[Closed] Films only you have seen

Polishing Aluminium :

A Film With Me In It starring Dylan Moran. Quality dark Irish comedy.

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Wraith
And one I've never been able to remember the title of, or track down, I recall there being a bunch of teenagers, in America during what looked like the 20's-30's, driving around in original Model-T Fords, etc, but with Hotrod flames on, then right at the end a jet fighter roars overhead.
It was a very odd little fillum.
There was a TV series when I was a kid, must have been '62-63-ish, set in Australia, I think, and one scene has always stuck with me, a sudden close-up of a skull on a ledge in a cave, but the cranium was extended up and sort of pointed, a bit like an alien 'grey'. I've hunted through the Internet and IMDB, but I can't find anything at all that seems close, and I'm damned sure I didn't imagine it!

Plunkett and Macleane. Johnny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle as Highwaymen. Largely unheard-of slice of brilliance.

Series 7: The Contenders. Sort of Big Brother meets Battle Royale, most entertaining.

I've seen Series 7. S'good.

Dobermann, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118996/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Delicatessan, bit more well know bust still not many seem to have seen it. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101700/?ref_=nv_sr_1
"Borsalino" and "Borsalino and Co." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071241/

I had a phase of watching French films after seeing the original Nikita, those 4 were the very good highlights.

Run Lola run, the only German film I have really enjoyed, although again fairly well known most people still haven't seen it. It has the advantage of staring the delightful Franka Potente. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130827/?ref_=tt_rec_tti

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid and Plunkett and Macleane, were/are pretty well known films.

Big Tits Zombie

+1 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid and Plunkett and Macleane, were/are pretty well known films.

I saw a film once named after a day of the week IIRC (can't remember which) where the plot centred around a heist of some sort and a man being tied to chair in his house and forced to have sex with the female baddie. Please help 'casue it was quite good in a sort of Lock Stock/Tarintino/Layer Cake style. Set in America somewhere.

+1 for plunkett.

Short film on Ch4 years ago, mockumentary about dog fighting, set on a dodgy estate.
Black and white iirc.
Brilliant twist at the end.

Anyone else?

mockumentary about dog fighting, set on a dodgy estate

3 of my favourite films are on this list - I don't know anyone who has seen them

The Castle - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118826/
The way way back - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1727388/
Zero Effect - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120906/

I've seen Season 7 too. Its a great film!

How about God Bless America? A fantastic darkly funny film that seemed to slip under the radar

God bless America is excellent, most people I know have seen it maybe because I pestered them all into watching it. Directed by the bloke who made odd noises in police academy and scrooged iirc.

Another French film "Les visiteurs" there was a hollywood remake which was ok, but the original French version was superior.

I really can't be bothered watching subtitled films these days but it didn't use to bother me. Although I could probably still remember enough school French to get the general jist back then while now it has all slipped from my mind.

The Straight Story, a David Lynch film about an old guy who needs to travel cross America to see his dying brother, which he proceeds to do on an old John Deere ride on. it's the slowest road trip movie you'll see, and it's great too.

The Straight Story, a David Lynch film about an old guy who needs to travel cross America to see his dying brother, which he proceeds to do on an old John Deere ride on. it's the slowest road trip movie you'll see, and it's great too.

Nine Days In Summer.

Rawhead Rex. So old and unforgettable it isn't even listed on IMDB.
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid and Plunkett and Macleane, were/are pretty well known films.

Goodbye Pork Pie, a kiwi film from the 80s watched it in a coma like state when flying to New Zealand!

187 - Samuel L Jackson as a teacher in a rough school.

King Frat, biggest POS ever

Last Night - an end of the world film. Loved it, nobody I know has seen it other than the girl I went with but we haven't spoken in years

That porno tape I made with the missus.

The one that I made of Binners sleeping.

Seen Wraith and 187.

Yamakasi is one that draws a blank with most.

Class of 1999 featuring Pam Greer as a cyborg teacher. It was ace.

Seen 5 days 1 summer.
No one I know has even heard of Big Wednesday. A fave of mine.

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is a great film and so is the Man with Two Brains and The Jerk. Not many people i've come across have seen them.

I saw a great French film a good while back about free diving called the Big Blue. A Luc Besson film with Jean Reno in it. Recommended. Also a film called the Kite Runner (a famous book apparently) which was very good but sad.

Also a good (probably not by modern day standards) Sci Fi film called Enemy Mine is another that most people don't seem to have seen.

I also liked a film called the Final Countdown about a US Nimitz class aircraft carrier that is sent back in time to a few days before Pearl Harbour so they have the usual Time Paradox dilemma of intervening or not. Some great F14 in flight shots.

I'm sure there are many more in my distant memory. Some of the best films i've seen are the least well known.

Was Big Wednesday the surfing one about a day of particularly big waves? I think I saw that on IMax as the iMax crew just happened to be there making a surfing movie and they caught some great shots of big wave surfing.

Robot Jox. And Crash and Burn. WEll, only me and Guillermo del Toro

I'm the only person that [i]enjoyed[/i] Domino, I think.

Enemy Mine! Kind of weirdly doesn't quite use the source material enough to make the story work but simultaneously used it enough to make it a really hard sell to audiences. Your mickey mouse is one big stupid dope!

187. Flangees!

The mention of French films reminded me of

Jean De Florette starring Gerard Depardieu
And the the follow up Manon Des Sources starring the beautiful Emmanuelle Beart

Both lovely films that no one I know, apart from Mrs tenfoot, has heard of.

For a long time it s Terrorvision. The band made the film impossible to find. I think it's on Netflix now, but it's probably not worth watching.

Also, Christie Malry's own double entry. The book is great, but the film changed the bits that made the book good and made it into a crappy "British film".

The mention of French films reminded me of

Jean De Florette starring Gerald Depardieu
And the the follow up Manon Des Sources starring the beautiful Emualle Beart

Both lovely films that no one I know, apart from Mrs tenfoot, has heard of.

I owned these, although long lost, and have read the book.

Both lovely films that no one I know, apart from Mrs tenfoot and hairy scary have heard of.

tenfoot - Member
The mention of French films reminded me of

Jean De Florette starring Gerald Depardieu
And the the follow up Manon Des Sources starring the beautiful Emualle Beart

Those are pretty much all I remember from A-level French class. Those and weeks and weeks of tedious grammar and tenses.

Plunkett and Macleane

pfffftttt, you could watch it this evening on netflix, should you have absolutely nothing else in the world to do...

Dead men don't wear plaid and big Wednesday are both fairly well known, I thought?

The straight story of one of my favourite films and was a critical hit iirc.

Anybody else seen "carnival of souls"? A strange vintage horror movie that I saw years ago and always wondered if I'd imagined before the internet came along so I could confirm it's existence.

I feel like I must be the only person to see this, it came up on netflix. Really, really off key comedy, so off key it almost works:

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Night on Earth and Mediterraneo are the two that immediately spring to mind as films I have seen at the cinema but that no-one else seems to have seen.

Goodbye pork pie was one of the first films I ever watched, it was on TV back in about '81 or so. Never heard if it again since! 🙂

Bad Boy Bubby, a very strange Australian movie about a guy who is locked in his mother's apartment until he's 30, where she sexually abuses him and tells him the air outside is poisonous etc.

I've seen that. In fact, I owned it on VHS up until I threw out all my tapes. Very very odd film.

El Topo. The director is quite well known in some circles but I'm still yet to meet anyone who's watched any of his films.

El Topo. The director is quite well known in some circles but I'm still yet to meet anyone who's watched any of his films.

Alejandro Jodorowsky?

If you're a fan, watch this:

Fear Of A Black Hat.
Rap mockumentary starring characters Tasty Taste and Tone Def to name but two.
Do yourself a favour and watch it.

No one I know has even heard of Big Wednesday. A fave of mine.

I've even got it on DVD.

Shawshank Redemption.
I was the only one in the cinema when I went to see it.

Although it depends on the circles you frequent. Chatting to a lass (s****) today who'd never heard of Danny Macaskill. What's that about!

Satantango. - considered by some as one of the greatest films ever made but I wonder how many have watched it right through?
It is a black and white Hungarian film over 7 hours long with only about 150 shots set in some desolate spot with a cast of unlovable characters where virtually nothing happens.
I loved it!

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strange film. centred around a scrap yard, hobos drinking 'viper' which makes them melt, cutting off someones penis and playing american football with it around the yard......

dont bother watching it if you havent seen it yet.

Timecode by Mike Figgis
Limbo by John Sayles
Dogtooth recent film by Greek director

Rhythm Thief.

My Science Project
Seen Wraith
One wild and crazy summer (I think, the bloke from police academy with the scratchy voice and some cute and fluffy bunny cartoons.....the radio shack at the end of the film gets taken out by an RPG and the police academy bloke runs towards it screaming about cooking marshmallows)

Currently watching Time Bandits

Montenegro.

I saw it as a red triangle film on Channel 4 when it kicked off.

Can't remember that much about it now except for the stopping for a photo (guy with a knife sticking out his forehead on way to 'A&E) and, err, a remote controlled tank scene....

Purely Belter.

It is superb.

Taxi. The subtitled French film about a cop who can't drive and a racing mad taxi driver.

If Only. Douglas Henshaw and Lena Heady on a bitter sweet romantic story about magic bin men.

Also, many years ago, I saw a short film about cupid/eros and some others living in a bed sit in modern London. Pretty sure HBC turns up in it as well but I've no idea what it was called. I can't find it anywhere.

Banraku
Twilight samurai
Master with cracked fingers (one of Jackie Chan's first)

Ming the Merciless - Member

One wild and crazy summer (I think, the bloke from police academy with the scratchy voice and some cute and fluffy bunny cartoons.....the radio shack at the end of the film gets taken out by an RPG and the police academy bloke runs towards it screaming about cooking marshmallows)

Is that the one where at the end they set off in their boat and the back panel drops away to show the back end of some guy's ferrari powering it?

The Revenge of Billy the Kid. Horror comedy filmed partly at a farm just down the road. Very funny if you like your jokes to be of the very bad taste version 🙂

The Gods must be Crazy. Another very funny film.

Anything my Michael Hannecke (have the complete collection here).

Seen most of the French and German films already mentioned above as we had a phase of going to the art-house cinema when I lived in Stuttgart.

[quoted]ingabell - Member

Fear Of A Black Hat.
Rap mockumentary starring characters Tasty Taste and Tone Def to name but two.
Do yourself a favour and watch it]
How does it compare to CB4? (another potential film for this thread).

Tzameti 13. Tense French film about a russian roulette competition

Delicatessen is one of my favourite movies, and a regular Uni movie

My most obscure was Genghis Blues about a blind depressed American guitarist who teaches himself Mongolian throat singing and travels out to Mongolia by plane and then Donkey to the Throat Singing Conference!!

Brilliant movie

Delicatessen, Jean De Florette, Manon Des Sources. All yeses. Good French films are very good. How about "The Hairdresser's Husband"?

Or a bit of Spanish - any of the crazy Pedro Almodovar films.

A couple of excellent Japanese "art" films - "Tampopo" and "In the Realm of the Senses".
Oh and "Eat Drink Man Woman".

I bought a vampire motorcycle.

Low, looooow budget horror with the cast of Boon.

Come&See-a Russian or maybe Belarusian WW2 film.
Amazing film.

Two Seconds

Fired from her racing team, a mountain biker (Charlotte Laurier) in midlife crisis moves in with her brother and befriends an older Italian (Dino Tavarone).

Funny as heck

The Long Weekend (the original version). Low budget Australian flick about a troubled couple going camping in a remote location, only to encounter weird goings on. First watched it on C4 in the early hours and tracked it down years later.

They did a remake a few years back.

Thrashin'.
80s skateboard romance feat. most of the Bones Brigade. Really awful but watched it a couple of times a week as a 14yo, can still quote most of the dialogue 😕

Antonias Line. my favourite film of all time.

All this thread is teaching me is that I have seen too many films

Man Bites Dog

Brain dead, possibly the lowest budget film I've seen.

Brain dead, possibly the lowest budget film I've seen.

That was a Peter Jackson film, pre Lord of the Rings! Bad Taste too.

Thrashin'

Fantastic film! "Hey look! Hook, and the Daggers"

Miami Blues...
and Debbie Does Dallas.

nobody yet has mentioned

Happiness

great film but you need to have a very dark sense of humour

God of Gamblers - great Hong Kong Cinema film but the only person I know who's seen it is my uni housemate.

The Slammin' Salmon - watched it at work and the people I watched it with don't remember doing so.

The Finest Hour.

I've seen God of Gamblers, and Braindead, and Man Bites Dog. 🙂

Thanks to whoever suggested the Dune Jodorowsky thing - keep meaning to check that out.

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I went to see this in 1983 with my girlfriend (now wife) @ the Arnolfini in Bristol there were a lot of blokes in long beige coats!

In New York, a small flying saucer lands on the roof of a penthouse seeking for heroin. In the apartment, the cocaine addicted model Margaret is a promiscuous bisexual androgynous woman that lives with her lover, the drug dealer Adrian. Margaret has sex with many partners asking for cocaine in return. The aliens discover that the sensation of the orgasm is equivalent to the heroin and they suck the brains of Margaret's lovers, killing them first and then making their bodies disappear. Meanwhile, a German scientist is chasing the extraterrestrial beings and arrives in a building in front of Margaret's apartment to observe the creatures.

Citizen X
Based on the true story of Andrei Chikatilo, a horrendously prolific serial killer in Soviet era Russia.

Stephen Rea plays the detective hunting him and battling with the authorities who don't want to acknowledge that serial killers aren't a problem confined to decedent Western societies.

Also features brilliant turns from Joss Ackland and Donald Sutherland.

I've seen Miami blues two or three times.

Really good film that I'd totally forgotten.

And man bites dog, and brain dead.