Obscure/Not well known Great movies.

[fcastle]

So I was thinking about expanding my dvd collection and thought it would be cool to come up w/a list of movies that may have been really good, but kind of went under the radar.

Here's a couple from me.

Frailty
Old Boy
Poolhall Junkies
Men Don't Cry
Battle Royale

[Streamline]

Battle Royale and Poolhall Junkies ftmfw!

[BLACK 1.8T]

So I was thinking about expanding my dvd collection and thought it would be cool to come up w/a list of movies that may have been really good, but kind of went under the radar.

Here's a couple from me.

Frailty
Old Boy
Poolhall Junkies
Men Don't Cry
Battle Royale

Haven't gotten a chance to watch Old Boy yet, but my friends that have seen it say it's really good.

[veedubber7]

Great idea, I am a DVD maniac.

KIDS
21 grams
Romper stomper
Chopper

[BLACK 1.8T]

Not too sure if this movie isn't well known, but Boiler Room is a really good movie IMO. A must in a salespersons DVD collection. lol

[Streamline]

Great idea, I am a DVD maniac.

KIDS


Oh! KIDS is a great movie as well. By the director Larry Clark, if you like his style, try his other movie WASSUP ROCKERS!, 'bout mexican skateboarders from South Central creating a ruckus in Beverly Hills in the 90's.

[MrFast4Ward]

Amores Perros

[JETTAone420]

...logging into netflix now...

[veedubber7]

WASSUP ROCKERS!, '

i just found it on amazon for $3.50 so i'll give it a whirl

[mike]

KIDS is good
Clockwork orange
Full metal jacket
8 1/2
Run Lola Run
Altered states
Pi
Requiem for a dream
Drugstore Cowboy

these are off the top of my head and in my collection, more will come to me

[veedubber7]

clockwork is one of my all time favorites

[NaKoRuRu]

Reservoir Dogs... I only run across some people that know that movie... but for some reason everyone online knows about it... the geeks hang out online... the geeks hang out online... yea yea yea... lol

[bugzy]

BMX Bandit - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085204/
haha

[huitzi]

I don't know how well known this one is but I like it a lot... The weather man

[ehppah]

brick
my sassy girl

don't bother with battle royale 2
it was awful

[sensinitas]

Rad

[NaKoRuRu]

Your Face

[EDM]

Sleepers
Trilogy of Terror

[veedubber7]

made
swingers

[StrungOutScott]

Rad


Hell yes! and who could forget Gleaming of the Cube.

[Woody]

The Boondock Saints
The Usual Suspects

[mike]

boondock saints +1

[Mr. Nobody]

Just one off the top of my head.....

Monster Squad.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0093560/

"Wolfman's got nards!"

:ha:

[URQ]

boondock saints +1

I thought broke back mountain was on your top 5 list?;)

[jtenright]

Dazed and Confused (lol this movie shaped my elementary and JR High days)
Y tu mama tambien
Gummo (haha)
Chopper + 1 (Chopper is one bad ass Aussie)
Look Both Ways
2:37
The Proposition (movie is ok, but Nick Cave is cool)
Kids +2 (also was good to watch in 5th grade)
The Boondock Saints +2

[RollinInGreenz]

Big Trouble in Little China
LayerCake
Waking Life
A Scanner Darkly
Ali G: Indahouse

[Agent Orange]

Hero
The Promise
Purgatory (for you western lovers)
Legend of the Swordsman
Open Range

[xoutofstepx]

Trainspotting
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Swing Kids
Elephant
24 Hour Party People
Party Monster
Everything Is Illuminated
The Life of David Gale
United States of Leiland
Mystic River
Northfork
Shaun of the Dead

[Bimmer Pilot]

Wall Street
The Game

Trainspotting
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels


If you like that one, you gotta try Snatch

Not too sure if this movie isn't well known, but Boiler Room is a really good movie IMO. A must in a salespersons DVD collection. lol
Anyone who says money is the root of all evil doesn't fucking have any...

Reservoir Dogs...
Everytime I think of this movie I get that song stuck in my head, you know what I'm talking about... ;)

Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right
Stuck in the middle with you...

The Boondock Saints
The Usual Suspects

Love both of those, Kaiser Sozay and the Mcmanus brothers...

[mobbin6]

Lock, Stock....
Snatch
Mean Machine
Grandma's Boy
Green Street Hooligans

[xoutofstepx]

If you like that one, you gotta try Snatch



of course i like Snatch. i just didn't think that wasn't well known. :) thanks though.

[Woody]

Trilogy of Terror
Karen Black when she was young. Such a bad movie but the voodoo doll totally made that movie. I remember that Universal Studios had the doll on display. Another movie she was in a few years ago...
"House of 1000 Corpses". She wasn't in the sequel but I dug it anyhow...
"The Devil's Rejects" Don't know if anyone knows but Rob Zombie is doing a remake of "Halloween" Looks pretty cool, check it HERE (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373883/)

Classic Horror Flicks:
"Alien"
John Carpenter's "The Thing"
"An American Werewolf in London" I was like 10 when that came out and it scared the ish out of me!

And one of my all time favorites, the movie that makes you go WTF? "Donnie Darko"

[fcastle]

Karen Black when she was young. Such a bad movie but the voodoo doll totally made that movie. I remember that Universal Studios had the doll on display. Another movie she was in a few years ago...
"House of 1000 Corpses". She wasn't in the sequel but I dug it anyhow...
"The Devil's Rejects" Don't know if anyone knows but Rob Zombie is doing a remake of "Halloween" Looks pretty cool, check it HERE (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373883/)


And one of my all time favorites, the movie that makes you go WTF? "Donnie Darko"

Trilogy of Terror was the shit. At the end she's all crazy and calls her mom to come over so she can kill her.

Donnie Darko was pretty damn good. I wasn't paying close enough attention the first time (forums and movies w/plots that matter, don't mix). The second time I cought so much more and it was just great.

Not sure how many people saw it, but I watched Beerfest the other day and those Supertrooper guys are still funny as hell.

"I'm sorry they shoved a paddle handle up your ass"
"It wasn't the handle and I've been shitting pancakes ever since."

Not obscure or anything, but I've seen DieHard and The Transformers so far and they both were great. I hope Rob Zombie's Halloween is good too.

[paultakeda]

I would define obscure as being of limited release, foreign, so old that even though it was popular it wasn't popular enough survive mass consciousness, grossed very little in the US market, or all of the above.

With that in mind:

Nine Queens (foreign, well-known in Spanish speaking countries and has won many awards, but not many know about this perfect heist movie here)

Murder by Death (Neil Simon scripted, stars Truman Capote, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Peter Falk, Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness, and James Cromwell among others, in a wonderful murder comedy that pokes fun at Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett and Bogie, among other well-known sleuths)

The Shadow (box office bomb it may be, but dear god is this campy fun!)

[paultakeda]

1941 (Steven Spielberg directed, Toshiro Mifune and Christopher Lee as Imperial Japanese and Nazi officers, camp movie with Dan Aykroyd and John Candy, and still no one really seems to know about it)

Return of the Killer Tomatoes (I can't help but think this movie is genius... and for the women, it even has George Clooney)

[SoCal_S60R]

+1 for Lock Stock...
+1 for Snatch

Deep Cover (one of Lawrence Fishburn's 1st films - awesome!)
King of the Mountain (cannot get it on DVD and I don't have a VHS player! Great old school canyon racing flick.)
King of New York (Early Christopher Walken movie)
Iron Monkey (great Kung-Fu flick - same choreographer at Crouching Tiger...produced by Tarantino)
Legend (don't know how unknown it is...seems a lot of people never heard of it...Tom Cruise is a nobody in it and Tim Curry is the baddest Satan ever!)

[ncttrnl]

Just check out my wall of movies the night before the big GTG... its like a shopping list of awesome.

[jtenright]

Trainspotting
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
24 Hour Party People
Mystic River


YES YES YES

[Monster8V]

dubbed

I know the people in that flick......

http://www.parts4vws.com/images/parts/dubbed.JPG

[madajb]

I don't know if any of these count as "fallen under the radar" but they are movies that, when I talk to people, make me go "You haven't seen that? You really should."

The Red Violin
Samuel L. Jackson playing a quiet part, an Oscar winning soundtrack with Joshua Bell.

Bend it Like Beckham
Cheesy and predictable, but still a lot of fun. Plus, Keira Knightley.

Planes, Trains & Automobiles
My favorite Thanksgiving movie. Steve Martin when he was funny.

L.A. Confidential
All star cast, though I can never figure out how Kim Basinger won a freaking Oscar.
Seems to be a love it or hate it kind of movie.

The Bridge on the River Kwai
One of the best "Not about the war" war movies ever made.

The Hustler
People remember Paul Newman, but it's really about the supporting cast.
Jackie Gleason gives an acting class in a few short scenes.

Unforgiven
"Deserve's got nothing to do with it."

Notorious
Ingrid Bergman and Alfred Hitchcock. 'Nuff said.

A Fish Called Wanda
"K-k-k-k-Ken's c-c-c-coming to k-k-k-ill me!"

The Dark Crystal
Skeksis creeped me out something big when I was kid.

Willow
Val Kilmer before he went...odd. Plus Wicker W. Warrick (Rep points to whoever gets that reference without looking it up)

-ajb

[fcastle]

I don't know if any of these count as "fallen under the radar" but they are movies that, when I talk to people, make me go "You haven't seen that? You really should."


Planes, Trains & Automobiles
My favorite Thanksgiving movie. Steve Martin when he was funny.

Hilarious, I miss John Candy.



The Bridge on the River Kwai
One of the best "Not about the war" war movies ever made.

Great Movie.


The Hustler
People remember Paul Newman, but it's really about the supporting cast.
Jackie Gleason gives an acting class in a few short scenes.


Jackie Gleason was the shit in this movie. I saw this when I was little and there's a lot to learn from this movie.

Unforgiven
"Deserve's got nothing to do with it."

One of the greatest westerns ever. I love it when he comes out the bar at the end and tells everyone what will happen if they shoot at him.

[jincs]

city of god.

[mike]

THX 1138
Donnie Darko
Primer (watch sober with your head on tight)
2001 a space oddesy

[JETTAone420]

hey mike, is that thx movie anygood? the ONLY reason i want to see it is cuz george lucas is the director lolz...

[Kelly Girl]

thirteen [most intriguing and disturbing indy film i've seen in a while]

[fcastle]

city of god.

Was this about the gangs in Brazil? If so, this was a sick movie.:tup:

[Throttlepimp]

Buckaroo Banzai.
Remo Williams the Adventure begins.