The best or a very good movie you saw that practically no one has heard of

SirOtter · Dec 27, 2011

blacbird said:
Murder by Decree. One of the most atmospheric Sherlock Holmes films ever made. Christopher Plummer as Holmes and David Wayne as Watson, chasing Jack the Ripper. London was never so dark and foggy.

caw

That was James Mason as Watson. "You squashed my pea!"

eyeblink · Dec 28, 2011

bettielee said:
yes! I love this kind of flick!

Two of my favorites:

Walking and Talking : young Catherine Keener, Liev Schreiber, Anne Heche before she went crazy in a very New York sort of story - she also directed Friends with Money - another of my favorites

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118113/

Another Nicole Holofcener fan! Have you seen Lovely and Amazing and Please Give?

One of my big discoveries in thirty years of watching Aussie movies - He Died With a Felafel in His Hand.

And something much more recent, a very ambitious and striking (if not always fully understandable) English-language SF movie from Belgium - Mr Nobody, starring Jared Leto (who plays a 118-year-old man in the framing scenes).

eyeblink · Dec 28, 2011

crunchyblanket said:
Oh, and also

Porco Rosso http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104652/

Palindromes http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362004/

Not sure how well known these are but I don't personally know anyone else who's seen them.

I have seen Palindromes, also most of Todd Solondz's other films - Welcome to the Dollhouse I find almost too painful to watch, Happiness is terrific, he's been in decline ever since.

Ed Panther said:
And Harold and Maude. It's not that unheard of, but I've never met someone who has seen it.

You have now. I have a VHS (yes, VHS) copy lieing about somewhere.

Calla Lily · Dec 28, 2011

I've seen Harold and Maude. Mr. Lily said: You'll love this movie!

I didn't.

Calla Lily · Dec 28, 2011

Charles Farley said:
This one is down right gut-wrenching . . . . . 'Night, Mother

Beat you to it in the "Downer movie" thread.

Want to wrench your guts more? See it on stage in a very small theater. <---*does not recommend*

blacbird said:
The Man Who Would Be King.
caw

Love love love this movie!

Also, Sunset. (I'm at work and can't link to the IMDB page). Bruce Willis as Tom Mix, James Garner as Wyatt Earp, and Malcom McDowell as a psychotic Chaplin-esque character. It's possibly the least well known Blake Edwards movie, and it doesn't deserve it. Tom Mix's producers bring
Earp in as a consultant on Mix's next film. Murder and frame-ups and shootings and excellent understated humor. It's like a western/Hollywood noir. Highly recommended.

Diana Hignutt · Dec 28, 2011

How about Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang? That one started RDjr's resurgence, and is delightful...

hester · Dec 28, 2011

blacbird said:
Sorcerer, a very noir adventure film starring Roy Scheider and directed by William Friedkin, from the mid 1970s. An expensive flop at the box office, and gets tepid reviews even today, but I have seen it a half-dozen times, use it in my English comp classes, and find it fascinating. One thing I can guarantee: if you watch it, you'll never drive across a bridge with the same lack of concern you previously did.

Posse. A black-and-white Western from around 1960, starring Kirk Douglas and Bruce Dern. Damn hard to find, probably not available on DVD, which is too bad. This is one of Douglas's best efforts, in no small part because he plays off his normal square-jawed hero role into a darker place. And Dern was simply one of the best bad guys ever to disgrace the screen (he was the first of only two people to kill John Wayne in a Western movie). His role, too, is unexpectedly unstereotyped.

The Wrong Box. A late 1960s adaptation of a Robert Louis Stevenson farce, starring Michael Caine, Ralph Richardson, Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore, and one of the most laugh-out-loud comedies I've ever watched.

The Man Who Would Be King. An expensively-made grand adventure film, based on the Rudyard Kipling short story, starring Michael Caine, Sean Connery and Christopher Plummer, and directed by John Huston. Underappreciated at its time (mid-1970s), but grand and wonderful, a precursor in style to Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Murder by Decree. One of the most atmospheric Sherlock Holmes films ever made. Christopher Plummer as Holmes and David Wayne as Watson, chasing Jack the Ripper. London was never so dark and foggy.

caw

Loved "The Wrong Box"

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On that same theme, there's "Kind Hearts and Coronets," starring Alec Guiness in about fifteen different incarnations. Hilarious!

bettielee · Dec 28, 2011

Manuel Royal said:
Enjoy Cube; never mind the sequels.

yes!!

Charles Farley said:
This one is down right gut-wrenching . . . . . 'Night, Mother

http://www.google.com/url?q=http://...ds-cse&usg=AFQjCNHJFIobaYVqhMGu_-uCQLfPwIy-SQ

yes,yes,yes!!

eyeblink said:
Another Nicole Holofcener fan! Have you seen Lovely and Amazing and Please Give?

no - but you know what? I'm going to fix that!!!

Diana Hignutt said:
How about Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang? That one started RDjr's resurgence, and is delightful...

also a great movie - the buddy chemistry between RDJ and Val Kilmer was amazing - I wish they'd work together again.

thethinker42 · Dec 28, 2011

eyeblink said:
And something much more recent, a very ambitious and striking (if not always fully understandable) English-language SF movie from Belgium - Mr Nobody, starring Jared Leto (who plays a 118-year-old man in the framing scenes).

Seconded. I LOVED that movie. I admittedly wanted to see it at first because I have a thing for Jared Leto, but the more I read about it, the more interesting it sounded. Great and very, very strange movie (my kind of film!).

Graz · Dec 28, 2011

Buddy Boy
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146516/

Victoria · Dec 28, 2011

Dang, somebody beat me to Perfect Creature. Guess I'll have to settle for Feed with Alex O'laughlin. Graphic as hell, but great film. A new one out on DVD is Tucker and Dale vs Evil. I laughed so hard I had to change my undies.

Calla Lily · Dec 28, 2011

Does he whine in Feed, Victoria? I'd like O'Laughlin if he'd just quit whining. (Which is why, IMO, whoever paired him with James Caan's son in Hawai'i Five-O deserves an Oscar for brilliant casting.)

nighttimer · Dec 28, 2011

I just remembered a favorite of mine: Romeo Is Bleeding.

Take a corrupt cop, mix in a hitwoman/femme fatale and throw in assorted other sleazy scuzzballs and you have an underrated piece of film noir.

Lena Olin smolders and sizzles. She's also crazy as hell. :tongue

Manuel Royal · Dec 28, 2011

Some of these were major releases that were widely reviewed at the time. These threads always devolve into "Movies I like!"

Ravenous is a neat frontier thriller; you just have to accept its quasi-supernatural premise regarding certain dietary choices. Good soundtrack, too.

Victoria · Dec 28, 2011

callalily61 said:
Does he whine in Feed, Victoria? I'd like O'Laughlin if he'd just quit whining. (Which is why, IMO, whoever paired him with James Caan's son in Hawai'i Five-O deserves an Oscar for brilliant casting.)

Actually, he's quite the sick fucker in Feed. I still get the willies. I agree he can be a bit on the emo side, but he's so purty. Now, if 5-0 could just get some decent writers...

Victoria · Dec 28, 2011

Well, excuse the puddin' outta us, sir.

blacbird · Dec 28, 2011

SirOtter said:
That was James Mason as Watson. "You squashed my pea!"

You be correct. I haven't seen it in a long time, and me mind was a wee bit weak. But it's a good movie.

caw

rugcat · Dec 28, 2011

Black Robe.

From 1991.

In the 17th century a Jesuit priest and a young companion are escorted through the wilderness of Quebec by Algonquin Indians to find a distant mission in the dead of winter. The Jesuit experiences a spiritual journey while his young companion falls in love with the Algonquin chief's beautiful daughter underneath the imposing and magnificent mountains. Dread and death follows them upriver.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101465/

Unbelievable cinematography and authentic portrayals of Native Americans, but a grim film when all is said and done.

Very much worth seeing, though.

Manuel Royal · Dec 29, 2011

Razorback. Nifty little 1984 thriller from Australia. Gregory Harrison is -- well, he's Gregory Harrison, but he's actually pretty good in this.

Belle_91 · Dec 29, 2011

gothicangel said:
Is that little heard of? Maybe it's a US/UK thing. It was well promoted in the UK.

I didn't see any commericals for it on TV or even online for that matter. The only way I heard about it was reading it in an article for a magazine. In the article it was saying it was only playing in select cities. I only got to see the movie when my friend and I decided to go see another movie, and saw that was playing as well. So we went and saw The Young Victoria.

As far as I'm concerned, it didn't get alot of attention over here, but I can see how the situation might be different across the pond.

FrankiiGii · Dec 29, 2011

Good Dick. Jason Ritter plays a movie clerk pursuing a relationship with a reclusive woman who is addicted to soft core porn.

The Art of Travle
Christopher Masterson plays a high school grad. Conner Layne is about to marry his first love, but when wedding plans fail, he goes solo on his honeymoon to Central America, finding adventure with a ragtag group of foreigners who attempt to cross the Darien Gap in record time.

The Education of Charlie Banks
Jason Ritter and Jesse Eisenberg. Jessie is witness to a brutal assault and when the thug who did it gets out of jail and shows up at his dorm room he's afraid for his life. But Charlie swears he's not there for revenge.

I have more but I'm on my phone and it's slow going typing these things out.

HarryHoskins · Dec 30, 2011

Here's a couple ...

In The Bleak Midwinter

Die Brücke

... Not unknown, but deserving of a wider audience in the opinion of this reporter.

SirOtter · Dec 31, 2011

Fermat's Room

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1016301/

JSDR · Dec 31, 2011

Picnic at Hanging Rock. Awesomeness.

A good mix of "WTF is going on?!?!" and "OMG, did what I think happen really happen?"

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