Lesser known film gems?

[mork]

Does anybody have a film they really love that they feel should have a wider audience? I think this would be a good place to share recomendations. For instance, I'd have to recommend I Went Down (an Irish gangster road movie with Peter MacDonald and Brendan Gleeson) and Living In Oblivion (Steve Buscemi as frustrated director making an independent feature) for top black comedies, The Changeling for scariest movie ever, and split screen nuclear threat Vietnam vet wants justice pic, Twilight's Last Gleaming (Burt Lancaster and Charles Durning). Also Electra Glide In Blue (70's who dunnit, moral dilema for 2 Highway Patrol cops).

[snotmonkey]

i would recommend Malcom, a 1986 aussie film about a shy resevered man who takes to robbing banks by remote controlled gadgets, the story is fantastic, acting is great and the soundtrack is out of this world. i smile from ear to ear whenever i see it.

[coemgen]

Snotmonkey, I have seen Malcolm a couple of times and I thought it was an excellent film, both funny and sad. I would choose Hedwig and the angry inch. It won an award at the sundance festival last year. It's a musical set in Germany about a man who had a sex change operation and whose lover stole all the songs he had written and became famous. It really is a terriffic film. The songs are excellent too, I loved them so much I downloaded them and listen to them regularly.

[suzyflipp]

Here's a little gem..........."The Devil & Miss Jones". 1941,directed by Sam Wood staring, Jean Arthur, Charles Coburn,Robert Cummings, a wonderful little comedy.

[samiad]

Malcolm is a great film and completely underated.I like Clay Pigeons a dark and pretty funny film with Vince Vaugh and Taxi a luc besson it's in French but well worth reading the subtitles

[Gigadave]

I like a film called 'CB4'. It's a comedy about a group of black teenagers who decide to reinvent themselves as gangsta rappers. It starred a young Chris Rock, but never really got anywhere. You can't even buy it on DVD from any region.

[ChrisPBacon]

My Life As A Dog a beautiful Swedish film about a boy growing up.

[Shatnerfan]

I'd like to nominate 'Vanishing Act' - a 1985 movie with Eliot Gould and Margot Kidder. It's a remake of the 70s film 'One Of My Wives Is Missing.' Man loses wife, she returns but he says she's an imposter. Is she? What's her motive? Just great!

[xyzzyplugh]

'Kes' with Brian Glover. Funny how 'Die Hard' gets umpteen repeats then an Oscar winner like this gets screened about once.

[danives]

Well, films that you should really see are: Pulp Fiction Resevoir Dogs The Usual Suspects They will really make you think.

[danives]

Sorry, my films aint really lesser known....lol, A good one to see would be : How to kill your nieghbours dog, a comedy/drama thats very touching

[paulhopps22]

Mine would be Johnny Dangerously. One of Michael Keatons first. It's a comedy set in the 40's. He loves his mum , even buys her an ashtray for her birthday , her retort " y know son that's fantastic , I was thinking of taking up smoking". If youve not seen it , give it a shot.

[sherby]

I dont know how unknown these are, but no one I know has heard of them. The Interview (starring Hugo Weaving) and Cant Hardly Wait (Seth Green and some female actress who is quite famous, but, I cant remember her name.)

[donniedarko]

Reece Witherspoon's debut film 'Man In The Moon' from 1991 is well worth finding, along with 'Say Anthing' (1989 - John Cusack), and (ahem) 'Donnie Darko'.

[Cactus]

paulhopps22, Johnny Dangerously is one of the funniest films i've seen - almost anything Roman Maroney says has me on the floor in hysterics. I made a tape once of just his lines from the film, and used to play it whenever i needed a laugh. Films i'd recommend are The Big Lebowski - (he peed on my rug!) - The Dead Zone (i know, but Christopher Walken is pure class) - and Le Femme Nikita (anything by Luc Besson is worth watching really). There are more, but i'm boring you. ;)

[Cactus]

Oh, and if you get the chance to see a spoof horror film from New Zealand called "Braindead", grab it. It's over the top gore from start to finish nearly, and as long as you remember it's just a spoof it's pretty harmless. Just don't let your gran watch it, that's all.

[icecoldin]

Say Anything...good one Mr Darko (have you seen The Sure Thing)? I remember a Neil Jordan film named The Company of Wolves based on an Angela Carter short story. Basically about the coming of age of a young girl, whose dreams are set within a nightmarish fairytale. The soundtrack is absolutely gorgeous.

[warpig]

Race With The Devil with Loretta Switt, Peter Fonda and Warren Oates, about 2 motorcycle mechanics going on a camper van trip with their wives, and upset local townsfolk who happen to be devil worshippers.....magic movie and quite scary too. Others are: Revenge, (with Joan Collins, a 70's movie about a family who get revenge for their daughters abduction/killing). When A Stranger Calls, (with Charles Durning playing a psychopath who terrorizes a babysitter while killing the children she's looking after, this scared the sh1t outta me). Chopper, (with Eric Bana, about the true story of australian gangster/hardnut, Mark "Chopper" Reed, amazing independant movie well worth a watching).