# Most UNIQUE Movie You've Seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [March 5, 2021, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unique-movie-youve-seen/937211 "2021-03-05T00:38:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unique-movie-youve-seen/937211/201 "2021-05-02T08:26:15Z")
wow weve had that movie for like 20 years and its still unopened … i thought t was just another lame parody … i might have to watch it when we move , ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2021, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unique-movie-youve-seen/937211/202 "2021-05-19T18:17:49Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > I found all these movies, which some of my friends loved, very pretentious and nearly unwatchable. > > Still, I have to say they were unique. (Speaking of Peter Greenaway) His films are not going to be everyone’s cuppa but they _definitely_ are unusual. He quite often has nudity but, unlike most directors, does not shy away from frontal male nudity. I suppose that would be a defense against the male gaze. To add to his catalog here, [_The Pillow Book_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pillow_Book_(film)). > The film’s title, " _[The Pillow Book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pillow_Book)_ ", refers to an ancient Japanese diary written by [Sei Shōnagon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sei_Sh%C5%8Dnagon), whose actual name is believed to have been Kiyohara Nagiko, from whence the protagonist’s name in the film. > The film is narrated by Nagiko, a Japanese born model living in Hong Kong. Nagiko seeks a lover who can match her desire for carnal pleasure with her admiration for poetry and calligraphy. The roots of this obsession lie in her youth in [Kyoto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto), when her father would write [characters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji) of good fortune on her face. Nagiko’s father celebrates her birthday retelling the Japanese creation myth and writing on her flesh in beautiful calligraphy, while her aunt reads a list of “beautiful things” from [Sei Shōnagon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sei_Sh%C5%8Dnagon)’s _Pillow Book_ . Nagiko’s aunt tells her that when she is twenty-eight years old, the official book of observations will be officially 1000 years old, and that she, Nagiko, will be the same age as Sei Shōnagon when she had written the book (in addition to sharing her first name). Nagiko also learns around this time that her father is in thrall to his publisher, “Yaji-san”, who demands sexual favours from her father in exchange for publishing his work. That’s in the first ten minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unique-movie-youve-seen/937211/203 "2021-05-19T18:50:45Z")
It’s been years since I’ve seen them. Might give them a rewatch in the far future, but there are _many_ more films I have not seen that I would try first. I think he was trying too hard to be important, was trendy 25 years ago, not sure his movies have stood the test of time with regards to critical acclaim - complexity has some disadvantages. Certainly I could be wrong and others may disagree - or enjoy them more than I did at the time. ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unique-movie-youve-seen/937211/204 "2021-05-21T22:23:09Z")
Coming Apart > **[Coming Apart (1969) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064180/)** > > Coming Apart: Directed by Milton Moses Ginsberg. With Rip Torn, Sally Kirkland, Robert Blankshine, Darlene Cotton. Psychiatrist installs a concealed movie camera in his apartment to record the screwed-up lives of the women who visit him. ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2021, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unique-movie-youve-seen/937211/205 "2021-05-25T17:27:36Z")
Paradise: Love > **[Paradise: Love (2012) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1403214/)** > > Paradise: Love: Directed by Ulrich Seidl. With Margarete Tiesel, Peter Kazungu, Inge Maux, Dunja Sowinetz. Teresa, a fifty-year-old Austrian mother, travels to the paradise of the beaches of Kenya, seeking out love from African boys. But she must... ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2021, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unique-movie-youve-seen/937211/206 "2021-05-25T17:36:52Z")
Have 7 Up, 21 Up, 28 Up, etc. been mentioned? ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2021, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unique-movie-youve-seen/937211/207 "2021-05-25T20:58:57Z")
No, but it’s one of my favorite documentaries. ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unique-movie-youve-seen/937211/208 "2021-06-02T18:32:22Z")
“Little Fugitive” [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POj4dLyRCgI) ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unique-movie-youve-seen/937211/209 "2021-06-02T21:17:56Z")
> [@glowacks](#): > > A real work of art. I’m not going to say it was the _best_ movie I’ve ever seen, but I think it had the largest artistic to entertaining ratio of any movie I’ve seen. I liked that movie a lot! My nominee is _Black Moon._ ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2021, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unique-movie-youve-seen/937211/210 "2021-06-03T02:58:33Z")
_The Calamari Wrestler_ (2004) - One of few live-action films to take professional wrestling as a backdrop, this is almost certainly the only one with a cephalopodian main character. A squid and a fierce mantis shrimp play supporting roles. > **[Ika resuraa (2004) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428662/)** > > Ika resuraa: Directed by Minoru Kawasaki. With Nômaru Abe, 'Hurricane Ryu' Hariken, Kana Ishida, Nobuo Kameko. A championship wrestling match pits Koji Taguchi against Crush Volcano, the latter no match to Koji's signature move, the Torture Ring... _Salomè_ (1972) - Apparently edited by someone with an extremely short attention span, this version of Oscar the Wilde’s play brilliantly casts a bald-headed Donyale Luna (the first black supermodel) in the title role; she looks like an alien, which is the predominant vibe of the flick as a whole. Not recommended for anyone’s viewing pleasure. > **[Salomè (1972) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069210/)** > > Salomè: Directed by Carmelo Bene. With Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli, Alfiero Vincenti, Donyale Luna. A psychedelic re-telling of the biblical story. Salome is the daughter of the second wife of King Herod. The King is infatuated with her and after... ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2021, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unique-movie-youve-seen/937211/211 "2021-06-03T17:59:53Z")
In the running has to be Pasolini’s _Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom_. Don’t ever watch it. I wish I hadn’t. ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2021, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unique-movie-youve-seen/937211/212 "2021-06-03T21:20:11Z")
Pasolini’s first two movies were very good (Accatone, Mamma Roma), but I have no interest in that movie, and usually got bored with his other movies. For an atheist, he sure had a lot of interest in religion! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2021, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unique-movie-youve-seen/937211/213 "2021-06-04T12:03:56Z")
> [@MortSahlFan](#): > > For an atheist, he sure had a lot of interest in religion! Definitely. Check out his film **The Gospel According to St. Matthew** , which is shot absolutely straight from the gospel. It’s a refreshing change from the overly reverential religious film made at the same time, like **King of Kings**. There was something much more realistic about Pasolini’s stubble-bearded Jesus. You could actually believe that he would be walking around the Sea of Galilee barefoot and haranguing people. Atheists and agnostics make the best plays and movies about religious subjects, I think because they treat them as real people and not as icons. In this vein, see George Bernard Shaw’s **St. Joan** or Robert Bolt’s **A Man for All Seasons.** ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2021, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unique-movie-youve-seen/937211/214 "2021-06-04T12:43:23Z")
I do agree atheists can make a more interesting movie, because of the lack of dogma, and I tried watching that movie, but just couldn’t get into it. The same with every other one of his movies. I don’t know what happened after his first two movies… ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2021, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unique-movie-youve-seen/937211/215 "2021-06-04T13:43:31Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Robert Bolt’s **A Man for All Seasons.** Hilary Mantel gives a very different view of Sir Thomas More in _Wolf Hall_. The BBC miniseries of _Wolf Hall_ is probably the best Tudor drama ever made. Bruce Beresford’s movie _Black Robe_ is exceptionally good at depicting religious faith, both Catholic and Native American, with believable three-dimensional characters and complex situations. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2021, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unique-movie-youve-seen/937211/216 "2021-06-05T02:39:16Z")
> [@GreenWyvern](#): > > Bruce Beresford’s movie _Black Robe_ is exceptionally good at depicting religious faith, both Catholic and Native American, with believable three-dimensional characters and complex situations. He had good source material. Brian Moore, who wrote the novel upon which the film was based, wrote a bunch of stuff with Catholic themes (which kind of unfairly put him in Graham Greene’s shadow). He was good at it ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2021, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unique-movie-youve-seen/937211/217 "2021-06-05T05:35:05Z")
> [@Saintly\_Loser](#): > > He had good source material. Brian Moore, who wrote the novel upon which the film was based Brian Moore, in turn, also had good source material – the voluminous [Jesuit Relations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jesuit_Relations), written year by year in the early 17th century by the missionaries who were actually there, detailed reports sent back to their superiors in France. Gutenberg has [translations](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Jesuit+Relations+and+Allied+Documents&sort_order=title). Fascinating stuff, if you are into the early history of Canada. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2021, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unique-movie-youve-seen/937211/218 "2021-06-05T18:26:43Z")
_Living in Oblivion_ is not necessarily the most unique movie I’ve ever seen, but it was different. I liked it. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2021, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unique-movie-youve-seen/937211/219 "2021-06-06T00:12:10Z")
Along with its artsy pretentiousness, I thought the Australian film “Bliss” was unique. ---
**Author:** ![Didi44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@Didi44](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didi44)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unique-movie-youve-seen/937211/220 "2022-11-20T20:21:16Z")
_School Days with a Pig_ is based on a true story. A 6th grade class raise a piglet, P-chan, as a class project to teach them where their food truly comes from. At the end of the year they debate whether they will follow through and send P-Chan to the processor or leave it her to the third grade class. The acting and discussion during the final debate between the children is brilliant! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPAaT8MH8E4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPAaT8MH8E4) This isn’t _Babe_! They decide to send P-Chan off to the processor… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unique-movie-youve-seen/937211.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unique-movie-youve-seen/937211.md?page=12)