Obscure Film Favorites
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Before the (execrable) "Cat in the Hat", before the (reprehensible) "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (movie, not the beloved telly show), before the (annoying) "The Lorax", there was the Dr. Suess movie that showed that even in the 50's they must have been dropping acid in Hollywood:
"The Five Thousand Fingers of Dr. T"
I'm a big fan of the dungeon scene.
Whoa! never heard of it but I had to add this! It looked mind blowing!0 -
Also:
Incindies (canadian/lebanese)
Paradise Now (palestinian)
The White Ribbon (German)
Syrian Bride (palestinian or syrian)
Conspiracy
Yacoubian Building (egyptian)
Nasser 56 (egyptian)
No clue if they are on netflix but they are great movies nonetheless. Sorry for the Middle Eastern theme...that was my degree so I got to watch some pretty good films.
Added them all, well I couldn't find Nasser 56 but the rest look like winners!0 -
Mr. Nobody (Jaco Van Dormael)
Enemy (Denis Villeneuve)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) *bonus naked scarlett johansson
Enter the Void (Gaspar Noe)
Irreversible (Gaspar Noe)
Thirst (Park Chan-wook)
The Vengeance Trilogy (by Park Chan-wook, "Old Boy", "Lady Vengeance" & "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance")
Taxidermia (György Pálfi)
Excision - (Richard Bates Jr.)
I Saw the Devil ( Kim Jee-woon)
Entirely too many to name...but these are favorites that I've watched on more than one occasion.
Thank You for all the great suggestions! I've added the ones I haven't seen to the list
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I just remembered another great obscure film. Swimming with Sharks with Kevin Spacey, Michelle Forbes, and Frank Whaley!
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I haven't read through all these so hopefully I'm not repeating suggestions. I'm more mainstream. Some of my favorite movies are Fight Club, Amelie, The Princess Bride, The Prestige, and The Fifth Element. My husband is a movie buff and has exposed me to some great movies I wouldn't normally watch. Incendies and Tell No One are two foreign films I wouldn't have watched without him suggesting them to me. They were both incredible. He likes one called Enter the Void but I haven't watched it - I can't take too much drug use and the movie basically starts off right away with drugs. It's also pretty abstract and I don't enjoy that kind of thing. He knows me well enough to avoid having me watch things I wouldn't enjoy. That wasn't true early in our relationship when he made me watch Requiem for a Dream. I acknowledge that it's a well made movie but the subject matter is just much too dark and depressing for me. And that last scene...ugh.
I will definitely add the foreign ones I've seen the others but Enter The Void has always looked interesting to me so I'll definitely add that!
I had to come back to list a few more that I enjoyed thanks to my husbands recommendations:
Baraka
Hard Candy
Audition
I also really liked the films I've seen by Chan-Wook Park.
Oldboy
Thirst
Joint Security Area
Stoker
Baraka and Hard Candy look great! I saw Audition a few weeks ago! LOVED it!
Chan-Woo Park is incredible, I haven't seen Joint Security Area yet though.0 -
A Simple Plan-1998 Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton and Bridgette Fonda, I can only re-watch it every 3 years or so because it is so hard to watch those characters just totally ruin their lives!
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Safety Not Guaranteed. (It's an indie film that won an award or two but anytime I mention it no one has ever heard of it. I just absolutely love it and watch it obsessively.)
Run Lola Run (German film that is seriously mind twisty.)
The Professional (Jean Reno. Gary Oldman. Natalie Portman. Fantastic plot, great acting, awesome camera work.)
LOVED, LOVED and added! lol0 -
Enlightenment Guaranteed - a German film. Subtitled.
I watch it at least once a year.
I hate when they aren't on Netflix! They need to get even more lol.0 -
I like you, OP. You've really stayed involved in your thread, and not many posters actually do that. It's nice!0
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Pan's Labyrinth
Downfall (German... This is the movie that all the youtube vids about Hitler blowing up for certain situations came from)
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Hey, has anyone mentioned L'appartement (French) and Jamon Jamon (Spanish)? Two old favourites of mine.0
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Exorcist 3 - has one of the scariest scenes ever put on film. Too bad the producers really messed up the movie by changing the story to fit the "exorcist" theme
I've never watched any of the Exorcists other than the first one. I think I'm passed due!0 -
Also Japanese Story. Toni Collette is wonderful in it.0
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Dead Man
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Enlightenment Guaranteed - a German film. Subtitled.
I watch it at least once a year.
That one looks good! Not on Netflix though. :-(
I'm always on the lookout for a good German film. Might have to try other channels...
While on the subject, here are some German-language films I've enjoyed (many have already been mentioned):
Run, Lola, Run
Das Boot
Good Bye Lenin! (same soundtrack composer as "Amelie", by the way...)
Downfall
Wings of Desire (remade by Hollywood as "City of Angels")
I really liked all those! I just watched Das Boot last night! Good Bye Lenin may be one of my all time favorites! I love Europa Europa too! I think I need to give Wings of Desire another chance!0 -
The Bad Seed (1956)
^^LOOOOVE this movie
Although my personal favorites are Harold and Maude, and My Blue Heaven, which is a Steve Martin/Rick Moranis movie that i am pretty sure no one has seen but me.0 -
Barefoot Gen - not really a "favorite," but well-made, disturbing, and something I still remember years after watching it last.
Sunshine- not really "obscure" just incredibly underrated. I enjoyed the story, characters, and the plot twists. It's actually one of my all-time favorites.
The Edukators
Thirteen
Elephant- another disturbing but beautifully made movie.0 -
Neds
Filth
If you like a bit of Scotland.
I'm open to films from anywhere! No biased here lol0 -
Birdy - Matthew Modine & a young Nicholas Cage...awesome soundtrack by Peter Gabriel and an odd film.
Nic Cage looks so young on the cover! Added!0 -
I'm not sure how obscure they are but a couple of movies I can watch over and over are :
Warlords
Sorcerer and The White Snake
The Tao of Steve
Gattaca
My guilty pleasure movie is What Dreams May Come
Added them all, love what dreams may come! I can't blame you on that one!0 -
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Oh there are so many to choose from! I guess 1 of my favorites that nobody ever knows when I mention it would have be the Cube, it's actually a trilogy though.
Yes!! LOVE the movie Cube. Def include it on the obscure list. Have only ever been able to watch it twice - both times video rentals. Didn't even know it was a trilogy.... As soon as Australia gets access to Netflix (legally) I'll have to look them up!
Favourites of mine, a lot have already been mentioned, so therefore excluding the obscure criterion. But these would be the movies I would pick if I had to limit down to the only movies I would only ever be allowed to watch again.... so guilty pleasures I guess? Or at least movies that I think are underrated. Or movies I would make people watch because I think they should see it.
- Amelie (2001)
- Mars Attacks! (1996)
- Euro Trip (2004)
- Meet the Feebles (1989)
- Heavenly Creatures (1994)
- Saved! (2004)
- Orgazmo (1997)
- V for Vendetta (2005)
- 21 (2008)
- Killer Condom (1996) German film
- Cube (1997)
- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
- Stardust (2007)
- The Fifth Element (1997)
- Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
- Delicatessen (1991) French film
- Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)
- Overboard (1987)
- Dark Crystal (1982)
Those are some great choices! I've seen about half and added the rest 0 -
I just saw this on BuzzFeed and thought of this thread.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/louispeitzman/deliciously-dark-comedies-you-should-see-before-you-die
I've seen many of them and agree, they're must see movies.
I've seen most, thats an awesome list!0 -
I am greatly enjoying this thread! I used to be a video clerk and tried to watch as many movies as I could.
Here are some that I've enjoyed and consider to be obscure because whenever I mention them no one has seen them.
comedy
Edtv (1999)
Lone Star State of Mind (2002) It doesn't sound like it would be very good but I laugh all the way through it every time I watch it.
To Wong Foo Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) Why did no one watch this movie? It's pure FUN!
Eurotrip (2004) guilty pleasure
romance
Only You (1994) My favorite romance movie
If Lucy Fell (1996)
Leap Year (2010)
drama
A River Runs Through It (1992)
Mystery, Alaska (1999)
Serenity (2005)
Purgatory (1999)
Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011) This movie is BRILLIANT. It starts slow but stick with it, it's worth it.
Waking Ned Devine (1998)
What Dreams May Come (1998)
The 13th Warrior (1999)
Sci-fi
Crossworlds (1996)
Classics
The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942)
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998) Is this not a classic? Well, it should be. LOL!
I did not like this movie at all but I watched it. It was... interesting.
Curdled (1996)
Thanks! I'm glad you liked the post. I added a ton of your options. Couldn't find the two "classics" though :-/0 -
^^ just realized Cube mentioned above. You need to see this movie tho if you haven't ????
^^^ lol! Yes Orgazmo is funny!
Adding :
Crouching tiger hidden dragon
Get our your handkerchiefs
The machinist
Pitch black
Maria full of grace
Trainspotting
Whoa! Sooooo many great choices! Thanks! 0 -
Six String Samurai
Added it just because it looked badass lol0 -
Lot's of good stuff here!
My list: (Limited to 5 stars, I'm a tough critic)
Puzzled Love
The Intouchables
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy (get past the name)
Lars and the Real Girl
Buddy
10 Items or Less (with Morgan Freeman, there is another one same name)
In Bruges
Castaway on the Moon
Derek (short series)
So many I've been meaning to watch but just haven't gotten there yet and loved the ones I have seen!0 -
Being There - 1979 - Starring Peter Sellers
I couldn't agree more! I love it!0 -
Horror:
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (Hammer Films, 1960)
Scream of Fear (1961)
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976)
Anatomie (2000 horror film starring Franke Potente of Run Lola Run and the Bourne films)
Drama:
Grown Up Movie Star (2009, stars Shawn Doyle and Tatiana Maslany)
Swing Kids (1993, stars Robert Sean Leonard , Christian Bale and Frank Whaley)
Western:
The Ballad of Little Jo (1993)
Those are some amazing looking horror films!0 -
high tension. i believe that was a french one, if i remember correctly.
gummo. nothing to say other than very strange
motel hell. low budget horror flick, but it used to crack me up when i was a teen
dog soldiers. werewolf flick
osa. another one i used to love when i was younger. mad max sort of film
the stoned age.
I love flicks like these! Thanks for all the suggestions 0
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