I'd say that more often than not my preferences in film lean the same way as the consensus opinions – Hey, I don't get paid for original thinking! But even the most sheepish of us have some favourites that are either unappreciated or unheard of by the masses. Thanks to the miracles of the Internet of course, it's become easier to find assenting voices to share in admiring even our most obscure tastes, but in day-to-day conversation I find that certain movies continue to be less revered than they ought be.
For this list, I realize that it could be entirely composed of esoteric foreign masterpieces, but that's because nearly all foreign films are under-appreciated. The same idea even applies to domestic efforts that are really tiny and independently produced. So to make things a little easier for me to narrow down, I decided to limit myself to the works of studios and filmmakers with higher profiles (I might do a list of foreign titles another time).
