Okay I'll start it most under rated films !

My own favourites....and cryptic clues

Manhunter: Brian Cox as Hannibal Lecter with a sharpie and a roll of toilet paper.
Last Train To Busan: Korean Zombies don't eat their kids
Gone Baby Gone: The Affleck boys did good...great twist...or is it?
Atonement: Dr Strange does the backdoor dirty.....and what an ending part2.
Somethings Gotta Give: Jack falls in love and she turns down Keanu.
City of God: A Brazilian Rocket....2.30 hours of brilliant story telling
The Hunt: Proves even if your innocent, there's always someone with a gun who doesn't believe you!!
 
Usual Suspects (Kevin Spacey is brilliant)

Brilliant but for very different reasons:

Dog Soldiers (Helps if you have a forces sense of humour!) (This film is that bad it brilliant if you know what i mean)
 
I can't remember when I last went to a cinema.
MrsDP and I got together in 1970, we have been to the cinema together once. 🙄
That was 'When eight bells tolled' I think.
I remember going in Southend when on a course.
'One flew over the cuckoos nest', brilliant film.
I've never walked out of a cinema, down a long flight of stairs, where there was no one talking, just silence.
It left them dazed I think.
 
Napoleon Dynamite, Fanboys and Gentleman Broncos for me, but I love geek films, actually they aren’t underrated by those of us who like them, so it’s a trick question!
 
Chunkylad said:
Starship Troopers.
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You might jest, but it's actually a brilliant satire. The 'it's afraid' line with Doogie Howser M.D. Is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
Paul Verhoeven is a genius (maybe not Showgirls...) If you haven't seen Black Book or Elle - 2 of his more recent offerings - then track them down. They're very good.
 
Victorsponge said:
One flew over the cuckoo's nest won the Oscars for best picture and best actor, hardly underrated!
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I was about to say this - it won all five 'major' Academy Awards, something which wasn't repeated until Silence of the Lambs in 1991.

In recent memory, I'll go with Good Time. Seemed to relatively fly under the radar until the Safdie Bros made Uncut Gems after it.
 
The Ladykillers. Excellent film.

If talent like Guinness, Sellers, Lom, (and Frankie Howerd and Jack Warner) were in the same film these days it would win all sorts of awards. The film won BAFTA's but no Oscars IIRC.

And an honourable mention for The Good the Bad and The Ugly.
 
Dave62 said:
The Ladykillers. Excellent film.

If talent like Guinness, Sellers, Lom, (and Frankie Howerd and Jack Warner) were in the same film these days it would win all sorts of awards. The film won BAFTA's but no Oscars IIRC.

And an honourable mention for The Good the Bad and The Ugly.
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Love The Ladykillers 👍
 
Before the Devil knows your dead - dark thriller with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke and the gorgeous Marissa Tomei. Lots of twists and a bit fruity as well 😵
 
B_Side_The_C_Side said:
My own favourites....and cryptic clues

Manhunter: Brian Cox as Hannibal Lecter with a sharpie and a roll of toilet paper.
Last Train To Busan: Korean Zombies don't eat their kids
Gone Baby Gone: The Affleck boys did good...great twist...or is it?
Atonement: Dr Strange does the backdoor dirty.....and what an ending part2.
Somethings Gotta Give: Jack falls in love and she turns down Keanu.
City of God: A Brazilian Rocket....2.30 hours of brilliant story telling
The Hunt: Proves even if your innocent, there's always someone with a gun who doesn't believe you!!
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Manhunter is truly brilliant, much better than The SOTL 👍
 
Dave62 said:
The Ladykillers. Excellent film.

If talent like Guinness, Sellers, Lom, (and Frankie Howerd and Jack Warner) were in the same film these days it would win all sorts of awards. The film won BAFTA's but no Oscars IIRC.

And an honourable mention for The Good the Bad and The Ugly.
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Neither of these two films are remotely under rated and both seen as classics.
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
Neither of these two films are remotely under rated and both seen as classics.
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I agree that they are quite rightly regarded as classics now, but at the time neither film received an Oscar. I don't think the Good the bad and the ugly received a nomination (unless the honorary award 40 years later counts).
 
Dave62 said:
I agree that they are quite rightly regarded as classics now, but at the time neither film received an Oscar. I don't think the Good the bad and the ugly received a nomination (unless the honorary award 40 years later counts).
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Fair enough but it's been a long time since anyone thought an Oscar was a sign of greatness.
 
Glory. The story of the North's first coloured regiment in the Civil War. Powerhouse acting from Denzil Washington, Morgan Freeman and Matthew Broderick, and largely very close to actual history.

One of my favourite films, can't recommend enough if you haven't seen it.
 
In Bruges - you will laugh and cry
Under Siege - terrible but I defy you not to enjoy it
Inbred - confirms everything you need to know about Yorkshire 😗 😂
 
Scared the shit out of me when I was 11 and the Metallica song One was about this and the link that is included too below the movie link.


 
Hackneyseasider said:
Panic in the streets - Jack Palance's first film. Also directed by Elia Kazan (On the waterfront).
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Yes excellent film. Palance very menacing in the hoodlum role. Jack was also superb in the WW2 film Attack ! as the heroic seargeant let down by his cowardly commanding officer.
 
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