What movie have you enjoyed, that few have even heard of?

[caty]

I watched a movie today, at a friends house, on DVD called "Dear Frankie". I was pleasantly surprised. It's a Scottish movie (easy to understand), about a nine year old deaf boy, who's mother hires a man to pretend to be his father for one day. Very touching and enjoyable.:popcorn:

[MADem]

1. The Snapper

Hilarious--about a girl getting up the pole in Ireland by a disgusting old man, and how her family deals with it.

[achtung_circus]

16. Please explain

what "getting up the pole" means in this context.

Either I'm out of touch or my mind is having one of its periodic btain farts.

[MADem]

18. Preggers, in the family way

It's more popular an expression on the other side of the pond, I guess.

[democracyindanger]

49. You know it's part of a trilogy, right?

The Committments -> The Snapper -> The Van

[MADem]

95. Yep, saw them, fabulous as well

I have a relative whose favorite is the Commitments, but the family dynamic in the Snapper just rings so true!

[caty]

51. I love that one too.

I cracked up at the name she gave the baby.

[maveric]

85. I love Irish movies. Have you seen "The Van"? With Colm Meany?

Loved that one too.

[tuvor]

2. Three recommendations

Gregory's Girl (Scottish)

My Life as a Dog (Swedish)

Bad Taste (New Zealand--Peter Jackson's directorial debut!)

[Cha]

10. Thanks, Gregory's Girl has

been added to my queue at netflix.

1981!

[Tallison]

20. Bad Taste is hilarious

Try watching Jackson's "Meet the Feebles" if you haven't already.

[Missy Vixen]

134. I loved "Gregory's Girl"

What a tremendous movie.

Here's one people may not have seen: "The Mighty", with Sharon Stone and Gillian Anderson. It's a surprisingly good movie about two boys and friendship. Bring your Kleenex; it's a sad one.

Julie

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. The Magic Christian

with Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr

[sniffa]

4. midnight madness

michaeL j. fox's first movie.

[Spinzonner]

5. Well, I don't know that it's particularly obscure

but it's hardly a block buster:

Silent Running

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/

[opihimoimoi]

9. RETURN TO PARADISE w Gary COOPER

"Mogantani" returns to the Island he was on during WW2 only to find it taken over by a Xtain Missionary who rules it as a Kingdom....

Mogantani finds a way for the villagers to break the spell.

No wonder it is never seen on late night TV.

[Cha]

6. I've got that movie on my queue

at netflix but they say it's a LONG wait..the previews looked so good and I love everything Scot.

A movie I've seen that maybe isn't known widely is "Two Days In The Valley". I don't think the description on it does it justice.

http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=1151066&trkid=181026

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

7. My favorite movie

"A Captive in the Land". It was filmed just after the fall of the USSR. An American meteorologist stationed in the Arctic is hitching a ride to get home when he spots the wreckage of a plane. Thinking it is a downed American plane, he volunteers to parachute down to look after the one survivor that the RAF boys in the plane have spotted. To his horror, he finds out the plane is Russian, and the rescue helicopter, which was to come the next morning, never appears. The story tells how two distrustful people from countries that were "enemies" learn the brotherhood of man. I would highly recommend it as an exciting adventure story with spiritual overtones.

[rocktivity]

8. Miki and Maude (Dudley Moore, Ann Reinking, Amy Irving)

Pefectly cast, an improbable plot sensitively performed (guy knocks up wife AND mistress, marries mistress because her dad's a pro wrestler), and somehow it convinces you that it makes perfect sense. Watched it only because I had nothing better to do. A diamond in the rough of a movie that shouldn't have "worked," a la Fargo and Moonstruck.

:headbang:
rocknation

[castiron]

41. I loved miki and maude, too

really like Amy Irving

[tainted_chimp]

11. Reuben, Reuben

w/ Tom Conti as a drunken scottish poet. a brilliant performance that hardly anyone has seen.

[Minstrel Boy]

12. The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks

Hilarious Soviet silent, directed by Lev Kuleshov.

"Mr. West, the president of the YMCA, travels to Moscow, expecting to find savage Bolsheviks dressed in fur, as illustrated in American magazines. Even though he takes cowboy Jeddy along to protect him, Mr. West falls into the hands of a run-down count and his gang who decide to toy with him and to confirm his worst stereotypes. When the real Bolsheviks finally free Mr. West from the gang, he takes a sightseeing tour of Moscow. Proving that the Revolution has left cultural landmarks such as the university and the Bolshoi Theater untouched, the trip ends with a geometrically arranged parade of marching Bolsheviks, making the now convinced Mr. West whole-heartedly embrace Communism and even ask his wife to hang a Lenin portrait on the wall."
http://www.rusfilm.pitt.edu/2003/films/mr-west-program-notes.html

[ConcernedCanuk]

13. The Mosquito Coast

.
.
.

"Allie Fox is an inventor, a genius with anything mechanical, a man too smart for the world around him. Fed up with the state of the United States, he decides to leave his "dying country" behind and takes his family to Central America in search of a new world for themselves."



http://www.peterweircave.com/mosquito/

Was an extremely captivating movie

[sundog]

17. i thought that movie was great

:)

[Clintmax]

33. I have The Mosquito Coast on DVD!

I love that movie!

[ConcernedCanuk]

43. "I think about you when I go to the bathroom" - can't furget THAT line

.
.
.



Martha Plimpton (Emily Spellgood)

With her beautiful line "I think about you when I go to the bathroom," she left a memorable impression despite her small role. She and co-star River Phoenix began dating during the making of the film. The two of them later starred together in the wonderfully moving Running on Empty. Her career has focused more on independent films than mainstream Hollywood. Her earliest films included The River Rat (playing a young tomboy) and The Goonies. Memorable films since include The Shy People, Another Woman, Parenthood, Chantilly Lace, and Beautiful Girls.

http://www.peterweircave.com/mosquito/cast.html

[jmm]

57. I have that DVD too

I had been searching for a while then found it at a store closing sale.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

14. I have a few

but not sure they are known only to me, however, let me say if you rent them and watch I think you will enjoy.
"Lonely are the brave"- Great movie with Kirk Douglas
"Paths to Glory"- Kirk Douglas in an anti-war Stanley Kramer movie

[Spinzonner]

21. "Paths of Glory"

(not "to")

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050825/

[Tyrone Slothrop]

105. Also, that's Kubrick, not Kramer

[JohnnyBoots]

15. Boondock Saints and Happy birthday Gemini

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

121. Just watched Boondock Saints this weekend, a friend had badgered me

forever and then loaned the DVD to me. I thought it was 'meh'. Liked the Dafoe character though.

The movie was a bit over the top for me.

[sundog]

19. Plata Quemada aka Burnt Money

kinda like a gay bonnie & clyde in buenos aires... very raw, wild ride

[Tallison]

22. "Tesis" or "Thesis"

A Spanish movie about a college film student's discovery of a snuff porn ring amid her department's faculty. Sounds weird, but it's very suspenseful.

[ET Awful]

23. Niagara, Niagara

With Robin Tunny and Henry Thomas (the dude who played Elliot years ago in ET).

[Telly Savalas]

24. Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311361/

[LeftyDarthBrodie]

25. I had such high hopes for this movie

but was disappointed. Maybe someone will remake it, cause you know everything nowadays is remade.

[Telly Savalas]

34. I thought it was good fun.

Maybe I was in a giddy mood when I watched it, but it had me laughing most of the way.

[nickgutierrez]

78. I must see this movie.

I haven't yet, but I simply must. The title alone makes me need to see it.

[jpgray]

26. Sadko

The American bastardization (written by Francis Ford Coppola!) is a little nasty (outside of MST3K), but the Russian version with subtitles is a lot of fun. It's got great music via Rimsky-Korsakov's opera of the same name, neat, somewhat campy acting, inventive production and a surprisingly good script. Sergei Stolyarov has a weird looking head.

[Nikia]

27. Some recent less popular movies that I have seen

1. Skipped Parts (I got the title wrong in the original post) In some ways, the premise of this movie is just awful. In someways, it is great. The basic plot is: Rich domineering father sends daughter and her 14 year old love child out of state so they don't embarass him in his run for governor. The boy hooks up with the only other smart girl in his grade and she becomes pregnant.
2. DEBS: The best lesbian love story that I ever have seen. Even though I am not a lesbian, I thought that it was great.

[mcscajun]

28. "Hopscotch", "Proof", and "The Sum of Us"

Hopscotch: Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Ned Beatty, Herbert Lom, Sam Waterston. 'Nuff said.

Proof: Hugo Weaving, Geneviève Picot, Russell Crowe. Hugo is a blind photographer, Geneviève his obsessed housekeeper, and Russell Crowe the dishwasher that shakes up their lives. It's about trust, friendship, and seeing truly. One of Russell's earliest films. Australian Film Institute Awards: Best Actor in a Lead Role - Hugo Weaving; Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Russell Crowe

The Sum of Us: Russell Crowe as a young gay man in Sydney who lives with his all-too-accepting father and their differing romantic adventures. Russell's last 'down under' film before Sharon Stone snagged him for "The Quick and the Dead."

[RevCheesehead]

29. "The Contender"

Joan Allen as a potential VP candidate. Gary Oldman is positively evil as a freeper senator!

(well, OK, on this board, y'all have probably seen it.)

[mcscajun]

30. "...y'all have probably seen it."

So true...movies that in other company might well be considered obscure are fairly well known here. (I haven't seen The Contender, though.)

Ain't it great?

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

31. il sorpasso - one of my all-time favorite films

An Italian film with Italian and French stars: Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis Trintagnant. It's about a shy law student (Trintingnant) who is lured on a cross-country trip during a holiday by his very opposite, an exhuberant 40ish blowhard (Gassman) who owns a little Italian sports car. Near the end of the trip, just when the shy law student learns to open up more to life, when he resolves to work up the nerve to go ask that cute girl who lives in the adjacent apartment to his for a date, he dies when the sports car has an accident and goes over a cliff into the Mediterranean. The good-natured shiftless blowhard saves himself, of course. The film is full of funny moments, especially when the shy law student asks the blowhard to stop at his childhood home on the way. The blowhard wraps the student's family around his finger, becoming more endearing to them than the shy student.

No one in America seems to know this movie. I last saw it on American TV with subtitles in about 1969. I loved it so much I bought the video cassette. I highly recommend Il Sorpasso.

[usedtobesick]

32. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

Great flick! A great look at the differences between the japanese vs. white people philosophy of honor. Excellent movie.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

48. Starring David Bowie, who never looked more handsome, and

Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto. The erotic tension between the two of them is apparent even to this straight woman.

(NOTE: It is NOT a Christmas movie by any stretch of the imagination.)

[usedtobesick]

62. No it isn't but I love the movie.

I really want it on DVD, ever seen a copy?

[MN ChimpH8R]

102. That is a great film

and Sakamoto's soundtrack is ravishingly gorgeous. The end song, "Forbidden Colours" sung by David Sylvian, is stunning.

[usedtobesick]

128. I found copies for sale on Amazon

I will buy one this weekend I think. I love this movie!

[Kat45]

35. "Puberty Blues," early directorial effort by Bruce Beresford

Early seventies, perhaps. Australian girls coming-of-age film, the best girls' coming-of-age film I've ever seen.

Also "The Search for One-Eyed Jimmy," which only played in one theater in the city when it was out. A really funny movie, with a cast including Samuel L. Jackson, John Turturro, Nick Turturro, Anne Meara, that guy from The Practice whose name I forget (played Jimmy).

And "Kiss Me Guido," perhaps a little better known than the other two. A funny gay-themed comedy that Italian-Americans would love.

[stanwyck]

36. Intriguing film. Strong

performances and interesting cast throughout. Not a traditional Hollywood story line. Time for me to Netflix this one and watch again. Thanks for the reminder.

[Clintmax]

37. "Europa Europa"

It's in German, but it has english subtitles.

Fantastic movie! It's about a jewish boy who joins the Hitler Youth and tries to hide the fact he's Jewish from them.

Edited to correct header spelling.

[bliss_eternal]

65. I LOVE that film!!

Wonderful! I can't say enough about it...just fantastic!

I've rented this one several times, and introduced a few to it. Everyone I introduced it to enjoyed it, immensely.

[AtomicKitten]

38. The Krays

It's an independent film about British mobster twins.

Also Das Experiment, a German film, and the more well-known Run Lola Run.

[peekaloo]

39. Prick Up Your Ears and With a Friend Like Harry.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

46. "With a Friend Like Harry" is closer to Hitchcock than anything else

made since the real Alfred Hitchcock died.

The French title is "Harry, qui vous veut de bien."

It has that Hitchcockian air of humor turning to menace.

[castiron]

40. Vanishing Point

[caty]

44. I saw that

waaaay back when it came out at the theater. It was a big hit. I'd like to see it again.

Welcome to DU!!!:pals:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

123. 70's car chase flick? Barry whatshisname?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

42. The Ninth Configuration

starring Stacy Keach and an uncredited Gene Hackman in what I consider to be one of his best roles. An all-star cast and one hell of a sense of humor went into this one. 1980. Created by the the man behind "The Exorcist"-- William Peter Blatty.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081237/

[greendog]

45. Walkabout, Latcho Drom

n/t

[Lydia Leftcoast]

47. Latcho Drom!

A wordless account of Romany (Gypsy) music from India to Spain. It's fascinating to see the similarities and differences among the Rom people as the camera gradually takes you West from India.

[LouisianaLiberal]

101. I love Latcho Drom!

Do Des Ka Den (not sure of spelling) is a small Kurosawa film about families living in a dump after the war. Worth seeing, though I haven't seen it in many years.

I don't know if Amarcord can be considered obscure, but its one of my favorites. Fellini reminisces about his childhood in pre- and post-war Italy. Beautifully done, very sentimental (which usually destroys a movie for me).

La Dolce Vita, The Virgin Spring, and The Seventh Seal are not really obscure, but among my favorites.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

50. "The Interview" and "The Eye"

The Interview: Hugo Weaving plays a Melbourne man who is dragged out of his apartment in the middle of the night to be interrogated by the police. At first, we don't know what the police want from him, but we gradually learn that he is suspected of being a serial killer...This film keeps you going back and forth. "He is, no, he isn't. Well, maybe he is..."

The Eye: A young Hong Kong woman becomes sighted for the first time in her life after receiving a cornea transplant. Not knowing what the world is supposed to look like, she doesn't realize that the operation has left her able to "see dead people all the time." Then she receives another shock...

[mac56]

52. "Heavenly Creatures"

Kate Winslet pre-"Titanic".

We had a crappy VHS tape of it wherein the visuals were often totally obscured. Even so, with the choppy images and the dialogue intact, we thought it was a great movie.

Second choice: "The Twelve Chairs". Early Mel Brooks, right after "The Producers". Ron Moody was very funny.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

63. "Heavenly Creatures" is a true story with an interesting twist

The character played by Kate Winslet moved to England after being released from prison and became the mystery writer Anne Perry.

A New Zealand reporter doing a retrospective on the story traced Anne Perry, who admitted that she was indeed the character portrayed in the film.

However, the reporter was unable to find out what happened to the other girl.

[Connie_Corleone]

53. "Freaks"

It was made in the 1920's and it's about sideshow freaks who get revenge on one of the carnies.

I don't know why I like that movie, but I do.

[eleny]

54. "And I'll get you a hat with a l-o-o-o-ng feather"

Oh I love that movie, too. Who are the real freaks becomes the question.

[edbermac]

112. One of us, one of us, gooble gobble, one of us...

Have that on tape...

[edbermac]

113. Dupe delete

[caty]

55. An older movie

that I really like is "Mrs. Mike", 1949--with Evelyn Keyes and Dick Powell. It's a true story of a woman who marries a Canadian Mountie in the 1800's. They live in northern Canada, and the story tells of the hardships they go though. They speak of first, second, third families because spouses and children die and they have to start over again building a new family.

[trackfan]

56. Le Grand Chemin

[jmm]

58. Wow, I just realized I own three of the movies in this thread

and have seen about a 1/3 of them.

[Left Is Write]

59. The Girl Most Likely To....

A made-for-TV movie starring Stockard Channing.

[Patiod]

98. I loved that movie

very funny. I love Stockard Channing.

[xmas74]

60. I'd bet everyone on here has watched House of Yes

No one around my hometown seems to have heard of it. Very odd but I like Parker Posey.

[bridgit]

61. The Saddest Music in the World...

http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/film/26868.html fucking hilarious & spot-on filmmaking :rofl: :thumbsup: but came & went :shrug:

[terrya]

86. Isn't it a great film?

I've never seen any of Guy Madden's films (a Canadian director) until "The Saddest Music in the World". It's such a weird film, but I love it. I love the look of it...somehow, Madden made a black and white film that looks...old. I can't put it into words, but he managed to make a film that looks decades old.

Plus, the film has a lot of humor. Great performances from Mark McKinney (yes, from "Kids in the Hall") and Isabella Rosalini.

[bridgit]

88. it's always a treat for me when someone takes all the film...

schmaltz of common-everyday-fair, updates (as you rightly mention, "somehow") each & every iota of it & hands it back in a somehow-again bow of your own free interpretation = genius. McKinney is always fun, and i enjoy seeing Rosalini work as well :thumbsup: now that's entertainment
:rofl:

[swag]

91. I hear music when I think of you . . .

[bridgit]

94. swag dearest...

:loveya:

[kodi]

64. Matewan

best american film made about the labor struggle.

[bliss_eternal]

66. Raise the Red Lantern and Freeway...

Raise the Red Lantern is a beautiful foreign film. Loved it.Gorgeous cinematography, great story.

Freeway may not be as obscure as it once was, especially given the sucess of Reese Witherspoon. But I adore that movie...too funny.

[caty]

67. I've seen

"Raise the Red Lantern" several times. I liked it to. A sad waste of women's lives to be stuck in that situation.

[bliss_eternal]

69. Absolutely. The end was very sad, but a great comment

on that culture and how it destroyed that woman's soul.

Glad you saw it and liked it!

:hi:

[caty]

71. >>>

:pals:

[kodi]

77. another fine one by Zhang Yimou is "Ju Dou"

it centers on a story of murder in a chinese dyehouse and its workers. the colors are absolutely fantasic

[Robeson]

68. Don's Party.

[kodi]

74. subtitled "a drunken night down under"

i loved it, my ex-wife hated it

[Robeson]

75. Maybe that has something to do with the "ex" factor....

[kodi]

79. it was an upside down situation

she was a heroin addict, all i did was smoke some ganga once in a while.

[Robeson]

81. Hey, it was a positive for yourself. You weren't drug into being a...

... smack addict, so you got something out of it, i.e. your life. I know some who went down the tubes with someone who took them there.

[AmyDeLune]

70. Bubba Ho Tep, The Stepfather, Dream Child, & Near Dark n/t

[NMMNG]

72. Gas, Food, Lodging

With Fairuza Balk and Ione Skye. It's a girl's coming-of-age story set in a tiny New Mexico town.

[hickman1937]

73. Local Hero.

Best movie from the 80's. Passion Fish. About 8 years ago I took The Secret of Roan Inish to a co-workers house(she asked me to bring a movie that I really liked) and she fell in love with it. A week later she told me that her son and husband(action fans) watched it, and they had to re-rent it over and over. The Harley's stayed in the garage for a couple of days.

[Touchdown]

76. Time After Time.

H.G Wells (Malcolm McDowall) invets a time machine, but his longtime friend is Jack the Ripper (David Warner). Jack steal the Time Machine and travels to 1979, where H.G. chases him down. Very intense war of nerves type movie. Less about Science Fiction than just good suspense.

[caty]

80. The part where

H.G. begs for his future wife's life was very touching.

[njdemocrat106]

82. Down and Out in America

It was a documentary about homelessness and the loss of the American Dream for a number of families, and it was narrated by Lee Grant. I remember seeing this film in my high school economics class, and I give it partial credit for leading me on to the path of liberalism. I never really thought about the plight of the homeless until then (which was almost 10 years ago).

[hfojvt]

83. Citizen Kane

and Gotcha.

Back in 1986 I was talking with this guy at a single's group and he said he was taking a film class, but complained that they were watching movies like Citizen Kane. I immediately exclaimed "I've always wanted to see that." His reply "You are kidding, right?" Mine "No I am always seeing references to it in the things I read."

On Thursday I was talking to a co-worker and mentioned Citizen Kane, expecting her to have seen it, or at least heard of it. Her reply "huh?"

[WCGreen]

84. Jesus H. Christ....

I have seen about 60% of the movies on this thread....

Can I be one of the cool kids.....

[caty]

93. You must be---

:toast:

[MADem]

96. Yep, me too!!

Two others I really enjoyed: MONSIEUR IBRAHIM with the wonderful Omar Sharif, and LIVING OUT LOUD with Holly Hunter and Queen Latifah...

[WCGreen]

127. I loved living out loud....

That was such a movie.....

thanks for reminding me of it....

[Left_Winger]

87. Mediterraneo

I hope I spelled this correctly.

[long_green]

131. loved.that.movie.

nm

[swag]

89. "The Big Crime Wave" by John Paisz,

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088963/

Paisz is another Winnipeg director with a vision as strange as Guy Maddin's.

"Superstar," by Todd Haynes. The Mattel-banned story of Karen Carpenter as told with Barbie Dolls.

"Mickey One," by Arthur Penn. Warren Beatty in a Kafkaesque noir piece about a comedian on the run from the mob. Maybe.

[Missy Vixen]

133. I've seen "Superstar"

>"Superstar," by Todd Haynes. The Mattel-banned story of Karen Carpenter as told with Barbie Dolls.<

By the time I saw it, though, it was embargoed by none other than Richard Carpenter. The organizer of the event I saw the film at was threatened with arrest and imprisonment if he showed the print he finally managed to get from somewhere.

One would think that the movie would be very campy. There were a few laughs at the beginning. By the film's depiction of the end of Karen's life, though, most of the people in the theater were crying. What a great talent she was.

Julie

[swag]

90. Since I duped myself again,

I'll use this space to announce that the unavailability of the above-listed three films troubles me greatly.

[Catchawave]

92. The Four Seasons

Great movie for Alan Alda/Carol Burnett fans

http://imdb.com/title/tt0082405/

[caty]

107. I loved

Rita Moreno in that one.

[bicentennial_baby]

97. The Search for One-Eyed Jimmy

a low budget indie film starring John Turturro, Steve Buscemi, Anne Meara, and Samuel Jackson...fucking hilarious :rofl:

[Tyrone Slothrop]

106. That movie is great

Also, features Sam Rockwell well before he was famous.

I'm a little partial to it cause it's set and filmed in the neighborhood of Brooklyn that I'm living in.

[Patiod]

99. "Long Gone" w/Wm Petersen & Virginia Madsen

Hell, I'm a straight woman, and I'd do Virginia Madsen, the way she looks in this. A great baseball movie, made for the early days of HBO, but available on video. Also stars Dermot Mulroney Henry Gibson, and Teller.

Also "Lost in Transit" (or "Tombés du ciel") Unfortunately, I don't think it's available on video. A traveller loses his passport in a Paris airport while between flights and is restricted to a special transit zone, where he finds a group of similarly lost people hiding out and living from hand-to-mouth, reliant on their ingenuity to survive. A commentary on refugees, mystical and funny.

[noonwitch]

100. The House Of Yes

Sick, twisted, depraved and highly entertaining.

[Lilith Velkor]

103. Gozu

Surreal yakuza film by Takashi Miike. Hilarious and totally fkn sick. :thumbsup:

[no name no slogan]

104. I'm Gonna Git You Sucka

A Wayans brothers sendup of 1970s blaxploitation flicks. Also features a VERY young Chris Rock in one of his first bigscreen appearences, too.

Not to mention major roles for Isaac Hayes, Jim Brown and a killer soundtrack by Fishbone, and you've got entertainment!

[Divameow77]

108. "Fear of a Black Hat"

Never met someone who has seen this movie except me until I met my husband.

[kick-ass-bob]

109. Rolling Kansas.

stupid funny, about fields of pot owned by the government.

[SoCalDem]

110. The 25th Hour..with Anthony Quinn..made in 1967 (I think)

FANTASTIC movie...with a real fit today regarding the media and propaganda..

If it's ever on...watch it ..Grade A.. It was first a book, also wonderful ..That you can probably find at Amazon or a library

[kwassa]

111. Copland

I saw it on cable the other night, and it was totally gripping.

Starring Sylvester Stallone, playing against type as a quiet, passive sherriff in a small town in New Jersey that contains the homes of some very corrupt New York cops. He gets pulled into a confrontation he really doesn't want with these very dangerous policemen.

the cast is all-star and fabulous

the cast (from IMDB)

Harvey Keitel .... Ray Donlan
Ray Liotta .... Gary 'Figgsy' Figgis
Robert De Niro .... Lt. Moe Tilden
Peter Berg .... Joey Randone
Janeane Garofalo.... Deputy Cindy Betts
Robert Patrick .... Jack Rucker
Michael Rapaport.... Murray 'Superboy' Babitch
Annabella Sciorra.... Liz Randone
Noah Emmerich .... Deputy Bill Geisler
Cathy Moriarty .... Rose Donlan
John Spencer .... Leo Crasky
Frank Vincent .... PDA President Vincent Lassaro
Malik Yoba .... Detective Carson
Edie Falco .... Berta

[caty]

117. Stallone

looked like he put on about 50 lbs. for that role.

[edbermac]

114. Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi; plus Baraka...

Great visuals and great music...

[Z_I_Peevey]

116. Oh, I love Baraka

I could watch that one over and over.

[Richardo]

115. 'Brother From Another Planet'

That was great.

[ballabosh]

118. Another Country and Getting it Right

Two British films are probably the most obscure ones that I own. The rest just about everyone's heard of.

[jobycom]

119. A Dream of Passion, with Ellen Burstyn and Milena Mercouri

Directed by Jules Dassin. Powerful, disturbing, chilling film. A revisioning of Medea. The absolute best film you've never seen.

[HeeBGBz]

120. Around the Bend

Christopher Walken, Josh Lucas and Michael Caine.

Just watched it tonight. Very good. Touching and funny. Great Grandpa's last wishes instigates a road trip that brings an estranged father, son and grandson together. Walken is awesome.

Excellent soundtrack too.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0384810/

[Initech]

122. The Seven Samurai

Although I'm not sure that I can say that's a movie few have heard of, though.

[caty]

126. Did you know that

the western "The Magnificent Seven" was based on "The Seven Samurai"?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

124. 'Don't be Afraid of the Dark', 70's TV flick with Kim Darby. Scarrrryy.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0069992/

[Pithlet]

125. I recently saw Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Probably not so unknown, but not what I was expecting having Jim Carrey as the lead. I don't dislike Carrey, but his movies are hit and miss for me as he sometimes mugs for the camera too much. But, I absolutely loved this movie.

[ScreamingMeemie]

129. Under the Red Robe....

A 1930's movie about Cardinal Richleieu. I had an awesome history prof in college who used motion picture classics to teach Renaissance History. Best class I ever took.

[long_green]

130. "Real Life" (early Albert Brooks), "Babette's Feast"

"Breaker Morant"
and everyone should see this, "The Sorrow and the Pity"

[hyphenate]

132. Two that I can think of

that are great, though old:

Quackser Fortune Has A Cousin in the Bronx was one of Gene Wilder's earliest movies. It co-stars Margot Kidder as a coed at Trinity College who begins a relationship with Quackser Fortune (Wilder) who isn't the brightest bulb in the pack. He goes around collecting dung and selling it, and whose IQ is probably only in the double digits. It has a bit of a sad ending, where Quackser ends up learning a very important lesson in life.


Murder by Decree stars Christopher Plummer and James Mason among a fairly well respected British cast. It's a story of how one fictional character (Sherlock Holmes) might have dealt with a reall life villain (Jack the Ripper) in Victorian England. It involves several different theories which are probably among the best in the real life investigation of Jack, and about the curious nature of Freemasonry symbology in the case. Sadly, we all know the ending. But quite a moody pic.