I have a few movies in my collection that I love that most people are like "never heard of it" Usually this means they wont give it the time of day. Thats unfortuante cause there are many great unknown films out there. What movies do you love that most peole may have never seen or heard of?
Just a few for you guys that fall into this category:
Return to Paradise (I absolutely LOVE this movie) http://imdb.com/title/tt0124595/
Dirty Pretty Things http://imdb.com/title/tt0301199/
Mean Creek http://imdb.com/title/tt0377091/
Brick http://imdb.com/title/tt0393109/
2007-02-24 03:17:35 · 34 answers · asked by jhaaksma314 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Little Otik .........strange movie
2007-02-24 03:29:18 · answer #1 · answered by fordperfect5 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turtles Can Fly
Something the Lord Made
Things Behind the Sun
Fire
My Neighbor Totoro
Grave of the Fireflies
House of Fools
Water
The Island
The Straight Story
Lagaan
Asoka
Salaam Bombay
The King of Masks
The Inheritors
My Life as a Dog
A Passage to India
Cental Station
The Magdaline Sisters
Children of Heaven
City of God
Elling
Pieces of April
Fresh
Beijing Bicycle
El Bola
L.I.E.
Run Lola Run
I'm Not Scared
House of Flying Daggers
Himalaya
Wolf's Rain Series
His Secret Life
Not Without My Daughter
Bonjour Monsieur Schlomi
Howl's Moving Castle
Princess Mononoke
Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets
The 400 Blows
Spun
A Man Escaped
Danny Deckchair
Avatar: The Last Airbender series
Haibane-Renmei series
Shower
The Fast Runner
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring
2007-02-24 14:55:05 · answer #2 · answered by Pantera 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Great Question! I will be checking out the films on the list! :D
I just love "Henry Fool".
It is labeled as a "Faustian black comedy". Some of the scenes are so impossible, yet believable, that you don't know whether to laugh or cry. It is a scream! It is filled with such spicy interaction that those I recommend it to usually don't like me anymore! ;)
Although I have seen each of them before, the main players are not easily recognized - Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak & Parker Posey. I believe Hal Hartley wrote, directed and produced the film. It was a winner of Best Screenplay at the Cannes film festival. It is VERY SERIOUS COMEDY!
Another odd film I really favor is "Videodrome".
It is a pretty old film now. It stars the ever-intense James Woods
and has a very sexy opening cameo scene with Deborah Harry (of Blondie). The special effects in this film were the best of the age. Throughout the film, main character falls deeper and deeper into a psychotic/psychedelic reality that is all too real. Scenes where he becomes one with his weapon and joins his video screen are engulfing. James Woods turns in a performance from hell! It is not a horror film, but it is scary.
2007-02-24 04:20:30 · answer #3 · answered by Yowdy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a very big fan of the films made by The Archers, an English production team headed by Michael Powell and William Pressburger, that produced some masterpiece movies in the '40's. Way ahead of their time in photography, plot, acting, and subject-matter, they've only in the past decade or so been given the recognition they deserve.
Find and watch any of the following:
"The 49th Parallel"
"I Know Where I'm Going"
"A Canterbury Tale"
"The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp"
A Matter of Life and Death"
"The Red Shoes"
..and see what movies are all about, and what they can achieve when people with intelligence, wit and imagination are making them!
2007-02-24 09:03:19 · answer #4 · answered by Palmerpath 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hercules Returns (an Aussie comedy with no class but plenty of giggles).
Earth Star Voyager (a dodgy 1980s sci-fi with an innocent kind of charm).
Transylvania 6500 (another 1980s flick, but comedy).
I'll add The Village to this list as well. It's pretty new and people have heard of it, but not many have seen it. That's a shame, because the story, acting and cinematography were all great - things which are largely missing from film these days.
2007-02-24 03:27:18 · answer #5 · answered by The Mad Shillelagh 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Snow Princess
Cresent Moon Island
2007-02-24 13:37:27 · answer #6 · answered by Samantha C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Into the Night - comedy from the early 80s starring Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Pfeiffer. Goldblum is an aerospace engineer with a pretty boring life; his marriage is falling apart and he is suffering from insomnia. He encounters Pfeiffer, who plays a grafting jewel smuggler on the run from the Persian mob. The movie is like a 'who's who of famous film directors' with cameos by Jonathan Demme, Roger Vadim, David Cronenberg, John Landis (who also directed this), Amy Heckerling, Paul Mazursky and Lawrence Kasdan. Also stars Irene Pappas as the calculating Persian mob boss, Dan Aykroyd as Goldblum's best friend, Clu Gallagher as an FBI agent, David Bowie as a smooth assassin, Bruce McGill as Pfeiffer's Elvis-impersonating brother, Carl Perkins as a shiek's bodyguard and Jim Henson as a bi-stander.
2007-02-24 03:33:42 · answer #7 · answered by lesroys 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Crazies, starring John Saxon. It's about an experimental germ that gets loose in a Pennsylvania town. It turns the locals insane. The govt moves in and John Saxon & cohorts are trying to escape both the loonies and the nazi-like govt thugs. Brings up some interesting points.
2007-02-24 03:47:57 · answer #8 · answered by jhartmann21 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
War of the Buttons
Butcher Boy
What Dreams May Come
K-Pax
Life of David Gale
Stir of Echoes
Intermission
Being John Malkovich
2007-02-24 06:51:16 · answer #9 · answered by Sorcha 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Changeling
George C. Scott in a very thrilling movie. Not blood and guts but very, very creepy.
Brotherhood of the Wolf
This movie has something for everyone to enjoy!
The Beguiled
Clint Eastwood as a wounded soldier taken in by a girls school to recover from wounds.
2007-02-24 03:29:12 · answer #10 · answered by herogoggles 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The movie Hero with Dustin Hoffman and Gena Davis. Its about a lowlife(Hoffman) saves over 70 passengers from a crashed airplane and sees another man get the credit for the rescue.
Its a great funny movie.
2007-02-24 03:22:37 · answer #11 · answered by gregmayo22 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋