Fave unknown films?

Not exactly unknown, but George Sluizer's 'The Vanishiing' is sheer class.

Not to be confused with the crappy Hollywood remake Sluizer did a few years ago
 
I completely agree about Repo Man. I saw this in a tiny cinema in Liverpool in the middle of the afternoon with about three other people. Mind you, it did become a kind of cult indie movie.
 
unkown as in Non-Mainstream?

Ikiru by Kurosawa
Metropolis, both the Frtiz Lang and Ozumu Tezuka (anime) ones, the anime one isnt a remake or anything.
M by Fritz Lang
Clerks and Chasing Amy by Kevin Smith aren't too well known are they?
That's all I can think of at the moment.
 
I'm a huge Klaus Kinski fan, and a couple of his films that no one has heard of are real good movies - ANDROID released in 1980 is a Sci-Fi flick about a scientist who is illegally creating replicant androiRAB on a space station (before you say anything, it was made BEFORE Blade Runner!!!) It works for me every time (only available on deleted VHS - usually see copies on eBay). Plus another of his called CRAWLSPACE, which is a horror movie about a creepy German landlord who rents rooms to innocent young teenage girls, then crawls along the air conditioning ducts and spies on them through the air vents. Of course, he likes murdering them too, and even dresses up as Hitler with badly applied lipstick in one scene marching around his private room saluting a Nazi film on a projector screen. VERY weird and spooky film. Again only ever brought out on VHS and deleted years ago.

Also, saw a weird Spanish film years ago about a bloke who got stuck inside a phone booth and couldn't get out. No-one would help him, and when a truck pulled up, he thought they had come to help him, but they loaded the booth onto the back and towed him away. Then he noticed other people trapped inside phone booths also on the backs of trucks as he went along the road. At the end of the film, the truck reached a huge cave and the driver took the booth off and dumped it inside, and he realised that the cave was full of phone booths full of skeletons. I think it was called "The Phone Box" - I taped it off TV in the 80s, but the ****ing tape wore out, so I don't have a copy any more. There was virtually no talking so the language barrier didn't matter - it worked for everyone.
 
Kluas Kinski

Hi Sue did you notice him in doctor zhivago made in 1965, and also Nosferatu..
or am I getting him mixed up with someone else.:)
 
Anyone seen the "SEQUEL" to Klaus Kinski's Nosferatu?? He again stars as the eponymous vampire, this time stalking the streets of Venice... the film is cleverly called Vampire in Venice.
 
Yep, that WAS him in Doctor Zhivago, and he was also in For a Few Dollars More!!! Nosferatu was the biggest movie of his career, and NO I haven't seen the sequel. Thought he played the vampire very convincingly, but of course, it was a German film, and I never liked watching him with subtitles or having his voice dubbed. Bought the double discer but resold it on eBay because of those probs.
 
I know this is not an unknown film but The Shawshank Redemption is fantastic. By the way can anyone tell me the name of a film that was about pilots that crashed in the desert but in the end they all turned out to be ghosts? as this is really bugging me. Its very old but I am sure very famous
 
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