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Old 12-27-04 | 09:54 PM
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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.
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Old 12-27-04 | 10:57 PM
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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!
Old 12-27-04 | 11:00 PM
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Old 12-27-04 | 11:30 PM
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Old 12-28-04 | 12:19 AM
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Simon Birch
Indian in the Cupboard
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Rounders
Old 12-28-04 | 12:22 AM
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Old 12-28-04 | 12:45 AM
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Read beyond the topic title.

csim is looking for movies like Equilibrium or The Returner.

Think sci-fi, action or thriller, maybe anime.
Old 12-28-04 | 01:14 AM
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Old 12-28-04 | 01:43 AM
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Max Dugan Returns

seems to be fairly unkown but you'll have to rent *cough* the VHS tape, no DVD yet
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Well, Ebert called City of God "The best movie you have never seen" or something like that.

Anyways, try "So Close"
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Nochnoj Dozor - aka Night Watch
Natural City
Volcano High
Arahan
Wasabi
Juvenile
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six degrees of separation

gay and homeless Will Smith is classic
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Old 12-28-04 | 08:35 AM
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Most recently, Sideways. Nearly everyone I have told about it has not heard of it.
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Time of the Wolf (Temp du Loup) - an unconventional post-apocalypse film from the director of Funny Games.

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Old 12-28-04 | 08:51 AM
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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

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Old 12-28-04 | 09:43 AM
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avalon
Nochnoj Dozor - aka Night Watch
Natural City
Volcano High
Arahan
Wasabi
Juvenile
Yet you give "Royal T-baums" a D-?

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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
Old 12-28-04 | 10:57 AM
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Given some of the responses in this thread we might as well list Star Wars and Casablanca.

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

The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
Chess Fever

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

À la folie

which stars both Anne Parillaud and Béatrice Dalle.

Old 12-28-04 | 11:02 AM
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The Barbarian Invasions (subtitles)

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
Old 12-28-04 | 11:24 AM
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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
Old 12-28-04 | 11:34 AM
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I'd also like to add:

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


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