A spaghetti western, released 1967, "Clint the Stranger", aka Clint il Solitario, Clint the Nevada's Loner, hard to find in the U.S. due to its strong similarity to "Shane". I've seen both, Clint is better. Try Wild East movies.

Not quite the same caliber as some of the other movies mentioned in this thread, but I've always thought Equilibrium (starring Christian Bale) was vastly under-rated.

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One of my favorite lines (and scene):

I'll take these Huggies and all the cash in the drawer, or something like that; and then screaming around the neighborhood in the chase scene so that he can scoop up the dropped Huggies.

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Local Hero (1983) has always been one of my favorites. The whole movie is a bit understated, and has some great moments. It also had a not-so-typical Hollywood ending (as in, it was somewhat open-ended). It even talks about astronomy (though I believe it gets some of the details wrong)!

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All right. We'll call it a draw!

Can't believe I have not participated in this yet. I'll bet everybody was awaiting my contribution?

The Dunebar Boys
The Field
Niagra Niagra
Thursday - (let me know if you can find it)
Zero Effect
Let it Ride
Basketball Diaries
Bodies, Rest & Motion
Sobibor
The Music of Chance

That's a good start. They are all my favorite, depending on the mood I'm in.

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Don of Borg - Cool, Calm, Collective.

"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Hmm... from what I understood, the "conspiracy" had all been in the past and nobody today knew of the treasure except the Gates family.

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Yeah, just the extent of the effort to put all the pieces into place, that was the kicker.

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I don't consider anything with a budget the size of National Treasure to be a "sleeper." That could be just me, though.

How 'bout Charade, with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn? It's the only movie they ever did together.

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"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

One of my favorites (the wife turned me on to it) it didn't do well at the box office is "The Man Who Would Be King",directed by John Huston & based on the Kipling story.Huston originally wanted Bogart & Gable,then later wanted Redford & Newman,Newman told him he should get Connery & Caine.
He took Newman's advice & made one of the greatest buddy/adventure movies ever.

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This had me very intrigued. I rented it last night, and enjoyed it very much. Thanks for the tip!

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I'll agree with Doodler in that I actually liked National Treasure, whereas I generally can't stand Nick Cage (there's a few other exceptions, he's very hit or miss, but mostly miss).

Recently rented a sleeper film (at least I had never heard of it) that should definately remain a sleeper film, In a Dark Place. It stars LeeLee Sobieski; and had a very good (but cliche) set up as a horror flick. But it just didn't deliver. It did have one redeeming quality in that LeeLee spends half the movie in nothing but a loosely fitting robe. It didn't make any sense for someone in the particular situation to stay in that state of dress, but I still approve of the directorial decision

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Okay, I've got one to add. I just finished watching Away from Her, a recent Canadian film starring Julie Christie, Olympia Dukakis, and Gordon Pinsent. I mention him last because hardly anyone's heard of him (he was the Mountie's late father on Due South), but he gives one of the best performances I've seen in a long, long time. And I watch a lot of movies.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"