Genuinely good movies that have went under the radar?

tomofson · 26-06-2018 9:33pm #1

What is a genuinely good movie that has went under the radar or very few people have seen?

chops018 · 26-06-2018 10:51pm

Margin Call.

scuba8 · 27-06-2018 12:35am

Soldier Blue.

Padraig Mor · 27-06-2018 9:14am

chops018 wrote: »

Margin Call.

Good show!

Triangle: mind bending time travel thriller - very well crafted.

Afflicted: low budget found footage horror, but way better than most.

correction · 27-06-2018 9:52am

The Guest https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2980592/?ref_=nv_sr_1

I never see it mentioned and didn't even know about it when it originally came out. It was a recommendation on a YouTube movie show that I watched so I gave it a go and really love it. If you liked Drive it's definitely one for you.

doubledown · 27-06-2018 2:25pm

State of Grace (1990). Amazing cast. Great story. And arguably one of Gary Oldman's finest performances. And that's saying something!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100685/

Borderfox · 27-06-2018 2:28pm

Wind River

Theboinkmaster · 27-06-2018 3:44pm

Not sure if it went under the radar but a recent one not many have seen is Prisoners.

Chev_Chelios · 28-06-2018 7:38pm

The Wanderers. A 1979 movie about teenage gangs in the Bronx during the 60's. Directed by the same man who wrote Indiana Jones.

Sirsok · 29-06-2018 12:49am

Unthinkable with Samual Jackson and Michael Sheen was quite good.

As was the life of david gale...

Two movies I wasnt looking forward to watching but immensely enjoyed them

prinzeugen · 29-06-2018 12:53am

Mean Creek. Would be a desert island DVD!

Prayers for Bobby is a made for TV movie that went straight to DVD. Great film. (True story)

Sigourney Weaver plays the lead but in never got much attention outside the gay community.

Will I Am Not · 29-06-2018 12:55am

Padraig Mor wrote: »

Good show!

Triangle: mind bending time travel thriller - very well crafted.

Afflicted: low budget found footage horror, but way better than most.

I thoroughly enjoyed Triangle. Moon with Sam Rockwell is one that nobody seems to have seen if brought up.

Atlantic Dawn · 29-06-2018 12:56am

Chev_Chelios wrote: »

The Wanderers. A 1979 movie about teenage gangs in the Bronx during the 60's. Directed by the same man who wrote Indiana Jones.

Pure gold, I recall this scene well...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epFkmnQ77VE

prinzeugen · 29-06-2018 1:00am

Will I Am Not wrote: »

I thoroughly enjoyed Triangle. Moon with Sam Rockwell is one that nobody seems to have seen if brought up.

Moon is a great film. Humming the theme now!

spookwoman · 29-06-2018 1:13am

Silver Bullet A Stephen King oldie about a werewolf

Dr Brown · 30-06-2018 12:23am

3000 miles to graceland.

30-06-2018 12:39am

dark city, low budget but imaginative scifi that was blown away by the matrix at the time

dead mans shoes and the red riding trilogy dont get much love but are maybe cult faves

kill list the same.

nb apart from dark city, these are all....disturbing at times.

FourFourRED · 30-06-2018 12:48am

Borderfox wrote: »

Wind River

Not something that went under the radar at all.

Will I Am Not · 30-06-2018 12:56am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

dark city, low budget but imaginative scifi that was blown away by the matrix at the time

dead mans shoes and the red riding trilogy dont get much love but are maybe cult faves

kill list the same.

nb apart from dark city, these are all....disturbing at times.

That hammer scene...

adgib · 30-06-2018 1:01am

True romance, also with a Gary Oldman, plays a character called drexel, great scene with Dennis hopper in the trailer

Will I Am Not · 30-06-2018 1:03am

adgib wrote: »

True romance, also with a Gary Oldman, plays a character called drexel, great scene with Dennis hopper in the trailer

Ah True Romance hardly went under the radar. It’s got one of the best cast lists you’re ever likely to see.

Jim Bob Scratcher · 30-06-2018 1:11am

Wolf Creek is a decent watch.

igCorcaigh · 30-06-2018 2:11am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

dead mans shoes

Brilliant film!
Paddy Considine is amazing.

Tyrannosaur very good too. But disturbing.

spookwoman · 30-06-2018 4:06pm

Split Second. Low budget UK action horror scifi with Rutger Hauer.

CyberGhost · 30-06-2018 6:16pm

Miracle Mile - Very atmospheric movie. The soundtrack is fantastic.

Bad Moon - Underrated and relatively unknown werewolf movie.

Near Dark - Relatively unknown Vampire movie, Paxton, Hendriksen, Vasquez from Aliens.

spookwoman · 30-06-2018 7:06pm

CyberGhost wrote: »

Miracle Mile - Very atmospheric movie. The soundtrack is fantastic.

Bad Moon - Underrated and relatively unknown werewolf movie.

Near Dark - Relatively unknown Vampire movie, Paxton, Hendriksen, Vasquez from Aliens.

Near Dark is a good one and sound track fits it well.

Dudes another oldie but good one with Jon Cryer, Daniel Robuck and Flea

Agent Coulson · 01-07-2018 6:41pm

Since it was added to Netflix today.

I’ll say Wind River.

Chev_Chelios · 01-07-2018 6:43pm

Disorder is a 2015 movie starring Matthias Schoenaerts and Diane Kruger. Schoenaerts is a soldier assigned to protect the wife of a french politician.

80s Child · 01-07-2018 6:45pm

Did Whiplash go under the radar?

NIMAN · 01-07-2018 6:47pm

80s Child wrote: »

Did Whiplash go under the radar?

It won an oscar.

jones · 02-07-2018 1:50pm

Borderfox wrote: »

Wind River

Came here just to say this

off.the.walls · 02-07-2018 1:53pm

cockneys vs zombies, low budget, laughably terrible but extremely enjoyable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q96po6oa11w

Padraig Mor · 02-07-2018 2:05pm

OK, it's hardly an unknown film but I think Carlito's Way could fit in this category. It's a genuinely outstanding film - anyone I know who's seen it loves it, but a lot of people seem to be unaware of it. For me, it's right up there with the Goodfellas etc but doesn't have nearly as much 'reputation'.

strawdog · 02-07-2018 2:15pm

The Proposition - Australian western written by Nick Cave with Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston Emily Watson. Don't think this made too many waves at the time, remember watching in cinema at time and loving the atmospheric cinematography and sparse dialogue

kunst nugget · 02-07-2018 2:16pm

The Invitation, a very tense, indie thriller from 2015. Will and his girlfriend go up to the Hollywood Hills being thrown by his ex-wife Eden and her new husband. Many of Will and Eden's shared friends are at the party who haven't seen much of either of them since a family tragedy drove them to divorce. As the evening wears on, Will becomes paranoid and ever more convinced that there is an ulterior motive to this get-together.

This is on Netflix at the moment and I think everyone should watch it. It's been criminally overlooked.

Addle · 02-07-2018 2:20pm

I'm the only one of my mates who saw it anyways, Hidden Figures.

I found it really enjoyable and it was released around the same time last year as a lot of overly hyped movies that didn't live up to expectations.

Optimus Prime · 02-07-2018 2:22pm

The Man From Earth

Low budget, real low haha.. basically a group of people in a room, but its an amazing story told by one person without spoiling it. Defo worth watching.

tomofson · 02-07-2018 6:10pm

Things to do in Denver when your dead (1995)

King of new york (1990)

Bad lieutenant (1992)

Chin Girl (1987)

suicidal kings (1997)

Those are some genuinely good action/crime/drama flicks that have definitely gone under the radar, they both have quite low population of ratings on IMDB, especially compared to some of the other films that was mentioned here.

I will post some more when I think of some in the mean time I highly recommend all movies above.

tricky D · 02-07-2018 6:48pm

Chev_Chelios wrote: »

Disorder is a 2015 movie starring Matthias Schoenaerts and Diane Kruger. Schoenaerts is a soldier assigned to protect the wife of a french politician.

Aka Maryland.

Optimus Prime wrote: »

The Man From Earth

Low budget, real low haha.. basically a group of people in a room, but its an amazing story told by one person without spoiling it. Defo worth watching.

There's a sequel: Man from Earth, Holocene which doesn't quite work so well imho. It's a self-pirate so available legitimately on the dodgy sources.

bnt · 02-07-2018 10:58pm

I'm sure I've seen this question before, and one of my answers will always be The Ice Storm (1997):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjXMWjoX8L4

(That trailer music and voiceover are not in the movie, thankfully.)

Optimus Prime · 03-07-2018 12:06am

tricky D wrote: »

There's a sequel: Man from Earth, Holocene which doesn't quite work so well imho. It's a self-pirate so available legitimately on the dodgy sources.

Yeh I watched it, thought it was terrible. First one is great though.

johnny_ultimate · 03-07-2018 12:29am

Symbol - possibly the funniest, strangest comedy of the last decade... a tour de force of slapstick, surrealism and running gags. Trailers can't possibly do the sheer sustained, manic imagination of the thing justice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFmKduV9hJU

Court - non-Bollywood Indian cinema is rarely released, so it was a surprise this got released in the West at all. The film itself is a masterful, quietly devastating critique of a farcical legal system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sc8z7zav9A

Leviathan - Deadliest Catch meets a David Lynch film... this grimy, lo-fi, GoPro-heavy film about a fishing boat is a strange, intense, hypnotic documentary quite unlike anything else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2wNiJt-I6U

The Day He Arrives (plus many, many others) - Hong Sang-soo is easily among my favourite working directors, but I find myself frantically scanning film festival schedules and digital stores hoping to find his latest work... it certainly doesn't come to you. Still, The Day He Arrives - although it didn't get a proper Irish release (the excellent Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is AFAIK the only one to receive that honour - is probably the easiest to track down for anyone looking to dive down the Director Hong rabbithole... thankfully, it is also in many ways one of his most representative films, complete with major structural trickery and lots of alcohol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nuet1q58z8

Certain Women - feels odd putting this here, but I always felt it never got the shot it deserved (IIRC it was released here during an avalanche of Oscar-time releases). Possibly Kelly Reichardt's finest work to date, and she's made some very fine films indeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or5lYLL41SY

spookwoman · 03-07-2018 2:59am

The Good, the Bad and the Weird. Korean western set in the 1930's. The shoot out lasts about 10-20 mins

2 Scoops · 03-07-2018 3:19am

Dead snow.. Nazi Zombies!

Sequel is decent too

StupidLikeAFox · 03-07-2018 3:42am

Will I Am Not wrote: »

Ah True Romance hardly went under the radar. It’s got one of the best cast lists you’re ever likely to see.

This was the first film I thought of when I read the OP also. It's an unbelievable film Im not a huge movie buff but I've brought it up in conversation lots of times and there's lots of people who have never heard of it.

MfMan · 03-07-2018 11:29am

Padraig Mor wrote: »

OK, it's hardly an unknown film but I think Carlito's Way could fit in this category. It's a genuinely outstanding film - anyone I know who's seen it loves it, but a lot of people seem to be unaware of it. For me, it's right up there with the Goodfellas etc but doesn't have nearly as much 'reputation'.

Don't think it was underrated as such. Not perfect but still an excellent tale of greed, betrayal and thwarted dreams. Love Patrick Doyle's theme also.

Locke (on last night) is worth a look. Set entirely in a car journey at night with Tom Hardy constantly on the phone trying to remain composed and hold various strands together.

kunst nugget · 03-07-2018 11:31am

MfMan wrote: »

Don't think it was underrated as such. Not perfect but still an excellent tale of greed, betrayal and thwarted dreams. Love Patrick Doyle's theme also.

Locke (on last night) is worth a look. Set entirely in a car journey at night with Tom Hardy constantly on the phone trying to remain composed and hold various strands together.

Locke is great. Sounds like a fúcking awful idea for a movie - watch a guy making phone calls while driving for 90mins but Hardy is absolutely brilliant as the central character whose life is crumbling around him.

RainMakerToo · 03-07-2018 11:36am

Padraig Mor wrote: »

Triangle: mind bending time travel thriller - very well crafted.

On that note, I'd add Coherence: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2866360/

yourdeadwright · 03-07-2018 12:53pm

Memento with Guy Pearce,

Husker Du · 03-07-2018 1:53pm

spookwoman wrote: »

Silver Bullet A Stephen King oldie about a werewolf

Love this one. Remember renting it as a kid and being terrified. Good times!

CyberGhost wrote: »

Bad Moon - Underrated and relatively unknown werewolf movie.

Really enjoyed Bad Moon.

Late Phases is another good one with a werewolf theme.

spookwoman · 03-07-2018 3:52pm

Romper Stomper - Skinkheads in Australia with Russell Crowe
Chopper - Story of Mark "Chopper" Read based on his book From the Inside. Eric Bana
The Hidden - Sci Fi Kyle MacLachlan is chasing an alien parasite that taken of human bodies and goes on a crime spree
Society - Just weird

Genuinely good movies that have went under the radar?

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