Choice paralysis is a common malady during the Easter break: you’ve got the time for a movie, the couch is calling, but you can’t actually decide what to watch. Instead of succumbing to frustrated scrolling, here are 40 great movies that the algorithm doesn’t pay enough attention to. These are the underseen and the misjudged, the obscure and the ripe for rediscovery.

Dev Patel (left) in Monkey Man.

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The Assassin The revered Taiwanese arthouse filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien bestowed contemplative grace upon the wuxia martial arts genre with this tale of intrigue centered on Shu Qi’s icy swordswoman. SBS On Demand

Athena Beginning with an audacious 11-minute action sequence, drenched in righteous fury and shot in one take, director Romain Gavras turns the conflict at a Parisian housing estate into a bloody sibling tragedy.…