Another list of understated films that don't get the attention they deserve...
Les Enfants Terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1950)
Orpheus (Jean Cocteau, 1950)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Robert Ellis Miller, 1968)
Claire’s Knee (Eric Rohmer, 1970)
Vanishing Point (Richard C. Sarafian, 1971)
Papillon (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1973)
1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1976)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
Over the Edge (Jonathan Kaplan, 1979)
Foxes (Adrian Lyne, 1980)
Strangers Kiss (Matthew Chapman, 1983)
The Brother from Another Planet (John Sayles, 1984)
Static (Mark Romanek, 1985)
As Tears Go By (War Kong Wai, 1988)
Alice (Jan Svankmajer, 1988)
Metropolitan (Whit Stillman, 1990)
The Rapture (Michael Tolkin, 1991)
Orlando (Sally Potter, 1992)
Living in Oblivion (Tom DiCillo, 1995)
The Taste of Others (Agnès Jaoui, 2000)
Everything Put Together (Marc Forster, 2000)
The Cell (Tarsem Singh, 2000)
Manic (Jordan Melamed, 2001)
Better Luck Tomorrow (Justin Lin, 2002)
Kontroll (Nimród Antal, 2003)
Somersault (Cate Shortland, 2004)
Control (Anton Corbijn, 2007)
Afterschool (Antonio Campos, 2008)
Redbelt (David Mament, 2008)
Funny People (Judd Apatow, 2009)
