How can I forget:
**Streets of Fire ** Michael Pare, Diane Lane & the most underused actor in Hollywood, Willem Dafoe. Amercenary goes after his ex-girlfriend who has been kidnapped by a gang. Campy-comic bookish. Great fun. It’s greatest fame is the hit song, " I can dream about you…"
I used to have a roommate who worked at a video store and always brought back weird and obscure films like the ones previously mentioned.
I remember Tampopo…it’s a Japanese flick about a woman struggling to maintain a noodle stand, but is crumbling in the face of competition. Then, from out of the sunset, comes a stranger wearing a cowboy hat (complete with Good, bad and Ugly type entrance music) who takes her under his wing and instructs her in the Zen ways of preparing noodles. Very clever, very tongue in cheek.
Mom and Dad Save the Universe I think it’s supposed to be a movie for kids, but it has such funny lines and an extended stretch about stupid soldiers who keep picking up a grenade labelled “Do not touch,” it’s a riot. It stars Jon Lovitz as the would-be emperor of the universe. He’s as over-the-top as a human being can possibly get and it still works.
Well, I feel I must chime in here too. Anyone seen Six String Samurai? It was very strange, yet somewhat cool. It’s about this guy who has some odd adventures on his way to LA after some atomic weapon (I think) has destroyed much of earth. Kinda like the wizard of oz, but not really. Oh, he is a guitarist too 
Hence the “six string” part of the title. Just watch it, trust me.
How 'bout The Madness of King George? No one I know has seen it exept my family. Saw it years ago, but remember it being funny.
Then there is Defending Your Life Merryl Streep is in this one. A uniqe movie, sorta romantic comedy.
The Dresser – good movie. Never met anyone who had even herad of it.
I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing – same goes.
Time Bandits , does the fit the requirements? An early eighties, very weird movie
Dead and Buried Zombie movie, excellent ending
Muriel’s Wedding My favorite movie of all time, Toni Collette is great.
The Green Knight Sean Connery is in this one, about Sir Gawain and all that. Kind of cheesy
The Tune Cartoon movie by artists that usually do MTV spots about a guy’s search for the ultimate tune.
Dark City was mentioned already but totally excellent
THX 1130 (8?) not sure if it is 1130 or 1138, but very grim take on the future, reminded me of 1984
Loved Time Bandits and Brazil. Jabberwocky was a little weird even for me. 12 Monkeys was interesting. The Fisher King…well, it did have Michael Jeter in it, anyway.
THX 1138 - Lucas’ first foray into filmmaking
Also, realized I forgot one on my list - it was a made for HBO movie in the early 80s starring Robert Preston called “Finnegan, Begin Again.” For some reason, I just fell in love with it.
OESGirl, you just mentioned one of my favorite movies - Defending Your Life and one of my unfavorite movies - Six String Samurai.
What are the odds?
Howzabout Mad Monster Party?
I’ve mentioned Samurai Fiction in an earlier thread, but there are two other good movies by the same director, Hiroyuki Nakano.
Aka Kage, about a team of ninjas on various missions. Like Samiurai Fiction, it has a serious story, but is kept just tongue-in-cheek enough to be hysterically funny at times.
Stereo Future, set in modern times, but about a man whose dream is to act in Samurai dramas. The style makes a little more sense if you’ve seen the other two.
What about ALF?
Hated that show
“Alice’s Restaurant,” a pretty fair-handed look at Arlo Guthrie’s coming of age in the 60’s. I like it a lot.
“The Dark Backward”, a major studio attempt at a cult classic. Very odd yet good. The scene of the garbagemen picking up the trash is a classic.
Monty Python’s “The Meaning of Life”
I liked “Freejack”, too.
Brainsmasher: A Love story
OK, we got…
[ul][li]Andrew Dice Clay (gritty, foul-mouthed bouncer-- who else?)[/li][li]Terri Hatcher (professional model-- makes sense)[/li][li]angry Kung-fu’ish type guys[/li][li]poorly choreograped fight scenes[/li][li]cheesy 80s 'esque romance[/ul][/li]What more does a movie need to be classic?
Suburbia
Foxfire
Man Bites Dog
Dark City
All good movies (I tend to like weird movies and other movies that just appeal to me for no apparent reason)
The Efficiency Expert aka Spotswood with Russell Crowe and Anthony Hopkins
Matewan with Chris Cooper and James Earl Jones - this is about a coal mining town in West Virginia and the revolt against the company
Mean Streets with DeNiro and Keitel - an early Scorsese film. Introduces one of the greatest derogatory terms ever - Mook.
Johnny Stecchino with Roberto Begnini
The Ice Storm by Ang Lee. Most people I know haven’t seen it. A great film
To The Extreme with Vanilla Ice;) - Just kiddin’ folks. This one sucks.
I almost forgot…
Cannibal The Musical
I love that movie!
(I think it was Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s college film project)
AHunter3 and spooje… yay for Miracle Mile! It’s one of my all-time favorite movies. Had to fight like hell to buy it on VHS several years ago; I don’t think it’s available in any format now. I watch it every now and again.
Nobody’s mentioned Closet Land yet, I think. Perhaps Alan Rickman’s best performance ever. Great, somewhat disturbing film.
The trippy Cube. If you can get through the first 10 or 15 minutes of gross “traps” that get sprung on hapless victims, it’s a very suspenseful piece of work.
Someone did mention Strange Days, and I second that. Great performances by Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett (she kick SO much ass), and James Cameron’s best script other than The Abyss. Good thing he didn’t direct it, though, I figure he would have loused it up. 
Someone also mentioned Peter Jackson’s Dead-Alive (or Brain-Dead outside the States, I think), and I second that, too. Great gory fun.
And I’ll add Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures, which I can only describe as the strangest love story I’ve ever seen on film. Merits attention, also, the the lovely Kate Winslet’s first feature (hi, Guinastasia!).
Ken Branagh’s little-known A Winter’s Tale. A black-and-white film about a troupe of actors committed to an independent production of Hamlet on stage, and the various interactions that take place among them. Very cool.
And finally, what is probably my favorite film, Peter Weir’s Fearless. It get almost no attention, compared to Weir’s other films (Witness and The Truman Show, for example), but to me it is his masterwork. Great performances and a simple yet subtle story that packs an emotional wallop like a sledgehammer, with a storytelling structure Quentin Tarantino has wet dreams about. An awesome film.
That should do it… I’ll have to check out a few I’ve seen on this list. Good stuff.
Much more recent than most of these, but it hasn’t gotten the kudos I really think it should: Lifeform. Also called Invader. An “Alien” movie, but great, thought-provoking dialogue and a fun alien.
And apparently I’m the only person in the state to have seen Blacula! Fun, fun movie.
Well, isn’t that interesting? No idea what the odds would be on that one 
Oh, I forgot that one!!:rolleyes: Wish I had the time I spent watching that back, but worth seeing just to say you have.
Let’s see, from the ones mentioned here so far;
I’ve seen and liked:
Free enterprise
Tron
Boondock Saints
Final Destination
The Bear (even if it was sad)
Strange Days
Time Bandits
eh:
Shallow Grave
and hated:
The Blood of Heroes
Dead Alive
As for my own movies that I liked but few people have seen:
Glory Daze with John Rhys-Davies, Ben Affleck, and French Stewart. It’s about graduating college and having no direction in life.
The House of Yes with Parker Posey, Tori Spelling, and Freddy Prinze Jr. The most bizarre film I’ve seen in a while. Very disturbing in a very placid way.
Transformers: The Movie with Leonard Nimoy, Orson Wells, Judd Nelson, Robert Stack, Casey Casem, and the micromachines fast talking guy, John Moschita. An all star cast for an 90 minute commercial, where they kill your toys! Saw it a a child and having my toys die on screen sticks with you.
Robot Jox with a bunch of big robots. It’s not that good, but has lots of stop-go animated robots!
Princess Mononoke with the voices of Gillian Anderson, Minnie Driver and Billy Crudup. An Anime film that is deep with morality and metaphor.
Iron Monkey A kung-fu movie with the stunt director from Crouching Tiger and the Matrix. If you take those two movies, remove the pesky plot stuff, and add more fight scenes, voila, Iron Monkey.