Good films you have seen that nobody else has...

[DSLiverpool]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076257/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Back in the none PC days the 14 year old me thought this was hilarious

[CooperD]

A few years ago I watched a film on the BBC called I Went Down, set in the Irish Republic. It starred Brendan Gleeson, Peter McDonald and Tony Doyle. The first two played a couple of small time crooks who have to do a hit for a big crime boss played by Doyle. It's more of a dark comedy than a crime drama. Well worth seeing.

[Halb]

CooperD said:

A few years ago I watched a film on the BBC called I Went Down, set in the Irish Republic. It starred Brendan Gleeson, Peter McDonald and Tony Doyle. The first two played a couple of small time crooks who have to do a hit for a big crime boss played by Doyle. It's more of a dark comedy than a crime drama. Well worth seeing.

Sounds good!
Love Brendan Gleeson in everything he does. He's in my top 5 actors.

[Patch1875]

Probably not as under the radar as some but a couple of films I love are.

U Turn
The Hot Spot

Both very 'noir' in the back roads of the USA.

[evilmunkey]

Alicatt1 said:

One notable film that made my ex-wife throw up when she seen it was Bad Taste, an Australian made film about aliens that are here to eat us
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092610/?ref_=nv_sr_1

was actually from new zealand and was peter jacksons first movie, took him 4 years to make.

[Cotty]

blearyeyedboy said:

rfsteel said:

Taxi, the french version, mad plot, great soundtrack, magnificent stunt driving



IMDB

"Ah, Mercedes... They make cars these days?"


Bloody marvellous film.

Don't ever watch the American version, I did and can't ever erase how bad it was. There are actually 4 French Taxi films which just get sillier and sillier. Saying that I just spotted that Taxi 4 is on Amazon Video.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Taxi-4-Samy-Naceri/dp/B00...

Edited by Cotty on Monday 24th October 14:01

[SpudLink]

Jonesy23 said:

The Quiet Earth - man wakes up to find everyone else on the planet has abruptly vanished.

Just spotted this thread. Thought I'd better read through to see if anyone has already suggested The Quite Earth. Only seen it once when it was first released, but very memorable.

Dark City with Kiefer Sutherland. Takes a while to figure out what's going on.

Tideland, a Terry Gilliam film.

The City of Lost Children, from the director of Delicatessen. Another film I haven't watched since it was first in the cinema, but remember it being very good.

Edit: good to see Dark City mentioned by someone as well. Plenty of good films listed so far, and many I have yet to see.

Edited by SpudLink on Monday 24th October 19:45

[toasty]

A Boy and his Dog - The boy is Don Johnson, his dog is telepathic and they meet an underground community gone full retard in the post apocalypse.

[Alicatt1]

evilmunkey said:

was actually from new zealand and was peter jacksons first movie, took him 4 years to make.

Doh! I knew that, pity I didn't engage my brain before posting it

Another one that I liked is War of the Arrows, set in Korea during the time of the Manchu invasion about an archer that sets out to try and rescue his younger sister from the invading Chinese.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2025526/?ref_=nv_sr_5

[Halb]

Dark City and A Boy and His Dog have already bene mantioned, but nice to see them getting shur outs.

I found Tideland to be easily by far, Gilliam's worst film it is turgidly boring and a bit of a vanity project I felt at the time.

[Patch1875]

evilmunkey said:

Alicatt1 said:

One notable film that made my ex-wife throw up when she seen it was Bad Taste, an Australian made film about aliens that are here to eat us
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092610/?ref_=nv_sr_1

was actually from new zealand and was peter jacksons first movie, took him 4 years to make.

Bad Taste and Basket Case were rental shop favourites as young teenagers!

[Halb]

Never liked Bad Taste, I did go and watch Braindead at the cinema, I wouldn't watch it again, but should be fun for fans of PJ.

His best film for me by far, is The Frighteners. I think the Hollywood rot was already setting in by then.

[SpudLink]

Trophy Husband said:

The Devil's Backbone- Guillermo del Toro.
Pan's Labyrinth- Guillermo del Toro.

I enjoyed them both, several times.

Pan's Labyrinth is in my top 10 films. I think it was a fairly high profile release at the time. It has the distinction of being the only film to actually make me cry.

[Nik da Greek]

Halb said:

Never liked Bad Taste, I did go and watch Braindead at the cinema, I wouldn't watch it again, but should be fun for fans of PJ.

I'd forgotten about Braindead. So funny. "Your momma ate my dawg!"

[Halb]

Pan's Labyrinth was a pretty big film, Devil's Backbone, much less so.


WOnderboys, a wonderfully forgotten about recentish film, very clever and funny.

[blearyeyedboy]

Cotty said:

blearyeyedboy said:

rfsteel said:

Taxi, the french version, mad plot, great soundtrack, magnificent stunt driving



IMDB

"Ah, Mercedes... They make cars these days?"


Bloody marvellous film.

Don't ever watch the American version, I did and can't ever erase how bad it was. There are actually 4 French Taxi films which just get sillier and sillier. Saying that I just spotted that Taxi 4 is on Amazon Video.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Taxi-4-Samy-Naceri/dp/B00...

Edited by Cotty on Monday 24th October 14:01

I walked out of the American version. A travesty.

There's a Taxi 4??? (Off to Amazon!)

[Robster]

Permanent record , starring a young Keane Reeves, quite hard hitting at times

[TerryThomas]

I watch a lot of foreign films, that none of my circle of friends would bother with. Intacto, Infernal Affairs, The Secrets in their Eyes amongst all of the others already mentioned.

Animal Kingdom and Killing Zoe are good films somewhat under the radar.

Edited by TerryThomas on Tuesday 25th October 06:50

[SomersetWestie]

andymc said:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2023690/

sightseers

very dark

Still in my dvd collection....... love it !!!!!!

Try this one..........http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0228687/ Little Otik

[Alicatt1]

Patch1875 said:

Bad Taste and Basket Case were rental shop favourites as young teenagers!

I Remember them, there was another in the same lines about the bard offspring between a farmer and his goat but for the life of me I can't remember the title of it - thank goodness