Obscure Film Favorites

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very cool

not a horror film

Gonna add ELECTION - so realistic! (Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon)

Also on that note, I agree with the suggestions of Welcome to the Dollhouse and KIDS.

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Loved all 3 of those!!! Kids was so in your face. I am from a VERY small town and I saw that movie in high school. It was crazy scary to me!!!

"Pan's Labyrinth" was a visually gorgeous movie

Also just saw "The Grand Budapest Hotel" which was everything you would expect from a Wes Anderson movie. I loved it.

I wish I had more to add, but I'm definitely following this thread for some netflix movie bingeing later!

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?

And, this is now on my queue. Sounds awesomeful.

The Fly is a wonderful, dark, love story that turns tragic with a fascinating sci-fi premise.

Choose Me is an LA love rondelay of weirdness set in the 1980s I think.

Dean Spanley, which I saw recently on Netflix, made me cry. It's set in London around 1910, I think.

My Life as a Dog, released in 1986, is a wonderful story about a young Swedish boy in the 1960s coping with being sent away to a village because his mother is dying. If you want a tender but unsentimental view of childhood, it's great.

Antoine et Colette is in a French anthology film called Love at 20. It's about a boy who pursues a girl in Paris. Heartbreaking.

Since we seem to have moved beyond "obscure" films, two of my all-time favorites are "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Big Sleep." Both star Humphrey Bogart as a detective. "Smiles of a Summer Night" by Ingmar Bergman is another favorite.

Can't find Cousins though :-/ and I'm glad someone mentioned the Before trilogy(loved them!)

Ack! You're right! Looks like Netflix doesn't currently offer "Cousins". Well that's a bummer. One of the very few American remakes of a foreign film ("Cousin, Cousine") that, in my opinion anyway, turned out better.

I was lucky enough to see each of the movies in the "Before" trilogy as they were theatrically released over 18 years. So imagine seeing "Before Sunrise" without the knowledge that there would ever be anything other than a standalone film! It makes the ending a much, much different experience.

There can only be one.

1.) Swing Kids
2.) Pieces of April (AWESOME THanksgiving movie....literally)
3.) Curse of the Golden Flower
4.) Much Ado About Nothing

Thought of another good one: "The Irony of Fate"

It's a very obscure film... unless you're from a country that was once part of the former Soviet Union, that is. Over there, it's apparently the equivalent to "It's a Wonderful Life"... the sort of movie that still plays numerous times on TV around the holidays every single year, and that pretty much every single person has seen multiple times.

The plot hinges on the fact that many Soviet neighborhoods in the 1970s were basically exactly alike, with identical buildings and even sometimes the same street names. Through a series of mishaps on New Year's Eve, a guy drunkenly winds up in what he thinks is his own apartment in Moscow, but is actually an identical apartment in St. Petersburg (Leningrad at the time). When the true resident shows up, hijinks and romance ensue... along with much singing of minor-key songs in Russian.

A bit overlong (it's actually split into two parts), but a charming film nonetheless.

Don't know if they're considered obscure, but I like:

Framed (1990) Jeff Goldblum & Kristen Scott Thomas
Cuttthroat Island (1995) Geena Davis & Matthew Modine
Like Water for Chocolate (1992) Marco Leonardi

Not sure if you're a horror fan, but if Wes Craven's New Nightmare isn't one that you've seen before I'd definitely suggest watching the original Nightmare on Elm Street first before viewing.

I love horror! I own the entire NOES franchise on Blu-Ray

Awesome, so do I. I need to upgrade my Nightmare collection though because I only have the old DVD set. But I think NOES/NOES 3/WCNN makes a nice little make-shift horror franchise, especially if you're a fan of the Nancy character like I am.

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!

The funny this is that I went looking for it and found a wiki article for a film entitled "La Vie est Belle", a film out of Congo released in 1987. Seemed fitting considering the "obscure" nature of this thread. Glad you corrected it.

For those who don't realize it "La vita è bella" is a very popular film released in the late 90s and known in the States as "Life is Beautiful"; it was a mega huge box office hit and the highest grossing italian film of all time. And, of course, it's also known for Roberto Benigni's famously wild reaction at the Oscars upon winning for the film.

You want an obscure movie? I seriously want you all to watch this:

http://youtu.be/CzxqGq7-rJY

When you're done you'll understand me better.

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.