Underplayed Gems
The whole movie catalogue

Films and series, searchable by what they are

← Back to the shop

The Unknown Man of Shandigor (1967)

The Unknown Man of Shandigor poster
Original title
L'inconnu de Shandigor
Directed by
Jean-Louis Roy
Genre
speculative fiction film
Country
Switzerland
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
16
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Rival groups compete to obtain a machine that can neutralize nuclear weapons. The story follows their efforts to secure the device in a tense and secretive atmosphere.

suspensefulcoldintriguingseriousunsettlingslow-burncerebralbleak

What happens

The Unknown Man of Shandigor (French: L'Inconnu de Shandigor) is a 1967 Swiss film directed by Jean-Louis Roy and written by Gabriel Arout. Set around rival efforts to obtain a device capable of neutralising nuclear forces, it was screened in competition at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival and was later shown at festivals including Locarno and the Lumière Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like watching and it picks from the whole catalogue, or browse by genre, country and year.

Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers

Loading movies…

What should I watch?