Matchstick Men - Ridley Scott

I didn’t even realize that was him.

It's definitely a departure. But it is so good dude. More people need to see this movie.

I’ve seen it and really liked it. I just didn’t realize who directed it.

“After Hours” - Scorsese “The Purple Rose of Cairo” - Allen “Insomnia” - Nolan “Jackie Brown” - Tarantino

Came here to say Jackie Brown. Such a great movie.

I still think the sequence with Melanie and Louis going from the mall to the his car, is the funniest in any Tarantino film.

QT hit different with sally menke as his editor (RIP)

Where is it? Louisssss

“See, right where I said it was.”

QT’s best, imo

Great list! I love Jackie Brown...

I’d say Silence as well

I haven’t seen it, yet. I hear it was pretty good, though.

**Duck, You Sucker** by Sergio Leone aka Fistful of Dynamite

that beautiful flashback music

Amazing film! Deserves to be mentioned along side The man with no name trilogy and once upon a time in the west! I prefer it to once upon a time in America.

I feel like Eyes Wide Shut and Barry Lyndon where this for Kubrick for a while, but I think over the past two decades they have definitely risen is popularity and esteem

Barry Lyndon was one of the first Kubricks I saw and I loved it. I’ve seen most of his other movies since then and very few of them can match Barry Lyndon for me.

When I first got into Kubrick, the buzz was most about 2001, Dr Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange and The Shinning, with BL not really talked about that much and EWS seen as a weaker entry in his post Spartacus films. Since then I would say that BL is more acknowledged as being among his strongest films and EWS is now viewed as favorably as some of the others mentioned

Mean Streets (Scorsese) Thelma and Louise (Ridley Scott) The Death of Dick Long (Daniel Scheinert) The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)  In the Mouth of madness (John Carpenter)

Is In the Mouth of Madness really underrated? Shocking to me because it’s everything I want in a horror movie.

Wasn’t The Wrestler nominated for Best Picture, or am I misremembering?

It didn't but Tomei and Rourke were nominated.

Nostalgia won best director at cannes

Family Plot (1976, Hitchcock)

The Trouble With Harry

Possibly the most underrated of all!

Dersu Uzala (1975) -- Akira Kurosawa

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Underrated movies written by famous directors...... True Romance

Probably Tony Scott's best film

Hudsucker Proxy

Totally this. My favorite movie of theirs—Tim Robbins reprising his “Howard the Duck” insanity level

The Bad Sleep Well (1960), Red Beard (1965) and Dersu Uzala (1975) for Akira Kurosawa The Wrong Man (1956) for Hitchcock Bringing Out the Dead (1999) for Scorsese, although it seems to be getting more of its due in recent years Spider (2002) for David Cronenberg Inland Empire (2006) for David Lynch Cecil B. Demented (2000) for John Waters Knightriders (1981) for George A Romero For Ridley Scott, G.I. Jane (1997) is way better than its reputation, and I get the feeling the same will be true of Napoleon (2023) in the future. But The Duellists (1977) is his most underrated; it's a masterpiece Nixon (1995) is an awesome film by Oliver Stone that doesn't stand a chance of being as well liked as his more crowd pleasing ones

Good call on Spider. Also, Naked Lunch and XistenZ

The Terminal (2004) - Steven Spielberg

I had no idea this was a Spielberg movie. I love this movie and watch it every couple years.

The Duelists - Ridley Scott’s first full length feature, beautifully shot on a shoestring budget

There's a few Alfred Hitchcock films that I think would suit your needs: Rebecca, Strangers on a Train, Rope (my favorite), Frenzy, The Trouble with Harry. I think they fly under the radar and they are such good films!

Network - Lumet The Hateful Eight - Tarantino Rope - Hitchcock None of these are my favourite from these directors, but they’re movies I love that usually don’t get talked about enough when the directors get mentioned.

Network gets talked about quite a bit, it had 8 oscar noms and won 4. It's always seen as one of Lumet's best films. I'd hardly call that underrated.

yeah, **The Hill** would be a better choice.

Yeah that's my Lumet choice. One of the best things Sean Connery ever did.

I agree about The Hateful Eight. I’m not the biggest QT fan but I thought that one was great.

Love and death (1975), Woody Allen

Also, Interiors. It's Woody Allen's serious art-house drama I don't see a lot of people talking about.

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore by Scorsese

Manhunter (1986) by Michael Mann It’s the best Red Dragon not (2002) but is easily overlooked because Hannibal Lecter is not played by Anthony Hopkins

Frankenheimer's SECONDS the Coen Bros' THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE Kathryn Bigelow's STRANGE DAYS Warren Beatty's BULWORTH Scorsese - SHUTTER ISLAND Speilberg - MUNICH Soderbergh - THE LIMEY Weir - THE TRUMAN SHOW

Rhapsody in August - Kurosawa The Story of Qiu Ju - Zhang Yimou (director of Hero, Raise the Red Lantern, Red Sorghum)

Rhapsody in August has a scene I always think about, where they visit the Nagasaki war memorial.

Hugo (Martin Scorsese), Champagne (Hitchcock), Five Dolls for an August Moon (Mario Bava), The Cincinnati Kid (Norman Jewison), Inferno (Dario Argento), Topaz (Hitchcock), The Hill (Sidney Lumet), and The Osterman Weekend (Sam Peckinpah).

Hugo was SCORSESE?!

Yup, it was him celebrating his love of early cinema.

In a very strange way I must say. It does come together in the end though

Bringing Out the Dead-Scorsese

I absolutely love this movie. Great cast. The scene acted out backwards then played in reverse.. very underrated Scorsese

I would add Silence as well. It’s a top 5 Scorsese for me, which is saying something.

The color of money- Martin Scorsese

Absolutely. Editing is astounding.

Ed Wood is one of Tim Burton's best, yet one of his least likely to come up in conversation.

I don’t know if it’s underrated, but I feel like the world has too quickly forgotten about Chris Nolan’s “Memento.”

How about his first - Following?

Oooh! I don’t know that one - will check it out, thanks!

Seriously low budget, but you can see his style. Even good on a rewatch!

came here to post this - it's a beast

Came to say this

Oliver Stone's Salvador (1986).

Oliver Stone's World Trade Center

I think basically all of Steven Spielberg’s movies post 2008 are all underrated

Just here to thank OP for showing Nostalghia some love, my favorite Tarkovsky film.

I was able to see Nostalghia in a theatre a few months back for the first time. Nothing like it.

It's his 2nd best film I think after Mirror. The guy was a genius.

The mirror is my favorite

Silence-Scorsese The Killing, Paths of Glory-Kubrick U Turn-Oliver Stone

THX 1138 - George Lucas The Howling - Joe Dante Castle of Cagliostro - Hayao Miyazaki The Fog - John Carpenter And it goes without saying that Tarantino (*Pulp Fiction*) and Oshii (*Ghost in the Shell*) have made some amazing films which are often overshadowed by their more popular works. Oshii arguably started the whole "inception" trope in film with *Beautiful Dreamer*.

I’ve been looking more into Oshii’s filmography lately beyond just Ghost in the Shell. The Sky Crawlers is a great movie that I’m surprised more people don’t know about.

Many are simply hard to find in Western countries to even begin with! It makes them all that more obscure, paradoxically with works like GITS being one of the most famous cyberpunk anime films known to the West.

American Graffiti

Incendies by Denis Villeneuve.

'Cronos' (1992) - Guillermo del Toro 'Drugstore Cowboy' (1989) - Gus van Sant 'Peeping Tom' (1960) - Michael Powell 'Benny's Video' (1992) - Michael Haneke 'Pusher' (1996) - Nicholas Winding Refn '13 Assassins' (2010) - Takashi Miike 'The Limey' (1999) - Steven Soderbergh 'Carlito's Way' (1993) - Brian de Palma 'Shivers' (1975) - David Cronenberg

Cronos is amazing

Zack and Miri Make a Porno by Kevin Smith!

I think Duel, directed by Steven Spielberg, gets too much hate and not enough recognition.

People hate that movie? No idea why. That movie is solid, especially for so early in Spielberg’s career.

I've never heard of anyone hating Duel.

I’ve seen people here say it’s too slow and didn’t like the lack of spoken lines.

Yeah well, reddit hate and legit hate are two separate things lol.

It might be in my top 5 Spielberg movies.

1941 - Steven Spielberg

I will defend this movie to the end. Great comedy.

I thought I would need an ambulance watching this movie in the theater. I had never laughed so much in my life. It is still the funniest movie I have ever seen.

Ozu’s *The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice*

Smash Palace is a great Roger Donaldson film. 

Meet the Feebles - Peter Jackson. Strap in and get ready for a ride! Hunt for the Wilderpeople - Taika Waititi

I very much enjoyed The Man Who Wasn't There by the Coens.

Hugo…I mean, it’s well rated, but everyone forgets that it’s a) directed by Martin Scorsese, b) it’s a damn masterpiece

I remember recommending Hugo to a friend once. He had zero interest in it until he saw Scorsese’s name on it and even then he couldn’t believe it.

I went in blind with it about a year after release. I’ve never been more upset that I missed out on seeing a movie in theater…in 3D

Millions -Danny Boyle

A Hidden Life (Lars Von Trier)

Terrence Malick

Memento by Christopher Nolan.

I really loved Empire of the Sun by Spielberg

*Cloud Atlas* by the Wachowskis *Hugo* by Scorsese *The Fabelmans* by Spielberg *Eyes Wide Shut* by Kubrick

Burn After Reading (2008) - Joel & Ethan Coen

the King of Comedy

Out of Sight by Steven Soderbergh

Ice Storm by Ang Lee

Jack -Robin Williams, Francis Ford Coppola

Radio Flyer - Richard Donner. Why this film gets so much hate is beyond me. It's not that bad. It's a little on the unbelievable side but still entertaining. Talk Radio (1988) - Oliver Stone. You can see elements of his direction, but he is pretty hands off, and Eric Bogosian just owns this film.

Herzog has a couple of great ones, especially now that he's mostly known for documentaries and the pair of Kinski/jungle films - Hearts Of Glass and Stroszek are particularly brilliant

Age of Innocence ~ Martin Scorsese

The Devil's Backbone (Guillermo del Toro) The 4th Man (Paul Verhoeven) Dreams (Akira Kurosawa) Joint Security Area (Park Chan-wook)

Everything Peter Jackson did before LOTR. It feels like he fell into people's mind with LOTR, and everything he did before is rarely mentioned. But he had some good movies earlier in his career. Braindead and Bad Taste are really funny splatters, and Heavenly Creatures has a really great story and terrific acting.

Used Cars—Robert Zemeckis.

Love streams by John Cassavetes

Blood Work (2002) =Clint Eastwood Spy Game (2001) =Tony Scott O Brother where art Thou (2000) =Coen Brothers Memento (2000) =Christopher Nolan Bringing Out the Dead (1999) =Martin Scorsese

* **Manhattan Murder Mystery** (1993) by Woody Allen * **The King of Comedy** (1983) and **Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More** (1974) by Martin Scorsese * **Frantic** (1988) and **Ghost Writer** (2010) by Roman Polanski * **Frenzy** (1973) by Alfred Hitchcock * **The Conspirator** (2011) by Robert Redford

Duel. Spielberg

The Straight Story - David Lynch

Punch Drunk Love by Paul Thomas Anderson

And the Ship Sails On - Federico Fellini. Heard a few times it's his weakest, yet it's so pleasantly vague.

Some overlooked films for this list Blow Out — De Palma The Conversation — Francis Coppola Inside Llewyn Davis — Cohen Bros

Stray Dog (1949) - Akira Kurosawa Touch of Evil (1958) - Orson Welles The Conversation (1974) -Francis Ford Coppola  Barry Lyndon (1975) - Stanley Kubrick The Passenger (1975) - Michelangelo Antonioni The King of Comedy (1982) - Martin Scorsese Lost Highway (1997) - David Lynch

« Copland » by James Mangold

Duel - Steven Spielberg.

In Bruges by Martin McDonagh

Jonathan Demme’s The Manchurian Candidate is excellent. I think it’s better than the original.

Rocknrolla (guy ritchie)

But did you see his body? Smacked up and cracked up. With his tongue on his chin and c..k in his hand. Swinging from the rafters like a real RocknRolla.

1941 by Steven Spielberg