What are good movies that people do not know about?
 

I want to know what are some good movies i can rent. Kind of like B rated movies, movies nobody know about kind of like Equalibrium or The Returner.

It'd be hard, if not downright impossible, to list an "unknown" film in this forum. However, some lesser known films I'd recommend:

Boondock Saints
Shaolin Soccer
Six String Samurai
Cannibal! The Musical
Attack the Gas Station!

Iron Giant

Gatacca

y tu mama tambien
city of god

Simon Birch
Indian in the Cupboard
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Rounders

:lol:

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Madagascar Skin, but it's hard to find.

Read beyond the topic title.

csim is looking for movies like Equilibrium or The Returner.

Think sci-fi, action or thriller, maybe anime.

Time and Tide

Max Dugan Returns
seems to be fairly unkown but you'll have to rent *cough* the VHS tape, no DVD yet :(

Well, Ebert called City of God "The best movie you have never seen" or something like that.

Anyways, try "So Close"

Retroactive

vidocq
avalon
Nochnoj Dozor - aka Night Watch
Natural City
Volcano High
Arahan
Wasabi
Juvenile

six degrees of separation

gay and homeless Will Smith is classic

Stage Beauty

Dead and Breakfast

Most recently, Sideways. Nearly everyone I have told about it has not heard of it.

Time of the Wolf (Temp du Loup) - an unconventional post-apocalypse film from the director of Funny Games.

Lesser known or overlooked films:

Angel Heart
Basic
The Boondock Saints
Cheats
Confidence
Dead Man
Kalifornia
Matchstick Men
The Mission
Reign of Fire
Screwed
She's the One
Slackers
Tears of the Sun

Yet you give "Royal T-baums" a D-?

:lol:

The Deep End
Lovely & Amazing
13 Conversations About 1 Thing
Sidewalks of New York
Human Nature
Tadpole
Tape
Femme Fatale
Waking the Dead
Wet Hot American Summer
The Cooler
Shade
Existenz
City of God

Foreign Films:
8 Women
Swimming Pool
Sitcom
With a Friend Like Harry...
Under the Sand
Talk to Her

Given some of the responses in this thread we might as well list <b>Star Wars</b> and <b>Casablanca</b>.

OK, here's a couple of old Russian silents that <i>few</i> people know about:

<a href = "http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0015167/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9aW5jcmVkaWJsZSBhZHZlbnR1cmVzIG9mIG1yIHdlc3Qg aW4gdGhlIGxhbmQgb2YgdGhlIGJvbHNoZXZpa3N8aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc=1;ft=1;fm=1"><b>The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks</b></a>
<a href = "http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0015673/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9Y2hlc3MgZmV2ZXJ8aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc=1;ft=3"> <b>Chess Fever</b></a>

and a not very well-known (AFAIK) French movie from a few years ago:

<b><a href = "http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0111856/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9YSBsYSBmb2xpZXxodG1sPTF8bm09b24_;fc=1;ft=21; fm=1">À la folie</a></b>

which stars both Anne Parillaud and Béatrice Dalle. :drool:

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The Barbarian Invasions (subtitles)

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

Going along with The Barbarian Invasions,

Déclin de l'empire américain, Le (The Decline of the American Empire)

Meet the Feebles
Roger Dodger
Run Lola Run

I'd also like to add:

Igby Goes Down
Box of Moonlight
The Daytrippers
Living in Oblivion
Citizen Ruth