30 Great Movies You've Never Seen
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1. The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)
Passed | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Assistant district attorney Cleve Marshall falls for the mysterious Thelma Jordon when she seeks help solving robberies of her aunt's estate.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly, Joan Tetzel
Votes: 3,100
2. Battle Cry (1955)
Approved | 149 min | Drama, Romance, War
Young Marines have adventures in love and war.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson
Votes: 2,620 | Gross: $17.44M
3. Sound of the Mountain (1954)
Approved | 95 min | Drama
An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Setsuko Hara, Sô Yamamura, Ken Uehara, Yôko Sugi
Votes: 2,128
4. The Baron of Arizona (1950)
Approved | 97 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Master swindler James Reavis painstakingly spends years forging documents and land grants that will make his wife and him undisputed owners of the entire territory of Arizona.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Vincent Price, Ellen Drew, Vladimir Sokoloff, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 2,523
5. Stars in My Crown (1950)
Approved | 89 min | Family, Western
In 1865, the small Southern town of Walsburg has become so dangerous that Parson Josiah Doziah Gray gives his sermons while holding a gun.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell, Alan Hale
Votes: 2,480
6. Pretty Poison (1968)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
When a mentally-disturbed young man tells a pretty girl that he's a secret agent, she believes him; murder and mayhem ensue.
Director: Noel Black | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, Beverly Garland, John Randolph
Votes: 3,967
7. Burn! (1969)
R | 112 min | Action, Drama, War
In 1844, a British mercenary helps the revolting slaves of an Antilles island colony gain independence from Portugal, but later returns to hunt down a local rebel leader and former protégé.
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo | Stars: Marlon Brando, Evaristo Márquez, Renato Salvatori, Dana Ghia
Votes: 5,749 | Gross: $0.43M
8. Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told (1967)
Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy, Horror
A caretaker devotes himself to three demented siblings after their father's death.
Director: Jack Hill | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Carol Ohmart, Quinn K. Redeker, Beverly Washburn
Votes: 7,789
9. David Holzman's Diary (1967)
Not Rated | 74 min | Comedy, Drama
A young filmmaker decides to make a movie of his life.
Director: Jim McBride | Stars: L.M. Kit Carson, Eileen Dietz, Louise Levine, Lorenzo Mans
Votes: 1,834
10. The Passion of Anna (1969)
R | 101 min | Drama
A recently divorced man meets an emotionally devastated widow and they begin a love affair.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow, Erland Josephson
Votes: 10,399
11. Night Moves (1975)
R | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Los Angeles private investigator Harry Moseby is hired by a client to find her runaway teenage daughter. Moseby tracks the daughter down, only to stumble upon something much more intriguing and sinister.
Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Edward Binns, Harris Yulin
Votes: 17,606
12. Citizens Band (1977)
PG | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
The interlaced stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen's band) radio.
Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Paul Le Mat, Candy Clark, Bruce McGill, Roberts Blossom
Votes: 903 | Gross: $0.82M
13. The Ascent (1977)
111 min | Drama, War
Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
Director: Larisa Shepitko | Stars: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergey Yakovlev, Lyudmila Polyakova
Votes: 10,040
14. Salvador (1986)
R | 122 min | Drama, History, Thriller
A burnt-out photojournalist becomes involved in a Central American revolution.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: James Woods, Jim Belushi, Michael Murphy, John Savage
Votes: 23,073
15. Casualties of War (1989)
R | 113 min | Action, Crime, Drama
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Don Harvey, John C. Reilly
Votes: 48,006 | Gross: $18.67M
16. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
PG | 82 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
In 1935 New Jersey, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Irving Metzman
Votes: 55,055 | Gross: $10.63M
17. Ariel (1988)
Not Rated | 72 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Turo Pajala, Susanna Haavisto, Matti Pellonpää, Eetu Hilkamo
Votes: 8,214
18. Yol (1982)
PG | 107 min | Drama
When five Kurdish prisoners are granted one week's home leave, they find to their dismay that they face continued oppression outside of prison from their families, the culture, and the government.
Directors: Serif Gören, Yilmaz Güney | Stars: Tarik Akan, Serif Sezer, Halil Ergün, Meral Orhonsay
Votes: 14,461
19. La Cérémonie (1995)
Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A newly hired maid for a rich countryside family befriends a post-office clerk who encourages her to rebel against her employers.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Votes: 13,747 | Gross: $0.08M
20. Endurance (1998)
G | 83 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
The gold medal for the men's 10,000-metre race in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics is won by Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie.
Directors: Leslie Woodhead, Bud Greenspan | Stars: Haile Gebrselassie, Shawananness Gebrselassie, Yonas Zergaw, Tedesse Haile
Votes: 439 | Gross: $0.23M
21. Swordsman II (1992)
R | 112 min | Action, Fantasy
Ling Wu Chung decides to hide from the chaotic world. Before leaving, he visits his friends, a tribe of snake-wielding women warriors. However, he finds that the tribe have been attacked, and their leader Yam Ying Ying has been abducted.
Director: Siu-Tung Ching | Stars: Jet Li, Brigitte Lin, Michelle Reis, Waise Lee
Votes: 4,767
22. Before the Rain (1994)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Romance, War
Three interconnected stories of love under the threat of civil war in Macedonia and London.
Director: Milcho Manchevski | Stars: Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Serbedzija, Grégoire Colin, Josif Josifovski
Votes: 15,816 | Gross: $0.76M
23. Bus 174 (2002)
R | 122 min | Documentary, Crime
On June 12, 2000, a young man with a gun took the passengers aboard Bus 174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil hostage. This documentary examines the event itself, the resulting media frenzy, the police response, and the perpetrator's background.
Directors: José Padilha, Felipe Lacerda | Stars: Sandro do Nascimento, Rodrigo Pimentel, Luiz Eduardo Soares, Anonymous
Votes: 8,599 | Gross: $0.22M
24. L'iceberg (2005)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy
Fiona, Julien and their two clone-like children live a life appropriate to the robots they have become, in a style-less, cheerless suburb somewhere in the flatlands of French-speaking ... See full summary »
Directors: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy | Stars: Lucy Tulugarjuk, Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Philippe Martz
Votes: 1,017 | Gross: $0.02M
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