Favorite lesser known films

Hi everyone. I was just curious what were some of your favorite films which are not too main stream. I just saw The Following( director of Memento) and Broken Vessels, both great movies but I had never heard of them. Thanx

That's funny, based on the topic itself, I was actually coming in here to mention that Following is a great flick that not too many people know about. Two of my other favorites are Delicatessen (Jeunet & Caro) and Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky).

The Legend of 1900

Nick

Zero Effect.

I watch this movie about once a month. It's so good.

Juliet of the Spirits
Roma
The Draughtmans Contract

Kodak 2405

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That's pretty common actually.

Films I like that no one I know has ever seen but that might just be me:

After Hours (Although this is a Scorsese flick, how does that worK?)

Taxi (Original French Version)

Cypher (Directed by Vincenzo Natali who made Cube)

After hours is great....id kinda forgotten about that one

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Gas Food Lodging
Bad Boy Bubby
Bagdad Cafe
Static
Sling Blade
Night on Earth

dunno what exactly constitutes a "lesser known" film, but there you go.
Those mentioned are all top notch according to me.
check em out if ya havent.enjoy

I got a film the other day, I dunno if any of you will have heard of it. It's a Russian Film called "Night Watch" it's subtitled in English which makes it that little bit easier for me to understand. It's a good versus evil kinda film, which don't normally appeal to me, but this is awesome; I'd recommend it..

agitator

all about lily chou chou

aragami

attack the gas station

baadaasss (yes, mario van peebles CAN act and make a good movie! SERIOUS!)

battlefield baseball

beautiful boxer

better off dead - i'm surprised at how this film seems to have been forgotten by so many people or brushed off.

beyond our ken

big kahuna

bird people of china

born to fight

bottle rocket (probably my favorite wes anderson movie...but it alternates between life aquatic and this...yeah, fuck rushmore)

box of moonlight (neat john turturro/sam rockwell movie)

bright future

christmas in august

citizen dog

collage of our life

confessions of a dangerous mind

dead man (most overlooked johnny depp/jim jarmusch movie?)

dead or alive 1,2

deadly outlaw rekka

drive - both the b-actioner with marc decascos and the quirky japanese movie by sabu.

electric dragon 80,000 volts!

flying boys

the foul king

good bye lenin!

guns & talks

guys from paradise

heathers (over time it seems to have become lesser known...for shame)

the hypnotized

in the line of duty 4

ing...the most beautiful day of my life

kamikaze girls

koi no mon

last life in the universe

man bites dog

marathon

marriage is a crazy thing

the mission (hong kong) and hey, why not, the one with robert de niro, jeremy irons and liam neeson too.

monday

motorama

musa

one fine spring day

pieces of april

running out of time

the salton sea

samaria

save the green planet

singles (south korea)

six string samurai

the station agent

suburbia (1984) but i also like the other one by the bogosian guy.

superstar mr. gam

survive style +5

swing girls

tears of the black tiger

13 conversations about one thing

3-iron

throw down

2ldk

uzumaki

visitor q

waterboys

Brewster McCloud.


I 2nd Six String Samurai.

The Krays
Salome's Last Dance
Save the Green Planet
Dellamorte Dellamore
Girl on a Bridge
The Ruling Class

Some other movies, with connections to previously-mentioned movies to connect the thread together a bit more...

After Hours -> Music of Chance... there's a kind of nightmare common to both of how thin a thread connects you to civilised society.
Box of Moonlight -> Lawn Dogs ... Sam Rockwell, characters who are a bit, I suppose, lost.

Titanic. God it was so good. Such nuance, made on a shoestring, but what it lacked in starpower, effects, sets and overblown music, it made up for in a little something I like to call, heart.

Actually, the short "American Mod" was very cool. I liked it alot.

The Eighth Day (L'Huitième Jour) with Daniel Auteuil. It's really really good, especially if you're into stuff like Amelie.

and

Southlander by Steve Hanft and Ross Harris, featuring Beck, Laura Prepon, Hank III, and Beth Orton

Buffalo 66 and Session 9

No one I know has ever heard of JIm Jarmusch, which I find a real shame, Down by law, Dead man and coffee and cigarettes are three of my top 5 films.

the Machinist, and Thinner.

And his brothers are Tom and Nick.

Hmm, I do believe I'm being mocked.

I will add as justification for my (evidently) mockworthy statement, that living in the arse end of the UK (We've only just had electricity and indoor toilets put in) tends to narrow the collective mind of the local population.

Following is a great pick - I recommend it whenever I think of it in conversation and inevitably people haven't seen it. It also reminds me that I often recommend Alfred Hitchcock's Rope since most people around my age haven't seen that either, and I think it's pretty darned fantastic.