Wings Of Honneamise-
Jaw dropping amazing, I was turned on to this movie by a past thread I made. It reminds of me Gilliam’s Brazil only animated, in its creation of a fully realized alternate reality somewhere around 1970-1980 in technological development.
The details it comes up with blew my mind, I still remember the “coins” they use. The plot concerns a world making its first steps into outer space with a world war looming, the film is amazingly grounded and human but some might find it slow. I LOVED the “romance” and how it turned out, very unhollywood. The protagonist does something most will find unforgiveable, the film wisely doesn’t tell us how to feel about it. Top of the heap for anime.
After Hours-
Really cool little movie, a kind of dark comedy I suppose. This one will be hated by a lot of people, I love it. An office worker spents a night downtown trying to hook up and runs into various crazy adventures along the way. A kind of surreal urban fantasy like David Lynch or Tim Burton would make. Oh BTW “surrender Dorothy!!” 
Parking Lot Movie - A bunch of over-educated Liberal Arts graduate students work as parking lot attendants and dish out their own version of parking lot vigilante justice.
Rocket Science - “There’s a cello in your house now.”
Alex in Wonderland (1970).
So obscure IMDB has the wrong DVD jacket on its website:
I love the offbeat quirky charm of this film and seeing the glory of California during that era. I always feel super nostalgic watching this flick. Also, the scenes where he connects with his daughter are some of the most earnest and believable I have seen anywhere.
It’s often shown on TCM, which is where I first became acquainted with it.
Saw Parking Lot Movie, liked it. A slice of life in today’s world.
Not obscure but apparently unseen by droves, The Good Life. My favorite of the year.
I agree on After Hours and Parking Lot Movie. Both great.
Most recent for me- The Way. Might not be obscure enough for this thread, but I hadn’t heard of it before we got to the theatre; we only saw it because our first choice only had seats in the first two rows. *The Way *was a beautiful little film.
Lovely Bones. Although might not be obscure enough.
I’m not sure I’d say that I loved it, but I found a lot to like about The City of Life and Death. It’s a recent movie shot in black and white about the rape of Nanking in the late 30’s. I would recommend it.
re-saw Creation of the Humanoids on TV a little while ago. Talky SF drama too aware of its staginess. By rights, it ought to be laughably dull and boring, but it’s weirdly intelligent and well-written. One of those films (like Forbidden Planet) that reminds you why SF isd a worthwhile genre.
“Dead Man on Campus” was pretty darned funny and I think it’s pretty obscure.
Agora was a film I enjoyed. There is a dearth of films on the late Roman Empire generally and Roamn Egypt particularly. I really enjoyed it.
Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter.
Kind of what you would expect, given the title.
The Intruder, possibly one of Roger Corman’s best movies, with William Shatner as a sleazeball trying to rile up racial tensions in a small southern town.
After Hours is obscure? I don’t think that a movie directed by Martin Scorsese could be considered obscure.
Good one – I’m actually from that small town in Missouri that movie was filmed in…I don’t know if that’s something to be proud of considering what happens in the movie but still…
My pick is Valerie and Her Week of Wonders – crazy Czech new wave movie!
Brother’s Keeper. It’s a documentary about a hillbilly accused of murdering his brother. One of the best movies I’ve seen in years. If you plan to watch it, don’t read anything about the case before.
If we can do “Well-Known director’s least-known movie,” then I’ll add Sidney Lumet’s Daniel.
Another nice little movie that’s drifted into obscurity is Cold Turkey with most of Norman Lear’s All in the Family/Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman stock players.
One of my favorites! But I don’t think of it as the pre-MHMH MHMH – it stars Dick Van Dyke and Bob Newhart and Barnard Highes and Tom Poston. And it was Edward Everett Horton’s last film! A wonderfully black satire that was also hilarious.
I loved And God Spoke . . . a movie about a pair of Hollywood producers who make exploitive crap like “topless cheerleader ninjas” who decide to make a Bible epic despite knowing nothing about the Bible. Great cameos like Eve Plum (Jan from the Brady Bunch) as Noah’s wife, Lou Ferigno and Andy Dick as Cain and Abel, and Soupy Sales as Moses.
I saw Saving Private Perez recently and it was a solid action thriller. It’s obscure because it was made in Mexico.
I figure the people who would go to see an action thriller aren’t generally going to watch a subtitled foreign movie and the people who would go to a subtitled foreign movie aren’t generally going to watch an action thriller.
Fear of a black hat, it’s the “This is Spinal Tap” of 90’s gansta rap. Sadly overshadowed by the much inferior and somehow more popular CB4. Black Dynamite, incredibly funny blaxpoitation satire.