✬ Hidden treasure films ✬
It's a list for you to add your favourite UNDERRATED movie gems! Share your favourites with MDL community ;)
- Only movies
- Only movies below 200 watchers (it's a soft limit. If you have a movie that has 210 or 240 watchers that deserve more recognition, you should add it too!)
- Both shorts and feature films welcome
- Any country, any genre, any year of release
- The least known the better. The better the better too (lol)
mengosteen Apr 3, 2021
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![Wrath of Silence]()
In a small mining town in China, Zhang returns to his humble farm to look for his missing son. Zhang doesn't call off his search even in the face of a hostile ...more -
![Girls on Top]()
Don’t worry. You were lonely at home. It will be better to be with friends. There will always be a lot of people visiting you. The ceiling is higher, and it will ...more -
![Pegasus]()
Zhang Chi, a hubris-filled and dominating six-time racing champion, falls from grace following a crisis. After a five-year suspension from the motorsport, the now single-father to a six-year-old boy throws down the ...more -
![Four Springs]()
Four Springs is a documentary film that presented a family's daily life in the remote town of Dushan in the Guizhou province in southwest China. From a subjective angle, the camera induced ...more -
![Cock and Bull]()
When a murder occurs in a village of Yunnan Province, southern China, a local mechanic Song, becomes the prime suspect. When the police are unable to crack the case, he seeks help ...more -
![Still Human]()
A bitter, wheelchair-bound curmudgeon who experiences an emotional breakthrough after hiring a Filipina helper, Evelyn. Echoing the true story of Xyza Cruz Bacani, Evelyn dreams of becoming a professional photographer while enduring ...more -
![Postmen in the Mountains]()
The film is set in the mountainous regions of the western Hunan province in the early 1980s. At the film's start, a young man begins his first journey as a postman at ...more -
![My Sweet Grappa Remedies]()
Akiko Ohku's film follows Yoshiko, a 40-something woman, as she enjoys life's simple pleasures - riding her beloved bike, indulging in a drink or two in the evening - as she narrates ...more -
![Not One Less]()
Set in the People's Republic of China during the 1990s, the film centers on a 13-year-old substitute teacher, Wei Min Zhi, in the Chinese countryside. Called in to substitute for a village ...more -
![Shakespeare in Tokyo]()
An Australian Shakespeare fan with Down Syndrome, sets off on a solo adventure to discover Tokyo in order to get away from his over-bearing older brother and prove his independence. Along the ...more -
![Mio on the Shore]()
Mio is 20-years-old. Her grandmother, who raised her instead of her late parents, is hospitalized. Mio leaves her hometown and goes to Tokyo to find a new job. She has a hard ...more -
![Bus 44]()
Bus 44 takes place on the outskirts of a small town and tells the story of a bus driver and her passengers' encounter with highway robbers. The film won awards at Venice ...more -
![Heal in Kyushu]()
Kyushu is the third biggest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands. The island is mountainous, and Japan's most active volcano, Mt Aso at 1,591 metres (5,220 ft), ...more -
![Continent]()
The story revolves around a group of young adults who decided to restart their lives and embark on a road trip. This experience changed their lives. -
![Summer Blooms]()
Hatsumi Takimoto has found some solidarity within her life, having given up on her job as a teacher and working part-time at a small family-run cafe. However, the past she fled from ...more -
![Any Crybabies Around?]()
Young parent Tasuku has spent his life assiduously avoiding any responsibility in his small town in northern Japan. But when he’s caught drunk and naked on live national TV coverage at the ...more -
![The Ballad of Narayama]()
In a small village in a valley, everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse he/she ...more -
![The King of Masks]()
Wang is an ageing street performer known as the King of Mask for his mastery of the opera art of Change-Mask. His wife left him with their infant son over 30 years ...more -
![Every Day a Good Day]()
Noriko is a university student. By her mother’s recommendation, Noriko begins attending a Japanese tea ceremony near her house with her cousin Michiko. There, Noriko learns from Teacher Takeda. Noriko now has ...more -
![Last Sunrise]()
A future reliant on solar energy falls into chaos after the sun disappears, forcing a reclusive astronomer and his bubbly neighbor in search of light in the perpetual darkness. -
![Pastoral: To Die in the Country]()
A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later. -
![Beyond the Dream]()
Lok is a recovering schizophrenic who yearns for love. One day, he encounters the young and beautiful Yan and quickly falls in love with her. Just when he struggles whether to tell ...more -
![Ashes of Time Redux]()
A broken-hearted hit man moves to the desert where he finds skilled swordsmen to carry out his contract killings. In 2008, Wong Kar Wai re-edited and re-released the film under the title ...more -
![I Am Not Madame Bovary]()
The satirical story of Li Xue Lian, a village woman accused of being an adulterer. After a ruling is made against her in her divorce case, she begins an annual "journey of ...more -
![New Dragon Gate Inn]()
During the Ming Dynasty, Tsao Sui Yan, the power-hungry and ruthless eunuch leader of East Chamber, craves his own kingdom. He intends on destroying the rebelling clans by using a traitorous secretary's ...more -
![The Road Not Taken]()
In the depths of western China's Gobi Desert, Yong operates a dilapidated ostrich farm, which is the last throw of the dice for him as he tries to win back his ex-wife ...more -
![Tokyo Sunrise]()
Ren has trouble accepting the death of Kaoru, his best friend growing up. When he finds a painting of a woman that Kaoru left behind, he begins a journey to find her. ...more -
![Kekexili: Mountain Patrol]()
Ga Yu, a journalist from Beijing, arrives in Tibet to document the poaching of endangered antelope. He enlists the aid of Ritai, who leads the volunteer patrolmen who are putting their lives ...more -
![Vengeance Is Mine]()
While he seems ordinary at first glance, Enokizu Iwao is actually a violent murderer running from police. Leaving behind his wife, he hides out with Enokizo Kazuko, a brothel owner who desperately ...more -
![Golden Chicken 1]()
After his attempted robbery runs aground, a thief takes a shine to his would-be victim - a charming prostitute - who begins to tell him her life story. -
![An Elephant Sitting Still]()
In the northern Chinese city of Manzhouli, they say there is an elephant that simply sits still and ignores the world. Manzhouli becomes an obsession for the protagonists of this film, a ...more -
![Ashes of Time]()
Set in ancient times in China, Ouyang Feng is an agent hiring famous bounty hunters. Portrayed as a fallen swordsman driven by greed and heartless to both friend and foe. He was ...more -
![A Confucian Confusion]()
What would a Taiwanese Woody Allen movie look like? Probably something on the order of Yang’s panoramic satire of life in the material world of 1990s Taipei, the skyline choked by smog ...more -
![Cities of Last Things]()
This is a story about a common man who has extraordinary events in his mundane life. The film depicts the protagonist's turns of events in three eras, three seasons, three nights, in ...more -
![And So We Put Goldfish in the Pool]()
A story of four girls who released 400 goldfishes into a school pool. -
![Georama Boy Panorama Girl]()
Shibuya Haruko is a high school student, with an ordinary life. She happens to meet Kanna Kenichi and falls in love with him at first sight. Meanwhile, Kenichi has just dropped out ...more -
![Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy]()
Mary is a senior in high school. With graduation a few months away, she is faced with sudden changes in life, love, and friendship. Meanwhile, strange events begin to happen to her ...more -
![Blind Shaft]()
"Blind Shaft" examines the lives of two itinerant coal miners in northern China. The men have been so brutalised by the all-pervasive poverty and conditions in the mining industry that they earn ...more -
![The Secret of the Telegian]()
Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian", who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims. (Source: Letterboxd) -
![I Don't Believe You're a Prince]()
It tells the story of Illidan's king Malfurion Karimdor Kil'jaeden and ordinary high school student Lu Ha Ni from accidental acquaintance to friendship, the gap between the two people's life experiences from ...more -
![Girls in Trouble: Space Squad Episode Zero]()
A prologue to Gavan vs. Dekaranger, this movie focuses on the female characters of both series. -
![Onibaba]()
Deep within the wind-swept marshes of war-torn medieval Japan, an impoverished mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a lonely, desperate existence. Forced to murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for grain, ...more -
![Yuwol: The Boy Who Made the World Dance]()
Yuwol is a boy who never stops dancing even for a moment. One day, a dance virus begins to spread in his private elementary school and he is accused of being the ...more -
![A Touch of Zen]()
A well-meaning but unambitious scholar and painter, Ku, lives with his mother near an abandoned fort, reputed to be haunted. One night, investigating strange noises, he meets the beautiful Yang who is ...more -
![The Opera House]()
Tian You, who grew up in the Escort, follows the expectations of his father and will one day carry forward the martial arts passed down by his ancestors. However, Tian You was ...more -
![Asan si Lolo Mê?]()
A little boy does not know that his grandfather just died. To spare him from grief, his mother brings home a stray goat and tells him it is his grandfather. (Source: IMDb) -
![The Eel]()
Acting on the advice of an anonymous note, Takuro Yamashita returns home early one night to find his wife in bed with another man. He kills her and then turns himself in ...more -
![Two in the Shadow]()
A young widow attempts to move on with her life after losing her husband in a tragic accident. Will she ever be able to forgive the man responsible for her husband's death? -
![Half Cigarette]()
Pao Ge returns to Hong Kong after hiding out in Brazil to search for a girl he had a brief encounter with just to remember her face before his memory fades. (Source: ...more -
![Fong Sai Yuk 1]()
The secret Red Lotus Flower Society seeks to overthrow the tyrannical Manchu Emperor. One of his Governors is tasked with retrieving a list of society members. Meanwhile, Canton Kung Fu master Fong ...more -
![Return to the Wolves]()
The life of Li Weiyi, a painter from China’s southwestern city of Chengdu, was changed forever when she stumbled upon a wolf cub in April 2010 after overhearing that poachers had poisoned ...more -
![The Blue Kite]()
The lives of a Beijing family throughout the 1950s and 1960s as they experience the impact of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution. (Source: IMDb) -
![Tokyo Eyes]()
Police are tracking a shooting suspect who wears thick glasses. The young sister of a detective meets a similar young man and wonders whether or not he might be the mad vigilante ...more -
![AI]()
Fu Xiao Xiao lives with her father after her parents divorced. Her father is always busy with his researches. She doesn't have friends and is being bullied at school. One day a ...more -
![20 30 40]()
Sylvia Chang, René Liu and Lee Sinje are celebrated actors, singers and models. Their joint film project tells the story of three women living in Taipei whose love lives are as turbulent ...more -
![Jade Goddess of Mercy]()
Yang Rui falls in love for the cleaning woman who works in a taekwando gym, only to later discover she's an undercover cop named An Xin. An is in hiding from drug ...more -
![Shuriken Sentai Ninninger Returns: Ninnin Girls vs. Boys Final Wars]()
57. Shuriken Sentai Ninninger Returns: Ninnin Girls vs. Boys Final Wars
Japanese Movie - 201699 points by 1 votersShuriken Sentai Ninninger gets a direct-to-video film in the form of Shuriken Sentai Ninninger Returns: Ninnin Girls vs. Boys Final Wars. -
![The Life of Oharu]()
A one-time concubine of a daimyo (and mother of a later daimyo) struggles to escape the stigma of having been sold into prostitution by her father. (Source: Wikipedia) ~~ Adapted from the ...more -
![The Phantom Lover]()
Song Dan Ping was the most pioneering opera singer in modern China. Though he knew he captivated the hearts of many girls, he loved the pure and lovely Du Yun Yan. The ...more -
![Death by Hanging]()
It was acclaimed for its innovative Brechtian techniques and complex treatments of guilt and consciousness, justice, and the persecution of ethnic Koreans in Japan. A Korean man is sentenced to death by ...more -
![When a Woman Ascends the Stairs]()
This is the story of Mama, a.k.a. Keiko, a middle-aged hostess who must choose to either get married or buy a bar of her own. Her family hounds her for money, her ...more -
![Throw Down]()
A former judo champion quits the tournament circuit and runs a nightclub. However, when a new challenger appears as well as an old rival and a judo master in need of reviving ...more -
![Fong Sai Yuk 2]()
Following closely on the heels of the original Fong Sai Yuk, a martial arts action-comedy featuring the acrobatic skills of martial arts star Jet Li, Fong Sai Yuk 2 offers a similar ...more -
![Versus]()
Set in the present where a group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, unwittingly, in The Forest of Resurrection, the 444th portal to the other side. ...more -
![Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan]()
The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206. -
![Bikuu]()
Bikuu is a Dark Slasherwhose task entrusted to her by the Senate is to eliminate those who have fallen to the darkness. Thanks to the Soul Insertion technique, he can enter a ...more -
![Spring in a Small Town]()
Taking place in a ruined family compound after the Sino-Japanese War, the film tells the story of the once-prosperous Dai family. The husband and patriarch, Dai Li Yan, is invalid and spends ...more -
![A Choo]()
Even when they were orphans, Wang Yi Zhi has always been in love with Xin Xin. Now older, Yi Zhi decides to train as a boxer before he allows himself to profess ...more -
![Yearning]()
Reiko is a widow of a would-be heir of a small beverage shop in a local city. The shop was destroyed by the air-raids during the war, but she was the one ...more -
![The Face of Another]()
We meet Okuyama who had accident in the factory and burnt his face. He gets an opportunity to have a lifelike mask. What he'll do when he got a chance to have ...more -
![The President's Last Bang]()
October, 1979, Seoul... A private dinner party for the President and his three closest confidants — his Chief Bodyguard, his Chief Secretary, and the Director of the Korean CIA ... A struggle ...more -
![Breaking News]()
After a sting operation goes bad, gunfire erupts on the streets of Hong Kong as police chase a group of suspects across town. Unfortunately, the melee is caught on camera by the ...more -
![Where the Wind Settles]()
A company commander of KMT army leads two of his team members to sea port, picks up an orphan on the way, and helps two sisters. They get to Taiwan by ship ...more -
![Those That Follow]()
After a robbery goes wrong, teenagers Thum and Bas flee from police and find themselves in Dan Sai, a small town in Loei province where the locals are celebrating the masked procession ...more -
![The Last Witness]()
Detective Oh discovers a secret while he investigates Yang Dal Soo's murder case, with Attorney Kim Jung Yub. Son Suk Jin leaves a treasure map to his daughter, Ji Hye, when he ...more -
![Engine Sentai Go-Onger: 10 Years Grand Prix]()
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![Beyond The Years]()
Dong-ho and Song-hwa are separately adopted by Yu-bong (Im Jin-ta), a nomadic singer, and grow up as siblings. Dong-ho falls in love with Song-hwa, but he suffers from the fact that he ...more -
![The Warring States]()
"The Warring State" is set during China's Warring States Period (475 BC -- 221 BC) and centers on a rivalry between military strategists Sun Bin and Pang Juan. Both men studied military ...more -
![Moving]()
Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, a girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity. -
![Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives]()
The film centers on the last days in the life of its titular character. On his deathbed, and surrounded by his loved ones, Uncle Boonmee reflects on his past lives - which ...more -
![Running Out of Time 2]()
The film brings back Inspector Ho Sheung Sang, this time to contend with another clever thief. This time around, The Thief is determined to extort money from a high-strung businesswoman Teresa, and ...more -
![Love in a Puff]()
Since 2007, the Hong Kong health authority has implemented an anti-smoking law that bans people from smoking in all indoor areas, including work places, public places, restaurants, and karaoke lounges. This pushes ...more -
![That Day, on the Beach]()
Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business. ...more -
![Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger vs. Gaoranger]()
The team-up special between Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger and Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger. -
![The Day After]()
Ah Reum ends up working in place of an ex-lover of her boss Bong Wan. She discovers love notes at work, and when Bong Wan's wife visits their office, Ah Reum's suddenly ...more -
![Charisma]()
Goro Yabuike is a burned-out hostage negotiator called to rescue an MP from a gun-toting lunatic demanding that "rule of the world" be restored. In a moment of indecision, he fails to ...more -
![Sparrow]()
Kei is the experienced leader of a team of pickpockets — also known as “Sparrows” in HK slang. He enjoys a carefree lifestyle taking photos. One day a dashing beauty, Chun Lei, ...more -
![Papa no Obento wa Sekai Ichi]()
Based on a true story. A newly divorced father finds himself out of depth when faced with the unfamiliar challenge of preparing his daughter’s daily lunchbox. (Source: JPF) -
![Happy Old Year]()
A love story for those who want to move on but find it hard to let go. Jean wants to convert her house into a home office and she needs to majorly ...more -
![Kikaider reboot]()
The film's story will take place in a future when the "Ark Project" uses robots to solve problems that the Japanese government cannot solve with human power alone. When robot engineering expert ...more -
![Mystery]()
Lu Jie is married to businessman Yongzhao and they have one daughter. Her life seems relatively set, but her world is turned upside when she sees her husband entering a hotel with ...more -
![Eye in the Sky]()
"Eye in the Sky" takes place around the darker side of Hong Kong society, where the story begins with a group of organised burglars successfully robbing a jewelry store. The plot begins ...more -
![Dearest]()
When their son goes missing the lives of Tian Wen Jun and his ex-wife Lu Xiao Juan change into complete chaos. Overwhelmed by feelings of guilt, they set out and search half ...more -
![Ocean Heaven]()
The story of a father's tireless love for his autistic son. A terminally ill father's attempt to teach his autistic son the necessary life skills to survive on his own before he ...more -
![Clean Up]()
Jung Ju has lost her son to heart disease and can’t break free from the pain of that loss. She spends most of her waking hours working, drinking and going to church, ...more -
![Dengeki Sentai Changeman: Shuttle Base! The Critical Moment!]()
96. Dengeki Sentai Changeman: Shuttle Base! The Critical Moment!
Japanese Movie - 198594 points by 1 votersAfter a Space Beast throws them off Shuttle Base, the Changeman scramble to get their ship back as Sayaka tries to protect it from the inside. -
![The Naked Island]()
Deals with the intolerably hard life of a family of four, the only inhabitants of a very small Japanese island in the Setonaikai archipelago. Several times a day they row over to ...more -
![Leap]()
The film tells the journey of several generations of Chinese National Women's Volleyball Team and their touching stories of tenacious struggle and glory for the country for the past 40 years. (Source: ...more -
![Center Stage]()
The film is based on a true story: the tragic life of China's first prima donna of the silver screen, Ruan Lingyu. This movie chronicles her rise to fame as a movie ...more -
![Pushing Hands]()
Mr. Chu is a Tai Chi master who arrived from Taiwan in order to live in the U.S. together with his son Alex and his family. While educating his grandson Jeremy, Mr. ...more
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