Incredible Movies That Should Be WAY More Famous

Fashion photographer William Klein only made a few movies, and this is the cream of the crop. Polly Maggoo is an amazing visual fiesta in the style of French New Wave. It's glossy and fancy, but also waaay smarter than any of that cheezy Hollywood trash.

Okay, I confess, I only watched this movie because I have a crush on young Warren Beatty. But so what? I was immediately swept away by Arthur Penn's masterful direction (he also directed Warren in Bonnie & Clyde) and Stan Getz's smashing jazz soundtrack. This is an incredibly visceral, yet smoothly suave, film noir that should've went down in history, instead of being cast off into oblivion.

When most people think of Billy Zane, they think of that stupid Titanic movie. Well fuck that, because this is the kick ass film that he should be remembered for. It's a crazy old L.A. pulp film that starts off with a bang, and stays weird and wild the whole way through. Blood and Concrete is a crime allegory in the effervescent vein of Tarantino.

Marat Sade in two words is basically this: relentless insanity. After I watched it, my eyes and brain felt raped. I mean it's just so shocking and ferocious and powerful, most of all. It's an adaption of a play about the Marquis De Sade's forced duration in a mental asylum, and how he would train inmates to act and perform plays, including the one about Charlotte Corday's murder of Jean-Paul Marat. If you watch it, you'll never forget it.

A witty character study filmed in the lush jungles of South America in beautiful Eastmancolor, it's really disappointing that Luis Bunuel never got the acclaim he deserved for this biting tale of chaos after a failed revolution.

This is a strange exploitation movie with an all-star cast, featuring Billy Zane, Christina Ricci, Ron Perlman, Tippi Hedren, Andrew McCarthy, Bud Cort, John Ritter, Eartha Kitt, Leif Garret, Sandra Bernhard, Vampira, Tara Reid and Karen Black. It's also an adaption of Ed Wood's last script. Billy plays an ever-silent, Buster Keaton-esque criminal lunatic who gets into an array of picaresque adventures after he escapes from a loony bin. This movie is incredibly entertaining and really funny at times. And after taking that all into account, I can't even begin to fathom why it's not a widely watched cult classic!

This is a visual splendor of a movie, featuring the brilliant James Mason and a young, gorgeous Helen Mirren. Age of Consent may not be a masterpiece like Michael Powell's other films, but it's fun and beachy so just enjoy it because who really gives a shit.

A psychosexual dramedy about a man who loves a woman, who is actually two women, two really malicious and disloyal women, and yup it's just as aggravatingly bizarre as it sounds. It's a romance to kick all other romance's asses.

This movie is so punk and one of my faves for that very reason. Diane Lane plays agitated, fuck all else teen rock queen Corinne Burns in this underground classic of a crapsterpiece.

Contrary to the suggestive title, no this is not a porno. This is actually the movie that made me love Natalie Wood. Inside Daisy Clover is an unconventional warning tale about how fame is fleeting and yadda yadda yadda, but watch it for Natalie's best, and most honest, performance of her career. She was a child star herself, and I think this role she played was close and relevant to her life.

This is an amazingly badass musical. I didn't even know Mack The Knife could be sung well in German, but boy I was surprised.

To sum it up: weird weird weird so very weird. I constantly had to ask myself throughout- WTF am I watching? But in a good way. Where else, but in a Ken Russell film, will you see huge phalluses, pianists in sabre fights, crazy tsarinas, Ringo Starr as the pope, and Wagner as an electric guitar machine gun-toting Nazi Frankenstein vampire?



By the way there is a penis on the poster lol look at it.

This is another one of those stun-gun-to-the-balls type of movies. I've read the book, and boy it's something else. I wondered, how could they make the climatic scene live up to how vividly it was described in the book? Well, John Schlesinger lived up to it and much much more, in a traumatically intense grand finale for a lifetime. Donald Sutherland is often overlooked, but is one of the best actors of our generation. He positively shines in the role of helpless idiot Homer Simpson (yep, this is where they got the name).

In one of his first movies, Francis Ford Coppola directs the tale of a fed up housewife who discovers she is pregnant and leaves home to find herself. Instead she finds a clinically retarded and super clingy James Caan and a violent, unstable Robert Duvall. This movie really got to me because it's hella depressing. Anyways this is a story kinda similar to Of Mice and Men and it'll stay with you for a long time.

On the lighter side of things, Candy, a fun 60s sex farce, is a real trippy hippie adventure of a movie. It features bizarre yet amusing cameos by Richard Burton, Ringo Starr, Walter Matthau, John Astin, John Huston and especially Marlon Brando.

William Peter Blatty, the writer of The Exorcist, decided to make a movie one day. It wasn't a horror film, it wasn't a fright fest, it was this otherworldly grand achievement called The Ninth Configuration. This movie also left me speechless, I don't know what to say even now, except for "Stacy fucking Keach!" Also just watch the damn movie, it'll blow your brain apart.

I am a huge, gigantic, pain in the ass fan of Albert Camus. So again, I smirked to myself and thought "No one can put The fucking Stranger on screen, and stay true to the existential, nihilistic philosophical message he so perfectly captured." And uh, yeah basically I was dead wrong. First of all, it's directed by Luchino Visconti. Second of all, it stars Marcello Mastroianni and Anna Karina. I was pretty much sold before I even watched it, and even afterwards I was thunderstruck by this sordid and morbid adaption of the sad yet truthful classic novella.

No, this is not a porno. It's just a little over an hour of pretty Joe Dallesandro buck naked in a dumbly brilliant experimental avant-garde movie produced by Andy Warhol. Okay, now that you think of it that is kinda porno-riffic but hey, this is an oft-unseen milestone in LGBT cinema!

And terrible enfants they are. Jean-Pierre Melville takes a break from film noir, and directs this tragically transcendent tale of perversion, loneliness and mad jealousy.

Another Ken Russell movie I adore, this time an adaption of the famous novel of the same name by DH Lawrence. Glenda Jackson is marvelous as an aloof and frigid woman of temptation, and Oliver Reed and Alan Bates share an extremely gay wrestling scene. This movie is not for the easily offended, trust me on that. It's about 4 freaks with a lust for life. Literally.

This movie is a side splitter, just wayyy too funny for words. The best satire on religion and class society ever made, in my not so humble opinion. Peter O'Toole, I love you!

Oh, so you thought Paul Newman couldn't box and be witty at the same time? Guess you was wrong. This movie is wonderfully corny, bitter and sweet at the same time. It's an even better boxing movie than Rocky, I must say.



Also, bring tissues because you will cry tears of blood at Paul's beauty.

There's something I really like about this movie, I just can't put my finger on it. Maybe it's Orson Welles' beard and stache. It might be, but it's probably the lack of coherence and unconventionality in Mr Arkadin that makes it so exciting, strange and ahead of it's time.

Frank Sinatra steps out of his classy rat pack swinger role, and steps into the shoes of a trouble-addled heroin addict. Frank shows his acting chops and true talent, and boy is he amazing.

This movie doesn't make a whole lotta sense, but who really gives a damn because you get to see Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor berate and humiliate each other for an hour and fifty minutes. Liz as an angry horndog and Marlon as an impotent suppressed homosexual, and all of it directed by John Huston! What else could a cinephile want?

Luis Bunuel is known for the sharp satirical edge he puts into all of his films, and for his pervasive dark humor and criticism of bourgeois lifestyle. Well this is a great example, starring Jeanne Moreau as a manipulative maid working for a wacky family alongside disturbed co-workers.

W.R. is a grotesque barrage of imagery and episodes of everything from documentary to parody, communism to sexuality. It's a challenging movie that is offensively incoherent, so I understand why many simpletons would not wanna see it.

Lemme just start by saying Marlene Dietrich is my fav classic actress. She was flawlessly beautiful, gracefully confident and had a commanding presence that screamed "I AM A GODDESS." And she was, as you can see in this picture perfect biopic of the luminous Catherine The Great. Nobody else could have played the awesome tsarina better.

Filmed in lush black and white and featuring a young Dustin Hoffman as drug addicted comedian Lenny Bruce, this tragicomedy might just be his best role. This is acting 101, everything's perfect here and so right. It's a tenuous balance between funny and sad, and by the end Dustin's brilliant performance will make you lament for Lenny and all the things he could've been and done.

Hey, remember that dumb new movie that stars Ryan Gosling as a getaway driver? Oh I bet you do, but that doesn't matter because The Driver is 100 million times better than any blatant rip off. Ryan O'Neal epitomizes cool as he smoothly evades coppers in classic cars and suave chase sequences. This is the epic car movie that is on par with Bullitt as the best of it's genre.

The film's title is an antiquity allusion to the phrase "sex and violence," and it fully lives up to that with an abundance of gore and perversion. This is probably my favourite period picture because it's an honest, low down, gritty view of the plague-ridden middle ages.

Another one of Paul Verhoeven's masterpieces, a WWII war flick about the Nazi occupied Netherlands. Rutger Hauer and Jeroen Kraebbe are so funny and good together.

O Lucky Man is a prime example of a WTF movie. It's so surreal and bizarre, a stunner after another of seemingly unconnected and random shit but it all adds up in the end. Malcolm McDowell is in his prime here, and this is a testament to his greatness.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's entertaining drama about a possessive and bratty lesbian fashion designer is a cinematic wonder. The dialogue basically carries the whole movie, and the cinematography is gorgeous.

This is a movie really ahead of its time. That's what Samuel Fuller did. Make movies that were provocative, that held up a mirror to society and made everyone examine themselves. Some people will ridicule this cult drama and call it "schlock corridor," (HAW HAW) but it truly is one of the best loony bin movies, period.

You can probably tell by now that I like total weirdo movies. And Federico fucking Fellini's retelling of the story of the infamous Italian Lothario is the epitome of eccentric. Casanova looks so vividly outlandish, with the glorious sets and costumes and visuals, and features more oddball acting from cinematic maestro Donald Sutherland, who is virtually unrecognizable.



Looks like me on a bad morning. Alright more like every morning.

And do James Fox and Mick Jagger give a hell of a performance! It goes from violent gangster film to psychedelic bad acid trip. Performance must be seen to be believed.

Um do I really have to say anything other than, hello, it's Al fucking Pacino and Gene fucking Hackman for god's sake! Lo and behold, the presence of the two silver screen legends is enough to merit a 10 out of 10, but their out of this world acting is what makes Scarecrow perfect. I was touched by this movie, right in my hell hole hovel of a heart.

Who said Sergio Leone is the only dude who could make great spaghetti westerns? Sergio Corbucci directs the hell out of Jean Louis Trintignant and Klaus Kinski, and the grand finale to this morbid movie is supernatural in its severity and intensity.

I didn't expect such an insane musical freak show from Brian De Palma, but I loved it. It's a dreamlike and funky cult classic about the pitfalls of selling your soul for rock n roll.

Another Fassbinder work of art, this is the sordid story of a volatile war widow, played by the heavenly Hanna Schygulla.

A super cool post apocalyptic sci fi, starring a young and pretty Don Johnson and a fast talking dog that is smarter than most of the people I've ever met. This movie is far out mann.

This is a really powerful movie, but entrenched in subtlety. Pier Paolo Pasolini's haunting allegory of a stranger who changes a family's life for the worse is deep because it probes some of the darkest corners of the human mind. Watch it and weep!

Hal Ashby directing a comedy featuring Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid and Otis Young? Be stilll my beating heart! The Last Detail is kind of dark for a comedy, but that's what makes it unique. And it's so beautiful to see Jack as a sailor with a potty mouth, you will cry and die laughing.



Look, he's saying "watch my movie bitch."

Instead of being considered one of the finest horror films ever made, which it is, Cat People is just seen as trashy 80s B movie cinema. Well WAKE UP people, this movie is damn extraordinary. Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, and John Heard turn up the sleaze to a thousand degrees and that, combined with the horrifically awesome metamorphoses of human to feline, makes it A list.

More Bunuel, doing his wonderful parodies of rigid high class society. It's a free-form, loosely structured variety of tiny tales and musings.

Baby Doll is another one of those movies that I can't believe was actually allowed to be released in the uptight, excessively moral 1950s. Because it was met with much fervor from anti-obscenity puritan groups, it wasn't really given a chance to be widely seen. But I think Elia Kazan captures an amazing energy and sexual tension between Carroll Baker and Eli Wallach. Karl Malden is also really good as an angry, humiliated and deranged husband. Baby Doll is weirdly similar to Lolita, as it's mostly just about a dude who wants to bang a nymphet.

Is Diane Keaton the greatest actress of all time? I think so. I'm a nostalgic idiot and I tend to romanticize the past, but this movies shows the disgusting side of the 70s. And not just that, Looking For Mr Goodbar is relevant to every girl who has struggled with adjusting to the sexuality and relationships faced in womanhood. But beware- this is definitely not a chick flick. It's upsetting and disturbing and based on a true story. The ending is gut wrenching, I can't even fucking describe the horror of it and the impact this movie had on me!

This is a movie that's hypnotic in its forlorn and melancholy. I think it's one of the only movies that romanticizes mental illness rather than plays it as a stigma. Anyways, Jean Seberg is completely mesmerizing and spellbinding as the seductive yet criminally insane Lilith who sinks her hooks into hapless men and brings them down.

Also this is my instinctual shallowness but fucking LOOK at how beautiful Warren was:

So this is about a bunch of asshole men who are hilarious buddies but are fatally immature and irresponsible. If you wanna see how male friendships really work, John Cassavetes lays out the bare bones for ya. Sometimes it's poignant, sometimes it's frustrating, sometimes it's hysterical, but all in all Husbands is ingenious cinema veritie and an invariable insight into masculine psychology.