# What are the last obscure movies you saw and loved? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 20, 2012, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401 "2012-02-20T07:46:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/1 "2012-02-20T07:46:01Z")
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!!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/2 "2012-02-20T08:05:16Z")
**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.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn9vEy1rYDk&t=1m43s) ---
**Author:** ![Bamboo\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@Bamboo\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bamboo_Boy)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/3 "2012-02-20T12:24:04Z")
Alex in Wonderland (1970). So obscure IMDB has the wrong DVD jacket on its website: > **[Alex in Wonderland (1970) ⭐ 5.4 | Comedy, Drama](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065380/)** > > 1h 50m | R 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. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/4 "2012-02-20T13:13:04Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/5 "2012-02-20T13:55:05Z")
I agree on _After Hour_s 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. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/6 "2012-02-20T14:13:49Z")
Lovely Bones. Although might not be obscure enough. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/7 "2012-02-20T14:16:42Z")
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](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1124052/). It’s a recent movie shot in black and white about the rape of Nanking in the late 30’s. I would recommend it. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/8 "2012-02-20T14:36:09Z")
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. > **[The Creation of the Humanoids](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Creation_of_the_Humanoids)** > > The Creation of the Humanoids is a 1962 American science fiction film release, directed by Wesley Barry and starring Don Megowan, Erica Elliot, Frances McCann, Don Doolittle, and Dudley Manlove. The film is not based on the plot of Jack Williamson's novel The Humanoids, to which it bears little resemblance, but on an original story and screenplay written by Jay Simms. > In a post-nuclear-war society, blue-skinned, silver-eyed human-like robots have become a common sight as the surviving population... ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/9 "2012-02-20T14:36:21Z")
“Dead Man on Campus” was pretty darned funny and I think it’s pretty obscure. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/10 "2012-02-20T14:37:19Z")
[Agora](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1186830/) 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. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/11 "2012-02-20T14:48:08Z")
**Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter**. Kind of what you would expect, given the title. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/12 "2012-02-20T15:04:51Z")
[The Intruder](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055019/), 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. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/13 "2012-02-20T15:40:39Z")
_After Hours_ is obscure? I don’t think that a movie directed by Martin Scorsese could be considered obscure. ---
**Author:** ![infinitii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/14 "2012-02-20T15:47:38Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > [The Intruder](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055019/), 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. 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](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_and_Her_Week_of_Wonders_(film)) – crazy Czech new wave movie! ---
**Author:** ![ExcitedIdiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ea5d25/32.png) [@ExcitedIdiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExcitedIdiot)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/15 "2012-02-20T16:53:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/16 "2012-02-20T17:47:17Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > _After Hours_ is obscure? I don’t think that a movie directed by Martin Scorsese could be considered obscure. If we can do “Well-Known director’s least-known movie,” then I’ll add Sidney Lumet’s [Daniel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_(1983_film)). Another nice little movie that’s drifted into obscurity is [Cold Turkey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Turkey_(film)) with most of Norman Lear’s All in the Family/Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman stock players. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/17 "2012-02-20T18:05:05Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > If we can do “Well-Known director’s least-known movie,” then I’ll add Sidney Lumet’s [Daniel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_(1983_film)). > > Another nice little movie that’s drifted into obscurity is [Cold Turkey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Turkey_(film)) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Reloy3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Reloy3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reloy3)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/18 "2012-02-20T21:19:04Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/19 "2012-02-20T22:40:54Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401/20 "2012-02-20T22:45:39Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-last-obscure-movies-you-saw-and-loved/613401.md?page=2)