Obscure Film Favorites
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American Me, Blood In Blood Out, American History X, City of God, El Mariachi0
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Chocolate (Thailand 2008) - Great martial arts film with a unique protagonist (and a homage to Bruce Lee thrown in for fun)
Knights (1993) - Horrible, confusing, run-of-the-mill, sci fi apocalypse piece with some surprisingly good stunt work!
Kenny (2008, Australia) - Mockumentary style comedy follows a portalet maintenance worker.
Primer - (2004) - Most interesting film on time travel ever. Well thought out. Highly recommended.
This is Spinal Tap - Already immortalized on AFI's 100 years 100 laughs, (Watch for cameos from Ed Begley Jr, Fran Drescher, Billy Crystal, Fred Willard, Dana Carvey, Bruno Kirby, etc ) A Mighty Wind and Best In Show are equally hilarious.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009, Sweden) - More cerebral than the 2011 US made one. They both have their merits.
Whoa! Thanks for the suggestions. Love This is Spinal Tap and I've got to watch The US version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for my 1,001 journey, but I'm going to watch the Swedish trilogy first. I think it's only fair! I also added the others to my Netflix queue. Seems like you know your stuff!0 -
Welcome to the Dollhouse is the most disturbingly accurate film about being a suburban child during the 1970s that I've ever seen.0
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Naked Lunch and Six String Samurai.
Added them both! Thanks0 -
Welcome to Woop Woop...hands down!!!!!!
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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.0
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"Nowhere" It's so weird I love it.
But I nearly hate it.
It was a Greg Araki film with a lot of 90's pop culture people in it.0 -
A lot of you may think this is a strange one to list but "The Searchers" with John Wayne is a great and highly under rated movie. It's his best serious performance ever and the supporting actors are great. The unspoken backstory that's throughout the movie really makes it. YMMV0
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THEM! is amazing - early scifi thriller that i still love to watch.
Get Real - coming-of-age gay flick that has some really deep undertones
Broken Hearts Club - gay romcom that was the first of its kind.
Mars Attacks - spoof on all of the early scifi movies with pretty much every name in Hollywood showing up in it0 -
"The Fall" (2006) is my favorite film of all time. It was produced by Spike Jones and David Fincher but was directed by Tarsem Singh (The Cell, Immortals). This movie changed my life and I have yet to find any other film like it.0
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Also "the grace of my heart"
Ohhhhhhhh man it's such a good movie.0 -
I have also slowly been making my way through most of the big films lists over the years (1001, AFI, TIME, etc). I have really been into Asian cinema the past couple of years and watched 250+ movies (mostly Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Thai), here's a link to a list of my favorites: http://mydramalist.com/list/D45wqoLX0
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Only You
I Like It Like That
Willow
Big Trouble in Little China
Labyrinth
Goonies
Monster Squad
Maladies
Camile
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Why do they always run away from me? It's the galoshes. They're a dead giveaway. Why do I wear them? It isn't even raining!I thought I was the only person who has seen this one! hahaha! "*click*.. did you just hang up? No, I just said click" hahaha
OH MY GOD YOU'RE MY NEW FAVORITE PERSON!!
Why does it sound like you're talking through a rubber chicken?
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I don't know whether these are considered obscure or not:
English and German language versions of Anna Christie, Greta Garbo's first speaking role.
Choose Me.
Next Stop, Greenwich Village!
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
The Fly (Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis version)
Dean Spanley
Man with a Movie Camera
À Propos de Nice
Taris
Time Out for Trouble
La Chienne
Les Mistons
Antoine et Colette
Wow, You've got some amazing suggestions there! I've seen a hand full of them. What would you say is your favorite on there?0 -
Also...Once Were Warriors
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Run Lola Run
Persona
Apocalypse Now
Do The Right Thing
The Wicker Man (the original from the 1970's)
The Prisoner (ok, so this is a TV show from the 1960s, but it is good and it's under 20 episodes, but well worth the time! Pure awesomeness!)
The City of Lost Children
Rear Window (hell, any Hitchcock movie featuring James Stewart, but this and Vertigo are my faves)
Citizen Kane
The Stranger
There are so many more I could think of if I tried. I am a film lover, myself. I'll have to check out your list of movies. I'm going to assume that some of the movies on this are also on my list. If not, I might have to question how good that list really is
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Once upon a time in china (sub'd version)
Dune (David Lynch version)
The Crow
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Generation War: Our Mothers, Our Fathers (Germany) ...not quite sure what to classify it as..like a 3 part series, in German with subtitles. Not sure if it was shown in the US? Very powerful stuff.
I can't find it on Netflix but I'll be sure to download it! I love German films!0 -
Criterion? Okay
Hard Day's Night
Red Shoes
Stagecoach
Anatomy of a murder
Blow out
On the Waterfront
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Persona
Rules of the Game
Seven Samurai
Seconds
Shoah (must devote a whole day to this one)
Red River
Might I also suggest The General with Charlie Chaplin (or any of his work really), anything with Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd.
My bf is a movie critic and so our movie collection is quite extensive.0 -
Goats. Quirky and fun.0
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Guilty Pleasure list:
The Wizard (1989) Christian Slater, Fred Savage, and Jenny Lewis before she switched to singing.
The Cutting Edge (1992) D.B. Sweeney is adorable
Labrynth (1986) David Bowie in tight pants
Mallrats (1995) Jay and Silent Bob - enough said.0 -
Grave of the Fireflies - an anime piece along the lines of Schindler's List, but much, much deeper and darker. A must see (but you'll only want t see it once).
I saw it and loved it! Totally not a kids film but it was on the 1,001 and couldn't be happier that I saw it!0 -
The Secret of Roan Inish (1994) - A beautiful film about the mythical "selkies" on the remote Irish island of Roan Inish. Just beautiful.0
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Grave of the Fireflies - an anime piece along the lines of Schindler's List, but much, much deeper and darker. A must see (but you'll only want t see it once).
Definitely one of the most heart-wrenching and depressing films of all time... seriously
My selections for watching are May (it's a weird horror movie)
City of God - Just watch it.
La Vie est Belle - french film, obviously, that both breaks your heart and makes it smile at the same time.
Amelie - it's not really obscure but one of my favorite films of all time.
Death Proof - It's my favorite of Tarantino's work that's part girl power, part classic death race scenes. With some pretty quotable moments in it.
and I second the previous mention of The Fall. I loved that movie.0 -
May not necessarily be described as obscure (that's a subjective term anyway), but here are some that spring to mind:
Angel-A
Pan's Labyrinth
Subway
Amelie
The Straight Story
Mulholland Drive
Dark City
Requiem for a Dream
Monsters
[REC]
Irreversible
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Guilty Pleasure list:
The Wizard (1989) Christian Slater, Fred Savage, and Jenny Lewis before she switched to singing.
The Cutting Edge (1992) D.B. Sweeney is adorable
Labrynth (1986) David Bowie in tight pants
Mallrats (1995) Jay and Silent Bob - enough said.
OMG! Cutting Edge!!! I use to watch it with my grandmother all the time, it was her favorite. That and dirty dancing.0 -
To Live and Die in LA.0
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Two more Penelope Spheeris recommendations: Suburbia from 1984 and Decline of Western Civilization from 1981Dudes by Penelope Spheeris...
Decline is a documentary about the late 70s LA punk scene.
Suburbia is a feature film about punk runaways and the scene/life they live in.0 -
Guilty Pleasure list:
The Wizard (1989) Christian Slater, Fred Savage, and Jenny Lewis before she switched to singing.
The Cutting Edge (1992) D.B. Sweeney is adorable
Labrynth (1986) David Bowie in tight pants
Mallrats (1995) Jay and Silent Bob - enough said.
OMG! Cutting Edge!!! I use to watch it with my grandmother all the time, it was her favorite. That and dirty dancing.
Toe pick!0
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