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50 Underseen Movies Worth Watching

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Directed by: David Lee Miller
Written by: Eric J. Adams, David Lee Miller, Jordan J. Miller

Seen by 1 Listal user.
Rated 449 times on IMDb.
Ranked by 3% of FlickChart users.

"Its point of view is that of a disaffected 17-year-old movie buff who plans to kill himself on camera, so the talk of teen suicide calls to mind any number of similarly themed films. But [Archie's Final Project] breaks out of the mold with an exhilarating use of stock footage, animations, reenactments, and other audio-visual tricks, vividly reflecting the thought process of today's media-saturated young people who are under-supervised, over-privileged, and too plugged in." - Eric D. Snider
People who added this item 7 Average listal rating (5 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 6.8
Directed by: Kim Gatewood, Negin Farsad

Seen by 4 Listal users.
Rated 224 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 5% of FlickChart users.

"The part of Nerdcore Rising that strays from the usual band doc is its examination not only of the nerdcore genre but of nerds in general. First-time director Negin Farsad neatly manages the challenging trick of showing us the varieties of the nerd world in a respectful manner. Even the scene where one of the band members takes an inordinately long time to explain the "Magic the Gathering" game is treated with gentle humor." - Jette Kernion
People who added this item 8 Average listal rating (4 ratings) 6.5 IMDB Rating 7
Directed by: Adam Abraham
Written by: Adam Abraham, Gibson Frazier

Seen by 4 Listal users.
Rated 1004 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 3% of FlickChart users.

"Frazier is pitch-perfect as Johnny, nailing the rat-tat-tat delivery like someone who has stayed up for a month straight watching nothing but AMC - or like Humphrey Bogart trapped in the body of Pee-Wee Herman." - Scott Von Doviak
People who added this item 40 Average listal rating (12 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 6.9
Directed by: Erik Mauck, Aaron Marshall

Seen by 5 Listal users.
Rated 265 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 4% of FlickChart users.

"A 12-year-old Austin girl's whimsical determination to become a filmmaker -- by making a feature-length zombie epic -- is chronicled in "Zombie Girl: The Movie." While subject Emily Hagins' precocious pluck is admirable and endearing, what lends the docu its dramatic edge is the way in which her mother goes from supportive to meddlesome over the course of the no-budget horror pic's production." - Dennis Harvey
People who added this item 28 Average listal rating (9 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 6.6
I Am Comic (2010)
Directed by: Jordan Brady
Written by: Jordan Brady, Ritch Shydner

Seen by 6 Listal users.
Rated 395 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 7% of FlickChart users.

"In this quip-packed quest to discover how and why comedians do what they do, director Jordan Brady assembles an impressive slate of interview subjects. Tim Allen, Roseanne Barr, Janeane Garofalo, Jim Gaffigan, Phyllis Diller and Larry Miller are just a few of the people who deliver prime schtick when not musing on the dark art of making strangers laugh." - Jason Anderson
People who added this item 41 Average listal rating (21 ratings) 6.6 IMDB Rating 6.8
Directed by: William Shatner
Written by: William Shatner

Seen by 10 Listal users.
Rated 922 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 6% of FlickChart users.

"Shatner maintains his spot as the franchise’s cornerstone with The Captains, a documentary in which he stars and directs, trotting around the globe to have intimate conversations with each of the other Star Trek captains. Although self-indulgent at times, The Captains shows a different side to the pop culture icons. The conversations are never dull, showing each of the actors in ways you wouldn’t expect." - Ryan Cracknell
People who added this item 22 Average listal rating (14 ratings) 7.2 IMDB Rating 7.7
Directed by: Don Argott

Seen by 11 Listal users.
Rated 1110 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 7% of FlickChart users.

"Calculated to enrage and pulling it off like gangbusters, Don Argott’s documentary The Art of the Steal pits the legacy of the late Albert C. Barnes’s Barnes Foundation (which boasts arguably the world’s finest collection of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art) against the social-climbing, philistine, downright Nixonian machinations of Philadelphia’s wealthiest—who gamed the system and pried the collection loose in defiance of Barnes’s legal will." - David Edelstein
Directed by: Sean McGinly
Written by: Sean McGinly, Karl Wiedergott

Seen by 12 Listal users.
Rated 637 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 3% of FlickChart users.

"Two Days is an unexpectedly engrossing and entertaining little film about an actor who, in the days before committing suicide, allows a film crew to follow him around and document his final hours...The acting is uniformly excellent, with Rudd giving one of the best performances of his career." - David Nusair
People who added this item 24 Average listal rating (20 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 7.4
Directed by: Michael Blieden
Written by: Maria Bamford, Zach Galifianakis, Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn

Seen by 12 Listal users.
Rated 1341 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 16% of FlickChart users.

"And that’s really what puts this film in the upper echelon of comedy concert movies – that you feel like you’re on tour with the guys rather than simply watching a ‘best of’ series. The time is basically split 50-50 with performance clips and backstage/on the road footage, and while the stage work is impeccable, it’s the quiet moments when the camera has been running for two hours that really let you in to this circle of friends." - Chris Parry
Directed by: Bobcat Goldthwait
Written by: Bobcat Goldthwait

Seen by 13 Listal users.
Rated 2046 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 5% of FlickChart users.

"Goldthwait makes this thing work, when you're sure it couldn't, because the Incident could be just about anything humiliating and disgusting you want to keep secret. And he handles it beautifully, crafting from such rough stuff something astoundingly sweet and sharply funny about forgiveness, unconditional love, tenderness, and the things we hide just to get ourselves from one day to the next." - Robert Wilonsky
People who added this item 57 Average listal rating (30 ratings) 7.8 IMDB Rating 7.4
Project Nim (2011)
Directed by: James Marsh

Seen by 14 Listal users.
Rated 2638 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 9% of FlickChart users.

"[I]t’s a gripping, astounding, heart-breaking film, built of interviews, archival footage and reconstructed scenes of Nim’s life. It’s one of those works that presents the deeds of both humans and animals and leaves you wondering which is the more civilized." - Shawn Levy
People who added this item 67 Average listal rating (38 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.6
Directed by: Don Hahn
Written by: Patrick Pacheco

Seen by 15 Listal users.
Rated 928 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 10% of FlickChart users.

"Hahn has done an amazing job telling this story in a way that could never have been done by an outsider, showing how all the in-fighting helped to drive the creation of so many magic moments and beloved classics. He never sugar coats or glosses over the fact that there were a lot of problems behind the scenes of the studio's greatest successes, and yet, as a doc, it captures all the energy and magic of the Disney animated films of the time." - Edward Douglas
People who added this item 40 Average listal rating (16 ratings) 7 IMDB Rating 7
Directed by: Meghan Eckman

Seen by 15 Listal users.
Rated 990 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 5% of FlickChart users.

"An uplifting, high energy doc about an independent parking lot in Charlottesville, Virginia, this film has what so many films reach towards and miss: character. The attendants of this small lot are the most endearing, fully-fledged human beings you'll likely find, and the context in which they became these fully-fledged humans is this lot." - Sarah Maria Vizcarrondo
People who added this item 33 Average listal rating (18 ratings) 5.8 IMDB Rating 6.1
Directed by: Minoru Kawasaki
Written by: Minoru Kawasaki, Masakazu Migita

Seen by 16 Listal users.
Rated 475 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 4% of FlickChart users.

"Goofy, bizarre, yet surprisingly coherent, "The Calamari Wrestler" veils sharp social commentary with irreverent humor and corny romance. The production values are erratic, the acting barely adequate, and the effects more cheesy than special - somewhere between "The Muppets" and "Godzilla" - but the film possesses a good-natured charm." - Jeannette Catsoulis
People who added this item 41 Average listal rating (28 ratings) 5.9 IMDB Rating 5.9
Directed by: Zak Penn
Written by: Zak Penn, Matt Bierman

Seen by 22 Listal users.
Rated 4015 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 9% of FlickChart users.

"[T]here's more to watch than just the turn of the cards, like the merrily hammy psycho act of Penn's Loch Ness collaborator Werner Herzog—who shows up, believe it or not, as a brass-knuckled, bunny-stroking nut known as the "German." Put Herzog at the same table as Hines, Harrelson, Parnell, Cross, and Farina, and poker on film starts to look a lot less dull." - Jim Ridley
People who added this item 69 Average listal rating (39 ratings) 4.7 IMDB Rating 5.6
Directed by: Bobcat Goldthwait
Written by: Bobcat Goldthwait

Seen by 23 Listal users.
Rated 2692 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 10% of FlickChart users.

"Shakes is like Tennessee Williams with polka dots and red rubber noses. It's this very sense of a reality just slightly left of center that makes Shakes the Clown work as well as it does. Goldthwait is great as he trembles and stutters his way from one ghastly screw-up to the next, seeking assistance and understanding from his clown cronies and his girlfriend (Julie Brown), a woman of epic stupidity." - Marc Savlov
Directed by: George Roy Hill
Written by: Nora Johnson, Nunnally Johnson

Seen by 27 Listal users.
Rated 1714 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 5% of FlickChart users.

"A good script, a creative director and a perfect cast come together in a story that centers on the emotional life of adolescents...Nora Johnson's perceptive script accurately pegs the post-Barbie, pre-boyfriend teenage years, when reality is just catching up with lives still engaged in play-fantasy. This is a subject that few movies peg correctly." - Glenn Erickson
People who added this item 63 Average listal rating (42 ratings) 6.4 IMDB Rating 6.7
Mystery Team (2009)
Directed by: Dan Eckman
Written by: D.C. Pierson, Donald Glover, Dominic Dierkes, Dan Eckman, Meggie McFadden

Seen by 28 Listal users.
Rated 4672 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 23% of FlickChart users.

"The simple beauty of Mystery Team is that these guys actually add depth to their characters. Not much, but it keeps the humor fresh beyond just a simple one note like most SNL rehashes...It’s exceedingly clever without constantly remarking on its own cleverness." - Brian Prisco
Directed by: Constance Marks
Written by: Philip Shane, Justin Weinstein

Seen by 29 Listal users.
Rated 2448 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 11% of FlickChart users.

"If you’ve ever been a kid watching “Sesame Street,” Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey is pure nostalgia. If you grew up in the era of “The Muppet Show,” The Dark Crystal or Labyrinth, then it’s the most awesome nostalgia." - Fred Topel
People who added this item 189 Average listal rating (109 ratings) 6.1 IMDB Rating 6.2
Directed by: Lena Dunham
Written by: Lena Dunham

Seen by 30 Listal users.
Rated 2922 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 6% of FlickChart users.

"To her credit, Dunham is acutely aware of these facts even as she makes brainy sport of them. Given the semiautobiographical bent of "Tiny Furniture," she exhibits a terrific gift for cruel kindness toward herself. Dunham has an assured sense of absurdity and need and a powerfully sharp eye for deeply layered composition." - Lisa Kennedy
People who added this item 81 Average listal rating (47 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 7.2
Winnebago Man (2009)
Directed by: Ben Steinbauer
Written by: Malcolm Pullinger, Ben Steinbauer

Seen by 31 Listal users.
Rated 2179 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 9% of FlickChart users.

"As Winnebago Man takes one odd turn after another, we realize that Steinbauer has served up a movie that truly captures the many weird ramifications of our modern Internet culture: how what we think we're seeing might not be real; how the people we encounter online can be anyone we want them to be; and how the lines between our public and private personas just keep getting blurrier." - Christopher Kelly
People who added this item 91 Average listal rating (53 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 6.6
Head (1968)
Directed by: Bob Rafelson
Written by: Bob Rafelson, Jack Nicholson, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork

Seen by 31 Listal users.
Rated 3280 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 9% of FlickChart users.

"Head. In which The Monkees get stoned, commit career suicide, and end up accidentally making one of the best movies of the 1960s." - David Cornelius
People who added this item 62 Average listal rating (31 ratings) 7.2 IMDB Rating 7.3
Wordplay (2006)
Directed by: Patrick Creadon
Written by: Patrick Creadon, Christine O'Malley

Seen by 34 Listal users.
Rated 2739 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 10% of FlickChart users.

"Between timed bouts of puzzle solving (during which folks fill small boxes as fast as mind-eye-hand coordination allows), Creadon steps away and talks to the sex gods of the crossword-puzzle-addicted world about why the activity turns them on. Among the aroused: President Bill Clinton, Sen. Bob Dole, Yankee pitcher Mike Mussina, and king of most media Jon Stewart, who all speak passionately about their love of clues that go across and down." - Lisa Schwarzbaum
People who added this item 90 Average listal rating (62 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 7
Directed by: Rodman Flender

Seen by 36 Listal users.
Rated 3133 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 19% of FlickChart users.

"His resulting 33-city touring song-and-joke variety show, captured by the documentary lens of Rodman Flender for Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop, is combination therapy and screw-you retribution. It’s also entertaining, not to mention revealing about the emotional toll exacted upon people who, in O’Brien’s words, 'feed their bone marrow to the wood chipper that is television.'" - Peter Howell
People who added this item 81 Average listal rating (51 ratings) 6.4 IMDB Rating 6.7
Big Fan (2009)
Directed by: Robert D. Siegel
Written by: Robert D. Siegel

Seen by 38 Listal users.
Rated 5991 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 19% of FlickChart users.
People who added this item 87 Average listal rating (49 ratings) 6.6 IMDB Rating 6.5
The Baxter (2005)
Directed by: Michael Showalter
Written by: Michael Showalter

Seen by 44 Listal users.
Rated 3428 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 10% of FlickChart users.
Directed by: Mitch Rouse
Written by: Mitch Rouse, Jay Leggett

Seen by 56 Listal users.
Rated 6760 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 9% of FlickChart users.
People who added this item 172 Average listal rating (105 ratings) 5.7 IMDB Rating 6.1
Super High Me (2008)
Directed by: Michael Blieden

Seen by 77 Listal users.
Rated 6494 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 17% of FlickChart users.
People who added this item 177 Average listal rating (95 ratings) 6.2 IMDB Rating 6.4
Directed by: Todd Solondz
Written by: Todd Solondz

Seen by 86 Listal users.
Rated 3408 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 9% of FlickChart users.
People who added this item 169 Average listal rating (110 ratings) 7 IMDB Rating 7.2
Directed by: Ken Loach
Written by: Paul Laverty

Seen by 93 Listal users.
Rated 8139 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 7% of FlickChart users.
People who added this item 319 Average listal rating (220 ratings) 6 IMDB Rating 6.6
Directed by: David Wain
Written by: Michael Showalter, David Wain

Seen by 96 Listal users.
Rated 15370 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 27% of FlickChart users.
People who added this item 203 Average listal rating (123 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.3
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Written by: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Billy Wilder

Seen by 98 Listal users.
Rated 5238 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 8% of FlickChart users.
People who added this item 310 Average listal rating (205 ratings) 6.2 IMDB Rating 6.4
Directed by: Dan Rush
Written by: Dan Rush, Raymond Carver

Seen by 116 Listal users.
Rated 19604 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 20% of FlickChart users.
Directed by: Scott Glosserman
Written by: Scott Glosserman, David J. Stieve

Seen by 126 Listal users.
Rated 10767 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 17% of FlickChart users.
People who added this item 405 Average listal rating (242 ratings) 5.7 IMDB Rating 5.7
Directed by: Quentin Dupieux
Written by: Quentin Dupieux

Seen by 127 Listal users.
Rated 11340 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 15% of FlickChart users.
People who added this item 345 Average listal rating (203 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 7.1
Directed by: George Roy Hill
Written by: Steve Tesich

Seen by 142 Listal users.
Rated 13574 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 20% of FlickChart users.
People who added this item 372 Average listal rating (231 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 7.1
Catfish (2010)
Directed by: Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost

Seen by 147 Listal users.
Rated 16501 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 27% of FlickChart users.
People who added this item 372 Average listal rating (235 ratings) 6.5 IMDB Rating 6.9
Directed by: Bobcat Goldthwait
Written by: Bobcat Goldthwait

Seen by 148 Listal users.
Rated 17242 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 21% of FlickChart users.
People who added this item 297 Average listal rating (221 ratings) 5.2 IMDB Rating 5.6
Directed by: Jorma Taccone
Written by: Will Forte, John Solomon

Seen by 152 Listal users.
Rated 20727 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 25% of FlickChart users.
People who added this item 281 Average listal rating (134 ratings) 5.9 IMDB Rating 6
Paper Heart (2009)
Directed by: Nicholas Jasenovec
Written by: Nicholas Jasenovec, Charlyne Yi

Seen by 153 Listal users.
Rated 5683 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 18% of FlickChart users.
People who added this item 401 Average listal rating (245 ratings) 8.4 IMDB Rating 8.1
Limelight (1952)
Directed by: Charles Chaplin
Written by: Charles Chaplin

Seen by 153 Listal users.
Rated 7712 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 9% of FlickChart users.
People who added this item 306 Average listal rating (190 ratings) 5.9 IMDB Rating 6.3
Cyrus (2010)
Directed by: Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass
Written by: Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass

Seen by 153 Listal users.
Rated 18889 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 21% of FlickChart users.
Directed by: Seth Gordon

Seen by 162 Listal users.
Rated 20493 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 39% of FlickChart users.
People who added this item 345 Average listal rating (222 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 7.6
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Written by: Woody Allen

Seen by 172 Listal users.
Rated 12051 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 15% of FlickChart users.
People who added this item 420 Average listal rating (239 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 7.6
Mystery Train (1989)
Directed by: Jim Jarmusch
Written by: Jim Jarmusch

Seen by 174 Listal users.
Rated 10807 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 12% of FlickChart users.
People who added this item 396 Average listal rating (212 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 7.5
Directed by: Kirby Dick
Written by: Kirby Dick, Eddie Schmidt

Seen by 177 Listal users.
Rated 15415 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 27% of FlickChart users.
People who added this item 487 Average listal rating (279 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 7.4
In the Loop (2009)
Directed by: Armando Ianucci
Written by: Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin

Seen by 189 Listal users.
Rated 24033 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 27% of FlickChart users.
People who added this item 356 Average listal rating (225 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 7
Son of Rambow (2007)
Directed by: Garth Jennings
Written by: Garth Jennings

Seen by 194 Listal users.
Rated 18382 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 23% of FlickChart users.
People who added this item 505 Average listal rating (324 ratings) 6.2 IMDB Rating 6.1
Directed by: Jason Eisener
Written by: John Davies, Jason Eisener, Rob Cotterill

Seen by 205 Listal users.
Rated 22281 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 23% of FlickChart users.
People who added this item 1108 Average listal rating (722 ratings) 8.2 IMDB Rating 8
Directed by: Satoshi Kon
Written by: Sadayuki Murai

Seen by 244 Listal users.
Rated 11801 times of IMDb.
Ranked by 15% of FlickChart users.

Similar to a list I put out previously, but more in depth. To qualify for this list:
1) The movie had to appear in my top 500 favorite films on www.flickchart.com
2) The movie had to have been seen by less than 40% of FlickChart users
3) The movie had to have been rated less than 25,000 on IMDb
4) The movie had to have been seen by less than 250 Listal users

The list is ranked from lowest seen on Listal up. Included is an excerpt from a review that I hope will convince you to check it out. Hopefully I can turn you on to something cool!

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