For what little known movies do you try to spread the word most?

[RyoHazuki]

What movies do you try to tell everyone they should see that they wouldnt otherwise see. Mine are
Killer-I say this movie everytime some joker praises the shootout in heat.
Leon
Equilibrium (I actually dragged several people to a theatre to see this)

[sherm42]

Donnie Darko

[LBPound]

The Straight Story
Houseguest

[Alex15]

Rain
Ghost World (Many people around here know about it, but no one I talk to does)
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Bowling For Columbine

[littlefuzzy]

Spirited Away

EDIT: Ice Pirates, also

[Kermit!]

I loaned the Boondock Saints on everybody I know at work.

[joefrog91]

When I worked at a video store back in the late 80's early 90's, I used to always tell people to rent the following movies.

Bagdad Cafe
Slamdance
Dead of Winter
Positive ID
Blood Simple
Better Off Dead
Near Dark

[Tscott]

Lovely and Amazing (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0258273)
Mindwalk (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0100151)
Watch It (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0108521)
Blood Simple (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0086979)
Safe (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0114323)
Election (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0126886)
Zero Effect (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120906)
Passion of Joan of Arc (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0019254)

All of these are films I try to introduce to my friends/family. Although I do get some resistance now after sitting with my familly through Donnie Darko and having all of them hate it (I personally loved it).

[MrPeanut]

i don't really try, but I've shown Shaolin Soccer to nearly everyone I know.

[funkymonk]

Being John Malkovich
Donnie Darko
Amelie
Bowling For Columbine
Requiem For A Dream
Mulholland Drive

[Mondo Kane]

Fistful of Dynamite
Crooklyn
The Indian Runner
Subway Stories
Martin
One False Move
Runaway Train

[Ginwen]

I pretty much don't, unless it's someone I know is into offbeat movies.

I've introduced a few friends to Blue Velvet, After Hours (video, of course), and Reservoir Dogs (which they mostly weren't as partial to), but they don't live around me anymore, so it's a bit more challenging.

[GoldenJCJ]

Go rent Wonder Boys...
Go rent Wonder Boys...
Go rent Wonder Boys...

[DonnachaOne]

Human Traffic

The english TV shows Spaced and The Office

Bend It Like Beckham

... and I'm in America, which accounts for their obscurity here. BILB's getting a US release, so yay! to that. HT is out here, but the DVD's cut by fifteen minutes (thanks Mirimax). The English shows are getting their due one by one on BBC America and Bravo, so let's hope for Father Ted-Coupling-level success.

Also:

The Commitments
Kevin Smith films

[UAIOE]

Leon
&
Drop Dead Gorgeous (why few people have seen this boggles my mind, i guess people don't like satire)

[davidlynchfan]

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[zero]

Another vote for Equilibrium here, after I saw it I told just about everyone I rang up at work.

[Aurora]

I Madman

Cinema Paradiso

[joelgee]

One movie I like to spread the word about is Insignificance. I believe it comes out on DVD today. It concerns a night when Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe McCarthy, and Joe DiMaggio all rendezvous in a hotel room in the 1950s.
Is it great? No. But, it is quirky enough, with an intelligent script. Plus, watching MM explaining relativity to Einstein is pretty much worth the price of admission.

[LBPound]

Thought of another:

One Magic Christmas

[Grimfarrow]

Some films that I have championed:

Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Gone to the East?
Eureka
Come and See
Werckmeister Harmonies
Songs from the Second Floor

[Indy Jones Fan]

Donnie Darko
Matilda
A Little Princess (1995)
Brotherhood of the Wolf

[RevLiver]

Cube
Donnie Darko
Requiem for a Dream

Lately, Bowling for Columbine

My favorite director is David Lynch, but I only recommend his films to people who I know would appreciate his weirdness.

[Geofferson]

A Bronx Tale
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3
Manhunter
Ghost World
Bound
Orgazmo
Box of Moonlight
Living in Oblivion

[marty888]

<b>SECONDS</b> - a film by John Frankenheimer that ranks with his best, and stars Rock Hudson in his best role. This is a bone-chilling movie that is one of my "top 10 of all time", and is available on DVD with commentary.

[Nefarious]

Amelie
Run Lola Run
Das Boot
Pi
Gallipoli
Bottlerocket
City of Lost Children
El Mariachi
The Game
High & Low
Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels

[tofu]

Donnie Darko
Kikujiro

[davidlynchfan]

Originally posted by marty888
<b>SECONDS</b> - a film by John Frankenheimer that ranks with his best, and stars Rock Hudson in his best role. This is a bone-chilling movie that is one of my "top 10 of all time", and is available on DVD with commentary.

:thumbsup: -totally,very underrated!! & I own it too. :cool:

[wendersfan]

I'm at my most "evangelical" about films made by Abbas Kiarostami and Bela Tarr.

[joeydaninja]

Quark Henares' Gamitan

[ToddSm66]

Six Days in Roswell

[Chipmaker]

Electric Dreams
The Wizard Of Speed And Time

...if only either were available on DVD....

[redcon1]

The Stunt Man
Phantom of the Paradise
Queen of Hearts
House of Games
Hear My Song

Redcon1

[The Nature Boy]

The first one I harped, back in 94/95 was Dazed and Confused when I was in high school and got my entire circle of friends hooked in and it was a classic, though that's fairly known in the circles I travel in now. But now I push:

James Burke's Connections(BBC documentary that's brillant, explaining how past inventions have tied into our modern world

Talk to Her(see this movie, better than Y Tu Mama)

CKY vids
Super Fuzz(and a lot of the old HBO 80's flicks, Odd Jobs, Armed and Dangerous, Gleaming the Cube, Fletch 2)
Whatever
The Apostle
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas(underseen)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind(way underseen too)
Made
Frailty

[pjflyer]

Originally posted by Tscott
Lovely and Amazing (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0258273)
Mindwalk (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0100151)
Watch It (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0108521)
Blood Simple (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0086979)
Safe (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0114323)
Election (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0126886)
Zero Effect (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120906)
Passion of Joan of Arc (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0019254)

All of these are films I try to introduce to my friends/family. Although I do get some resistance now after sitting with my familly through Donnie Darko and having all of them hate it (I personally loved it).

I love all of your movies a great deal except for Watch It which I found okay when I saw it years ago.

I would add:
Kicking and Screaming - sadly not on dvd
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Joe the King
Panic
American Movie
Chuck and Buck

[Chad]

Most have been previously mentioned:

Being John Malkovich
Donnie Darko
Amélie
Requiem For A Dream
Run Lola Run
The Boondock Saints
Brazil
Repo Man

As well as certain Italian horror movies, especially by such directors as Argento, Fulci, Bava, etc.

[caligulathegod]

Titanic. -ptth-

Spider Baby (1964/68) by Jack Hill with Lon Chaney Jr

[REL77]

1. Boondock Saints
2. The Killer
3. UHF
4. Memento
5. Rushmore

[Amadeus]

Almost Famous
The Last Emperor
Rushmore
Donnie Darko
Eyes Wide Shut
Magnolia

[B.A.]

The Quiet Man (a lot of younger people I know have no clue in regards to this movie and I have turned a few onto it)

a few others:

My Blue Heaven
The Big Lebowski
Three Kings
Empire of the Sun
Beautiful Girls

To those of you who always recommend Boondock Saints, I finally saw it last weekend - and I liked it a lot, even if their accents went in and out as the movie progressed.
Sliding Doors

[RyoHazuki]

I cant believe people actually recommend Boondock Saints. I try to stop people from seeing that every chance I get. The biggest disappointment last year for me was that movie. It had a great plot but terrible execution. If you hated the over-the-top Dafoe of Spider Man this will make you vomit.

[Shilex]

Originally posted by Chipmaker
Electric Dreams
The Wizard Of Speed And Time

...if only either were available on DVD....

What was the Wizard of Speed and Time about again? I'm pretty sure I used to watch that movie all the time when I was really young, but it was weird. Only thing I can remember about it now is some guy in a green outfit running really fast with some girl in his arms.

[The Nature Boy]

Originally posted by RyoHazuki7
I cant believe people actually recommend Boondock Saints. I try to stop people from seeing that every chance I get. The biggest disappointment last year for me was that movie. It had a great plot but terrible execution. If you hated the over-the-top Dafoe of Spider Man this will make you vomit.

I thought it had some moments, but your post had me cracking up, because it's mostly on point. However, I do feel like the Il Duce Character is picked up, it really gains steam and leaves viewers on a high, and people recommend off the last third, forgetting the drag in act 1 +2. And the guy that plays Rocco is laughable, this movie could have been saved had they casted a guy who looked like a mobster and a Mick Foley lookalike who dresses like Silent Bob and is hammier than the lovechild of Soupy Sales and Bobby Slayton.

[kenny79]

Most people I know either already know about the indies/unknowns I really like or are fairly oblivious to anything that doesn't have promos running on TV (i.e., not mainstream). I subjected my dad (who's got good taste in terms of the classics) to FOTR, Memento, and Fight Club ... he was not a fan of these. After seeing FOTR, he called me up and said the ending was cut off because they didn't throw the ring into the mountain. Seriously.

[costanza187]

Whoever said Election...I gotta agree!

[tdirgins]

Donnie Darko
Repo Man
Zentropa
Paperhouse
Apartment Zero

Props to the poster who mentioned Watch It

[sundog]

Three Businessmen

This 1999 Alex Cox film is one movie that I think can appeal to any of my friends and acquaintances, no matter their respective filmgoing proclivities.

[Giles]

Spring Forward - great performances from Liev Schreiber and Ned Beatty in which the film's simple storyline is driven by the interplay and many dialogues the two men have.

[matome]

The Virgin Suicides

[ckolchak]

Originally posted by Shilex
What was the Wizard of Speed and Time about again? I'm pretty sure I used to watch that movie all the time when I was really young, but it was weird. Only thing I can remember about it now is some guy in a green outfit running really fast with some girl in his arms.

WOSAT is the kind of labour of love that has me grinning from ear to ear everytime i watch it.
i've heard Jittlov (sp?) is burning dvd-r's of this for anyone that wants to buy it on dvd.
Criterion or anchor bay should talk to him.
this movie is sweet beyond words.

after i raved about and screened American Movie for my friend, he actually went out and bought the dvd.
suprised the hell out of me since he is very tight with his money and doesn't own a lot of discs besides a few anime. we try to turn everybody else we work with on to this when we get a chance.

Phantom of the Paradise is another one i try to get people to watch, but haven't had much sucsess with.
still think its a hell of a fun movie.

i really wish Fox would put out Dirty Mary/ Crazy Larry on a good dvd. the only thing holding this back from having a much larger rabid cult has been its inacsessability on video. there is probably a huge audience out there for it, but they don't even know about it.
there was a vhs tape out about 20 years ago, but nothing since then. major studio oversight here.

[subbacultcha]

The Rachel Papers
ha ha...I love the Ice Pirates
Rififi
Slums Of Beverly Hills
Three Kings
Flirting with Disaster
But Mom I'm a Cheerleader
Virgin Suicides
Le Trou
Fishing with John

[subbacultcha]

It's also very sad how few younger cats know anything of....

Wait Until Dark.

[subbacultcha]

Wow totally forgot:

Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead.

[Giles]

wow three posts in a row, trying to run up your poster number in a hurry, aren't we?

[subbacultcha]

Nope....just at work and scatterbrained. It's a perpetual thing.

[Brak55]

I spend most of my time trying to convince people that movies were made before 1980 and that some of them are really good (even when they're in black and white). I also admit you need to be choosy, just like today's films...there are greats and there are real dogs.

Just saw Red Beard the other night for the first time. Guess I need to add a new category to my sermons...made before 1980, in black and white and subtitled. Now THAT's going to be a hard sell (but a great movie).

[rkndkn]

Theatrical films I really rallied for recently were "Late Marriage", "The Man From Elysian Fields", "Igby Goes Down" and "13 Conversations About One Thing".

BTW, I'm pleased to see "Dirty Mary Crazy Larry" mentioned several times here. It's one of my favorites, but seems rarely talked about. Oddly enough, it also got mentioned enough times this week to be in the "On the Road" tourney on another site, so I don't know if you're the same people! ;)

[tali219]

The Butcher Boy
Waking the Dead
The Spanish Prisoner

[jfoobar]

Bad Manners

[tasha99]

Gormenghast
Dark City
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (only the sequel is on dvd, but the first one on VHS is better.)

And though it isn't that "little known" I recommend Black Adder all the time too, just cause I love it. :D