The 100 Best Films to Rent That You've Never Heard Of

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This list comes from a book of the same name by David N. Meyer, published in 1997 by St. Martin’s Press. Of course, we’re all familiar with some of them. Nevertheless, it’s a welcome list that strays away from some of the typical choices. There are 101 entries because Meyer lists both Wages of Fear and Sorcerer as one entry.

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  1. 2.
    Thief of Bagdad (1940)
    by Alexander Korda

  2. 3.
    The Lady Eve (The Criterion Collection)
    by Preston Sturges

  3. 4.
    49th Parallel (The Criterion Collection)
    by Michael Powell

  4. 5.
    In Which We Serve
    by Noel Coward

  5. 6.
    Henry V (The Criterion Collection)
    by Laurence Olivier

  6. 7.
    The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
    by Preston Sturges

  7. 8.
    I Know Where I'm Going! (The Criterion Collection) (1945)
    by Emeric Pressburger

  8. 9.
    My Darling Clementine
    by John Ford

  9. 10.
    Black Narcissus (The Criterion Collection)
    by Emeric Pressburger

  10. 11.
    Out of the Past

  11. 12.
    Red River
    by Arthur Rosson

  12. 13.
    Kind Hearts and Coronets
    by Robert Hamer

  13. 14.
    In a Lonely Place
    by Nicholas Ray

  14. 15.
    The Wages of Fear (The Criterion Collection)
    by Henri-Georges Clouzot

  15. 16.
    Bob le Flambeur (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean-Pierre Melville

  16. 17.

  17. 18.
    Paths of Glory
    by Stanley Kubrick

  18. 19.
    Sweet Smell of Success
    by Alexander Mackendrick

  19. 20.
    Peeping Tom (The Criterion Collection)
    by Michael Powell

  20. 21.
    Lolita
    by Stanley Kubrick

  21. 22.
    Hell is for Heroes
    by Don Siegel

  22. 23.
    Contempt (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean-Luc Godard

  23. 24.
    The Battle of Algiers (The Criterion Collection)
    by Gillo Pontecorvo

  24. 25.
    The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
    by Martin Ritt

  25. 26.
    The Chase
    by Arthur Penn

  26. 27.
    Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back
    by D.A. Pennebaker

  27. 28.
    Hombre
    by Martin Ritt

  28. 29.
    The Wild Angels
    by Roger Corman

  29. 30.
    The Conformist (Extended Edition)
    by Bernardo Bertolucci

  30. 31.
    Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
    by Russ Meyer

  31. 32.
    Putney Swope
    by Robert Downey Sr.

  32. 33.
    Performance
    by Nicolas Roeg

  33. 34.
    Duck, You Sucker
    by Sergio Leone

  34. 35.
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    The Last Movie
    by Dennis Hopper

  35. 36.
    Macbeth
    by Roman Polanski

  36. 37.
    McCabe & Mrs. Miller
    by Robert Altman

  37. 38.
    Two Lane Blacktop
    by Monte Hellman

  38. 39.
    Vanishing Point
    by Richard C. Sarafian

  39. 40.
    Aguirre, the Wrath of God
    by Werner Herzog

  40. 41.
    Badlands
    by Terrence Malick

  41. 42.
    Jimi Hendrix (Deluxe Edition)
    by Joe Boyd

  42. 43.
    The Long Goodbye
    by Greg Carson

  43. 44.
    Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Sam Peckinpah

  44. 45.
    Don't Look Now
    by Nicolas Roeg

  45. 46.
    Rancho Deluxe
    by Frank Perry

  46. 47.
    Juggernaut
    by Richard Lester

  47. 48.
    The Man Who Would Be King
    by Ed Apfel

  48. 49.
    Barry Lyndon
    by Stanley Kubrick

  49. 50.
    A Boy & His Dog
    by LQ Jones

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Just saw Suture — 5 years ago

It was awesome.


Untitled — 6 years ago

Someone made this same list last month.

http://www.listsofbests.com/list/26118




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