28 Little-Known, But Amazing Performances By Beloved Actors

All of these already have one thing in their favor: A familiar face
28 Little-Known, But Amazing Performances By Beloved Actors

There’s a metric ton of entertainment being cranked out on a daily basis, and nobody’s got time to sort through it all to find the gems. Nobody’s got time to even get past the first menu screen. We’re almost positive there’s decent entertainment out there, though, so we asked our readers to show us lesser-known, worth-watching movies and shows starring their favorite actors. Here’s what they came up with…

CRACKEDGE COM Do you like Lena Headey as Cersei on Game of Thrones? Check her out in Dredd. She plays an iron-fisted cyberpunk gang boss who's like Ce
TWO YEARS BEFORE SHE BECAME PRINCESS LEIA, 19-YEAR-OLD CARRIE FISHER PLAYED LORNA WHOSE MOTHER (LEE GRANT) IS SLEEPING WITH GEORGE CWARREN BEATTY) IN
If you loved Kurtwood Smith as Red Forman on That '70s Show, You should check out Patriot on Amazon. It's a compelling, dark satire, and Red's absolut
Some time between his quests for One-Eyed Willie's gold and the Infinity Stones, Josh CRACKED Brolin appeared in the dark comedy Flirting with Disaste
In love with Robert Downey Jr? You might want to check out his performance in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006). It's a powerful coming-of-age
Rachel Weisz is amazing in The Whistleblower. ngly The movie, which is based on a true thriller. story, follows a police officer who is ETY assigned
If you loved ROBERT PATTINSON in the Twilight series, you you should check out GOOD TIME. It's an urban crime movie packed with grit and adrenaline, ,
Anthony Daniels has become a legend playing C3P0 in almost every STAR WARS film and TV series ever made. But he can also boast of voicing the first ev
Love Mandy Patinkin in The Princess Bride? Check out Dead Like Me. Teeming with fervor and wit, the show follows sardonic grim reapers residing in Sea

More Hugo is never a bad thing

CRACKEDC COM Do you like Hugo Weaving? Then you might enjoy Mystery Road. It's a fantastic example of a gritty crime drama film, and Weaving himself n
A fan of Ron Perlman? You might want to see The City of Lost Children. Where else are you going to see him as a circus strongman going up against an e
STEVE BUSCEMI'S most memorable characters have been endearingly quirky, utterly despicable, or both. If you'd like to see him play PARTING against typ
EVERYTHING FANTASTIC FEAR VERY Simon Pegg turns in a fantastic performance as Jack, a writer researching Victorian-era murderers, who becomes paranoid
ONDACU If you like Keanu Reeves in The Matrix, you should check A Scanner Darkly, in which he plays a police officer who gets addicted to a drug that
Tom Hardy plays identical twin gangsters in the 2015 film Legend. It's an entertaining performance that gives the viewer a double dose of Hardy's bril
You may know Michael Fassbender as Magneto from the X-Men series... ...but he also plays the main character in the 2014 black comedy Frank. In this am
ARE YOU A FAN OF BRAD PITT? THEN YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY WATCH KALIFORNIA, ONE OF HIS FIRST STARRING ROLES BRAD PITT SHINES AS A PSYCHOPATH IN THIS DARK

Ryan Gosling

Ryan Gosling may be your teenage heartthrob, but be prepared to feel utterly disgusted by him in The Believer (2011). P He completely obliterates his
matt damon is CRACKED cO The eInformant! Matt Damon takes on a super unglamorous role as Mark Whitacre, a middle management cog who, incorrectly, thin
In Fargo Season 2, Nick Offerman plays a pompous, talkative, drunk lawyer. The role is like Ron Swanson crossed with Captain Jack Sparrow, and he's gr
CRACKED c Dying to see more of the great Diana Rigg? Wanna see her dismantle an entire society of assassins? Go see The Assassination Bureau (1969). T
If you're a fan of Dominic Cooper be sure to watch him in The Devil's Double. It's a movie about an Iraqi soldier who is forced to become Uday Hussein
Fan of Daniel Radcliffe? You may want to check out his role as the main character in Swiss Army Man. He played a talking corpse who suddenly befriends
Are you a fan of Jodie Comer as Villanelle in Killing EvE? BIMM Check her out in BBC drama Thirteen as Ivy, a frail, almost feral abduction victim try
If you like Keanu Reeves' action movies, try Man of Tai Chi, where he played the bad-guy martial arts master. He directed the movie too, and packed it
Fans of comedian Kristin Wiig need to see her quirky comedy/drama Welcome To Me WELCOME TOME Wiig plays a woman with borderline personality disorder w
Adam Driver and Daniel Craig are hilarious pulling off a blue-collar heist in Logan Lucky. AT There's great joy in watching James Bond as a hardened c
If you enjoyed watching Brie Larson as the lead in Captain Marvel, then you should check out her first leading performance in Short Term 12. It's a to
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