Good films that have gone under the radar

shadowcomplex

Can someone name some good movies that may have gone under the radar for alot of people

Tipsy McSwagger

Dark Blue

Brilliant crime film starring Kurt Russell playing a crooked cop and set during the LA riots.

tim_holsters

Shifty

Savage Grace

Hush

Spread

My summer of Love

The Visitor

Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead

Shotgun Stories

In Search Of A Midnight Kiss

Half Nelson

Maybe some of these OP I dunno, all quality imo.

Hart

shadowcomplex wrote: »

Can someone name some good movies that may have gone under the radar for alot of people

Black Dynamite; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190536/

Saw it in the Screen in Dublin about 18 months ago and reccently picked it up in HMV for €3.99.

If you know Blacksplotation it's hiliarious, if you don't it's still a damm fine comedy. Highly recommended.

OldeCinemaSoz

Pontypool.

dark crystal

Oliver Stone's U-Turn (his most enjoyable film, imo)

Giruilla

Departures (Okuribito), won the best foreign film oscar a few years ago, but I still don't think many people saw it.

Skinfull

OldeCinemaSoz wrote: »

Pontypool.

Ugh I thought this was awful! I had to force myself to sit through to the end.

MJ23

Heathers, Napoleon Dynamite, Dead Mans Shoes, This is England, untamed heart, dead meat.

Apolloyon

Triangle starring Melissa George. I don't think it did particularly well at the box office. But I've found it to be very good. A fresh take on the whole time loop concept in my opinion.

AnonoBoy

RopeDrink wrote: »

As for my own suggestion I'd say Narc - Filmed in something like a week, low budget for the actors in question and yet one extremely well acted and gritty crime thriller.

Great film. Filmed in four weeks though, not one.

MJ23 wrote: »

Heathers, Napoleon Dynamite, Dead Mans Shoes, This is England, untamed heart, dead meat.

I don't think you could say that most of those films have gone under the radar with the exception of Dead Meat. Heathers is a cult classic at this stage and judging by the amount of Vote for Pedro t-shirts you used to see about I think Napoleon Dynamite did pretty well.

M cebee

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Dark Blue

Brilliant crime film starring Kurt Russell playing a crooked cop and set during the LA riots.

and ving rhames ouch!

Sir Gallagher

Thomas McCarthy's 3 films are excellent:

The Station Agent
The Visitor
Win Win

Such enjoyable films with characters you can really believe in.

Giggernaut

"The Midnight Meat Train"

In a word AWESOME!

OldeCinemaSoz

A SMALL TOWN IN TEXAS

God, i used to love that George back in her day...

OldeCinemaSoz

KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS...

The Shat played nice a LEFT OF in that...although the STOMPINGS
may may been a bit RIGHT of...

"ANIMAL CRUELTY".......

Ellian

Some of these you may have seen.

Fandango - early Kevin Costner movie - shot with real verve by a young Kevin Reynolds.

The Band's Visit. Great little movie about an Egyptian police band getting lost in Israel. Two wonderful central performances.

Nine Queens and The Secret In Their Eyes. Two Argentinian movies. Both great.

Intacto. Spanish film about people who "steal" the good luck from those around then.

Speaking of which - The Cooler. Film about a guy who is such a loser that his mere presence can kill winning streaks. Good central performances and a wonderful supporting turn from Alec Baldwin.

Big Night - a film about two brothers whose Italian restaurant in the US makes the best food, but is pearls before swine. (Absolutely love the last scene in this movie)

Swimming Pool - and I'm not including it just because of Ludivigne Sagnier.

In My father's Den - Matthew McFadyen in Oz.

Whale Rider - kids movie about Maori. Again great performances all round

I watched a film called "Perfect Sense" last night. I wasn't expecting much as I had never heard about it, but it was recommended to me. It was a really lovely film, quite well acted and I liked the direction in it. It was a very nice take on an apocalypse and I really empathised with the characters by the end of it.

Mike Litoris

Observe and Report.

Cork boy 55

Stealth bomber "nighthawk"

Bobby Baccala

This boys life.

Sad Professor

Deleted User wrote: »

I watched a film called "Perfect Sense" last night. I wasn't expecting much as I had never heard about it, but it was recommended to me. It was a really lovely film, quite well acted and I liked the direction in it. It was a very nice take on an apocalypse and I really empathised with the characters by the end of it.

Yeah, I saw it in the IFI last year. I wasn't expecting much, but it's actually very good. The romantic storyline will turn many people off, but it's a far superior and more original take on the epidemic genre than Contagion.

pixelburp

+1 for Pontypool; I caught it the other week & it felt like an old-school thriller / horror movie from the 70s. Small cast, minimal effects and the limited budget means there's a strong use of the surroundings, environment & audio to create a tangible atmosphere of dread & confusion.

Essentially it's a classic base-under-siege film, where the skeleton staff at a local radio station find themselves coping with a mysterious infection plaguing the town. The first half of the movie is essentially the DJ dealing with with scattered news reports & witness phone-ins.

The film loses its way a little, particularly after clues of the infection's source come to light - although bonus points for an inventive take on the idea of an infectious disease. I'll never hear a stammer the same way again

kearneybobs

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Dark Blue

Brilliant crime film starring Kurt Russell playing a crooked cop and set during the LA riots.

I completely forgot that film existed. Must track down a copy. Loved back then...... I think.

Reg'stoy

The Ninth Gate with Johnny Depp and to show my age To Live and Die in LA and Manhunter both starring William Petersen and from the mid 80's.

OldeCinemaSoz

9 DEAD

A really little interesting film which has 9 people chained
up in a room with a killer who comes in at intervals to ask
why are they here and top one of them if they don't give
the right answer...

the ending seems to be one of those love 'em or hate 'em
things but i loved the ambiguity of it...

7/10

LOGAN'S RUN

This one hasn't dated very well at all...you can see the wires
in the carousel scene...but it's all very entertaining and considering
it was an A (a PG now) it's only a stones throw away from ROLLERBALL,
one of the best science fiction films of the '70s in terms of
content, yet was 18s rated back in the day... :rolleyes:

The mind can only boggle!

Anyways... 6/10

shrewdness

Felon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr0zDhqfOVo

kwestfan08

If you're looking more recent OP, I thought Warrior with Tom Hardy was excellent. Nick Nolte got nominated for an Oscar today actually for his role in it. Brilliant film but feck all seem to have seen it.

simit

Strangedays with Ralph Fiennes!

teddansonswig

i thought limitless was great and well under the radar


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219289/

Tusky

tim_holsters wrote: »

Shifty

The Visitor

Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead

Great shouts. Both very underrated films.

MJ23 wrote: »

Heathers, Napoleon Dynamite, Dead Mans Shoes, This is England, untamed heart, dead meat.

Napoleon Dynamite, Dead Mans Shoes and This is England certainly did not go under the radar.

bobbytables

Dead Man's Shoes is a great film, very harrowing though.

The Maiden Heist (Christopher Walken, Morgan Freeman, William H. Macy) is a much lighter/comedy.

anthony4335

When Trumpets Fade, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0135706/ ,great movie and worth a punt.

Deco99

teddansonswig wrote: »

i thought limitless was great and well under the radar


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219289/

I NEVER leave to go to bathroom during a film not even during The Tourist, i did during Limitless, so many plotholes so quickly resolved at the end. Just poor. Wouldnt say it went under the radar though cause sky box office pushing it pretty hard and heard a lot of people who went to see and thought it was good, the fools mwah mwah mwah.

Are any of the following considered under the radar(all of which i recommend either way):

Serenity, Frequency, Moon, Equilibrium, Brick, The Lookout, The Proposition

M cebee

OldeCinemaSoz wrote: »

9 DEAD

A really little interesting film which has 9 people chained
up in a room with a killer who comes in at intervals to ask
why are they here and top one of them if they don't give
the right answer...

the ending seems to be one of those love 'em or hate 'em
things but i loved the ambiguity of it...

7/10

LOGAN'S RUN

This one hasn't dated very well at all...you can see the wires
in the carousel scene...but it's all very entertaining and considering
it was an A (a PG now) it's only a stones throw away from ROLLERBALL,
one of the best science fiction films of the '70s in terms of
content, yet was 18s rated back in the day... :rolleyes:

The mind can only boggle!

Anyways... 6/10

logans run's was great with the flashing badges and hottie jenny agutter

there seems to be a remake planned-it's a good candidate for it

AnonoBoy

I think some people have their radars at radically different settings to others.

bullvine

Cash back is an excellent movie. Also, Young People F**king well worth a look.

OldeCinemaSoz

ALTERED

holy mother of moses...this beauty
was astounding.

it starts like a terrible alien monsters
in the woods thing yet ends up with...

i won't spoil it...

very intense, very intelligent, very VERY gory...

9/10

Hank_Jones

Submarine.

Directed by Moss from the IT Crowd.

Nervous Wreck

Hot Rod.

Geekness1234

"Mean Creak" is the only decent movie that didn't get a lot of attention as far as I know.Could be wrong though.

krudler

Geekness1234 wrote: »

"Mean Creak" is the only decent movie that didn't get a lot of attention as far as I know.Could be wrong though.

Great little movie, well worth checking out.

Doodoo

Seven Pounds - with Will Smith

and

Identity - with John Cusack

hidinginthebush

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Submarine.

Directed by Moss from the IT Crowd.

Definitely! Such a charming little film

FiveSpice

Derailed with Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen is brilliant

Skinfull

FiveSpice wrote: »

Derailed with Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen is brilliant

There are so many things wrong with that sentence that I dont even know where to begin... I think the main thing is "Jennifer Aniston" and the word "brilliant" in the same sentence!

How about the movie Wit with Emma Thompson and directed by Mike Nichols. Origionally a play but now a made for TV movie (dont let that put you off) story about an english professor who has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Some amazing scenes, and Thompson plays it perfectly. One scene in particular

where her old teacher comes in and reads her a story

is heart breaking.

Not many people have seen it, but then its quite a tough watch.

Wcool

Nothing Personal (2009)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1320352/

Never understood why this was not a success in Ireland, maybe the lack of arthouse movie theaters. Irish/Dutch movie about a girl with a troubled past trying to find some calm in Ireland. Quite successful in the Netherlands, totally ignored here.

krudler

no love for Primer? its gotten a cult following on dvd in the years since its release but its fantastic, something you have to be in the mood for as its very tech talky but the concept and how it plays out will melt your brain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CC60HJvZRE

Narc, one of the best cop movies ever, Joe Carnahans first movie, suffers from Training Day comparisons as its about corrupt cops but its much better than that, it also has one of the most intense opening sequences you'll ever see

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWIH-_GmHzo

SarahBM

Galaxy Quest was on TG4 last night. havent seen it in a while but my Mam and I were in stitches. Its a brilliantly loving parody of Star Trek the Original Series. Its hilarious and I would highly recommend you get it on DVD if you havent seen it before!

MickShamrock

Nervous Wreck wrote: »

Hot Rod.

The thread title is "Good films that have gone under the radar".

I think someone already said it, but I would second "Observe and Report".

pixelburp

I think it's fair to say that by now, the OP has pretty much every genre covered for his / her delectation!