's Ark (1929) 71 imdb votes
Hell's Angels (1930) 324 imdb votes
Bombshell (1933) 294 imdb votes
Wild Boys of the Road (1933) 128 imdb votes.
Juninatten (1940) 56 imdb votes.
In This Our Life (1942) 399 imdb votes
Cabin in the Sky (1943) 256 imdb votes
The Outlaw (1943) 395 imdb votes
My Man and I (1952) 34 imdb votes
The Fastest Gun Alive (1956) 246 imdb votes
Edge of the City (1957) 211 imdb votes
La Grande strada azzurra (1957) 103 imdb votes.
Lizzie (1957) 58 imdb votes
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) 249 imdb votes
All Fall Down (1962) 205 imdb votes
David and Lisa (1962) 298 imdb votes
Period of Adjustment (1962) 133 imdb votes
Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (1962) 162 imdb votes
Walk on the Wild Side (1962) 221 imdb votes
Le Petit soldat (1963) 357 imdb votes
The Carpetbaggers (1964) 341 imdb votes
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) 427 imdb votes
Ten Little Indians (1965) 304 imdb votes
La Ragazza e il generale (1967) 64 imdb votes.
The Subject Was Roses (1968) 181 imdb votes.
I Never Sang for My Father (1970) 235 imdb votes.
Four Rode Out (1971) 13 imdb votes.
The Idolmaker (1980) 239 imdb votes.
Große Mädchen weinen nicht (2002) 291 imdb votes
Thanks for putting so much work into it. I'll put them up in awhile.
Mother and Son (1997)
Les Carbiniers (1963)
Gang of Four (1988)
Afraid to Die (1960)
Member of the Wedding (1952)
Pistol Opera (2001)
Earth (1930)
Grass (1925)
Sympathy for the Devil (1968)
Hail Mary! (1985)
Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
Grey Gardens (1975)
Actor's Revenge (1963)
I Am a Promise (1993)
Mystery of Picasso (1956)
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Pornographers (1966)
Blood of Jesus (1941)
Cat's Paw (1934)
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)
Chan is Missing (1981)--imdb says 1982
Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)--one of the 5 best films ever imo
Portrait of Jason (1967)--Ingmar Bergman called it his favorite film and it only has 15 votes
Amazing to me that Godard it still largely under the radar.
Cheers. I'm surprised Melville isn't better known.
I think imdb put the US release dates and not the country of origin, i'll put 'Chan is Missing' as 1981.
I see you put me down for the 1959 Looney Toon "Cat's Paw". No disrespect to Sylvester the Cat, but I meant the 1934 Harold Lloyd vehicle directed by Sam Taylor.
Sorry about that.
Another hidden gem:
Main Hoon Na (2004).
Cheers.
Plus: Seres queridos (2004, Teresa Pelegri, Dominic Harari) and The Outlaw (1943, Howard Hughes) --> wow, only 411 votes!
a guide for the married man(1967, Gene Kelly) 450 votes on the money, one of the funniest movies I've ever seen and even made my top 15 of all time, it's that good!
Sorry but films have have fewer than 450, so very close.
you have to be joking... 450 doesn't count?... doesn't matter, probably has a few more now anyway.
You're right, it's up to 456.
2 more:
Warum läuft Herr R. Amok? (Fassbinder, 1970)
Der neunte Tag (Schlöndorff, 2004)
Cheers. Have you managed to see any of the films here?
No, unfortunately not, but I really hope that this will change soon.
This still is a hidden gem, but for how long?
Not very long but i'll put it up anyway.
My ten hidden gems:
Death Takes a Holiday (Mitchell Leisen, 1934)
Les Parents terribles (Jean Cocteau, 1948)
Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto, 1969)
Le chat (Pierre Granier-Deferre, 1971)
Night of the Flood (Bernar Hébert, 1996)
La Femme défendue (Philippe Harel, 1997)
Hasards ou coïncidences (Claude Lelouch, 1998)
Quiconque meurt, meurt à douleur (Robert Morin, 1998)
À hauteur d'homme (Jean-Claude Labrecque, 2003)
Thieves of Innocence (Paul Arcand, 2005)
Thank you very much.
When I saw Macario (1960) on TCM a while back, host Robert Osbourne called it one of Mexican cinema's finest films. Apparently that translates into near obscurity as the film has a platry 222 IMDB votes and no DVD release to speak of.
I'll add that. Cheers.