# Recommend a film no one else has seen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 13, 2009, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278 "2009-05-13T13:08:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/1 "2009-05-13T13:08:32Z")
We haven’t done this recently, and I always end up getting some killer recommendations from these threads. Please – just post one or two recommendations and add a few words (avoiding spoilers, obviously) about the film or films. Let’s make these actual recommendations, and not just lists proving how obscure our movie-going habits can be. Mine: _He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not_ – that sweet little Audrey Tatou (_Amelie_) is an art student in love with a married cardiologist who doesn’t seem to return her ardor. Not at all what I expected, but – no, “and” – extremely well done. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/2 "2009-05-13T13:39:08Z")
_disFIGURED_ is a movie centered around two women, an anorexic and an obese, who befriend and learn the different and similar body issues they have. _Banlieue 13_ is a high energy french movie set in the near future in a John Carpenter _Escape to/from New York_ type plot. A bit of parkour and brutal violence, and not a lot of plot to speak of… so definitely a popcorn flick. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/3 "2009-05-13T13:57:59Z")
[How to draw a bunny](How to Draw a Bunny) Starts slow, but you get wound in. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/4 "2009-05-13T14:01:51Z")
> [@astro](#): > > [How to draw a bunny](How to Draw a Bunny) Starts slow, but you get wound in. What’s it about? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/5 "2009-05-13T14:02:35Z")
_Fear Eats The Soul._ Ali, a Moroccan guestworker in Germany in his late thirties, and Emmi , a 60-year-old widowed cleaning woman, fall in love and marry. Everything does not go smoothly. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/6 "2009-05-13T14:04:05Z")
[Untitled](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1132193/). I loved this film - we saw it at the PSFF (where it debuted). Hopefully it will get wider release in the next year - put it on your NetFlix list! ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/7 "2009-05-13T14:05:09Z")
_Moolade_ is about an African village where the young girls are about to undergo circumcision, and they seek shelter with a local woman. It sounds depressing and heavy, but it’s got a lot of humor and lightness and affection to it also. It’s a really great movie that nobody’s ever heard of. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/8 "2009-05-13T14:06:22Z")
_Snow Cake_–Tragedy throws together a troubled man (Alan Rickman) and a high-functioning autistic woman (Sigourney Weaver). Rickman and Weaver, what’s not to like? ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/9 "2009-05-13T14:07:36Z")
how can i recomend a film that i did not see? ---
**Author:** ![Nom\_de\_Plume](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/85f322/32.png) [@Nom\_de\_Plume](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nom_de_Plume)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/10 "2009-05-13T14:12:28Z")
_ **Fishing with Ghandi** _ - 1998 - A hitchhiker ends up riding with two brothers (played by real-life twins John and James Reichmuth) who provide a non-stop commentary of hilarious nonsense. Not much happens and the movie must have cost about 38-bucks, but the dialogue is truly funny. It gets better with each viewing! ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/11 "2009-05-13T14:13:42Z")
_Nordrand_ - Austrian film set on a grim housing estate. Won a few awards when it was released in 1999. Not a “nice” film but quite effective piece of social cinema. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/12 "2009-05-13T14:17:17Z")
I’ve got two–which I know I’ve recommended before: [The Woman Chaser](http://www.amazon.com/Woman-Chaser-Patrick-Warburton/dp/B0001H9SCI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=video&qid=1242223412&sr=8-2) stars Patrick Warburton as a used car salesman who wants to make a movie. In the worst way. _Neo noir_ with a vein of very black humor. Or maybe it’s just demented. Saw this on cable but haven’t sought out the VHS; no DVD release, apparently. Hard to forget–but that might mean that I’m demented, too! [Desperate Remedies](http://www.amazon.com/Desperate-Remedies-VHS-Jennifer-Ward-Lealand/dp/6304066074/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=video&qid=1242223819&sr=1-9) is a New Zealand film I bought (on VHS only, of course) because it starred some vets of the _Xena/Hercules_ shows. It’s a lush, overwrought, arty, homoerotic bodice-ripper that really needs a DVD release to exhibit the lush, overwrought art direction. If liking it makes me demented, I don’t want to be sane! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/13 "2009-05-13T14:32:43Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > how can i recomend a film that i did not see? :rolleyes: You can’t. Which is why the thread title reads “no one _else_.” ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/14 "2009-05-13T14:43:27Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > :rolleyes: > > You can’t. Which is why the thread title reads “no one _else_.” :smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack: me dumb, me no read well ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/15 "2009-05-13T14:51:54Z")
Roadside Prophets > **[Roadside Prophets (1992) ⭐ 6.4 | Adventure, Comedy, Drama](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105267/)** > > 1h 36m | R Two strangers meet on the road and travel through Nevada on motorcycle to find an elusive spot where they can dump another man’s ashes. Full of cameos (Tim Leary, David Carradine, John Cusack, Don Cheadle). ---
**Author:** ![DETXL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/detxl/32/19366_2.png) [@DETXL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DETXL)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/16 "2009-05-13T14:52:43Z")
_[Helvetica](http://www.helveticafilm.com/)_ is a documentary, so maybe it doesn’t exactly fit into this criteria, but for a film about typefaces it had me completely riveted. It goes over the history of the font, typesetting in general and how typefaces are used in graphic design. If you get a chance to see the _Beautiful Losers_ film (Aaron Rose, Ed Templeton, Harmony Korine, Margaret Kilgallen and Geoff McFetridge, among others), it’s another one that’s absolutely spellbinding with a killer soundtrack. It also made me decide to quit my job. Apparently that happens not infrequently. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/17 "2009-05-13T14:55:24Z")
[_Vozvrashcheniye_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376968/) (_The Return_ from Russian filmmaker Andrei Zvyagintsev, is about two young boys who have grown up with their mother, grandmother, and a single picture of their father. The father shows up one day to take them on a fishing trip and teach them (in prototypical Russian gruffness) how to be men, but ends up taking them along on some kind of shady business that has them taking a small boat to a remote island where (unbeknownst to the boys) the father digs up a case. The film has all the trappings of some kind of mystery-thriller, but instead ends up being much more meditative and tragic. The performance of Ivan Dobronravov (a dead ringer for a _Sixth Sense_ era Haley Joel Osment) as the outwardly resentful boy who is fundamentally just as desirous of a real father figure as his sycophantic older brother is nothing short of spectacular, and at the end of the film, where the boys now have to apply the rude but valuable lessons their father has taught them, has resonance without seeming forced or artificial. I’ve been waiting for Zvyagintsev’s follow-up, _Izgnanie_ (_The Banishment_) to come out on Region 1 & 2 DVD. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/18 "2009-05-13T14:56:04Z")
[Mimi’s First Time.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425253/) Caught it on Lifetime, figured it to be the usual dreck. But… Features Alec Baldwin, Jeff Goldblum, Carrie Ann Moss, Luke Wilson and Nikki Reed in a really good murder-sex tale. It’s not Hamlet, but really entetaining… ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/19 "2009-05-13T14:58:05Z")
**[Deathwatch](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081182/)**. One of the best SF book adaptations, which Harvey Keitel as a reporter covering a woman’s death. Anticipated reality TV by years. **[Screen Door Jesus](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0339638/)** – fascinating film about the varieties of religious faith. With the memorable line, “If Jesus has super powers, he could make a robot with a soul.” ---
**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/20 "2009-05-13T15:25:05Z")
_Zazie dans le metro_: French, with English subtitles. It’s about a young girl spending a day or two exploring Paris. I caught it on TCM one night and couldn’t look away. Very 1960 frantic. _Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story_: Mockumentary starring Rob Corddry about a paintball player coming back from disgrace. Not as funny as a Christopher Guest flick, but quietly worth watching. _Brand Upon the Brain!_: I don’t really know how to explain this one. A recently made silent movie about orphans on an island. You get to pick the narrator on the dvd, from a list including Isabella Rossellini, Laurie Anderson, John Ashbery, and Crispin Glover. _Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains_: Made in 1982 but really only got released recently. Stars a very young Diane Lane and Laura Dern, plus various members of The Clash and the Sex Pistols. Three girls form a punk rock band and go on tour. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278.md?page=2)