Edit 2015: A half-size sequel list made a few years after I made this list.

Hopefully haven't yet seen as many movies as Richard Crouse or Leonard Matlin, but I still see a lot of different shit from most of the world (yeah, my African filmography is painfully non-existent and I've yet seen far too little from South- America and Russia, but none the less...). And when I say different shit, I obviously don't exaggerate the shit-part. There's been quite a few weak movies making it to the end credits while hunting for those hidden gems.

So for now I won't do a top 100 alternate list like Crouse or a top 151 as Matlin, but rather kick off with 70 and later I'll do the Crouse-route and just add a sequel when they stack up...

Many overlooked masterpieces have been taken out of this initial list because their director is very famous, even if those particular movies I thought about are criminally overlooked. Examples might be Kieslowski's A Short Film About Love, or Kiarostami's Certified Copy. Other have survived because they're so old and young people today don't seem to appreciate this directors enough to hunt them down, like Lubitsch' Trouble in Paradise, Melville's The Red Circle or Leo McCarey's two 1937-efforts.

I've kept my main focus on the past decades, mainly because there's so much new films coming out that a lot of great ones disappear into oblivion without ever being discovered. Digging through a few of my other lists you might find more old ones, a few newer ones that are barely more known and so on, but these 70 is my current attempt at gaining some interest for a few movies I think deserve a bigger audience.

I'll also take this time to remind everybody of the ten movies I pushed in January, hoping they'll find a wider audience this year; ZapperLife's 2013 Push 10.

Movies sorted by Letterboxd year-stamps.