Your Favorite movies which no one had ever heard of

[guardian_owl]

You know the drill, you come across a movie lost in the shuffle, like it, go to tell friends about it, and they have never even heard of it.

So what are a few of your favorite little-known movies?

Some of my more recent ones are:

Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
Bubba Ho-tep
Six String Samurai
Below
Equilibrium
Cube
Memento
Grey Zone

[jimbodan]

The Heroic Trio
Cannibal the Musical
The Killer

I also really liked American Pyscho, but I think a lot of people have heard of that one.

[ValkyrieVF-1S]

You know the drill, you come across a movie lost in the shuffle, like it, go to tell friends about it, and they have never even heard of it.

So what are a few of your favorite little-known movies?

Some of my more recent ones are:

Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
Bubba Ho-tep
Six String Samurai
Below
Equilibrium
Cube
Memento
Grey Zone

I second memento, Chris Nolan did a great job directing and Guy Pearce acting. I found equilibrium pretty good too.

[Renzokuken]

Battle Royale
Sleepers
Unforgiven
Boat Trip
Donnie Brasco
Evil Dead
Patriot Games
Red Dawn (cheesy, but hey I like it)
The Untouchables
Way if the Gun
The Usual Suspects

[kristianator]

to those who enjoyed memento... have you guys seen "following"? he made it before he made memento, and the style is similar, except that the scenes are more scattered. it kind of jumps around, instead of going backwards. definitely rent this one. i found it at some video store on vhs for sale for a buck.

[LV-426RS]

Two post up... I'm pretty sure everyone's heard of these.

Sleepers
Unforgiven
Boat Trip
Donnie Brasco
Evil Dead
Patriot Games
The Untouchables
The Usual Suspects

[Renzokuken]

You know the drill, you come across a movie lost in the shuffle, like it, go to tell friends about it, and they have never even heard of it.


I chosed my movies based on that. At school, nobody has heard of those. Im not talking about the CAG community.

[The Successful Dropout]

i second a few....as well as added a few of my own:

equilibrium
cube
confidence
people under the stairs
very bad things
fortress
the transporter

[jmcc]

ROTOR
Audition

[BLarR]

Donnie Darko
Clerks (animated series)
Dark City

[giftbj]

Versus
Ichi the Killer

[int80h]

The Dawn Patrol (1938)
War Games (1983)
Russkies (1987)
Love at Stake (1988)

[Cornfedwb]

You know the drill, you come across a movie lost in the shuffle, like it, go to tell friends about it, and they have never even heard of it.


I chosed my movies based on that. At school, nobody has heard of those. Im not talking about the CAG community.

Your friends haven't heard of the Untouchables, Unforgiven, Evil Dead or Patriot Games???? What sort of friends do you have? Three of those were major blockbusters (Unforgiven was also the Best Picture Oscar winner, as well as Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and best Film Editing; Untouchables won Best Supporting Actor), and one of those is a tremendously huge cult classic. I can't believe anyone hasn't heard of those movies.
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[thecolonel2323]

I am pretty sure a lot of people have heard of it by now but when I first saw it a few years ago noone I knew had seen/heard of it.

The Boondock Saints (Greatest Movie EVER!)

Also one of my Favorites:
Dr. Strangelone or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb

[Grave_Addiction]

Here's some old schoolers

Best of the Best
No Retreat, No Surrender
Ratboy - About a half rat, half boy
BMX Bandits (Nicole Kidman's first movie)
Baby - About a baby dinosaur
Time Bandits - Time-traveling midgets - nothing better
Dragon Storm
Ice Pirates
Solar Babies
Cloak and Dagger

[johnnyoski]

Your friends haven't heard of the Untouchables, Unforgiven, Evil Dead or Patriot Games???? What sort of friends do you have? Three of those were major blockbusters (Unforgiven was also the Best Picture Oscar winner, as well as Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and best Film Editing; Untouchables won Best Supporting Actor), and one of those is a tremendously huge cult classic. I can't believe anyone hasn't heard of those movies.
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My thoughts exactly.

A couple of mine to add:
Amongst Friends
Menace II Society

EDIT: add Vision Quest to my list.

[Cornfedwb]

I am pretty sure a lot of people have heard of it by now but when I first saw it a few years ago noone I knew had seen/heard of it.

The Boondock Saints

Also one of my Favorites:
Dr. Strangelone or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb

Dr. Strangelove is an excellent movie, but it's not exactly an unknown either. People may not know of it these days, but in its day it was a pretty huge movie. Alot of people these days have never heard of the Dirty Dozen, Guns of Navarone, Pillow Talk, Rear Window, Bridge over the River Kwai, the Great Escape, etc.. but they were all huge huge in there day.. I wouldn't consider those 'unknowns'

edit - BTW, any guys that haven't seen the Dirty Dozen, the Guns of Navarone, Bridge over the River Kwai and the Great Escape.. go rent them.. now.

[giftbj]

Best of the Best and Time Bandits, excellent choices!

[Wshakspear]

Just saw equilibrium. Wow, those fight scenes should have been in the matrix 2&3.

Boondock saints is now either part of the mainstream or REALLY close. word of mouth really helped this movie.

One Hour Photo was a great movie for me.

Death to Smoochy :)

and i know its Disney, but not one of thier $$ hits... the Emperors New Groove. One of the funniest movies ive ever seen.

Not quite movie, but with the same quality, The Tick live action show.

[Ericnmel99]

For some reason i love the movie Rocketman. I just find it funny as hell.

[dabignig]

I see we have some Miike fans with the mentions of Ichi the killer and Audition. I'll toss in Dead or Alive 1 which I believe is better than Ichi but a step below Audition, which is a masterpiece.

Also:

Irreversible

Kite (Anime)

How I spent my summer Vactation

[thecolonel2323]

Dr. Strangelove is an excellent movie, but it's not exactly an unknown either. People may not know of it these days, but in its day it was a pretty huge movie. Alot of people these days have never heard of the Dirty Dozen, Guns of Navarone, Pillow Talk, Rear Window, Bridge over the River Kwai, the Great Escape, etc.. but they were all huge huge in there day.. I wouldn't consider those 'unknowns'

I agree with you that it really isnt unknown but seeing how the average age of people who use this site is around 20 I would have to say that the movie is probably unknown to most of them. As for the movies you listed I see at least one of them on TV a week Dr. Strangelove on the othehand is rarely ever broadcasted.

[dtcarson]

Cannibal! the Musical
Memento [although that's not little known]
Series 7: The Contenders [I despise reality shows, but this painfully accurate satire of them is incredible, and more realistic than most 'reality' shows. This is what 'The Running Man' should have been.
Run Lola Run

[kaw]

Three O'Clock High
Way of the Gun
Gattaca
UHF

These were more popular, but still weren't mainstream:
Raising Arizona
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch

[Wombat]

everyone should see Touch of Evil and the Third Man, and while I'm on an Orson Welles kick go see his version of Kafka's The Trial.

[crickett003]

I have to agree with the aforementioned- TIME BANDITS & EQUILIBRIUM. They are both excellent!

Here are some other over-looked gems:
*BELOW (directed by David Twohy)
*VISITOR Q
*HARDWARE:MARK 13
*DEAD HEAT (1988)
*LADY SNOWBLOOD
*NICK OF TIME
and of course...
*SNAKE EATER (Lorenzo Lamas + calcium/gravel bomb = a VERY cheesy but good time had by all-ONE TO WATCH WITH INTOXICATED FRIENDS :) )

[karmapolice]

Peanut Butter Solution...If anyone has heard of this I will be fucking suprised...It was a canadian movie...and quite twisted and also very good...I wish it was more well known and not so dammed expensive or I would own a REAL copy...If you havent heard of it you should check it out. Its like Goonies but a little different

[PimpBot2000]

The Story of Ricky
Monster Squad
Shogun Assassin
The Stuff
Castle in the Sky
Home Alone 4 (just kidding w/this one)

[chickenhawk]

A few that haven't been mentioned yet, although I am sure alot of CAGers have heard of them....

Swimming With Sharks
Killing Zoe
Sleep With Me

[Grave_Addiction]

The Story of Ricky
Monster Squad
Shogun Assassin
The Stuff
Castle in the Sky
Home Alone 4 (just kidding w/this one)

Monster Squad is greatness.

Wolfman has nards!

[giftbj]

Good call on Story of Ricky.

[jmcc]

The Story of Ricky
Monster Squad
Shogun Assassin
The Stuff
Castle in the Sky
Home Alone 4 (just kidding w/this one)

Shogun Assassin? "Bah" to that, I say. Watch the Lone Wolf and Cub series as it was meant to be seen, not 2 movies jammed into one and dubbed. It's a travesty, it is.

[giftbj]

I see we have some Miike fans with the mentions of Ichi the killer and Audition. I'll toss in Dead or Alive 1 which I believe is better than Ichi but a step below Audition, which is a masterpiece.

Also:

Irreversible

Kite (Anime)

How I spent my summer Vactation

Agreed on Dead or Alive being better than Ichi. Ichi was great for the excessive amounts of violence (by the far the most violent I have ever seen). Kite was also decent, especially the Director's Cut!

[WAJedi]

Boondock Saints has to be one of my favorite movies of all time, everything about it is great. I also like UHF (cult comedy classic with Weird Al), and Equilibrium which has already been mentioned several times. I also enjoy the old old sci fi movies like Logan's Run. It is so bad that it is almost good.

[giftbj]

The Story of Ricky
Monster Squad
Shogun Assassin
The Stuff
Castle in the Sky
Home Alone 4 (just kidding w/this one)

Shogun Assassin? "Bah" to that, I say. Watch the Lone Wolf and Cub series as it was meant to be seen, not 2 movies jammed into one and dubbed. It's a travesty, it is.

But without Shogun Assassin, would the Genius Gza ever have been able to make his first album Liquid Swords?

Gza aside, the 6-Disc set is well worth checking out.

[FriskyTanuki]

Three O'Clock High
Way of the Gun
Gattaca
UHF

These were more popular, but still weren't mainstream:
Raising Arizona
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch

I second UHF.

I'll add Airheads, since it's a movie that's rarely ever mentioned by fans of the three stars.

[xdaTwiZtidWunX]

lock, stock, and two smoking barrels
snatch(both VERY similiar to pulp fiction)
City of God

[The Successful Dropout]

Here's some old schoolers

Best of the Best
No Retreat, No Surrender
Ratboy - About a half rat, half boy
BMX Bandits (Nicole Kidman's first movie)
Baby - About a baby dinosaur
Time Bandits - Time-traveling midgets - nothing better
Dragon Storm
Ice Pirates
Solar Babies
Cloak and Dagger

damn i knew id forget some, but i didnt know id forget no retreat, no surrender...thats one of my all time favs for sure

[ps99472]

how bout

Noises Off!

one of the funniest on my list

[alongx]

I second Death to Smoochy. A lot of people I knew didn't hear of/see Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, or Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, which surprised me. And also A Clockwork Orange wasn't well known, but is probably one of my favorites of all time.

[Storamin]

Some of my more recent ones are:

Lost Skeleton of Cadavra

Lost Skeleton of Cadavra is hilarious! I ordered that one on On Demand and loved it.
One of my all time favourite movies was Donnie Darko!

[thecolonel2323]

Peanut Butter Solution...If anyone has heard of this I will be shaq-fuing suprised...It was a canadian movie...and quite twisted and also very good...I wish it was more well known and not so dammed expensive or I would own a REAL copy...If you havent heard of it you should check it out. Its like Goonies but a little different

I have not been more thankful for any single post ever. I remember seeing this movie a few times when I was a young child and tried to find out what it was a few times but absolutly noone could help me. Thank you so much.

[magilacudy]

Hero (well-known now since Tarantino is releasing it nationwide)
Musa the Warrior

[FrankySox]

Lord of the Rings

[rebenns]

Pretty much any foreign film that doesn't star Jackie Chan or Roberto Benigni is unknown to a majority of Americans. Which is a shame, because there are so many great films. A few examples are
8 1/2
Amarcord
La Vita Dolce
Rififi
Tokyo Story
Closely watched trains
Scenes from a Marriage

Also, the mini series Band of Brothers and Roots, both of which most people have heard of, but few have actually seen.

[jmcc]

The Story of Ricky
Monster Squad
Shogun Assassin
The Stuff
Castle in the Sky
Home Alone 4 (just kidding w/this one)

Shogun Assassin? "Bah" to that, I say. Watch the Lone Wolf and Cub series as it was meant to be seen, not 2 movies jammed into one and dubbed. It's a travesty, it is.

But without Shogun Assassin, would the Genius Gza ever have been able to make his first album Liquid Swords?

Gza aside, 6-Disc set is well worth checking out.

No, and that would be a shame, because Liquid Swords is, IMO, the best Wu Tang related album there is.

[giftbj]

Couldn't agree more jmcc

[vanlandw]

Equilibrium is one of the best movies ever....

[thesilentshadow30]

I have to agree with some that have been mentioned already.

-Series 7: The Contenders - great fake reality tv movie
-The Stuff - "Are you eating it or is it eating you?"
-Three O'Clock High - Funny High School Movie
-UHF - (but I think lots of people know about it) "Today we are going to teach poodles how to fly"
-Run - I remember it from when I was younger but its not out on DVD or even video. has Patrick Dempsey (from Can't Buy Me Love).
-Session 9 - Excellent suspense/ thriller.
-Better Off Dead - (think its fairly known though) Great comedy
- But I'm A Cheerleader - Funny as Hell Comedy about a girl that realizes she is gay and gets sent to a camp that tries to make her straight, it even has Rupaul in it.

[abrannan]

No Escape
The Adventures of Bucakaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Real Genius
Ice Pirates

[Blues]

Elephant
Gummo

[giftbj]

I have to agree with some that have been mentioned already.

-Series 7: The Contenders - great fake reality tv movie
-The Stuff - "Are you eating it or is it eating you?"
-Three O'Clock High - Funny High School Movie
-UHF - (but I think lots of people know about it) "Today we are going to teach poodles how to fly"
-Run - I remember it from when I was younger but its not out on DVD or even video. has Patrick Dempsey (from Can't Buy Me Love).
-Session 9 - Excellent suspense/ thriller.
-Better Off Dead - (think its fairly known though) Great comedy
- But I'm A Cheerleader - Funny as Hell Comedy about a girl that realizes she is gay and gets sent to a camp that tries to make her straight, it even has Rupaul in it.

I found a copy of the VHS version (new) of Run on Amazon.com, not from them directly, but one of their side vendors, z-sellers, or whatever they call them.

[Ericnmel99]

Lord of the Rings

Did you read the title of the post? Somehow i think that at least several people might have heard of that movie.

[DMFunk]

Well everything has probally been said that I would have posted.. except... Donnie Darko.

[SupremeNumNuts]

Battle Royale (known on internet)
Shaolin Soccer

[mario23air]

Pi
The Isle
The Exterminating Angle
The cook, the thief, his wife, her lover
The Killer (John Woo)
Five Deadly Venoms
Irreversible
The Big One
Re-Animator
13 Conversations About One thing
Salo
L'Auberge Espagnole (The Spanish Apartment)
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
Happenstance

[menchirox]

Battle Royale
Vampire Effect

[fieldkillah]

Boondock saints
Straw Dogs
Man Bites Dog
Dog soliders
Suspiria

[Xevious]

Ridicule (A great French Drama)
City of God (A ganster film set in the Brazilian slums)
Bubba Hotep (Elvis vs. the Mummy)
Samurai Trilogy (Staring the late great Toshiro Mufune)
Kwaidan (4 ghost stories set in 16th Japan)
Cinema Paradiso (Boy grows up in the movie theater)
Tatie Danielle (One of the funnest and blackest comedies I have ever seen)
Amarcord (The is the first Fellini movie you should start with- There are dubbed versions of this movie available)

Thats all for now. I'm sure I will think of a few more later on.

[Trakan]

The Transporter
The Usual Suspects

[iamarhinoceros]

brain donors
hudsucker proxy
crimewave
the emperor and the assassin
rapid fire (cheesy but i enjoy brandon lee)

... just a few off the top of my head

[Arakias]

Cane Toads (A Documentary)
Baraka (Imax-esque)

[Tecumseh!]

Among the movies on my list:

City of God
Bus 174
Napoleon Dynamite
The Devil's Backbone - Guillermo Del Toro, who directed Hellboy, also directed this
Stevie - Great documentary
Capturing the Freidman's - Another excellent documentary
Touching the Void
Bottle Rocket
I'm not Scared - From Italy, a great suspense thriller shot in one of the most beautiful countrysides I've ever seen
The Mayor of Sunset Strip - Yet another documentary about LA radio legend/pop culture icon Rodney Bingenheimer
Spider - Cronenberg directing Ralph Fiennes in a great story
Strange Days - also starring Fiennes
American Splendor - About independent comic book genius Harvey Pekar

[GuilewasNK]

The Princess Blade - Amazing movie. Dark and gritty (and I normally don't like movies like that.)
http://www.breakingitdown.com/images/pblade4.jpg
http://www.theprincessblade.com/
http://www.kungfucinema.com/reviews/princessblade.htm

[AGuth]

Silent Assassins
Black Eagle
Fresh
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

[Grave_Addiction]

Yellow Beard!!!!

http://faculty.ed.umuc.edu/~acrooks/yellowbeard.jpg[/img]

[guessed]

Most of mine have already been mentioned, but here are a few I didn't see listed (most from the 80s):

Bagdad Cafe
Sugarbaby
Vampire's Kiss
Heathers (ok, not so obscure, but worth mentioning)
Mermaids (also not terribly obscure, but I don't many people gave this one a chance. I liked it a lot)

[karsh]

I keep meaning to see Irreversible. Looked interesting, to say the least. I've also been really interested in seeing Equilibrium and Bubba Ho-Tep. Maybe I'll actually buy Bubba Ho-Tep sometime soon. And as long as movies like Memento and Donnie Darko count, I'll have to add Mulholland Drive. Awesome movie.

[TheUnsane1]

Buffalo 66
Samauri Fiction
SLC Punk
Requim for a Dream(I run into alot of people at work who don't know this one)
Go

[thatstoobad]

i'm not entirely sure how some of you are putting these movies in the "no one has ever heard of them" category. that's like me saying i really like "amelie" or "the big lebowski" in this thread, but we know that those movies are very well known.

either way, here are some of my favorites:

-happiness
-happiness of the katakuris (i also own ichi the killer and audition, but this one is just so nutty, it's great)
-dancer in the dark (starring bjork)
-doggville (by the same director as dancer in the dark, came out earlier this year, stars nicole kidman, may not be that under the radar)
-living in oblivion
-wild zero (this movie destroys)
-dirty work (the norm macdonald movie from a few years ago, this one might be fairly well known, but i don't think it's very well liked)
-ghost world (even though by now everyone knows about this film)
-the triplets of belleville (it wasn't very well known until they had that bit on the oscars about it)
-battle royale (i figured i'd throw it in, even though it's huge)

there's more, but it doesn't really matter.

i used to like buffalo 66, but i have a personal problem with vincent gallo so i can't watch it anymore. i also like christina ricci's roles in pumpkin and the opposite of sex. i hate slc punk. i finally saw city of god yesterday and it was great. i don't think memento and donnie darko should count.

[iamarhinoceros]

living in oblivion is a great call
im a huge fan of johnny suede

[WeaponX2099]

Memento
Donnie Darko
Returner
Chasing Amy
Grind
Castle in the Sky

[guardian_owl]

YES, YES, Noises Off is really hillarious. Anyone that hasn't seen it should go out and rent it, make sure to watch it with at least a couple other people.

Session 9 is pretty darn creepy, but a little slow moving

[Squirms]

Ordinary Decent Criminal
Equilibrium
Igby Goes Down
Memento
Reefer Madness
City of God

[Xevious]

Ordinary Decent Criminal
Equilibrium
Igby Goes Down
Memento
Reefer Madness
City of God

I hated "Igby Goes Down". To me, there is nothing more boring than watching a spoil rotten rich kid deal with life.

I'll give you thumbs up for City of God and Memento though.

[Aryss]

The Blood of Heroes. I have never met another person that has ever heard of it but I love it.

[Odenat]

Rounders(guess everyone knows what this is since poker is huge right now)
Things to do in denver when you're dead
Full Time Killer
Minus Man

[wookieballz]

Charlotte Sometimes

(Not not affiliated with the horrible Cure song of the same name)

[Cornfedwb]

Memento
Donnie Darko
Returner
Chasing Amy
Grind
Castle in the Sky

I've seen Memento on a few lists already. Its a great movie, but not really unknown, most everyone I've talked to about it has seen it or atleast knows what it is. Chasing Amy is definitely not an unknown, it was huge when it came out.

[satan0]

Love & Sex (My favorite movie of all time. It doesn't get better than this.)
The Transporter (Kinda iffy. Some people have seen it and most haven't.)
Stalaga 17 (Old black and white movie about a german POW camp during WW2.)
The Smokers
Tart
Lawn Dogs
Stealing Beauty (An older movie with Liv Tyler. I saw it ages ago on IFC and haven't ever seen it again or seen it for sale.)
Comedian (The Jerry Seinfeld/Orny Adams movie. Great movie if you are even somewhat interested in becoming a stand up comic.)

Forgot to add Relax... It's Just Sex.

Oh and Secretary. Not sure if it is unknown. But I haven't ever met anyone who has heard of it.

[giftbj]

The Blood of Heroes. I have never met another person that has ever heard of it but I love it.

Ah, Rutger Hauer. I had completely forgotten about this movie until I read your post. Definitely deserves to be on this list. Kudos.

[ykryptonite13]

American Desi. It's an Indian-American romantic comedy (with more emphasis on "comedy" than the "romance") Funny as hell. Stars the guy who plays Kumar in Harold and Kumar too.

...Now waiting for the crickets to chirp or tumbleweed to pass by... >=J

[hiccupleftovers]

Volcano High
Trainspotting
Dagon

[bfg9k]

If you are a fan of the "repeating day" movies like Groundhog Day", give "12:01" a try if you can find it.

[MorbidAngel4Life]

Way Of The Gun.

[WeaponX2099]

Second list
Way of the Gun
Volcano High
Poolhall Junkies
on the line ( NO!! just Joking )

[MorbidAngel4Life]

wow somebody else who likes Way Of The Gun! im surprised, after the shit thatRotten Tomatoes has on their site about it (10/100)

gotta love Parker And Longbaugh.

[gokou36]

*So Close*

I watched that movie so many times on satellite, then went out and bought it on dvd, i love that movie. Vicky Zhao is so hot :)

[menaz]

Donnie Darko
Requiem for a Dream
Leon

[Mr. Anderson]

Best Comedy Ever:

Kikujiro

[ctice44]

Here are some of my not-so-well known flicks:
Bean (I can't believe how many people never heard of this awesome comedy!)
Boiler Room (A little knowm movie w/ Vin Diesel clean cut & nice and Ben Affleck as an @$$whole- what a shift in gears! Affleck isn't in it that long, but I think he needs to play more bad guys.)
Cat Soup (The strangest animated feature -or any feature for that matter- ever. It almost make Pink Floyd: The Wall look normal)
Equlibrium (It's been recommended, but it is really an awesome Sci-Fi flick)
Ghosts of the Abyss (Great documentary on the Titanic)
Major Payne (Probably considered well known, but I had to put it on my list)
Multiplicity (All I have to say is......#4! If you've seen this movie you'll know what I'm talkin about)
Mystery, Alaska (Great hockey movie, for true hockey fans)
Ringu (the Japanese movie that "The Ring" was based off of)
Salton Sea (One of Val Kilmer's best movies- besides Tombstone & the Doors)
Super Troopers (Has a laaarge cult following, but I wouldn't cosider it that well known. Funny Ass Movie!)
The Eye (Awesome Japanese Suspense-Thriller movie. If you like Ringu, then you'll love this move!)

I've been interested in Donnie Darko & Since everyone is mentioning it, I'm going to have to go out and rent it now.

[guardian_owl]

Multiplicity (All I have to say is......#4! If you've seen this movie you'll know what I'm talkin about)


'Hey sss-teve!"

[KingDox]

I'll second
The Eye (you can get the US version pretty easy)
Go (you can get this on dvd pretty cheap)
frequency (great time travel movie)

and I'll add Batman Byond:Return of Joker. Get the uncut version, and you'll see why this is the 2nd best batman movie ever made. And for all the kids too young to remember I'll add Meatballs. Classic Bill Murray.

It doesn't really matter!! It doesn't really matter!!...

[ykryptonite13]

I'm going through this topic and saying to myself, "I know a lot of these movies." But yeah, The Eye is from Hong Kong not Japan.

[AdamInPlaidum]

Two I havn't seen yet are:

Dr. Suess's The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T - Long before Cat in the Hat was sucking up movie theaters everywhere, this movie was released. Anyone who likes musicals whould definitely check it out.

Iron Monkey - Made long before Crouching Tiger, Quentin brought it to America where it recieved way less attention, which is a damn shame, because it's much better, IMO. The most beautifully choreographed fights I've ever seen.

[ValkyrieVF-1S]

Yeah, Iron Monkey was a great hk movie, and a lot better than CTHD. I liked how it was a prequel to the wong fei hoang movies.

[Darkwebs]

I thought The Eye was a Chinese film, not a Japanese one.

[ZForce915]

Run Lola Run. If you don't mind subtitles, this is a great movie.

[giftbj]

I thought The Eye was a Chinese film, not a Japanese one.

The director is from Thailand, not sure where he produced the movie though.

Also check out his first movie, Bangkok Dangerous. Awesome action flick

[giftbj]

Iron Monkey - can't go wrong with any of Donnie Yen's movies. He's in the movie Hero, he actioned choreographed The Princess Blade (which I saw mentioned earlier). Simply superb, if you get into the whole Hong Kong action scene.

[AdamInPlaidum]

Iron Monkey 2 is also very good. It was never a major release in America, so it didn't get the beauty treatment that the first did, but the fight scenes are still gorgeous.

[iamarhinoceros]

I havent seen mention of the great comedy:

Wet Hot American Summer

[AdamInPlaidum]

One I forgot:

Surf Ninjas- Much like ET was the high point for Reese's Pieces, this is the high point for the Game Gear. May only be relatively unknown because my friends are trying to forget it, but I love it. Admittedly, that might just be because of nostalgia.

"What's this, I was playing Shinobi!"
---Nicolas Cowan (while you can clearly see the game is Columns)

[MorbidAngel4Life]

Iron Monkey is awesome.

[chickenhawk]

I can't believe I forgot Brain Smasher: A Love Story!!!!

[Pancake Rabbit]

One I forgot:

Surf Ninjas- Much like ET was the high point for Reese's Pieces, this is the high point for the Game Gear. May only be relatively unknown because my friends are trying to forget it, but I love it. Admittedly, that might just be because of nostalgia.

"What's this, I was playing Shinobi!"
---Nicolas Cowan (while you can clearly see the game is Columns)

ahhahahah surf ninjas ahhahah

best movie ever right there. i saw that gem in theaters and it scarred me for life.

[Ikohn4ever]

People seem to be forgetting Chris Elliot at his best in "Cabin Boy", that movie cracks me up. Plus it like 6 bucks at Best Buy

[scdoanintendo]

Requiem for a Dream
Spun
Donnie Darko
Colors
Blood in blood out
Once upon a time in America
Legend

[Whambamm]

I read the posts and one of my favorites growing up, The Monster Squad, has already been mentioned. But another one I liked a lot when I was little was a movie called Big Man on Campus. It was about a hunchback that lived in a tower on the UCLA campus, and what happens when someone finds him. I haven't seen it in several years, but I used to love that movie so much because it was so damn funny.

[Rozz]

CKY 4

[captainofindustry]

Well the thing about this is... that if a movie it is good someone will naturaly hear of it. So I can guess that you mean movies that you thikn alot of people don't know about. But I'm seeing alot of movies that had been nominated for various awards, or are commonly known as classics. So the only thing left is to talk about movies that are not very well known amoung the general public. Now that I can do but most of them are known as classics it's just your average person on the street woudn't of seen them so... here's a few.


The Seventh Seal
8 1/2
(That other Nolan movie) The Following
Suspiria
(various Kurosawa movies)
(various John Woo movies)
Time and Tide



Another problem with this is that a great deal of these are cult classics, now you may not find alot of people who like the cult classic you like (on the street or whatever) but most people who share forums share the same interests so have also seen the same cult classic you like and probably like it themselves. So, it's actually quite hard to do to find a good movie no ones ever heard of.

[Mookyjooky]

True Romance.