Great films you may not have heard of

Here's a few-

Cube
Pi
The Sadist
Marty
Lonely Are the Brave
Bad Day at Black Rock

Lovers of the Arctic Circle.


Most frustrating movie in the world but it's beautiful. Babes are way into it too.

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How could i forget Cube, That film is great. I have also been meaning to see Pi for a while now it looks weird but good.

Great avatar by the way.

The Machinist

My favorite movie of all time,

Meet Joe Black.

ProTo FF

A few more from Whaaa. I saw these in a film class as an undergrad.

The Last Temptation of Christ

The Seventh Seal

Cries and Whispers

The Red Shoes

These films are classics, but unless you are an aficionado of film, you probably haven't heard of them.

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Some of my favourites:

Dark Days
A documentry into the homeless people living in the subways of New York. This is a rare and amazing look into a world that few even know exists. And you find yourself becoming far more engaged with the people in it than any other film I've seen, even though they are interspersed with crack heads and criminals. Moving piece.

Dead Man
A Jim Jarmusch film, with Johnny Depp playing an accountant from the East going West in the early 1800s, into the real Wild West. This is an awesome little movie showing what the West would have really been like: Horrible, dirty, ugly and very dangerous.

Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai
Another Jim Jarmusch number, in which Forest Whitaker plays a mafia hitman who abides by the samurai code. With a soundtrack by The Rza, some of the best Mafia chat ever and some awesome hits, this film is a gem.

Kidulthood
British "hood" movie, about a gang of London rudeboys doing their thing. Awesome soundtrack, and highly quotable. Not the cleverest, but hey, I've seen worse.

Coffee & Cigarettes
Another Jarmusch (my second most favourite director) movie. This one is very basic: Two celebrities sit and have a chat over coffee and cigarettes. Everyone from Steve Coogan to Billy Murray, via Jack White and Cate Blanchett. Rza and Murray are brilliant. Watch this.

A Room For Romeo Brass
As someone mentioned earler, Shaun Meadows (of "Dead Mans Shoes" and "This is Britain" fame) is one of the best British directors in decades, and my favourite director. This is my favourite piece of work. You get very much involved with the story, and Paddy Considine shows why he is the most under rated actor in the industry. He should have ALL the Oscars.


Enjoy.

Two films that were big for a short time but then lost in obscurity were:

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Jeremiah Johnson

Here's a shortlist of some of my fav. movies that no one seems to know about.

Jigureul jikyeora! (2003) (Save the Green Planet! is its English title.)

Braindead (1992)

Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)

The Machinist (2004)

Running Scared (2006)

The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)

Zombie Movie (2005) (Great little short film.)

Those are just a few of my fav. movies that no one I know has watched.

Let's see....
Two of my faves :

The Mechanic

A Clockwork Orange

Feeling droogie,
Lex

Little Monsters

Just rented this classic a few days ago.

Just yesterday I actually sat thru The Legend of Billie Jean.

A bad coming of age movie that you just can't resist sitting thru.

Here's a few,

Blazing Saddles

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Milagro Beanfield War


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duel in the sun
the cowboys
fear of a black hat - bad but good
truck turner- great blaxploitation, Issac Hayes only lead role ever
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What was that cult zombi movie from the 50's?

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Originally posted by jbondo
What was that cult zombi movie from the 50's?

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Night of thg Living Dead....very scarry

That's it! Thanks, my mind must be in lazy mode this morning.

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Not to be missed...........

The Incredible Shrinking Man

Pink Flamingos

Knife in The Water

On the Waterfront

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

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Zardoz, not good but you can't beat Sean Connery in speedo's...

Originally posted by whaaa

On the Waterfront

I coulda been a contender. I love that movie...