Your favorite movies no-one knows

My two all-time favorite movies are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, with Gary Oldman and Tim Roth, and The Court Jester, with Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone and a very young and beautiful Angela Lansbury.

Sadly, most people I know, upon hearing this fix me with a blank stare, and say "You're weird."

Please tell me I'm not the only one who loves movies that nobody else seems to know!

[purrplebear]

I have several, but the only one that comes to mind right now is Safe House with Patrick Stewart. Great movie! Cute tush in one scene.

[Siddhartha Vicious]

I love Danny Kaye too. My favorite is "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty."

[sk8rixtx]

Orgazmo w/ Trey Parker and Matt Stone. I'm sure a few people here know this movie, but from where I'm from, no one even knows what a Cock Rocket is.

Originally posted by sk8rixtx
Orgazmo w/ Trey Parker and Matt Stone. I'm sure a few people here know this movie, but from where I'm from, no one even knows what a Cock Rocket is.

"Jesus!!!"

"Where?!?!"

Love that movie.

[Hamadryad]

"Pass the Ammo"...Tim Curry, Annie Potts and Bill Paxton, late 80's. Hysterical.

"Noises Off"...Michael Caine, Carol Burnett, Christopher Reeve, John Ritter, Marilu Henner...fantastic ensemble cast, believe it or not. Very funny, but absolutely side-splittingly hysterical if you have ever been involved with live theater.

[Inky-]

"Me, Natalie"

A blatant chick flick. Late 60's.

Patty duke is a girl struggling to find an identity apart from her parents. Gets a
skumbag apartment in the east village and starts a eccentric life of her own, complete
with an affair with an older man.

Substitute the older man with three older women and you've got me at seventeen,
tossed out on his ass, still nieve enough to think there's a living to be made as an artist.

[Smeghead]

The Court Jester is great. So is The Inspector General, also with Kaye.

I freaking LOVE Young Frankenstein, which gets me a lot of blank stares.

Originally posted by Hamadryad
[b]"Pass the Ammo"...Tim Curry, Annie Potts and Bill Paxton, late 80's. Hysterical.

Seen it. Loved it.

Once saw it followed by Steve Martin's "Leap of Faith." I guess it was a themed marathon or something.

[Siddhartha Vicious]

Anything with Buster Keaton. I don't think he's been recognized enough for his work.

Oh, and all of Elvis' movies.

[KarlGauss]

Soldier of Orange - true story of the Dutch resistance during WWII

Images - disturbing film (by Robert Altman of all people) about a woman with mental illness

Originally posted by Smeghead
[BI freaking LOVE Young Frankenstein, which gets me a lot of blank stares. [/b]

Speaking of Mel Brooks movies, I just lent Blazing Saddles to a friend of mine who had never seen it. Normally, I don't associate with people who've never seen Blazing Saddles, but she's cute. Well, she returned it and said she didn't like it.

I no longer speak to her. Cretin.

[dropzone]

Originally posted by blessedwolf
Well, she returned it and said she didn't like it.

I'm afraid you may have to start going out with older women, or guys, even. Few "young" (under forty!) people these days have seen enough westerns, Catskills comics, Busby Berkeley musicals, etc to have the cultural references to get the better jokes.

Originally posted by dropzone
I'm afraid you may have to start going out with older women, or guys, even. Few "young" (under forty!) people these days have seen enough westerns, Catskills comics, Busby Berkeley musicals, etc to have the cultural references to get the better jokes. [/b]

Normally, she has a great sense of humour. She just doesn't get the Jewish Humour thing. Also, she saw it alone, with no-one speaking the lines along with the movie.

[hijack]
I've seen the movie many many times, unedited, and a few on network TV. You know when Bart is walking through town, and sees the old lady?

"Good morning, ma'am. And isn't it a lovely morning?"
"Up yours, nigger!"

Well, on network TV, they change the old lady's line to something less offensive: "Get lost, nigger!"

It's a strange world.

[/hijack]

[jabe]

"I'm not a super hero, I'm a Latter-Day-Saint!"

[Gozu Tashoya]

There's a movie for Rosencrantz and Gildenstern? Dammit, why didn't somebody tell me before now!? My favorite somewhat obscure movie is The Toxic Avenger, closely followed by other Troma films, esp. Class of Nuke 'Em High.

My other favorite movie that NOBODY knows is Modern Vampires. Never would've seen it if not for the fact that my ex-roomate's dad directed. And it had Casper Van Dien (sp?) in it, so it's not totally lacking in credibility....

[tennents]

Tunes of Glory

Perhaps just cuz im a piper but its a wicked movie, Sir Alec Guinness, John Mills. I guess its just somethig that i can ealte best with my life

[Kilt-wearin' man]

YES!!! "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" is a brilliant movie. You forgot to mention Richard Dreyfuss being in it too.

A girlfriend introduced me to "The Court Jester" a few years ago. I'd never watched a Danny Kaye movie before, and I though it was great.

My obscure movies are:

"Zorro, the Gay Blade" (it's actually a loving tribute to the Zorro serials of the '30's. Even uses the same music.)

"Flesh+Blood" (Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh in a 16th century action/psychological drama. One of Paul Veerhoeven's pre-RoboCop movies and one of his few good ones.)

another, which I haven't seen in years, is "Robin and Marion". Sean Connery as Robin Hood, near the end of his life. I forget who played Marion. Middle-aged Robin returns home from crusading and winds up having to be an outlaw again. Very good movie, from what I remember.

[stuyguy]

Just for the record, guys, NONE of the following flicks qualifies as "movies no one knows":

The Court Jester, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Noises Off, The Inspector General, Young Frankenstein, "anything with Buster Keaton" (with some exceptions, of course), and the Toxic Avenger.

If you think they do, you need to expand your sphere of knowledge... or acquaintances. (Big smile here.)

My favorite, which I recently mentioned in a pirates thread, is Light at the Edge of the World starring Kirk Douglas and Yul Brenner. Mix together a band of mind-fucking homoerotic pirates, a gold-digging damsel in distress, a wrecked and pillaged sailing ship, a burning lighthouse and a pet monkey and you've got a pretty passable, though obscure, movie. Keep an eye out for it.

[Annie-Xmas]

Time After Time. Malcolm McDowell plays H.G. Wells. A friend of his is Jack the Ripper. When Jack uses Well's Time Machine to escape to 1980's California, Wells follows him. Wells had predicted the end of the century would be a utopia, and he was scared about Jack being there. Mary Sternbergen played the love interest, and IRL Malcolm & Mary fell in love and got married (now divorced).

My favorite line in the movie is Jack's: Back then, I was a freak. Here, I'm an amateur.

This sounds like an impossible premise to carry out, but the movie is fantastic. Rent it if you get the chance.

[ChiefScott]

Yours, Mine and Ours -- starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda

[yojimbo]

A Matter of Life and Death ( Stairway to Heaven in the States ) .

A gem of a movie starring David Niven and Kim Hunter. It's a movie that if you see as a kid the images will never leave you. I never miss this movie when it's shown on TV.

[yojimbo]

Annie-Xmas I loved Time After Time aswell. Malcolm McDowell was great as Wells and David Warner was even better as the ripper.

[ruadh]

Psychos In Love - a straight-to-video horror/comedy.

The Secret of Roan Inish - John Sayles Irish fable.

Morgan, A Suitable Case For Treatment - 1960s Vanessa Redgrave comedy.

I'll probably think of a few more after I hit "submit"

[Annie-Xmas]

Originally posted by yojimbo
Annie-Xmas I loved Time After Time aswell. Malcolm McDowell was great as Wells and David Warner was even better as the ripper.

Yojimbo, you are the second person I've meet who actually saw this movie. I went six times in the theatre, and bought the video. It is so good (and thanks for remembering who played the Ripper).

[Lsura]

Originally posted by ChiefScott
Yours, Mine and Ours -- starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda

I love this movie-catch it occasionally on weekend tv, and hunt, off and on, for a copy to buy. Is it available? Do you know?

I also like Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (Women on the verge of a Nervous Breakdown). A 1988 Spanish flick, with Antonio Banderas, directed by Pedro Almodovar.

I also really like(yes, I know people will have heard of it, *sigh*) Coal Miner's Daughter. I don't know why, I know it's a bad movie...but I can't help myself.

There was a British nuclear war movie back in the 80's. Threads. Loved it. One that I can't find a copy of anywhere, but would love to own. Very creepy.

And of course, there's Hell comes to Frogtown. Post apocalypse movie where male fertility is rare, and the most fertile man is held prisoner by a military dressed in pink. I find it hilarious-and no, it's not a porn flick.

[anya marie]

i have been wonderin what are the favoirte movies of dopers!
how diiifcult is it to find these movies?
one of my all-time favorites is
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Forum

[lolagranola]

I liked Valmont. I thought it was much better than Dangerous Liasons. Strangely, almost no one ever seems to have heard of it.

Dark City, which was discussed in another thread a while ago. LOVED IT!

The Snapper. When I went to rent it again, the clerk at the video place had never even heard of it.

Although I hear about the movie all the time online (and they made a cartoon of it!), pretty much no one I know IRL has heard of Clerks. How does this happen? Do I just have really sheltered friends? Wait, I think I just answered that.

I also liked Run, Lola, Run, but again, it's a movie I saw reviewed in magazines, but certainly didn't seem to make any conversation, as I don't know anyone else who watched it.

[BornDodgy]

The Grassharp is cool, Steal (sp?) Magnolias and The Englishman(the book is better though..)
I guess nobody of you d know Stadtgespräch - Talk of the Town - cause it is German. Hillarious!!!

loons
who used to be a film freak

[Wendell Wagner]

I just did a search on the Internet Movie Database, and I can't find any movie with a title even close to _The Englishman_ that was based on a novel. What film are you talking about?

[BornDodgy]

wow. I guess with this I win the contest of "most unknown film"
Wait.. I got the video in the other room..

The Englishman
(who went up a hill but came down a mountain)

The book is by Christopher Monger and has exactly the same title.

[Wendell Wagner]

It's not at all an obscure film. I've seen parts of it. (In fact, I've heard of nearly all the films mentioned in this thread and watched about half of them.) It was one of the films that it occurred to me that you might mean, but on IMDb it doesn't mention that it was made from a novel.

I'm sorry about this, but this is one of my pet peeves. Someone mentions a film, but they only give a part of the title. When I ask for fuller information, since there are usually half a dozen other movies with vaguely similar names, they get huffy about giving the full title or the year or director or star or something, as if I'm supposed to be able to read their mind.

[BornDodgy]

LOL You can ask me for as many titles as you want..

I always thought it was just "The Englishman" cause it is written in REALLY BIG LETTERS and then there is "who went bla bla bla" in very small letters as if it was not more than one of those annoying subtitles..
how I hate subtitles.. grr
but if I d explain that you d think I am mental.. *smile*

[bunnymom]

ruadh - I love The Secret of Roan Inish!! I even went out and rented it so I could force BunnyPapa to watch it.

As for the OP,

The Vogues of 1938 - imdb description
The costuming is just gorgeous. Great rainy day girl movie.

Ensign Pulver - imdb description, Friggin' hysterical. The description doesn't come close to doing this one justice. You just have to see it.

[rackensack]

Originally posted by yojimbo
A Matter of Life and Death ( Stairway to Heaven in the States ) .

A gem of a movie starring David Niven and Kim Hunter. It's a movie that if you see as a kid the images will never leave you. I never miss this movie when it's shown on TV.

Had a chance to see a restored print of this on a big screen a few years ago at the High Museum here in Atlanta. Good stuff.

[Grendel69]

"Kicking and Screaming" gets my vote...

[AuntiePam]

Originally posted by Kilt-wearin' man
"Flesh+Blood" (Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh in a 16th century action/psychological drama. One of Paul Veerhoeven's pre-RoboCop movies and one of his few good ones.)

another, which I haven't seen in years, is "Robin and Marion". Sean Connery as Robin Hood, near the end of his life. I forget who played Marion. Middle-aged Robin returns home from crusading and winds up having to be an outlaw again. Very good movie, from what I remember.

I loved Flesh and Blood! Another medieval gem is "A Walk With Love and Death" -- how could you miss with teenage lovers and the Black Plague?

I believe Marion was played by Jean Simmons. I always wanted to be her when I grew up.

[Scotticher]

Hi Auntie Pam!

How are you doing?

Marion was played by Audrey Hepburn.

I love alot of the movies that have been mentioned here, and another really good but obscure one is "Tim" with a young Mel Gibson, and Piper Laurie. Australian, from a book written by the lady who wrote "The Thorn Birds." Colleen McCullogh, maybe?

[Yossarian]

Water produced by Handmade Films (George Harrison) and starring Michael Caine, J.J. "Dy-no-mite" Walker, that Scottish commedian that replace Hessman on "Head of the Class", the late Herman Munster actor, some other people, and appearances by George H. and pals Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton.

So, I'm not remembering some names, but it really is a great political farce. I found my copy in the Blockbuster video $2 used video bin in Midland, TX, back in '94 and haven't seen a copy of it anywhere since. I recommend it, and should you take my suggestion and watch it, I wish you luck finding it.

[BornDodgy]

Reminds me of the time I tried to get a copy of Mister Jones with Richard Gere. It was a good film about mental illness, though a bit too hollywood style..

[xizor]

The Serpent and the Rainbow - starring Bill Paxton, about Voodoo
Gorky Park - Murder mystery in the communist USSR
Better Off Dead - John Cuzack in teenage love
Jason and the Argonauts - Harry Hammerhouse(?) stop frame animation classic.

[Crusoe]

Another vote for both Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead and Threads here.

For my original nomination, it has to be True Stories, the film narrated by David Byrne of Talking Heads.

By the way, BornDodgy, what's with "Brittish"?

[AuntiePam]

Hi Scotticher! Audrey, huh? Not Jean? I knew I should have checked. Those two are easy to confuse -- both beautiful ladies who did wonderful movies.

Thought of another well-loved movie that gets weird looks -- "Razorback" -- the man (and woman) killing wild pig in Australia. The photography and camera work were excellent, and the music too. It was one of the first movies I bought when we got a VCR, way back when.

[AuntiePam]

Originally posted by mattk

For my original nomination, it has to be True Stories, the film narrated by David Byrne of Talking Heads.

Yes! John Goodman singing even. Great movie. (That was John Goodman, wasn't it? And not George Wendt? I seem to be confusing people today.)

[Scotticher]

Originally posted by xizor
Jason and the Argonauts - Harry Hammerhouse(?) stop frame animation classic.

xizor, I think you might mean Ray Harryhausen, one of the pioneers of the special effects industry.

Auntie Pam, I love both Audrey and Jean. When I grow up, I'd like to be Audrey. (And please don't tell me that I am already grown up and it didn't happen. Sometimes denial is the best place to be!)

[Silo]

A movie I like, that I don't think a lot have seen is The Eiger Sanction with Clint Eastwood. Pretty cool movie, came out in the mid-70s though it wasn't a box office hit. The characters, storyline, and scenery make it kinda fun to watch.

[Crusoe]

Originally posted by AuntiePam
Yes! John Goodman singing even. Great movie. (That was John Goodman, wasn't it? And not George Wendt? I seem to be confusing people today.) [/i]

It was indeed -- "Louis Fyne, the man with a consistent panda bear shape".

[Homer]

Gummo.

If you're heard of Gummo, I will marry you.

--Tim

[Crusoe]

Bad Boy Bubby -- an Australian film that I wouldn't call a favourite, but one that left me feeling unforgettably repelled.

[Eutychus]

Originally posted by Homer
If you're heard of Gummo, I will marry you.

That's sweet, Homer. I've heard of Gummo, but really, you're not my type.

Maybe it's just me, but I've heard of about 90% of the movies mentioned here and have seen about 70% of them. So much for being obscure ...

But my own two favorite "obscure" ones :

The Loved One with an all-start cast doing Evelyn Waugh's book about the American funeral industry. "Something to offend everyone."

The Ruling Class with Peter O'Toole as an English Lord who believes he is Jesus Christ.