Awesome movies that no one's ever heard of:

TheStarTurtle

These are just my opinion. Feel free to add your own examples.

Scarface (1932 the one with Pacino is a remake)

Union Station

High and Low (Kurasawa didn't just do Samurai films)

Zulu (a classic in the U.K., forgotten everywhere else)

Targets

Tora! Tora! Tora! (check out my review https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKkgbOwyEk7FIYMJkpDDIWQ/videos)

Across 110th Street (check out my review https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKkgbOwyEk7FIYMJkpDDIWQ/videos)

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

Zulu Dawn (the awesome prequel to Zulu)

The Yakuza

A Bridge Too Far

Go Tell the Spartans (the first REAL movie about the Vietnam War)

Silent Running

The Driver

The Long Good Friday (check out my review https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKkgbOwyEk7FIYMJkpDDIWQ/videos)

Who Dares Wins (check out my review https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKkgbOwyEk7FIYMJkpDDIWQ/videos)

Blue Thunder

Alien Nation

City on Fire (Tarantino's inspiration for Reservoir Dogs)

Black Rain

No Escape

Shiri (check out my review https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKkgbOwyEk7FIYMJkpDDIWQ/videos)

Infernal Affairs (The Departed is our remake of this)

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Sanshiro Sugata Parts 1 & 2 (Kurasawa's first and third films and precursors the the martial arts genre)

The Naked City (the founder of the cop genre)

The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)

Where Eagles Dare (if you like The Guns of Naverone and The Dirty Dozen you'll like this)

The Quiller Memorandum (if you like The Shy Who Came in from the Cold you'll like this)

The Wild Geese

Rollerball (1975)

Outland (1981)

Thief (1981)

The Professional (1981)

Midnight Run

Leon: The Professional

Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai

Way of the Gun (from the writer of The Usual Suspects)

Narc (2002)

Equilibrium

Tae Guk Gi: Brotherhood of War

Reign of Fire

Breaking News (2004)

City of Violence

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Rope (1948) (Hitchcock's most underrated film)

Stray Dog (1949)

Deadlier Than the Male (one of few legitimately awesome James Bond knock-offs, plus hot chicks in bikinis)

Bullitt (contains the first real car chase in cinema)

The Detective (1968 based on the prequel to the novel that Die Hard was based off of, not kidding)

The Car (1977 it's Jaws with a demonically possessed car)

Rolling Thunder (1977)

Across 110th Street

The Seven Ups (contains one of the greatest car chases ever)

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (one of the greatest martial arts movies ever made)

To Live and Die in LA

No Man's Land (1989 another amazing car chase)

The Last Boy Scout

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Double Indemnity

King Boxer (the first martial arts film to gain a following here in the U.S.) (Check out my review! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKkgbOwyEk7FIYMJkpDDIWQ/videos)

Dillinger (1973)

Excalibur (1981 still the best Legend of Camelot movie)

Year of the Dragon (1985)

Revolution (1985 under-appreciated and still the greatest movie ever made about the American Revolution)

The Hidden

The Beast (1989)

Last of the Mohicans (1992)

Rob Roy (Liam Neeson's first action/adventure film, you should watch this instead of Non-Stop or the Taken sequels)

Ronin (1998, two incredible car chases)

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The Informer (1935)

Django (1966 where it all began)

The Battle of Algiers

The Army of Shadows

Westworld

Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro

Marked for Death (Seagal's best aside from Under Siege in my opinion)

Outbreak (1995)

Executive Decision

Copland

Flame and Citron

Downfall (this is where the Hitler parodies on Youtube originally came from)

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Pursuit of the Graf Spee (aka The Battle of the River Plate)

Hell is For Heroes

Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)

Waterloo

The Omega Man

Revenge of the Ninja

The Punisher (1989 arguably the best Punisher movie)

Air America

Demolition Man (1993)

Dark Blue (2002)

Sodo

I've heard of Demolition Man and seen it, it was good. But I would have to disagree about that Punisher. I liked the second one better, in my personal opinion.

TheStarTurtle

Rolling Thunder (1977) ;)

Yep! 8)

jillymayr

inferno affairs looks interesting

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Leon the Professional & Ronin in my collection!

Bullitt is not an unknown film though,it is world famous for its car chase scene!

TheStarTurtle

Leon the Professional & Ronin in my collection!

Bullitt is not an unknown film though,it is world famous for its car chase scene!

I'll admit that I had mostly younger generations in mind when I added some of these. I know of many who have heard of but never actually seen movies like Die Hard, Jaws, or even the original Star Wars Trilogy! If they haven't seen those films then odds are they've never even heard of Bullitt.

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Rififi (Long before Ocean's Eleven, there was this)

The Final Countdown

Hanoi Hilton (the story of the real life North Vietnamese prison camp)

Brother From Another Planet

2 Days In the Valley

Lone Star

Thirteen Days (the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis)

15 Minutes

Silmido

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Michael Collins (the story of one of the lead figures in the Irish War for Independence)

Beaufort (2007)

Secret Reunion

Unit 7 (Spanish cop movie)

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No Escape (2015)