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.

Bobby dearfield - al pacino, racing driver and utterly gorgeous in it.

Seen Basket ball, loved it Decaprio was brilliant in it.

Loads of Foreign Films no one else has seen.

Kid stays in the picture, utterly brilliant scrap book film about lie of amazing producer who did godfather, love story etc. no one seen it, but its amazing.

The music lovers - about Peter Tchaikovsky with ric chamberlain and glenda jackson.

I have seen life is beautiful, I have never cried at a film like I cried at that one. Watched it when it came out with my very manly rugby player flat mate, he hid in the toilet at the end because he was such a snotty tearful mess!

Remembered another one - Miracle Mile. Excellent but bizarrely unknown 80s armageddon thriller. Bleak ending that was totally lifted by Cloverfield.

I've seen 'The Kid Stays...', Sublime,! It was on BBC2 (I think) - I agree, amazing and fascinating.

• ohmymimi

YES, so fascinating, if your interested in that period of film, book called - Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is also AMAZING.

oh and "Black Cat White Cat", absolutely great film, with a great sound track.

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No-one has mentioned seeing this - 'The Beast/Le Bête - so this might tempt you!

DR Caligari. Er...weird.

Oh,

"La Lectrice"

I lived that period of film, Sublime! And I've got that book (somewhere - box in the loft I suspect).

La Dentellière (The Lace Maker) which I studied as part of my French degree. Can't really remember much about it other than the main character was anorexic and ended up in a psychiatric hospital, but whenever I see a windmill in a film, I am thrown back into a lecture theatre in Newcastle, watching my mad tutor crossing his arms and raving about Christian symbolism!

A couple that came to mind have been mentioned already - Young Poisoner's Handbook and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. They were out at a similar time I think.

70isalimit agreed about Murder in the First. well acted but not one to watch again.

Not sure how popular Man Bites Dog was but that was v grim!

70isalimit I got mixed up - I was thinking of Sleepers. I'm sure I've seen MitF too, though.

I was coming on to confidently state 'Dogs in Space', sure that no-one else would have seen it, but I see PetiteBateau beat me to it. I had to make a big trip to my nearest city to go to the arty cinema to see it. Micheal Hutchence .

So I shall try again with The Girl in the Picture - John Gordon Sinclair and a Claire Grogan-esque girl (who was in a picture, natch). Don't remember much about it other than lots of shots of them wandering around the leafy bits of Glasgow.

Basket Case, a Cabadian B movie, one of the weirdest things I've ever seen!!

'The Beast/Le Bête

heard of that will seek it out.

Another

Five Easy Pieces! Jack Nicholson as his finest

13 Assassins.
Japanese language film, roughly based on real events at the end of the Shogrun (sp?) era. Brilliant film, fantastically directed and shot but rather graphically violent.
Thanks to Netflix and a baby who wouldn't sleep. I have watched a lot of rather obscure films to pass the wee hours at night with my little cub who would only sleep when cuddled. This was the best one.

Mimi Do you mean Derek Jarman's Sebastiane? I remember that from the days when Channel 4 had a 'Red Triangle' season in the 80s and it featuring lots of full frontal male nudity and lusty Romans? I was far too young to be watching anything Red Triangle at the time.

missmakes Underground by Emir Kusturica, a Bosnian director who also made Black Cat, White Cat, which was mentioned upthread. They are both great films.

Most obscure film I've seen is Le Quatro Voltre, a very unusual Italian film about reincarnation.

I love martial arts films, saw a brilliant Vietnamese one called Versus (I think) and there's a very good Thai film from the director of Ong Bak, called Chocolate.

getbusy Just Another Girl on the IRT is a cracking film.

An Argentinian film called Wild Tales.

It was short stories all based on acts of revenge.

Really had me hooked.

Can't remember who mentioned these, but...

Last year at Marienbad - watched as part of my film studies course. Don't particularly want to watch it again though.

Primer - mind-bending! I remember having to find an infographic to explain it properly!

Tidelands - odd and sinister. Made me think of Alice in Wonderland.

Has anyone else seen:

9 (the animated film)
The Fall (1920's, hospital ward?)
Sleeping Beauty - the 2011, very adult one with Emily Browning
Beasts of the Southern Wild
The Sweet Hereafter
A Tale of Two Sisters

Love this thread! Many more movies for my "to watch" list now

Also seen the basketball diaries. Anyone seen a French movie called (I think) 8(?) women. It's a sort of surreal Agatha Christie style locked room murder mystery with songs... Utterly fab, totally weird. It had some famous faces in it but my French friend looked at me blankly when I mentioned it.

bedelia I've seen 9, totally not what I was expecting, I like it very much though. Also Sleeping Beauty, very unsettling film and not one I'd watch again. Oddly enough it's another one for my list with Hugh Keays-Byrne in.