# 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:** 6
**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 15, 2009, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/101 "2009-05-15T16:52:51Z")
> [@Mince](#): > > 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. Considering it’s Fassbinder, of course I didn’t expect absolutely no-one else to have seen it. But it is such a good film that often gets overlooked. ---
**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 15, 2009, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/102 "2009-05-15T17:01:02Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > 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. No, it’s true, it played a few art houses and had a test screening or two, but it never got a full release to theaters and was just made available on dvd for the first time. One of those movies, like _Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story_, that you had to deliberately search out to watch. ---
**Author:** ![pantheon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@pantheon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantheon)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/103 "2009-05-15T20:09:46Z")
> [@sqweels](#): > > [Rock and Rule](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_rule), an animated film (comparable to _Heavy Metal_) about an evil rock star named [Mok](http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=my+name+is+mok&aq=f) with the voice of Lou Reed trying to use a girl with the voice of Debbie Harry to summon a monstrous demon. One voice, one heart, one song! She can sing…or she can scream AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH but either way, she still pissed me off. Freaking classic. ---
**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/104 "2009-06-15T05:27:45Z")
[The Foot Fist Way](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492619/). Danny McBride is a martial arts instructor. It made me laugh out loud several times, and that’s hard to do. ---
**Author:** ![BACI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@BACI](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BACI)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/105 "2009-06-15T06:12:27Z")
[“The Hill”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059274/) - a small, black and white gem from 1965 directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Sean Connery and others, just a wonderfully tense film about well “good” and “bad” and where they hide, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/106 "2009-06-15T07:44:59Z")
I’m going to reccommend three for you… 1. There Came a hot Friday 2. Good Bye Pork Pie, 3. Bad Boy Bubby All great movies, but be warned - Bad Boy Bubby is not for the faint of heart ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/107 "2009-06-15T08:59:54Z")
Somebody might have seen it recently, I didn’t read the thread… maybe it has been brought up… [Chemical Wedding](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0974536/). Written by Bruce Dickinson (singer from Iron Maiden) and Julian Doyle, this Independent Film with Art School Sensibilities delivers with quirks and beastie magic. The Reincarnated Crowley, the Beast, and the Moonchild comes to fluid and wry life in this docudrama/horror. Its fusion with the quantum and Compunerd is notable. A timely masterpiece in Nerd Horror. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/108 "2009-06-15T13:18:19Z")
The Helvetica movie and the Dance of the Dead flick look really interesting to me. ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/109 "2009-06-15T14:55:50Z")
_The Traveling Executioner_, from 1970. Starred Stacy Keach as a private contractor who drove a truck with a portable electric chair from prison to prison to perform executions. ---
**Author:** ![DiggitCamara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@DiggitCamara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiggitCamara)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/110 "2009-06-15T15:56:06Z")
“Pedro Páramo”. The screenplay for the version I saw was written by Carlos Fuentes. It’s surprisingly good (black and white, from the '60’s) ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/111 "2009-06-15T16:22:36Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > Dogville. > > Nicole Kidman, John Hurt, James Caan, Lauren Becall. > > Like a really, really dark version of Our Town(in that the set is a bunch of chalk outlines on the floor to represent buildings and there’s a few scattered props). Starts with a young women being chased to a remote town by Gangsters, who she convinces to take her in and hide her. They oblige, but it doesn’t take long before they start resenting her for it. It only gets worse from there. > > The ending will probably make you feel like a horrible person if you cheered(and you will be tempted). I’m a horrible person, then 😃 This is one of those movies that was a really great movie - but parts of it were so hard to watch I’ll likely never watch it again. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/112 "2009-06-15T16:43:35Z")
Three relatively obscure recommendations. Hope they haven’t been done. _Brigham City_ - Sheriff of a small Utah town hunting a serial killer is the top level story. Questions of faith, community, and guild being the understory which makes it worthwhile (personally, I have no faith myself but find depictions of naturally, completely internalized faith to be very powerful). Made by a Mormon filmmaker with a Mormon audience in mind (though it did break out beyond that) so cross it of the list of a non-critical presentation of Mormonism will piss you off. _Hands on the Hard Body_ - A 1997 documentary about an odd contest to win a truck. You wouldn’t think that a documentary of people standing in place could be interesting but it very muchis. _Tampopo_ - A 1985 Japanese movie about joys of food and the quest for the perfect bowl of ramen. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/113 "2009-06-15T17:18:09Z")
I have so many to recommend but I’ll just give you 3. Two Korean flicks that I think are absolute masterpieces are: **Oldboy**. [Oldboy (2003) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364569/) After being kidnapped and released after 15 years a man must discover why. You will never forget this movie! and **Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring**. [Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374546/) A Buddhist monk in training goes astray. An overlooked comedy that never got the attention is deserves is : **The Search for One Eye Jimmy.** [The Search for One-eye Jimmy (1994) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117577/) Starring Steve Buscemi, Nicholas and John Turturro, Samuel Jackson (as the wildest character he’s ever played) and boxer Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini. ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/114 "2009-06-15T17:18:10Z")
> [@obfusciatrist](#): > > _Hands on the Hard Body_ - A 1997 documentary about an odd contest to win a truck. You wouldn’t think that a documentary of people standing in place could be interesting but it very much is. I love that movie! The first time I saw it, I was dismissive of this bunch of ‘idiots’ who would punish themselves for days just for the sake of winning a truck; but by the time it was over, I was rooting for them. Human theatre, my friend. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/115 "2009-06-15T20:07:28Z")
> [@obfusciatrist](#): > > _Tampopo_ - A 1985 Japanese movie about joys of food and the quest for the perfect bowl of ramen. To raise the greatness of that movie even further, it’s also a spoof of Westerns. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/116 "2009-06-15T21:04:33Z")
> [@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. Damn, I was going to mention Lao … Ok … [Das Testament des Dr Mabuse](http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=mabuse&x=0&y=0) is a psychological thriller, set in a Weimar Berlin. Shares some of the same cast playing the same characters as in… [M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/) whiich is more known in the US as it gets mentioned in film classes. I love these movies as Lang has managed to make them seem real. People act like real people, there is a lot of attention to detail. They are both sort of ‘comfort flicks’ even though they are subtitled in english and my german sucks … I am just so very familiar with them I know what is going on. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/117 "2009-06-16T04:51:54Z")
**Heat and Dust** (my favorite Merchant-Ivory film) **Rancho Deluxe** I have seen these films that others have posted: \*\*Cranford Hanover Street Enchanged April \*\* (at least four times) ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/118 "2009-06-16T05:14:06Z")
Anyone who is a fan of Spinal Tap or is interested in serial killers should watch this movie. “Man Bites Dog” (original title: C’est arrivé près de chez vous, It Happened in Your Neighborhood) In the film, a crew of filmmakers follow a serial killer, recording his crimes and grotesquely candid commentary for a documentary they are producing. At first dispassionate observers, they find themselves caught up in the increasingly chaotic violence. Spoilers if you read this > **[Man Bites Dog (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Bites_Dog_(film))** > > Man Bites Dog (French: C'est arrivé près de chez vous, literally "It Happened Near Your Home") is a 1992 French-language Belgian black comedy crime mockumentary film written, produced and directed by Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde, who are also the film's co-editor, cinematographer and lead actor respectively. > The film follows a crew of filmmakers following a serial killer, recording his horrific crimes for a documentary they are producing. At first dispassionate observers, t... ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/119 "2009-06-16T07:01:19Z")
**The Spitfire Grill.** From IMDB: **Percy, upon being released from prison, goes to the small town of Gillead, to find a place where she can start over again. She is taken in by Hannah, to help out at her place, the Spitfire Grill. Percy brings change to the small town, stirring resentment and fear in some, and growth in others.** Most powerful ending to a movie I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278/120 "2009-06-16T07:06:14Z")
K-Pax from IMBD: **Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.** This is a feel-good movie. The patient in question has a profound affect on the people around him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-film-no-one-else-has-seen/496278.md?page=7)