A database of movie ratings since 1997. Includes film reviews, lists, and polls by Ian Cavalier.

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Last film added: January 25, 2021. There are currently 1678 films in the database (since 1996).

Obscure and Rare Films (1996-2026)

Search returned all hard-to-find or underground movies out of 1678 total rated films.

These aren't really "cult classics" yet because not enough people have seen them.

MASTERPIECES

Amazing Screw-On Head, The (2006) 10
Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer, The (2005) 10
Cyclo (1996) 10
Dance of Reality, The (2014) 10
Endless Poetry (2017) 10
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997) 10
Happy Accidents (2000) 10
I Am Easy to Find (2019) 10
In the Realms of the Unreal (2004) 10
It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) 10
Rosetta (2000) 10
Short Films of David Lynch, The (2002) 10
Son, The (2002) 10
World of Tomorrow (2015) 10
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People... (2017) 10
World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations... (2020) 10

EXCELLENT

13th (2016) 9
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012) 9
All the Real Girls (2003) 9
Animation Show, The (2003) 9
Animation Show 2005, The (2005) 9
Animation Show 2007, The (2007) 9
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (2011) 9
Brand Upon the Brain! A Remembrance in 12 Chapters (2006) 9
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2011) 9
Chop Shop (2008) 9
Citizenfour (2014) 9
Cutie and the Boxer (2013) 9
Dark Days (2000) 9
DMT: The Spirit Molecule (2010) 9
Dreamlife of Angels, The (1998) 9
Drunk History - Season 1 (2008) 9
Go-Getter, The (2008) 9
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008) 9
Helvetica (2007) 9
How to Die in Oregon (2011) 9
Hype! (1996) 9
In Pursuit of Panama (2009) 9
Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries, The (2013) 9
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010) 9
Jodorowsky's Dune (2014) 9
Last Night (1998) 9
Limbo (1999) 9
Little Otik (2001) 9
Lorna's Silence (2009) 9
Meeting People Is Easy (1999) 9
Millennium Actress (2001) 9
My Winnipeg (2008) 9
Pixar Story, The (2008) 9
Promesse, La (1997) 9
Torrey Pines (2016) 9
Turtles Can Fly (2005) 9
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2011) 9
Upstream Color (2013) 9
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (2008) 9

VERY GOOD

180° South: Conquerors of the Useless (2010) 8
5 Broken Cameras (2012) 8
Abel Raises Cain (2005) 8
Aerial, The (La Antena) (2008) 8
April and the Extraordinary World (2016) 8
Art & Copy (2009) 8
Aura, The (2006) 8
Away From Her (2007) 8
Bag It (2011) 8
Beautiful Losers (2009) 8
Between the Folds (2008) 8
Blood Into Wine (2010) 8
Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football (2008) 8
Bunny and the Bull (2009) 8
Cemetery of Splendor (2016) 8
Christmas, Again (2015) 8
City Dark, The (2012) 8
Clear Cut: The Story of Philomath, Oregon (2006) 8
CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap (2015) 8
Cold Weather (2011) 8
Computer Chess (2013) 8
Constantly Wrong: The Case Against Conspiracy Theories (2020) 8
Cremaster 3 (2002) 8
David Lynch: The Art Life (2017) 8
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008) 8
Dynamic:01 - The Best Of DavidLynch.com (2007) 8
Everything is a Remix (2012) 8
Forks Over Knives (2011) 8
Freedom on the Fence (2005) 8
Future, The (2011) 8
Gather (2020) 8
Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman, A (2015) 8
Gruffalo, The (2009) 8
Hire Film Series Vol. 1, The (2001) 8
How the Fire Fell (2011) 8
In the Shadow of the Moon (2007) 8
Inherit the Wind (1999) 8

GOOD

InnSæi: The Sea Within (2016) 7
Julien Donkey-Boy (1999) 8
Kinamand (2006) 8
King Corn (2007) 8
Light Bulb Conspiracy: The Untold Story of Planned Obsole... (2011) 8
Lila Says (2005) 8
Little Thief, The (1999) 8
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016) 8
Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup (2009) 8
Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack - Seasons 1-3, The (2010) 8
Mindscape of Alan Moore, The (2003) 8
Moon Man (2012) 8
More Tales from the Script (2010) 8
My Octopus Teacher (2020) 8
My Son the Fanatic (1998) 8
Neverwas (2007) 8
Nói albínói (2004) 8
Oceans (2010) 8
One I Love, The (2014) 8
Osama (2004) 8
Painting, The (2013) 8
Paragraph 175 (2000) 8
Paranoia Agent: Complete Collection (2004) 8
People, Places, Things (2015) 8
Persuaders, The (2004) 8
Purge (2013) 8
Rabbits (2002) 8
Reality (2015) 8
Reel Injun (2009) 8
Regret to Inform (1998) 8
Road to Roma (2020) 8
Rock-afire Explosion, The (2008) 8
Room on the Broom (2012) 8
Shower (1999) 8
Six-String Samurai (1998) 8
Special (2008) 8
Startup.com (2001) 8
Strange Negotiations (2019) 8
Tales from the Script (2009) 8
Tangerine (2015) 8
Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak (2009) 8
Terms and Conditions May Apply (2013) 8
Tetro (2009) 8
These Amazing Shadows: The Movies That Make America (2011) 8
This is Not a Conspiracy Theory (2020) 8
Three Seasons (1999) 8
Timecode (2000) 8
Tim's Vermeer (2013) 8
Tokyo! (2008) 8
Tokyo Godfathers (2003) 8
Trump, QAnon and the Return of Magic (2020) 8
Truth About Romance, The (2013) 8
Tuvalu (2001) 8
Unmade Beds (2009) 8
Vanishing of the Bees (2011) 8
Waste Land (2011) 8
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (2010) 8
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998) 8
Advantageous (2015) 7
Aimée & Jaguar (1999) 7
Atom Smashers, The (2008) 7
Before I Disappear (2014) 7
Bernard and Doris (2008) 7
Berserk - The Complete Collection (2002) 7
Big River (2010) 7
Big Sur (2013) 7
Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, The (2011) 7
Blank City (2011) 7
Bomb It (2008) 7
Bon Voyage (2004) 7
Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi (2003) 7
Book of the Dead, The (2006) 7
Brief History of Graphics, A (2014) 7
Calles Hablan, Las (2013) 7
Cat in Paris, A (2012) 7
Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury, The (2004) 7
Collection of 2005 Academy Award Nominated Short Films, A (2006) 7
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop (2011) 7
Country Wedding (2008) 7
Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World (2014) 7
Desert Blue (1998) 7
Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them, The (2014) 7
Dolphin Tale (2011) 7
Drakmar: A Vassal's Journey (2008) 7
East/West (1999) 7
Exploding Girl, The (2010) 7
FairyTale: A True Story (1997) 7
FL: Unpremeditated Movie (2013) 7
Flavors of Youth (2018) 7
For No Good Reason (2014) 7
Frequencies (2014) 7
From One Second to the Next (2013) 7
God Forgive Us (2014) 7
Gray Area, The (2010) 7
Great Directors (2010) 7
Gruffalo's Child, The (2011) 7
H. (2016) 7
Happenstance (2000) 7
Happy Times (2001) 7
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2001) 7
Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron (2007) 7
Hello World: Confronting Bias in Software (2020) 7
Hi-Line, The (2000) 7
Hieronymus Bosch, Touched by the Devil (2016) 7
High Art (1998) 7
Home (2009) 7
House of Pleasures (2011) 7
Hunt for Gollum, The (2009) 7
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016) 7
I Cannot Go on as I Am (2015) 7
Idiots and Angels (2009) 7
Ingredients (2009) 7
Ink (2009) 7
In Your Eyes (2014) 7
Jack Goes Boating (2010) 7
Jellyfish (2008) 7
Jesus Henry Christ (2012) 7
Journey of the Universe (2011) 7
Just Like Being There (2012) 7
Keyhole (2012) 7
King of California (2007) 7
Knee Deep (2007) 7
Last Days of the Arctic (2011) 7
Pearl Jam: Let's Play Two (2017) 7
Life During Wartime (2010) 7
Life is to Whistle (1998) 7
Little Fish (2005) 7
Live from Baghdad (2002) 7
Loneliest Planet, The (2012) 7
Look Around You - Series 1 and 2 (2005) 7
Love & Teleportation (2013) 7
Lunopolis (2009) 7
Malice in Wonderland (2010) 7
Metropia (2010) 7
Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things (2016) 7
Minus Man, The (1999) 7
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (2016) 7
No No: A Dockumentary (2014) 7
Not One Less (1999) 7
Objectified (2009) 7
Or, My Treasure (2005) 7
Phantom (2013) 7
Phantom Boy (2016) 7
Phoebe in Wonderland (2009) 7
Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, The (2006) 7
Pompeii: The Last Day (2003) 7
Prisoner, The (2009) 7
Pontypool (2010) 7
Radiant City (2007) 7
Renegade (2004) 7
Rewind This! (2013) 7
Rise and Fall of the Seattle CHOP, The (2020) 7
Road to Nowhere (2011) 7
Robot Stories (2004) 7
Romance (1999) 7
Rosewater (2014) 7
Saddest Music in the World, The (2004) 7
Saving Capitalism (2017) 7
Septien (2011) 7
Sherrybaby (2006) 7
Sidewalls (2011) 7
Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang (2016) 7
Sons of Perdition (2010) 7
Son of the Congo (2015) 7
Stanley Kubrick's Boxes (2008) 7
Starlet (2012) 7
Teach Us All (2017) 7
Third Contact (2012) 7
TiMER (2010) 7
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1998) 7
Va Savoir (2001) 7
Vegucated (2011) 7
Vine of the Soul: Encounters with Ayahuasca (2010) 7
Wall, The (2013) 7
Werckmeister Harmonies (2001) 7
What Did Jack Do? (2020) 7
When Time Becomes a Woman (2013) 7
Who is Dayani Cristal? (2014) 7
Who Took Johnny (2015) 7
Wild Man Blues (1997) 7
Winter Passing (2006) 7
WITH: A Documentary & Concert Film About Sylvan Esso (2020) 7
Wrong (2013) 7
XX/XY (2002) 7

FAIR

4th Dimension, The (2008) 6
Alice in Wonderland (1999) 6
All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (2010) 6
Beat Hotel, The (2012) 6
Besieged (1998) 6
Best Man, The (1999) 6
Blood: The Last Vampire (2001) 6
Bottom of the World (2017) 6
Bread and Tulips (2000) 6
Breast Men (1997) 6
Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary (2009) 6
Cartoon Noir (1999) 6
Chasing Sleep (2001) 6
Close Your Eyes (2002) 6
Colony (2010) 6
Coyote Waits (2003) 6
CQ (2002) 6
Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus (2013) 6
Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010) 6
Embers (2015) 6
Exterminating Angels, The (2007) 6
Extraordinary Tales (2015) 6
Forest for the Trees, The (2005) 6
Girl Asleep (2016) 6
Give 'em Hell, Malone (2009) 6
Haiku Tunnel (2001) 6
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics (2020) 6
Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms (2006) 6
Hideous Kinky (1998) 6
Homegrown (1998) 6
Hot Girls Wanted (2015) 6
How Beer Saved the World (2011) 6
Imagination (2007) 6
Ingenious (2009) 6
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (2014) 6
Lifeguard, The (2013) 6
Limbo (2005) 6
Love (2012) 6
Lulu on the Bridge (1999) 6
Marie from the Bay of Angels (1997) 6
Origin: Spirits of the Past (2007) 6
Parallels (2015) 6
Pee-wee's Big Holiday (2016) 6
Permanent Midnight (1998) 6
PU-239: The Half Life of Timofey Berezin (2007) 6
Ricky (2009) 6
Rid of Me (2011) 6
Salinger (2013) 6
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine (2020) 6
Student Services (2011) 6
Tell Me Something (2001) 6
Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2010) 6
Trekkies (1999) 6
Tuesdays with Morrie (1999) 6
Tulse Luper Suitcases: The Moab Story, The (2003) 6
VANish (2015) 6
Whisker Away, A (2020) 6
Wild Blue Yonder, The (2005) 6
Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic (2008) 6
Yesterday Was a Lie (2010) 6

ADEQUATE

All I Wanna Do (1998) 5
Born of Hope (2009) 5
Delirium (2018) 5
Extinction Variations, The (2021) 5
FDR: American Badass! (2012) 5
Feed (2006) 5
Guardian Brothers, The (2017) 5
Girl from Monday, The (2005) 5
Girl on the Third Floor (2019) 5
Glitch in the Grid (2011) 5
Gnome Alone (2017) 5
Gun Shy (2000) 5
Halo Legends (2010) 5
Harvard Man (2001) 5
Hellevator: The Bottled Fools (2005) 5
Last Days of the World, The (2011) 5
Last Survivors, The (2015) 5
Man with the Iron Fists 2, The (2015) 5
One and Two (2015) 5
Outside Ozona (1998) 5
Palmetto (1998) 5
Planet of the Humans (2020) 5
Playing God (1997) 5
Reconstruction of William Zero, The (2015) 5
Saiyûki Vol. 1: The Journey Begins (2003) 5
Saving Private Perez (2011) 5
Sleeping Dogs Lie (2005) 5
Stuck (2008) 5
Superstorm (2007) 5
Trauma (2004) 5
Unfamiliar, The (2020) 5

FROM BAD TO WORSE

13 Seconds (2004) CRAP
C.O.G. (2013) CRAP
Committed (2000) CRAP
Contaminated Man, The (2000) CRAP
Curve, The (1998) CRAP
Day Without a Mexican, A (2004) CRAP
Desire (2017) CRAP
Falling Sky (1998) CRAP
Hush (1998) CRAP
Lady Ninja Kaede 2 (2009) CRAP
Ma Mère (2005) CRAP
Macbeth (2007) CRAP
New Rose Hotel (1999) CRAP
National Lampoon's Barely Legal (2003) CRAP
Paradox (2018) CRAP
Pets United (2020) CRAP
Poison Ivy 3: The New Seduction (1997) CRAP
Prey (2007) CRAP
S. Darko (2009) CRAP
Stranded (2003) CRAP
Tad the Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas (2017) CRAP
Tart (2001) CRAP
Wild Girl Waltz (2013) CRAP
Wrong Cops (2013) CRAP

Statistical ratings distribution of these 391 films

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6.5

CRAP

0

4

7

10:

4.1%

9:

10%

8:

24%

7:

32.5%

6:

15.3%

5:

7.9%

CRAP:

6.1%

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