Those hidden gem movies and why we should watch them

[pulse2]

I love me some films and if you do, recommend some, but not just any, recommend any you've seen that particularly impressed you but you doubt many have seen them. Its a shame that so many good films go under the radar but yet films like the Green Lantern get such exposure (marketing....). Here is my list of little films you should probably check out.

Grave Encounters: Camera Diary sort of flick, horror and set in a haunted and abandoned mental asylum. Pretty creepy if you like horror.

Ironclad: Medieval old english movie, lots of gory action but a very good plot.

Battle Royale: Probably the least unknown movie of the three, but if you haven't seen it and you like chaos, action, gore that sorta thing, then watch it.

 

[lovest harding]

MirrorMask
Alice in Wonderland with a plot. Written by Neil Gaiman. Incredible visual style by Dave McKean. Produced by the Jim Henson Company (with CGI instead of muppets).

Saved!
Girl goes to Catholic school. Girl's boyfriend thinks he's gay. Girl has sex with him, because she thinks Jesus tells her to. Girl gets pregnant and boy is shipped off to an ex-gay camp. Hilarity ensues. Lots of heart and absolutely hilarious.

Tin Man
Proof that SciFi (now Syfy) can make something truly fantastic.
A bit steampunky, a bit fantasy. Amazing visuals for a made for TV mini series. Interesting story that unfolds well. Neat call backs to the source material and original movie (including the colors draining at certain points).

Penelope
A Disney-esque live action fairy tale with some real substance about a girl born with a pig nose. Christina Ricci is brilliant in it.
It's not exactly unknown, but people forgot about it so quickly so I'd say it counts. xD

 

[SckizoBoy]

Hmmm... haven't really watched that many films recently, but:

'Copenhagen' - based on, well, 'Copenhagen', filled with physics geekery, and I enjoyed it (perhaps because I'm a chemist...)

'The Twilight Samurai' - a very touching film about the difficulties of being a low-ranking samurai towards the end of the Shogunate.

'Guns of Navarone' - fictional WWII, but still a better representation of a covert operation than most.

'Day of the Jackal' - the original film with Edward Fox, my kind of assassin and so could be true.

 

[A Raging Emo]

MirrorMask
Alice in Wonderland with a plot. Written by Neil Gaiman. Incredible visual style by Dave McKean. Produced by the Jim Henson Company (with CGI instead of muppets).

That was possibly one of the best films I have ever seen.

Anyway, I was actually going to mention MirrorMask, along with Cashback [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashback_(film)].

 

[pulse2]

MirrorMask
Alice in Wonderland with a plot. Written by Neil Gaiman. Incredible visual style by Dave McKean. Produced by the Jim Henson Company (with CGI instead of muppets).

Saved!
Girl goes to Catholic school. Girl's boyfriend thinks he's gay. Girl has sex with him, because she thinks Jesus tells her to. Girl gets pregnant and boy is shipped off to an ex-gay camp. Hilarity ensues. Lots of heart and absolutely hilarious.

Tin Man
Proof that SciFi (now Syfy) can make something truly fantastic.
A bit steampunky, a bit fantasy. Amazing visuals for a made for TV mini series. Interesting story that unfolds well. Neat call backs to the source material and original movie (including the colors draining at certain points).

Penelope
A Disney-esque live action fairy tale with some real substance about a girl born with a pig nose. Christina Ricci is brilliant in it.
It's not exactly unknown, but people forgot about it so quickly so I'd say it counts. xD

Mirrormask looks interesting I'll give that a watch tonight actually.

I have a few more:

Let the right one in: A vampire flick with more focus on plot and emotions and relationship building rather than just pointless gore.

REC: Defo a film for horror fans, subtitled, so be warned.

The Bodyguard: Made by the creators of the Ong Bak films, this film and it's sequel are just downright hilarious.

 

[Hip Priest]

Strozek (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075276) still doesn't get enough attention these days.

 

[Jim Grim]

I think The Propostition passed under the radar, fantastic western style movie set in Australia. Fairly brutal depiction of lawlessness and racism out in those parts during that time period.

 

[quantum mechanic]

Brother from Another Planet is a rather amusing artsy film about an alien who crash-lands on Liberty Island and ends up living in Harlem.

 

[AceTrilby]

Agreed on Amelie. Best foreign language film I think I've ever seen. Seems a shame that the genius behind that directed Alien Resurrection. Oh well.

Anyway, I'll put forward Papillon, starring Steve McQueen as a prisoner on the island of French Guiana. I watched it after a friend recommended it to me saying it was like a better version of The Shawshank Redemption - that's not strictly true, but it's not very well known to my knowledge and it's a damn good movie, and McQueen gives a truly excellent performance.

 

[vrbtny]

Skeletons featuring Jason Isaacs(Lucius Malfoy to most). It's a absolutely crazy and totally weird movie, but it's awesome all the same

 

[lovest harding]

That was possibly one of the best films I have ever seen.

Anyway, I was actually going to mention MirrorMask, along with Cashback [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashback_(film)].

It's good to see someone else who appreciates it as much as I do.
It's my absolute favorite movie. ^^

Mirrormask looks interesting I'll give that a watch tonight actually.

More converts! xD

 

[Sean Hollyman]

Zoolander.

Ben Stiller as a semi retarded male model.

 

[blunt_eastwood]

All Good Things - Based on a true story. Kind of went unnoticed but it was very good. Has Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, and Frank Langela amongst others. It's a dramatic thriller.

Bowfinger - This might be a polarizing choice. It's Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy and some others. The humor might be considered childish, but I thought it was pretty funny.

 

[RussetRanger]

I think The Propostition passed under the radar, fantastic western style movie set in Australia. Fairly brutal depiction of lawlessness and racism out in those parts during that time period.

Greatest movie from Australia, ever.


Another hidden gem is "Cherry Blossoms", a film from Germany. I will give little away, but one of the best aspects is the contrast between rural Germany and metropolitan Japan. Beautifully filmed and much recommended. Far from anything made in Hollywood.

 

[bruggs]

I Heart Huckabees.

Jason Schwartzman has an infectious existential crisis. Hires life detectives. Is exactly as strange and pointless as life itself.

 

[Executor78]

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. It represented a revolution in the way movies could be made, and it didn't hurt that it had a great cast and a fun 1940's serial-style story.

 

[Reduced_Silver]

Excellent, I was looking for some movie recommendations. I recommend some obvious and not so. Mainly old, but maybe there's someone out there who'll benefit.

The beat that my heart skipped- a French film remake about a young gangster wannabe who reconnects with a piano playing past.

Rushmore- Just my favourite film ever.

Me and You and Everyone We Know- has one of my favourite dialogue sequences of any movie, because of the context, I'm that sad:

her- what happened to your hand?
him- do you want the long version or the short version?
her- [immediate] the long one....
him- i tried to save my life, and it didn't work.
her- what's the short version?
him- i burned it.