Best film which no one has heard of?

ez shooter

Name your favourite film which hardly anyone has heard of!?

Hurricane Carter

A film from the '80's called 'Courage'.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087092/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_4

It maybe dated now, I haven't seen it in years. But loved it as a kid!

Joni23

Watching a very good film called primer here. Hadn't heard of it till today.

Funkfield

Joni23 wrote: »

Watching a very good film called primer here. Hadn't heard of it till today.

+1

I only came into this thread to post Primer. Amazing movie.

Gotham

El Topo

bullvine

Cashback

FortuneChip

I reckon Primer will be said so many times here it will made the Thread title null & void!!! Outside of Boards it rings true though, so yeah Primer for me.

Or maybe, an even more obscure movie
Mr. Nobody.
I think it was only given a proper release in Belgium (may be wrong here).
Major mind**** of a movie, and the extended version almost makes it a completely different movie to the original cut. Try watching both back-to-back!
I've only come across two people that have seen it, and that's because I told them to!

One of them still hasn't forgiven me!

old hippy

Wiseblood; 70s John Huston film starring Brad Douriff and Harry Dean Stanton

witchgirl26

Pump Up The Volume. No one I've ever mentioned it to has seen it.

Birneybau

"Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia" and "Night of the Hunter".

I imagine a few of the seasoned heads here will have heard of them but not many more.

Rented Mule

witchgirl26 wrote: »

Pump Up The Volume. No one I've ever mentioned it to has seen it.

I still have the soundtrack to that film (as well as this one).

Basquiat.

Ensemble cast:

Jeffrey Wright as Jean-Michel Basquiat
David Bowie as Andy Warhol
Benicio del Toro as Benny Dalmau
Gary Oldman as Albert Milo
Michael Wincott as René Ricard
Claire Forlani as Gina Cardinale
Dennis Hopper as Bruno Bischofberger
Tatum O'Neal as Cynthia Kruger
Courtney Love as Big Pink
Christopher Walken as The Interviewer
Willem Dafoe as the Electrician
Parker Posey as Mary Boone
Rene Rivera as Juan
Sam Rockwell as Thug
Rockets Redglare as Himself
Michael Badalucco as Counterman at Deli
Joseph R. Gannascoli as Guard at hospital
Vincent Gallo as Himself / Party Guest

Davyhal

Best place I find for these sort of movies is on TG4 at like 1am...
I wouldn't normally go out of my way to watch foreign language movies (with obvious exceptions such as Battle Royale - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266308/ - and Amelie - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211915/ - and Downfall - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363163/ ), but the following 2 movies just sucked me in. Amazing movies.

Evil (Swedish Movie)
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0338309/

Weather Woman (Japanese Movie)
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0114056/

Alfred Borden

Derailed!

Sleepy

Australian Movie: The Year my Voice Broke.

LiamMc

A few of Hal Hartley's Trust, Amateur and Simple Men.
Martin Donovan and Adrienne Shelly are in a lot of his films.

Jabberwocky, Michael Palin in medieval Europe.



According to Clive Owen the film The Croupier, didn't have a poster when it was ready for release. Potential viewers would have to rely on radio ads to hear about the film.

old hippy

O Lucky Man, starring Malcolm McDowell.

Brussels Sprout

Noi the Albino. Saw it in an art house cinema in New Zealand. (It's from Iceland).

ricero

the foot fist way with danny mcbride aka kenny ****ing powers

Kayly

Eleni , 1985, John Malkovich.

e_e

So many! But I feel that one that needs to be seen by a tonne more people is Hana-bi (Fireworks). Violent and poetic in equal measure, funnily enough I just got back from Seven Psychopaths and another of the director's movies was playing in the film too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHpV5-pRwHU

Kayly

Birneybau wrote: »

"Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia" and "Night of the Hunter".

I imagine a few of the seasoned heads here will have heard of them but not many more.

Love Night of the Hunter. Robert Mitchum was mesmerising. The book is even better- one of the most memorable I've ever read.

JOSman

Training Day

Mickeroo

ricero wrote: »

the foot fist way with danny mcbride aka kenny ****ing powers

Heh, thats a great film, same crew behind the excellent Eastbound & Down. They also made Observe & Report which not many poeple liked but I thought it was pretty funny too.

homeless student

Harsh times
and
dead mans shoes

Miguel_Sanchez

JOSman wrote: »

Training Day

Hardly a film no one has heard of. It took 22.5 million on its opening weekend.

scouttio

I probably won't have seen a lot of the films mentioned here but the first one that came to mind is the good, the bad, the weird. South Korean film, western. been hearing great things about recent Korean films so I said I'd check this one, absolutely fantastic

Skerries

a film I loved from the 90's is 12:01 which cashed in on the Groundhog Day film but I love just as much and starred the beautiful Helen Slater (Supergirl) who I had a crush on at the time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbxN4o7tmB8

also a film from the 80's starring Michael Huthence is a coming of age film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpPWge2madA

Technocentral

"The Devil and Daniel Webster", 1941 movie about a poor New Hampshire farmer who sells his soul to the Divil (Walter Huston) for economic success, scene at the ball in his new mansion is fantastic and spooky, also stars the gorgeous Simone Simon (Old Hollywood beauty who also, sadly, not many have heard of either.):

Technocentral

scouttio wrote: »

I probably won't have seen a lot of the films mentioned here but the first one that came to mind is the good, the bad, the weird. South Korean film, western. been hearing great things about recent Korean films so I said I'd check this one, absolutely fantastic

Great craic, though everyone I know has heard of it before I seen it and before I did!

budgemook

Heard of primer though never seen it.

Is cashback, already mentioned, a legitimate entry? Great movie and filmed where I was living at the time. My local sainsburys and all.

Davyhal

Just thought of another one... The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover...
Plain bizarre, but brilliant. Though I must admit, it is weird seeing Helen Mirren full frontal and getting off with Michael Gambon... In my eyes, it's the Queen getting off with Dumbledore!

http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0097108/

DipStick McSwindler

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bnt

I was thinking of hana-bi too, though saying no-one has heard of it would be a stretch. Ditto for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives: which didn't make a ripple in the mass market, despite winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

MilanPan!c

A few lost classics:

Cold Fever
Highway 61
Kids in the Hall - Braincandy
Dellamore Dellamorte
Too Many Ways To Be No 1. (HK) - One of the best flicks of the 90s.

MilanPan!c

bnt wrote: »

I was thinking of hana-bi too, though saying no-one has heard of it would be a stretch. Ditto for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives: which didn't make a ripple in the mass market, despite winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

I love Hana Bi - though I would say Violent Cop is as good, just very different, if you're into Beat Takeshi.

I would also recommend all of the Nikkatsu Noir boxset... and of course Suzuki Seijun's Branded To Kill and Tokyo Drifter... not unknown, but certainly not widely watched...

Easy Rod

A perfect world starring Kevin Costner. Think it was one of Clint's first stints as director. Love it.

username123

Quite a recent one:
Rammbock: Berlin Undead - A zombie apocalypse movie - loved it and the main actor was also in Michael - a movie about a paedophile who has a child locked in a hidden room in his basement, another good one.

Delicatessen (surreal black comedy) has become more mainstream over the years but its still reasonably obscure.

Edited to add a short description of the films I mentioned.

old hippy

bnt wrote: »

I was thinking of hana-bi too, though saying no-one has heard of it would be a stretch. Ditto for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives: which didn't make a ripple in the mass market, despite winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

Hanna-Bi is brilliant. As luck would have it, I have Uncle Boonmee to watch this weekend. Beezer!

stargazer 68

The Children of Huang Shi - with Jonathan Rhys Myers.
My Fellow Americans - James Garner and Jack Lemmon

Both are kind of - sit down on a rainy afternoon and enjoy movies!

old hippy

Love Exposure. Depending on which version you watch it's 4 or 5 hours long, based on a manga and is a bizarre tale of a boy and his fetishes and a brush with religion and transvestite vigilantism.

Not everyone's cup of tea but I enjoyed it.

M.J.M.C

Elite Squad http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0861739/

Watch it, it's not what you'll expect.

e_e

bnt wrote: »

I was thinking of hana-bi too, though saying no-one has heard of it would be a stretch. Ditto for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives: which didn't make a ripple in the mass market, despite winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

I really like Uncle Boonmee but his previous 2 films Syndromes and a Century and Tropical Malady are better. Got even less attention too. Real film of the decade material, like no other films I've ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCHFp7pwA5c

Eileen Down

LiamMc wrote: »

A few of Hal Hartley's Trust, Amateur and Simple Men.
Martin Donovan and Adrienne Shelly are in a lot of his films.

I'm really fond Hal Hartley movies. "Henry's fool" is my favorite and "Amature" is a very close second.

sbsquarepants

Only seen this once, many years ago. I remember it as being hillarious but i could be wrong, IMDb gives it 5.8 so.... no one i've mentioned it to has ever seen it .
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) - IMDb
www.imdb.com/title/tt0098987/

This is an early Mel Gibson one - excellent (this one i've eseen a few times and can stand over!) IMDb says 7.1, i'd give it closer to 9.
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) - IMDb

www.imdb.com/title/tt0086617/

kingtiger

off the top of my head

Bad Boy Bubby

Naked

Mr Vampire

Dozen Wicked Words

Loved Palookaville when it came out, clever, funny film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjxw9Eze6SY

Goodbye Lenin. EAST GERMANY LIVES ON!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIjSaHUKD5I

One final choice, maybe this or the other 2 are more well known than I thought, but yet another comedy. The Dish.

Terrible, terrible trailer here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc4MSie-P0k

And marginally better trailers here:

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

budgemook

Bad Boy Bubby is one of the only films I ever turned off. I was fairly hungover though ;-)

Pighead

Vincent Gallo seems to be the master of starring in good films not many people have heard of. A couple of his films already mentioned in this thread and I'd add Buffalo 66 to the mix. Excellent film with Gallo and Christina Ricci in great form.

Most film fans have probably heard of it but I don't think many of the general public are aware of it's existence.

frag420

My picks would have to be...

Coffin Rock - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1104814/

Sheitan - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450843/

The Doom Generation - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112887/

Hacuna Matata

The Match

Technocentral

sbsquarepants wrote: »

This is an early Mel Gibson one - excellent (this one i've eseen a few times and can stand over!) IMDb says 7.1, i'd give it closer to 9.
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) - IMDb

www.imdb.com/title/tt0086617/

One of my favorite movies of all time and the best thing Gibson ever did, well known but probably not by many under 40.