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.

Limited

I wonder if the foreign films we think of as obscure are well known in their country of origin.

limited, I really liked the Story of the Weeping Camel!

How about The Tribe? Out recently in about one cinema. Ukrainian film with all deaf actors using Ukrainian Sign Language. No subtitles, no score.

I like Running On Empty too. Lovely River. And Another Earth. Liked quite a lot of these films mentioned, actually.

I've seen War of the buttons too, kit may others on this thread.
Toy Soldiers is a very underrated film about a group of boys held hostage in private school.
And a British film called Dancin Thru the Dark has some very catchy 80's songs in it!

Nouef, was it set in the slight future? There's a Bruce Campbell film where they plug in and dream but I can't remember the name!

Dellamorte Dellamore (might be the other way round); insanely mad Rupert Evertt film. Just brilliant.

Only Cowgirls Get The Blues.

I quite enjoyed it but loads of people walked out of the cinema.

My Name Is Kahn.

Utterly brilliant film.

Centre Stage, starring a not famous Zoe Saldana. Saw this about 10 years ago and absolutely loved it.

limited, I really liked the Story of the Weeping Camel!

So do over 90 per cent of reviewers on Rotten Tomatoes, so the tide is with you and not me OnlyLovers .

I've seen an enormous number of really crap films that thankfully never see the light of day.

But there have been some really good ones. It's bugging the hell out of me but there was a really good surreal Spanish film about two half-brothers who encounter all these problems while trying to get to their father's funeral in rural Spain in the height of the summer.

I can't remember its name but it was really good and there were probably plenty of references that zoomed over my head.

I really liked The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Thoughtful mix of adventure and study of Islam and Western views.

The cast includes Kiefer Sutherland, so you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a 24-style goodies v baddies movie.

Fucking awful title though which must be one of the reasons it sank without trace.

On the same theme of intelligent US treatments of Islamism is Sleeper Cell. It's not perfect but it combines action with explaining Muslim grievances. Which is probably why it bombed. It made it to a second series though.

I also loved Prisoners of War which was the Israeli show that Homeland was based on. It's so much better.

I'm glad the Weeping Camel was so popular. Its little face!

The Reluctant Fundamentalist is based on a novel, isn't it? It's a better name for a book than for a film.

I'd love to see Prisoners of War.

I know Lars Von Trier is a sort of well known director, but most I know has never watched his films (or not admitting to watching them anyway)
Antichrist
Nymphomaniac 1&2
They were both out there and will never ever recommend to my mother
But my most favourite film ever is Melancholia!! I urge you to watch it.

Yes, Reluctant Fundamentalist was based on a book of the same title. They should have thought of a different title for the film though.

I'm glad I saw it but I wish it had a wider audience because it's a really good mix of that kind of corporate greed story with a bit of adventure and also a serious attempt to try to explain grievances.

There's a scene where the Pakistani-American protagonist is strip-searched at a US airport simply for returning from somewhere the US considers dodgy, even though he's in the company of other travellers from his upmarket business. The boss of the company is an enemy of the State in a different way. But it's because he's brown and they're white.

Plus it's Riz Ahmed who I fancy in a 'young man' kind of way .

Prisoners of War turns up on Sky Arts every now and then.

The second series has just finished its re-run so you're probably going to have to wait at least a year.

Plus it's Riz Ahmed who I fancy in a 'young man' kind of way

Me too. Hello tiger.

I've seen so many of these!

Primer - still don't understand it.
Hedwig And The Angry Inch - one of my favourite films ever.
Bubba Ho Tep - Liked it, would watch again.
Miracle Mile - watched for Dr Greene but it was a good film
I'm A Cyborg and that's ok - weird but very good

Has anyone one else seen Gentlemen Broncos? Or Flawless with Philip Seymour Hoffman?

Ridicule - French film about draining swamps. Better than it sounds, honest

yes brilliant, and also Girl on the Bridge - Vanessa paradis, and lovely film cant remeber name of about woman growing lemons then has wall built in her patch -

oh and The Leopard, with Alain Delon and claudia cardinale, stunning amazing film.

Thanks Dorka!

Dark city.. With him out of Crystal Maze and that one out of 24.. One of my all time favourite Sci-Fi films and hardly anyone I know has seen it!

Mr Horatio Knibbles was the story of the giant rabbit who was invisible, we had it taped from the TV. Must try hunt down a copy for my sister for her birthday!

Also from that time Digby the biggest Dog in the world.. LOVED it as a kid barely anyone remembers it..

The Lunchbox, earlier this year, in a Indian restaurant.

I remember Digby!

Everything is Illuminated, Elijah Wood searching for his roots in Ukraine. It's such a lovely, sad, funny little film and no one else ever seems to have seen it. I made my friend watch it the other day and she loved it.

And "Only Cowgirls Get The Blues". Una Thurman, big thumbs.

The kite. It's a Lebanese girl who is sent for an arranged marriage in Israël and falls in love with an Israeli border guard

Gadjo dilo, a guy who goes to Romania to find a gypsy.singer . I first saw this in Romanian with Turkish subtitles, understood a word every 15 minutes or so and still loved it!

Robot & Frank is a beautifully sad film about an old man, his health and his helper robot.

An Australian film called Spider and Rose about an elderly woman and an ambulance driver.

Fido- zombie movie with billy Connolly as a zombie and 'trinity' from the matrix.

Cactus jack- daft cartoon style film where Arnie swarzeneager plays a character called 'handsome stranger' (he was named after his dad!)
Two hands -early Heath ledger film