Stuck on a Shelf/Locked in a Vault/Buried in a Landfill
by Lexx-2 | created - 10 Jul 2022 | updated - 5 days ago | PublicMovies that have never gotten proper distribution to date. Some are tied up in legal and financial limbo, while others were never properly finished. A couple have squeaked out in bootlegs or limited theatrical showings, but most continue to simply gather dust.
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1. Black Water Transit (2009)
100 min | Crime, Drama
Story follows the divergent agendas of criminals, cops and lawyers as they collide over a shipment of illegal firearms and a double homicide. Earl Pike, a criminal, tries to get his family's illegal gun collection to a safe haven.
Director: Tony Kaye | Stars: Karl Urban, Brittany Snow, Stephen Dorff, Aisha Tyler
Votes: 320
2. Spring Break '83
Comedy, Romance | Completed
The Z-Rows, four friends who are bullied by their graduating high school class find revenge against the now freshman college students while on Spring Break during 1983.
Directors: Mars Callahan, Scott Spiegel | Stars: Alan Ritchson, Lee Majors, Erik Estrada, Joe Pantoliano
3. Prisoners (1983)
95 min | Drama
A man resettles his American family to New Zealand where he gets a new job at a prison in the city Wellington. His daughter has an affair with one of his prisoners he is to look out for.
Director: Peter Werner | Stars: Tatum O'Neal, Colin Friels, Shirley Knight, David Hemmings
Votes: 34
4. Rock 'n' Roll Hotel (1983)
85 min | Musical
A young trio of musicians, called The Third Dimension, enter a battle of bands in an old hotel called the Rock N' Roll Hotel.
Directors: Richard Baskin, Paul Justman | Stars: Rachel Sweet, Susan Barnes, Diane Bellamy, John Durbin
Votes: 30
5. Young Lust (1984)
R | 90 min | Comedy
A soap opera parody along the lines of Young Doctors in Love (1982).
Director: Gary Weis | Stars: Fran Drescher, Mews Small, Allan Arbus, Joshua Billings
Votes: 27
6. The Fantastic Four (1994)
PG | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Family
When dosed with cosmic rays, four intrepid explorers are given incredible powers.
Director: Oley Sassone | Stars: Alex Hyde-White, Jay Underwood, Rebecca Staab, Michael Bailey Smith
Votes: 7,546
7. Empires of the Deep
Sci-Fi | Completed
Set in a mythical world, the story of an unlikely love story between a young human and a mermaid.
Directors: Michael French, Jonathan Lawrence, Scott Miller | Stars: Olga Kurylenko, Mi Yang, Davy Williams, Valeska Miller
8. Hitting the Ground (1996)
102 min
Director: David P. Moore | Stars: Neal Huff, Anney Giobbe, Rik Alan Walter, Mark Gerald Douglas
Votes: 29
9. Ricky 6 (2000)
111 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Based on the true story of drugs, satanism, and murder in the upper class town of Northport, Long Island in 1984.
Director: Peter Filardi | Stars: Vincent Kartheiser, Chad Christ, Sabine Singh, Richard M. Stuart
Votes: 718
10. Nothing Lasts Forever (1984)
PG | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An artist fails a test and is required to direct traffic in New York City's Holland Tunnel. He winds up falling in love with a beautiful woman, after he takes a trip to the moon on a Lunar Cruiser.
Director: Tom Schiller | Stars: Zach Galligan, Apollonia van Ravenstein, Lauren Tom, Sam Jaffe
Votes: 960
11. Killing Winston Jones
99 min | Comedy | Completed
Ethan Jones, a sixth-grade English teacher is on a mission to get the newly constructed Junior High gymnasium named after his elderly father Winston, the old retired gym teacher, despite the fact that being dead is one of the requirements.
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Danny Glover, Jon Heder, Tyler Labine
12. Dead Ringer (1982)
101 min | Comedy, Music, Musical
When rock singer Meat Loaf, who has his own biker band, falls in love with a rock star, Cher, the two make "Dead Ringer for Love."
Director: Allan F. Nicholls | Stars: Meat Loaf, Josh Mostel, Frederick Coffin, Alan H. Braunstein
Votes: 93
13. The Long Home
R | 96 min | Drama | Completed
A young contractor is hired to build a honky-tonk in Tennessee by the man who killed his father.
Director: James Franco | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Giancarlo Esposito, James Franco, Josh Hutcherson
14. Pulse Pounders (1988)
77 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
In this 'sequel' anthology, the film offers a TRANCERS sequel written by original creators Danny Bilson and Paul DeMeo, a new Lovecraft adaptation THE EVIL CLERGYMAN, featuring Jeffrey ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Band | Stars: Barbara Crampton, Jeffrey Combs, David Warner, David Gale
Votes: 282
15. Hippie Hippie Shake
R | Comedy, Drama | Abandoned
An account of counterculturalist Richard Neville's misadventures in London at the end of the 1960s.
Stars: Cillian Murphy, Sienna Miller, Lee Ingleby, Chris O'Dowd
16. Glitterati (2004)
90 min | Drama
Director: Roger Avary | Stars: Angela Gregovic, Will Hodgkinson, Corina Marinescu, Paul Oakenfold
Votes: 184
17. Queen of Media (2011)
147 min | Biography
Directors: Furqaan Clover, Richard S. Miller | Stars: Donta Bimbo, Leslie Black, Michael Boatman, Buda
Votes: 26
18. Big Bug Man (2006 TV Movie)
Not Rated | Animation, Comedy
Candy company worker Howard Kind gains special abilities after being bitten by insects.
Directors: Bob Bendetson, Peter Shin | Stars: André 3000, Marlon Brando, Brendan Fraser, Michael Madsen
Votes: 51
19. Batgirl
Action, Adventure, Crime | Completed
Based upon the popular DC character, Barbara Gordon dons the guise of Batgirl to fight crime.
Directors: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Michael Keaton, J.K. Simmons, Jacob Scipio
20. Gore (I)
Drama | Abandoned
A young man spends a summer in Italy where he meets his idol, Gore Vidal, who teaches him about life, love, and politics.
Director: Michael Hoffman | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Michael Stuhlbarg, Griffin Dunne, Douglas Booth
21. In Pursuit of Treasure (1972)
Drama, Western
Director: Stanton Kaye | Stars: Bonnie Bedelia, Scott Glenn, Elizabeth Hartman, Marc Lawrence
Votes: 39
22. The Debtors (1999)
90 min | Comedy
This is a comedy about a group of people with various addictions who meet up at the tables in Las Vegas.
Director: Evi Quaid | Stars: Michael Caine, Randy Quaid, Catherine McCormack, Udo Kier
Votes: 236
23. New Jersey Turnpikes (1999)
Comedy
A mockumentary about The New Jersey Turnpikes, a failing basketball team.
Director: Bryan Buckley | Stars: Kelsey Grammer, Roberta Angelica, Susan Anton, Darryl M. Bell
Votes: 75
24. Pretty Hattie's Baby (1991)
Biography, Drama
An unreleased film about a white girl adopted by a black family in 1950s Nevada. Based on the early life of Fauna Hodel whose grandfather is prime suspect in the Black Dahlia murder case.
Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Alfre Woodard, Charles S. Dutton, Jill Clayburgh, Bobby Hosea
Votes: 63
25. Boogie Town (2009)
101 min | Action, Drama, Music
BOOGIE TOWN, a modern day West side Story for the hip hop generation, takes place in a New York City of the future. There's no more violence, no more drugs - in their place are illegal ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Stokes | Stars: Marques Houston, Brenda Song, Kat Graham, Joseph C. Phillips
Votes: 127
26. Broken English (1981)
R | 93 min | Drama
Follows the story of Sarah, who comes under fire from her family, friends and colleagues when she marries an African man, Maas. When she discovers that Maas is part of an underground group ... See full summary »
Director: Michie Gleason | Stars: Beverly Ross, Jacques Martial, Greta Ronningen, Mansour Sy
Votes: 60
27. Tonight at Noon
Drama | Completed
Lee, a writer, and Mae, his partner, wrestle with their relationship issues. Mae reminisces about an ex; Lee channels his frustration into writing a mind-bending story mingling reality and fantasy.
Director: Michael Almereyda | Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lauren Ambrose, Connie Nielsen, Rutger Hauer
28. The Day the Clown Cried (1972)
90 min | Drama
A circus clown is imprisoned by the Nazis and goes with Jewish children to their deaths.
Director: Jerry Lewis | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Peter Ahlm, Lars Amble, Harriet Andersson
29. Zoo (1999)
90 min | Comedy, Thriller
A dark comedy set in the fictitious tiny hamlet of Spraine. A big city private detective is hired to track down an animal serial killer gone awry. The town wanted to bury the story, keep ... See full summary »
Director: Alexandra King | Stars: Marina Anderson, Paul Bartel, Anne Bendel, Kat Burke
Votes: 87
30. Queens of Country (2012)
Comedy
Living in a fantasy era long gone and obsessed with old time country stars, the prettiest girl in a small Arizona town finds a lost iPod filled with songs that speak to her sensitive heart.... See full summary »
Directors: Ryan Page, Christopher Pomerenke | Stars: Lizzy Caplan, Ron Livingston, Joe Lo Truglio, Matt Walsh
Votes: 176
31. Young Alexander the Great (2010 Video)
90 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
The coming of age of young Alexander, future world conqueror, from his boyhood in Macedonia to his assumption of Regent of the Land, after proving his worth to his father, the demanding King Phillip.
Director: Jalal Merhi | Stars: Lauren Cohan, Sam Heughan, John Moulder-Brown, Paul Telfer
Votes: 481
32. Blue Champagne
Drama | Post-production
A man loses his wife to an indifferent bed. He is not sleeping with another woman but cannot make love with her. She abandons the marriage, leaving her husband the go back to his self ... See full summary »
Director: Blaine Novak | Stars: Diane Ladd, Jennifer Nicholson, Jonathan Silverman, Jeff East
33. The Good Life (1997)
95 min | Comedy, Crime
Three guys move from New Jersey to Miami, where two of them end up killing the third.
Directors: Alan Mehrez, Barry Samson | Stars: Frank Stallone, Dennis Hopper, Peter Dobson, Andrew Dice Clay
Votes: 331
34. Gods Behaving Badly (2013)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Greek gods living in modern-day New York intervene in the lives of a young couple.
Director: Marc Turtletaub | Stars: Robin Weigert, Alicia Silverstone, Sharon Stone, Christopher Walken
Votes: 175
35. At Risk (1994)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance
Lara, after spending a year in Mexico unsuccessfully trying to save her marriage to Steven, returns to the United States to find Max, her lover.
Director: Elana Krausz | Stars: Shirley Anne Field, Matthew Flint, Elana Krausz, Daniel McDonald
Votes: 53
36. And They Are Off (1982)
90 min | Drama, Romance
A tender love story with Kentucky's thrilling thoroughbred racing world as the stage.
Director: Theodore H. Kuhns III | Stars: Suzanne Adkinson, Bill Allen, Julie Allen, Sherman Allen
Votes: 42
37. St. Sebastian
Thriller | Completed
Survivors in post apocalyptic Russia after nuclear war.
Director: Danny DeVito | Stars: William Fichtner, Lance Reddick, Constance Zimmer, Lawrence Gilliard Jr.
38. Stop! (1970)
X | 89 min | Drama
In this unreleased Film, Michael and Lee Berger are an unhappily married couple looking to rekindle their marriage. After moving to Puerto Rico to live in his brother's house that Michael ... See full summary »
Director: Bill Gunn | Stars: Edward Michael Bell, Linda Marsh, Richard Dow, Marlene Clark
Votes: 59
39. Medium Rare (1987)
95 min | Comedy, Crime
Death of his wife's pet poodle and a threatening movie producer create a world of trouble for a middle-aged B-movie mogul. He hires two psychopathic goons to take care of it, which only creates more trouble and attracts the cops.
Director: Paul Madden | Stars: Burt Young, Lainie Kazan, Brad Dourif, Brenda Bakke
Votes: 73
40. Hangman (III) (2009)
Not Rated | 80 min | Horror, Thriller
After serving in Iraq, two young Marines return home to Idyllwild California to settle a domestic dispute only to find themselves tangled in a web of deceit and murder.
Director: Bradley Battersby | Stars: Matthew Currie Holmes, Amber Gross, Julie Mond, Chris Hoffman
Votes: 65
41. The Profit (2001)
(Banned) | 128 min | Drama
This period piece is a fictional biography of a cult leader's rise to power and his subsequent descent into isolation and paranoia.
Director: Peter N. Alexander | Stars: Eric Rath, Cliff Roca, Tom Luce, Christine Eads
Votes: 486
42. Friday on My Mind (1990)
73 min | Thriller
Director: Frank Howson | Stars: Abigail, Tommy Dysart, Michael Lake, Zachery McKay
Votes: 27
43. Crimetime (1993)
96 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Policemen Robin Decker and John Little begin to realise they are probably the only two honest cops on the force.
Director: Marc Gracie | Stars: Marcus Graham, Bruce Venables, Lucy Bell, David Argue
Votes: 12
44. Certain Guys (1999)
107 min | Comedy, Drama
Five old friends reunite in Dallas for one buddy's wedding. Over the course of a week, each guy faces a major crisis - Mitch loses the love of his life; Burdett loses his job; Cal ... See full summary »
Director: Stephen James | Stars: Tom McCarthy, Melora Hardin, Jerry Hardin, Louanne Stephens
Votes: 106
45. See Jane Run (2001)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Jane, a formerly suicidal Los Angeles waitress, decides her life does have meaning after all when she finds a gun that was thrown away after a convenience store robbery, starting a life of crime.
Director: Sarah Thorp | Stars: Clea DuVall, Kevin Corrigan, Jennifer Aspen, Richmond Arquette
Votes: 83
46. Honeymoon Murders (1990 Video)
101 min | Horror
A young newlywed couple is attacked by a monster at their honeymoon resort.
Director: Steve Postal | Stars: Dave Knapp, Angela Shepard, Maurice S. Postal, Lady Postal
Votes: 12
47. Bring Me the Head of Lance Henriksen (2010)
Comedy
When 80s B-movie icon Tim Thomerson wakes up one day to realize the acting roles are not coming his way any more, he sets out on a quest to find his former co-star Lance Henriksen to ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Worth | Stars: Tim Thomerson, Lance Henriksen, Natasha Alam, Sheila Atkinson
Votes: 70
48. Joey Takes a Cab (1991)
82 min
A comedian literally dies during his act and is then memorialized by friends and colleagues.
Director: Albert Band | Stars: Lionel Stander, Kathleen Freeman, Jackie Gayle, Michael J. Pollard
Votes: 13
49. The Boys Behind the Desk (2000)
Comedy
Director: Sally Kirkland | Stars: Lou Albano, Vito Antuofermo, Jack 'Wildman' Armstrong, Pat Cooper
Votes: 14
50. Hollywood, Wisconsin (2000)
90 min | Family
A group of plucky kids come together to make a movie to save their local community theatre from being tore down to make room for a sludge factory.
Director: Ted Roesgen | Stars: Clark David Ausloos, Lori Barrett, Shane Barrett, Dan Bell
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