Recommend a lesser known/overlooked Movie!
 

Looking for lesser known and possibly overlooked movie suggestions,

none of the typical mainstream movies that everyone has already seen but something a little obscure.. this can be foreign movies, period pieces, anything that has some quality.

I'm sure there are some larger foreign films with big budgets that a lot of people haven't seen, even stuff like Amelie, Downfall, etc.. so those are good suggestions too.

Here is a PERFECT example of an overlooked foreign movie - "The Boss of it All".

Doesn't have to be foreign, just a good movie that the average american hasn't heard of.

An example of a good non-foreign (english speaking) overlooked movie - "Two Hands".

I know there is some untapped gold somewhere, and I'm looking for it.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated :thumbsup

Death Sentence

Here are some overlooked movies for example:

- Two Hands, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145547/
- Chopper, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221073/
- The Magician, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0461989/
- Gangster #1, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210065/
- I am a Cyborg, but it's Ok, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497137/
- The Boss of it All, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469754/
- Downfall, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363163/
- Amelie, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211915/
- Titus, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120866/
- Let the Right One In, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139797/

Diamonds.

With Kevin Bacon?

I hope that was a joke.

I don't think I've seen one of those yet

You are missing some pure gold.

Amelie is hardly overlooked.

If you want 'overlooked' films in that same genre, check out:
The delicatessen
Un long dimanche de fiançailles [A very long engagement]
City of the lost children
[all same director as amelie, all w/ more substance, imo]

Jeux des enfants [Love me if you dare is the english title, I think]
Different director, great film

Romper Stomper - Aussie movie about skinheads with Russel Crowe (super cute girl plays main female role)

Shallow Grave - awesome Scottish movie with Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting) about three friends who take on new roommate who dies of drug overdose in the room as soon as he's moved in. When they find him dead in his room, they also find a suitcase full of money..... Fucking great movie :thumbsup

Run Lola Run - awesome German movie (in German) with that chick who also played in first Bourne movie :)

Lone Wolf And Cub
Taxidermia
Lady Snowblood
Happiness
Let The Right One In
Ricky Oh - The Story Of Ricky
Tokyo Gore Police

I could go on for days.

Swimming Pool

Amelie is totally overlooked to the average American.

Freeway with Reese Witherspoon

I loved that movie :thumbsup

Very good movie :)

Pool hall junkies if you like pool :2 cents:

Id whip your ass at pool !!!!

Dirty pretty things
Paris,Je t'aime
Interview
The dreamers
11:14
Lonely hearts
The final cut
Der utergang
Intacto
Criminal
Suicide kings
Driving lessons
The machinist
The dog problem
Celebrity
These are a few movies I really enjoyed and I never heard someone talking about

Die Welle, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1063669/
Encounters at the End of the World, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1093824/

I heard these two were good.. I'm getting them in bluray.

The Dreamers
Ghost Dog

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
The Hammer (2007)
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Quiz Show (1994)
Last King of Scotland (2006)
Boiler Room (2000)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)


Just watch "In Brudge" (not sure if thats overlooked yet) and enjoyed it

Missed the first and the 3rd.Great movies.
In Bruges was nice too

I love Boiler Room, just watched it the other night and Requiem for a dream is a trippy movie for sure

Donnie Darko
Running Scared

Sorry, these are sorta mainstream, but yeah, whatever

Not a foreign movie but this film was great. I like movies where someone is pissed off and goes on a killing spree. I think every movie should have someone who is pissed off.

couple more ...

61* (2001 HBO)
Heathers (1988)
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Ed Wood (1994)
Barton Fink (1991)

hmm..

The 51st state
Shaolin Soccer
Amores Perros

..are three movies i enjoyed watching again, recently.

La Haine - Great French film. Got shown it when I was at school and didn't appreciate what a good film it was till later on.

Once Were Warriors - Incredible Kiwi film dealing with domestic violence.

BRAZIL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(film)

Brazil is a 1985 film directed by Terry Gilliam. It was written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard and stars Jonathan Pryce. The film also features Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, and Ian Holm. John Scalzi's Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies describes the film as a "dystopian satire".

The film centers on Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), a young man trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living a life in a small apartment, set in a dystopian world in which there is an over-reliance on poorly maintained (and rather whimsical) machines. Brazil's bureaucratic, totalitarian government is reminiscent of the government depicted in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, except that it has a buffoonish, slap-stick quality, and lacks any kind of figurehead.

Jack Mathews, movie critic and author of The Battle of Brazil (1987), characterized the film as "satirizing the bureaucratic, largely dysfunctional industrial world that had been driving [Gilliam] crazy all his life."[1] Though a success in Europe, the film flopped upon initial release in North America, even with the extra publicity of the fight with the studio. It has since become an important cult film.

I second Romper Stomper.
There's also a scene that has 'CaveClan' tags on the wall [ australian exploring community ] - still not sure if they knew the film was going to be shot, or it was wild coincidence.

Well, not everyone here is american, and not every american here is average ;)
In anycase, if you want to have a really nice movie experience in similar styles, check the other ones I recommended.

If you're in a for a 4am tired movie experience:
- The quiet earth [ decent apocalypse movie, without the bullshit ]
- Requiem for a dying planet [ this film is amazing ]

If you're in for a bit of a mind fuck
- one point zero
- primer [ I cannot underline how incredible this film is ]

Horror / Gore / Japanese film fans:
- itchy the killer

Great movies in this thread! I think I've seen most of them, but I'll try to add a few that people haven't seen.

Dark Days - documentary about people living in abandoned subway tunnels.
The original "The Hitcher" - still one of my favourite horror/thriller movies
Sunshine - Space mind games courtesy of Danny Boyle.

The Hillside Strangler - few years old and not known much as far as I know.

The Seven Samurai - probably more known but imo the greatest movie of all time! (kinda obscure to most westerners.)

Kung Fu for Sale - funny old classic with great kung fu in it.

The secret Diary of Sigmund Freud - funny movie and bugged out, another classic imo.

urotsukidoji - Had to put that one there... saw it at 13... bad idea haha :1orglaugh

Dancing At The Blue Iguana
Brother
Lantana

Filmed in Paris the film that comes to mind is Bitter Moon which is directed by Roman Polanski of China Town fame well probably more famous for his criminal act. I havent seen it in years but I remember loving it. Check it out Bitter Moon.

There's a few that don't understand the meaning of "overlooked".

Well I don't know how much attention "The Prestige" got but I think it was one of the best movies I've seen in a while....

Roadhouse w/ Swayze

Cinderella Man - set in the 1930`s and about a washed-up boxer who came back to win the title.

Brilliant movie starring Russell Crowe. Probably wrong to say it was overlooked but I believe I`m right in saying that it did not perform particularly well at the box office.

Well worth watching if you haven`t seen. :)

The woodsman

This wasn't overlooked by any means.
Reasonable film, tesla rocks ;)

bunch of fucking idiots in this thread with the stupid films that look classy that you never understand but its cool to talk about it

yeah here is another
Pu Thu Twa filmed in paris directed by Dejour C'thu the third very deep film about the mind and beatuty of inner cock and balls, amazing director blah blah

gimme a fucking break

recommend films that are sane that people understand not artsy fartsy crap