Movies That Rock!!! (that no ones heard of!)

Now that summers here i get to fill my time with renting movies. Im pretty open minded when it comes to flicks and enjoy tons of movies purely for their entertainment value...

So what movies do you think rock that not many people have seen??? It doesnt have to be a B-movie and it could even be a recent movie...


My movie is Equilibrium. For some reason or another alot of people i know have seen this flick.

"The Lover", by Jean-Jacques Annaud. The uncut version of course!

Equilibrium was a good-ass movie. The gun katas were fucking awesome. I'll have to come back to this thread as soon as I can think of a good movie.

I have a nasty habit of only watching terrible B (even C) horror movies.

Edit: Oops, nevermind.

[Edited on May 29, 2006 by SirLoins]

The Anniversary Party
Primer
Vampire's Kiss
Lagaan
Bodies Rest & Motion
Gas Food Lodging
Last Days of Disco

I love "Equilibrium."

My pic is "Dead Again".

These......are for you!

I wouldn’t say no one had heard of Gattaca, but too few, when you realize how GOOD it is.

Erm..
Mirrormask
The Day of the Jackal
The Conversation

get crazy featuring everyone from malcolm mcdowell to daniel stern to big joints to lee ving to ed begley jr.

"this theater is coming down and 90 stories of glass and steel are going up so FUCK YOU AND FUCK ROCK AND ROLL"!!!

Europa Europa. I've never talked to anyone who's seen it.

Poolhall Junkies
Suicide Kings
Session 9
Madhouse

wow... im going to fill up my netflix queue!!!!!

For a good counterpoint to summer movies, I suggest The Specials for a different take on the superhero genre. As a bonus, one of the stars is a photographer for some SG sets.

Crazed Fruit
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
Before Sunrise and Before Sunset
Hell's Angels

Paperhouse -- I love it and no one's ever heard of it

Zatiochi: The Blind Swordsmen (2003)
Le Grand Bleu
Capturing the Freidman's
Criminal
Taboo
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr.
The Razor's Edge

A tout de suite

"No Man's Land" - about the Serbo-Croat war. Really well done, but really depressing. I watched this right before prom.

Wizards

Laurel Canyon

Freeze.Die.Come to Life
Cold Fever
Junk Mail
Jump Tomorrow
Black Cat White Cat
When The Cats Away
Dandelion
On Top Of The Whale
Nói Albínói
Simple Men
Hope you don't mind sloooowww movies. I love them!

Big Night

'the rutles' is the best 'unknown' movie ever.

trouble every day
the believer
the image


i wouldnt say these are movies no one's ever heard of just not that common.

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter - It's beyond bad, but that's kind of what makes it so good.

The Groove Tube. That movie cracks me up. Although only one person out of many that I've shown it to, liked it.

The Killer (John Woo, 1989)

Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa, 1949)

A coworker of mine introduced me to these movies, and Criterion as a whole. His Criterion Collection, uh, collection is staggering.

-TM

I would definitely second The Believer. It's about a jew who becomes a skinhead. Very beautiful, brutally real characters.

Mirror Mask was also good, but not quite as original as I'd hoped it would be. It was like watching one of Gaiman's books on a full budget but... it was just TOO Gaiman. Too many staples from his books recycled until it kinda felt like I had watched it before. Inspite my complaints, I loved the hell out of it.

A bunch of my friends like the Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys but I just didnt get anything out of it besides intese depression.

My pics are Undead, which got a theatrical release in the US eventually but no one saw it. The first zombie comedy I'd ever seen. Very very funny and it brings you to care about the characters, which suprised me considering how ridiculous they are.

Also: Bubba Ho Tep (Bruce Campbell plays an aged Elvis in a nursing home who teams up with a black JFK to take on a mummy. Amazingly, it's a very low-key character peice) and Lost and Delirious (Schoolgirls in a relationship, they get outed, insanity and depression ensues).