# What's the most underappreciated movie you've seen?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 6, 2001, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-underappreciated-movie-youve-seen/61024 "2001-04-06T04:09:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 16, 2001, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-underappreciated-movie-youve-seen/61024/101 "2001-04-16T01:41:45Z")

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Some notes about films mentioned on this thread:

_The Last Picture Show_ is one of my favorite films, but I probably wouldn’t call it an underappreciated film since it seems to be moderately well-known. It takes place not in 1955, but in 1951 and 1952.

The short called _The Wizard of Speed and Time_ came out in 1979. The full-length feature by that name came out in 1988. The feature is a fictionalized version of Jittlov’s life. I wouldn’t quite put it into a list of my favorite films. It’s hard to understand unless you’ve seen Jittlov’s shorts.

Here’s a few more of my favorite lesser known films:

Black Moon Rising (1986, U.S., dir. Harley Cokliss)  
Freaks (1932, U.S., dir. Tod Browning)  
Seven Beauties (1976, Italy, dir. Lina Wertmuller)  
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983, U.S., dir. Jack Clayton)

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