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.
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.
One voice, one heart, one song!
She can sing…or she can scream AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
but either way, she still pissed me off.
Freaking classic.
The Foot Fist Way. Danny McBride is a martial arts instructor. It made me laugh out loud several times, and that’s hard to do.
“The Hill” - 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.
I’m going to reccommend three for you…
- There Came a hot Friday
- Good Bye Pork Pie,
- Bad Boy Bubby
All great movies, but be warned - Bad Boy Bubby is not for the faint of heart
Somebody might have seen it recently, I didn’t read the thread… maybe it has been brought up…
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.
The Helvetica movie and the Dance of the Dead flick look really interesting to me.
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.
“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)
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.
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.
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
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
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
Starring Steve Buscemi, Nicholas and John Turturro, Samuel Jackson (as the wildest character he’s ever played) and boxer Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini.
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.
To raise the greatness of that movie even further, it’s also a spoof of Westerns.
Damn, I was going to mention Lao …
Ok …
Das Testament des Dr Mabuse 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 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.
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)
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
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.
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.