What movie do you like that most people never seen?

Me

[Yorlik803]

What movie do you love that most people never heard of or seen? Mine is a movie called "Evenhand". I first saw it on IFC, then ordered a copy from Amazon. It is about two policemen in a small Texas town. One is meek and kind while the other is hard. They form a unlikley friendship. It is more plot driven, with little violence. The writing is pretty good.

[Alberta's Child]

LOL. That movie is filled with classic quotes.

Marty: "Eight's the one, I'd stake my life on it."

Trotter: "They've got a $2 minimum bet."

[abb]

Here ya go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86iNKi1aXuw&feature=related
Duane Eddy - Ring of Fire (Soundtrack Version 1961)

[BwanaNdege]

“THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY”

Funniest movie ever!

“Take him the the helicopter!”

“Aiii yaiii, yaiii, yaiii, yaiii,!”

“I don’t want to talk about it!”

My son & nephew watched that time after time one summer and memorized most of the dialog.

“How did the Land Rover get in the tree?”

“I don’t want to talk about it!”

“Did you know that she has flowers on her panties?”

“So THAT”S how the Land Rover got in the tree!”

[not exactly what you are thinking]

“That’s a wait-a-minute bush! You must not mess with a wait-a-minute bush!”

[Aliska]

That could be, I didn't have that service so I either saw it on tv or rented it, think the latter.

I was always scouring the rental places for period films, foreign films, and anything that piqued my interest. For some reason, Oriental never appealed to me, but I liked the Bridge over the River Kwai.

[the invisib1e hand]

“Brazil”. Anyone who says it’s a comedy is in denial.

[Chickensoup]

Primer.

Excellent indie

Won Sundance

Made for about 10K

all about computer engineers

What’s not to like?

Watch it with friends.

You will need to talk about it and see it twice.

[Library Lady]

When I saw this thread, I thought of “A Man Called Peter.” My all-time favorite western is “The Ballad of Cable Hogue.”
Eclectic choices.

[.45 Long Colt]

The Three Burials of Melquiades - Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper and Dwight Yoakam

Snow Walker - Barry Pepper, Annabella Piugattuk, and James Cromwell

Luther - Joseph Fiennes, Peter Ustinov, and Bruno Ganz

Winter’s Bone - Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, and Garret Dillahunt

Bloodworth - Val Kilmer, Kris Kristofferson, Dwight Yoakam, and Hilary Duff

Tomorrow - Robert Duvall, Olga Bellin, Sudie Bond, Peter Masterson, and Johnny Mask

Intruder in the Dust - David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Will Geer, and Juano Hernandez

[Library Lady]

A more current pick would be “Goodnight, Mr. Tom.”

[Hoodat]

Your movie The Catered Affair sounds just like A Private Function with Maggie Smith and Michael Palin.

[Chickensoup]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CC60HJvZRE

Here is the trailer for PRIMER

[Kevmo]

Is that the movie where one guy dies as a shooting star —> “what a beautiful way to die”?

[Eaker]

An epic classic!

[BwanaNdege]

“The Gods Must be Crazy”

Mpudi: [looking at Steyn in a suit] And why are you so beautiful?
Steyn: I’m going to the school to give her these.
Mpudi: You gonna look like that?
Steyn: Like what?
Mpudi: Like it’s a funeral. You’ve gotta smile and tell her she looks good.
Steyn: How are you an expert on women?
Mpudi: I got seven wives. How many you got?
Steyn: Why aren’t you at home with them?
Mpudi: I know how to marry them. Nobody knows how to live with them.
Steyn: So, what did you marry them for?
Mpudi: Someday I have to tell you the facts of life...

[CTyank]

“Yessir that’s my baby”

Great movie. Classic Robards.

I’ll add “The Great Santini”. Duvall chews up the scenery, but it’s still a classic.

[agrace]

The Jacket with Adrian Brody.

[buccaneer81]

I’ll add “The Great Santini”. Duvall chews up the scenery, but it’s still a classic.

Excellent movie.

[Chickensoup]

My Aunt and Uncle knew him fairly well. When my Aunt joined her husband and Price for dinner, she chatted and was distracted. Eventually she smiled her delightful smile and asked “Well, Mr Price what do you do for work.” Price was gracious and depreciating and after about ten minutes it came to Auntie that this was Vincent Price. She blushed and stammered sweetly and it was all fine.

[Political Junkie Too]

Sorcerer (1977), starring Roy Scheider.

-PJ

[Sea Parrot]

I agree, was fairly factual too. The Russian defenders at Brest threw a monkey wrench in Hitler’s easy victory for that segment of the front.

In the initial invasion (Operation Barbarossa) of Russia, most all other defenses quickly collapsed and troops surrendered by the hundreds of thousands. But not at Brest, they literally fought to the last man.

[Artemis Webb]

Drama - Independence Day (not the spaceship movie)
Tender Mercies

Comedy - Bowfinger
Radio Days

Western - The Ox-Bow Incident

Foreign - Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring

Horror - The Changeling (George C Scott)

Action - The Challenge (Scott Glenn)

[Kevmo]

subtitled sleepers

Shall we Dance? (original in Japanese, american remake wasn’t that great)

La Femme Nikita (The remake with Brigette Fonda was almost a pure copy)

Fitzcarraldo

[BwanaNdege]

And that line is the key to the entire movie. I love it.

The sad thing is many people think the worst thing that can happen to them is their physical death.

"Death is like a covered bridge:

a small bit of darkness when crossing from light to Light."

[Clay+Iron_Times]

The Odessa File, staring Jon Voight

[kaylar]

I’ve always read that he was one of the nicest actors in Hollywood. Actually, pretty much all horror directors and actors alike have a reputation for being very nice, gracious people. Maybe they get to work off a lot of repressed hostility!

[jonascord]

Since Hollywood hasn’t had an original thought in thirty years, an American company is re-making “Dragon Tattoo.” With Danial Craig.

[Jack Deth]

Hi, Revolting cat and company:

I caught Payday at the base theater at Howard AFB in the Canal Zone ages ago. A great little no budget/road trip gem where Rip Torn excels as the very sleazy, debauched Maury Dan.

Two favorites of mine are Who'll Stop The Rain. With a young Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld, Michael Moriarty and a couple keys of Laotian Heroin against a Who's Who of memorable bad guys led by Anthony Zerbe, Richard Masur and Ray Sharkey along the Post Vietnam Left Coast from San Francisco, to LA then south to Mexico. Faithfully based on Robert Stone's Dog Soldier. The flip side of Forrest Gump.

The other is Straight Time with Dustin Hoffman in a very non-Hoffman role as a paroled convict trying to go straight in contemporary LA, but hampered and screwed with at every turn.

With a great supporting cast of then up and coming talent. Including M.Emmet Walsh, Kathy Bates, Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton and Theresa Russell. Again faithfully based on the novel No Beast So Fierce by convict, Edward Bunker ('Reservoir Dogs' Mr. Blue).

Great catches on 'The Hill', 'Sometimes A Great Notion', 'Sweet Smell Of Success', King Rat' and 'Master And Commander'.


Jack.

[Charles Henrickson]

Luther - Joseph Fiennes, Peter Ustinov, and Bruno Ganz

Good, but I prefer the 1953 b/w film, "Martin Luther," with Niall MacGinnis as Luther. I went to Lutheran grade school, and we saw it every year at Reformation time. Now I am a Lutheran pastor, and I still think it's great.

[Political Junkie Too]

Some creepy horror movies:

The Sentinel (1977).

The Skeleton Key (2005).

-PJ

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

One good rule for what makes a rare movie is if you look at your week's or month's movie listings and aren't likely to see it there. If it frequently shows up on a major channel then it shouldn't be on this list.

Here's mine;

Norwood ( 1970 )
Honky Tonk Freeway ( 1981 )
O.C. and Stiggs ( 1985 )
Erik the Viking (1989)

None of these could be considered great cinema by any stretch of the imagination but are offbeat, likable, and not done to death, before or after their release.

[.45 Long Colt]

I love The Sacketts, which was made for television in the late 70’s starring Sam Elliott, Tom Selleck, Glenn Ford, Jeff Osterhage, and Ben Johnson.

[Chickensoup]

Maybe they get to work off a lot of repressed hostility!

Funny!

[yarddog]

I saw “A Man Called Peter” a month or so back on DVD. At the end it included one of Peter Marshall’s sermons only in audio.

Hearing that sermon with him speaking in his Scottish lilt was spellbinding.

[abb]

Honky Tonk Freeway ( 1981 )

One of the great cult movies of all time. I have a VHS copy I got off the tube that I watch from time to time. Long live Ticklaw, Florida!!

[MomwithHope]

I like - I Am David too
also like Run Lola Run
No Way Out - Kevin Kostner
Next - Nicholas Cage
Das Boot
basicaly I like movies with a real twist you don't see coming or ones that really make you think. I like Das Boot vecause of the unique way it was filmed, in a cramped space really simulating how cramped it is on a sub.
Another good Movie is The Ultimate Gift - James Garner I guess I do have a pretty long list.

[smallelmike]

I saw The Hill a couple of years ago and found it riveting. I think Sean Connery was trying to get away from his James Bond typecasting. Hard to forget James, but the movie was swell.

[Kevmo]

You mean, OJ Simpson was an astronaut before he went to prison? ;-)

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

“Lickey! Nooo!”

[surroundedinCT]

Great movie.

[abb]

Looks like the whole thing’s on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBUdHxzsKx8

[Sea Parrot]

In the Pianist, (based on true WW-2 story) Adrien Brody was great too, even if it was directed by the pervert Roman Polanski.

[Kevmo]

Bronson fan, huh? Then I recommend

Mr. Majestyk

[goat granny]

I have read all of his books and then he up and dies, dammit its hard to get an author that is consistent in great story telling...The Sacketts was a great series of books.

[DejaJude]

Is that the movie where one guy dies as a shooting star —> “what a beautiful way to die”?

Yes, that's the one. The beach ball alien scene was by far my most favorite of the whole movie. Remember it tapping it's foot?

[yetidog]

“Rolling Thunder” - William Devane and a very young Tommy Lee Jones kick some border slime azz.

The Steel Helmet - Gene Evans and Korea

New movie: Javier Bardem is outstanding in “Bitiful”

Robert Duvall is out of character in “Assassination Tango” but handles it well.

[Kirkwood]

Breaking Away. A classic coming of age movie for local teens in a college town. Centers around bicycle racing. Nominated for 5 Oscars, and won for screenwriting. Rarely seen anymore.

Big Fish. Tall tales told by a father are an embarrassment to his adult son, but the stories turn out to be based on truth and the son understands their meaning as his father passes away.

[Chickensoup]

The Miracle of Marcelleno also known as Marcelleno, Pan a Vino is a post WWII movie about an Italian orphan and a monestary.

It is about a little boy who wants to find his mom.

Makes me cry everytime.

[Grizzled Bear]

The Pentagon Wars

[buccaneer81]

No Way Out - Kevin Kostner

His best movie, IMO. Hard to beat the supporting cast, too. Gene Hackman and Fred Thompson are always excellent.

[.45 Long Colt]

I am glad you mentioned the 1953 “Martin Luther.” I haven’t seen it in years. I need to watch it again.

I am thankful for the Joseph Fiennes version of Luther because it helped stoke my daughter’s interest in Christian history and theology.