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.

[Proud_texan]

Smile, 1975 directed by Michael Ritchie with Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon and Michael Kidd. Some view it as a satire of middle class values but I disagree, I think it's just a slice of life.

Also second Serial. Just to think that all that stuff from back then is still around today.

[printhead]

In the West Virginia vein, has anyone seen “Header”?

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Rocket Man!

[.45 Long Colt]

The Whites give new meaning to the phrase “dysfunctional family.”

[MaxMax]

The Dirty Dozen and Oh brother where art thou. I’ve watched both a hundred times.

[muir_redwoods]

One of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen, and a damned fine war picture is “Farewell to the King” which bears echoes of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim—with a lot of filmmaker John Milius’ own Hemingwayesque slant thrown in. During World War II, American POW Learoyd (Nick Nolte) escapes a Japanese firing squad. Hiding himself in the wilds of Borneo, Learoyd is adopted by a head-hunting tribe of Nyaks, who consider him “divine” because of his elaborate tattoos. Before long, Learoyd is the reigning king of the Nyaks. When British soldiers approach him to rejoin the war against the Japanese, Learoyd resists (in language so flowery that it could have been written by Sir Walter Scott). But when his own tribe is threatened by the invaders, the “king” deigns to fight for their rights. Farewell to the King is breathtakingly photographed and quite exciting at times.

[RandallFlagg]

Bookmarking

[exDemMom]

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) starring Gary Oldman, Tim Roth and Richard Dreyfuss. It's a bizarre film telling the story of Hamlet from the point of view of two minor characters.

I've never seen it offered on DVD.

[Yorlik803]

Everything is Illuminated was on one of the Cable movie channels today. I will have to look for it.”Master and Commander was a great movie but it too slow paced for most people who want slam bang action flicks. I have that on DVD as well.

[RedRover]

Think I’ll go with a current movie, Terence Malik’s “The Tree of Life”. It’ll be too slow and artsy for many people but I found it extremely powerful and emotionally rich.

[Yorlik803]

Two excellent movies. And both are little known but really well crafted films.
Another movie is called “the Hill” with Sean connery.It is set in a British penal camp durning WW2. Check that out.

[Imnidiot]

Miracle Mile: A few people in Los Angeles learn of the Soviets launch against the US. Movie shows the chaos as they try to leave LA before the nukes hit.
Almost no one has seen this movie, but I enjoyed it.

[HChampagne]

The Railway Children

[Revolting cat!]

Payday w/ Rip Torn as C&W singer Maury Dann. Daryl Duke dir.

The Cockfighter w/ Warren Oates. Monte Hellman dir.

Apropos. Yesterday, I was googling "underrated rock artists", hoping to find somebody new, but found lists which included Johnny Winter, Procol Harum, Fleetwood Mac and such. I guess "underrated" means what I HEART and think that millions others who buy it is not enough! How about, say, Andy Kim, and Emmitt Rhodes?

[kaylar]

Dragonwyck. Lovely B&W film, great atmospheric ghost story, starring the incomparable Vincent Price. Price is often thought to be a British horror star like Peter Cushing or Boris Karloff-nope, he was born and raised in St Louis, MO. Apparently his distinctive accent was the common upper class accent of that time and place. Anyhow, this film was the last attempt of his studio to make the young, handsome Price a matinee idol/sex symbol a la Clark Gable-it’s a transitional role and film, combining the supernatural and romance. It deals with an unusual historical fact : There really was an attempt on the part of the Dutch aristocracy to preserve something very like serfdom or at least sharecropperdom in post revolutionary war upstate New York. And it’s even an early look at drug addiction (opium) ! The film didn’t do too well , and that ended the studio’s attempt to make Price a conventional leading man-from this film he went into the horror genre and pretty much stayed there. But the film is very worth watching, especially for the eerie harpsicord scenes.

[Proud_texan]

You could be walking around lucky and not even know it.

[Fiji Hill]

Here are a few:

• Big Jim McClain

• Operation Abolition

• My Latvia

• The Beginning or the End

• Invasion USA

[ConservativeChris]

Salton Sea, truly underrated.

[Malone LaVeigh]

Red Cliff, directed by John Woo. The most expensive movie ever made in China. There's a 2 1/2 hour theatrical version available on Netflix. Then there's the 5 hour international version available in Blu-Ray. Fantastic film! My wife, who usually doesn't care much for subtitled foreign movies, was completely mesmerized.

Also, if you like samurai movies, Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins. Available on DVD sometime in July. Uncut version was on Amazon.

[kaylar]

"I know I feel safer, sleeping on top of 100 gallons of gasoline!"

Love that film-especially the shot of "Major Weenie" !