What's your favorite "great-but-overlooked" movie?

[Aristus]

47. 'The Beast', 1988, Kevin Reynolds, director.

One of George Dzundza's best performances, and a pre-crazy Stephen Baldwin.

Before YouTube, this film was the best way for people in the West to get a good close look at Soviet-made tanks in action.

It could also have served as a warning to American warhawks who thought that any war we fought in Afghanistan would be a walk in the park.

A film about the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980's. The Soviets are played by Americans, but without hokey Russian accents. The Russian soldiers come across as ordinary people, instead of the Communist boogeymen we had been trained to fear so much.

For Army tank crewmen like me, it was great to see Soviet-made tanks in action, since at that time, we were being trained for a possible full-scale conventional war with the Soviet Union.

The tanks had been provided by the Israeli Defense Force, which had captured hundreds of Soviet-made tanks in their wars with Egypt and Syria.

Give it a look...