Good movies that aren't extremely popular

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I have no idea if this is a popular movie, but The Legend of 1900 is great.

lesser known mob movies that people are decent:

Wannabes (really good)
10 and Wolf
Mean Streets (probably too popular for this thread)

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3 O'Clock High

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Amen. Best teen comedy ever made.

Edit: Also, a couple of gambling movies: Hard Eight and Owning Mahoney.

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Hard Eight

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The General- Brendan Gleeson(who's a dead ringer from the pics I've seen) as irish gangster Martin Cahill. Directed by John Boorman.

Chopper- Movie about Mark Brandon Read, Australian criminal.

Traffik- The original one, not the remake. It's really a mini-series, but it's really good and definitely worth seeing.

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I really enjoyed Ghost Dog, a Forest Whitaker movie in which he gives a good understated performance. I had never heard of it till one of my friends pointed it out when we were randomly flipping through channels, so I don't think it's too popular.

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Traffik- The original one, not the remake. It's really a mini-series, but it's really good and definitely worth seeing.

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yeah the catherine zetajones remake sucked compared to the british traffik mini-series i saw. the old one is really good especially the part where the guy stabs his drug dealer boss to death with herioine needle. cathartic.

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Joyride...a college kid (Paul Walker) is driving instead of flying home in the hopes of spending time with a girl he likes (Leelee Sobieski), but ends up having to bring along his delinquent brother (Steve Zahn). Lots of well-acted bros vs. hos tension & mama's boy vs. bad boy friction. oh and did I mention that they manage to piss off an insane homicidal truck driver.

Cellular Ryan (Crhis Evans) is an irresponsible surfer dude who is reluctantly drawn into some heavy [censored] when a kidnapped woman(Kim Basinger) accidentally dials his cell number on a jerry-rigged phone. Great pacing, a mean-mugging Jason Statham as the main villain, and Jessica Biel as the girlfriend with the smoking bod.

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2046

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i remember the music on the website being very beautiful but the movie was so-so IMO

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'Screamers' - My favorite sci-fi film, despite sort of cheesy effects. Great plot. Based on a novel by Philip K. Dick.


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This movie is so horrifyingly creepy. Thanks for reminding me about it, I'd forgotten how much I like it.

Along the cheesy-but-terrifying lines I'll throw Event Horizon out there.

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I really like Gattaca, and I don't understand why it's not more popular.

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good pick. the ending sours it a bit but overall one of my favorite dystopia movies ever.