obscure MUST SEE movies

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I don't know how obscure movies with Johnny Depp and Ben Stiller can be, but :

Dead Man by Jim Jarmusch. Psychedelic black and white western starring Depp, as well as Crispin Glover, John Hurt, Robert Mitchum, Gabriel Byrne, Iggy Pop, Billy Bob Thornton, Alfred Molina, Lance Henriksen ... and a soundtrack by Neil Young. Great, great movie.

Permanent Midnight ... Ben Stiller plays a junkie sitcom writer for an "Alf"-like show. Based on the memoir by Jerry Stahl.

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Permanent Midnight was an excellent movie. It's the only Ben Stiller movie I have ever liked. I'm not sure how many of the movies I am about to list you guys have seen, but most people I talk to have not seen or even heard of these movies. If you haven't seen them, you should:

Birthday Girl- Nichole Kidman as a mail order Russian bride. Her husband gets a lot more than he expected in the deal.

Spanish Prisoner- Steve Martin as a sinister con man. A wonderful departure from his terrible family comedy flicks.

The Man Who Wasn't There- Billy Bob Thornton and James Gandalfini. Shot in b&w, it really gives the feel of the 50's they were going for.

Novocaine- Another one with Steve Martin. He plays the dentist, Laura Dern plays his psychotic wife.

[Benal]

Here are a few great Canadian movies most of you have probably never heard of:

On the Corner
Angel and Randy Henry are a sister and brother, caught on the mean streets of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. While Angel finds the strength to escape her seemingly hopeless situation, Randy slips deeper into a world consumed by abandonment and fuelled by drugs.

The Rocket
In the late 1930s, a young machinist named Maurice Richard distinguished himself as a ice hockey player of preternatural talent. Although that was enough to get him into the Montreal Canadiens, his frequent injuries cost him the confidence of his team and the fans. In the face of these doubts, Richard eventually shows the kind of aggressive and skillful play that would make him one of the greatest players of all time as "The Rocket." However for all his success, Richard and his fellow French Canadians face constant discrimination in a league dominated by the English speaking. Although a man of few words, Richard begins to speak his own mind about the injustice which creates a organizational conflict that would culminate in his infamous 1955 season suspension that sparks an ethnic riot in protest.

The Snow Walker
A pilot who delivers supplies to tribes in the backwoods of the Canadian north is implored to escort a sick young Inuit woman to a hospital. On the flight back, the plane's engine fail and they crash in the wastelands. Rescuers are unable to locate them and the two are left to struggle for their survival. The ailing woman thus teaches the hot-headed pilot the way to live in these regions.

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All,

Haven't had time to go through this thread yet, but I just want to make one quick comment.

There are two schools of thought re: the movie Equilibrium.

One school thinks it is an awesome movie.

The second school thinks it is idiotic.

Trust me on this, the second school is right. That movie sucks very, very hard.

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I can't say I get all the Oldboy love. Sweet premise, and intense, but beyond that I didn't find it all that satisfying. It also seemed like a fairly gratuitous exercise in shock, in places, kinda like a somewhat gentler Miike film (which from the little I've seen I'm not a big fan of either.)

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Yeah, I agree, it's incredibly beautifully shot, and some of the scenes are just breathtaking visually, but all the "vengeance trilogy" movies are really shallow, which robs them of the emotional impact they could have had. I would say it's analogous to "Kill Bill" in that it's technically very well done but totally lacking in character development and plot, which makes it more a work of art than a story.

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Another must see that whenever I mention it nobody has seen it. The Pledge. Directed by Sean Penn and starring Jack Nicholson and Benicio del Toro. A dramatic thriller, it just blew me away.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pledge_%28film%29

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Russian Ark - I have praised this movie in the past, but I think this fits in perfectly with the idea of an obscure MUST SEE movie.


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A couple more

Chocolat (2000) (not quite obscure, but chick flicky enough that most of you probably haven't seen it)

Freejack (1991) (also not really obscure, but many of you younger folk probably haven't heard of it. it has mick jagger driving around in a tank, which is automatically awesome)

Jeremiah Johnson (1972) (another age-might-equal-obscurity shot. robert redford goes around and kicks ass in the mountains.)

Swimming with Sharks (1994) (this is definitely obscure. kevin spacey being awesome)

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Another really cool movie is "Spun". It's a wierd tale about a speed freak and all of his associates. Brittany Murphy and Mickey Rourke are great as the drug cook and his girlfriend. Eric Roberts plays a gay drug lord, and Debbie Harry plays the lesbian-phone sex operatro-neighbor to the main character. John Leguezomo (sorry about spelling?) is in this as well.

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Freejack (1991) (also not really obscure, but many of you younger folk probably haven't heard of it. it has mick jagger driving around in a tank, which is automatically awesome)


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Oh dude, this movie was so bad. We came out of the theatre in disbelief. I'll never forgot one of the lines. Guy is dying and manages to get out,

"Keep my grandmother smiling."

Keep my grandmother smiling? What does that mean? That I have to go around and do the sexy time with her? Oh, this movie was bad.

[BigPoppa]

How has no one mentioned "Miller's Crossing", the best and least known Coen brothers movie?

Will also add "Bodies, Rest, amd Motion" with Bridget Fonda and Tim Roth and "The Believer".

Gotta 2nd the mentions of "Living in Oblivion", "Barcelona", "Pi", and "Lone Star".

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Another really cool movie is "Spun". It's a wierd tale about a speed freak and all of his associates. Brittany Murphy and Mickey Rourke are great as the drug cook and his girlfriend. Eric Roberts plays a gay drug lord, and Debbie Harry plays the lesbian-phone sex operatro-neighbor to the main character. John Leguezomo (sorry about spelling?) is in this as well.

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This movie really, really sucked.