12 Movies In The IMDB Top 250 You've Probably Never Seen

by Danny Meegan

1. Oldboy (2003)

Oldboy Gun
Tartan Films

Based purely on box-office receipts, more people have seen the Josh Brolin-starring Oldboy remake than the far superior original, which is truly a shame.

The remake is competent enough, but watching it is like eating a knock-off version of a popular branded chocolate bar. It tastes similar but adds nothing new, and you just won't enjoy it as much as the original.

Oldboy follows Oh Dae-su, a businessman who's locked in a cell for fifteen years. When he's finally released, he sets out to have his vengeance - but a new romance complicates matters.

To say any more would be to say too much, because Oldboy packs one of the most shocking third-act revelations you'll ever witness. The film's trailers will hook you with their gritty, visceral action sequences, but when you arrive at the full film, you'll realize that the twisted story is the real star of the show.

It's about as far from a traditional Hollywood thriller as you can get, so if you're tired of predictable, glossy star-vehicles with not an ounce of substance, Oldboy is the perfect antidote.

Any other movies in the IMDB Top 250 that are criminally overlooked? Let us know in the comments so we can check them out!

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!