# Obscure Movies That You Love? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 7, 2003, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movies-that-you-love/147136 "2003-01-07T11:25:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![freajnt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e8cbc/32.png) [@freajnt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freajnt)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movies-that-you-love/147136/61 "2003-01-10T01:06:49Z")
Well, I’ll throw one in the pot. I really enjoyed **Down by Law**. It’s a Jim Jarmusch film in black and white. Roberto Begnini is in it and he is hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Harry\_Lime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Harry\_Lime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harry_Lime)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movies-that-you-love/147136/62 "2003-01-10T01:47:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Keith Berry \* > It \*should \* have been Ferarra’s debut. Would have made for a commendable starting point. His first film was actually the rather grimy \*Driller Killer \*. That’s why I phrased it that way…I was hedging my bets. A terrific film, even if it’s second. Another rather grisly affair is a Korean film called **Tell Me Something**. It’s kind of **Se7en** -ish, but it’s far from a ripoff. It’s a moody, atmospheric mystery that keeps you slightly off balance the whole way. It also features a killer w/ unique body disposal methods. To say the least :eek: ---
**Author:** ![FairyDust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ccd318/32.png) [@FairyDust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyDust)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movies-that-you-love/147136/63 "2003-04-20T19:50:42Z")
**My Name Is Nobody** starring Henry Fonda and Terrence Hill. It’s my favorite spaghetti western. I love those penetrating blue eyes of Terrence Hill! _drool_ ---
**Author:** ![FireVixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dbc845/32.png) [@FireVixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FireVixen)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movies-that-you-love/147136/64 "2003-04-20T23:24:58Z")
I just saw _All Over Me_ on IFC several days ago, and I was pretty impressed with it. The characters seemed a lot like people I know, and it gave a pretty accurate idea of what adolescence is like. And I will definately second (or third, maybe?) _Orlando_. It was odd in an extremely fascinating way. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movies-that-you-love/147136/65 "2003-04-21T00:01:11Z")
Can I add **Harold and Maude**? Or is that not obscure enough? It’s my absolute favoritest movie and not one I see on any cable channels very much. Almost makes driving hearses look appealing. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Mith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mith)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movies-that-you-love/147136/66 "2003-04-21T00:03:45Z")
West Beirut (it’s 400 blowish) [http://iten.net/movie\_review/drama/99West%20Beirut.htm](http://iten.net/movie_review/drama/99West%20Beirut.htm) New Waterford Girl > **[New Waterford Girl](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/new-waterford-girl)** > > New Waterford Girl movie reviews & Metacritic score: Two teenage girls in a small Nova Scotia town, one a local who feels suffocated by the town and the other recently transplanted from the Bronx, cook up a plan t... ---
**Author:** ![rexnervous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@rexnervous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rexnervous)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movies-that-you-love/147136/67 "2003-04-21T02:42:19Z")
I’ll third **Diva** and throw in a very obscure but excellent crime/mob movie called **The Long Good Friday**. Stars Bob Hoskins, and has a short cameo by a then unknown Pierce Brosnan. ---
**Author:** ![catnoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@catnoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catnoe)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movies-that-you-love/147136/68 "2003-04-21T05:38:35Z")
I’ve seen at least 37 of the movies listed so far. My recommendations… **Being at Home With Claude** French/Canadian flick with Guy Dupuis, don’t know if there is a dubbed version, watched it with subtitles, while watching the movie I was so engrossed I for got I was reading subtitles and thought I must be able to understand french. **The Killer** John Woo - director, Chow Yun Fat - star, watch the subtitled version. **The Bride With White Hair** Chinese, Japanese, can’t remember. Excellent action and storytelling. **Strictly Ballroom** , when I saw it almost no one in the states had heard of it. I prefer my foreign movies to have sub-titles, strange as it sounds I think they lose something in the dubbing translation. ---
**Author:** ![troub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troub/32/14802_2.png) [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movies-that-you-love/147136/69 "2003-04-21T16:35:25Z")
**Ravenous**. Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, Jeffrey Jones, Neal McDonough. Really cool movie. **Ed and His Dead Mother**. Steve Buscemi. Bizarre premise. Maybe not a great movie in the classical sense, but I think it’s fun. **Leningrad Cowboys Go America**. _I_ think it’s funny, so there. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kallisti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f0a364/32.png) [@Kallisti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallisti)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movies-that-you-love/147136/70 "2003-04-21T16:53:24Z")
Gilbert & Sullivan producing “The Miikado.” Look for Andy Sirkis (Gollum) as the choreographer. Rock N’ Rule: post apocalyptic animated rock musical with Debbie Harry and Lou Reed. Mysterious Island: Bernard Herrmann score, Harryhausen stop-motion monsters, Captain Nemo, volcano, pirates… The Ghost and Mrs Muir: Rex Harrison, Gene Tierneyanother Herrmann score, heartbreakingly romantic. Born Free ---
**Author:** ![Nuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea666f/32.png) [@Nuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nuke)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movies-that-you-love/147136/71 "2003-04-21T17:20:25Z")
Pretty much anything by Werner Herzog (my second Werner Herzog-related post today! 😃 ) Fitzcarraldo Aguirre: The Wrath of God ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movies-that-you-love/147136/72 "2003-04-21T18:04:14Z")
Love this! Time to invoke the _Blockbuster Inversion Rule_ - the more copies of a movie there are on the shelf, the less likely that the movie is any good (of course there are many exceptions to the rule, but every good rule has exceptions). These suggestions are marvelous! Count me in on **Diva** , **I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing** and **Harold and Maude**. My adds are probably not obscure to the posters here, but perhap seeing their names will bring a smile: **Koyaanisqatsi** (now out on DVD) \*\*Paris is Burning \*\*(Pep-pa La-Be-ja, Pep-pa La-Be-ja) **Big Night** - yum! The soundtrack is cool, too! **Bring On the Night** - for the Branford Marsalis interviews **Jack’s Back** - any time, James! the original **La Femme Nikita** (not the one with Bridget Fonda) **Hands on a Hard Body** (documentary, not porn) ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movies-that-you-love/147136/73 "2003-04-21T19:30:24Z")
Here’s a good one for **fessie** ’s Blockbuster Inversion rule… _Miracle Mile_. I challenge you to find a Blockbuster that carries this little movie at all, as it’s been discontinued on tape and never released on DVD. A neat little movie about the possible end of the world, starring a very young (posssibly pre-_Top Gun_) Anthony Edwards. Another one that you’ll rarely find at Blockbuster (except the really good ones): _Closet Land_, starring Madeline Stowe and Alan Rickman in one of his best roles ever. I’ll also second _In the Bleak Midwinter_, Ken Branagh’s least-known film, but one of his best. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movies-that-you-love/147136/74 "2003-04-21T20:07:38Z")
I’ll go with _Straight to Hell_ as one of my favorite obscure movies. Out of the half dozen people or so who caught this, I’m probably the only one who actually likes it (But then again, I liked _McHale’s Navy_ with Tom Arnold, so what do I know?). It brings mindless fun to a whole new level: “Sing, Wiener Boy. Sing or die!” “Mas Cervesas!!!” "Half a league/half a … " BANG! “You’re not going to start in on that whole money thing again, are ya? C’mere, you little minx!!” “We’ll have to drag him out behind the building and shoot him. Like in the Army daayyyyyz.” The only thing that I can’t figure out is whether it’s “Karl’s Disco Wieners” or “Karl’s Discount Wieners.” ---
**Author:** ![karomon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@karomon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/karomon)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movies-that-you-love/147136/75 "2003-04-21T21:17:52Z")
\“Ha Myun Daen-da”\ or \“You Can Do It”\ - Very funny. A family goes broke, loses their house, etc., but they realize that they can get money by purchasing insurance policies and injuring themselves. Mayhem ensues. (Korean) \“A Bungee Jumping of their Own”\ - Superficialy speaking, it’s a sappy (and tragic) love story, but the part of the girl is played by a teenaged boy whose body she’s been reincarnated into. (Korean) \“Happiness of the Katakuris”\ (or \“The Rapture of the Katakuris”\) - What is it about me and asian families who kill? It’s sort of a comedy. I love it. (Japanese) \“Battle Royale”\ - I guess it’s not really obscure, but not enough people have seen it. (Japanese) \“Xiu Xiu the Sent Down Girl”\ - The saddest movie I’ve ever seen. It’s also gorgeous. (China) \“The Bear Witch Project”\ - It’s a short film that was really funny at the time. (U.S.) ---
**Author:** ![karomon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@karomon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/karomon)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movies-that-you-love/147136/76 "2003-04-21T21:19:39Z")
oops, sorry for the bad HTML. Forgot this wasn’t xanga. ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movies-that-you-love/147136/77 "2003-04-21T22:28:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Avalonian \* > > I’ll also second _In the Bleak Midwinter_, Ken Branagh’s least-known film, but one of his best. \*\* This is the first I’ve heard anyone mention that movie since a friend insisted on showing it to me. I loved it! “The boot… The boot is poisoned!” Is it me, or did **The Grey Zone** sort of disappear after its release? I heard some things about it, and then it sank right off the radar. Incredible movie, even if it’s still disrupting my sleep two nights after watching it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movies-that-you-love/147136.md?page=3)