# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/61 "2006-06-19T06:42:56Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] EC that is cool, I had never seen Roan Inish on Cable or TV. I bought it used from a video store 10 years ago for $2.99 and that was the first time I saw it. I have only seen it get mentioned rarely by anyone. What channel was showing it? As far as Local Hero, I have noticed a much higher percentage of posters seem to know of it however. As to Clerks, I think we have now established, it is extremely well known on the Dope and elsewhere at least. Hell, they made a cartoon of it. Jim [/QUOTE] Does [Gergory’s Girl](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082477/) count as unknown? I loved this movie when I was a kid. I have never seen it on TV, but I haven’t had cable for quite a while. It has one of the most perfect teen angst lines in cinema: > [@](#): > > I don’t want to be happy. All the happy people I know are idiots. I want to be miserable with you. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/62 "2006-06-19T07:26:22Z")
[QUOTE=Ensign Edison] At least two (Existenz, Buffalo 66) of the movies you listed are on my personal _least_ favorite movies of all time list. 😃 I’m not saying this to be a jerk, but because I thought it worth pointing out that even so, they’re films a person should see at least once, because they seem to be either loved or hated. I also wanted to comment on a couple others you mentioned: **Equilibrium** is a very interesting failure of a film, IMO. It has the right parts in the engine but it just don’t ever go. Nevertheless, I found it highly enjoyable to watch, and the gun kata stuff is golden, of course. Plus wasn’t William Fitchner in it? Can’t go too wrong there. 😉 I haven’t seen **Boondock Saints** yet, but I have seen a documentary about it called **Overnight** about its making, and, in part, the stunning amount of egotism and nastiness that the promise of fame brought out in the creator. Boondock Saints, of course, was born under a bad moon, and vanished just as quickly as it was hyped, but the reasons for this have little to do with the film’s quality, and everything to do with the personalities involved. Definitely worth a look for fans of the film and anyone else interested in the industry. [/QUOTE] I agree with most of that, especially the first part. I didn’t love Existenz, I just thought it was worth seeing just for the ideas involved. Buffalo '66 got me interested by way of a very unique scenario. My friend and I had just rented “Out of Sight”, yeah, I know. We had just partaken in a large amount of herbal refreshment (back when I still did that sort of thing) and I popped in the tape while my friend was cleaning up. The first thing that came up on the screen after the FBI warning was the theatrical trailer for Buffalo '66. There were no words, just “Heart of the Sunrise” by Yes playing and images from the movie being shown. Keep in mind, it’s a pretty obscure song as far as the general public goes, and it happens to be one of my favorites. The scenes from the movie appeared in chronological order (in the order they appeared in the movie) and changed in time to the music. I wasn’t sure if I had just watched a mini movie, or a trailer (I was high after all). The whole experience got me excited to see the movie. I loved the parts of the movie that were funny, but perhaps not intended to be funny, and I _loved_ the soudtrack. It’s not for everyone, and I can see how some might hate it. You need to see Boondock saints. Troy Duffy is one of the biggest douchebags I’ve ever seen, but he managed to get a great movie made. Willem Dafoe playing a gay FBI agent was very…interesting. Ron Jeremy is in it too, what’s not to like? Did you see Deceiver? ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/63 "2006-06-19T11:12:17Z")
[QUOTE=pantom] [Clerks](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109445/). Hilarious and vaguely disturbing. [/QUOTE] Wow. I just sent Clerks back to Netflix after stopping about halfway through. I almost could not be less impressed. Crude does not mean funny. And personally, it seemed to be “clever”, but not really. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/64 "2006-06-19T13:12:33Z")
[QUOTE=saoirse] Does [Gergory’s Girl](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082477/) count as unknown? I loved this movie when I was a kid. I have never seen it on TV, but I haven’t had cable for quite a while. It has one of the most perfect teen angst lines in cinema: [/QUOTE] I never seen it or heard of it and I see the good folks at the IMDB gave it a 7.1 rating. Sounds like a good candidate to me. I just added it to my Netflix Queue. Thank you, Jim ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/65 "2006-06-19T13:26:36Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] _Some_ people consider this movie part of the trilogy which also contains **Rocky Horror** and **Shock Treatment**. I don’t think _those_ people know drug real from real real. 😉 [/QUOTE] Funny you should mention Shock Treatment, cause that’s my vote here. And it comes out on DVD later this year 😃 ---
**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:** [June 19, 2006, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/66 "2006-06-19T13:35:32Z")
I’ve listed several before, but instead of my Usual Suspects, let me list a few others: **Mirage** – I first saw this on Saturday Night at the Movies back in the 1960s. I very rarely see it now, but it’s sort of the darker cousin of **Charade** (and if you don’t know Charade, go out and rent it _now_! Great comedy-thriller-mystery with wonderful twists). It’s got the same screenwriter, director, and some of the same stars. I haven’t seen it on TV in ages. But what a cast – Gregory Peck (the hero) , Walter Matthau (a Private Detective), George Kennedy (a hit man), Kevin McCarthy. Based on a novel by Howard Fast. Gregory Peck plays a man who finds himself in a building afflicted with a blackout. He follows a woman down the stairs into a fourth-level sub-basement, but loses her. He comes out and realizes that he can’t recall where he’s been for the past year. When he goes to where he thinks he works, the place isn’t there. When he goes to find the sub-basement levels he chased the woman down to, her finds that the building has (and has only had) a single basement, with no sub-levels. He hires Matthau to try and figure out what happened, and finds out that he’s being followed. Great stuff. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059448/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059448/) **Creator** – Peter O’Toole stars as a Nobel laureate trying to clone his wife. Witty science fiction with zero special effects, and none of the usual dumb cliches about cloning. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088960/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088960/) **Mystery of the Wax Museum** - the original film that the later #D film **House of Wax** was based on (and, presumably, also the recent Paris Hilton flick). The origional is notable for the presence of a character excised from the 1954 flick – the tough female reporter, played by Glenda Farrell, who went on to play a very similar role in the “Torcbhy Blane” flicks of the 19330s. Great witty fast 1930s repartee between Farrell’s Florence Dempsey and her boss. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024368/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024368/) **Amazon Women on the Moon** – not sure how “unknown” this one is. It’s not as good as “Kentucky Fried Movie”, overall, but it has some hilarious stuff, especially “The Son of the Invisible Man”, starring Ed Begley Junior in the title role. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092546/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092546/) **The Atomic Submarine** – Atomic Sub finds Alien Spacecraft under to Polar Icecap. Very weird little flick, with effects by the guys responsible for **Forbidden Planet** [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052587/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052587/) **The Ugly Little Boy** – Short, made for TV, and badly distributed. But it’s probably the most faithful rendering of any of Isaac Asimov’s stuff into film (possibly barring “The Bicentennial Man”, or the episodes of the British “Out of This World/Out of the Unknown” I haven’t seen.) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0176261/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0176261/) ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Logan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Don\_Logan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Logan)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/67 "2006-06-19T14:10:03Z")
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane Night of the Shooting Stars A Taste of Honey Panic in Needle Park The Collector Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Le Voyou (The Crook) Dance With a Stranger 10 Rillington Place He Loves Me…He Loves Me Not Elevator to the Gallows ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/68 "2006-06-19T14:53:05Z")
[QUOTE=Jeff Lichtman] [Proof](http://imdb.com/title/tt0102721/) - not the Gwyneth Paltrow / Anthony Hopkins movie from 1995, but an Australian movie from 1991 starring Hugo Weaving, Genevieve Picot and Russell Crowe. The movie is about a blind man who doesn’t trust anyone. He carries a camera and takes pictures, then asks people to tell him what’s in the pictures. He uses the photos to check whether people are telling him the truth. The script, acting and direction are all first-rate, in my opinion. [/QUOTE] Great, great movie! Gave me a lot of respect for Weaving and Crowe. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/69 "2006-06-19T14:55:00Z")
**Who’s Minding the Mint?** – star-laden comedy starring Jim Hutton and Dorothy Provine, with Milton Berle, Walter Brennan, Joey Bishop, Bob Denver, a pre-MASH Jamie Farr, Jack Gilford, Victor Buono, and frequent Stooge co-star Emil Sitka. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062490/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062490/) ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/70 "2006-06-19T15:12:00Z")
[QUOTE=Cardinal] Wow. I just sent Clerks back to Netflix after stopping about halfway through. I almost could not be less impressed. Crude does not mean funny. And personally, it seemed to be “clever”, but not really. [/QUOTE] It doesn’t always mean funny, but I laughed my ass off through this whole movie. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/71 "2006-06-19T16:03:14Z")
[Rock and Rule](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_Rule) is reminiscent of the Heavy Metal cartoon, but more balanced, with a passable plot, good animation, and a good soundtrack. [Rapa Nui](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapa_nui_%28film%29) is a pretty well done, dramitc account of how the people of Easter Island destroyed their culture. And while these are just shorts, I can’t help mentioning the [Thumbs!](http://www.oentertainment.com/InsaneO/Thumbs/thumbintro.htm) series. Hysterical. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2006, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/72 "2006-06-19T16:09:25Z")
[7 Faces of Dr Lao](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057812/) ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/73 "2006-06-19T16:16:29Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] Michael pare was one mean dude in Streets of Fire. And I like RAN [/QUOTE] I’ll agree with you on _Streets of Fire_. I also watched _[Mrs. Henderson Presents](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413015/)_ last night and loved it. Around here, it seemed to come and go with barely a trace. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/74 "2006-06-19T16:17:02Z")
My picks - [the Reflecting Skin](http://imdb.com/title/tt0100469/) (starring a very young Viggo “Strider / Aragorn” Mortensen. [Tales of Manhattan](http://imdb.com/title/tt0035415/) [Killer Klowns from Outer Space](http://imdb.com/title/tt0095444/) (they just don’t make movies like this anymore.) [the Star](http://imdb.com/title/tt0045186/) (Bette Davis: I AM a star! I was a star then and I am a star today! Once you are a star, you never go back to NOT being a star!!!) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/75 "2006-06-19T16:28:18Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] [7 Faces of Dr Lao](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057812/) [/QUOTE] Great movie and it got mentioned on the Simpson’s episode that Tony Randall appeared in. We own a copy, the kids really like it. **CalMeacham** are you sure that \*\*Creator \*\* is obscure? My wife and I had both seen and loved it long before we got together. I thought it was a fairly well known movie. I loved “Amazon Women on the Moon” and saw it again recently. It is not as funny now as when I was 20. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/76 "2006-06-19T17:07:52Z")
The one i always mention in these threads is [The Year My Voice Broke](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094347/), an underappreciated Australian gem with a young [Noah taylor](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0852965/) in the lead role and also featuring **Bruce Spence** , the helicopter pilot from the Road Warrior films. This is a brilliant, poignant coming-of-age movie. The sequel, [Flirting](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101898/), is also a worthy film, and features a young Nicole Kidman. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2006, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/77 "2006-06-19T17:08:12Z")
Actually, I think that **The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao** is less obscure than **Creator** , but there are plenty of people who haven’t heard of either. I know they’re both not trivial to find in the video stores around here. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/78 "2006-06-19T17:23:40Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] Actually, I think that **The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao** is less obscure than **Creator** , but there are plenty of people who haven’t heard of either. I know they’re both not trivial to find in the video stores around here. [/QUOTE] I enjoyed them both. I saw Dr. Lao years ago on TV, I was just a wee lad. I may have to try and rent it just to remember. I have a copy of Creator. If you enjoyed it _don’t_ read the book! I thought the book was horrible. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/79 "2006-06-19T17:34:11Z")
**Bob Roberts** [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103850/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103850/) Best. political. satire. ever. AND the scariest! **They Live** [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/) Silly though it may be at times, I think it’s Carpenter’s best effort. Watch about an hour of Fox News, then put this on. It just might make you go, “Hmmmmm”. **Rustler’s Rhapsody** [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089945/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089945/) **Blazing Saddles** without the fart jokes. Andy Griffith does a Leslie Nielsen that will fracture you! ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081/80 "2006-06-19T17:40:31Z")
[Blind Fury](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096945/) - Rutger Hauer as a blind sword-wielding samurai… What more do you have to say? Cheesy, but fun. [The Tall Guy](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098436/) - Jeff Goldblum and Emma Thompson in a quirky and enjoyable romance. (The Underoos scene was hillarious…) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-else-seems-to-know-about/361081.md?page=5)