That was stupid.
I meant to say state one of your favorite but not well known movies:
Equilibrium

Primer

Primer was one hell of a confusing movie. I got lost so many times...

I watched it 4 times. I think I understand it now.

Big Trouble In Little China, Point Break and Hot Fuzz.

Deathtrap

Hot Fuzz was funny. Never heard of deathtrap. Just looked it up. Old but goodie?

dark city and the wrong guy are decent movies that don't seem too popular.

Brazil?

Great one, Mafia.

13 Assassins

Seven Samurai

"Brazil?"

Don't resist seeing this movie. You'll just ruin your credit score.

@ Mafia - do you have the requisite 27B-6 to recommend this movie?

Seven Samurai underrated? It's on most top 100 lists, so far as I can recall. While a good movie, I think it overrated slightly. Harakiri, on the other hand, is the greatest movie ever made - but few have ever heard of it (although those who *have* seen it acknowledge its greatness).

^ I mean the original 1962 Kobayashi/Nakadai version, not that ()*!@#$& @#%)(& !@(#* remake they made.

Also, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang? I'm not sure about underrated, it got good reviews, but it didn't do well at the box office.

I just watched kiss kiss bang bang for the first time last night..... that shit was HILARIOUS.

Primer
Equilibrium

I second both of these

Cold Blooded (1995)

A short list:

Harakiri - GREATEST MOVIE EVER MADE. See it on hulu.com - you can get a free trial subscription there.

Ride With the Devil - the studio torpedoed their own movie... due to concerns that no one who had actually *seen* the movie would have had. Watch this and you'll get a glimpse of many now-famous actors of today before they were "stars".

The Ice Harvest - Strippers. Booze. Gangsters. Mid-Life Crises. Christmas. IMHO, this very dark & dry comedy is better than Fargo, but was almost universally panned by the critics.

X - the Shakespearean Spike Lee Malcom X biopic - a great movie of redemption, faith, injustice, intrigue, zealotry, and betrayal. Denzel Washington gives one of the greatest acting performances of all time.

Alexander - Oliver Stone's Alexander of Macedon biopic. Had its weaknesses, and was almost universally panned by the criticocracy. But I think the 'ultimate' cut is a truly great movie (and as historical epics go, pretty damned accurate). The one shot of Alexander's horse and King Porrus' Elephant facing each other at Hydaspes and both rearing up on their hind legs is IMHO one of the most incredible images in the history of film (and, so Stone claims, completely unplanned). The Phillip/Alexander father/son relationship is both endearing and heartbreaking - Val Kilmer is one of the most underrated and underutilized actors of all time.

1492 - Ridley Scott's Chris Columbus biopic. Incredible images, a justly celebrated soundtrack by Vangelis. The critics hated it, though - perhaps poisoned by that *other* Columbus movie (nameless here, forever more...) that year which was truly terrible. And Gerard Depardieu's hideous accent was hard to understand. But I completely fail to understand why this movie has never been released on DVD/Blu-ray.

Kingdom of Heaven - The theatrical version truly sucked (due in large part to casting a no-talent pretty boy in the starring role). But the director's cut is a great film - see it just for the first act to see how truly grim medieval life could be in northern-ish Europe, and why people would be eager to go fight people they'd never met thousands of miles away for a land they'd never seen.

Red Dawn - Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen (before they were famous).

+1 Onar. Death to Smoochie was surprisingly hilarious. No idea what it bombed so terribly.

Jurassic Park was underrated IMO

Sex in the City 2

By far, the greatest movie of all time.

Jurassic Park?
3 Academy Awards and the 18th highest grossing movie of all time?

Um, underrated?

It only has a 7.9 on the iMDB ratings.

Equilibrium is a damned good film, to be sure.

I'd add Ruthless People and Four Lions to the list. Two genuinely funny films that seldom turn up on the radar.

I recommend Johnny Stecchino. I never heard anybody speak about it; it's an Italian comedy with Roberto Benigni (famous for "Life is Beautiful" / "La Vita e Bella"), who plays a bus driver who's accidentally mistaken for a criminal. It's not only very funny, but also a very touching movie.
In general, Italian movies I believe are underrated and often very good. "Un nuovo cinema paridiso" is another epic movie. It is - if I remember correctly - about a young boy in a small Italian town who develops a taste for movies (I think you see scenes of him in his later life being a movie producer). The most important plot line in the movie is the relationship between the young boy and the projectionist at the cinema, who becomes a guide in his life.

Why is it that Equilibrium isn't very well known?
Awesome fighting sequences, great acting, a touch of 1984 and Fahrenheit 451.