# Recommend a movie not a lot of people have seen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 5, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-movie-not-a-lot-of-people-have-seen/432358 "2008-01-05T02:14:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-movie-not-a-lot-of-people-have-seen/432358/21 "2008-01-05T05:52:04Z")
[El Topo](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067866/) - I watched this film in some film class in college and it was the most fucked up thing I’ve ever seen. Not a good date movie (although I’ve made dates watch it) and not a good family movie by any stretch of the imagination but…maybe a good doobie or six-pack movie. I’ve only watched it straight up myself but it leaves you feeling kind of high 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-movie-not-a-lot-of-people-have-seen/432358/22 "2008-01-05T05:59:21Z")
The 1990 television production of [Treasure Island](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100813/) with Charlton Heston, Christian Bale, Oliver Reed and Christopher Lee. **It’s the best pirate movie ever made** , better even than **Pirates of the Caribbean** and **Captain Blood**. Heston is absolutely amazing as Long John Silver, bringing a tremendous amount of emotional depth to a character who is a loveable rogue AND a homicidal monster. Reed and Lee chew up the scenery magnificently as Billy Bones and Blind Pew. And the teenaged Bale plays Jim Hawkins with an air of intelligence and gravity that foreshadows his adult career. The action is tightly paced and thrilling. The music, by the Chieftains, is first-rate. There’s not a misstep in the entire production from start to finish. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-movie-not-a-lot-of-people-have-seen/432358/23 "2008-01-05T06:08:53Z")
_Insignificance_. Not a great film, but a great concept with some (one for sure) great scenes. Four never named but clearly identifiable characters meet and interact in a hotel room in the 1950’s. The four are the professor (Albert Einstein), the actress (Marilyn Monroe), the ballplayer (Joe DiMaggio), and the senator (Joseph McCarthy). My favorite scene is when Marilyn Monroe explains the theory of special relativity to a delighted Einstein using toy trains and balloons. I think that most people who post here would find it delightful. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-movie-not-a-lot-of-people-have-seen/432358/24 "2008-01-05T06:10:09Z")
If you like HP Lovecraft, you might like [The Call of Cthulhu](http://www.lurkerfilms.com/cat/lhsv01.html). It’s a fan film, but it’s way better than most other HPL adaptations. If you’ve ever read any of F Paul Wilson’s work, you might try [Others](http://www.amazon.com/OTHERS-Tales-F-Paul-Wilson/dp/B000K2VITU) which is a collection of three (very) short films. It’s one of very few DVDs I own that’s literally home made (i.e. burned on a DVD-R). ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-movie-not-a-lot-of-people-have-seen/432358/25 "2008-01-05T06:36:47Z")
two: [From Noon til 3](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074553/) don’t know if its available or format- Charles Bronson is a robber in old west, meets up with Jill Ireland, a widow who has a secluded house, romantic and unexpected results. Next : [Bunny Lake is Missing](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058997/), IME one of the most chilling thrillers evah. I also recommend the book (which is different than the movie, so reading/watching doesn’t screw up either). ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-movie-not-a-lot-of-people-have-seen/432358/26 "2008-01-05T06:37:47Z")
_[Night on Earth](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102536/)_, directed by Jim Jarmusch. Five stories of five different cab drivers across the world on a single night. It’s fascinating, and scenes from it stay with me even though I haven’t seen it for going on a decade now. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-movie-not-a-lot-of-people-have-seen/432358/27 "2008-01-05T06:44:52Z")
[Undercover Blues](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108442/). I don’t know how obscure it is, but nobody I know of ever heard of it until I showed it to them. It’s not a deep film by any means; it’s a fairly light-hearted family-rated buddy spy comedy with Dennis Quaid and Kathleen Turner as the leads. It manages to be consistently funny and smart, with clever writing and dialogue that all the actors deliver well. ---
**Author:** ![dasilva94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@dasilva94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasilva94)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-movie-not-a-lot-of-people-have-seen/432358/28 "2008-01-05T06:49:03Z")
[Funny Games](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119167/) for its uncompromising and shocking view of sociopathic sadism that any of us, but for the grace of God, could fall victim to. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-movie-not-a-lot-of-people-have-seen/432358/29 "2008-01-05T14:14:56Z")
**Jackelope** – Netflix doesn’t currently have _Last Night_ – I’ll keep my eye out, though. **Vision** – saw _Once_ in the theater last summer – the soundtrack has been in my play list consistently ever since. Yes, excellent film, and worth seeing. Note: Stopped reading because I can keep track of no more than two specific things I want to respond to; will resume reading now. Excellent recommendations, all – I’m adding a lot of films to my Netflix queue! ---
**Author:** ![RTA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@RTA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTA)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-movie-not-a-lot-of-people-have-seen/432358/30 "2008-01-05T14:19:58Z")
_American Movie_ is one of my very favorite movies, but I don’t run into too many people who know it. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-movie-not-a-lot-of-people-have-seen/432358/31 "2008-01-05T14:38:05Z")
**CalMeacham** – I already had _Creator_ in my queue, based on a previous Dope mention – I’ll move it up a bit. Having just added about 25 movies (mostly from this thread, but also a couple of Netflix “BTW” recommendations as I was adding those, plus a few other things I randomly remembered), I am now going to have to significantly reorder my queue. Yay! Thanks all – I look forward to adding plenty more! ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-movie-not-a-lot-of-people-have-seen/432358/32 "2008-01-05T14:44:45Z")
[QUOTE=Frostillicus] Local Hero [/QUOTE] Seconded. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-movie-not-a-lot-of-people-have-seen/432358/33 "2008-01-05T15:04:10Z")
[Pascali’s Island](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095827/). It’s the Ben Kingsley movie that no one I ever talk to seems to have seen. He’s an operative for the Turks in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire, trying to keep up appearances in the face of some very suspicious goings on once a mysterious British treasure hunter shows up. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-movie-not-a-lot-of-people-have-seen/432358/34 "2008-01-05T15:14:01Z")
I’ll make my usual recommendation to such threads as this: [The Year My Voice Broke](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094347/), a great little Australian coming-of-age film. If you like it, there’s a sequel, [Flirting](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101898/) (which has a young Nicole Kidman in the cast). ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-movie-not-a-lot-of-people-have-seen/432358/35 "2008-01-05T15:18:59Z")
[Moon Over Parador](http://imdb.com/title/tt0095654/). Richard Dreyfuss, a B-rate actor, is forced to pretend to be the dictator of a South American country by the 2nd in command, Raul Julia. Very funny as well as philosophical. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-movie-not-a-lot-of-people-have-seen/432358/36 "2008-01-05T15:28:36Z")
If you like war movies (and speaking of Australian films), have you seen [Breaker Morant](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080310/)? Set in the Boer War. And [Rescue Dawn](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462504/) is a recent Vietnam film (starring Christian Bale and Steve Zahn) that passed without a lot of notice but which is an incredible film. ---
**Author:** ![Windwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-movie-not-a-lot-of-people-have-seen/432358/37 "2008-01-05T16:38:17Z")
[My Life as a Dog](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089606/). Swedish film that gets children about as well as I’ve seen on the big screen. Also makes me like Sweden 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![NailBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NailBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NailBunny)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-movie-not-a-lot-of-people-have-seen/432358/38 "2008-01-05T16:42:30Z")
[Switchblade Sisters,](http://imdb.com/title/tt0073778/) a 1975 Jack Hill movie we rented on a recommendation by Quentin Tarantino, which has become one of our favourite movies ever. Totally silly 70’s exploitation-type film, with a twist: it’s more or less _Othello_, only with girl gangs. None of my friends has heard of it, all of them love it when I make them watch it. Great soundtrack, too. [Revengers Tragedy,](http://imdb.com/title/tt0286921/) movie adaptation of a play written by Thomas Middleton in 1607 (actually, I think there’s some controversy as to who actually wrote it, but this is what IMDB says), using the language of the play in a weird sort of post-apocalyptic setting, with Christopher Eccleston, Derek Jacobi and Eddie Izzard. _Amazing_ movie I never would have heard of if not for my Eccleston obsession. YMMV, of course, as to whether these are considered movies not a lot of people have seen, but in my circles absolutely no one’s heard of them until I bring them up. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-movie-not-a-lot-of-people-have-seen/432358/39 "2008-01-05T18:23:02Z")
[Ishtar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar_(film)) ---
**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:** [January 5, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-movie-not-a-lot-of-people-have-seen/432358/40 "2008-01-05T19:12:44Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] In the recent thread “Quickly review the last four movies you’ve seen,” **RealityChuck** throws off a comment about a movie I’d never heard of before, _[Cashback](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9323268&postcount=25)_, in a way that totally intrigued me – I not only added it to my Netflix queue, I put it at the top. It’s a great freaking movie. Not a fancy, complicated, profound movie – but an entertaining and engrossing movie with a nice mix of characters that had me smiling throughout. And I never would have come across it in a million years if **RealityChuck** hadn’t just seen it. [/QUOTE] Glad you liked the film. 🙂 I’ve been doing a series of comments (now a blog) on movies that have been overlooked. It’s currently at [http://greatbutforgotten.blogspot.com](http://greatbutforgotten.blogspot.com), with older comments at [http://www.sff.net/people/rothman/gbf](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman/gbf) I could mention many of these, but I’ll throw out [Deathwatch](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman/GBF/deathwatch.htm), since no one is likely to have seen it, and [Meduim Cool](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman/GBF/mediumcool.htm) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-movie-not-a-lot-of-people-have-seen/432358.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-movie-not-a-lot-of-people-have-seen/432358.md?page=3)