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.

[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