# Movies You've Liked That No One Else Has Ever Seen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 20, 2005, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-liked-that-no-one-else-has-ever-seen/291049 "2005-02-20T19:51:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-liked-that-no-one-else-has-ever-seen/291049/41 "2005-02-21T07:54:28Z")
> [@racinchikki](#): > > [Plunkett & Macleane.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134033/) A highwayman flick with an intriguing mix of historical accuracy and modern punking up, especially notable for the soundtrack by the Tiger Lillies and Alan Cumming’s droll appearance as Lord Rochester, a century or two out of his time but still amusing libertine. I love this one. They run it every once in awhile on one of the “Women’s Movie” (_Lifetime_ or _Oxygen_ runs it, I think) channels, for some reason that I can’t begin to fathom. I’d like to add **Zeppelin** (at least, I _think_ it’s obscure). A Michael York WWI thriller. Fun, and it has an odd little element in that— [spoiler]The double-agent hero, despite his best efforts, doesn’t really manage to foil the Germans’ plans. And the Germans, despite _their_ best efforts, end up failing their mission anyway, out of sheer bad luck. And it has gas-masked German proto-commandoes (proto-brandenburgers?) using mustard gas and bolt-action Mausers in a raid to steal the Magna Carta. God, that was practically \*steampunk. 🆒 \*[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-liked-that-no-one-else-has-ever-seen/291049/42 "2005-02-21T08:13:29Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > How could they tell the difference between 1980’s Auckland and a medieval village? 😃😛 ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-liked-that-no-one-else-has-ever-seen/291049/43 "2005-02-21T08:20:50Z")
> [@bluethree](#): > > “Bad Medicine,” a mid-80’s comedy about American students at a dismal medical school in some fictional Latin American country. I think it’s pretty damn funny and I thought Alan Arkin did a great job and had a great scene where he talks about being the minority who nobody respects as a doctor. Netflix doesn’t even carry this movie, last I checked, and I’d love to see it again. > > It had a lot of good gags, though they might not look very funny any more, as they’ve probably been incorporated into more famous movies in the meantime. Never seen? :dubious: Steve Guttenburg and his cohorts touted this movie on the Tonught show as well as others on the talk show circuit. :rolleyes: It’s not exactly a movie no one’s seen; it’s more a movie no one remembers. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-liked-that-no-one-else-has-ever-seen/291049/44 "2005-02-21T09:11:43Z")
I’m sure some people saw **Unbreakable** but it flew under my radar until recently. I was surprised at what a good flim it was. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-liked-that-no-one-else-has-ever-seen/291049/45 "2005-02-21T09:47:24Z")
**Ghost Dog:Way of the Samurai** I’m sure someone else saw it and loved, but so far I haven’t met them! ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-liked-that-no-one-else-has-ever-seen/291049/46 "2005-02-21T09:55:56Z")
**Aria** –Ten directors each take a favorite operatic aria and make a short film about it. When I saw it, the theater wittily added an eleventh–“What’s Opera, Doc?” w. Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, by Chuck Jones. IIRC, **Aria** was Bridget Fonda’s screen debut. **Working Girls** –Not the one with Melanie Griffith. This was a day-in-the-life movie about a guelling shift at an upscale Manhattan brothel. ---
**Author:** ![Freejooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@Freejooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freejooky)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-liked-that-no-one-else-has-ever-seen/291049/47 "2005-02-21T10:08:38Z")
It’s funny, because many of these movies - like Buckaroo Banzai and Repo Man - have huge cult followings, or are known to many people. My picks - **Summer with Monika** - a Bergman, but apparently one that’s never been available for purchase in the US in any form. Even big Bergman fans I’ve met haven’t seen it. **Gymkata** - A bizarre martial arts film in which the protagonist uses a gymnastics-based form of fighting. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-liked-that-no-one-else-has-ever-seen/291049/48 "2005-02-21T12:59:19Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > oh, and **Lion in Winter**. No one I know IRL has ever seen it. It never gets mentioned whenever those Top 100 Films Evar!!!1111!!! come out. I don’t know why. It is simply awesome and has a plot,dialoge, acting and sets. That’s what is wrong with it. Great flick! Mr. singular & I are fond of saying “Well, what family doesn’t have it’s ups and downs?” while doing the Hepburn bobblehead. But it’s not all that obscure - Glenn Close just won a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Eleanor in the [TV remake](http://imdb.com/title/tt0319754/) (currently in third place on my Netflix queue). > [@silenus](#): > > Rustler’s Rhapsody - Starring Tom Berenger, Marilu Henner and Andy Griffith! If you liked this , _run_ to a video store and get **Sodbusters**. Even better, in the same absurd vein. I’ve seen most of these at least once. I’d like to throw in [Cold Feet](http://imdb.com/title/tt0097076/), with a great performance by Tom Waits (who also did the music for another terrific little flick, [One From The Heart](http://imdb.com/title/tt0084445/). Actually, I’ll offer up anything with Tom Waits, especially **Down by Law** , **Queens Logic** , **Short Cuts** & **Coffee & Cigarettes**. ---
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-liked-that-no-one-else-has-ever-seen/291049/49 "2005-02-21T13:21:01Z")
In no particular order: After Hours Into the Night Indian Summer Heart and Souls The first two make a nice double feature… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-liked-that-no-one-else-has-ever-seen/291049/50 "2005-02-21T14:20:14Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > **Rustler’s Rhapsody** - Starring Tom Berenger, Marilu Henner and Andy Griffith! And a young Sela Ward! Great take on classic Western vs . Looks like I’m now the town root junkie. Clockwatchers - Kind of an unfunny Office Space about a bunch temps (IFC staples Toni Collette and Parker Posey and Friends Lisa Kudrow, also bit parts by Jamie Kenedy and the mom from That 70s Show) and their miserable lives. Ghost World - (Scarlett Johanson, Steve Buscemi) has a similar tone. It’s about these two odd girls sort of floating around figuring out what to do after high school. Basically I enjoy movies about people with lives or jobs more boring and pathetic than mine. Gymkata - A bizarre martial arts film in which the protagonist uses a gymnastics-based form of fighting. Dude…no :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-liked-that-no-one-else-has-ever-seen/291049/51 "2005-02-21T14:24:29Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Gotta agree with you there, BBVL. > **Fandango** an early Kevin Costner, Jude Nelson flick about some college boys coming of age in Vietnam times and how they go on a quest in south texas. Dealing with War, drafting and dodging issues. > > Very entertaining. Costner is completely charming and Judd Nelson is wonderful as a total weenie. " I’m not a weenie." > > The guy who ends up giving them parachuting lessons steals the show. > > Hard to find. Worth a looksie. Btw, I look like Chuck Bush, the friend who is also an ordained minister & performs the wedding. Good movie! here’s mine- the 1980 NBC production of BRAVE NEW WORLD starring Bud Cort ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-liked-that-no-one-else-has-ever-seen/291049/52 "2005-02-21T14:31:08Z")
> [@Revedge](#): > > Serial- > If you have lioved through the 70’s, then you will appreiciate this satire of all that was goofy from that period. Laffed my ass off. Christopher Lee as Skull, the leader of a gay biker gang is a scream. Martin Mull & Tommy Smothers are in that, right? I saw it on TV years ago & I sure don’t remember gay biker Chris Lee! But that also reminds me- THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN starring Peter Sellers & Ringo Starr, w/ a cameo by Chris Lee Also. some film about an Alien invasion in which Spaceships hover above Earth broadcasting signals which induce suicidal depression, so millions are killing themselves. Lee is the Evil Alien Commander. A European-made low budget Shelley-faithful FRANKENSTEIN, which is titled either TERROR OF FRANKENSTEIN or VIKTOR FRANKENSTEIN. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-liked-that-no-one-else-has-ever-seen/291049/53 "2005-02-21T14:33:51Z")
I’m a huge Anthony Hopkins fan, so I search for some of his older films that are hard to find at the video store. Nobody I know in real life knows about these movies, which is a shame because I thought they were quite good: **Magic** , a 1978 film about a magican/ventriloquist (Anthony Hopkins) who can’t seperate himself from the personality of his dummy, Fats. Sometimes it can be quite corny (but that’s a given since it’s a movie dealing with ventriloquism), but entertaining. **The Bunker** : A TV movie from 1980 where Hopkins plays Adolf Hitler during his last days. He won an Emmy for it and it’s one of the best portrayls of Hitler I’ve seen. But as this is a movie about Hitler and Nazis, it’s not a multiple viewings type of movie. **The Bounty** : Made in 1984 and stars Hopkins as Bligh and Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian. **The Hunchback of Notre Dame** : Another early 1980s movie. Hopkins is Quasimodo (completely unrecognizable) and Derek Jacobi is Claude Frollo. ---
**Author:** ![Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoundrel_Swanswater)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-liked-that-no-one-else-has-ever-seen/291049/54 "2005-02-21T14:37:02Z")
> [@irishgirl](#): > > **Ghost Dog:Way of the Samurai** > I’m sure someone else saw it and loved, but so far I haven’t met them! Well, you have now. I absolutely love that movie. Some friends of mine also quite enjoyed it. I think it is one of those movies that just missed everybody’s radar. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-liked-that-no-one-else-has-ever-seen/291049/55 "2005-02-21T14:51:09Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > [Jesus of Montreal](http://imdb.com/title/tt0097635/) is one of the best and most intelligent films ever made to deal with Christianity (its origins and its modern practice). Back when the late, lamented MovieCritic website was still just a kiosk at my local video store, I used to play with the program, and I kept getting this film at the top of my list. I never would have watched it otherwise, because the packaging kind of turned me off, and I HATED director Denys Arcand’s previous film, _The Decline of the American Empire_. But the more films I plugged in to MovieCritic, the more resolutely this stayed at the top. I finally rented it, and it is one of my all-time favorites. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-liked-that-no-one-else-has-ever-seen/291049/56 "2005-02-21T14:54:06Z")
> [@irishgirl](#): > > **Ghost Dog:Way of the Samurai** > I’m sure someone else saw it and loved, but so far I haven’t met them! Now you’ve met two. Loved that film! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-liked-that-no-one-else-has-ever-seen/291049/57 "2005-02-21T15:00:13Z")
Is **Bollywood/Hollywood** too well-known to mention here? ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-liked-that-no-one-else-has-ever-seen/291049/58 "2005-02-21T15:26:25Z")
> [@singular1](#): > > Actually, I’ll offer up anything with Tom Waits, especially **Down by Law** , **Queens Logic** , **Short Cuts** & **Coffee & Cigarettes**. Great movies. I would add **Fishing with John** a movie which the host goes fishing with Tom Waits, Dennis Hopper, et al. I am going through this thread adding movies to my Netflix que. I hang with a crowd that doesn’t get out much. My actual contributions include **The Man Who Wasn’t There** and **Mulholland Drive**. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-liked-that-no-one-else-has-ever-seen/291049/59 "2005-02-21T16:07:13Z")
> [@irishgirl](#): > > **Ghost Dog:Way of the Samurai** > I’m sure someone else saw it and loved, but so far I haven’t met them! Well, I’m half way there… I saw it. ---
**Author:** ![haardvark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5ac83/32.png) [@haardvark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/haardvark)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-liked-that-no-one-else-has-ever-seen/291049/60 "2005-02-21T20:50:51Z")
I love **Last Night**!!! I’ve seen **The Way of the Gun** and was pretty underwhelmed. Then again, I really dislike Ryan Phillipe. Two movies I’ve seen and LOVE, that no one in my personal universe seems to have even heard of: **Nate and Hayes** , cheesy pirate movie with an early career Tommy Lee Jones, and **Suicide Kings** with Denis Leary and Christopher Walken. A mobster flick with a twist. Now that I think about it, two more in the so-bad-they’re good category: [Finders Keepers,](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087260/) with Lou Gosset Jr, Beverly D’angelo, and Micheal O’keefe, and [Out on a Limb,](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105078/#comment) with Matthew Broderick. (“Well, Jim was named after dad, and _Jim_ was named after Grandpa…”) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-liked-that-no-one-else-has-ever-seen/291049.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-liked-that-no-one-else-has-ever-seen/291049.md?page=4)