Your Favourite Underrated Movie

i am not so sure, if there are any underrated movies anyway... film is such a popular genre, it's like you are asking for underrated kind of cookies...
there are mainstream movies, not so popular but high rated "arty" movies, and even the trash has often a cult status.

nevertheless i mention some films here.

Otto; or Up with dead people by Bruce LaBruce - trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-oaK9qf3Co it's situated somewhere between arts and trash

Funny Games by Michael Haneke -trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkbG1uSH0to ; he also made an us remake of this film some years later, but i like the original version better.
here the trailer of the us version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Has9E7j9Lrg

Pi by Darren Aronofsky - trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo18VIoR2xU

and almost every french film...
 
filmtwit said:
"The lights are growing dim Otto. I know a life of crime has led me to this sorry fate, and yet, I blame society. Society made me what I am. "
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I always think of this quote when people discuss nature versus nurture. All 80's movies believed it was nurture! Just look at the breakfast club, trading places, repo man etc.

My favorites?
La Jetee. Film by Chris Marker. Amazing photographs...
La Note de Cabiria.
The man with no name series.
The big lebowski

All Kubrick, Cohen, Hitchcock, Antonioni, Melville, Tarantino, Lang, etc.

Favorite random movie -
True Stories by Talking Heads.
 
The of the great things about "Repoman" is that it moch's a lot of that belief as Otto responds to Duke

"Otto: That's bull****. You're a white suburban punk just like me!"
Duke: Yeah, but it still hurts.

jkrumsick said:
I always think of this quote when people discuss nature versus nurture. All 80's movies believed it was nurture! Just look at the breakfast club, trading places, repo man etc.

My favorites?
La Jetee. Film by Chris Marker. Amazing photographs...
La Note de Cabiria.
The man with no name series.
The big lebowski

All Kubrick, Cohen, Hitchcock, Antonioni, Melville, Tarantino, Lang, etc.

Favorite random movie -
True Stories by Talking Heads.
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"Ugetsu" (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi)
"Sansho the Bailiff" (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi)

...I love cinema from various eras and nations, but the Japanese films of the 50s and 60s are really freaking intense. The two listed above are masterpieces.
 
filmtwit said:
The of the great things about "Repoman" is that it moch's a lot of that belief as Otto responds to Duke

"Otto: That's bull****. You're a white suburban punk just like me!"
Duke: Yeah, but it still hurts.
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As Miller is burning trash in a barrel.
Otto; "you do a lot of acid in the hippie days Miller?"

Underrated "Road to Perdition" and Robert Altman's "McCabe and Mrs. Miller"
 
"Silent Running" starring Bruce Dern and directed by Douglas Trumbull. This one goes where Arthur C Clark would not let 2001 A Space Odyssey go.

"Dune" by David Lynch, though arguably Frank Herbert's book was far better and very difficult to translate to film!
 
I'm a big fan of Mizoguchi. Another director from this era that's tends to be over looked was Senjen Sezuki. His work was a center piece to both lower budget film making and Japanese New Wave.
Branded to Kill and Tokyo Drifter are two of his best

retnull said:
"Ugetsu" (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi)
"Sansho the Bailiff" (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi)

...I love cinema from various eras and nations, but the Japanese films of the 50s and 60s are really freaking intense. The two listed above are masterpieces.
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Pioneer said:
A bit more recent, but just as out there, one of my all time favorites:

"Fargo" by Joel and Ethan Coen.
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A rather odd choice as Fargo was released to critical acclaim ( a quick visit to wikipedia will confirm that), so me thinks it shouldn't be classified as underrated.
 
Miller's Crossing is probably the Cohen Bros most underrated films and really one of their best.

Jaans said:
A rather odd choice as Fargo was released to critical acclaim ( a quick visit to wikipedia will confirm that), so me thinks it shouldn't be classified as underrated.
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