I haven’t seen that movie in years. If you like that, you may also like these classics:
Amazon Women on the Moon
The Kentucky Fried Movie
Do most people still remember Big Trouble in Little China?
Only a Buck which was never released by a major studio and is impossible to find a copy of now.
A Polish Vampire in Burbank
I also need to second Boondock Saints although clearly other people have heard of it.
Humm - I’m surprised noone has mentioned my personal obscure faves:
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover - it’s brilliant - my favorite move of all time.
Five Corners Jodi Foster, Tim Robbins, et al.
Brazil is in the top 10 for sure.
Kiss of the Spider Woman Raul Julia and William Hurt are fabulous in this. I’ve had a massive crush on Raul Julia ever since seing this.
Remember it? I could probably reproduce the screenplay from memory, I’ve watched it so many times! Sonuvabitch Must Pay!..Timmy
Bach and Broccoli, a Canadian(?) movie about an organist and a little girl under his care who may or may not be his daughter (he is her guardian, though… I just can’t remember if he’s her Dad or Uncle or whatever). Broccoli was the name of the girls rabbit. Yes, there was a lot of Bach in this movie, which was precisely why I saw it.
The Cook, The Thief… is a great, and greatly disgusting, movie. Thumbs up! 
This one isn’t too obscure, but I recommend The Bear (another Canadian movie), and I consider it one of the best films of the 1980’s. There is very little dialogue, perhaps less than in 2001 (another obscure Kubrick film :rolleyes: ). It is the story of a bear cub who loses his mother to some hunters and how he survives the first year alone. Very moving movie, and one in which the editor should’ve won every accolade offered that year.
I second/third Passport to Pimlico and The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. Joe vs. the Volcano is on my worst movie list.
Anybody ever come across a little British film called Let’s Kill Uncle? A boy inherits a large estate, his uncle tries to kill him over it, and no one believes him except his little girl friend. So they decide to turn the tables.
Surprisingly few people know about Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun.
My favorite little-known comedy: Stewart Saves His Family, starring Al Franken as Stewart the caring nurturer.
SolGrundy writes:
> 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.
I would say that it’s a true sequel. The films of Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown Trilogy (The Commitments, The Snapper, and The Van) were done in 1991, 1993, and 1996, respectively. The first one was directed by Alan Parker, while the other two were directed by Stephen Frears. The second one was a TV movie in the U.K. (but a theatrical feature in the U.S.), while the other two were released to theaters everywhere. Roddy Doyle wrote the screenplays for all three of them. I believe the reason that the names had to be changed in the later films was that the producers of the first film had bought not just the rights to the book The Commitments, but also the rights to the characters. They got around this (for some inexplicable reason) for the second and third films by changing the characters’ names.
It’s actually a pretty consistent series. They’re all different genres of film, but, given that, the trilogy hangs together well. Colm Meaney plays the same character all through the series, even though his character has different names in each film. He’s not a very major character in the first film, but he’s the lead in the second film and he really shines in the third one.
Second Night Of The Hunter, which also featured Shelley Winters back when she was still a pinup. Mitchum was good at playing psycho bad guys. He also played the role younger folsk will associate with Robert DeNiro in the B&W version of Cape Fear, with Gregory Peck.
They’ve remade a lot of really fine old films, usually not as well done the second time. Hope they leave Night Of The Hunter alone. It was great as it was.
Great! Someone has actually seen Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death. I’ve got a CD by Christine Lavin which I think has a song based on the title of that movie, although the song is called *Piranha Women of the Avocado Jungle of Death *. I’ve got to see it some time.
As for The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. I saw it years ago when it first came out, and I’m afraid it was a bit too arty and disgusting for me, but to each his (or her) own.
CJ
good morning friends,
i have seen some of the movies mentioned, and i am going to watch for others.
my favorite unknown movie is steelyard blues, with donald sutherland, peter boyle, howard hessman and jane fonda.
very hard to describe, but hilarious.
The Blue Iguana. Essentially a heist, pit-the-two-factions-against-each-other movie with lotsa cool old-time cars, clothing and music. If this script had been available in 1950 or so, I could imagine Bogart and Bacall playing the roles taken by Dylan McDermott and Pamela Gidley.
cj: in Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death, the main tribe was called the Piranha Women. They believed men should be killed and eaten with avacado dip. Their bitter rivals were the Barracuda Woman with diametrically opposed views. They thought men should be killed and eaten with clam dip.
**A Polish Vampire in Burbank **. Mark Pirro’s parody of An American Werewolf in London, shot on glorious super-8! I think it might still be available. I’ll have to look. (The only reason I haven’t looked is that I already have it on VHS. Ha!)
Sure, the lighting could have been better. Some of the scenes were a little grainy. But it only cost $2,000 or so to make. It’s probably grossed a million. Now if only I could see Pirro’s Curse of the Queerwolf:
This thread has taught me that I really am a movie geek. I’ve seen almost every movie that has been mentioned.
Here’s a few of my favourites that usually draw blank stares, followed by that “Was it a long commute in from Mars?” glare:
“The Outfit” - Robert Duvall/Joe Don Baker/Karen Black. Hard knock criminal types take on a Mafia boss over a debt.
“Silent Running” - Bruce Dern flips out in outer space, kills his shipmates and generally goes a bit looney tunes.
“L.627” - Some French bloke plays a copper in it. No plot really. It’s good, honest. Stop looking at me like that.
Must go, or I’ll miss the last rocketship home.
“Smooth Talk” with Laura Dern and Treat Williams. Bizarre coming of age meeting with satan kind of thing. It’s based on the short story “Where are you going, where have you been” by Joyce Carol Oates. It’s GREAT to watch the movie and read the story in close proximity. I’m pretty sure no one thinks it’s good…or has even seen it…except me.
L
Eating Raoul These people want to open a gourmet resturant, but they don’t have the money, so to make the money (and incidentally reduce the number of perverts in the world) the wife pretends to be a dominatrix (the couple is really quite ‘straight and narrow’, so seeing her in her get-up is priceless in itself). Once they get the wealthy weirdo into their house, the husband kills them. Well, it’s funnier than I’ve made it sound–the line Whip me, beat me, make me write bad checks! comes from this movie.
Ha! I saw Eating Raoul at the cinema!
“Would you mind picking up a new frying pan? I feel funny about cooking in the one we’re using to kill people with.”
Sadly, it’s not available on DVD. 
(But you can vote for its release at Amazon.com.)
I did not know until about two years ago that Raoul was played by Robert “Chakotay” Beltran. I have the movie on tape, but never made the connection.
Yeah, and the straightlaced couple were played by Paul Bartell (who directed “Deathrace 2000” among other classics) and Mary Woronov, the sadistic principal from "Rock ‘N’ Roll High School. A movie full of luminaries!..Timmy, font of useless information
I love this movie called smilla’s sense of snow, no one I know has ever heard of it, Farewell My concubine is another fave of mine that NO ONE I know has seen or heard of