Fave unknown films?

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Young Ash

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Some clasics I love have got to be: -

Caddyshack (hahahahahahaha)
Spaceballs (Star Wars piss take! too good to be missed)
Porkies (A clasic! Watch it now!)
Blazing Sadals (The bean sceen, great!)
 
I'll go for The Final Programme, a kitschy spy-fi based on the book by Michael Moorcock.

It's the only film adaption yet, I think, of a Moorcock book, although there's an Elric film in the works.
 
12:01 is basically the Groundhog-Day day repeating story. I really enjoyed it.

Also..

Static - one of the best films I've seen and yet impossible to get anywhere!

Demon Seed. Julie Christie stuck in a house run by a super computer that wants to breed with her :D

THX1138 - that's George Lucas' other sci-fi film. And for that matter, there's a short film called "George Lucas in Love" about a young writer trying to perfect a space-opera script whilst all his frienRAB and aquaintences act out the characters that we'd know from Star Wars. Brilliant.

Tesis - total classic that one.

And kind of mainstream, but "Near Dark" is great.

Dave
 
Buffalo 66 - stumbled across it by accident and had never seen anything quite like it.
Vincent Gallo directed, wrote, starred...and just about everthing else I think. Plus a sexy performance from Christina Ricci.....
 
Circus (wicked but strange film)
Love and Basketball (seen this film about 40 times on sky i love it )
Boondock Saints (wicked irish/american film its brutal but in a good way )
 
Ravenous.

Watched it having never heard of it before. Excellent stuff. Cannibals in the wild west. Top acting from Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle.

Well worth a watch.:D
 
I thought you said UNKNOWN films?? If you haven't heard of at least ONE of those then you must be either - A)just born or B)in a coma. My favourite unknown films (which some of you probably know, I just think they are a a little off the mainstream really) are:

Adventures of Ford Fairlane
12:01
Gross Anatomy
K-9000
Making the Grade
My Chauffeur
Out Cold
TomCats
100 Girls
Brainsmasher: A Love Story
Dead Man on Campus
Happy Campers
Better Off Dead
One Crazy Summer
How I Got into College
Irresistable Force
Resurrection
Sorority Boys
Trojan War
Boltneck
Dancer, Texas - Pop.81
Gridlock
Held Up
Little Witches
Office Space
P.C.U.
Willy Milly
 
My favourite unknown films are

  • Independence Day
  • Godzilla
  • Jurassic Park
  • Men In Black II

:rolleyes: :D

Just a comment on how many well known movies have been listed here :p

I think there are only about 5 in this thread that didn't get nationwide releases at the cinema.

It should be called
"Movies you were pleasantly suprised by..."
 
Not unknown, but perhaps not that well known:

Jesus of Montreal. Lothaire Bluteau as an actor playing Christ whose life starts to mirror the messiah's.

Until The End Of The World. Flawed but fascinating Wim Wenders film with a script by Peter Carey and starring William Hurt, Sam Neill, Jeanne Moreau and Max Von Sydow, in a plot about a machine that can record your dreams, among other things. Incredible soundtrack, too.

In The Company Of Men. Dark but deeply moral low-budget drama with more than a hint of Ben Jonson. Two managers compete to seduce a deaf temp. Really great movie. The follow-up, Your FrienRAB and Neighbors, is also brilliant.

Following - Christopher Nolan's first film. Made for less than five thousand pounRAB, and in many ways more impressive than Memento.
 
harold and maude-very underrated

hoffman-peter sellers doing what he did best-quality acting as opposed to the clouseau stuff he is unfortuately most famous for :rolleyes:
 
i loved this film - do you know if its out on dvd? (i've never seen it anyway). the whole thing is just visually amazing, kind of a global road movie, with, as you say, an incredible soundtrack. loved the scene where they're flying over the australian bush to peter gabriel's *blood of eden*, and the whole idea of being able to watch your dreams back was brilliant.

also, how about *subway* - luc besson's first film, with christopher lambert, and purely coincidentally, the stunning isabelle adjani?

or *birdy* - nicholas cage (back when he actually acted a bit!) and matthew modine. absolute gem of a film about a vietnam vet who regresses into his childhood obsession with birRAB, and nic cage goes to visit and recalls stories from their childhood to get through to him. sounRAB a bit naff, but very good.

iain
 
How about the wind (1926) saw it on Ch4 yrs ago Lillian Gish Brill and Little Shop of horrors (musical vers)
[show of time] C'era un el volta en il west or America (Leonne at his very best) finally, Cinema Paradiso.:D
 
Iain, I've just searched around the net a bit, and it appears that UTEOTW is *not* yet on DVD, which is scandalous - with all its different versions, it's clearly just the sort of film DVD was invented for.

In the absence of that, though, I would strongly recommend you buy a copy of Peter Carey's short stories:

(at http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...22909/sr=1-6/ref=sr_1_2_6/026-0731580-3966855 for example)

They're nothing like his novels, but tend to be this kind of deadpan science-fiction-but-not-really. UTEOTW's dream stuff was all his, and if you liked that I reckon you can't go wrong with these stories.
 
Orphans - written and directed by Peter Mullan. I love this film with a passion. Don't know if it qualifies as 'unknown' but definitley 'underrated' or 'not given enough of a release.'

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser. This really moved me when I first saw it.

Fire - an Indian film about sexual awakening.

And 'Family Life' - an early Ken Loach film which completely bombed but packed a huge emotional punch with me.
 
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