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Do you have any films that you don't think anyone else here has seen?

Some of mine are:
Hansel And Gretel Get Baked
Strings
Tom And Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
She Came From The Woods
Allegro Non Troppo
Animalympics
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi

Would recommend at least 4, maybe 5 of them tbh.

A Scanner Darkly.

Not well known really even though it has Keanu , Woody , and Robert Downey in it.

Razor posted...

A Scanner Darkly.

That's obscure?

Not well known really even though it has Keanu , Woody , and Robert Downey in it.

It has Winona's boobs too

A porn parody of Alice in Wonderland that had a full musical number about Humpty Dumpty's impotence.

I've also never seen anyone talk about Run Lola Run on here, but I doubt it's that obscure in the grand scheme of things.

Mr_hulk88 posted...

That's obscure?

I know about it, but I've still yet to see it unfortunately. For a Linklater film I'd say it's a bit more on the obscure side.

there are several movies i've seen with <500 logs on letterboxd

theres a little theater a city over that only has two screens and only plays indie films (though it also plays big movies sometimes. Oppenheimer and Barbie played there for two weeks so you could do the thingy)

but I saw this movie last year that I cant remember the name of. It was a foreign film where there was a girl who was raised.. by a witch I think and then she kept eating.. things hearts and becoming whatever thing she ate. Like a cow then a cat then a human.. I think? I only saw it the one time last year, cant remember the name or anybody in it

but It definitely was a decent sized budget and it was really fuckin good.

The American Astronaut.

pegusus123456 posted...

I've also never seen anyone talk about Run Lola Run on here, but I doubt it's that obscure in the grand scheme of things.

That was THE foreign movie for a couple years when it came out.

MICHALECOLE posted...

theres a little theater a city over that only has two screens and only plays indie films (though it also plays big movies sometimes. Oppenheimer and Barbie played there for two weeks so you could do the thingy)

but I saw this movie last year that I cant remember the name of. It was a foreign film where there was a girl who was raised.. by a witch I think and then she kept eating.. things hearts and becoming whatever thing she ate. Like a cow then a cat then a human.. I think? I only saw it the one time last year, cant remember the name or anybody in it

but It definitely was a decent sized budget and it was really fuckin good.

Shit, that sounds awesome. If you remember the name let me know, I'd be down to check that out if I could find it anywhere.

Idk Kuso maybe? That was a fucking weird one.

JKwaffle posted...

Shit, that sounds awesome. If you remember the name let me know, I'd be down to check that out if I could find it anywhere.

Lemme try and do some googling and see

Ooh, another one that I randomly found on Amazon video was The History of Time Travel, it was a pretty fun and interesting super low budget documentary-esque (but not actually a doc) movie.

Dave Made A Maze and Happiness of the Katakuri's are also both really good, but they might be a little more well known.

Another Earth

In The Realm of the Senses
The Contract (Billy Dee Williams is in it)
A Gun for Jennifer
The 51st State aka Formula 51

Probably a fair few random Korean movies (I watch a lot of thrillers). Maybe also the French movie See the Sea (1997).

I love these and nobody knows them.

The Big Kahuna (fantastic, with Kevin Spacey and Danny DeVito)
The good night 2007
Interview 2007
Delirious 2006
Married Life 2005
Miss Pettigrew lives for a day 2005
Bright young things 2003
The servant 1963
The player 1995
The piano teacher (really creepy french film)

And your mama too, a Mexican film from 2001

Festen/The Celebration, a German film from I think 1998ish

Both really cool

haloiscoolisbak posted...

And your mama too, a Mexican film from 2001

Ooh, Y Tu Mama Tambien is great, I love that one.

the celebration is danish.

also you can just call it y tu mama tambien

Yeah Ive seen y tu mama before. I need to watch it again because I was young when I watched it

haloiscoolisbak posted...

And your mama too, a Mexican film from 2001

Wouldn't call it obscure

Zithers posted...

the celebration is danish.

also you can just call it y tu mama tambien

Yeah, I forgot the non English name. Didn't want to make a pitiful attempt at guessing

Mr_hulk88 posted...

Wouldn't call it obscure

I mean I haven't met many people who've seen it IRL

Maybe online it's well known

Not sure if these are obscure or not, but Dead Leaves and Rock and Rule are both wild rides.

Theres an episode of bobs burgers called y tu Gaga tambien where the teacher invents gaga ball

I can probably mention dozens of Swedish movies that seems obscure for non-Swedes, but does that really count?
What about Mio in the Land of Faraway, which got both Christopher Lee and Christian Bale?

Bug
Mary and Max
Mad God
One eyed monster
Glorious
He never died
Space station 76

Link_of_time posted...

Mary and Max
Mad God

Mad God is amazing; haven't seen Mary and Max yet, but I really want to.

Foppe posted...

I can probably mention dozens of Swedish movies that seems obscure for non-Swedes, but does that really count?

Do you have any great Scandinavian Drama/Thriller film recommendations?

A Clockwork Orange

Topo Gigio and the Missile War

This one's definitely more well known, but there's always Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

Smoke Em If You Got Em. From the late 80s, an indie Aussie movie. Very good dark humour.

Scenario is that Soviets dropped nukes and the world is a wasteland so the survivors throw a bitchin party in a bomb shelter. Has some surprisingly great commentary on human reaction to catastrophy.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0352854/

Funniest part: a wallflower works up the courage to ask a girl to dance. After stalling, he finally does, omly for her to drop dead from radiation poisoning in his arms. So he dances woth the corpse and tries to hide it lol

Twice Upon a Time

JKwaffle posted...

Mad God is amazing; haven't seen Mary and Max yet, but I really want to.

I loved the technical aspect of Mad God, but i cant say care for it as movie. Mary and max is just all around great.

Also watched Dantes inferno. This version is done with hand drawn sketch art and animated.

JKwaffle posted...

Allegro Non Troppo
Animalympics

I've seen both of those. Knew about Animalympics becase apparently it's popular with furries and I was curious to know why. Also, the movie can be seen for free without using methods of questionable legality, so... why not?
Allegro Non Troppo is a small but brightly shimmering gem in the darkest age of animation: the 1970s.

Anyhow, a pair of obscure movies I've seen.

Quatermass and the Pit
The name makes it seem like a throwaway 1960s alien invasion schlock, but it's actually rather well-crafted cerebral scifi horror. The third act feels downright ominously apocalyptic.

Phkhullu Suomi
If there ever was a Finnish Monty Python movie, this is it. The name more or less translates to "Utterly crazy Finland".

The Devil Master

A Z grade movie from the 1970's set in Michigan. https://youtu.be/I8C33rtGPew?si=8dYuNCHkHTr2SVj-

Joelypoely posted...

Do you have any great Scandinavian Drama/Thriller film recommendations?

Depends on what you want.
Jgarna https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116736/?ref_=ttls_li_tt A big city cop moves back to the backwater town where he grew up. He brings the law with him which makes him disliked. Rated R for a reason. Got a sequel and a TV series.
Snabba Cash https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1291652/?ref_=ttls_li_tt First part in a trilogy. Based on a book, got a short TV series on Netflix. Swedish college student becomes involved in the drug trade, all 3 are worth watching.
Beck https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0907683/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 This is one big hole to get suck into if you want.
Originally a set of novels from the 60s and 70s about a fictional Swedish police detective that have had some movie adaptions over the years, even USA did one in the 70s (The Laughing Policeman https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070292/ ). They made 6 movies in the early 90s in a short period of time, it was something like 8 months or so, and you can see how tired the actors are in the last movies and it fits so perfect with the characters. I love them, but they are not everybodys cup of tea ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107989/?ref_=ttcnn ). Then in the late 90s they made a dark reboot with Peter Harber that still gets more movies, we hit movie 50 earlier this year. The first seasons are worth watching, then it gets meeh, too much of the same.
Hamilton: I nationens intresse ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856014/?ref_=ttls_li_tt ) Hamilton is another based on book character that have got movie adaptions over the years, this time with Mikael Persbrandt. Basically a darker James Bond with less gadgets. Got a sequel, Hamilton: Men inte om det gller din dotter ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856047/?ref_=tt_sims_tt_t_1 ). Just adding an earlier Hamilton movie called Hamilton ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119249/?ref_=tt_sims_tt_t_2 ) even if it is more action because it got both Peter Stormare and Mark Hamill.

Thompson posted...

Quatermass and the Pit
The name makes it seem like a throwaway 1960s alien invasion schlock, but it's actually rather well-crafted cerebral scifi horror. The third act feels downright ominously apocalyptic.

This is more known as Five Million Years to Earth in USA.

Foppe posted...

Depends on what you want.
Jgarna https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116736/?ref_=ttls_li_tt A big city cop moves back to the backwater town where he grew up. He brings the law with him which makes him disliked. Rated R for a reason. Got a sequel and a TV series.
Snabba Cash https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1291652/?ref_=ttls_li_tt First part in a trilogy. Based on a book, got a short TV series on Netflix. Swedish college student becomes involved in the drug trade, all 3 are worth watching.
Beck https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0907683/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 This is one big hole to get suck into if you want.
Originally a set of novels from the 60s and 70s about a fictional Swedish police detective that have had some movie adaptions over the years, even USA did one in the 70s (The Laughing Policeman https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070292/ ). They made 6 movies in the early 90s in a short period of time, it was something like 8 months or so, and you can see how tired the actors are in the last movies and it fits so perfect with the characters. I love them, but they are not everybodys cup of tea ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107989/?ref_=ttcnn ). Then in the late 90s they made a dark reboot with Peter Harber that still gets more movies, we hit movie 50 earlier this year. The first seasons are worth watching, then it gets meeh, too much of the same.
Hamilton: I nationens intresse ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856014/?ref_=ttls_li_tt ) Hamilton is another based on book character that have got movie adaptions over the years, this time with Mikael Persbrandt. Basically a darker James Bond with less gadgets. Got a sequel, Hamilton: Men inte om det gller din dotter ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856047/?ref_=tt_sims_tt_t_1 ). Just adding an earlier Hamilton movie called Hamilton ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119249/?ref_=tt_sims_tt_t_2 ) even if it is more action because it got both Peter Stormare and Mark Hamill.

Excellent, thank you. I'll do some research into those. I've heard Scandinavian detective films/shows are particularly good, but I'm up for whatever.

Oh I think I've seen Rolf Lassgrd in something before. Pretty sure he was also in the Danish film After the Wedding.

Phantasm, all of them. They are not good

Castaway on the Moon is a Korean movie about a salaryman who jumps off a highway bridge in the middle of Seoul to kill himself. He washes up on a small island under the overpass with no way to escape or call for help, and he learns to survive and carve out a life there. He also starts a long distance relationship with a hikikomori who sees him through a telescope and begins leaving the house to drop messages for him off the overpass.

There was also this weird as fuck movie I saw on SBS when I was a kid, where a lumberjack brings a deformed tree stump home for his wife so she could pretend that it was her child. Eventually the stump child begins to actually suckle on her breast, and it began growing into this monster. Someone stumbles across it and the stump monster eats him, and the lumberjack and his wife begin feeding people to it.

I actually tracked this one down a few years ago, and I couldn't get past the first few minutes. There's a subplot about a pedophilic old man who keeps looking up a twelve year old's skirt and the camera shows the old man's perspective, it's really fucked up. The first shot of the movie is a guy at a street vendor cart giving people babies like a twisted stork, wrapping them in newspaper and giving them to their new parents, and there's just straight-up naked baby dick as he wraps them in paper.

It was really fucked up because I just remembered the wood stump kid suckling on that woman's breast and the parents feeding people to it. I've forgotten the name of the movie and I hope I never remember it again, it was really disturbing.

MrMallard posted...

Castaway on the Moon is a Korean movie about a salaryman who jumps off a highway bridge in the middle of Seoul to kill himself. He washes up on a small island under the overpass with no way to escape or call for help, and he learns to survive and carve out a life there. He also starts a long distance relationship with a hikikomori who sees him through a telescope and begins leaving the house to drop messages for him off the overpass.

Nice film, very memorable.

Joelypoely posted...

Oh I think I've seen Rolf Lassgrd in something before. Pretty sure he was also in the Danish film After the Wedding.

Yeah, that was him.
That reminds me, he played Inspector Wallander for a while.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108873/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113359/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118096/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295006/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310412/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386620/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0431417/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0484335/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1147764/

It later got another series with Krister Henriksson ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallander_(Swedish_TV_series) ), a British adaption ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallander_(British_TV_series) ) and a reboot set in modern time ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Wallander ). I do however not know if these are good or not.

Uh. Let's see.

The first one to come to mind was a movie I watched over and over again as a kid. Had to look it up based on what little I remember, and it was apparently called the Enchanted Journey. Based on a manga, surprisingly enough? Kind of weird to think now that a love of Japanese animation was instilled so early...

Other than that, I don't watch too many weird things. Had a friend push the Cube movies at me, so I've seen all three of those. I think only one of them wouldn't count as obscure. And I picked up a movie called Give Em Hell Malone for $2 from a closing Blockbuster, but I still haven't watched it yet...

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I used to watch Polk County Pot Plane as a kid, and Ive never heard anybody mention it before.

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