Films you like which nobody else seems to have heard of

This has probably been done before, but has anyone got an example of a little known film which is never discussed but you think is brilliant?

For me, it is the Ninth Configuration; written and directed by William Peter Blattey, who wrote the Exorcist. Lot's of good character actors in it and with wonderful quotable lines. I must have watched it 30 times over a couple of years back in the late 80s and have only ever seen it referred to once in an article. It probably doesn't date well, but still worth a couple of hours of anyone's time.

Any other examples?

Memento,

Very early Christopher Nolan film, starring Guy Pearce. Absolutely brilliant film, well acted quite hard to work out, and it certainly blags your head ( it's about a guy who suffers short term memory loss trying to work out who killed his wife, also it starts and ends at the end).
No one had heard or seen it, but I've leant the DVD to a few people, and they all love/like it. Well worth a watch.

Sweetie - a quirky 1989 Australian comedy drama written and directed by Jane Campion. The film explores two 20 something sisters and their dysfunctional family. Kay is gangly and slightly askew, consulting a fortune teller and then falling in love with a man because of a mole on his face and a lock of hair; then, falling out of love when he plants a tree in their yard. Sweetie is plump, imperious, self-centered, and seriously mentally ill. The parents see none of the illness, seeing only their cute child. Kay mainly feels exasperation at her sister's impositions. Slowly, the film exposes how the roots of Sweetie's illness have choked Kay's own development. I've only seen it on TV years ago, but haven't seen it since. There's a few TV movies I recall liking which have never been heard of since too.

13 assassins - blood, gore, Samuri, swords, revenge, honor, 13 against 200 yes thats 200.

watch it!

WATCH IT!

tigerrobins wrote:Memento,

Very early Christopher Nolan film, starring Guy Pearce. Absolutely brilliant film, well acted quite hard to work out, and it certainly blags your head ( it's about a guy who suffers short term memory loss trying to work out who killed his wife,  also it starts and ends at the end).
No one had heard or seen it, but I've leant the DVD to a few people, and they all love/like it. Well worth a watch.

I would say that this is very highly regarded.

Got a lot of publicity when it came out.

Great film.

Mr Destiny

James Belushi facing a mid life crisis, re-lives a part of his life to see if it had turned out better. Not a greatbhit, but a really good film.

Adam D wrote:

tigerrobins wrote:Memento,

Very early Christopher Nolan film, starring Guy Pearce. Absolutely brilliant film, well acted quite hard to work out, and it certainly blags your head ( it's about a guy who suffers short term memory loss trying to work out who killed his wife,  also it starts and ends at the end).
No one had heard or seen it, but I've leant the DVD to a few people, and they all love/like it. Well worth a watch.

I would say that this is very highly regarded.

Got a lot of publicity when it came out.

Great film.

Yeah. Tend to agree that this is a well known and well liked film. Really set the bar for his later efforts. Didn't do Guy Pearce any harm either

Killer clowns from outerspace - fantastic B movie!

The Prophecy - Christopher Walken playing an evil, Archangel Gabriel, Viggo Mortensen playing the devil as a sleazy biker and Elias Koteas as a weary cop. Brilliant b movie and a bit of a lost treasure!

superflyweight wrote:The Prophecy - Christopher Walken playing an evil, Archangel Gabriel, Viggo Mortensen playing the devil as a sleazy biker and Elias Koteas as a weary cop.  Brilliant b movie and a bit of a lost treasure!

I've seen this film a couple of times and totally agree. The disdain for humans from Walken is superb and well worth catching up with. They made Prophecy 2 and 3 if my memory serves me right, but obviously the franchise goes down hill a little in these installments.

Lilya 4-Ever - girl tries to survive in an unnamed ex-Soviet country after being abandoned by her mother
Christiane F: We Children From Bahnhoff Zoo - girl & her friends battle heroin addiction in West Berlin in the 70s
Last Exit To Brooklyn - same director as Christiane F, based on the bizarre Hubert Selby Jr novel, interconnecting stories set in a rough Brooklyn neighbourhood in the 50s

The Changeling. It is an old 80's horror that scared the sh*t out of me the first time I saw it sometime in the 90's. I'm sure people have watched it but I haven't seen it mentioned on 606 before. Classic old style haunted house type film but really creepy in parts.

Last Exit is a difficult film to watch in many ways, but a tour de force from Jennifer Jason Leigh. Absolutely cracking performance. I haven't heard of the other two so will have to keep an eye out for them. Cheers.

Black Pond was a film I watch a year ago, which is the only performance I can think of given by Chris Langham since leaving prison. Good low budget British film with an excellent performance by Chris Langham, which probably gets ignored due to his previous actions rather than the film itself.

this prob well known film but i watched it recently,its called outland Sean connery in it . its a old film and he's got hair . its a high noon remake set on a mining station set in space . really good

Uncle Google says it is called Outland. It does ring a bell, but I can't say hand on heart I've seen that one.

i enjoyed it    good film .i recommend it

Club Paradise

Ski School.

Both funny films.

Circle of Eight- all right horror film, but none of my mates have ever heard of it!
Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny- perhaps one of my favourites of all time, purely because I know every word to every song in the film

When Saturday Comes

Sean Bean gets to play for Sheffield United and score the winning goal against Man U

terrible acting , bad story ...................but i love it

Kenny wrote:When Saturday Comes

Sean Bean gets to play for Sheffield United and score the winning goal against Man U

terrible acting , bad story ...................but i love it

yes seen that not many thirty year old men get football tryouts tho

I like There's Only One Jimmy Grimble as well

Kenny wrote:I like There's Only One Jimmy Grimble as well

Superb film, Kenny.

Stella wrote:

Kenny wrote:I like There's Only One Jimmy Grimble as well

Superb film, Kenny.

with a young Maria from Corrie in it

Yep, even better!

Have you seen

I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle ... or ... Billy the Kid ? two cheapo british horrors

Judgement Night with Emilio Estevez & Cuba Gooding Jr. Quality bloke film.

John wrote:Judgement Night with Emilio Estevez & Cuba Gooding Jr. Quality bloke film.

Is that the one were they are in that big camper van thing going to a boxing match , then get stranded in the wrong side of town ?

yeah

Into the Night

Insignificance

I had to look them two up. Both with good, well known cast members so will have to keep an eye for them. Apparently Into the night was directed by john landis as well, so some good pedigree there

Anyone seen Psychomania? Definitely a guilty pleasure that one. Seventies British horror at it's most mediocre. But i still enjoy it. Especially when they all go off to kill themselves. Wonderfully ridiculous scene.

can any one can remember battle beyond the stars . basically magnificent seven in space . the actor who plays john boy in it .

Kenny wrote:

John wrote:Judgement Night with Emilio Estevez & Cuba Gooding Jr. Quality bloke film.

Is that the one were they are in that big camper van thing going to a boxing match , then get stranded in the wrong side of town ?

 
Its a quality fim.
 
Bought the DVD a few weeks ago.
 
Decent cast.
 
Emilio Estevez
Cuba Gooding Jnr
Stephen Dorff
Jeremy Piven
 
Denis Leary

a few more for the collection, don't think they're too widely known:
Talk Radio - imo Oliver Stone's only decent work, about a radio talk show host who spends his time getting a rise out of the callers
Milagro Beanfield War - a subsistence farmer's battle against big business, more interesting & humourous than I just made it sound
Barfly - Mickey Rourke at his best playing alcoholic writer, Charles Bukowski
Gummo - a definite love it or hate it, most people hate it

A few others that come to mind:

Lone Star - great Western drama in which Kris Kristoffersen investigates a 40 year old murder which may or may not have been committed by his father.

The Witchfinder General - Vincent Price plays a corrupt "witchfinder" during the English civil war.

Shock Corridor - Sam Fuller film about a journalist that goes undercover into a mental asylum in order to solve a murder.

jimmyinthewell68 wrote:can any one can remember battle beyond the stars . basically magnificent seven in space .  the actor who plays john boy in it .

Didn't it also have one of the Magnificent Seven in it as well? I seem to remember the one who had lost his nerve being in it.

All three look worth a try, can't find the Witchfinder General on Lovefilm though - can see where Monkey Dust got the idea for the Paedofinder General.

Only ever seen Witchfinder General on tv, Galted. Am sure its out there somewhere and definitely worth looking out for. Directed by Michael Reeves who was a bit of a prodigy but died young after making only 3 films. Price is brilliantly horrible in it.

Monkey Dust was brilliant!

bhb001 wrote:

jimmyinthewell68 wrote:can any one can remember battle beyond the stars . basically magnificent seven in space .  the actor who plays john boy in it .

Didn't it also have one of the Magnificent Seven in it as well? I seem to remember the one who had lost his nerve being in it.

that's right Robert vaughn was in both playing nearly enough the same character

The stoned age (1994) - Teen comedy about 2 rocker dudes on a quest to hook up with a couple of chicks. It takes place mostly over one night. I remember watching it on Bravo late one night after coming home from a club. Its on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNJ4TN7RFxY

jimmyinthewell68 wrote:

bhb001 wrote:

jimmyinthewell68 wrote:can any one can remember battle beyond the stars . basically magnificent seven in space .  the actor who plays john boy in it .

Didn't it also have one of the Magnificent Seven in it as well? I seem to remember the one who had lost his nerve being in it.

            that's right  Robert vaughn was in both  playing nearly enough the same character

It also had George Peppard in it (and Myriam Margoyles as the Valkyrie with the massive norks!)

I loved that film growing up. Roger Corman at his best.

Another film i can watch again and again which really isn't very good but i love is Trick or Treat

Kenny wrote:Another film i can watch again and again which really isn't very good but i love is Trick or Treat

If that's the one from 2007, I may have to look it up. It sounds fun from the review. Good, mindless fun

bhb001 wrote:

Kenny wrote:Another film i can watch again and again which really isn't very good but i love is Trick or Treat

If that's the one from 2007, I may have to look it up. It sounds fun from the review. Good, mindless fun

That one isn't bad actually , but no i ment the 1986 film about a dead rock star coming back to life and trying to kill everyone ( there are cameos from Ozzy Osbourne and Gene Simmons in it )

Film called Unknown (not with Liam Neeson) stars Jim Caviezel and Barry Pepper. Its been a while since I saw it but basically 5 guys wake up in a locked wharehouse with no memory. They have to figure out whats what and whos bad/good to try and survive and get out.
Its pretty good and am surprised hardly anyone has seen or even heard of it.

I've seen Unknown kingjohn but I don't remember any of that happening? Neeson gets separated from his wife and is then in an accident. He returns, but with some memory loss and finds that his wife doesn't know him and people are trying to kill him.

Kenny wrote:

bhb001 wrote:

Kenny wrote:Another film i can watch again and again which really isn't very good but i love is Trick or Treat

If that's the one from 2007, I may have to look it up. It sounds fun from the review. Good, mindless fun

That one isn't bad actually , but no i ment the 1986 film about a dead rock star coming back to life and trying to kill everyone ( there are cameos from Ozzy Osbourne and Gene Simmons in it )

I like that film but havent seen it in a while.

The Saint wrote:I've seen Unknown kingjohn but I don't remember any of that happening? Neeson gets separated from his wife and is then in an accident. He returns, but with some memory loss and finds that his wife doesn't know him and people are trying to kill him.

To be fair to kingjohn, he did say NOT the one with Liam Neeson in it

The Bothersome Man (Den brysomme mannen)

Brilliant Norwegian film about a dystopian future.

Cheers Cyril. Just the words Norwegian and dystopian future make me want to dig this film out! Right down my street!