by Allen Alberson

Created on: June 22, 2009   Last Updated: June 23, 2009

For a while I have been wanting to write a list of my top 100 movies or 100 movies you have to see and have found it near impossible. I just can't put a decide on my ten favorite or even 100 favorite movies. Finally I decided that I would just make a list of ten movies you should see but probably haven't. There are a lot more good movies out there and not all of these will be for everyone's taste. Therefore without further ado:

Ten movies you might not have seen, but should ( in no particular order.)

1. The Machinist
OK, this is probably my favorite movie of all times, at least today. It stars Christian Bale from Batman Begins. This movie would be worth watching just to see what Bale has put his body through for the role. He lost weight till he was around 120 pounds and looks like a walking skeleton. It's a psychological thriller about a man (Bale) who hasn't slept for a year. His mind is slowly unraveling and he can no longer tell reality from hallucination. It also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh and Michael Ironside. There are some disturbing scenes, profanity and brief nudity.

2. Donnie Darko
Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain and The day After Tomorrow) heads an all star cast about the darkness that lies inside a disturbed and misunderstood teen's mind. Part time travel, part coming of age love story, it is a heart wrenching movie. The song playing over the end credits will bring you to tears. this also stars Patrick (Dirty Dancing, Roadhouse) Swayze, Drew (Charle's Angels, ET) Barrymore, Noah (ER) Wylie, Jena (Saved, Cold Mountain) Malone and Mary (Battlestar Galactica, Dancing With Wolves) McDonnell. It was promoted as a horror movie but it's not and is pretty much suitable for the whole family, though there are some disturbing scenes and situations
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3. Dead Man
One of the most surreal westerns you will ever see. Johnny Depp stars as William Blake, not William Blake the poet, but William Blake the accountant. This film is loaded with stars too numerous to mention here. Guy Farmer plays the Native American Nobody who believes Depp is the Poet Blake. As they run from the bounty hunters and various lawmen sent after them by a vengeful mine owner ( played by Robert Mitchum in his last film role) they cross paths with the likes of Billy Bob Thornton, Alfred Molina, and Iggy Pop. Along the way Depp becomes more the killer that he is wrongly accused of being at the beginning. Nobody becomes more certain that he is the poet on a trip to the next world. The film is bloody,

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