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.

Harold and Maude is such a brilliant film - although when someone tells you the premise it sounds utterly shit. One of my favourite films.

DH is v interested in classic cinema. Italian Neorealism is a favourite in our house, especially La Strada, Rome Open City and Bicycle Thieves. Going more obscure we loved The Flowers of St Francis.

Or you could go Japanese: Would love to meet someone who's seen Ugetsu Monogatari or Sansho Dayu, totally beautiful films and heartbreaking.

Bubba Ho Tep
Awful....

Any films by the Japanese director Koreeda, but especially Maborosi (1995). An amazing beautiful film.

House of fools - a Russiam film about a group of Chechen rebels hiding out in a psychiatric hospital, one of the patients believes that she is engaged to Bryan Adams. Fantastic film, never met anyone else who has seen it

The cement garden, very strange film about incest and burying your mothers corpse in a block of cement

YY agentcooper the films are very rewarding emotionally, but you're in for the long haul when you settle down for the night with a Tarkovsky DVD

Absolutely, greenhill - I was drunk one night and tried to put on Mirror but couldn't get the subtitles on. I kept saying to DH, "it doesn't matter, just look at the pictures, you'll love it!" He went to bed while I was still fiddling with it

Kundry, I haven't seen enough Japanese films but I love Ozu - Late Spring and Tokyo Story are so beautiful - so much emotion in really subtle performances. And Good Morning is v funny

Society

I remember Society...that was one weird film

Haven't seen Tokyo Story but really want to, will ask DH about the others.

We haven't even started the Polish neorealism boxset

Thanks for the tips

Another Tarkovsky fan here! - Solaris is beautiful. Mirror is my favourite, and alongside Herzog's Nosferatu is one of my longstanding favourites for relaxing repeated viewings.

I also love Herzog's Kasper Hauser, but his films are generally great. (Do they count as 'obscure'? )

Russian Ark is weird and wonderful and I can watch it over and over again.

My two favourite 'obscure' films are: Urga (Mongolian - about a woman whose husband crosses the border to buy condoms and gets a bit overwhelmed/starstruck by urban life. Includes the best scene ever where she dresses in full ceremonial gear, gets on her horse and charges across the tundra dragging a TV set behind her and smashing it to pieces...), and also Lungo Drom - an awesome film about Romany life, from Asia through to western Europe, told through music. A beautiful, beautiful film. I wish I could find it on DVD, but I can't.

Salopian Trollhunters is ace!

I'd be amazed if anyone else has seen Angel Voices, British film set in 1960s Blackpool about a group of choirboys getting up to no good.

House of Fools... never heard of it, but now I must check it out. Thank you sallysparrow

Troll hunter was an excellent film.

I've seen lots of obscure films due to going through all the foreign language films on Love Film.

Although not too obscure I loved Kolya, a Czech film about a man looking after the son of a girlfriend.

I loved Bienvenue Chez les Ch'tis. There should be an Oscar for Best Drunk on a Bike.

Top grossing film in France that year, I think.

Indrid-you saved me a search. The french teachers love showing Ch'tis at school-it's really witty.
So many films I love- My Brilliant Career, Spider woman.
Many many Peter Greenaways.
A Chinese Ghost Story-it's fab.
Not a film, but my Ds bought me a box set called 21st Century Boys-like a live action manga.

Eraserhead - David Lynch's first theatrical release. So gloomy I walked out after 40 minutes. The Elephant Man was shot in the same style and was pure slapstick in comparison.
I've seen everything Fassbinder made.
One recent film I liked was Warm Bodies, a zombie Romeo and Juliet. Only DD seems to have seen it as well.

Queen witch - one of my favourite films too , absolutely love Harold and Maude

The Locals, a New Zealand horror film. It ain't no early Peter Jackson (add Meet the Feebles to my list), but it was on TV one night years ago and was better than going to sleep.

I loved Maurice. I was about 17 and not half as intellectual as I thought I was when it came out, but semi naked young Edwardian men encouraged me to read all of EM Forster.

Forgot the name and could not find with even with google, it's so obscure.
It's five short stories about night taxi drivers set in different cities.
It was good.

I went to the cinema to see Warm Bodies - film was better than the book

I went through a phase of obsessively watching anything that Ian Hart was in after seeing BackBeat - some fab ones like Clockwork Mice but some awful ones.

Starter for Ten with a young James McAvoy is good.

The Gods must be crazy

Le diner de cons and Le Placard - both lovely French comedies.

And probably not obscure but I love 'Michael' with John Travolta.

Got it!
Night on Earth.

Alpaca - yes, I've seen The Orphanage - good film. Have you seen The Devil's Backbone? Also Spanish, and along similar lines, genre- and story-wise. I think you might like it.

This thread has reminded me of an amazing film I happened across as a teenager. I think it was called Sarhounia (I've just googled it, and found Sarounia...). .... Anyone?