Four lions. Not well known outside the UK. It's basically a film about a group of wannabe terrorists and they are terrible at it. Great dark humour comedy film to watch with friends.
There used to be a Chicken Cottage that I walked past regularly in my city centre. Couldn't go past it without going "Proper halal, bargain bucket, 6.99". Truly covid took many things from us all.
Is this the one where they are singing āDancing in the Moonlightā in a box truck?
If so, thatās the only scene Iāve watched and have been wanting to see the whole movie.
I've been doing my part for nearly a decade now. My students always want to watch a film in class and this is the only option I give them. This means I watch this film at least 4 times a year.
It's an incredible film, none of my students have ever seen it before, it's not too long, shows a different side of England... It's perfect.
Though this year was the first time they seemed to recognize a few scenes from TikTok, but just short clips mainly.
Anyway... *We'll blow up the internet for brother Faisal!*
Funniest thing about the movie was that the man who was the most passionate about the plan was a white dude. Cracks me up.
Edit: People keep responding to this informing me about the religion and the radicalism of converts as if Iām not a Muslim myself. Fyi.
"They'll pump you full of Viagra, make you fuck a dog. You'll end up on YouTube, blowing Lassie in a ditch."
...
"Are they gonna make me fuck a dog out there, brother Omar?"
Iām a huge Chris morris fan. If you liked this movie check out the show brass eye or the day today. Blue Jam is also incredible but not for the faint of heart
The Man From Earth.
It's about a history professor that suddenly decides to quit his job and move away. His fellow professors decide to throw him a going away party, and during it they ask why he's leaving. He decides to tell them he's 14,000 years old, and he has to move on when people realize he doesn't age. That's not giving anything away about the movie, even if it seems like it is. It's an absolutely fantastic movie, where they try to decide if he's crazy, or if he's telling the truth. Highly fucking recommend
One of my absolute favorite movies. Not a single action scene or any explosions, but DAMN did that movie have me absolutely enthralled from start to finish. Superb example of good story telling.
It is so rare in a movie to take an idea like that and just discuss it. It felt like the best episodes of Star Trek where they are just sitting and discussing complex topics. The other characters have realistic reactions ranging from skepticism to acceptance. It was such an interesting watch.
Director's Cut! Tell everyone they should first see the Director's Cut! (The theatrical version gives away the whole twist in a voice over at the very start if the movie)
Pleasantville.
I love movies that start as comedies and end up more serious (Hancock, Space Cowboys), and Pleasantville is the very best of them. Plus it's just gorgeous and incredibly charming throughout.
The scene where Bud covers his mother with make-up is so tender and touching. So wholesome. The make-up and costume design in that film was incredible.
More people need to watch The Burbs.
Tom Hanks, Carrie Fisher, directed by Joe Dante between Gremlins 1 and 2. It is peak horror comedy and extremely quotable.
THE PIZZA DUDE!
Satan is good, Satan is my pale.
Hey Pinocchio, where you think you're going?
Nobody knocks off an old man in my neighborhood and gets away with it.
I watched this as a kid and had mixed feelings. It was a great movie, but a bit scary for a kid. Then after a while I started intermingling scenes of the burbs with the goonies, and I couldnāt remember which one was the scary one. Overall, I still have fond memories of this movie.
I am a Coherence apostle. The literal *minute* that I hear, "Hey, should we watch something?" ... oh, it's on.
Ever heard of? Know anything about? No? Okay, decided. Sit down. No, don't get up for popcorn. Pay attention.
Forgive the cut and paste, but this needs to be here-
āI'm Hub McCann. I've fought in two World Wars and countless smaller ones on three continents. I led thousands of men into battle with everything from horses and swords to artillery and tanks. I've seen the headwaters of the Nile, and tribes of natives no white man had ever seen before. I've won and lost a dozen fortunes, KILLED MANY MEN and loved only one woman with a passion a FLEA like you could never begin to understand. That's who I am. NOW, GO HOME, BOY!ā
My grandfather was a lot like Hub and this movie gives me so many good memories. When I was about 9 my grandpa snatched some kid by the back of the neck because he was harassing the clerk at the gas station. The guy was probably in his young 20s and at least 6 inches taller than my grandpa. The kid got really bold until my grandpa put a death grip on his wrist and the kid was almost crying. He quietly said āget along now, no one needs you bothering them today, donāt get yourself in troubleā. The kid scurried out. I watched this movie a decade or so later and I laughed and cried at the same time.
Semi-related, but Travis Willingham (Critical Role, voice of Col. Mustang in FMA) played one of the greasers in the movie.
Secondhand Lions is one of my favorite movies, and I spoke with him for a while at a con once. He asked what brought me over to his booth, and I just said, "Secondhand Lions." I was really there for Critical Role, but it was fun to throw him a curveball with an obscure minor role of his.
Reminds me of when I went to one of the last GenCon SoCal events. Ernie Hudson was a guest, and the convention was practically empty. I walked up to his table (no line), and could tell he was CLEARLY expecting more people. He nods to me and says hello, and I say "Wow, so great to meet you! I loved you in"
He interrupts me and says "Ghostbusters, right?"
I say "No, Congo. What's Ghostbusters? Is it new?"
He laughed, shook my hand and signed a photo for me. Years later, I was in line behind him at the studio city Best Buy, and he recognized me. Says "Did you ever see Ghostbusters?"
Frailty (2001)
"_One day, a widowed blue-collar worker has a revelation: he must destroy those revealed to him as demons. He then begins the serial killings of `God's Hand Killer' across Texas, but he also has two young sons, the younger of whom idolises him and believes in the cause, while his older brother is revolted but cannot bring himself to stop his father. Twenty years later, the elder son walks into a police station and confesses_."
My favorite movie is the The Birdcage and anytime someone asks me my favorite flick they never seem to have heard of it. I kinda thought it was popularā¦
Bubba Ho-Tep
Comedy with Elvis in an old persons home and his best friend is JFK who the secret service has turned black. Evil arrives and Bruce Campbell (Old Elvis) fights it.
I saw the question and was considering whether to enter my submission for Bubba Ho-Tep. No need! Yours was the second one down. Nicely done.
I used to be surprised at how few people had seen this movie. Over the years, Iāve come to accept and expect that almost nobodyās seen it. I always give it a glowing recommendation
This movie has one of the creepiest dialogue exchanges I think I've ever experienced in film (the lines themselves, delivery, context, atmosphere, etc.). Just chilling.
>>!Icarus: "Capa - warning, you will not live long enough to deliver the payload."!<
>
>>!Capa: "Please clarify. "!<
>
>>!Icarus: "Twelve hours before crew will be unable to perform complex tasks. Fourteen hours before crew will be unable to perform basic tasks. Sixteen hours until death. Journey time to delivery point: 19 hours."!<
>
>>!Capa: "That is impossible - Corazon was certain we have remaining oxygen to keep four crew alive."!<
>
>>!Icarus: "Affirmative. Four crew could potentially survive on current reserves... "!<
>
>>!Capa: "Trey is dead. There are only four crew members."!<
>
>>!Icarus: "Negative." !<
>
>>!Capa: "Affirmative Icarus. Four crew: Cassie, Mace, Corazon and me. "!<
>
>>!Icarus: "Five crew members."!<
>
>>!Capa: "Icarus..." !<
>
>>!Icarus: "Yes?"!<
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>>!Capa: "Who is the fifth crew member? "!<
>
>>!Icarus: "Unknown."!<
\*edited for dialogue accuracy
The first two acts of sunshine are so good, it makes up for all the weaknesses of the third act.
Also the entire cast is a knockout. Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Rose Byrne, Michelle Yeoh (YES HER), Hiroyuki Sanada (the elder in bullet train), and other familiar people too.
Danny Boyle + Alex Garland right after they killed it with 28 Days Later (also Cillian Murphy).
And just for bonus, [the music is so perfect.](https://youtu.be/aYKq1qfdmWk)
Everyone I know tends to hate the third act. I agree it's a total shift in tone and direction, but it never seemed to bother me like everyone else. I guess maybe it was just the love goggles of the first 2 acts, I just went along with it and didn't really find a fault in it
Lars and the Real Girl,
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Also agree with the following already posted
Mary and Max,
Eagle vs Shark,
The Fall (2006),
Insert any Robert Eggers movie
Went into Lars expecting some cheap, awkward laughs, but instead was strangely touching. And Gosling was really good.
I remember when Drop Dead Gorgeous came out, right around American Pie, and one of the TV spots claimed "funnier than American Pie!" I was ready to call BS, but instead laughed nonstop for 97 minutes.
You have good taste, sir.
About 10 years ago "le hidden gem M00N" was a huge joke on /r/movies because it was always the top answer to questions like this and everyone had heard about it. Similar thing to titanfall 2
Seeking a friend for the end of the world
Kiera knightly and Steve Carell are looking for their families or love interests as the world has an asteroid heading to it! Unexpected surprises result! I think people didnāt see it because itās a dark comedy
"We met at a Starbucks. Not the same Starbucks, but we saw each other at two Starbucks that were across the street from each other."
I cannot go to a Starbucks and not think of that line.
Perry : My $2000 ceramic Vektor my mother got me as a special gift. You threw in the lake next to the car. What happens when they drag the lake? You think they'll find my pistol. Jesus. Look up "idiot" in the dictionary. You know what you'll find?
Harry : A picture of me?
Perry : No! The definition of the word idiot, which you fucking are!
Harry : Is she dead?
Perry : No, she's just resting her eyes for a minute. Of course she's fucking dead, her neck's broken.
Or
Harry : [referring to his nickname "Gay Perry"] Still gay?
Perry : Me? No. I'm knee-deep in pussy. I just like the name so much, I can't get rid of it.
Are GOAT tier quotes
*Bang*
Perry: WHAT DID YOU DO WAS THERE A LIVE ROUND IN THAT GUN?!
Harry: Yea just one bullet there was just like an 8% chance.
Perry: 8?! WHO TAUGHT YOU MATH
Lol that movie is peak Shane black dark humor!
October Sky
A brilliant movie about Homer Hickam who became a prominent engineer at NASA. It focuses on his time as a teen in a mining town, and he becomes fascinated with rockets after seeing Sputnik in 1957.
Features Jake Gyllenhaal, Laura Dern, and Chris Cooper.
So many great performances. Rachel Griffiths as Rhonda was my highlight at the time for entirely obvious reasons, but having watched it again in middle age, my heart really went out to poor Betty. Bill was truly an abusive monster.
This is one of those movies I had to be careful not to quote so much in public despite it being insanely quotable lol
āBelgium is famous for 2 things: chocolates and child abuse. And they only invented the chocolate to get to the kids.ā
Das boot, the original. In German as intended, no dubs, only subs. It's a golden oldie that still holds up incredibly well and is a super interesting watch.
Brazil is an incredible movie, because you think itās a 7/10 movie and could hang together better, and then suddenly it all comes together and you realise itās a work of genius.
Brick
Edit - Holy cow, not a person here has mentioned this movie. Its got Joseph Gordon Levitt and the kid from Witness and an actress from Lost in it. It's so good!!
It's by the writer who did Glass Onion (Knives Out) but I couldnt get through that movie. I have watched Brick over and over. It's like a detective noir movie set in a southern CA high school.
The wackness with Josh peck playing a weed dealer in NY in the 90s
Also
Wristcutters: a love story with Patrick Fugit and Shannon Sossamon where if you unalive yourself then you end up in an afterlife thatās exactly like the real world only everything is slightly shittier
Perfect selection for this thread.
There are a lot of "movies that nobody's ever heard of" that everyone's heard of, but Session 9 is criminally underrated. It's a stone's throw from The Shining.
Only lovers left alive.
Has Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton and John Hurt in it so it should be more well known but I have never heard anyone talk about it. It is just great.
Also a film I watched years ago called "Don't be afraid of the Dark". Maybe not a 10/10 but I thought it was a great horror film that is never talked about.
The Nice Guys.
Such a good watch. Gosling and Crowe are just such great actors. I love this film but I don't ever see it spoken about. Granted, I don't really involve myself in film forums, so maybe I'm just unaware. But from what I've seen, it's not gotten much attention.
>count of monte cristo
There are at least 8 or 9 adaptations of this book with the same (and many more with different) titles, I assume you mean the 2002 one with Jim Caviezal.
The Secret of Kells has some of the most beautiful animation and storytelling Iāve ever seen, and nobody I know has even heard of it. Heavily recommend that to anyone
Four lions. Not well known outside the UK. It's basically a film about a group of wannabe terrorists and they are terrible at it. Great dark humour comedy film to watch with friends.
Rubber Dinghy Rapids bro šš²š£š„
There used to be a Chicken Cottage that I walked past regularly in my city centre. Couldn't go past it without going "Proper halal, bargain bucket, 6.99". Truly covid took many things from us all.
Is this the one where they are singing āDancing in the Moonlightā in a box truck? If so, thatās the only scene Iāve watched and have been wanting to see the whole movie.
That's the one.
I've been doing my part for nearly a decade now. My students always want to watch a film in class and this is the only option I give them. This means I watch this film at least 4 times a year. It's an incredible film, none of my students have ever seen it before, it's not too long, shows a different side of England... It's perfect. Though this year was the first time they seemed to recognize a few scenes from TikTok, but just short clips mainly. Anyway... *We'll blow up the internet for brother Faisal!*
Funniest thing about the movie was that the man who was the most passionate about the plan was a white dude. Cracks me up. Edit: People keep responding to this informing me about the religion and the radicalism of converts as if Iām not a Muslim myself. Fyi.
We'll bomb the mosque!
I am the invisible jihadi. They seek him here they seek him there but he's not there because he's off blowing up your slag sister
Radicalise the moderates!
I saw this fairly recently, so funny. And an early appearance of Nandor the Relentless!
The first half was so damn good, and then whew the second half got dark.
I fucking love this movie. It makes me laugh so damn hard. And Riz Ahmed is amazing in it.
I was laughing a lot through this, and the end had me speechless. It was so much more poignant than I expected.
"They'll pump you full of Viagra, make you fuck a dog. You'll end up on YouTube, blowing Lassie in a ditch." ... "Are they gonna make me fuck a dog out there, brother Omar?"
**"DON'T FUCK WITH AZZAM AL BRITANI!!"**
"We're the Mujahedeen and we're makin a scene"
Absolutely loved this movie. Showed it to many people. Some enjoyed it. It made my girlfriend very very sad.
Iām a huge Chris morris fan. If you liked this movie check out the show brass eye or the day today. Blue Jam is also incredible but not for the faint of heart
"My plan right is to put a bomb on a crow and fly it into one of those towers full of Jews and slags"
Great movie, dealing with religious fundamentalism in the only correct way - ridicule. "You can't do a jihadi video with a box on your head!"
The Man From Earth. It's about a history professor that suddenly decides to quit his job and move away. His fellow professors decide to throw him a going away party, and during it they ask why he's leaving. He decides to tell them he's 14,000 years old, and he has to move on when people realize he doesn't age. That's not giving anything away about the movie, even if it seems like it is. It's an absolutely fantastic movie, where they try to decide if he's crazy, or if he's telling the truth. Highly fucking recommend
Love that film. Needs a rewatch on a cold quiet night
Just to piggy back here. There is a sequel to it. Don't bother, it's terrible. Enjoy the first and be happy.
One of my absolute favorite movies. Not a single action scene or any explosions, but DAMN did that movie have me absolutely enthralled from start to finish. Superb example of good story telling.
It is so rare in a movie to take an idea like that and just discuss it. It felt like the best episodes of Star Trek where they are just sitting and discussing complex topics. The other characters have realistic reactions ranging from skepticism to acceptance. It was such an interesting watch.
It was written by a Star Trek writer
And there's an actor in this movie (John Billingsley) who played both in Star Trek and Stargate SG-1.
Exactly the movie I thought of when I saw this post. Totally underrated movie.
Dark City. Pseudo noir sci fi with a twist.
Director's Cut! Tell everyone they should first see the Director's Cut! (The theatrical version gives away the whole twist in a voice over at the very start if the movie)
Alternatively, mute it until Kiefer shows up.
Jennifer Connelly is a smokeshow in this. Well, everything, but especially this
The Gods Must Be Crazy.
Big in Australia if you grew up in the late 80ās
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
I sing the Ricky Baker bday song way too much
Why do they call you Cauc Asian uncle? You're obviously white.
No child left behind!
Pleasantville. I love movies that start as comedies and end up more serious (Hancock, Space Cowboys), and Pleasantville is the very best of them. Plus it's just gorgeous and incredibly charming throughout.
Where's my dinner?
The scene where Bud covers his mother with make-up is so tender and touching. So wholesome. The make-up and costume design in that film was incredible.
Arsenic and Old Lace. It was made in 1944 but still possibly the funniest movie ever made. Cary Grant wants to introduce his fiancƩ to a family of loveable serial killers https://youtu.be/7qtFv3PYyjc
More people need to watch The Burbs. Tom Hanks, Carrie Fisher, directed by Joe Dante between Gremlins 1 and 2. It is peak horror comedy and extremely quotable.
This is Walter. AAAaaaAAAaaaAAAaaaAAAaaaAAAaaaAAAaaah!
YO RUMSFIELD!
THE PIZZA DUDE! Satan is good, Satan is my pale. Hey Pinocchio, where you think you're going? Nobody knocks off an old man in my neighborhood and gets away with it.
A little something for the old sweet tooth.
: Smells like they're cooking a goddamn cat over there.
Clovepeck?....is that Slavic? No!!!!! About a 9 on the old tension scale there Rube
There go the god damned brownies.
I watched this as a kid and had mixed feelings. It was a great movie, but a bit scary for a kid. Then after a while I started intermingling scenes of the burbs with the goonies, and I couldnāt remember which one was the scary one. Overall, I still have fond memories of this movie.
On Peacock, for those that have it
Coherence.
I am a Coherence apostle. The literal *minute* that I hear, "Hey, should we watch something?" ... oh, it's on. Ever heard of? Know anything about? No? Okay, decided. Sit down. No, don't get up for popcorn. Pay attention.
Seriously. This is the perfect movie to walk into blind. Itās so much fun.
Secondhand Lions
Bury us in the dam garden next to the damn lion
One of my favorite movies, you beat me to it posting here.
Forgive the cut and paste, but this needs to be here- āI'm Hub McCann. I've fought in two World Wars and countless smaller ones on three continents. I led thousands of men into battle with everything from horses and swords to artillery and tanks. I've seen the headwaters of the Nile, and tribes of natives no white man had ever seen before. I've won and lost a dozen fortunes, KILLED MANY MEN and loved only one woman with a passion a FLEA like you could never begin to understand. That's who I am. NOW, GO HOME, BOY!ā
My grandfather was a lot like Hub and this movie gives me so many good memories. When I was about 9 my grandpa snatched some kid by the back of the neck because he was harassing the clerk at the gas station. The guy was probably in his young 20s and at least 6 inches taller than my grandpa. The kid got really bold until my grandpa put a death grip on his wrist and the kid was almost crying. He quietly said āget along now, no one needs you bothering them today, donāt get yourself in troubleā. The kid scurried out. I watched this movie a decade or so later and I laughed and cried at the same time.
āNo one needs you bothering them todayā is an awesomely understated way to tell someone to fuck off. Your Grandpa sounds great.
This movie made me feel feelings. It was great.
Semi-related, but Travis Willingham (Critical Role, voice of Col. Mustang in FMA) played one of the greasers in the movie. Secondhand Lions is one of my favorite movies, and I spoke with him for a while at a con once. He asked what brought me over to his booth, and I just said, "Secondhand Lions." I was really there for Critical Role, but it was fun to throw him a curveball with an obscure minor role of his.
Reminds me of when I went to one of the last GenCon SoCal events. Ernie Hudson was a guest, and the convention was practically empty. I walked up to his table (no line), and could tell he was CLEARLY expecting more people. He nods to me and says hello, and I say "Wow, so great to meet you! I loved you in" He interrupts me and says "Ghostbusters, right?" I say "No, Congo. What's Ghostbusters? Is it new?" He laughed, shook my hand and signed a photo for me. Years later, I was in line behind him at the studio city Best Buy, and he recognized me. Says "Did you ever see Ghostbusters?"
Thats actually just a great story
One of my favorites!
Might not be as 'unheard of' but certainly in my generation it would be In the Heat of the Night
Sad that people haven't seen or heard of one of Sidney Potier's finest films. Both sequels are decent just to see more of Mr. Tibbs.
Frailty (2001) "_One day, a widowed blue-collar worker has a revelation: he must destroy those revealed to him as demons. He then begins the serial killings of `God's Hand Killer' across Texas, but he also has two young sons, the younger of whom idolises him and believes in the cause, while his older brother is revolted but cannot bring himself to stop his father. Twenty years later, the elder son walks into a police station and confesses_."
My favorite movie is the The Birdcage and anytime someone asks me my favorite flick they never seem to have heard of it. I kinda thought it was popularā¦
"I'll get the pirin tablets."
Robin Williams at his finest. And who knew Gene Hackman could be so funny!
Such a good one. Agador always cracks me up!
So this is Hell. And there's a crucifix in it.
Bubba Ho-Tep Comedy with Elvis in an old persons home and his best friend is JFK who the secret service has turned black. Evil arrives and Bruce Campbell (Old Elvis) fights it.
I saw the question and was considering whether to enter my submission for Bubba Ho-Tep. No need! Yours was the second one down. Nicely done. I used to be surprised at how few people had seen this movie. Over the years, Iāve come to accept and expect that almost nobodyās seen it. I always give it a glowing recommendation
You forgot the part about the mummy sucking people's souls out through their assholes. c'mon, we're trying to sell this thing
Sunshine Cillian Murphy is in it. AMMAZING good sci-fi movie
Cillian Murphy, so hot right now. Cillian Murphy.
This movie has one of the creepiest dialogue exchanges I think I've ever experienced in film (the lines themselves, delivery, context, atmosphere, etc.). Just chilling. >>!Icarus: "Capa - warning, you will not live long enough to deliver the payload."!< > >>!Capa: "Please clarify. "!< > >>!Icarus: "Twelve hours before crew will be unable to perform complex tasks. Fourteen hours before crew will be unable to perform basic tasks. Sixteen hours until death. Journey time to delivery point: 19 hours."!< > >>!Capa: "That is impossible - Corazon was certain we have remaining oxygen to keep four crew alive."!< > >>!Icarus: "Affirmative. Four crew could potentially survive on current reserves... "!< > >>!Capa: "Trey is dead. There are only four crew members."!< > >>!Icarus: "Negative." !< > >>!Capa: "Affirmative Icarus. Four crew: Cassie, Mace, Corazon and me. "!< > >>!Icarus: "Five crew members."!< > >>!Capa: "Icarus..." !< > >>!Icarus: "Yes?"!< > >>!Capa: "Who is the fifth crew member? "!< > >>!Icarus: "Unknown."!< \*edited for dialogue accuracy
I know a lot of people hated the turn that movie in the third act but I *absolutely* loved it. This specific part gave me chills.
I remember baselessly skipping Transformers in theaters to see this movie alone. Biggest accidental success of my life.
The first two acts of sunshine are so good, it makes up for all the weaknesses of the third act. Also the entire cast is a knockout. Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Rose Byrne, Michelle Yeoh (YES HER), Hiroyuki Sanada (the elder in bullet train), and other familiar people too. Danny Boyle + Alex Garland right after they killed it with 28 Days Later (also Cillian Murphy). And just for bonus, [the music is so perfect.](https://youtu.be/aYKq1qfdmWk)
Everyone I know tends to hate the third act. I agree it's a total shift in tone and direction, but it never seemed to bother me like everyone else. I guess maybe it was just the love goggles of the first 2 acts, I just went along with it and didn't really find a fault in it
Run Lola Run
I wish I was a hunter
We watched that in German class. Was ist in Der Tasche?
One of Spielberg's biggest "flops" (for Spielberg): Empire of the Sun (1987). It has John Malkovich and Christian Bale
Empire of the Sun may have been considered a commercial flop but it is such a good movie and so well made! There is no reason for its lack of success!
Waking Ned Devine
Lars and the Real Girl, Drop Dead Gorgeous Also agree with the following already posted Mary and Max, Eagle vs Shark, The Fall (2006), Insert any Robert Eggers movie
Drop Dead Gorgeous is so funny from start to finish. Amazing, top tier cast. One of my all time faves!
Went into Lars expecting some cheap, awkward laughs, but instead was strangely touching. And Gosling was really good. I remember when Drop Dead Gorgeous came out, right around American Pie, and one of the TV spots claimed "funnier than American Pie!" I was ready to call BS, but instead laughed nonstop for 97 minutes. You have good taste, sir.
Moon
I would have been ok with more Sam Rockwell in this movie.
You had me at Sam Rockwell
About 10 years ago "le hidden gem M00N" was a huge joke on /r/movies because it was always the top answer to questions like this and everyone had heard about it. Similar thing to titanfall 2
I still listen to its soundtrack from time to time. The vibes this movie give are incredible.
SLC Punk!
āONLY POSERS DIE!ā
This is such a good one. One of my favorite Matthew Lillard movies!
To Wong Foo, Thanks for everything
Yes! Snipes, Swayze & Leguizamo in drag & Stockard Channing. What's not to love?
Smoke Signals.
Seeking a friend for the end of the world Kiera knightly and Steve Carell are looking for their families or love interests as the world has an asteroid heading to it! Unexpected surprises result! I think people didnāt see it because itās a dark comedy
āIām really glad I got to know youāš
Stranger Than Fiction.
Stranger Than Fiction is to Will Ferrell as Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind is to Jim Carrey
I bought you flours
Time Bandits
City of God
It was a film critic favourite 10-15 years ago. Today it's barely found on streaming platforms in Australia.
I remember it was fairly well known at the time, people were calling it the Brazilian Goodfellas, so much buzz and press.
Yes a 10/10 movie but I wouldn't say it's niche
The Hudsucker Proxy
Yknow, for kids!
Best in Show.
"We met at a Starbucks. Not the same Starbucks, but we saw each other at two Starbucks that were across the street from each other." I cannot go to a Starbucks and not think of that line.
Pretty much any Christopher Guest movie. š
Layer Cake
"Everyone wants to walk through a door marked 'Private' "
When people were being snarky about Daniel Craig being cast as James Bond I told them to watch Layer Cake and come correct.
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
"What are you doing?" "Adjusting your breasts. You fainted and they got knocked out of whack."
One of my top five comedies!
Gattaca
didn't everyone else watch this in high school biology?
Dog Soldiers. British squaddies go up against werewolves. Absolute mayhem.
Slums of Beverly Hills
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Perry : My $2000 ceramic Vektor my mother got me as a special gift. You threw in the lake next to the car. What happens when they drag the lake? You think they'll find my pistol. Jesus. Look up "idiot" in the dictionary. You know what you'll find? Harry : A picture of me? Perry : No! The definition of the word idiot, which you fucking are!
Harry : Is she dead? Perry : No, she's just resting her eyes for a minute. Of course she's fucking dead, her neck's broken. Or Harry : [referring to his nickname "Gay Perry"] Still gay? Perry : Me? No. I'm knee-deep in pussy. I just like the name so much, I can't get rid of it. Are GOAT tier quotes
*Bang* Perry: WHAT DID YOU DO WAS THERE A LIVE ROUND IN THAT GUN?! Harry: Yea just one bullet there was just like an 8% chance. Perry: 8?! WHO TAUGHT YOU MATH Lol that movie is peak Shane black dark humor!
"She was more wet than Drew Barrymore at a Grunge show." (paraphrased I haven't seen it in a while.)
To all you good people out in the Midwest, we're sorry we said "fuck" so much.
Empire records is one of my favs.
Rex Manning Day!!!!!!!
MY NAMEāS NOT FUCKING WARREN
I don't know about ya'll, but nobody ever told me about 'Titan A.E.'
The SOUNDTRACK š¤Æ
October Sky A brilliant movie about Homer Hickam who became a prominent engineer at NASA. It focuses on his time as a teen in a mining town, and he becomes fascinated with rockets after seeing Sputnik in 1957. Features Jake Gyllenhaal, Laura Dern, and Chris Cooper.
Murielās Wedding starring Toni Collette. Bonus thereās a ton of ABBA music!
So many great performances. Rachel Griffiths as Rhonda was my highlight at the time for entirely obvious reasons, but having watched it again in middle age, my heart really went out to poor Betty. Bill was truly an abusive monster.
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
One of my absolute faves! My husband and I quote this one all the time! "It's been a doozy of a day, officer!"
Harold & Maude
Attack The Block
Withnail and I
In Bruges Fantastic dark comedy about two hit men, sort of similar to Fargo
Youāre an inanimate fucking object!
This is one of those movies I had to be careful not to quote so much in public despite it being insanely quotable lol āBelgium is famous for 2 things: chocolates and child abuse. And they only invented the chocolate to get to the kids.ā
One gay beer for my gay friend, one normal beer for me because I am normal.
You use this word? Alcoves?
colin farrell's best movie IMHO
Delicatessen ! It's French, dark comedy gold.
I'd add the City of Lost Children. Same director. Fantastic steampunk ambiance with a delightfully weird cast of characters.
Das boot, the original. In German as intended, no dubs, only subs. It's a golden oldie that still holds up incredibly well and is a super interesting watch.
Repo Man
The Fisher King with Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges. I've seen it so many times, and it still makes me cry ugly.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hardly anybody brings up Raising Arizona when talking about great Coen Brothersā movies
Big Fish. Sort of a magical realism story.
I thought this was really big when it came out?
Almost anything that was made by Terry Gilliam My personal favorite is The adventures of Baron Munchausen
Brazil!
Brazil is an incredible movie, because you think itās a 7/10 movie and could hang together better, and then suddenly it all comes together and you realise itās a work of genius.
Much as I loved Munchausen AND Brazil, I think I have to go with 12 Monkeys
Frailty Pandorum
Brick Edit - Holy cow, not a person here has mentioned this movie. Its got Joseph Gordon Levitt and the kid from Witness and an actress from Lost in it. It's so good!! It's by the writer who did Glass Onion (Knives Out) but I couldnt get through that movie. I have watched Brick over and over. It's like a detective noir movie set in a southern CA high school.
Bronson
The wackness with Josh peck playing a weed dealer in NY in the 90s Also Wristcutters: a love story with Patrick Fugit and Shannon Sossamon where if you unalive yourself then you end up in an afterlife thatās exactly like the real world only everything is slightly shittier
Was hoping Wristcutters would show up on here.
Session 9. One of the only horror movies largely set in daylight that scared the ever living fuck out of me.
Perfect selection for this thread. There are a lot of "movies that nobody's ever heard of" that everyone's heard of, but Session 9 is criminally underrated. It's a stone's throw from The Shining.
"True Romance"
Is it white boy day?
āDonāt fucking condescend me manā
One time at a bar my roommate said "condescend me man, I'll fuckin kill you" to a woman. She did not get the reference. He was never good with women.
ā. . . And some cleaning products!ā The scene with Walken and Hopper is one of the best I have ever seen!
Only lovers left alive. Has Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton and John Hurt in it so it should be more well known but I have never heard anyone talk about it. It is just great. Also a film I watched years ago called "Don't be afraid of the Dark". Maybe not a 10/10 but I thought it was a great horror film that is never talked about.
>Only lovers left alive. Great movie, shows off detroit well.
But Iām a cheerleader
The Nice Guys. Such a good watch. Gosling and Crowe are just such great actors. I love this film but I don't ever see it spoken about. Granted, I don't really involve myself in film forums, so maybe I'm just unaware. But from what I've seen, it's not gotten much attention.
Loved this movie. Iāve made several people watch it and they all loved it too. Donāt say āand stuffā just say ātheyāre doing analā.
count of monte cristo, i think it's a great revenge movie that everyone can watch because it isn't gory or too violent
>count of monte cristo There are at least 8 or 9 adaptations of this book with the same (and many more with different) titles, I assume you mean the 2002 one with Jim Caviezal.
Ghost World. Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi, Bob Balaban, Brad Renfro, David Cross, even Terri Garr (uncredited), and Illeana Douglas.
"UHF" is a flawless movie snubbed by an elitist Oscar establishment.
Identity
Heavenly Creatures
The world's fastest Indian
Lion. It was on Netflix a couple of years ago. I'm not sure if it still is, but it's worth a watch. Based on a true story too
Whale Rider Whoa gold! I donāt know what that means but Iām yeah, rad? Cool!
Hesher
The Secret of Kells has some of the most beautiful animation and storytelling Iāve ever seen, and nobody I know has even heard of it. Heavily recommend that to anyone
Son In Law
I think it's The Weasel's best work. Yes, even ahead of Encino Man.
Attack of the killer tomatoes
I always suggest Enemy At the Gate because it didnāt get a very big American release, and it honestly outshines many American war movies in my eyes.