# 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:** 2
**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, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/21 "2009-05-13T15:29:50Z")
> [@DETXL](#): > > _[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. **I** saw it, in the _theater_. 😛 It is (or was the last time I noticed) on Netflix’s Watch Instantly service, along with some other fine documentaries. That’s really what I replied to say - being proud of having seen such a nerd movie is just gravy. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/22 "2009-05-13T15:29:53Z")
[The Godfather of Green Bay](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385727/) - a comedian, desperate for his big break, follows the talent scout for “The Tonight Show” up to Green Bay, and gets mixed up with the mob on the way. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/23 "2009-05-13T15:45:39Z")
[_Mr Vampire_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089371/) - The first and best of a series of Hong Kong vampire movies. No garlic and stakes: they fight vampires with rice and martial arts. [_7 Faces of Dr Lao_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057812/) - Fantasy comedy western with Tony Randall playing seven different parts. Bonus: Joel of MST3K said this is his alltime favorite movie. [_The Specials_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181836/) - Comedy about a third-rate band of super-heroes on their day off. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/24 "2009-05-13T16:20:13Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > _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. I’d like to offer a hearty second recommendation for this, thus making it ineligible for the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/25 "2009-05-13T16:24:41Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > [_The Specials_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181836/) - Comedy about a third-rate band of super-heroes on their day off. Great comedy. Stars Jamie Kennedy, Rob Lowe (right before his stock went up with West Wing), Thomas Hayden Church, Judy Greer, John Doe and Jenna Fischer from the Office has one line (her future/now ex husband made the movie) ---
**Author:** ![runcible\_spoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@runcible\_spoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/runcible_spoon)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/26 "2009-05-13T16:35:43Z")
_Janji Joni_ (English title _Joni’s Promise_) - Indonesian film about a film messenger trying to get the second reel of a movie to a theater in time to get the girl. Everything that can go wrong, will go wrong, and hilariously. Funny, cute, good music. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/27 "2009-05-13T16:36:00Z")
“No one else has seen?” Well, judging from the previous posts, that’s a pretty tall order in this crowd, but I’ll try anyway: [The Villain](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080097/)–Comedy western starring Kirk Douglas–funnier than _Rustler’s Rhapsody_, IMHO. [Massacre at Central High](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074875/)–The “revenge movie” by which all others are (or should be) judged. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/28 "2009-05-13T16:36:54Z")
> [@DETXL](#): > > _[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. I liked that one. It was like Jesus Camp, except about a font. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/29 "2009-05-13T16:39:45Z")
The [5000 Fingers of Dr. T.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045464/plotsummary) Mad piano teacher with 500 captive students. _Let’s Kill Uncle_ – A young heir to a fortune learns his uncle wants to kill him for his fortune, and decides to kill him instead. Really quite good. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/30 "2009-05-13T16:44:33Z")
[**Le Trou**](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054407/) (1960, French, black-and-white) Has to have grand themes, like classism, but is mostly a really cool prison-escape movie. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/31 "2009-05-13T16:49:29Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > [The Villain](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080097/)–Comedy western starring Kirk Douglas–funnier than _Rustler’s Rhapsody_, IMHO. I went to see this one **in the theater**! Kirk Douglas as the bad guy, Arnold Schwarzenegger as the good guy (with his “seven shot six shooter”), Ann-Margret as the girl, and Paul Lynde as the Indian chief. It was basically a live-action Road Runner cartoon. 😃 ---
**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, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/32 "2009-05-13T16:50:52Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > “No one else has seen?” Well, judging from the previous posts, that’s a pretty tall order in this crowd, but I’ll try anyway: > > [The Villain](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080097/)–Comedy western starring Kirk Douglas–funnier than _Rustler’s Rhapsody_, IMHO. Is that the one that’s like a live-action Looney Tunes cartoon? Funny film. (As is _Support Your Local Sheriff_ with Jim Garner, similar vintage.) And **filling\_pages** , I saw _The Fabulous Stains_ 20 years ago, so though it may have been _re_-released recently, it’s not been completely sequestered since it was made. Another recommendation: _[Cranford](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0974077/)_, which was actually a BBC miniseries. Killer cast headed by Judi Dench and Imelda Staunton. Small-town life in England immediately before the railroad arrived, based on a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. Each one-hour episode has a smaller focus, but there’s an overall narrative arc as well. ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@Black\_Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/33 "2009-05-13T16:51:49Z")
Ok, maybe not no one, but [[REC]](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1038988/), the Argentinian movie that Quarantine was based on. Don’t let the Blair Witch Project style shooting put you off. It’s way easier to watch, and scary as hell. And, it’s available, in parts, on youtube. Watch it in full-screen mode. I can’t recommend it enough. One of the best horror movies I’ve seen. ---
**Author:** ![phreesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@phreesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phreesh)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/34 "2009-05-13T16:55:06Z")
Highway 61 > **[Highway 61 (1991) ⭐ 7.0 | Comedy, Music](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102035/)** > > 1h 42m | R A Canadian barber travels to the US with a former Roadie. Hijinks ensue, including angering somebody who may or may not be the Devil. The excellent Canadian actor, Don McKellar, stars. ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/35 "2009-05-13T17:05:56Z")
[Hanover Street](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079268/) Harrison Ford at the beginning of his career, sultry Lesley-Ann Down, solid Christopher Plummer and charasmatic, though underused, Richard Masur, and the greatest backdrop in movie history (WW II) combined with impactful acting, heroic drama and a powerful and clever script climaxed with an ending which will cause even the most hardy person to choke on tears. Man, how does this movie languish in obscurity? ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/36 "2009-05-13T17:08:20Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > _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. Ha! I’ve seen this one. The thread title clearly states “no one else has seen.” Are you having trouble with reading or comprehension? You fail. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/37 "2009-05-13T17:12:07Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > _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. ..that is _ **always** _ my recommendation for these kinds of discussions, and the one I opened this thread to nominate. Umm. Besides the movie listed in the OP, I’ll nominate _May_, a 2002 “horror” film about a socially awkward woman who only had a doll as a friend as a child, and tries to make real friends with tragic results as an adult. ---
**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, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/38 "2009-05-13T17:16:40Z")
> [@Mince](#): > > Ha! I’ve seen this one. The thread title clearly states “no one else has seen.” Are you having trouble with reading or comprehension? You fail. Hey – play nicely. As the OP, I was trying to suggest that people talk about films that most people haven’t seen or heard of, and that seems to be what most of the suggestions are about. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/39 "2009-05-13T17:20:07Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > [_7 Faces of Dr Lao_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057812/) - Fantasy comedy western with Tony Randall playing seven different parts. Bonus: Joel of MST3K said this is his alltime favorite movie. Oddly, this was the answer to a clue in today’s NY Times crossword puzzle. > [@Boyo Jim](#): > > The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. Mad piano teacher with 500 captive students. I saw this one as a kid. Scared the crap out of me. My pick - [Hellzapoppin](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033704/) Olsen and Johnson movie based on the Broadway show, which I saw on TV as a kid and finally found on video. Even better than I remembered. ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/40 "2009-05-13T17:23:24Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Hey – play nicely. As the OP, I was trying to suggest that people talk about films that most people haven’t seen or heard of, and that seems to be what most of the suggestions are about. Yeah, I know. That was a bit of a “he-he.” I think it would be impossible to expect that absolutely “no one” has seen the above listed movies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278.md?page=3)