Leonard Maltin's 151 Best Movies You've Never Seen

[polkablues]

#1. American Dreamz (2006)
#2. The Animal Factory (2000)
#3. Aurora Borealis (2006)
#4. Baadasssss! (2004)
#5. The Ballad Of Little Jo (1993)
#6. Better Than Sex (2000)
#7. The Big Hit (1998)
#8. Blood And Wine (1997)
#9. Brick (2006)
#10. Brothers (2004)
#11. Bubba Ho-Tep (2003)
#12. Career Girls (1997)
#13. Casanova (2005)
#14. Chop Shop (2008)
#15. Citizen Ruth (1996)
#16. Connie And Carla (2004)
#17. C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
#18. Criminal (2004)
#19. Crush (2002)
#20. Dark Days (2000)
#21. The Dead Girl (2006)
#22. The Devil's Backbone (2001)
#23. Diamond Men (2001)
#24. Dick (1999)
#25. The Dinner Game (1998)
#26. Dinner Rush (2001)
#27. The Dish (2000)
#28. Disney's Teacher's Pet (2004)
#29. The Door In The Floor (2004)
#30. Driving Lessons (2006)
#31. Duck Season (2004)
#32. East Is East (1999)
#33. Everything Put Together (2001)
#34. Fast, Cheap & Out Of Control (1997)
#35. 15 Minutes (2001)
#36. Find Me Guilty (2006)
#37. Firelight (1998)
#38. Following (1999)
#39. Gilles' Wife (2004)
#40. Gloomy Sunday (1999)
#41. Go Tigers! (2001)
#42. Going In Style (1979)
#43. The Great Buck Howard (2009)
#44. The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
#45. The Hard Word (2002)
#46. The Harmonists (1997)
#47. Hedwig And The Angry Inch (2001)
#48. Hidalgo (2004)
#49. A Home At The End Of The World (2004)
#50. The House Of Sand (2005)
#51. How To Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)
#52. I Served The King Of England (2006)
#53. Idiocracy (2006)
#54. In The Shadow Of The Moon (2007)
#55. Indigenes (Days Of Glory) (2006)
#56. Innocent Blood (1992)
#57. Intermission (2003)
#58. Island In The Sky (1953)
#59. Julia (2008)
#60. Keeping Mum (2005)
#61. Kill Me Later (2001)
#62. King Of California (2007)
#63. The King Of Masks (1997)
#64. King Of The Hill (1993)
#65. Kontroll (2003)
#66. La Ciudad/The City (1999)
#67. La Petite Lili (2003)
#68. La Promesse (1996)
#69. Lady For A Day (1933)
#70. The Last Shot (2004)
#71. Lawless Heart (2001)
#72. Levity (2003)
#73. Look Both Ways (2005)
#74. The Lookout (2007)
#75. Love And Death On Long Island (1997)
#76. Mad Money (2008)
#77. The Maltese Falcon (1931)
#78. The Man From Elysian Fields (2002)
#79. Man Push Cart (2006)
#80. Marvin's Room (1996)
#81. The Matador (2005)
#82. Matchstick Men (2003)
#83. Matewan (1987)
#84. Maybe Baby (2000)
#85. The Merry Gentleman (2009)
#86. Metroland (1998)
#87. A Midnight Clear (1992)
#88. The Mighty (1998)
#89. Millions (2005)
#90. Mirrormask (2005)
#91. Moonlighting (1982)
#92. Mountains Of The Moon (1990)
#93. Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont (2005)
#94. My First Mister (2001)
#95. The Mystery Of Picasso (1956)
#96. Nine Lives (2005)
#97. Nothing But The Truth (2008)
#98. October Sky (1999)
#99. Off The Map (2004)
#100. Once Were Warriors (1994)
#101. One Fine Day (1996)
#102. Owning Mahowny (2003)
#103. The Painted Veil (2006)
#104. Paradise Now (2005)
#105. Peter's Friends (1992)
#106. Phoebe In Wonderland (2008)
#107. The Pledge (2001)
#108. Priceless (2006)
#109. Prisoner Of Paradise (2003)
#110. The Prize Winner Of Defiance, Ohio (2005)
#111. Queen Of Hearts (1989)
#112. Quinceanera (2005)
#113. Raising Victor Vargas (2003)
#114. Resurrecting The Champ (2007)
#115. Resurrection (1980)
#116. Safe Men (1998)
#117. Scarecrow (1973)
#118. Seven Men From Now (1956)
#119. Shadowboxer (2006)
#120. Something New (2006)
#121. Son Of Rambow (2008)
#122. Songcatcher (2001)
#123. Spring Forward (2000)
#124. Starting Out In The Evening (2007)
#125. Startup.Com (2001)
#126. State Of The Union (1948)
#127. The Steel Helmet (1951)
#128. Still Crazy (1990)
#129. Stone Reader (2003)
#130. Sweet Land (2005)
#131. The Tao Of Steve (2000)
#132. Taste Of Cherry (1997)
#133. The Third Miracle (1999)
#134. Thumbsucker (2005)
#135. Tristram Shandy: A Cock And Bull Story (2006)
#136. Tumbleweeds (1999)
#137. Tuvalu (2000)
#138. The TV Set (2007)
#139. Two Family House (2000)
#140. Two Lovers (2009)
#141. Waking The Dead (2000)
#142. The Weather Man (2005)
#143. Welcome To Sarajevo (1997)
#144. Went To Coney Island On A Mission From God ... Be Back By Five (2000)
#145. What Doesn't Kill You (2008)
#146. The Whole Wide World (1996)
#147. The Wide Blue Road (1957)
#148. Winter Solstice (2005)
#149. Word Wars (2004)
#150. The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
#151. Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005)


I would guarantee that most of the people here have seen at least a good chunk, if not a majority, of the movies on this list.  There are a few genuinely great little-seen films here, like A Midnight Clear, Welcome to Sarajevo, Intermission, and (especially) Waking the Dead.  There are also quite a few that are little-seen for good reasons, like American Dreamz, The Tao of Steve, Find Me Guilty, and the truly abysmal 15 Minutes.  I do find it odd how many films on the list are from the past decade.

[Alexandro]

Maltin is really weird.

[children with angels]

Yeah, what a truly bizarre list. Quite apart from the weird recent-bias, it contains films that are extraordinarily famous (Maltese Falcon), extraordinarily bad (Maybe Baby), AND extraordinarily good (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) - I can't make head nor tail of it.

Also: I watched the pretty awful One Fine Day not long ago, and WOW that is a sexist movie. Most romantic comedies about working moms at least make gestures towards saying they can both be mothers and have successful careers: Nope, not this movie! She (Pfeiffer) gets soundly told off by her son for loving her job more than him, whilst Clooney is allowed to ably handle fatherhood and work.

[Captain of Industry]

it contains films that are extraordinarily famous (Maltese Falcon)

You're thinking of the John Huston one, but he's referring to the Roy Del Ruth one.

[Pas]

Strange, strange list! Most of what's on it is very recent and very forgetable, there's even Mad Money in there! I've never seen it but it definitely looks like the worst piece of shit ever produced.

I would've thought the best films I've never seen are soviet or something like that, Iranian and shit. Not American DreamZ

[picolas]

*spits out drink, vomits, shits* AMERICAN DREAMZ????

[Captain of Industry]

Yeah.  It would've been wiser to title the list The Middle 151 Neither Best Nor Worst Movies You've Never Seen.  Which I'm simply stealing from my favorite of this past decade's best of lists, the David Wain one.

David Wain's Middle 10 Neither Best Nor Worst Movies of the Decade:

10. The Mexican
9. Insomnia
8. The Terminal
7. Charlie Wilson's War
6. Music & Lyrics
5. 3:10 to Yuma
3. Tie: Runaway Jury/Baby Mama
2. Blue Crush
1. Changing Lanes

[children with angels]

it contains films that are extraordinarily famous (Maltese Falcon)

You're thinking of the John Huston one, but he's referring to the Roy Del Ruth one.

Ah yes - fair cop: didn't check the date.

[Gold Trumpet]

No real comment. A couple decent choices, but an over reliance on the last decade and films readily available at a video store near you. Leonard Maltin wants to be a critic, but he's more of a Hollywood historian because he publishes reference books that sum up movies with inconsequential ratings and short summations which don't say much of anything about the films.

[The Perineum Falcon]

I'd like to point out to everyone that this list is put in order ALPHABETICALLY, somewhat dismissing the need for the numbers left of the titles, there by freeing itself from any initial assumption that this list is set from BEST to LEAST BEST. Which would excuse the fact that AMERICAN DREAMZ is #1, and the drearily forgettable THE BIG HIT has a considerable lead over TASTE OF CHERRY.

[Derek]

Where is Hard Eight?

[The Perineum Falcon]

He's never seen it.

[ᾦɐļᵲʊʂ]

David Wain's Middle 10 Neither Best Nor Worst Movies of the Decade:

1. Changing Lanes

Pretty goddamn spot on.

[Stefen]

Yeah, a lot of those are underrated.

Particularly Thumbsucker, The Lookout, Dark Days and Tao of Steve (Donal Logue is great in this).

I find One Fine Day a lot of fun, as well. Clooney makes this movie.

Good to see Landis get some love with an Innocent Blood shout-out.

[pete]

ironically, this is one of the only lists where I feel like I've seen the majority of the films.  I only agree with:

the big hit
fast cheap and out of control
love and death on long island
millions
raising victor vargas
tristram shandy