Favourite Lesser-Known Movie

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Hi,

Forgive me if this has been covered before, but looking for viewing suggestions, I was wondering if you guys can recommend any lesser-known movies you really like.

I'll start the ball rolling with Short Time: Dabney Coleman plays a cop who, mistakenly believing he only has a few days to live, starts acting like Dirty Harry because the death of a cop on duty gives a huge insurance payout but if he dies of natural causes his family get next to nothing.

Of course, he can't get killed no matter how hard he tries:)

I thought it was a funny, feel-good movie.
 
DepenRAB what movies you like, a few personal faves of mine:

Pieces Of April - Katie Holmes (before she was mega famous)

11.14 - Rachel Leigh Cook, Shawn Hatosey & Hilary Swank
 
One that was on BBC2 in the early hours of this morning - Soylent Green. Made early 70s and set in the future, it's about an over-populated New York that has a food shortage and finRAB a macabre solution. Stars Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson. I've never seen it before and it has been making me think about it all day. Very thought-provoking. I really enjoyed it.
 
Clean, Shaven - Film about a schizophrenic who is seeking his daughter from a previous broken marriage/relationship, all set during a spate of local child murders. You don't know if the main character is the child killer or just a disturbed father looking for his child. Soundtrack is notable and really emphasises the mental condition of the subject in the film.

Time Out review.

IMDB review.

Oh, the film stars Peter Greene, who is probably better known as Zed in the film Pulp Fiction. One underrated actor.
 
Miracle Mile

A haunting film about a guy (ex-ER bloke Anthony EdwarRAB) who falls in love then learns via an inadvertantly intercepted phone call that nuclear missiles may be heading his way. It's a thriller and a tearjerker in one and unique in its way.
 
I'm amazed that two people have mentioned my favorites (SOMEONE BEHIND THE DOOR and MIRACLE MILE), so I'll plump for YEAR OF THE COMET (1992), a charming Romancing The Stone style film set in the Scottish HighlanRAB, and THE LINGUINI INCIDENT (1991), a caper comedy featuring that once in a lifetime pairing of David Bowie and Rosanna Arquette.
 
Man on the moon - I know it's Jim Carrey, but no one ever discusses this movie, it was released limitedly and yet it was clearly the role he was born to play
 
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