The mysterious obsession with death has hit many great filmmakers, death was a common and central theme in most of legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas kiarostami’s films at one point or other every filmmaker has tried to capture this enigmatic theme but no film themed around death is more real and powerful than Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru.

Watanabe is an old Bureaucrat whose life turns upside down after he finds out he has stomach cancer and he is about to die, he examines his life and comes to conclusion that he has led a worthless life, the scene where he looks at the honour awarded to him in return of his 25 years of service with remorse provokes pure emotion of worthlessness.

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Underrated films are like endangered species if not preserved well they will perish with time, it’s the sacred duty of any cinephile to recommend these rare threatened movie titles and in the following list I will try to add as many titles as I can. These movies were very well received by the critics when they came out, some became talk of the town while some played in front of empty chairs but now compared to other popular films of that time you don’t get to hear about these films that often it’s time to revisit them.

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