Entertainment Weekly's The 100 best movies you've never heard of (COMPLETE LIST)

After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.

The plot explores the devastation of civilization and issues of brutality, hostility and isolation. Pierre Jolivet stars as the main character (identified only as "The Man" in the end credits) who is menaced by "The Brute" (played by Jean Reno) on his journey through a world filled by people rendered nearly mute by some unknown incident.

1945 film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer

A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

80-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in honour of author Lewis Carroll. As a child, Alice's close friendship with the writer was the creative catalyst for Carroll's most beloved work. However, as Alice reflects on her experiences with the author, she slowly realises the complexity of their bond has had lasting, deeply felt ramifications.

A womanizing poet falls into the hands of a psychiatrist with a straying wife.

Young Bart Collins lives with his widowed mother Heloise. The major blight on Bart's existence is the hated piano lessons he is forced to endure under the tutelage of the autocratic Dr. Terwilliker. Bart feels that his mother has fallen under Terwilliker's sinister influence, and gripes to visiting plumber August Zabladowski, without much result. While grimly hammering away at his lessons, Bart dozes off and enters a fantastical musical dream.

The bizarre and musical tale of a girl who travels to another dimension through the gateway found in her family's basement.

In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.

A group of friends come of age in the asphalt desert of the San Fernando Valley set to a blazing soundtrack and endless drinking, drugs and sex.

This obscure 1983 comedy centers around a massive New Year’s Eve rock concert held by an independent booker that’s being sabotaged by an unscrupulous mega-promoter. Malcolm McDowell is British rocker-prick Reggie Wanker, whose head is so far up his ass, he can count all the M&M’s he’s eaten that day. Lou Reed plays a recluse folk singer who hasn’t left his house in six years but decides to make an appearance at the event. What seals it for this writer is legendary punk wiseguy Lee Ving as Nada lead singer Piggy. He’s totally typecast: Ving raises hell, signs his contract with a bloody headbutt on a car trunk, and turns in an ass-kicking version of Willie Dixon’s blues standard “Hoochie Coochie Man” (Fear perform the song on the soundtrack; other members of the band appear briefly in the film.) while demanding people dive off the balcony (“Come on! Jump on my face!”) And forget Netflix: you can watch the whole movie at the link above!

A psychiatrist tells two stories: one of a trans woman, the other of a pseudohermaphrodite.

At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring 20's, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane (June Allyson) falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe (Peter Lawford). Unfortunately, he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat McClellan. Tommy's grades start to slip, which keeps him from playing in the big game. Connie eventually finds out Tommy really loves her and devises a plan to win him back and to get him back on the field.

A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement finds similarities between their helpless struggle against the Viet Cong and the doomed actions of a French unit at the same site a decade before.

Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash.

Disarmingly realistic in its depiction of the realities of frontier life, Heartland is a strong antidote to the cliches of traditional Westerns. This semi-documentary slice of life is based on the diaries of Elmore Randall Stewart about her days on the Wyoming frontier in the early 20th century. It's a strongly feminist statement about a woman raising her small daughter alone and scrapping for a living by working for a shy Scottish rancher. Director Richard Pearce brings an endearing touch to a film that is helped greatly by the dazzling cinematography of Fred Murphy. Conchata Ferrell and Rip Torn star in this small film that substitutes veracity for a high-powered plot. Pearce worked as a cinematographer on Woodstock and other documentaries before making his directorial debut.
Winner of the 1980 Berlin Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival

During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the same small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean.

When average, law-abiding citizens suddenly turn to a life of hedonistic behavior and violent crime, Detective Tom Beck is tasked with helping young FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher determine the cause.

In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake.

Lillie, a backup singer in a travelling rock’n'roll show, is left broke and stranded when her car breaks down in the NSW coastal town of Bega. She checks into a caravan park, unaware that Ally, the daughter she gave up 16 years ago as a baby, is living there with Bet, her paternal grandmother. Bet has told Ally that her mother is dead and warns Liilie not to interfere. Lillie begins a romance with Mick (Colin Friels) and tells him about Ally. Hoping to build a future with Lillie, Nick tells Ally the truth. Ally confronts her mother and grandmother. Lillie asks Ally to leave with her.