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

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VampireSparkles · 21/06/2015 15:26

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.

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VampireSparkles · 21/06/2015 18:56

"a Swedish film where the grown up children have never left their patents house (maybe eye teeth)"

^ I watched it on TV not too long ago, can't remember what it was called, but it was interesting.

It sounds like Dogtooth but could be wrong.

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Mumteedum · 21/06/2015 18:58

Serena - little otik was good dark fun. Everyone should watch some svankmaier!

My fave obscure film, the Spanish prisoner. David mamet thriller with Steve martin in straight role.

Also ones I remember...

Kissed. Odd but quite enjoyable film about necrophilia!

Phase 7... Argentinian horror but funny.

DonkeyOaty · 21/06/2015 19:00

Mine is Dead Again - Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson and Derek Jacobi all sporting 'Mercan accients. Weird film.

Also Tall Guy, ET again this time with Jeff Goldblum.

Maurice is an excellent film.

JasperDamerel · 21/06/2015 19:02

I've seen quite a lot of these.

Of the ones I can remember, probably Darkness in Tallinn about a bank heist in Estonia which causes a city-wide power cut.

Or Astropia which is a really lovely Icelandic comedy about the trophy girlfriend of a sleazy businessmen who gets arrested for his shady dealings and gets a job in a comic shop. Nobody else I know has seen it, and it's funny and sweet and has really lovely relationships between the characters, especially the women.

TheFutureSupremeRulersMum · 21/06/2015 19:03

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring - not only obscure, it's downright bizarre. Spoiler alert one of the characters starts tying fish and frogs to stones...

hiddenhome · 21/06/2015 19:03

THX 1138

Futuristic dystopian nightmare

expatinscotland · 21/06/2015 19:04

Dead Again was fab. The twist at the end!

dementedma · 21/06/2015 19:05

Yes, to Children of a Lesser God.
The Big Blue

QueenWitch · 21/06/2015 19:06

Harold and Maude. One of my favourite films, only ever met two people who have seen it, and they were the ones who introduced me to it. Simply beautiful, and the soundtrack by Cat Stevens is gorgeous.

Anononooo · 21/06/2015 19:06

Summer in the City, wIm Wenders. His student film, very long, not much seen, I am sure.

MarchLikeAnAnt · 21/06/2015 19:06

Tsotsi. It's a south African film about a bad young man who becomes good.

Momagain1 · 21/06/2015 19:07

Once Around, Richard Dreyfuss and Holly Hunter. Dumped woman meets charismatic salesman, and they marry. I think he is older and is dying when she is pregnant? I definately remember her being pregnant.

It was our first date, because Green Card was sold out. We still havent seen that.

MaitreKarlsson · 21/06/2015 19:10

Cider, 'Bad Boy Bubby' was the film that I immediately thought of when I saw the thread title! Definitely one of the weirdest films I've seen. And an interesting choice for Sixth Form Film Club. Grin

annettec01 · 21/06/2015 19:11

Clue

rugbychick · 21/06/2015 19:11

As It Is In Heaven. A Norwegian film (subtitled into English). About a conductor living in Austria, who has a heart attack, survives, and decides to return to his home town and starts his own orchestra, or is it choir? I can't remember which. Excellent

RiverTam · 21/06/2015 19:12

I loved The Tall Guy, wasn't Jeff Goldblum a straightman to Rowan Atkinson's sadistic comedian? Something like that.

I've seen My Own Private Idaho as well, beautiful boys a-go-go.

ExcuseMyEyebrows · 21/06/2015 19:14

RiverTam The Fall is my favourite film ever. I just love everything about it Smile

KurriKurri · 21/06/2015 19:16

Full Frontal - Stephen Soderbergh .
Went to see it at the cinema with DS when he was doing film studies A level. We were the only people in the cinema, until about a minute before the film started when a guy with huge hair came in and sat in the seat right in front of me.
Can't remember what the hell happened in the film, but I still remember big hair man and how DS shook with silent laughter about him. Grin

ToadsJustFellFromTheSky · 21/06/2015 19:16

Abnormal Beauty

SagaNorensLeatherTrousers · 21/06/2015 19:17

Gummo. Another Larry Clark "gem" (director of Kids).

Also, I saw the weirdest, most disturbing film with Perry Ferrell (lead singer of Jane's Addiction) called Gift. Seriously weird.

NotJustaPotforSoup · 21/06/2015 19:19

I think Dogtooth is Greek. The only film where half of my film club walked out before the end. Me & my mate thought it hilarious, in a very disturbed way. In fact, it was the least popular film they started voting, coming after even Once Upon a Time in Anatolia.

lalalonglegs · 21/06/2015 19:20

I will bet a bucket of popcorn that no one has sat through the full two hours-plus of Italian "meditative" adaptation Barnabo of the Mountains.

treaclesoda · 21/06/2015 19:20

I've skimmed so apologies if anyone else has mentioned this but has anyone seen Cube? I think that's what it's called. It's about this random group of people who wake up in this cube made up of all these smaller cubes and they are trying to escape from it.

NotJustaPotforSoup · 21/06/2015 19:22

One of my recent fave obscure films was O'Horten. About a Norwegian train driver called Odd.

PetiteBateau · 21/06/2015 19:22

Dogs in space
Harold & maude
Blood tea & red string
The woods
Innocence
Me without you
Society