Obscure Film Favorites

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  • PapaverSomniferum
    PapaverSomniferum Posts: 2,670 Member
    The Triplets of Bellville (2003). I loved this movie. It's animation is strange and organic, and with little dialog, you fall in love with the characters and their story through the animation and music. It's both funny and heartwarming, and is slightly dark and gritty without being overly so.

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Triplets_of_Belleville
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    Koyaanisquatsi (1982). This movie consists of shots of human life next to shots of nature with an intense musical background. It's very different, but incredibly powerful. Each time I've seen it, I've been moved to tears.

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaanisqatsi
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    The Last Unicorn (1982) A classic from that time in the '80s when fantasy was all the rage. Villain voices by Angela Lansbury and Christopher Lee. Music by America.

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Unicorn_(film)
  • jacques57
    jacques57 Posts: 2,129 Member
    Harold and Maude - best chopped Jaguar XKE ever

    The King of Hearts

    And a BBC film made for TV in the 70s with Tim Currie and Michael Palin called "Three Men in a Boat"
  • fannyfrost
    fannyfrost Posts: 756 Member
    The Court Jester with Danny Kaye... Angela Lansbury was the young beautiful princess... I still laugh histarically everytime I see it... Unfortunately, it's hard to find and I only have an old VHS copy that is almost beyond ability to watch.

    The Court Jester is one of my all time favorite movies. So very funny.

    My list is:

    Serenity
    Canadian Bacon - this is one of the most underrated movies of all time.
    Them
    The Blob
    The Life of Brian
    Attack of the Killer Tomatos


    The old Godzilla movies. I also love the Gamera movies.

    Old Vincent Price movies - there are so many and most were really good.
  • PapaverSomniferum
    PapaverSomniferum Posts: 2,670 Member
    The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980). A clever trip following a tribal African man as he navigates "civilization" trying to dispose of an object that brought evil to his people. Filled with slapstick and cultural mis-communications, this is a sweet story and a lot of fun.

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Must_Be_Crazy
  • Oscarinmiami
    Oscarinmiami Posts: 326 Member
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    another funny movie is the Whoopie boys
  • Stopher100481
    Stopher100481 Posts: 154 Member
    Only You
    I Like It Like That
    Willow
    Big Trouble in Little China
    Labyrinth
    Goonies
    Monster Squad
    Maladies
    Camile
    Kids

    That is an awesome collection! I've seen about half and added the others lol. I used to LOVE Monster Squad when I was little! Absolute classic!
  • Stopher100481
    Stopher100481 Posts: 154 Member
    Once upon a time in china (sub'd version)
    Dune (David Lynch version)
    The Crow
    Blues Brothers

    All quality stuff! subbed is the only way to watch a foreign film! Unless you can't read, but other than that people need to suck it up and read the subs!
  • Stopher100481
    Stopher100481 Posts: 154 Member
    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.

    You are one lucky girl! Those are a ton of awesome films! I just watched "Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" last week and LOVE IT! I've added the ones I haven't seen to my queue! Keaton is my all time favorite!
  • Stopher100481
    Stopher100481 Posts: 154 Member
    Goats. Quirky and fun.

    Added, with a name like that it's gotta be good!
  • Stopher100481
    Stopher100481 Posts: 154 Member
    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! I forgot all about The Wizard! I loved that movie!!!
  • mblair1968
    mblair1968 Posts: 323 Member
    The "Trinity" series. They are Italian westerns.
  • XmanMike
    XmanMike Posts: 183 Member
    Moonrise Kingdom (although the two kids fondling each other made me queasy)

    Thanks For Sharing- Mark Ruffalo and Gwyneth Paltrow were excellent in this movie.
  • Stopher100481
    Stopher100481 Posts: 154 Member
    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.

    I've got May on my queue already :) LOVED City of God! Can't find "La Vie est Belle" anywhere :/ Amelie is in my top five easily!
  • Stopher100481
    Stopher100481 Posts: 154 Member
    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
    Man Bites Dog

    I'd give those all some massive props! there were a few I haven't seen though and I added them too! I can't wait to watch REC, I've heard great things!
  • frannieshack
    frannieshack Posts: 327 Member
    My Life as a Dog
    Das Boot
    Amelie
  • roanokejoe49
    roanokejoe49 Posts: 820 Member
    Miller's Crossing by the Cohen brothers
    The Dead, a version of the James Joyce short story
    If Lucy Fell
    The Field, another Irish movie about the John B. Keane play (who I met at his bar before his passing)
  • Stopher100481
    Stopher100481 Posts: 154 Member
    To Live and Die in LA.

    Added, looks pretty awesome!
  • Stopher100481
    Stopher100481 Posts: 154 Member
    Dudes by Penelope Spheeris...
    Two more Penelope Spheeris recommendations: Suburbia from 1984 and Decline of Western Civilization from 1981

    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.

    I've seen Suburbia, and now will see Decline of Western Civilization!
  • Stopher100481
    Stopher100481 Posts: 154 Member
    Just off the top of my head Strange Brew and UHF come to mind.

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    Ohhhh! UHF! How I've missed you!
  • dorkyfaery
    dorkyfaery Posts: 255 Member
    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.
  • Stopher100481
    Stopher100481 Posts: 154 Member
    I lean a little to the nerdy side so cheesy B sci fi movies are my guilty pleasure. All time favourites:

    Them!
    Creature from the Black Lagoon
    Lost Planet Airmen (sans Commander Cody..ok so I'm a little older)
    It Came From Outer Space
    The Beast With a Million Eyes
    Day of the Triffids (original)
    The Creature Walks Among Us
    The Mysterians
    Attack of the Puppet People
    and so many more...
    oh and pretty well anything by Toho Studios

    You're not alone! I've seen so many of those it's ridiculous lol! I've never seen The Mysterians though so I need to get on it!
  • Stopher100481
    Stopher100481 Posts: 154 Member
    If your looking for something serious, a great obsscure film would be the Italian film Cinema Paradiso, originally titled "Nuovo Cinema Paradiso." It's benissimo!

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095765/

    I couldn't agree more! If you've never seen the original version then you need to! They did one with an alternate ending that just ruins the film!
  • Stopher100481
    Stopher100481 Posts: 154 Member
    So many good ones mentioned already! How about...


    Classic: "The Shop Around the Corner"

    So-Bad-It's-Good: "The Apple"

    Rom-Com: "Cousins"



    Not really obscure, but...

    Musical (sort of): "Once"

    Hitchcock: "Notorious"

    Just plain awesome: Linklater's "Before" trilogy


    (Edited to add the "Before" trilogy... how could I forget those???)

    THose are some great choices! I LOVE Once! Can't find Cousins though :-/ and I'm glad someone mentioned the Before trilogy(loved them!)
  • Stopher100481
    Stopher100481 Posts: 154 Member
    Guilty pleasure: It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958) - NOTE: many plot elements borrowed by the original 'Alien'

    Cult classic: Faster Pu$$ycat Kill! Kill! (1965) - You have to love the title and it's Russ Meyers... need I say more?

    Foreign film: High and Low (1963) - A slightly more obscure Kurosawa film... one that's *not* about samurai

    Documentary: Dust to Glory (2005) - Interesting subject matter (to me - YMMV)

    Thanks for starting this thread - I'm adding to my list too! :smile:

    Edit: who knew Pu$$ycat was a bad word? :wink:

    I love this list! I've seen them all except Dust to Glory so it's getting added! and You're welcome, I'm finding a ton of great flicks!
  • Stopher100481
    Stopher100481 Posts: 154 Member
    Goodbye, Lenin - it's in German, but so good.

    No but needed! It's amazing! Like I said earlier, people need to get over the fear of subtitles lol
  • bgman75
    bgman75 Posts: 12
    They Live (1988) one of my all time favorites.
  • Stopher100481
    Stopher100481 Posts: 154 Member
    Also...Once Were Warriors

    I second Once Were Warriors. Also Romper Stomper. Both very confronting films, but very, very good.

    Not sure about Welcome to Woop Woop, though. I hated every second of it!

    :laugh: It's quite possible that I liked Welcome to Woop Woop so much because it totally caught me off guard. I had no idea what it was about & it took most of the film to figure it out.

    I am easily entertained :wink:

    To be fair, I didn't know what I was in for with Once Were Warriors as well...I like to be surprised :drinker:
    Off to add some of the above suggestions to Netflix...

    OP: excellent thread!!!!


    I've added Once Were Warriors to my queue but it looks like Woop Woop will have to be a download, I can't find it :-/

    and thanks, I'm glad everyone is liking it.
  • sargessexyone
    sargessexyone Posts: 494 Member
    TLDR

    Did anybody say Memento yet? Amazing film but you you do need to watch several times to fully understand it.
  • Stopher100481
    Stopher100481 Posts: 154 Member
    The Station Agent

    The Way

    Faith, Fraud, and Minimum Wage

    Tyrannosaur

    Can't find Faith, Fraud, and Minimum Wage anywhere but I've added the rest to my Netflix! Looks like some interesting films!
  • Stopher100481
    Stopher100481 Posts: 154 Member
    My favs- that no one I am around has seen or gets my references. ( I love throwing in movie quotes when the occasion calls for it)

    Grosse Point Blank
    So I Married an ax Murderer
    Hudson Hawk

    The only people that get my references are my hubby and now my 15 year old son.

    Added :) Well two of the three(already seen Ax Murderer)

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