a few that i liked (although you might have seen them?) the cube,death machine,dust devils,hardware (by the same guy who directed dust devils),from beyond,demons 1&2,trauma,best of the best,american ninja.i could go on... over to you.
Not sure how unkown it is, but Ping Pong is just a lovely movie 🙂
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The fall is great.
[url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477139/ ]Wristcutters[/url] is fantastic, don't be put off by the title.
+1 for The Fall. Although if 3/5 of us have suggested it, maybe it's not that unheard of...
Seriously though, watch it.
unheard or not
into the wild
the big blue
instinct
angels with dirty faces
Brick - teen crime movie set in modern california but the dialect is 30's gangster
Down By Law - prison movie staring Tom Waits and the guy from beautiful life - totally love it.
Clerks. There used to be a time when nobody had heard of it. Then Kevin Smith hit the big time and I imagine most are aware of it now.
Grand Slam - awesome film, legendary in Wales 😛
13 Tzameti
[url= http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0475169/ ]http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0475169/[/url]
Intacto
[url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220580/ ]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intacto[/url]
the train
fitzcarraldo
bad day at black rock
the hit
throne of blood
going places
and my favorite 'cube'
I quite liked Titanic...not sure if many others saw it. The juxtaposition of the cheeky poor Irish scoundrels below decks with the posh folk on the uppers was extraordinary. Watch it.
9 Souls. incredibly moving in places.
deadly, i've not heard of that, can i buy it on VHS?
Tribal, it's a job to come across it. You kinda have to "know" someone who has it. It's like very secret squirrel though. I'll make some enquiries for you 😉
The Taking of Pelham 123 (original - no idea what the new one's like).
Stealing Beauty - bit of Liv Tyler in her youth.... Lovely stuff.
Eraserhead is well known amongst my generation, but the younguns may not have seen it.
another vote for the fall.
tisoti is good
brotherhood of the wolf
ravenous from a few years ago
the devils backbone (great ghost story)
primer( more of a mind**** than momento)
brotherhood
Boondocks Saints, best watched with the documentary Overnight, which is the story of how the film got made and about the writer, a former New Orleans barman (and what a knob he is), Willeam DaFoe is excellant in it as is Billy Connelly
The Warrior; Korea vs the mongols in choppy choppy action. go buy it now.
Two Lane Blacktop
I`m sure Clarkson saw the GTO driver and invented himself!
The Gods Must be Crazy
and
Eat Drink Man Woman
oh I forgot
Tempopo (I think that is spelt correctly)
City Lights by Charlie Chaplin
He wrote the screenplay, music, directed, edited, cast and stared in it. A fantastic film and still worth seeing.
I like.
Brassed off
Water
Taxi (french version)
Love, Honour & Obey
Run Lola Run. Fantastic soundtrack and visuals. Clever storyline, but not showy. Oh, and Franka Potente.
Big Wednesday
Black book
I like that new movie that's out at the moment in a few select cinemas, Avatar.
I watch a lot of independent film...or at least lesser known movies. My all time favourite is PI, superb film about a mathematician that tries to solve pi whilst trying to work out patterns in the stiock market...sounds very dull but its amazing, the cinematography is lush (and in black and white) and the soundtrack is equally as good (featuring the likes of Autehcre, Orbital, Aphex Twin etc...). The same guy who made PI also directed Requiem for a Dream, which is a very, very harsh film to watch, but very good as well. Lost Highway by David Lynch is another firm fave as well as any Troma movies (Cannibal the Musical, The Toxic Avenger, Poultrygesit etc) just for over the top gore and laughs with political satire thrown in for good measure (some of the time)...
Doc Savage - Man of Bronze
Water
Bullshot
I might have to dig them out again tonight 8)
Requiem for a dream.
Y tu mama tabiem
Devil rejects (cool soundtrack)
Love Honour and Obey
anyone seen Belleville Rendevous.
Animation about a french cyclist
Human Traffic
OK. How about [url=
Content[/url] like the best bits of the french connection compressed into a 10 minute film and all on rollerskates. Lovely punchline.
ghost world
american splendour
24 hour party people
another vote for run lola run
Thank you for not smoking
delicatessen
borsalino
earthed 5 (ok you might have heard of that one)
Just Another Saturday
La Cabina
Two Way Stretch
Just a few that spring to mind...
Les Visiteurs [Jean Reno. Comedy. Time travelling medieval knight in contemporary France]
Aguirre, The wrath of God. [Werner Herzog dir, Klaus Kinski. Intense study of a Spanish Conquistador's descent into mad-eyed insanity.]
Anything by [url= http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004244/ ]Jacques Tati[/url]. Sublime and hillarious.
Casablanca. Really does need to be seen on the big screen. Amazing.
el Gato Negro, I thought Belleville Rendezvous was fantastic.
Carts of Darkness - watch it [url= http://nfb.ca/film/carts_of_darkness ]here[/url]
187 - Samuel L Jackson, gritty as hell about a teacher in a rough school in the US - probably my favourite film.
SFW - early 90's hostage film, has some great lines.
-1 Brick, I hated that!
My Name is Nobody.
Great minor spgahetti western with Henry Fonda that has a lovely sense of humour and a wonderful soundtrack.
At least I think nobody else has heard of it.
An Australian comedy called "the castle" . A big hit over there, I don't think you can get it on DVD here, I used to have a VHS . It's very funny if you ever see it on late night tv
Got them on a double header VHS tape, not watched them in ages. Harware feautres Carl McCoy of Fields of the Nephilim and Lemmy from Motorhead, I seem to recalldust devils,hardware
Yep, but not the american remake (also starring Jean Reno)Les Visiteurs
Nikita, the original french version not the american shot-for-shot remake "the assassin" starring Bridget Fonda
Oh, and a couple of early Peter Jackson films, [i]Bad Taste[/i] and [i]Braindead[/i].
Not watched any of the above in ages, time to break out the video methinks!
Brazil - 1985 Terry Gilliam somehow gets Robert De Niro at the pinnacle of his acting career, and then sticks him in a balaclava so he is unrecognisable for 95% of the movie.. genius 😀
The Dish. amusing
The original of Taking Pelham 123 is great, the remake was pretty good too ..i thought so anyway.
French film called Them was good.
Dogtown and Z-Boys ... nobody I mention it to has ever heard of it but a few might know it on here? More of a documentry really about a gang of skateboarders that '... virtually revolutionised skateboarding with an aggresive style' back in the 70's, some great 'old-skool' footage and interviews.
Bit on youtube
🙂
nbt - I forgot about the US remake.
And for good reason!
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
antonias line
A couple of my favourites
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Music_of_Chance_(film) ]THE MUSIC OF CHANCE[/url]
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Full_of_Grace ]MARIA FULL OF GRACE[/url]
zatochi - japenese film about a blind swordsman
the harder they come - jamacian film loosely based on jimmy cliff and the Jamaican Dillinger. good if you like reggae.
How can this be your favourite obscure film? It's utterly depressing!MARIA FULL OF GRACE
I watch quite a lot of obscure films - I guess it's one of the advantages of something like Lovefilm.
Brazil - good but a little full on in places.
I watched the fall recently - again, not bad, like a cross between Gilliam and Guillermo Del Toro.
Intacto's great, and there's another film that has a similar theme of luck being something some people have and others don't, although I've forgotten its name.
Star Wars - not a lot of people have heard of it. The dialogue's a bit stilted in places but it's an interesting niche idea, and the shock ending is a bit of a shocker!
My favourite 2 have to be, though, A boy and his dog (1970s post-apocapalyptic B-movie with Don Johnson) and Bad Santa (epicly funny)
Etre et Avoir - documentary about a tiny French village school - much, much better than it sounds.
How can this be your favourite obscure film? It's utterly depressing!
😕
The thread isn't called
"What are your favourite [b]light hearted[/b] movies that not a lot of people have heard of?"
Angela's Ashes
Shichinin no Samurai
Outland
Ghost dog
For some reason, the original 'Manhunter' seems to have been forgotten in favour of the markedly less good big budget versions with Hopkins.
Another vote for The Big Blue - simply beautiful cinematography.
Braindead, Bad Taste or Meet the Feebles - Peter Jackson before he started reading too much Tolkien.
Or my favourite small independent film staring a Frenchman - Highlander 🙂
They Live reminds me of "The Thing" or in fact pretty much any John Carpenter film.
"I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and i'm all out of bubble gum" - classic
There's a fight scene reminiscent of Peter Griffin vs The Chicken IIRC. Top stuff!
Oooh, also Oldboy, definitely. Most of the other Korean gore films are too much for me though.
The thread isn't called"What are your favourite light hearted movies that not a lot of people have heard of?"
Fair point 🙂
Divorcing Jack, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorcing_Jack_%28film%29
Tale of Two Sisters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Sisters
Amelie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A9lie
The Twilight Samurai http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Samurai
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Big name actors and original to the point of genius, shame the director has produced utter crap since, shame.
Momento Big(ish) name actors and original to the point of genius, Luckily Christopher Nolan hasn't produced utter crap since, :0)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_%28film%29
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FOUNTAIN[/url] (Fricking awesome!!) Sound track gives me shivers man!!!
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LABYRINT[/url]H is good too
Aussie film [url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118826/ ]"The Castle"[/url]
Les Visiteurs, frankly, I was thinking to leave Singletrack after that statement, but then somebody mentions "etre et Avoir", so this is all good now (for "Etre et Avoir", Have you also try "The Class"?).
I like the dish as well - about an Aussie tracking station that tracks the space shuttle for the 1969 moon landing. Very inoffensive that you can watch with your gran.
I also like Split Second - Rutger Hauer a cop running on chocolate and coffee in a semi-flooded London with an uptight by the rules side kick chasing an Arnie Predator style creature who killed his partner. Just as good, if not better than Predator.
Man Bites Dog. It's a comedy about a bunch of film students making a documentary about a serial killer.
Man Bites Dog. It's a comedy about a bunch of film students making a documentary about a serial killer.
I'd forgotten about that, my mates bought me that at uni. It's a very dark comedy, I felt sick after watching it and haevn;t seen it since - untouched for over 15 years!
Solaris, the original russian version. Spooky but not scary.
Anything by Kieslowski -- The three colours trilogy is unparalleled, and some of his earlier stuff is great; short film about killing, double life of veronique, etc.
Best bit by far is the scene where's everyone's laughing away, and it cuts to another scene. Just before the cut, for a couple of frames, Benoit's expression changes to pure rage. Hilarious.
not sure if these are little known but I have not seen them on TV for ages.
[url= http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0097108/ ]The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover[/url]
[url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083851/ ]The Draughtsman's Contract[/url]
Anyone mentioned La Haine?
Will have to bookmark this thread for some rainy days - nice one all
Another vote for The Taking of Pelham 123, I am a bit Walter Matthau fan, two others of his which are less well known, which I enjoyed are Charlie Varrick and The Fortune Cookie (his first film with Jack Lemmon).
Dinner Rush was recommended by a friend and is excellent. My quid pro quo was Big Night.
I also thought the original Manhunter was pretty good.
Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus
The woeful special effects make this a film not to be missed
+1 The Fountain
[url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0930083/ ]Noroi[/url] - documentary style Japanese horror
[url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367027/ ]Short Bus[/url] - cheeky but good none the less
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_for_Fake ]F for Fake[/url]
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial_(1962_film) ]The Trial[/url]
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsuo_the_iron_man ]Tetsuo: The Iron Man[/url]
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subway_(film) ]Subway[/url]
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_in_the_Sky ]Laputa[/url]
Plus 1 for The Day the Earth Caught Fire and My Name is Nobody
Death Machine! Classic.
I want to watch a movie now - where can I get the free online?