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

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. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Michael Curtiz
 
2. Thief of Bagdad (1940)
by Zoltan Korda
 
3. The Lady Eve - Criterion Collection
by Preston Sturges
 
4. 49th Parallel - Criterion Collection
by Michael Powell
 
5. In Which We Serve
by Noel Coward
 
6. Henry V - Criterion Collection
by Laurence Olivier
 
7. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
by Preston Sturges
 
8. I Know Where I'm Going! - Criterion Collection
by Emeric Pressburger
 
9. My Darling Clementine
by John Ford
 
10. Black Narcissus - Criterion Collection
by Michael Powell
 
11. Out of the Past
by Jacques Tourneur
 
12. Red River
by Howard Hawks
 
13. Kind Hearts and Coronets
by Robert Hamer
 
14. In a Lonely Place
by Nicholas Ray
 
15. The Wages of Fear - Criterion Collection
by Henri-Georges Clouzot
 
16. Bob le Flambeur - Criterion Collection  
17. Bigger Than Life [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Spain ]
by Nicholas Ray
 
18. Paths of Glory
by Stanley Kubrick
 
19. Sweet Smell of Success
by Alexander Mackendrick
 
20. Peeping Tom - Criterion Collection  
21. Lolita
by Stanley Kubrick
 
22. Hell Is For Heroes
by Don Siegel
 
23. Contempt - Criterion Collection  
24. The Battle of Algiers - Criterion Collection
by Gillo Pontecorvo
 
25. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
by Martin Ritt
 
26. The Chase
by Arthur Penn
 
27. Don't Look Back  
28. Hombre
by Martin Ritt
 
29. The Wild Angels
by Roger Corman
 
30. The Conformist (Extended Edition)
by Bernardo Bertolucci
 
31. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls  
32. Putney Swope  
33. Performance
by Nicolas Roeg
 
34. Duck, You Sucker (AKA A Fistful of Dynamite)
by Sergio Leone
 
35.
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The Last Movie
by Dennis Hopper
 
36. Macbeth
by Roman Polanski
 
37. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
by Robert Altman
 
38. Two-Lane Blacktop
by Monte Hellman
 
39. Vanishing Point
by Richard C. Sarafian
 
40. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
by Werner Herzog
 
41. Badlands  
42. Jimi Hendrix (Deluxe Edition)
by Gary Weis
 
43. The Long Goodbye
by Robert Altman
 
44. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Two-Disc Special Edition)  
45. Don't Look Now
by Nicolas Roeg
 
46. Rancho Deluxe
by Frank Perry
 
47. Juggernaut
by Richard Lester
 
48. The Man Who Would Be King
by John Huston
 
49. Barry Lyndon
by Stanley Kubrick
 
50. A Boy & His Dog  
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Created by fish_beauty on Apr 21, 2007.