Best movie that only a few people know about
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That would "White Dog" staring Paul Winfield, made in 1982, one of the great surprise endings ever.
I'm going to microwave a bagel and have sex with it - Peter Griffin
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All 26 films from the Zatoichi film series. Transcendent. An amazing find, wikipedia description:
"Zatoichi (座頭市 Zatōichi) is a fictional character featured in one of Japan's longest running series of films and a television series set in the Edo period. The character, a blind masseur and swordmaster, was created by novelist Kan Shimozawa (子母澤寛, Shimozawa Kan). This originally minor character was developed for the screen by Daiei Studios and actor Shintaro Katsu, who created the screen version. A total of 26 films were made from 1962 to 1989. From 1972 to 1974, a television series of the same name was made. One hundred twelve episodes were aired before the "Zatoichi" tv series was cancelled.
Film number 17 of the original series was remade in America in 1990 (by TriStar Pictures) as Blind Fury, an action movie starring Rutger Hauer.
More recently, Takeshi Kitano directed and starred in a 2003 Zatoichi movie. Sho Aikawa also starred in a stage version of Zatoichi, directed by Takashi Miike."
The film released in 2003 was a big disappointment (oh the horror) to fans of the first 26... whaddya gonna do, we got 26. If you have an ounce of interest in Asian cinema, you should check out the first few.
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Americana - With David Caradine.
Supernova
Bottle Rocket.
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Downfall-German film about the fall of Hitler.The best acting job of portraying Hitler ever.It's on netflix.Sub-titled.
Blood Simple-early Cohen brothers film that no one ever watches but should.
I also really agree with Bottle Rocket,that movie is a favorite of mine.
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Freaked - laughed til my gut hurt for days.
A Little Princess - 1990'2 version, starring Liesel Matthews.
Suspect Zero - not gret production, but amazing this subject matter made it to mainstream wide release. Very good treatment of the subject, for those into it. Plus cast of Ben Kingsley, Carrie Anne-Moss, Arron Eckhart and more. Some of the material may be of interest to browncoats focusing on River abilities. (yeah, I'm not telling what the topic is.)
Hero (early 90's) - had assumed more had seen it, but keep finding out that's not the case. Favorite Chevy Chase film (he's not credited) and Susie Cusack film, and one of my fave Dustin Hoffman films, Geena Davis films, Tom Arnold films, kevin O'Connor films, Andy Garcia films, and nice turn by Fisher Stevens. Very sarcastic and cynical type humor.
City of Lost Children - that year I was doing "best of" movie polling, and every single person who did not have it on their list I asked if they saw it, and none of them had. Everybody who had seen it had it on their top 10.
Compilation of films in this thread:
White Dog (1982)
26 Zatoichi films
Americana
Supernova
Bottle Rocket (2)
Downfall
Blood Simple
Freaked
A Little Princess
Suspect Zero
Hero
City of Lost Children (2)
Bedazzled (1967 with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore)
Days of Heaven (2)
The Duellists (2)
The Fisher King
Four Friends
Hammett
Heavenly Creatures
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (2)
Waking Life
Walkabout
My Dinner with Andre
Twilight Samurai
After Life
Miracle Mile
Miller's Crossing
Start The Revolution Without Me
Fandango (2)
Le Bossu (2)
Nobody's Fool
The Fastest Gun Alive
Talk of the Town
Stealing Home
We Of The Never Never
Brainstorm--Natalie Wood's last movie , a sci-fi with Chris Walken
Until The End Of The World--with William Hurt
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Slipstream
Map Of The Human Heart (2)
Never Cry Wolf
The Dish
The Earthling--William Holden's last film , Ricky Schroder
Last Of The Dogmen--Barbara Hershey , Tom Berenger.
Ghost Dog (2)
The Minus Man
Going Places
Fate is the Hunter
Dr. Stranglove
Liquid Sky
Modern Romance
Local Hero
Millenium
Black Robe
Mountains of the Moon
Neighbors
Scenes From the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
Smoke Signals (2)
The Rain Came
The Hard Way
The Sorcerer
The General
Creator
Somewhere In Time
In Bruges (4)
Skins
Savior
Dance Me Outside
Barton Fink
Audition
Cashback (2)
OSS 117 - Cairo, Nest of Spies
Redbelt
Lady In The Box (2001)
Q&A
Murphy's War
Empire of the Wolves
Dangerous Beauty
L'Appat (The Bait)
Lawn Dogs
Rosencrantz and Guildenstein Are Dead
Mean Creek
Captains Courageous
Man of the West
Ponette (2)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Bring Up Baby
Twelve O'Clock High
Cannery Row
The Misfits
The Hanging Tree
Dead men Don't Wear Plaid
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Oscar (1991)
The History of Violence
The Cooler
Spy Game
Fido
Wristcutters - A Love Story
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2)
Little Children
The Ice Harvest (film debut for Katie Holmes, she stole the scenes, I thought)
Lucky Number Slevin (2)
Payback (Mel Gibson version)
Heist
Thief 6-hour miniseries
Southie
If Only
Poolhall Junkies
Once Around (Feb 1991) - was Holly stuck with Dreyfuss for a year? This and Always (Dec 1989)
The Name of The Rose
Arthur - Clive Owen, Kiera Knightly
The Tenth Legion
UHF
Kite Runner
Paris, je t'aime
The Snapper (and The Commitments, The Van round out the Doylestown Trilogy)
The Matador
Run Lola Run
Blow Dry (2)
The Power
The Life Aquatic
Passport to Pimlico
Captain Paradise
The Lavender Hill Mob
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
The Water is Wide
A Prayer For Owen Meany - TV film
Awful Big Adventure
The Last Mimzy
Zathura
Bad Company
The Twelve Chairs
On Borrowed Time (1939)
Harald and Maude
Death Trance
Into the Mirror
Conrack
The Frisco Kid
Wisdom
MOMO
Catholic Boys
Bubba Ho-tep
Indian Runner
Clay Pigeons
Outing Riley (2007) (
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City of Lost Children - that year I was doing "best of" movie polling, and every single person who did not have it on their list I asked if they saw it, and none of them had. Everybody who had seen it had it on their top 10.
After SERENITY - this is my next favourite film. I have it on DVD. Great looking film. Good call JewelStaiteFan
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Bedazzled - the original from 1967 with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, not the crappy Brendan Fraser remake.
Days of Heaven - Terrence Malick's second film, with Richard Gere, Brooke Adams and Sam Shepard.
The Duellists - directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine.
The Fisher King - Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams in a Terry Gilliam film.
Four Friends - Directed by Arthur Penn. No stars anyone would recognize, but great acting and great story. If you came of age in the '60s (or are interested in that era) this one should speak to you.
Hammett - Frederic Forrest plays Dashiell Hammett and Peter Boyle is Jimmy Ryan, the "Continental Op" who inspired several of his stories. Directed by Wim Wenders.
Heavenly Creatures - Peter Jackson's best film (and yes, I also love LotR).
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Daniel Day Lewis, Lena Olin and Juliette Binoche in one of the most thoughtful, romantic films ever. The type of film you think it is going to be will change several times throughout the movie, but it is basically about love, honor, courage and loyalty. Directed by Philip Kaufman.
Waking Life - directed by Richard Linklater, in the rotoscopic-animation technique he also used for A Scanner Darkly. This one's all about the dream state...or is it?
Walkabout - directed by Nicholas Roeg, starring Jenny Agutter. She and her young brother are stranded in the Australian outback, and are "rescued" by an aborigine boy on his coming-of-age walkabout ritual.
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Originally posted by Cole23:
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".
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-My Dinner with Andre
-Twilight Samurai
-After Life
-Miracle Mile
-Miller's Crossing. The best Coen Brothers film in my opinion. Well paced, and layered. Great acting. It's a film that may take a few viewings to fully grasp, but it's quite rewarding when you do.
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Start The Revolution Without Me, 1970. Very young Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland. The movie holds up surprisingly well for being nearly 40 years old, and the humor is timeless.
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You can't take the sky from me...
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