best relatively unknown film you've ever seen and vague plot please

[alwayshappy101]

I watched a lovely film the other week called life is beautiful-bout the strength of the human spirit.was amazing,but none of my friends/family have heard of it.as I didn't before watching.

Really want to know if there are any other hidden gems out there?my fab genres are comedy,horror and ww2.

I came back here from the 'celebrity deaths' thread to say Running On Empty. I absolutely love this film and will always watch it if I see it starting on TV - it's a drama about family life, and how you make relationships when your actions have cut you off from normal communities. Again it's not exactly obscure as it seems to be on every six months! River Phoenix did a wonderful job on it but Judd Hirsch and Christine Lahti were both great too. I would like a bit more challenge to both their views but it's a lovely film.

Battle Royale Great film in no way is The Hunger Games based on it

In To The West I second this, another fab film

Speaking of River Phoenix, My Own Private Idaho, the ultimate cool film to watch when I was a teen in the mid-90s always and forever in love with Keanu

Op you may like cinema paradiso

Slither - scary bloke owns apartment

A Man in Love - Italian bloke falls in love

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliver_(film)

It's Sliver not Slither - Slither is a stupid film made in 2006

Loved I wish but didn't remember the name. Also Goodbye Lenin.

I do find it scary that in I Wish they explain being away to parents by saying "oh we're having an overnight homework session".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AManninLovee(1987_film)

I really liked 'The Lobster'

[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0248845/?ref_=nv_sr_1 Hedwig And The Angry Inch]] - an unsuccessful transexual musician bitches a lot at shows, and tells the story of her life.

I'm an cyborg but that's okay a girl believes she is a cyborg, lovely film.

Any day now two gay men fight to keep custody of a teen with Down's Syndrome. Alan Cumming is wonderful in this.

Sexy Beast: Ben Kingsley and Ray Winstone. Gangster film, good acting and some great lines

Patagonia: Welsh couple with relationship problems travel there, elderly Patagonian lady travels to Wales. Duffy has a small but good role in it.

Anyone see the short TV film "Burn Your Phone" with Alan Cumming as a call centre worker? It was a little bit like Phone Booth.

Good Bye Lenin is one of the best, best films ever made.

Nine Queens is an Argentinan film (don't touch the US remake), with some good twists in it.

The French Taxi films are really entertaining.

Ruby in Paradise, stars a very young Ashley Judd. Not that much happens in it, it;s just about her life, but it's very watchable.

Il Divo - by the same director as Consequences of Love, mentioned upthread.

Confessions - A really dark Japanese film about a schoolteacher seeking revenge on the children who murdered her daughter.

I loved loved loved Stranger than Fiction. Will Ferrell realises he is a character in the book Emma Thompson is writing.

I loved Closer with Jude Law and Clive Owen. Quite a small, starry cast but they're all fabulous and the writing is superb. It's about relationships and how much you can truly know your partner.

Someone earlier mentioned Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing - I love that film too.

Possession

Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart are academics researching the mysterious lives of two poets. Their story is echoed by the story of the two poets (Jennifer Ehle and Jeremy Northam a century before)

Four Rooms

Tim Roth is the hapless Bellboy trying to keep control of the hotel on New Years Eve, despite Madonna's coven, Antonio Banderas' wild children, a domestic dispute and a movie star and his entourage. Each room is directed by a different director including Quentin Tarantino and Roberto Rodriguez.

Very, very funny but the critics hated it.

Wow some of these films definitely seem worth a watch.I will keep an eye out.
I have just remembered another I love but nobody I know has heard of.

the kid from Brooklyn.
it stars Danny Kaye as a mild mannered milkman.after a run in with a famous boxer,everybody thinks Danny kaye knocked the boxer out (he didnt) so the boxer and his team try to build up the milkman boxing reputation (by fixing fights) so the boxer can come back and beat him.

I have done this film no justice in how I described it.but it's funny,light hearted and definitely worth a watch.

slightlyglitterbrained re I Wish, I know - little kids roaming all around the place on trains, no adults to be seen, without anyone seeming to bat an eyelid. Would that happen here? I've been to Japan and you do see school kids especially travelling around solo, so maybe it is realistic...

I agree Senna was good too, never ecpected to like it and only watched it because I was heavily pregnant and had such bad heartburn I couldn't sleep but so glad I did.

If you like Danny Kaye then watch The Court Jester. Old family favourite and hilarious.

Also some Spanish films? Live Flesh by Pedro Almodovar and Pans Labyrinth are great.

I found Irreversible fascinating too but it is very dark. Gaspar Noe is known for his dark side of life.

Delicatessen? Have you seen that?

We saw a Netflix original film called 'The Fundamentals of Caring' last week. Just loved it. It's about a writer who becomes blocked and gives up writing to become a carer. His first case is a young man with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Their relationship is brilliant. Touching without being too schmaltzy and some brilliant comedy moments.

I second 'What we did on our holidays' if you like really British Type stuff, also Mrs Caldicott's Cabbage War, Quartet, Ladies in Lavendar, Nativity.

Also 'Bill' by the Horrible Histories people. Very silly, good fun, historically dubious but, well, just a good watch.

I've seen Senna. It's very good.

Babette's feast

A danish film about a French refugee chef joining a puritan island community. It's beautiful and good for foodies.

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Not seen the court jester.will have to watch that one for sure.

Gosh I wouldn't call Life is Beautiful an unknown film. It was very successful at the box office and won Oscars for Best Actor and Best Foreign Film!

Sightseers - it's a really dark comedy but really funny. Together (although I think it's actually quite well known) Swedish comedy about a 1970s commune. Both very brilliant.

Goodbye Lenin. About a staunchly communist East German woman who is in a coma during the fall of the wall. Her family have to keep it from her in case she has a heart attack.

Wolf Totem. Based on the novel of a man who was 'sent down' from Beijing to Inner Mongolia during the Chinese Great Leap Forward/ Cultural Revolution. Deals with the steam rolling of indigenous culture by the Han Chinese.