Mine:
The Pusher
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117407/
Adam's Apple
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418455/
The Pusher
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117407/
Adam's Apple
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418455/
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The best or a very good movie you saw that practically no one has heard of
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Here's one for you, Stranger Than Paradise:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088184/
(I think the best part of the movie was the recurrent use of the song "I Put A Spell On You" by Screamin' Jay Hawkins.)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088184/
(I think the best part of the movie was the recurrent use of the song "I Put A Spell On You" by Screamin' Jay Hawkins.)
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Till Human Voices Wake Us
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240980/
I love this movie so much. It doesn't seem to be for everyone, but it breaks my heart in the loveliest of ways.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240980/
I love this movie so much. It doesn't seem to be for everyone, but it breaks my heart in the loveliest of ways.
Love the song and Jarmusch. Hate that thing you've put on your poor dog's head. Look at her/his eyes, sad and embarrassed.
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The Last Broadcast
Sound a little bit like The Blair Witch Project? Well, The Last Broadcast came out a year earlier. And they used something that made it a better movie. Something called a script.
Worth a rental. One of the first feature movies made entirely digital, with no shooting on film. Edited on a desktop. Budget of something like nine hundred dollars (not including unpaid man-hours).
Sound a little bit like The Blair Witch Project? Well, The Last Broadcast came out a year earlier. And they used something that made it a better movie. Something called a script.
Worth a rental. One of the first feature movies made entirely digital, with no shooting on film. Edited on a desktop. Budget of something like nine hundred dollars (not including unpaid man-hours).
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Don't worry, Graz. He wore the reindeer antlers for all of maybe five seconds, just long enough to snap the picture. (Chance the Dog definitely does not wear hats. But he looks so good in them.)
The Life Before Her Eyes. An early Evan Rachel Wood flick that imagines a Columbine scenario with a twist. Beautifully filmed, subtly written, and Wood was an incredible actress even at this age. I honestly think the title hampered this more than anything.
If you liked Donnie Darko, you'll like this.
If you liked Donnie Darko, you'll like this.
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Horror Hotel (aka The City of the Dead). 1960. Very young Christopher Lee in a surprisingly good "condemned witch gets revenge" movie.
Also, my favorite Hammer film evah--Five Million Years to Earth (aka Quatermass and the Pit). In the hands of the wring director, this would've only been MST3K fodder. But it's creepy and clever and has an excellent ending.
Also, my favorite Hammer film evah--Five Million Years to Earth (aka Quatermass and the Pit). In the hands of the wring director, this would've only been MST3K fodder. But it's creepy and clever and has an excellent ending.
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Great thread.
I loved one called Miracle Mile. It starts out as a romantic comedy, then Anthony Edwards picks up a ringing phone in a booth (remember those?). It's either a prank call or some kid in a missile silo is calling to warn his Dad about an impending nuclear attack.
I loved one called Miracle Mile. It starts out as a romantic comedy, then Anthony Edwards picks up a ringing phone in a booth (remember those?). It's either a prank call or some kid in a missile silo is calling to warn his Dad about an impending nuclear attack.
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Some of these are fairly well-known flicks. Since we've thus drifted from the thread premise into the area of "lesser-known movies", I'll throw out the Canadian movie Last Night. One of my favorite takes on the end of the world.
Alright then . . how about this New Zealand flick . .
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://...ds-cse&usg=AFQjCNFe6QlzvxkdVrJSYBtMnGZ48wnXTQ
Great movie . . extremely brutal . .
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One called "A Summer Story" from the Galsworthy story "The Apple Tree."
Heartbreaking and beautiful. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096189/)
Heartbreaking and beautiful. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096189/)
Frailty was, hands down, one of the most intense movies I'd ever seen. I highly recommend it!
For me, "The Saint of Fort Washington." Danny Glover and Matt Dillon.
And I recently saw Oldboy. Talk about a mind-F. I imagine more people have seen that, though.
The Rapture with David Duchovny and Mimi Rogers is worth a looksee at a literal translation of the Bible's end of days.
Near Dark is always a vampire movie I suggest for people who think it's all about Twilight. Katheryn Bigelow's directorial debut (she also directed The Hurt Locker).
Another one I just saw was "Once Were Warriors." I know, I've been in a 90's film phase lately.
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Though I don't know if it's really obscure, since it did win a number of prizes and its director is well-known, I'd name Millennium Mambo.
Also: The Oyster and the Wind. (A Ostra e o Vento.) Very hard to get on DVD, and I can hardly find anything on the director at all.
Also: The Oyster and the Wind. (A Ostra e o Vento.) Very hard to get on DVD, and I can hardly find anything on the director at all.
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Well, not obscure, since it won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 2009, but I bet most people haven't seen it.
The Secret in Their Eyes
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1305806
Very beautiful.
The Secret in Their Eyes
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1305806
Very beautiful.
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Bad Boy Bubby has a really good plot and interesting characters (although the summary on imdb doesn't do it justice)... if you can get past the icky, icky incest and so forth at the beginning.
The Blaxplotation era of movies is best known for the bad assery of Shaft, Superfly, Coffy and other examples of Black folks kickin' ass and takin' names. The majority of these films are cheap, badly made trash with no budget, low production values, lousy acting and hack direction and watching them now is like reliving a 30-year old acid trip.
But there were attempts to make movies that attempted to do more than glorify violence, sex, drugs, pimps, whores and huge Cadillacs.
The Spook Who Sat By the Door was a 1973 film based upon Sam Greenlee's novel of the same name and it certainly qualifies as a film that practically no one has heard of, fewer have seen and there isn't a snowball's chance in hell of any studio boss having the balls to greenlight such a film today.
[FONT="]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fg-Kqu7VzCE[/FONT]
Why? It's far too hot a topic and pushes far too many buttons in a time where CGI super hero spectacles, lovesick sparkly vampires and crotch kick comedies rule Hollywood.
Based on Sam Greenlee's controversial novel, THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR is a hard-hitting shocker that depicts a world in which the long-suppressed black man fights back with a vengeance. Director Ivan Dixon's uncompromising adaptation was relegated to bottom-rung status upon its release, and it subsequently slipped into oblivion for decades until the film was rediscovered and released on DVD in 2004. Lawrence Cook plays Dan Freeman, a head-nodding, smiling African-American who impresses his CIA cohorts with his winning demeanor. What they don't realize is that Freeman's friendly façade is nothing more than a mask for a deep seated hatred of white people. When he returns to his Chicago hometown, Freeman uses his newly acquired knowledge to organize an underground militant movement that revolts against the very army that trained him. Dixon's matter-of-fact approach to the material makes the film an even more powerful experience. It also manages to transcend the Blaxploitation genre by making a broader statement about the devastating effects of death and war. Featuring an impassioned performance from Cook (COLORS, POSSE), THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR is a frightening, but important, cautionary tale.
"THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR was lost for many decades before being rediscovered and released on DVD by Monarch Home Video. The film was mostly shot on location in Gary, Indiana, after Chicago authorities banned the controversial production from the city. But the crew managed to slip in and film some exterior scenes without permits. It is believed by many that the FBI was responsible for making the film disappear so quickly after its initial release."
Spook also spawned a documentary, Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of The Spook Who Sat By the Door. I'm trying to pitch a story about the film and the documentary to a few sites. I hope I'm successful because even though the movie is dated, the topic fascinates me.
It's a lot easier and certainly safer to pump out another Men In Black sequel or to dress up in drag than to do a film about a Black CIA agent who uses the skills he learned against those who instructed him. Rogue CIA agent flicks are a dime a dozen, but ones where the turncoat turns into a revolutionary are rare birds indeed.
I think this movie more than meets the OP criteria.
But there were attempts to make movies that attempted to do more than glorify violence, sex, drugs, pimps, whores and huge Cadillacs.
The Spook Who Sat By the Door was a 1973 film based upon Sam Greenlee's novel of the same name and it certainly qualifies as a film that practically no one has heard of, fewer have seen and there isn't a snowball's chance in hell of any studio boss having the balls to greenlight such a film today.
[FONT="]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fg-Kqu7VzCE[/FONT]
Why? It's far too hot a topic and pushes far too many buttons in a time where CGI super hero spectacles, lovesick sparkly vampires and crotch kick comedies rule Hollywood.
Based on Sam Greenlee's controversial novel, THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR is a hard-hitting shocker that depicts a world in which the long-suppressed black man fights back with a vengeance. Director Ivan Dixon's uncompromising adaptation was relegated to bottom-rung status upon its release, and it subsequently slipped into oblivion for decades until the film was rediscovered and released on DVD in 2004. Lawrence Cook plays Dan Freeman, a head-nodding, smiling African-American who impresses his CIA cohorts with his winning demeanor. What they don't realize is that Freeman's friendly façade is nothing more than a mask for a deep seated hatred of white people. When he returns to his Chicago hometown, Freeman uses his newly acquired knowledge to organize an underground militant movement that revolts against the very army that trained him. Dixon's matter-of-fact approach to the material makes the film an even more powerful experience. It also manages to transcend the Blaxploitation genre by making a broader statement about the devastating effects of death and war. Featuring an impassioned performance from Cook (COLORS, POSSE), THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR is a frightening, but important, cautionary tale.
"THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR was lost for many decades before being rediscovered and released on DVD by Monarch Home Video. The film was mostly shot on location in Gary, Indiana, after Chicago authorities banned the controversial production from the city. But the crew managed to slip in and film some exterior scenes without permits. It is believed by many that the FBI was responsible for making the film disappear so quickly after its initial release."
Spook also spawned a documentary, Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of The Spook Who Sat By the Door. I'm trying to pitch a story about the film and the documentary to a few sites. I hope I'm successful because even though the movie is dated, the topic fascinates me.
It's a lot easier and certainly safer to pump out another Men In Black sequel or to dress up in drag than to do a film about a Black CIA agent who uses the skills he learned against those who instructed him. Rogue CIA agent flicks are a dime a dozen, but ones where the turncoat turns into a revolutionary are rare birds indeed.
I think this movie more than meets the OP criteria.