A Major List of Under-Seen, Under-Appreciated Films (By Request)

I was recently asked by a friend to compile a list of films that I've seen (throughout the years and in large part thanks to my film project last year, which is seemingly continuing nowadays) that many people have not seen (or have been seen by few people). This is a hard task to undertake, because it's hard to judge the popular or not, so to speak, of films that I've seen. I guess I could go with Box Office money made, but I'm just going to take my self-proclaimed "hipster-ness" and assume the films I have come up with have not been seen by a large group of people. So, here it is:

Top Films to See That You (and A Lot of People) Haven't Seen:

Waking Life




Let the Right One In



Hard Candy



The Machinist



Happiness



Lovely and Amazing



Run Lola Run



In the Company of Men



Bottle Rocket



Slacker



Pi



sex, lies, and videotape



Secretary



Sherry Baby



Fish Tank



Cashback



We Don't Live Here Anymore



Mean Creek



The Upside of Anger



Me and You and Everyone We Know



American Splendor



Brick



A Scanner Darkly



Friends with Money



Kissing Jessica Stein



Never Let Me Go



9



Away We Go



The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus



In Bruges



The Wrestler



Control



Persepolis



Friends with Kids



Jeff, Who Lives At Home



Happythankyoumoreplease



All the Real Girls



Blue Valentine



The Descent



Elephant



Funny Games



I Heart Huckabees



In America



Junebug



The Last Kiss



Quarantine



Rachel Getting Married



The Virgin Suicides



The Squid and the Whale



Rest Stop



State and Main



Wendy and Lucy



What Dreams May Come



Winter's Bone



Wolf Creek



You Can Count on Me



Sunshine Cleaning



An Education



Much Ado About Nothing



Fruitvale Station



The Spectacular Now



Antichrist



Down to the Bone



The Burning Plain



Safety Not Guaranteed



Take This Waltz



Tiny Furniture



Holy Motor



Not Since You



Mammoth



Exit Through the Gift Shop



Hunger



Everything Must Go



Tape



Trollhunter



Kicking and Screaming



Frances Ha



Sleepwalk with Me



Like Crazy



The Bling Ring



The Giant Mechanical Man



Starlet



Igby Goes Down



Snow Angels



Thirteen



The Good Girl



Nesting



Somebody Up There Likes Me



Teeth



Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil



The Puffy Chair



Peter and Vandy



The Lie



The New Year



A Band Called Death



Small, Beautifully Moving Parts



The Lifeguard



Broken English



Lars and the Real Girl



Primer



Drinking Buddies



Nobody Walks



Movies on My List "To See" 

The To-Do List
Ain't Them Bodies Saints
In a World
Mud
Upstream Color
Beasts of Southern Wild
Celeste and Jesse Forever
Ruby Sparks
Robot and Frank
The Sessions
The Descendants
Martha Macy May Marlene
The Tree of Life
Funny Ha Ha
Half Nelson
Synecdoche, New York
Take Shelter
Badlands
Shotgun Stories
The Matador
Stories We Tell
Shame

among others, yes, it seems never-ending, but that's the fun!

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