5 lesser known movies you want people to see. by OPPYH

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5 lesser known movies you want people to see.

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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 2:26 PM

(1) Brick---a not so well known movie. You have to watch it a couple of times to really get the whole gist of the movie but well worth it.

(2) The Dish----Its about the Apollo moon walk and how a small farmers field in the middle of nowhere Australia broadcast the picture and sounds that were seen and heard all around the world. Definitely a look.
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Groucho Marx once said "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."

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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 2:38 PM

STINKINGROSE

In no particular order:

Tempopo - Japanese food, um .. and fetish, film. Subtitled

Dark Star- Reeeaaallly bad old sci fi low budget that is so bad it's good. Watch the credits to see how far they've come since college.

Blue - French language with subtitles. A beautiful movie.(I was not as fond of Red and White in the series)

Muppet Treasure Island- 'Nuff said.

LA Story- Steve Martin, SarahJessicaParkerbeforeshegotfamous, and more!

That's my first off the top of my head 5.

Thank you whoever pitched The Red Violin. I looved that movie! I wept.
Waking Ned Devine (if it hasn't been mentioned yet. Thunderheart (I think..it had Val Kilmer in it.) Last of the Mohicans. Calendar Girls. Dangerous Beauty. Cousin Bette. My Cousin Vinnie. Mrs. (somebody or other) Presents. DeLovely. Chocolate. Being John Malkovich. Hoodwinked. To Wong Foo. Priscilla: Queen of the Desert. Wilde. Elizabethtown (well *I* liked it!).
I just keep thinking of more good movies!

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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 2:38 PM

STINKINGROSE

Oopsie! Thought I'd gotten hung up (there was an error message), so I went back, added Homefries and posted.
Doubly.

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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 2:43 PM

GOPHER18

5)Serenity
4)Dogma
3)Clerks
2)Boondock Saints
1)Johnny Mnenomic

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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 3:51 PM

SAB39

Serenity, Serenity, Serenity, Serenity and Serenity.

Oh, you mean OTHER movies...

I'm with others who've said Amelie. And Dogma.

Serendipity is a romantic comedy with a completely ridiculous premise that I liked for some reason. Couldn't say whether you will too.

Someone mentioned A Life Less Ordinary. I remember NOTHING about this movie except that I really liked it.

And for the REALLY obscure: Love and Other Catastrophes.

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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 4:10 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

I thought of some new ones:

1. The Heavenly Kid - I had taped this one when I was a kid and my brothers and I watched it a lot. A greaser dies in a cliff race and God tells him that he's not good enough for heaven but not bad enough for hell. He's gotta go back to earth and help out a kid who get's picked on a lot in high school with his self esteem issues. Classic 80's fare. Good family movie.
2. The Stoned Age - Most people I know have never seen or even heard of this flick, and that's unfortunate. It's kind of a cross between Dazed and Confused and Waynes World, but being a fan of independent work, I think this movie is better than both of them. One night in the life of two stoners just trying to have a good time. Lanie is one of the sexiest girls I've ever seen. I was head over heels for her when I saw this movie. I won't say that this is what my high school career was like, but I definately had a few nights like this. Man... I wish I was still in high school.
3. UHF - Weird Al's only movie, as far as I'm aware. Goofy flick about how he inherited a tiny cable station and how he takes on the big boys with his innovative and wacky programming. Also stars Michael Richards who I hear is in some hot water for making the mistake of letting some racial slurs fly as he was putting some ignorant hecklers in their places. Now he's the bad guy.... It's a mad, mad world.

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack

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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 5:36 PM

TRAVELER

Okay. Counting down.

5) "The Third Man"

4) "The Purple Plain"

3) "Taking of Pelham 123" The original

2) "Cannery Row"

1) "Lilies of the Field"

Traveler

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Thursday, August 25, 2016 8:16 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Dangerous Beauty,
UHF.
City of Lost Children.
A Little Princess (Liesel Matthews)
Hero (Geena Davis, Chevy Chase)
The Man Who Knew Too Little (Bill Murray)
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

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Monday, August 29, 2016 7:44 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Dangerous Beauty,
UHF.
City of Lost Children.
A Little Princess (Liesel Matthews)
Hero (Geena Davis, Chevy Chase)
The Man Who Knew Too Little (Bill Murray)
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

Lone Star
Dangerous Beauty
Momento
Little Man Tate
Last Action Hero
Canadian Bacon
Entity
Awakenings
Lorenzo's Oil - the actual life-saving chemist plays himself in the film.
Galaxy Quest
Secret In Their Eyes (2009) subtitled
Pay It Forward
Color of Night
The Lover (Jane March)
Bank Job
Tim (Mel Gibson)
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

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Monday, August 29, 2016 9:38 PM

THX

My kinda thread because these are my kinda movies:

POCKET MONEY. 1970freakin2. TWO major stars (well, maybe four if you count Strother Martin and Wayne Rogers...ok maybe 6 if you count Hector Elizondo and Gregory Sierra.) ONE major recording artist (Carole King) for the soundtrack. Yet no one (practically) has heard of this. I think it was a little ahead of its time (and I think the Lee Marvin character is a bit like Kramer from Seinfeld). Don't know if it was ahead of its time. But I love how it just exudes THE TIME it was in. Just the scene from the bank at the beginning - so dated looking. Takes place in the SW of the US and in Mexico in many parts where the modern age hasn't quite touched. A BUDDY movie. Slice of life. Plot is simple and kinda loose. Character based.

And of course Quackser Fortune has a Cousin in the Bronx for reasons I described in the Wilder thread.

Stalker/Solaris (both from Tarkovsky so they are listed together.) These are very Russian in tone and many typical Americans probably wouldn't follow it or want to. But they have a cult following. The DVD for Solaris has commentary and it did help explain some things. Can't vouch for the American remake but one exists with Clooney.

I may have some others but I would have to go through my DVD collection.

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Monday, August 29, 2016 9:50 PM

THX

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Dangerous Beauty,
UHF.
City of Lost Children.
A Little Princess (Liesel Matthews)
Hero (Geena Davis, Chevy Chase)
The Man Who Knew Too Little (Bill Murray)
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

When I went to rent movies nearly every time the WTF cover of City of Lost Children would catch my eye yet I never rented it. I was tempted many times.

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Tuesday, August 30, 2016 7:32 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

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Originally posted by THX:
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Dangerous Beauty,
UHF.
City of Lost Children.
A Little Princess (Liesel Matthews)
Hero (Geena Davis, Chevy Chase)
The Man Who Knew Too Little (Bill Murray)
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

When I went to rent movies nearly every time the WTF cover of City of Lost Children would catch my eye yet I never rented it. I was tempted many times.

I watched it in cinema. More than once, not sure how many. I found the cinematography visually breathtaking. For this reason, if HD is available, I'd say do that - otherwise if you don't have a big screen, ask a friend with a big screen to let you spend a couple hours with it. I'm not sure what the cover looks like. It was a bell-weather film for that year - those who had seen it rated it in the top ten of the year, and those who had not seen it had a sub-standard top ten list for that year.
The other film I found visually vivid and stunning was Dangerous Beauty, which I also recommend for the story.
I'm not going to give you spoilers for either of these. But for trivia, you could name or point out actors in Dangerous Beauty who were also in Braveheart.

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Tuesday, August 30, 2016 7:38 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Dangerous Beauty,
UHF.
City of Lost Children.
A Little Princess (Liesel Matthews)
Hero (Geena Davis, Chevy Chase)
The Man Who Knew Too Little (Bill Murray)
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

Lone Star
Dangerous Beauty
Momento
Little Man Tate
Last Action Hero
Canadian Bacon
Entity
Awakenings
Lorenzo's Oil - the actual life-saving chemist plays himself in the film.
Galaxy Quest
Secret In Their Eyes (2009) subtitled
Pay It Forward
Color of Night
The Lover (Jane March)
Bank Job
Tim (Mel Gibson)
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

The Sessions (2012)
Uncle Buck, if you can call it lesser known.

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Wednesday, August 31, 2016 2:37 AM

SHINYGOODGUY

Happy, Texas - A rom/com of a different sort. Ally Walker, a hilarious Steve Zahn, Illeanna Douglas, a lovelorn William H. Macy, and Ron Perlman as a rock
solid lawman. Quirky fun, good for a few laughs and a twist ending. A sort of heist movie that goes laughably wrong.

Going Places - Another off-beat rom/com/dramedy; French with subtitles.
Gerard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert, Jeanne Moreau.
Two street crooks rob and steal their way across France, but they also meet
their sexual match in Marie Ange (Miou-Miou).

Inside Man - Denzel, Clive Owen, The Operative - Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jodie Foster. Bank heist movie, clever and entertaining.

The Lookout - Bank heist again, But a good movie. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Isla Fisher, Carla Gugino.

Prisoners - a good taut thriller with Hugh Jackman at his best; he dominates
the movie. A parent pursues the only lead after his 6 y.o. daughter goes missing and takes matters into his own hands. Powerful stuff. I was pleasantly surprised how good it was.

Those are just some of my picks.

SGG

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Thursday, September 1, 2016 3:58 AM

SHINYGOODGUY

Stinkingrose, I agree about Krzysztof Kieslowski's terrific Blue. It's been
a few years since I've seen the trio of films, but I do remember really getting into Blue. I think I'll go back and watch it again.

I also liked LA Story, it seemed so real, it reminds me of Grand Canyon, also with Steve Martin in the cast.

There are 2 films that 'Blue' reminded me of: Both by Atom Egoyan - Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter, both offbeat but interesting films, especially for me was Exotica.

SGG

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Originally posted by stinkingrose:
In no particular order:

Tempopo - Japanese food, um .. and fetish, film. Subtitled

Dark Star- Reeeaaallly bad old sci fi low budget that is so bad it's good. Watch the credits to see how far they've come since college.

Blue - French language with subtitles. A beautiful movie.(I was not as fond of Red and White in the series)

Muppet Treasure Island- 'Nuff said.

LA Story- Steve Martin, SarahJessicaParkerbeforeshegotfamous, and more!

That's my first off the top of my head 5.

Thank you whoever pitched The Red Violin. I looved that movie! I wept.
Waking Ned Devine (if it hasn't been mentioned yet. Thunderheart (I think..it had Val Kilmer in it.) Last of the Mohicans. Calendar Girls. Dangerous Beauty. Cousin Bette. My Cousin Vinnie. Mrs. (somebody or other) Presents. DeLovely. Chocolate. Being John Malkovich. Hoodwinked. To Wong Foo. Priscilla: Queen of the Desert. Wilde. Elizabethtown (well *I* liked it!).
I just keep thinking of more good movies!

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Friday, September 2, 2016 5:56 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Exotica
Mute Witness
Suspect Zero

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Saturday, September 3, 2016 3:01 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Dangerous Beauty,
UHF.
City of Lost Children.
A Little Princess (Liesel Matthews)
Hero (Geena Davis, Chevy Chase)
The Man Who Knew Too Little (Bill Murray)
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

Lone Star
Dangerous Beauty
Momento
Little Man Tate
Last Action Hero
Canadian Bacon
Entity
Awakenings
Lorenzo's Oil - the actual life-saving chemist plays himself in the film.
Galaxy Quest
Secret In Their Eyes (2009) subtitled
Pay It Forward
Color of Night
The Lover (Jane March)
Bank Job
Tim (Mel Gibson)
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

The Sessions (2012)
Uncle Buck, if you can call it lesser known.

Exotica
Mute Witness
Suspect Zero - particularly the extra DVD feature of Demonstration for the director to understand the material, but this will spoil much of the film's mystery.

The Skin I Live In (2011)
Sling Blade
Mom and Dad Save the World
Silkwood
Eddie & The Cruisers
The Rookie
Man on a Ledge
Gorky Park
Mulholland Falls
A History of Violence
Hot Fuzz
Enchanted - with Amy Adams
The Commitments - my favorite of the Doylestown trilogy (w/ The Van, The Snapper)

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Saturday, September 3, 2016 3:08 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

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Mrs. (somebody or other) Presents.

I assume that would be Mrs. Henderson Presents.

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Saturday, September 3, 2016 3:42 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Agreed:

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Originally posted by monksdad:
2. Harrison Burgeron- This was a made for cable tv movie based on the short story by Kurt Vonnegut, another futuristic tale of government gone wrong.

5. SFW - from imdb-- 5 people are being held hostage in a convenience store for 36 days. One of the demands of the hostage takers is that all TV-stations should broadcast the entire situation live. Cliff and Wendy are the only survivors, and when the are released, they are heroes. Especially Cliff is a national hero, and his apathetic ideology "so fucking what" turns into a national movement. Cliff himself is not that happy about all the fuzz.

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Originally posted by ecgordon:
The Conversation

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Originally posted by Gladiator32:
1. The City Of Lost Children (La Cité Des Enfants Perdus) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112682/
One of the most amazng films I've ever seen. Visually stunning, amazing acting, gripping (and ever-so-slightly creepy) story, great action sequences. Make sure you see the french version with subtitles, NOT the dubbed english version, and you will not be disappointed. Anyone who's seen a Jean-Pierre Jeunet film will know what to expect

Looking interesting:

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Originally posted by Siri:
3) Goddess Remembered - Documentary on Goddess Culture by Canadian Donna Read - lot os interviews and again loved the scenery, music and quite interesting account of history (herstory?) rewritten for the winner.

4) The Burning Times - Another Donna Read documentary following up Goddess Remembered with Matthew Fox, Starhawk and others recounting the inquisition as told from another perspective. Grim and moving. Donna does a great job incorporating historical imagines, interviews and again - the music is incredible.

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Originally posted by PirateCat:
1) Triggermen- 2002, I could not stop laughing in this movie. Just a heap of fun to watch. Gangster, luv interests, and boobs and everybody confused.

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Originally posted by jpstargazer:
Good call with Equilibrium.

Primer-I don't own this...yet. It is kind of a puzzle movie about time travel of sorts. I still haven't figured it out but I've only seen it once. I really respect that it was made for like $7,000 and it's better than a lot of crap that costs $40 mil.

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Monday, September 5, 2016 11:24 PM

THX

Wow - The Conversation. :-) I respect anyone who conjures up that one.

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Tuesday, September 6, 2016 8:58 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

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Originally posted by THX:
Wow - The Conversation. :-) I respect anyone who conjures up that one.

Wasn't it remade into some Fresh Prince lame action? Like Enemy of the State?

I keep forgetting to add Brubaker. Not a big fan of Redford, but I think this was my first view of Morgan Freeman. The storytelling style seems like many other films of the era, but it was based upon a true story IIRC.
When I see it on TV again, I usually cannot resist watching again.

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Saturday, September 10, 2016 1:21 PM

THX

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Wasn't it remade into some Fresh Prince lame action? Like Enemy of the State?

I'm afraid to look. Around the time the 2009 movie Sherlock Holmes came out I saw on some tv "magazine" style show (I haven't had a tv for some 10+ years now so it must have been at someone else's house - I don't recall the show) some person saying about the movie: "Don't worry, there are plenty of explosions" [then showed some clip from the "Sherlock Holmes" movie with an explosion.] I just wanted to become a hermit at that point.

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Saturday, September 10, 2016 2:06 PM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.

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Originally posted by THX:
Wow - The Conversation. :-) I respect anyone who conjures up that one.

Wasn't it remade into some Fresh Prince lame action? Like Enemy of the State?

Both movies involved the pervasiveness of surveillance, and Gene Hackman played a paranoid security guy in both. They may have wanted the audience to infer a connection between them, and he in fact might have been the same person, but if so he had changed his name by that time.

EDIT: In checking on the latter movie I noticed that Hackman's last film was 12 years ago. Both wikipedia and biography.com describe him as a retired actor. I don't recall him announcing that. Anyone know about his health?

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Sunday, September 11, 2016 12:02 AM

SHINYGOODGUY

I was looking through my papers for a document I need and came across a DVD that I ordered called "The Bride Came C.O.D.", a small screwball comedy (better known as Rom/Com today) with Cagney and Bette Davis, released in 1941.

I saw it a million years ago on Turner Classic Movies and found it hilarious.
I ordered it because they don't show these little-known gems on cable, or anywhere, these days. It has more than a few chuckles in it and, along with One, Two, Three (1961, directed by Billy Wilder) is one of Cagney's lesser known movies where he shows his superb comic timing.

Quite a difference from: "You'll never take me alive, you dirty copper"

Also "The Spitfire Grill" (1996) with Ellen Burstyn and Marcia Gay Harden - after being released from jail Percy Talbot travels to a new town in Maine looking for a new beginning. It's more a movie of the week type of film that
quietly tells a story with small town appeal. Despite it's negative rating
on Rotten Tomatoes - 33%. It got an audience rating of 76%. I can't explain why I like it, it is simply told and gently presented with characters we
could easily identify and accept. I guess it's optimistic in it's overall
storytelling; "second chance" movies get me most of the time - if it's good.

SGG

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Sunday, September 11, 2016 4:54 PM

THX

The Interview (1998) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120714/

Not to be confused by at least two other movies now by the same name. This Aussie film with Hugo Weaving is a great character-based suspense story.

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Monday, September 12, 2016 8:41 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

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Originally posted by THX:
The Interview (1998) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120714/

Not to be confused by at least two other movies now by the same name. This Aussie film with Hugo Weaving is a great character-based suspense story.

I felt The Interview was a bit of a tour-de-force for Weaving, his last full film before Matrix launched him. I don't think I had seen him before that, and only his voice in Babe.

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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
I can't explain why I like it, it is simply told and gently presented with characters we
could easily identify and accept. I guess it's optimistic in it's overall
storytelling; "second chance" movies get me most of the time - if it's good.

SGG

Perhaps you would enjoy one of my all-time favorites, including Geoffrey Lewis and Dean Jones: When Every Day Was The Fourth of July.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078485/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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Monday, September 12, 2016 9:54 PM

THX

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I felt The Interview was a bit of a tour-de-force for Weaving, his last full film before Matrix launched him. I don't think I had seen him before that, and only his voice in Babe.

Check out Proof from 1991! Not only a younger Weaving....but an early Russel Crow! Looks very young here. Pretty good flick IMO and you can watch it free:

(FYI, there are a few minutes cut out for copyright reasons but it is ok otherwise.)

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