# The best movie that no one saw **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871 "2002-03-30T04:03:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/41 "2002-03-31T18:24:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TruePisces \* > \*\*Another one, which I haven’t seen in years (and I’ve not come across many who have seen it) is **[Jesus of Montreal](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0097635)**. It’s about an acting troupe that puts on a passion play, angering the Catholics to a horrific end. I saw it back in college during my Modern Drama class and fell in love with it. I just have a hard time finding it any time I step foot in a video store. \*\* You’ve found a fellow viewer here! I should probably re-watch this movie. At the time, I wasn’t sophisticated enough to really get it. Or maybe most movies about religion just leave me cold. I thought this movie was well done, but it confused me. Doesn’t the troupe’s Passion Walk not conform to the events recorded in the Bible? I didn’t see it so much as being “offensive” as being annoying to the Church that they took liberties with long-standing tradition. Maybe that’s the point, and I missed it? I know the “foreign films” section of Hollywood Video here has it. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bibliophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophile)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/42 "2002-03-31T18:36:27Z")
Good choices all around. I love many of the movies already mentioned, Zero Effect, Strictly Ballroom, A Perfect World, Gattaca. A few more of my favorites: Before Sunrise, I know a few people who’ve seen this one, but from what I can tell, it’s still underappreciated. Dogfight Uncorked Safe Passage. I could go on and on… ---
**Author:** ![bibliophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bibliophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophile)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/43 "2002-03-31T18:43:22Z")
So here I go. I forgot to mention The Sidewalks of New York. I love all of Ed Burns’ films, but this is one in particular I don’t think got the attention it deserved. I also liked Immortality with Jude Law, which I believe was originally titled The Wisdom of Crocodiles. ---
**Author:** ![TruePisces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/truepisces/32/13628_2.png) [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/44 "2002-03-31T19:34:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lizard \* > \*\*You’ve found a fellow viewer here! I should probably re-watch this movie. At the time, I wasn’t sophisticated enough to really get it. Or maybe most movies about religion just leave me cold. I thought this movie was well done, but it confused me. Doesn’t the troupe’s Passion Walk not conform to the events recorded in the Bible? I didn’t see it so much as being “offensive” as being annoying to the Church that they took liberties with long-standing tradition. Maybe that’s the point, and I missed it? > > I know the “foreign films” section of Hollywood Video here has it. \*\* I also need to re-watch it. It’s been about 8 years since I’ve seen it, so I don’t remember, exactly, what the circumstances are for the church’s ire. I just remember that I loved it and have been trying, desperately, to see it again. I’ll have to look into renting it next weekend, if someone else hasn’t taken it out of the Hollywood Video! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Frink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Mr.Frink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Frink)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/45 "2002-03-31T20:02:46Z")
I recently saw this on _The Sundance Channel_: [**Fuckland** \* (2000)\*](http://www.filmthreat.com/Reviews.asp?File=ReviewsOne.inc&Id=1676). It’s a Dogme 95 film shot in a psuedo-documentary style about a young Argentinian man who goes to The Falkland Islands on a mission. He feels that the best chance Argentina has to reclaim the Falkland Islands is for Argentinian men to impregnate as many of the English women who live there as possible. So he visits on a “scouting” mission. It’s a funny film that makes some great political points. ---
**Author:** ![igotit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/2acd7d/32.png) [@igotit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/igotit)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/46 "2002-03-31T20:15:38Z")
**The Adventure of Two Girls in Love** , it wasn’t the best, but I thought it was a great flick. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/47 "2002-03-31T22:28:07Z")
**The Iron Giant,** dammit. I would condemn Warner Bros. for their atrocious non-marketing and non-promotion of this masterpiece, except they also support Paul dini and Bruce Timm’s wonderul animated TV super-hero work. Curse their hides! ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/48 "2002-03-31T22:56:41Z")
[Fresh](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0109842). This has to be the best “ghetto” movie ever made: it’s absolulty grim, wihtout a hint of romanticism, yet managesto end on a hopeful note. Sean Nelson does about the best job I have ever seen from a child actor, and the dialogue is just fantastic. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/49 "2002-03-31T23:11:14Z")
**Defending Your Life** , with Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep. It describes an afterlife where you are put on trial to defend how you have lived your life, and see if you are fit to move on to a higher existance. I thought it was very funny and thought provoking at the same time. I saw it on cable a couple of years ago, and didn’t even know what it was, then I looked it up, and had STILL never heard of it! ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/50 "2002-03-31T23:12:57Z")
In reference to the OP, it baffles me that _Waking Life_ wasn’t even nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars. (They just created that little ghetto to avoid the possibility of an animated movie getting Best Movie.) _Knightriders_, a 1980 George Romero movie. I can’t really say it’s a good movie, but it has a strange fascination for me and was one of my first DVD’s. It has an interesting early performance by a yound Ed Harris. This one is probably pretty well known among people in the SCA. _Night Moves_, 1975. Gene Hackman in a really good private eye story, with a killer ending. Has a nekkid swimmin’ scene by a young Melanie Griffith. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Creant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Miss\_Creant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Creant)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/51 "2002-03-31T23:32:35Z")
**Freeway** with Keifer Sutherland and Reese Witherspoon **Red Violin** **The Visitors** The French version \*\*Sorcerer \*\* **Meet the Feebles** This is a tv movie but **Lathe of Heaven** I know there’s more…give me a couple minutes ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Creant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Miss\_Creant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Creant)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/52 "2002-03-31T23:33:43Z")
sorry about that coding… ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/53 "2002-04-01T00:52:00Z")
**TruePisces** , you’ve picked 2 excellent Canadian movies here: > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TruePisces \* > **My favorite would have to be [The Red Violin](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120802). The only people that I know personally that have seen it are the ones that I’ve pointed in that direction. (Except maybe Maeglin. I think he and I got into a discussion about it last year.) The movie is subtitled through parts, excellently shot, the storyline is engaging, and I highly recommend it to anyone that is looking for a good drama for the night.** If you liked _The Red Violin_ be sure to look for _32 Short Films About Glenn Gould_. It was made by the same production company and involved many of the same people that were involved with _The Red Violin_. It’s an impessionistic look at several incidents in the life of famous Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. It’s not a traditional biography but rather, as the name would imply, several loosely connected small films. Similar in structure to _The Red Violin_. Highly recommended, especially for classical music fans.: > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TruePisces \*\*\* > Another one, which I haven’t seen in years (and I’ve not come across many who have seen it) is **[Jesus of Montreal](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0097635)**. It’s about an acting troupe that puts on a passion play, angering the Catholics to a horrific end. I saw it back in college during my Modern Drama class and fell in love with it. I just have a hard time finding it any time I step foot in a video store. \*\* I also loved this flick. I’m not sure but I think it was nominated for best Foreign film at the Academy awards in 1989. I admire its sheer audaciousness in satirizing corporate and religious hypocrisy while at the same time being a geniunely spiritual movie. Particularly appropriate for this time of year. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2002, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/54 "2002-04-01T01:00:06Z")
For years I thought I was the only one who saw \*\*Shawshank Redemption \*\*. Outstanding and brilliant. \*\*Clay Pigeons \*\* is a nicely done indy film starring Joquim Phoenix and Vince Vaughan. I’ve seen \*\*Blood of Heroes \*\* and liked it . Haven’t seen it in years. \*\*Zero Effect \*\* I saw and expected to hate it ( based on the person who recommened it to me) and really enjoyed it. \*\*\*Haardvark! \*\*\* Yooo HOOOOO! I’ve seen \*\*Nate and Hayes \*\* is one of my all time favorite films. You mean I am not alone in loving this film? It is in the top five films of Shirley Ujest Films on a Desert Island. I love it so much that when I found a copy of it I bought it right away. Best decision too, since it is very hard to find. \*\*East is East \*\* Nice little brit film. No one I know has seen this and I haven’t found it on video since coming home from a Brit vacation. \*\*High Spirits \*\* Peter O’toole is the star in this fluff ghost movie. It is one of Liam Neeson’s first flicks. Own it for laughs. and the movie that no one has ever seen (except \*\*Wring \*\* is \*\*Lion in the Winter \*\* Peter O’Toole and Katherine Hepburn. My number uno film of all time. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/55 "2002-04-01T02:23:16Z")
**Hodge** : Thanks for the correction. Darn…now what Dogme 95 film _did_ von Trier direct? Time to wait for my ultra-slow computer to search the movie databases. A second vote here for _Jesus of Montreal_. A powerful film indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/56 "2002-04-01T15:57:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by essvee \* > \*\*im pretty sure ukelele ike referenced it in a thread a couple days ago; otherwise, i havent heard its name in the 20 years since ive seen it. \*\* I probably did, at some point…MAD LOVE (1935) is one of my all-time favorite Grand Guignol-style films. (Incidentally, the heroine is actually an actress in the Grand Guignol Theater of Paris, not an opera singer.) Lorre gives a stunning perf, and the flick also features Colin (Twittery Dr. Frankenstein) Clive, and the really really really really REALLY gorgeous Frances Drake. See, Dr. Gogol is this famous Parisian surgeon who likes to attend executions, and Stephen Orlac is this incredibly famous pianist with this really really really really REALLY gorgeous actress for a wife and Orlac is in a train crash and his hands are horribly mangled, and because Gogol has such a crush on the wife he decides to chop the hands off a recently-executed murderer and graft them onto Orlac’s stumps, and suddenly Orlac can’t play the pinao any more but is really really REALLY good with knives… ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/57 "2002-04-01T16:05:17Z")
[Brother from Another Planet (1984)](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0087004) Ultra-cool film from John Sayles starring Joe Morton as a “three toe”, a slave from an alien world. He can’t speak, but he can fix a mean toaster. Highly recommended. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/58 "2002-04-01T16:08:25Z")
**The Adventures of Mark Twain** – Will Vinton (who did the Dancin’ Raisins, among a great many other things) does a wonderful Claymation take on several Twain stories, including “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven”, “The Mysterious Stranger”, “The Diary of Adam and Eve”, and “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, among others. James Whitmore does the voice of Twain. Well worth seeing. ---
**Author:** ![KXL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@KXL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KXL)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/59 "2002-04-01T17:53:28Z")
**Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence** Not a Christmas movie! David Bowie is a British soldier in a Japanese POW camp. A war movie for folks who don’t like war movies as well those who do. Mind games, history, redemption … this has it all. And one of the best soundtracks EVER. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0085933](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0085933) ---
**Author:** ![galrion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aca169/32.png) [@galrion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galrion)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871/60 "2002-04-01T18:03:51Z")
**Nate and Hayes** is a great flick! Its funny what movies no one has ever seen. I love **The Princess Bride** but until I got to grad school I only knew one person who had seen it. Nobody seems to have ever seen(or will admit to having seen) **UHF** before either, absolutely hilarious. What bothers me is the absolute lack of people I run into that have seen any of **Akira Kurosawa’s** samurai flicks. Whats wrong with you people?! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-that-no-one-saw/100871.md?page=4)