Obscure and rare films

A Love in Germany is a film I really enjoyed seeing, starring Hanna Schygulla, but I've never seen it on TV since.

Another one is Chungking Express but I don't think that's obscure, really.
 
I saw In the Mood for Love first, which was a mistake because I wanted Chungking Express to be better than it was; still, the girl in the wig was pretty memorable and i wish a secret admirer would break into my house and make it spick and span. Wong also made Happy together, a gay cantonese road movie set in Argentina - I wonder how he got funding for that idea???

It's much harder trying to think of obscure English medium films, particularly British ones. I remember seeing and enjoying "Lady Jane" with Helena Bonham Carter which had a made for schools kind of feel.
 
This was a martial arts movie from the mid eightys. The main character was a Bruce Lee wannabe called Bruce Leeroy. I remember it being quite funny. Some of the songs were also amusing especially one called The Glow (i think that was the title) which played when Bruce became the master, and started to look like someone from the old readybrek adverts
 
I've seen that one. Excellent choice.

Another little known B&W British film is Woman in a Dressing Gown which nearly made me cry when I saw it on TV one afternoon. Completely unexpected.
 
Plein Soleil a.k.a. Purple Moon / 1960 / with Alain Delon

(The French original of "The Talented Mr Rippley" and, although I like the 1999 remake quite a lot, this is even better!)

You can rent the movie from Lovefilm or Amazon.

Info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054189/

Clips: (Warning: these may contain spoilers!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_QJOpVwDl4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQucmAX4g1w

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There's another film I really liked when I first saw it some 15 years ago but it is completely obsolete and I can't find it anywhere. Not available on tapes or DVRAB. Keep waiting for it to come on telly again.

Me, Natalie / 1969 / with Patty Duke

Info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064651/

Trivia: This was Al Pacino's first ever movie appearance in a very small role.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFHI1JpYSkM
 
I watched an animated film the other day that i've been trying to get hold of since a kid, it's a French film translated to Time Masters and is around 20 years old.
The BBC apparently dubbed it in 1987 but it was lost in the archives, i'd been trying for years to remember the film title but was blank, all I remembered was there was a child, and a character called Jaffer but everytime I searched google I was typing Jaffa which I thought was the spelling and getting nothing.
The other day I searched through a load of sites and got a film called Fantastic Planet, I thought that might be the one but when watched learnt it wasn't, I done a search to see if there was a similar film or a sequel and by chance on a site I come across a thread regarding similar film and saw Time Masters mentioned with the character called Jaffer.
I tried amazon and ebay for copies but they seemed to be in French or German so I visited one of the torrent sites and found it in 5 different languages, I was well happy :D
 
Valley of Song

A wonderfully stereotypical film made in the 1950s. It's about a choral society in south Wales which includes two families, who start a feud about singing!
A Romeo and Juliet plot develops as the son of one clan begins to date the daughter of the other clan in secret.
I love it - it's quite innocent and silly!
 
It's astonishing how much of an impression this movie makes: I still have a copy from when it was on tv eons ago.
Ray Brooks is one of the UK version's voices. :cool:
 
I've still got a copy on Beta Max video, unfortunatly not had one of the players for a long time and when I have borrowed ones before to go through the videos, i've kept having problems with tapes being damaged arrrrrrgh:D
 
The Children

an adaptation of an Edith Wharton novel with Ben Kingsley and an aged Kim Novak. The cast was excellent, but I've only seen it once. It suffers, I suppose, from being faithful to the novel, which keeps the pacing slow.

Unlike the Remains of the Day, there are no Nazis and no Christopher Reed to warn the Europeans of the danger, so guess it didn't sell in the States
 
A Slow Descent Into Hell with Richard Harris.
Also goes by the name of 'Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid'.
A weird and violent story of sexual obsession!
 
How about Sir Henry at Rawlinson End? Pure genius! Written by Viv Stanshall and Trevor Howard's last film. It's beautifully English, utterly mad and very very funny.
 
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