Little-known movies you've watched

[Etoh*the*Greato]

I would like to congratulate and offer my condolences to anyone who, like me, has watched Anklebiters and Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter.

[MomentOfInertia]

Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter.

You're kidding somebody made that?!?!


I saw The Nude Bomb

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It was rated PG I swear!!!
Get Smart movie, Great movie not quite as good as the show was though....

Ummmm....
The Great Race, The Odd Couple, Operation Petticoat(really good), Father Goose(Fu's fault), ... Uhhh I'll think of more later.

[FllMtl Novelist]

Oh boy here we go.

Comedies:
The Great Race
Father Goose
Some Like It Hot
Duck Soup

Musicals:
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Summer Stock (I only saw it once, but I liked it! )
Top Hat
Shall We Dance?
No, No, Nannette

The Busby Berkley's:
42nd Street
Gold-Diggers of 1933
Footlight Parade
Dames

Other:
Kitty Foyle
The Public Enemy
They Drive By Night
The Maltese Falcon

Goodness gracious... XD I had no idea I had quite so many. XD And you know what? I'll think of MORE later!

[Okami]

Dances With Wolves is the movie that comes to mind when I think of this thread. It is my favorite movie, yet it seemed NO ONE in my high school knew what I was talking about. It's on television at least once a month, people! TT__TT It came to theaters in November of '90, and was really popular, won awards....but yet no one seems to know about it....

I love it though, makes me cry every time I see it.

[CrimsonRyu17]

Well I have two that I doubt many have seen. Both of them are good in my opinion, they're just different than the usual animated films.

Watership Down being the first one. It's an interesting watch although I think the sheer brutality was a bit exaggerated.

The Plague Dogs, also made by the same studio and director, was also interesting. I have mixed feelings about the ending but I think it's special in its own right.

[Atria35]

Let's see... I have seen and liked Some Like It Hot, The Maltese Falcon, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Dances With Wolves.

Jeremiah Johnson
Gigi
All About Eve
How Green Was My Valley

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

Some of these little-known movies people are listing are rather well-known. Maybe it's more to do with the age of members here and their peers, as opposed to how popular the movie isn't/is.

[ShiroiHikari]

Some of these little-known movies people are listing are rather well-known. Maybe it's more to do with the age of members here and their peers, as opposed to how popular the movie isn't/is.

I was just thinking the same thing. Just because a film is old doesn't mean it's little-known. I have seen Some Like It Hot and Duck Soup, but it's been a long time. I have heard of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Great Race, Top Hat, The Maltese Falcon, and definitely Dances with Wolves.

[Bobtheduck]

I couldn't call this "unknown" more like "very few people I know would be caught dead watching it" but I've seen 2 Bollywood movies.

Chori Chori Chupke Chupke

and

I can't remember the second one... It's the one that rips off Clueless. Wait... Sorry... I mean it's one of the ones that rips off Clueless.

Chori Chori, Chupke Chupke was about 4 hours long, but 45 minutes of that 4 hours was devoted to an... um... "homage" to Pretty Woman with Indian actors... I think the culture in India is so... drastically different than American culture, in a way that Korean, Japanese, and Chinese culture AREN'T... You'll get strong values dissonance when you watch this movie (I'm not referring to the "homages" though, I'm referring to the premise of the movie) I love the "Number 1 punjabi" scene, though. Mostly the beginning. An Indian friend was actually upset that this was the first Bollywood movie I saw (He's a Christian, and of course the premise of this movie doesn't exactly Jibe with Christianity, while there are others that do... I guess.)

[Atria35]

I couldn't call this "unknown" more like "very few people I know would be caught dead watching it" but I've seen 2 Bollywood movies.

Chori Chori Chupke Chupke

and

I can't remember the second one... It's the one that rips off Clueless. Wait... Sorry... I mean it's one of the ones that rips off Clueless.

Chori Chori, Chupke Chupke was about 4 hours long, but 45 minutes of that 4 hours was devoted to an... um... "homage" to Pretty Woman with Indian actors... I think the culture in India is so... drastically different than American culture, in a way that Korean, Japanese, and Chinese culture AREN'T... You'll get strong values dissonance when you watch this movie (I'm not referring to the "homages" though, I'm referring to the premise of the movie) I love the "Number 1 punjabi" scene, though. Mostly the beginning. An Indian friend was actually upset that this was the first Bollywood movie I saw (He's a Christian, and of course the premise of this movie doesn't exactly Jibe with Christianity, while there are others that do... I guess.)

Man, you can't win. I've seen Christian movies that have values dissonance between the values of diferent denominations (plz don't ask me what they were- it's been forever since I've watched them and they were kinda bad anyway. The dissonance was the only thing I noticed because my mom had moments of being amused and unamused by it).

And yeah, I do think that some of these mentions are due to the age of the watcher and their peers. One of the ones I mentioned, How Green Was My Valley, was incredibly popular when it came out and is popular with my parents and their friends. They're about 10 years older than my friend's parents, who... don't know the movie so well. And my friends? I'm the only one who's watched it.

[GrubbTheFragger]

12 monkeys was great such a mind twisting movie.

How about Stay a film with Ewan Ecgregor (wow butched spelling) and Jared Leto its very simliar to Jacobs ladder and Donnie Darko

[bigsleepj]

Ordet (The Word), by Carl Theodor Dreyer from the early 1950's.

This is a Danish language film that is maybe one of the most resonant and complex Christian movies ever made, but it is in many ways a difficult film to watch because of its incredibly slow pace. Basically, the camera just pulls back and allows everyone to watch a slice of life moment in the lives of Danish villagers in the years past the 1st World War.

The plot:Morten Borgen is a well-to-do farmer and devout Christian. He is also prideful and deeply angered by his three sons. Mikkel has lost his faith in God and the father is angry "that he betrayed the faith of his forefathers". Strangely, though, his wife, Kirsten, has a deep faith in God but seems to understand the world better at times than the rest. Johannes, the middle child, was the brightest and smartest but has had a mental breakdown and is now decidedly insane. Anders, the youngest, has fallen in love with Anna Petersen, who is the daughter of an old theological enemy of Morten. Peter Petersen, the tailor, holds small prayer meetings in his home. Petersen is also filled with pride but it is subtly hidden behind his theology and he resents the Borgens for their perceived materialism. Both refuse to let their children marry each other. No one believes in miracles but they are promised a miracle by the mad Johannes...

The rest I leave to you to find out. Despite being completely Christian the movie is highly regarded in film-circles for the way it seriously deals with the subject of faith and miracles. Roger Ebert, an agnostic, has counted it amongst the best movies ever made, and so have many others. In the end, though, this movie is difficult to get through, to watch, to pay attention to, but if you're willing to go with it it will be worth it.

[Cloud500]

Ordet (The Word), by Carl Theodor Dreyer from the early 1950's.

This is a Danish language film that is maybe one of the most resonant and complex Christian movies ever made, but it is in many ways a difficult film to watch because of its incredibly slow pace. Basically, the camera just pulls back and allows everyone to watch a slice of life moment in the lives of Danish villagers in the years past the 1st World War.

The plot:Morten Borgen is a well-to-do farmer and devout Christian. He is also prideful and deeply angered by his three sons. Mikkel has lost his faith in God and the father is angry "that he betrayed the faith of his forefathers". Strangely, though, his wife, Kirsten, has a deep faith in God but seems to understand the world better at times than the rest. Johannes, the middle child, was the brightest and smartest but has had a mental breakdown and is now decidedly insane. Anders, the youngest, has fallen in love with Anna Petersen, who is the daughter of an old theological enemy of Morten. Peter Petersen, the tailor, holds small prayer meetings in his home. Petersen is also filled with pride but it is subtly hidden behind his theology and he resents the Borgens for their perceived materialism. Both refuse to let their children marry each other. No one believes in miracles but they are promised a miracle by the mad Johannes...

The rest I leave to you to find out. Despite being completely Christian the movie is highly regarded in film-circles for the way it seriously deals with the subject of faith and miracles. Roger Ebert, an agnostic, has counted it amongst the best movies ever made, and so have many others. In the end, though, this movie is difficult to get through, to watch, to pay attention to, but if you're willing to go with it it will be worth it.

I remember seeing this on TV a while ago. Unfortunately it was like 2:00 a.m. so I don't remember all of it.

[Technomancer]

A few of my obscure picks:

"Turtles can Fly". Pretty much the saddest Kurdish film you're likely to see.

"Fitzcarraldo". A Werner Herzog film. To further his scheme to build an opera house in the rainforest, a Brazillian man has a steamer dragged over a hill. Okay, there's a lot more to it, but it's worth watching. And besides, Klaus Kinski is in it.

"Bab'Aziz: The Prince who Contemplated his Soul". A mystical Sufi film, various stories and vignettes intersect the main plot.

"And the Ship Sails On": On the eve of the first world war, a cruise ship is commisioned to carry several opera stars who will scatter the ashes of a beloved diva off the coast of here native island. A love-sick rhinoceras figures prominently.

"Cross of Iron": A friend of mine described this as the most unheroic heroic war movie he's ever seen. Really good. Except for the bit in the hospital.

"New Waterford Girl": About the attempt of an aspiring artist to escape her life on Cape Breton Island. Very funny and memorable, especially if you've ever been out that way.

Dunderklumpen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9imKpfVX3s0

[Blacklight]

Oscar. No one seems to have heard of it, but everyone in my family loves it. It's a very funny movie.

What's Up Doc? is another comedy known and quoted throughout my family.

And again, they pretty much don't exist.

[Bobtheduck]

Man, you can't win. I've seen Christian movies that have values dissonance between the values of diferent denominations

I'm pretty sure that the basic premise of Chori Chori, Chupke Chupke would bother most Christians, and probably most Americans, and I'd guess the majority of Europeans too. Ironically, it's not THAT far off from certain Old Testament practices (except that the second woman would be married to the man, rather than kept a secret, and she certainly wouldn't be a, um, working woman)

[bigsleepj]

"Fitzcarraldo". A Werner Herzog film. To further his scheme to build an opera house in the rainforest, a Brazillian man has a steamer dragged over a hill. Okay, there's a lot more to it, but it's worth watching. And besides, Klaus Kinski is in it.

Hooray! I love this movie!

[the_wolfs_howl]

Oooh, how 'bout Wait Until Dark? Best movie about a blind person I think I've ever seen. It stars Audrey Hepburn, so I don't suppose it can be that unknown, but I don't think I've ever heard anyone outside my family mention it before. It's like twice as scary as your average horror movie, because it could actually happen.

And probably no one's obsessed enough with feral children to watch The Wild Child, an old black-and-white French movie about Victor of Aveyron.

[rocklobster]

Watched The Apostle with Robert Duvall. Not bad, although I think they overdid the shouting Baptist preacher stereotype.

[Wyntre Rose]

Oscar. No one seems to have heard of it, but everyone in my family loves it. It's a very funny movie.

What's Up Doc? is another comedy known and quoted throughout my family.

And again, they pretty much don't exist.

I love both of those! What's up Doc is incredibly quotable. My cousin and I reference it all the time.

Also, I watched Wait Until Dark with my grandma when I was little, but it scared me so badly that I never thought to go back to it. Now that I'm a bit (ha!) older, I may have to look into it again.