Some of My Favorite Movies Of All Time.....
 

Lesser Known Titles Today but not so Artsy or Obscure That General Audiences Can't Appreciate Them. Love. Love these movies.


A Foreign Affair (Capra)

Night of the Hunter (Laughton)

Black Narcissus (Powell/Pressburger)

Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau)

Nights of Cabiria (Fellini)

Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)

Henry and June (Philip Kaufman)

Camille Claudel (Bruno Nuytten)

Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring (Claude Berri)

Tampopo (Juzo Itami)

Pelle The Conqueror (Bille August)

Hope and Glory (John Boorman)

Eat Drink Man Woman (Ang Lee)

Devil In a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin)

Enchanted April (Mike Newell)

In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar Wai)

Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar)

A friend of mine is a huge fan of this movie. Needs a region 1 release.

Hmmm...all of these are pretty "known" titles to me. Here are some recommendations of otherwise "unknown" films":

DEALER (Benedek Flieghauf)
TONY TAKITANI (Ichikawa Jun)
TWO GREAT SHEEP (Liu Hao)
THIS CHARMING GIRL (Lee Yoon-Ki)
LOS MUERTOS (Lisandro Alonso)
THE SOUP, ONE MORNING (Takahashi Izumi) - this one isn't even listed on IMDB!

Finally some movies I don't know!

They all happen to be in the Top Ten of my 2004 list as well/

Yeah - Royal t-Baums was a piece of shit. Your point? Oh, what - I like some movies that you think are stupid or haven't seen and I dislike your favorite movie so I'm some sort of idiot? Go to AICN message boards if you wanna dump on someone's taste in films.

Anyone seen "Dance With the Devil" aka "Perdita Durango"? Its a really mental road movie staring Javier Bardem, James Gandolfini and Rosie Perez. Its written by Barry Gifford who co-wrote Wild At Heart with David Lynch. Isabella Rosellini's character in Wild At Heart is also named Perdita Durango, so I suppose its a parallel sequel of sorts. You can get this movie dirt cheap on deepdiscountdvd.

Kikujiro or anything else by Takeshi Kitano

I had you posting in this thread at #20 in the pool... you cost me 5 bucks. :mad:

;)

That said, these are all slow/dull drawn-out dramas aren't they? Not exactly what the OP was asking for, but a couple of these look interesting to me. One of em was on my list to check out. Do you frequent indie film festivals or something?

Yes, they are all "slow/dull drawn-out dramas", except for TWO GREAT SHEEP, which is actually quite comic.

Not only do I frequent indie film festivals, but I also happen to work for a few of 'em. That's how I get to view films in SUNDANCE '05 competitions first (eg. TONY TAKITANI).

Does anyone actually read what the guy who started this thread wrote? B/c most are naming movies that are nowhere near what he is looking for.

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http://images.amazon.com/images/P/15...1.LZZZZZZZ.gif - This definitely fits your "b-rated" request. Trust me, this movie kicks all types of ass. Nobody has heard of this movie & it is SOOOO underrated. Such a great fun, hidden gem.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0...1.LZZZZZZZ.jpg - Film geeks have heard of it but anyone else probably hasn't. If you haven't seen it already it's a safet bet you will love it.

I know of three great flicks from the 80's.
Midnight Madness

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The Wildlife:
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And lets not forget Zapped:

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Don't know if they've been mentioned:

Roger Dodger
Living In Oblivion
Bodies,Rest, and Motion

the view askew movies (got a big "who" from classmates at school)
audition (someone was watching hte bravo top 100 scariest movies and was shocked about the stuff that was in that movie.

How about Dog Soldiers. It's been a while since I saw it last, but maybe Split Second with Rutger Hauer.

battle royale

devil's backbone
gosford park
count of monte cristo (w/ that jesus guy)

Once Were Warriors
Clockers
Diamond Men
Bus 174
Capturing the Friedmans

csim.. if you're still reading, perhaps it would be helpful if you reminded everyone that you were hoping for some action/sci-fi B movie type recommendations along the lines of Equalibrium and Returner or mention which suggestions that are useful to you.

The Twins Effect.

Oh, and Sessa17, nobody knows of Mean Guns for a good reason! That's one of the worst pieces of dreck I've either had the misfortune of watching.

Funny, that's my feelings on The Twins Effect.


Mean Guns rules. It's ultra low budget & fun, plus the concept is cool, dozens of criminals being trapped in a warehouse, a bunch of weapons are dumped on the floor & they are forced to kill each other.

Maybe he wasn't. Maybe he was just looking for movies in general the people haven't heard about and those were the two he had thought of. If he comes back to this thread and says that's what he was looking for, then you all can keep helping him out by saying what he "really" wanted.

In July & Run Lola Run, both starring Moritz Bleibtreu. Run Lola Run is in interesting movie about fate/destiny and In July is pretty straight forward love story.

Human Traffic It's about a group of ravers in London. Don't be turned away by the topic because it's a really fun movie and the characters are really "characters."

Love Actually I love ensemble English casts where the multiple stories all ties together at the end.

Bubba Ho-Tep Definitely B-movie material about elderly Elvis and a black JFK fighting a mummy. Academy Award winning actor Bruce Campbell stars.

There's a mix of fairly unknown (by the avg. joe) flicks for you to check out.

The Commitments

Besides lots of the movies already been mentioned:

Narc

The Convent - Kinda cheesy and campy, but in a good way.

Made

And I do think that more people should watch The Iron Giant.