Name the most obscure, not well known film you've seen?

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Basketball Diaries. I've never met a single person who has seen it and it's one of my favourites. Leonardo Dicaprio and Mark Wahlberg.

Like Crazy, pre Jennifer Lawrence being famous. Low budget and the cast had to make up 50% of the script.

Daydream nation. Stumbled across the trailer randomly on YouTube, decided to watch it. Really odd but turned out quite good.

Not sure if these have been mentioned, only read up to page 2!

Dean Spanley
Invasion Quartet

Seen quite a few of these as quite enjoy more 'obscure' films now and again.
Can I add "Pallendromes"? - watched this on DVD about 10 years ago and found it quite bizarre. From what I can remember some of the characters "switched" to different actors mid-story - even different sex and race? And there was a little kid who drew a picture of someone "pooping back and forth"??!! Found it very odd but have never met anyone IRL who's seen it to discuss it.

I'm A Cyborg, But That's Ok.

The Squid and The Whale.

Fabulous thread, I've got loads I want to track down now.

I don't think anyone's mentioned Betty Blue yet. A french film that came out in the mid-80s with Beatrice Dalle & Jean-Hugues Anglade. Heartbreaking.

YY to Betty Blue, the amazing music and the stockpot on the stove top, I must have seen that film about 20 times.

I saw Dean Spanley on a long-haul flight. Anything with an Au/NZ link (Sam Neill) gets shown quickly on Qantas. An utterly charming film. I have it DVD.

My bizarro vote goes to Berberian Sound Studio (2012) where a sound engineer's weekend, goes horribly, near incomprehensibly wrong. Toby Jones of Tinker, Tailor, etc. is the man in question.

Sorry if this has been mentioned but anyone else seen Anna To The Infinite Power? I watched it a a child, quite weird film about cloning.

Also a film I have watched over and over: Jonathan the Boy Nobody Wanted. A very emotional film about a baby with Down Syndrome whose parents send him to an institute and don't want anything to do with him and a nurse cares for him and forms a special bond. Makes me cry EVERYTIME.

R00tat ive seen Palindromes! I'd forgotten about it and wouldn't have known what it was called but the swapping of race and gender of the characters rang a bell, really odd film and I struggled to follow it!

I love a gentle foreign language film, though DH only sites through them on sufferance. Some faves are:
Cave of the yellow dog
Spirit of the beehive
Etre et avoir (more a documentary but beautiful nonetheless)

100redballoons I think knowing Betty Blue just makes you old - it was one of those films that was everywhere for a while then vanished, sooo many boys had Betty Blue posters on their walls when I was at college, it was a real cliche.

YAsoNBU - Etre et Avoir is a gorgeous film

Oh Betty Blue is amazing, 100red. There's just something about it which makes my heart feel all achy and longing! Nobody was ever more gorgeous than Béatrice Dalle in that film.

Fish Tank - gritty, dark but very interesting and well acted.

Hello I must be going- good gentle film about a woman going through a divorce- recommend

Fish tank- gritty, dark with a good cast. It did win some awards though so might be more well known than I think.

Hello I must be going- great film, gentle humour about relationships and families.

I watched a French film years ago (on TV mid 90's) about a family that turned into rats- if anyone watched that and knows what it is called please let me know- very random film can't find it on google.

Martyrs. A French horror film and one of the most disturbing films I've ever seen.

A Field In England. Magic mushrooms and the English civil war. Seriously weird and trippy.

Timescape a film with Jeff Daniels, he runs a hotel and a group of time travellers come to stay, they travel through time to just witness famous disasters. It's far better than how I've described but hardly anyone has seen it

I love that film but you cant get it on dvd , Frequency is another time slip type film that is hardly ever mentioned.

White Nights is another forgotten film really. The dancing is amazing

The Worlds Fastest Indian is a film that nobody seems to have heard of. True story of an Aussie who goes to the salt flats of Utah to break a world speed record.

The boy with green hair
I know that film, a little Dean Stockwell (Quantum Leap) and a fabulous Nat King Cole theme tune "Nature Boy"

An unusual film set during the Black Death and 1990's New Zealand and produced as a collaboration between Wales and New Zealend about a boy who has a prophecy in that he can save his town from the Plague if he can complete a quest to mount a new cross on his church.

I really want to know what it is called!

I've seen War of the Buttons my sister used to like that.
mrsjay it's Tom Hardy in Bronson looks so different with that much bulk though- weird film but interesting

320 posts, and no mention of Hal Hartley ?

Amateur

The Unbelievable Truth

Trust

(The last two with the tragically murdered Adrienne Shelly - RIP)

Or Mystery Train by Jim Jarmusch. I saw someone namechecked "Night on Earth" - this came before. Joe Strummer in a rare acting role !!!!!

If you want to go extremely off-grid, there is a priceless Italian film - a very post modern comedy which is slapstick, self-referential, sublime parody, and has a cute baby Then "The Icicle Thief"

City of the Lost Children -- for those who love surreal steampunk. You also get to see Ron Perlman young and shirtless.

Honkytonk Man -- the saddest and most underrated Clint Eastwood's work

Oscar nominated, so can't have been all that obscure, but I wonder how many people have watched The Story of the Weeping Camel?

I'm of the Betty Blue generation and I know what you mean about the "feeling" agentcooper. A kind of very 80s feeling! That film blew my mind in so many ways – the freedom of the way the characters behaved and how they dressed, the friend who went out to get laid, the hero who was cooking in his shack at the beginning, the oral sex that made us all go it all challenged this very narrow universe I grew up in. But then it also made me very angry what happened at the end and provoked some early feminist feelings. There was a real madwoman in the attic angle to it and Beatrice Dalle is amazing in it.

Oh aye tom Hardy i meant to google but got distracted thank you. I saw a film last year about Bettie Paige last year was fascinting she was quite vulnerable