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.

Not sure how obscure it is but The Life of David Gale with Kevin Spacey.

Title character who has campaigned for the abolition of the death penalty finds himself on death row. He agrees to a series of interviews before he is executed.

Sounds crap but is fantastic.

Lots of films I love on here, I'd particularly second the recommendation for Bombon El Perro.

A couple of documentaries: Etre et Avoir is just wonderful (esp if you have primary age children). It's a documentary following the life of a small single class french primary school through one academic year. Sounds kind of tedious, but it is just so funny and so true to life

Very different: Separado! follows Gruff Rhys from the Super Furry Animals on a road trip from Wales to Patagonia hunting for a long-lost Patagonian-Welsh folk singer from the 70s. Very, very, very surreal, but also very funny and great music. (It also has the distinction of being the only trilingual English/Welsh/Spanish film I've yet come across.)

Which also reminds me of: Dig! which is another music documentary this time following two bands (the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre) for seven years from being totally unknown to (in the first case) relatively successful and (in the second case) a total car-crash.

The woman in gold.

Jews in ww2 Austria flee for America.

Just remembered Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day, a throwback to the 1930s girl meets guy musicals. Amy Adams is delightful, Frances McDormand excellent, as always. And a most gorgeous Lee Pace.

Not read the thread so not sure if these have been mentioned...

City of God - Massive at the time but a lot of friends have seemed to miss it.

Trollhunter - Really solid and odd Norwegian film about film students following a Norwegian government worker who turns out to be a bit of a Troll gamekeeper.

Battle Royale - One for the hipsters of 15 years ago, it's the film Hunger games ripped the plot from, imagine Hunger games but dark and an actual film.

Once we were warriors - Kiwi film about struggling Maori familys

Blackfish - Pretty popular but great insight.

A thousand times goodnight- about a female war photographer. Very very moving and a view on the family she leaves at home

Trollhunter is brilliant!

One of the films of the last few years that dh thought was just brilliant was 'All is Lost'. Robert Redford is a retired guy with a boat who goes out on a routine afternoon's sailing, gets into trouble, thinks he can sort it, but the situation spirals into disaster.

It's absolutely gripping. Redford is the only actor in it - it's just him, the boat and the sea - and he's riveting, you can't look away. See it if you can.

Dh and I, that should be - I loved it too!

The City of Lost Children (1995) -- french steampunk fantasy. A mad scientist kidnaps little children to steal their dreams. A strongman teams up with a young girl to find his missing little brother in a surreal city.

Rust and bone
A little chaos
Submarine

I would also recommend seven days in hell and
What we do in the shadows

Frailty. Matthew Mcconnachay (sp) a father gets visions from God to cleanse certain people from the earth and he ropes in his 2 young sons to help with his crazed mission. Very dark but gripping.

I also loved submarine and would recommend "in the mood for love" and "the secrets in their eyes"

My son was telling me about Life is Beautiful, he thought is was very good too. I haven't seen it yet though.

Tuesdays with Morrie. Get your tissues ready.

Precious Bane.
Was on the BBC in 1989, I watched it then and loved it. I've just recently tracked down a copy from someone charging a nominal fee for a copy of it on IMDb.

Back Roads with Sally Fields and Tommy Lee Jones, 1981.

Mud with Mathew Mcconaughey.

Interstellar with Mathew Mcconaughey.

Atanarjuat- the fast runner a retelling of an ancient legend in Inuit with subtitles . I was so pissed off with dh for choosing this as I thought it would be heavy going - actually it was great.

Lagaan a musical about a cricket match in India which is far more entertaining than that sounds!

Betty blue, French fi!m about unstable girl and her boyfriend who ?I've INA beachhut type community.
Plunkett and MacLean, Robert carlyle as a highwayman, trust me its a gem
Grow your own, Olivia. Coleman a d a varied group centred around an allotment

Match point. Watched yesterday on Netflix. Convoluted, involved, understated

Already been mentioned but lives of others East German set film about an agent listening in on a couple. Fabulous.

locke not unknown but the premise of man driving down a motorway to do a concrete pour may not sound gripping. Honestly one of the best films I've watched in ages.

Yy to Locke