Hidden Gems

Highly-rated movies you probably haven't seen yet. These films have fewer than 5,000 votes but are scoring big with those who have watched them.

Swapped

2026 · 1,516 ratings

A small woodland creature and a majestic bird, two natural sworn enemies of the Valley, magically trade places and set off on an adventure of a lifetime to switch back. Their journey soon uncovers a greater threat—one that could endanger not only their species, but the entire valley they call home.

9.0

Project Hail Mary

2026 · 4,470 ratings

Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction.

8.6

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

1995 · 4,591 ratings

Raj is a rich, carefree, happy-go-lucky second generation NRI. Simran is the daughter of Chaudhary Baldev Singh, who in spite of being an NRI is very strict about adherence to Indian values. Simran has left for India to be married to her childhood fiancé. Raj leaves for India with a mission at his hands, to claim his lady love under the noses of her whole family. Thus begins a saga.

8.5

Seven Samurai

1954 · 4,233 ratings

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.

8.5

Cinema Paradiso

1988 · 4,825 ratings

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

8.4

A Silent Voice: The Movie

2016 · 4,490 ratings

Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?

8.4

It's a Wonderful Life

1946 · 4,905 ratings

George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.

8.3

Gabriel's Inferno

2020 · 2,467 ratings

An intriguing and sinful exploration of seduction, forbidden love, and redemption, Gabriel's Inferno is a captivating and wildly passionate tale of one man's escape from his own personal hell as he tries to earn the impossible--forgiveness and love.

8.4

Once Upon a Time in the West

1968 · 4,898 ratings

As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.

8.3

#10

Modern Times

1936 · 4,081 ratings

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...

8.3

#11

Perfect Blue

1998 · 3,192 ratings

Rising pop star Mima quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia.

8.3

#12

The Great Dictator

1940 · 3,700 ratings

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

8.3

#13

Miracle in Cell No. 7

2019 · 4,561 ratings

Separated from his daughter, a father with an intellectual disability must prove his innocence when he is jailed for the death of a commander's child.

8.3

#14

Klaus

2019 · 4,669 ratings

A selfish postman and a reclusive toymaker form an unlikely friendship, delivering joy to a cold, dark town that desperately needs it.

8.2

#15

Sunset Boulevard

1950 · 2,934 ratings

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

8.3

#16

Paths of Glory

1957 · 3,273 ratings

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

8.3

#17

Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train

2020 · 4,511 ratings

Tanjiro Kamado, joined with Inosuke Hashibira, a boy raised by boars who wears a boar's head, and Zenitsu Agatsuma, a scared boy who reveals his true power when he sleeps, boards the Infinity Train on a new mission with the Fire Hashira, Kyojuro Rengoku, to defeat a demon who has been tormenting the people and killing the demon slayers who oppose it!

8.2

#18

The Handmaiden

2016 · 4,321 ratings

1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sook-hee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to steal her fortune.

8.2

#19

City Lights

1931 · 2,456 ratings

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.

8.3

#20

The Legend of 1900

1998 · 2,446 ratings

Musician Max Tooney goes to sell his prized Conn trumpet to a music shop, where he plays the instrument one last time. The shopkeeper recognises the song as one on a record matrix he found and asks who the piece is by. Tooney tells the story of an infant found abandoned in the first class dining room of the four-stacker ocean-liner SS Virginian on 1 January 1900. Danny Boodman, a coal-man from the boiler room, names the boy Danny Boodman T. D. Lemon 1900, after himself, the fruit crate the boy was found in, and the year, and raises him as his own.

8.2

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What Makes a Hidden Gem?

A hidden gem is a movie that scores well above average but hasn't reached mainstream visibility. We define them as films with fewer than 5,000 votes but a Bayesian-weighted score that holds up against much more popular titles.

These are the movies that dedicated film lovers discover and champion. Finding one that resonates with you is one of the great joys of cinema.