OT: Good Obscure Movies

[colbert17]

Two John Wayne movies.

The Horse Soldiers with William Holden
The Undefeated with Rock Hudson. Also Merlin Olsen and Roman Gabriel.

 

[CommonSenseA]

Two terrific movies from the mid-80s:

Witness
Once Upon a Time in America

Both featured exceptional direction and razor-sharp acting. (Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis in Witness, Robert DeNiro and James Woods in Once Upon a Time, plus many others.)

 

[MadRU]

Two terrific movies from the mid-80s:

Witness
Once Upon a Time in America

Both featured exceptional direction and razor-sharp acting. (Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis in Witness, Robert DeNiro and James Woods in Once Upon a Time, plus many others.)

Once upon a time in America is one of the best movies I ever saw.

 

[knightfan7]

NOW,some one finally posted a movie that I saw and liked. Really like Anna Kendrick in this one.Will watch it every time I get a chance to.

That's because we have taste sir.

Well, you do. I just lucked out:)

 

[knightfan7]

Another movie is The Hot Rock. It's a 70's "fun caper" as described in the attached Youtube video. With middling movies like Ocean's 11 and The Taking of Pelham 123 being remade, I'm surprised nobody redid this one.

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I liked the remake of 11 more than the original.

 

[sunsetregret]

Agree with Hollywood Knights

Me too. It's a good movie.

 

[Proud NJ Sports Fan]

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/looking_for_mr_goodbar

 

[DirtyRU]

My favorite RomCom is Seems Like Old Times. It's Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn in their prime ...

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Yes!!!!!! This. Love this freakin' movie, easily one of Chevy's best. So many great lines, ha.

 

[DirtyRU]

Two terrific movies from the mid-80s:

Witness
Once Upon a Time in America

Both featured exceptional direction and razor-sharp acting. (Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis in Witness, Robert DeNiro and James Woods in Once Upon a Time, plus many others.)

Witness is great!!!! Totally forgot about that movie, awesome.

 

[RUboston]

It's tough to really define good or great/obscure movies. I would call them excellent movies that don't get as much credit or exposure as they should. Here are a few in my opinion:

The Train, as mentioned above. Great WWII action and phenomenal acting by Paul Scofield.
The Man Who Would be King with Michael Caine and Sean Connery.
Lone Star with Chris Cooper.
Night Shift with Henry Winkler.
Breaker Morant. An Australian movie and true story about a court martial during the Boer War.
Lord of the Flies. British black and white movie from 1963, not the crap American remake from 1990.
The Beast With Five Fingers. Peter Lorre tormented by a disemboweled hand.
Downfall. A German movie from 2004 about the last days of Germany in WWII and Hitler in the bunker.

 

[RutgersRaRa]

 

[Goku]

Inside Llewyn Davis

 

[MulletCork]

Not exactly obscure but more random movies I watched last few months

Bloodsport (multiple times!)
Two For The Money
The Wrestler (NJ based)
American Psycho (classic)
The Cooler
Traffic
Southland Tales
They Live
Can’t Hardly Wait

 

[RU848789]

"Diner" Diner is a 1982 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Barry Levinson. It is Levinson's screen-directing debut, and the first of his tetralogy, "Baltimore Films", set in his hometown during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Tin Men (1987), Avalon (1990), and Liberty Heights (1999) are the other three.[2] It stars Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Paul Reiser, Kevin Bacon, Timothy Daly and Ellen Barkin and was released on March 5, 1982.

Set in the northwest section of Baltimore, Maryland during the last week of 1959, Diner tells the story of a circle of male friends, now in their early twenties, who reunite for the wedding of one of their group. The title refers to their late-night hang out, the (fictional) Fell's Point Diner in Baltimore's Fell's Point neighborhood. An element of the story includes the Baltimore Colts playing in the 1959 NFL Championship Game.

Loved it.

My parents grew up in Baltimore and got married there in 1954 and came to NJ in 1956. My dad was a die-hard Colts fan, so I became a big Colts/Orioles fan and was 7 when they lost vs. the Jets. My dad was livid and at one point early in the 3Q banished my mom from the downstairs, since she was not suitably upset about the game, lol. I watched Diner with him in the mid-80s on cable and he absolutely loved it and was familiar with most of the locations used - and said he and his high school and then college buddies (he went to U MD) would always hang out at the diner just like in the film.

 

[RU848789]

The Station Agent (2003)

When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.

Great, great film.

 

[RU848789]

Witness is great!!!! Totally forgot about that movie, awesome.

Not obscure, but one of my favorites. Incredible sexual tension throughout between Rachel and Book - great scene with them dancing to "What a Wonderful World" and then the incredible kiss near the end - but also great dramatic tension and the setting among the Amish is great. Loved Eli (the grandfather) teaching John Book (Ford) how to milk a cow (haven't you ever felt a teat before? Not one this big, sending the grandfather into howling laughter).

 

[RU848789]

Here's a few of my obscure favorites (tried to keep it fairly obscure)...

Stranger than Paradise and Mystery Train (anything by Jarmusch, really)
City of Hope and Matewan (again, anything by John Sayles)
Snowpiercer (now a TV show, but a must see film by Bong Jooh-ho, the director of Parasite)
Battle Royale (Japanese film about a bunch of high schoolers forced to kill each other until one is left)
Royal Tenenbaum's and Moonrise Kingdom (also anything by Wes Anderson)
Garden State (also best soundtrack ever, for me)
Boyhood and Dazed and Confused (Linklater is another great film maker)
Elizabethtown
Paper Towns
Children of Men
28 Days Later
Manon of the Spring (French film, with the unsurpassed Emmanuelle Beart)
Best In Show (and the other Christopher Guest films)
The Player (Robert Altman film)
My Life as a Dog (Swedish film)

 

[RU848789]

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Almost made my list - thought it wasn't obscure enough - but a great movie.

 

[e5fdny]

 

[colbert17]

My parents grew up in Baltimore and got married there in 1954 and came to NJ in 1956. My dad was a die-hard Colts fan, so I became a big Colts/Orioles fan and was 7 when they lost vs. the Jets. My dad was livid and at one point early in the 3Q banished my mom from the downstairs, since she was not suitably upset about the game, lol. I watched Diner with him in the mid-80s on cable and he absolutely loved it and was familiar with most of the locations used - and said he and his high school and then college buddies (he went to U MD) would always hang out at the diner just like in the film.

That's a great story about your Dad. :Laughing:Beer:

 

[colbert17]

Three Kings

 

[batts]

Sexy Beast


The Swimmer

 

[mikebal9]

Hard to know what qualifies for obscure, but the kne tgat came to mind for me was One Crazy Summer. I absolutely loved it as a kid. Theother movie I was surprised to find many of my friends don't know is Biloxi Blues, which is terrific in every way.

 

[ashokan]

Malena

 

[ajwsc1987]

“Win win” with Paul Giamatti. It’s got a former nj state wrestling champ in it I believe.

 

[ajwsc1987]

Here's a few of my obscure favorites (tried to keep it fairly obscure)...

Stranger than Paradise and Mystery Train (anything by Jarmusch, really)
City of Hope and Matewan (again, anything by John Sayles)
Snowpiercer (now a TV show, but a must see film by Bong Jooh-ho, the director of Parasite)
Battle Royale (Japanese film about a bunch of high schoolers forced to kill each other until one is left)
Royal Tenenbaum's and Moonrise Kingdom (also anything by Wes Anderson)
Garden State (also best soundtrack ever, for me)
Boyhood and Dazed and Confused (Linklater is another great film maker)
Elizabethtown
Paper Towns
Children of Men
28 Days Later
Manon of the Spring (French film, with the unsurpassed Emmanuelle Beart)
Best In Show (and the other Christopher Guest films)
The Player (Robert Altman film)
My Life as a Dog (Swedish film)

Since you mentioned 28 days later, check out Train to Busan.

 

[RutHut]

“Win win” with Paul Giamatti. It’s got a former nj state wrestling champ in it I believe.

Sideways with Paul Giamatti.

Here's an old war movie I've seen more than once.

 

[IMARUFAN]

Anthropoid

Excellent movie ... especially for WWII history buffs.

Based on the "extraordinary true story of 'Operation Anthropoid,' the code name for the Czechoslovakian operatives' mission to assassinate SS officer Reinhard Heydrich"

 

[colbert17]

Shenandoah

James Stewart's family is torn apart by the Civil War.
Katherine Ross' movie debut.

 

[BigWill]

That's not obscure. It put Mickey Rourke on the map. Do I look like a waiter to you?

"Charlie !, Bed Bug Eddie, he took my thumb !"

"Absolutely"

"Charlie, you jinxed me."

"You're not going to tip the toll collector ?"
"F@*^ him."

 

[BigWill]

Witness is great!!!! Totally forgot about that movie, awesome.

Made me a BIG fan of sponge bathing....

 

[colbert17]

Shampoo
Warren Beatty and the unbelievably beautiful Julie Christie.
Carrie Fisher's first movie as a teenager who seduces Beatty.

 

[RU Golfer]

Being John Malkovich

 

[zappaa]

I love this one

 

[beaced]

Witness is great!!!! Totally forgot about that movie, awesome.

That's another one that I will watch every time I can. Was good to see them make Danny Glover play a BAD guy.First time ever ,possibly the ONLY time. GOOD actor.

 

[colbert17]

OMG!! How could we all forget Atlantic City?? Set in AC right at the beginning of the casino era.
Burt Lancaster as an old mobster going for one last score.
A young Susan Sarandon gave a different meaning to the word "juicing" with those lemons.

 

[colbert17]

There are a lot of Humphrey Bogart movies you have never seen. The Left Hand of God, The Big Sleep, In a Lonely Place, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Dude is the legend of the obscure movies.

I agree to a certain extent but The Big Sleep and Treasure of the Sierra Madre are as well know as The Maltese Falcon and the African Queen.
Sierra Madre has one of the great lines in movie history.

"We don't need no badges!"

 

[RU848789]

Since you mentioned 28 days later, check out Train to Busan.

Loved that one too - would've made my list if I remembered it, lol...

 

[angmo]

Sexy Beast

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The Swimmer

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"Falling Down" was an updated/violent version of "The Swimmer" based on the John Cheever story.

 

[DirtyRU]

Hard to know what qualifies for obscure, but the kne tgat came to mind for me was One Crazy Summer. I absolutely loved it as a kid. Theother movie I was surprised to find many of my friends don't know is Biloxi Blues, which is terrific in every way.

The prequel to Biloxi Blues, Brighton Beach Memoirs, is a solid flick and ALWAYS seemed to be on TV in the 80s, ha. I must've seen it a dozen times. Funny, sad, a good mix of everything. I always thought the dude from Weekend At Bernie's who played Eugene did a good job and was surprised he wasn't re-cast for Biloxi Blues, but I guess Broderick was a hot actor at the time so they wanted to get a bigger name. Ruined some continuity, even though Broderick also did a good job.

And yes, One Crazy Summer is classic!!! Ha.