# Your favorite movies no one else seems to know about. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 17, 2006, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081 "2006-06-17T18:11:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/181 "2006-06-29T11:51:36Z")
Ok, I know we’ve already heard the death rattle from this thread but I had to post one more thing then I will quietly slip out the door. I remembered the oedipal/electra movie I mentioned in my previous post. It was called [Careful](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103926/). Ok so obviously my recollection of it was a bit fractured but once I read the description on IMDB it all came back and it really was a grand and unique movie. ---
**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/182 "2006-06-29T13:38:15Z")
**[Blue murder](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112538/)** **[The Boys](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139898/)** Both brilliantly acted Aussie crime movies based on true stories. The Boys is very intense - the violence is implicit and psychological - not explicit, which makes it more powerful. I can understand how Blue Murder would only attract 138 votes - it is an excellent flick though internationally obscure, but The Boys with only 327 votes is a surprise. Must see movies IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/183 "2006-06-29T13:55:37Z")
I _love_ _Strictly Ballroom_. For a span of about 3 months there, I’d watch it daily. Great movie. I’m here to post about [Ravenous](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0129332/), a Guy Pierce/Robert Carlyle vehicle that explores cannibalism in a very entertaining way. It’s got nearly 8K votes on IMDB, so I guess it doesn’t qualify, but none of my friends have heard of it. It’s gory, but I enjoyed it, lots. Recently rented it again to re-enjoy it. “That…was really…sneaky.” ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/184 "2006-06-29T15:05:41Z")
**A Walk In The Clouds**. I love it. ---
**Author:** ![Illinois\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Illinois\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illinois_Boy)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/185 "2006-06-29T16:46:35Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck] I definitely should give that a look. FWIW, here’s a list of films I plan to write up on the web page one of these days: \*\*… Little Voice …\*\* [/QUOTE] IIRC, This movie has the single best use of music as punctuation Right after Michael Caine very quietly and very gently convinces the lead that she needs to perform, he leaves her in her dressing room. The second he closes the door, he reacts and the music hits, and silly though it may be, it was pure elation. I rewound it and watched 3 or 4 times. :wally ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/186 "2006-06-29T16:56:51Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] I saw it and enjoyed it. It wasn’t great, but not bad. It has been many years though. I’m gonna nominate [The Killer Elite](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073240/) A fun action flick that no one I know has seen. [/QUOTE] When I showed up at my friend’s bachelor party way back in 1987, I was recovering from a motorcycle accident and was walking with a cane, he asked me "have you ever seen “The Killer Elie”? I answered seen it? I’ve based my LIFE on it! 20 years later he still cracks up remembering that line. My nonmination: [The Fabulous World of Jules Verne.](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00078MD1E/102-0567626-5570519?v=glance&n=130) by Karel Zeman. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/187 "2006-06-29T21:05:02Z")
For the Rutger Hauer fans: [Wanted Dead or Alive](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094293/). ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/188 "2006-07-01T17:44:11Z")
[_Leaving Normal_](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0104697/) 487 votes. Meg Tilly & Christine Lahti. It was _Thelma and Louise_ for grownups [_Mister Frost_](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0100161/) 589 votes. Jeff Goldblum one of the scariest movies I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/189 "2006-07-01T19:05:57Z")
[QUOTE=dnooman] [Equilibrium](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238380/) echoes [Farenheit 451.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060390/) I like some of the action scenes better than [The Matrix.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/) Yeah. The first one. [/QUOTE] I’ve heard good things about that one. I’ll also second Ravenous. Brazil and 12 Monkeys (both directed by Terry Gilliam) are also good. I just caught Three O’Clock High on cable recently. Great movie about a quiet nerdy kid who accidently pisses off the school bully (played by the guy from Kindergarden Cop) ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/190 "2006-07-01T20:34:29Z")
[QUOTE=msmith537] I just caught Three O’Clock High on cable recently. Great movie about a quiet nerdy kid who accidently pisses off the school bully (played by the guy from Kindergarden Cop) [/QUOTE] Good call. I saw that when it first hit cable back in the 80s, and loved it. Then it disappeared for 15 years. Every time Twelve O’Clock High was on, I’d think “hey, that’s that cool student film” but it never was. Finally, a couple years ago it resurfaced on late night cable. Note that when I say “student film”, that’s not a reference to the plot so much as a commentary on the production values. I don’t care, though; I still dig it. It doesn’t hurt a bit that it reminds me a lot of the black & white student film by Kevin Bacon’s character in that obscure movie where he gets his dream project greenlit and then has to sell out his soul when it gets Hollywoodized. I forget the name of that movie, but if you’ve seen both it and Three O’Clock High, you know the striking similarity I’m talking about. ---
**Author:** ![orangeroughyisnotfishytasting](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/45deac/32.png) [@orangeroughyisnotfishytasting](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orangeroughyisnotfishytasting)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/191 "2006-07-01T21:19:23Z")
This is my Father - with Aidan Quinn, James Caan and John Cusak - excellently heart-wrenching Love Field - with Michelle Pfeiffer - excellently quirky In the Company of Men - with Aaron Eckhart - excellently disturbing (This one won an award at the Sundance Film festival some years back, but still no one I’ve asked knows about it. Then again I’ve only asked one person…BUT I’d bet ya five bucks if I asked another they wouldn’t know either) :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/192 "2006-07-03T12:30:08Z")
Ok. So it has a ton of votes but still, it’s not what I’d call “mainstream” but I also nominate [The City of Lost Children](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112682/) ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/193 "2006-07-03T14:03:42Z")
[QUOTE=Pochacco] [The Wizard of Speed and Time](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081766/) – A one-man special-effects tour-de-force. You’ve never seen stop-motion effects this good. And it’s sweet and funny to boot. [/QUOTE] What **Pochacco** said. I’ve still got the hots for Paige after all these years! I’m currently acting in an independant movie. I showed WOSAT to the director and he nearly died laughing at some of the scenes, because they had encountered similar situations. ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/194 "2006-07-03T21:51:19Z")
[A Canterbury Tale](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036695/) [Restless Natives](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089904/) [The War Lord](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059896/) ---
**Author:** ![MelCthefirst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@MelCthefirst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MelCthefirst)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/195 "2006-07-04T01:00:18Z")
[QUOTE=jali] **A Walk In The Clouds**. I love it. [/QUOTE] If that’s the Keanu Reeves one - mate, what do you love about it? My friend and I saw it in London after having back packed around the world. We thought it was a comedy with Operatic scenes - laughed and laughed at the end when the crops and house went up in flames and the people were all placed carefully around the place smeared in black, looking like they were in Les Miserables. ---
**Author:** ![Strangelove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/196 "2006-07-04T01:33:25Z")
[And God Spoke](http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0107492/) A wonderful mockumentary about two guys making the greatest bible film of all time. Not as good as _Spinal Tap_, but a close second. ---
**Author:** ![AuntPam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@AuntPam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntPam)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/197 "2006-07-04T02:11:44Z")
Glad to see someone mentioning \*My Favorite Year \* (the crazy comic is Sid Caesar)–his writers included Woody Allen and Larry Gelbart, who later produced the TV Show MASH–the only PRODUCER to whom I have ever written a fan letter. Vincent Price’s two classics of Horror-Comedy \*Dr. Phibes \* and _Dr. Phibes Rises Again_, which contain the most ingenious, stylish, revolting horror-movie deaths. Really, the scene with the explorer who sits down in the giant scorpion-shaped chair is unbeatable. And if you’ve got a couple of hours to kill–this is a film that moves with deliberate speed: Alan Arkin in _The Magician of Lublin_, based on an Isaac Bashevis Singer story. A character study about the things men will say or do to keep women loving them, which turns on a dime at the end and makes you reconsider everything you’ve just seen. But get comfortable, it’s no thrill ride I had the overnight control room job at Channel 7 in New York for a while, and got to see a lot of REALLY bad movies between 2 and 7 A.M. Sorry about that, New York! I didn’t pick 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Electrical\_Storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac8455/32.png) [@Electrical\_Storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electrical_Storm)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/198 "2006-07-04T16:38:10Z")
[QUOTE=Homebrew] Is there a scene in this where a pair of scissors are sliding across a hardwood floor? [/QUOTE] Sorry **Homebrew** , been off for a few days. That’s the one. It’s a lightning-quick scene, but it’s chilling. Emma Thompson’s character opens her eyes at the very, very last second and slams her hand down on the scissors that are zooming across the floor at her face. It’s thrilling! ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/199 "2006-07-04T23:51:38Z")
[It Happened Here](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055024/). Alternate history movie about Nazi occupied England. Featuring some _real_ British Nazis, in a chilling touch. (Not a “pro-Nazi” movie, by any length, FYI) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/200 "2006-07-05T21:58:57Z")
[La Lectrice](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095511/) (The Reader) Brilliant french film about reading, and stories within stories, and more. Miou-Miou is mmm-mmm [L’ Étudiante](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096523/) (The Student) Early Sophie Marceau. 'nuff said [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081.md?page=11)