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Best film which no one has heard of?

  • 05-12-2012 02:59PM
    #1
    ez shooter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭


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


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  • #2
    Hurricane Carter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 607 ✭✭✭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!


  • #3
    Joni23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 133 ✭✭Joni23


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


  • #4
    Funkfield
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,603 ✭✭✭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.


  • #5
    Gotham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 406 ✭✭Gotham


    El Topo


  • #6
    bullvine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭bullvine


    Cashback


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  • #7
    FortuneChip
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    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!


  • #8
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


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


  • #9
    witchgirl26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,482 ✭✭✭witchgirl26


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


  • #10
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,446 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #11
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭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


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  • #12
    Davyhal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 455 ✭✭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/


  • #13
    Alfred Borden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭Alfred Borden


    Derailed!


  • #14
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,877 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Australian Movie: The Year my Voice Broke.

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  • #15
    LiamMc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 906 ✭✭✭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.


  • #16
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    O Lucky Man, starring Malcolm McDowell.


  • #17
    Brussels Sprout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,926 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


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


  • #18
    ricero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


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


  • #19
    Kayly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭Kayly


    Eleni , 1985, John Malkovich.


  • #20
    e_e
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭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


  • #21
    Kayly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭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.


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  • #22
    JOSman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭JOSman


    Training Day


  • #23
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,900 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭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.


  • #24
    homeless student
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,020 ✭✭✭homeless student


    Harsh times
    and
    dead mans shoes


  • #25
    Miguel_Sanchez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    JOSman wrote: »
    Training Day

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


  • #26
    scouttio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 386 ✭✭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


  • #27
    Skerries
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,987 ✭✭✭✭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
    Untitled Image




  • #28
    Technocentral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,117 ✭✭✭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.):

    ssim024.jpg


  • #29
    Technocentral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,117 ✭✭✭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!


  • #30
    budgemook
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #31
    Davyhal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 455 ✭✭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/


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