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Top 100 Underseen Films

As of June 1, 2026. Curated by Sam Williams, extracted from here. This list ranks underseen narrative feature films by average member rating. The ‘underseen’ metric refers to films below the ratings threshold of the official top 500 films list. See a list of all films that have ‘graduated’ from the top underseen film list.

Eligibility rules:
• There is a threshold of no less than 1,000 ratings and no more than 25,000 ratings.
• Films must be feature-length (more than 40 minutes long) with a festival premiere, theatrical distribution or professional streaming release.
• This list excludes: documentaries of any kind, direct-to-video, self-released web videos, recap or recut films, theatre or stage shows, TV series or TV movies, specials or episodes.

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  • Gintama: The Very Final

    1

  • War and Peace

    2

  • Death of Yazdgerd

    3

  • The Fifth Seal

    4

  • La Commune (Paris, 1871)

    5

  • The Best of Youth

    6

  • Revue Starlight: The Movie

    7

  • The Weeping Meadow

    8

  • Samurai Rebellion

    9

  • Edvard Munch

    10

  • Eureka

    11

  • Kadaisi Vivasayi

    12

  • The Company of Strangers

    13

  • Devils on the Doorstep

    14

  • The New Land

    15

  • The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya

    16

  • Kizumonogatari Part 3: Reiketsu

    17

  • Still Life

    18

  • Happy Hour

    19

  • Nayakan

    20

  • The Big City

    21

  • Napoleon

    22

  • Voices Through Time

    23

  • Demons

    24

  • Kireedam

    25

  • Tokyo Twilight

    26

  • Barber's Tales

    27

  • Space Runaway Ideon: Be Invoked

    28

  • Club Kid

    29

  • Make Way for Tomorrow

    30

  • Manila in the Claws of Light

    31

  • Pastoral: To Die in the Country

    32

  • Roots

    33

  • Yearning

    34

  • Turtles Can Fly

    35

  • Anbe Sivam

    36

  • The Shop on Main Street

    37

  • The Given Word

    38

  • Virumaandi

    39

  • La Belle Noiseuse

    40

  • The Emigrants

    41

  • Early Summer

    42

  • The Life of Oharu

    43

  • Rio, Northern Zone

    44

  • Memories of Matsuko

    45

  • Ulysses' Gaze

    46

  • Marketa Lazarová

    47

  • Utopia

    48

  • The Message

    49

  • Day of Wrath

    50

  • When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

    51

  • Batang West Side

    52

  • Evolution of a Filipino Family

    53

  • Bashu, the Little Stranger

    54

  • All That's Left of You

    55

  • Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

    56

  • Pariyerum Perumal

    57

  • Moral

    58

  • The Mother and the Whore

    59

  • Date Wine

    60

  • Land of Fear

    61

  • Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie

    62

  • From What Is Before

    63

  • Nostos: The Return

    64

  • The Heiress

    65

  • Charulata

    66

  • Blue Mountains, or an Unbelievable Story

    67

  • The Naked Island

    68

  • Pyaasa

    69

  • Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

    70

  • Jacquot de Nantes

    71

  • Patlabor 2: The Movie

    72

  • Cosy Dens

    73

  • Thalapathi

    74

  • Moving

    75

  • So Long, My Son

    76

  • Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels

    77

  • Riceboy Sleeps

    78

  • The Garden of Sinners: Paradox Spiral

    79

  • Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald

    80

  • El Sur

    81

  • Haru

    82

  • The Ox-Bow Incident

    83

  • A Story from Chikamatsu

    84

  • Pretty Village, Pretty Flame

    85

  • Kit Kat

    86

  • Dead Man's Letters

    87

  • The Eccentrics

    88

  • Il Posto

    89

  • C/o Kancharapalem

    90

  • Iruvar

    91

  • Crayon Shin-chan: The Adult Empire Strikes Back

    92

  • Matewan

    93

  • The Travelling Players

    94

  • The Time That Remains

    95

  • Leila and the Wolves

    96

  • A City of Sadness

    97

  • Repentance

    98

  • Ballad of a Soldier

    99

  • Limelight

    100