10 More Actors Who Gave Their Best Performances In Movies Nobody Saw

There are so many movies being released on a weekly basis these days that it's absolutely impossible to keep track of everything, such that great movies and great performances can easily end up falling through the cracks.

The sheer wealth of options available on streaming platforms makes it incredibly easy for an actor's best work to be slept on, whereby only the most committed fans have a hope in hell of discovering it.

But we're not strictly bagging on streaming here - plenty of these films were also sent out to die on the big screen with little marketing, or perhaps audiences simply weren't interested.

Whatever the reason, these 10 actors all gave their most jaw-dropping performances in films that never picked up much traction with the mainstream, resulting in them failing to turn a profit or falling into the never-ending streaming abyss.

Each of these performances received considerable acclaim from critics, but general audiences sadly weren't curious enough to give them a go, and denied themselves some seriously impressive acting in the process.

These actors have all done bigger and more popular work than this, but in terms of the nuts and bolts of compelling dramatic acting, they've never been better. If you've got the time, be sure to check these 10 movies out...

Vince Vaughn probably isn't who most people picture when they think of a great actor, but he's given a bevy of hilarious comedic performances in the likes of Swingers, Old School, Dodgeball, and Wedding Crashers, and in the dramatic stakes has acquitted himself well in Hacksaw Ridge and True Detective's second season.

But far and away Vaughn's best work to date is in S. Craig Zahler's brutal 2017 prison thriller Brawl In Cell Block 99.

As imprisoned drug runner Bradley Thomas, Vaughn is like you've never seen him before - a bald-headed, stone-faced pillar of granite who must fight to save his wife (Jennifer Carpenter) and unborn child on the outside before it's too late.

Vaughn isn't an actor who cuts a naturally intimidating figure, yet director Zahler clearly saw something in him that nobody else did, because his mere physical presence throughout this ferocious, graphically violent film is deeply imposing.

Vaughn underplays the part perfectly, giving a richly internalised performance as a man stewing in his own rage while desperately trying to free his family from a helpless situation.

Yet despite Vaughn receiving rave reviews for his performance, Brawl grossed just $79,208 on limited release at the box office before more-or-less fading into the abyss on streaming.

Vaughn did re-team with Zahler for another unhinged crime thriller the next year, though - Dragged Across Concrete, where he gave another captivating performance, this time as a corrupt cop.