My two all-time favorite movies are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, with Gary Oldman and Tim Roth, and The Court Jester, with Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone and a very young and beautiful Angela Lansbury.
Sadly, most people I know, upon hearing this fix me with a blank stare, and say “You’re weird.”
Please tell me I’m not the only one who loves movies that nobody else seems to know!
I have several, but the only one that comes to mind right now is Safe House with Patrick Stewart. Great movie! Cute tush in one scene. 
I love Danny Kaye too. My favorite is “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.”
Orgazmo w/ Trey Parker and Matt Stone. I’m sure a few people here know this movie, but from where I’m from, no one even knows what a Cock Rocket is.
“Jesus!!!”
“Where?!?!”
Love that movie.
“Pass the Ammo”…Tim Curry, Annie Potts and Bill Paxton, late 80’s. Hysterical.
“Noises Off”…Michael Caine, Carol Burnett, Christopher Reeve, John Ritter, Marilu Henner…fantastic ensemble cast, believe it or not. Very funny, but absolutely side-splittingly hysterical if you have ever been involved with live theater.
“Me, Natalie”
A blatant chick flick. Late 60’s.
Patty duke is a girl struggling to find an identity apart from her parents. Gets a
skumbag apartment in the east village and starts a eccentric life of her own, complete
with an affair with an older man.
Substitute the older man with three older women and you’ve got me at seventeen,
tossed out on his ass, still nieve enough to think there’s a living to be made as an artist.
The Court Jester is great. So is The Inspector General, also with Kaye.
I freaking LOVE Young Frankenstein, which gets me a lot of blank stares.
Seen it. Loved it.
Once saw it followed by Steve Martin’s “Leap of Faith.” I guess it was a themed marathon or something.
Anything with Buster Keaton. I don’t think he’s been recognized enough for his work.
Oh, and all of Elvis’ movies.
Soldier of Orange - true story of the Dutch resistance during WWII
Images - disturbing film (by Robert Altman of all people) about a woman with mental illness
Speaking of Mel Brooks movies, I just lent Blazing Saddles to a friend of mine who had never seen it. Normally, I don’t associate with people who’ve never seen Blazing Saddles, but she’s cute. Well, she returned it and said she didn’t like it.
I no longer speak to her. Cretin.
I’m afraid you may have to start going out with older women, or guys, even. Few “young” (under forty!) people these days have seen enough westerns, Catskills comics, Busby Berkeley musicals, etc to have the cultural references to get the better jokes.
Normally, she has a great sense of humour. She just doesn’t get the Jewish Humour thing. Also, she saw it alone, with no-one speaking the lines along with the movie.
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I’ve seen the movie many many times, unedited, and a few on network TV. You know when Bart is walking through town, and sees the old lady?
“Good morning, ma’am. And isn’t it a lovely morning?”
“Up yours, nigger!”
Well, on network TV, they change the old lady’s line to something less offensive: “Get lost, nigger!”
It’s a strange world.
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“I’m not a super hero, I’m a Latter-Day-Saint!”
There’s a movie for Rosencrantz and Gildenstern? Dammit, why didn’t somebody tell me before now!? My favorite somewhat obscure movie is The Toxic Avenger, closely followed by other Troma films, esp. Class of Nuke 'Em High.
My other favorite movie that NOBODY knows is Modern Vampires. Never would’ve seen it if not for the fact that my ex-roomate’s dad directed. And it had Casper Van Dien (sp?) in it, so it’s not totally lacking in credibility… 
Tunes of Glory
Perhaps just cuz im a piper but its a wicked movie, Sir Alec Guinness, John Mills. I guess its just somethig that i can ealte best with my life
YES!!! “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” is a brilliant movie. You forgot to mention Richard Dreyfuss being in it too.
A girlfriend introduced me to “The Court Jester” a few years ago. I’d never watched a Danny Kaye movie before, and I though it was great.
My obscure movies are:
“Zorro, the Gay Blade” (it’s actually a loving tribute to the Zorro serials of the '30’s. Even uses the same music.)
“Flesh+Blood” (Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh in a 16th century action/psychological drama. One of Paul Veerhoeven’s pre-RoboCop movies and one of his few good ones.)
another, which I haven’t seen in years, is “Robin and Marion”. Sean Connery as Robin Hood, near the end of his life. I forget who played Marion. Middle-aged Robin returns home from crusading and winds up having to be an outlaw again. Very good movie, from what I remember.
Just for the record, guys, NONE of the following flicks qualifies as “movies no one knows”:
The Court Jester, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Noises Off, The Inspector General, Young Frankenstein, “anything with Buster Keaton” (with some exceptions, of course), and the Toxic Avenger.
If you think they do, you need to expand your sphere of knowledge… or acquaintances. (Big smile here.)
My favorite, which I recently mentioned in a pirates thread, is Light at the Edge of the World starring Kirk Douglas and Yul Brenner. Mix together a band of mind-fucking homoerotic pirates, a gold-digging damsel in distress, a wrecked and pillaged sailing ship, a burning lighthouse and a pet monkey and you’ve got a pretty passable, though obscure, movie. Keep an eye out for it.
Time After Time. Malcolm McDowell plays H.G. Wells. A friend of his is Jack the Ripper. When Jack uses Well’s Time Machine to escape to 1980’s California, Wells follows him. Wells had predicted the end of the century would be a utopia, and he was scared about Jack being there. Mary Sternbergen played the love interest, and IRL Malcolm & Mary fell in love and got married (now divorced).
My favorite line in the movie is Jack’s: Back then, I was a freak. Here, I’m an amateur.
This sounds like an impossible premise to carry out, but the movie is fantastic. Rent it if you get the chance.