Lt. Robinson Crusoe, with Dick Van Dyke.
It’s so funny. I got it on tape off the Family Channel about 13 years ago, no one I know ha ever heard of it.
“Eraserhead” - I’m the only person I know who’s seen it seven or eight times and has the poster over my desk.
“Gargoyles” - an old TV movie with Bernie Casey as a gargoyle and Cornel Wilde as the scientist who tracks him down, one of my alltime favorites.
“The Third Man” - one of Orson Welles’ most famous roles, but nodody’s even heard of it outside a film class!
Oh, and I’ve seen “Tron”. Twice…Timmy
Actually, I really liked Flesh and Blood and Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down. Wasn’t TMUTMD Antonio Banderas’ first movie, or something like that?
Actual title…Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N
I enjoyed the movie too. Very funny.
Picnic at Hanging Rock - Peter Weir
Ripe, though this one is usually considered a stinker. I don’t know, it struck me as a wonderfully implausible but emotional movie nonetheless. The ending brought a tear to my eye the first time I saw it. :shrug: I’m pretty sappy, though.
Quiet Earth, dear god how I wish this would come out on DVD. I can’t seem to find my copy anymore. The story of a science experiment gone wrong, and the only people alive are those who died at the time it went off. I think this was an Aussie film.
I don’t know if that was Antonio Banderas’ first movie, but good lord he looks like a baby in it, doesn’t he?
And Pedro Almodovar makes movies that are unlike any made anywhere. The first time I saw Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down I could not believe a man made it (yeah, that’s what I get for using that big ole broad brush)
All About My Mother. Women on The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. What a strange personal vision as a moviemaker. I love him.
Buster with Phil Collins and Julie Walters. Just a great love story flick based on The Great Train Robbery. I have not met one single person who has seen it, it was only in our local theater for one week (and I missed it…had to wait for video) and it has a great soundtrack…which is what I bought first.
Buster was quite controversial here in the UK, with the sympathetic portrayal of a violent criminal.
I would recommend the Talking Heads’ pleasant movie True Stories, which is fairly unknown here.
I second The Ruling Class. My pick is They Call Me Bruce. I’ve worn out 2 videocassettes laughing at this movie, but no one else I know has heard of it.
Another enthusiastic vote for The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
Also, Ingmar Bergman’s The Magic Flute, Billy Wilder’s The Private life of Sherlock Holmes and Soldier with Kurt Russell. (“Soldier” is more of a guilty pleasure, but what the hell…)
It’s nice to see I’m not the only one who likes The Twelve Chairs. There’s a Japanese movie called Shall We Dance my best friend put me onto a while back. It’s very Japanese, about a salaryman who breaks out of the mold for a bit, but not so much so that my very English father didn’t get it. Besides, it’s got scenes in Blackpool where he mis-spent part of his youth.
CJ
I’ve seen it, and I liked it too.
What about Dogfight? Lily Taylor, River Phoenix, and Anthony Clark. It breaks my heart everytime I see it.
i know this was mentioned rather early in the thread, but…
I LOVE THE FORBIDDEN ZONE!!! it’s nearly impossible to find, and i only know a few people who’ve ever heard of it, but it’s great and completely insane and the 6th dimension is run by a french midget! and the soundtrack is amazing! funny how there are like 3 copies of the movies in existence (i saw it on a copy of a copy of probably 10 copies of someone’s original) yet the soundtrack is readily available on amazon.com
cough um… enough from me… i just love that movie, though my dad saw part of it, yelled at my friend for bringing it over, and confiscated my old taped copy of the soundtrack (HA, i got the cd!)…
The Snapper. Apparently this was a TV movie in the UK, but it was released theatrically here in the US – I saw it “by accident” because I was late for the movie I really wanted to see, but it turned out to be one of my favorite movies ever. It’s a pseudo-sequel to The Commitments (the book is a true sequel, but the movie changes all the names and such), and it’s about an Irish lower-middle class family dealing with the unexpected pregnancy of their daughter. It’s hilarious in parts and really tragic in others, but feels “authentic” throughout. And it stars Colm Meaney who can really act, although he never got much chance to in Star Trek.
I saw Roddy Doyle (who wrote the screenplay and the book on which it was based) at a book signing, and he said that it was an attempt to show a dysfunctional family that turned out to be successful. And it works. I never liked The Commitments or The Van all that much, but everything in The Snapper just works perfectly.
So, you’re the other person who has seen this movie! I taped it off Cinemax just to see what is was about. I lucked up and found the laserdisc a few years ago (cough hint, hint cough). I would love to get a copy of the book (any New Zealand Dopers who could help?) to see if it explained the ending.
Also,
Paperhouse: odd British kid’s horror movie.
I’ve heard of or seen quite a few of these, already, but man, I love strange films! Thank you for starting this thread! I am taking notes on some of these. 
In the meantime:
Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death - A feminist, a dumb blonde, and Bill Maher go into the wild avocado jungles of California looking for a lost tribe of Amazons.
What the Deaf Man Heard - Matthew Modine, Frankie Munitz, and James Earl Jones among others in a small southern town where an abandoned kid pretends he can’t hear, and ends up hearing quite a bit.
Cold Comfort Farm - A modern young woman in the 30’s left broke by her parents death decides to live off of her distant relatives for a while, ending up with a strange and backwards bunch at Cold Comfort Farm.
Starring Thomas Gibson, Lauren Ambrose, and the thinner aunt from Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
Marc
Cold Comfort Farm I thought I was the only who had seen it!
Saving Grace Very funny. A widow left in big debt grows pot to save home.
Dammit, Fairview, you preempted me on Cannibal Women!
OK, I’ll be the first to put in Miracle Mile. A nice if somewhat nerdy guy in a museum becomes seriously attracted to a schoolteacher taking her young students on a tour of the exhibits. He makes a date with her and accidentally stands her up when a bird’s nest catches on fire and kills the electricity to the motel and therefore his alarm clock. In the process of trying to call her and apologize, he intercepts a misdialed call from a US nuclear missile base in Montana or some such place and hears a hysterical soldier say that nuclear war has just been started.