Best movie that only a few people know about
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Great list everybody!!
Here’s one of my all time favorites. I don’t know if it qualifies as an unknown though. I think maybe quite a few people have seen it years ago.
The old black and white movie “ Dr. Strangelove”
Peter Sellers owned that movie. Incredibly acted by him. Plus we got a great performance by George C. Scott and I really enjoyed Slim Pickens as Maj. Kong. I still laugh my a** off every time I watch it.
Z
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Liquid Sky - a movie about a punk girl model/actress heroine addict in NYC that attracts an alien being who feeds off her sexual energy. Very stylish and strange.
Modern Romance - a comedy with Albert Brooks, about romance & relationships. I think it's his funniest work.
Local Hero - Moving & funny story of a cocky Texas oilman who goes to Scotland and ends up learning what's important in life.
Millenium- Time travellers from the future on a mission to rescue people from airplanes about to crash. Interesting story, and the time travel aspect is well done.
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Thx - I needed some xmas gifts - bought Downfall, City of Lost Children, Supernova, but I'll probably obsess about the other ones I don't have until I get them!
"What's the rumpus?" Miller's Crossing, agree best Cohen Bros. film so far.
Added 2 adventure films, Black Robe: In the 17th century a Jesuit priest and a young companion are escorted through the wilderness of Quebec... very real feeling.
and Mountains of the Moon: The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile. Lighter than BR.
A Little Princess
After Life
Americana (With David Caradine)
Bedazzled (1967 with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore)
Black Robe
Blood Simple
Bottle Rocket
Brainstorm
City of Lost Children
Days of Heaven
Downfall
Dr. Strangelove
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (see also Spanish version)
Fandango
Fate is the Hunter
Four Friends
Freaked
Going Places
Hammett
Heavenly Creatures
Hero
Last Of The Dogmen
Le Bossu
Liquid Sky
Local Hero
Map Of The Human Heart
Miller's Crossing
Miracle Mile
Modern Romance
Mountains of the Moon
My Dinner with Andre
Never Cry Wolf
Nobody's Fool
Slipstream
Start The Revolution Without Me
Stealing Home
Supernova
Suspect Zero
Talk of the Town
The Dish
The Duellists
The Earthling
The Fastest Gun Alive
The Fisher King
The Minus Man
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Twilight Samurai
Until The End Of The World
Waking Life
Walkabout
We Of The Never Never
White Dog
Zatoichi (film series, not the 2003 movie)
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Neighbors (1981) John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cathy Moriarty, Kathryn Walker, dir. John Avildsen - widely misunderstood...panned by critics and at the box office...possibly one of the Top 5 (certainly Top 10) funniest movies I've ever seen.
Scenes From the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989) Jacqueline Bisset, Ed Begley Jr., Ray Sharkey, Robert Beltran, dir. Paul Bartel - don't know how it did with the critics or the box office, but it did REAL WELL with me.
It was like that when we got here!
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Smoke Signals. Combines comedic moments with a very powerful drama in the manner to which we Browncoats have become accustomed. Might be a bit too much if you recently lost your father, especially if you thought you could have been closer, but then again it can be be very uplifting in the same circumstances.
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Only a few people know about, huh?
Try "The Rains Came" starring Myrna Loy. A black and white movie with a strong message, a realistic ending, and some AMAZING stunt work (for the day).
Or, "The Hard Way" starring Lee Van Cleef and Patrick McGoohan. He's not a super assassin, but just a good sniper who wants to quit his line of work. Simple, and counter-genre.
It's been mentioned here before, but "The Sorcerer". A story about a truck taking a trip through South America. Good stuff!
Lastly, although it's not nearly as obscure, "The General" starring Buster Keaton. His best movie.
"Your gratuitous jello awaits." - Dr. Helen Magnus, Sanctuary
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I'll add a couple...
"Creator" - Peter O'Toole, Vincent Spano, Virginia Madsen, Mariel Hemingway (don't let her scare you off - she's actually utilized very well in this one!), the guy who played Charles Emerson Winchester in MASH... It's funny, it's science, it's romantic, it's happy, it's sad, it's O'Toole possibly at his best ever. It's one of my very favorite films.
"Somewhere In Time" - Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour. Amazingly touching story of love and time travel.
"In Bruges" - this one is actually from this year, but no one seems to have noticed it at all. Simply FANTASTIC. Any movie that features live reenactments of Heironymous Bosch's tryptichs can't be a bad thing... Colin Ferrell (whom I have HATED ever since he didn't do anything decent after "Phone Booth") is bloody great. Ralph Feinnes is a right bastard, too.
Mike
"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."
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Smoke Signals. Combines comedic moments with a very powerful drama in the manner to which we Browncoats have become accustomed. Might be a bit too much if you recently lost your father, especially if you thought you could have been closer, but then again it can be be very uplifting in the same circumstances.
Then watch Skins. Awesome movie by the same director.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284494/
I also try to get more people to watch this flick: Savior
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120070/
Dance Me Outside
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109529/
Ghost Dog: The Way Of THe Samurai
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165798/
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Blood Simple-early Cohen brothers film that no one ever watches but should.
Unfortunately, the dvd version is a nightmare. Called a "directors cut" it has many scenes(fragments) missing from the VHS version. So in that way it's certainly "cut".
I had no idea of that,I need to track down a vhs copy now,because I'm a fan of that film.You also mentioned Miller's Crossing in another post and that is my favorite Cohen brothers film.You will find no better dialogue in film.
I'd also like to add Ghost Dog with Forrest Whitaker to the list.
Yeah, the Coen Brothers pulled a George Lucas with Blood Simple. The dvd version is their preferred version. So the theatrical(VHS) version will never see the light of day on disc.
They may have felt some of the scenes take too long to get going so they condensed many of them.
Unfortunately, It's much more atmospheric, and mood inducing with the longer cut.
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I believe Blood Simple is phenomenal...but Miller's Crossing left me a little disappointed. If you're looking for unknown Coen Brothers films, check out "Barton Fink." It's incredible, and the ending made me laugh histarically.
Other somewhat unknown films -
"Audition" - An incredible Takashi Miike film about a man looking for a new wife, so he sets up a fake film audition, and chooses from the actresses whom he interviews. Sprinkle in some creepiness, and end it off with some fantastic gore, and you have one of the scariest films I've seen in a while.
"Cashback" - a fairly recent independent film that started as a short film, but the director decided to extend it to a feature - highly underrated, it is an extraordinary film, the cinematography is astounding, and the acting is great.
"OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies" - A french film that makes fun of Bond films. Much funnier than Austin Powers, but along the same lines.
"Redbelt" - A fairly new film by David Mamet. Honestly, probably the best film I've seen all year. A jiu-jitsu instructor is going broke, until he saves a movie star's life at a bar. Then things start looking up...then they start looking down - and just when you think it can't possibly get any worse, it does. Fantastically written and directed. And the acting blew me away - PLUS it has Chiwetel Ejiofor! The Operative is the main character (oh joy!)
I know I've seen many, many others, but I can't remember them offhand...
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