Obscure Film Favorites

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

Not obscure, but I can watch Shawshank Redemption any time it's on tv, I've been where they filmed several times for tours.

Any Tim Burton movie, especially with Johnny Depp.

Cosmopolis, although it confuses me.

And since someone mentioned Jim Jarmusch, his latest movie Only Lovers Left Alive is my current favorite

As a fan of Stephen King's books, without a doubt, Shawshank Redemption is my absolute favorite book-to-movie adaptation.

Enlightenment Guaranteed - a German film. Subtitled.

I watch it at least once a year.

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.

Labrynth for the exact same reason!!

Neds
Filth

If you like a bit of Scotland.

Moon

The motorcycle diaries

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)

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)

Oh yeah, and A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)

^^ 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

and The Big Bounce (2004)

--The Last Starfighter

I that one! :bigsmile:

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)

i just love the odes!! have you seen "snake pit" or shock corridor" love them the crazier they are the better !!

Audition- Great Japanese movie
Pink Flamingos- Just because it's sooo disturbing, John Waters is effed in the head.