Lot of good choices people...bookmarked this thread.
Well, if TsoTsi qualifies for obscure these 2 do too:
Black Orpheus - 1960 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Black Orpheus
It is based on the play Orfeu da Conceição by Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes, which is an adaptation of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, setting it in the modern context of Rio de Janeiro during the Carnival.
This one again might not be obscure (especially not in Quebec) - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 2004:
Barbarian Invasions
The plot revolves around the character Rémy's battle with terminal cancer, and his estranged son's efforts, after reluctantly returning from London at the request of Remy's ex-wife Louise, to make his dying father more comfortable in his last days.
Interestingly, its excellent prequel was made in 1986:
Decline of the American Empire