The Road Less Traveled: A Personal History of Cinema

Posted on November 9th, 2018 by Adam Pelling-Deeves

This is simply a list of 100 excellent movies that, for whatever reason, have a low number of ratings on the internet. When you come off that hollywood highway of mafia, superheroes and princesses, the road becomes a little more challenging but so much more rewarding!

I’ll update this list every couple of years.

Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922)
Greed (1924)
The Last Laugh (1924)
The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Strike (1925)
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
Napoleon (1927)
October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1927)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

The Blue Angel (1930)
À Nous la Liberté (1931)
The Blood of a Poet (1932)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
Les Misérables (1934)
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
Rembrandt (1936)
Port of Shadows (1938)
Le Jour se Leve (1939)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Scarlet Street (1945)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)
Odd Man Out (1947)
Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)
Brighton Rock (1948)
Germany Year Zero (1948)

Late Spring (1949)
Le Silence de la Mer (1949)
Stray Dog (1949)
The Gunfighter (1950)
The Browning Version (1951)
Early Summer (1951)
Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)
Forbidden Games (1952)
The Life of Oharu (1952)
Umberto D. (1952)

Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)
Ugetsu (1953)
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
Ordet (1955)
Pather Panchali (1955)
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
A Man Escaped (1956)
Kanal (1957)
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
The Human Condition Trilogy: No Greater Love, Road to Eternity & A Soldier’s Prayer (1959-61)

Letter Never Sent (1960)
The Naked Island (1960)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
The Testament of Orpheus (1960)
Le Trou (1960)
Sundays and Cybele (1962)
Lord of the Flies (1963)
The Silence (1963)
Kwaidan (1964)
Onibaba (1964)

The Pawnbroker (1964)
The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
Alfie (1966)
Cul-de-sac (1966)
Seconds (1966)
Hell in the Pacific (1968)
Kuroneko (1968)
Shame (1968)

Army of Shadows (1969)
Waterloo (1970)
A Touch of Zen (1971)
Walkabout (1971)
The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Cria Cuervos (1976)
Opening Night (1977)
The First Great Train Robbery (1978)
Betty Blue (1986)

Salvador (1986)
Alice (1988)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
Nil by Mouth (1997)
My Name Is Joe (1998)
A Room for Romeo Brass (1999)
Devils on the Doorstep (2000)
Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Elling (2001)
The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)

Oasis (2002)
The Way Home (2002)
Adam & Paul (2004)
Fateless (2005)
The Italian (2005)
The Bothersome Man (2006)
Taxidermia (2006)
A Hijacking (2012)
We Are the Best! (2013)
Embrace of the Serpent (2015)

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