re: Searching for possibly obscure Movie Recommendations

Posted by molsusports

Member since Jul 2004

37371 posts

Posted on 12/22/25 at 3:53 pm to Chesticles

Some cult classics

Donnie Darko
Evil Dead
Reanimator
They Live
The Thing
Blue Velvet

Possibly forgotten action movies

Speed
Excalibur
The Wild Bunch
The Wrath of Khan
Bullet

Drama

9 and a Half Weeks
The Conversation
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Body Heat
Angel Heart
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
My Bodyguard

Comedy

See No Evil Hear No Evil
Ruthless People
Spies Like Us
A Fish Called Wanda
The Bellboy

Posted by Mr Roboto

Seattle

Member since Jan 2023

7980 posts

Posted on 12/22/25 at 6:11 pm to Chesticles

You'll need to dedicate an entire day to it, but..

Sátántangó

Posted by dgnx6

Member since Feb 2006

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Posted on 12/22/25 at 11:39 pm to Chesticles

Look up Brian de Palma and watch any of his movies you haven’t seen.

Posted by razor55red

Member since Sep 2017

456 posts

Posted on 12/23/25 at 11:49 am to Chesticles

Man Bites Dog
My Dinner With Andre
Sitting Ducks
Inside Moves
The Incident (the one from 1967)
Rollerball
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Harold and Maude
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
Dead Ringers
Ken Park (If you can find it, supposedly it's banned in the States. It's pretty wild; don't watch it with your kids)

This post was edited on 12/23/25 at 12:23 pm

Posted by Jmcc64

alabama

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Posted on 12/23/25 at 12:10 pm to razor55red

The Bank Job

Swimming Pool

Posted by dblwall

Member since Jul 2017

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Posted on 12/23/25 at 1:21 pm to Chesticles

It's almost 100 years old and was banned by Hollywood for a period of time.

Posted by AlxTgr

Kyre Banorg

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Posted on 12/23/25 at 1:27 pm to Chesticles

The Thirteenth Floor.

Posted by Indiana Tiger

Member since Feb 2005

4139 posts

Posted on 12/23/25 at 2:24 pm to Chesticles

Blood Simple (Coen Bros first)
Raising Arizona (Coen's 2nd -- much different from the rest on this list)
Hard Eight (PT Anderson's first)
House of Games (Mamet)
Glengarry Glen Ross (Mamet)
Red Rock West

Posted by FearlessFreep

Baja Alabama

Member since Nov 2009

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Posted on 12/23/25 at 2:28 pm to Chesticles

cant let this thread pass by without a few of my faves

Edgar Ulmer directed horror classic with Karloff & Lugosi at the top of their craft

another film from Ulmer, this time a B-picture after he was blackballed, featuring Ann Savage with one of the most intensely misandrist performances in cinema history

also known as Clouds Over Europe, an absolute gem of pre-WWII British cinema featuring two future Knights of the Realm (Ralph Richardson as a brilliant and hilarious MI officer and an impossibly handsome Laurence Olivier as a dashing test pilot)

This post was edited on 12/24/25 at 10:55 am

Posted by rebelrouser

Columbia, SC

Member since Feb 2013

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Posted on 12/23/25 at 2:58 pm to FearlessFreep

Detour is great despite being very cheaply made. Good suggestion.

Posted by Nevada_Tiger

Las Veags

Member since Jan 2025

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Posted on 12/23/25 at 7:09 pm to Chesticles

Winters Bone
True Romance
The Name of the Rose
Everything is Illuminated
Keeping the Faith
Brawl in Cell Block 99

This post was edited on 12/23/25 at 7:13 pm

Posted by deltadummy

Member since Mar 2025

2132 posts

Posted on 12/23/25 at 7:43 pm to Nevada_Tiger

quote:
Winters Bone
True Romance
The Name of the Rose
Everything is Illuminated
Keeping the Faith
Brawl in Cell Block 99

Don't know how off the radar Winters Bone is but that is an outrageously good film.

Posted by dallastiger55

Jennings, LA

Member since Jan 2010

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Posted on 12/23/25 at 7:58 pm to deltadummy

Posted by Coeur du Tigre

It was just outside of Barstow...

Member since Nov 2008

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Posted on 12/25/25 at 10:24 am to Chesticles

Charley Varrick. 1973. Bank robbery that will take you days to figure out.

Posted by touchdownjeebus

Member since Sep 2010

26464 posts

Posted on 12/25/25 at 3:18 pm to Chesticles

Here’s my suggestion.

Koyaanisqatsi

LINK

This post was edited on 12/25/25 at 3:19 pm

Posted by TygerLyfe

Member since May 2023

3510 posts

Posted on 12/25/25 at 3:19 pm to Raoul Stimulato

quote:
Buffalo 66

Prime Christina Ricci

Posted by TygerLyfe

Member since May 2023

3510 posts

Posted on 12/25/25 at 3:24 pm to TygerLyfe

Cold war flicks

A gathering of eagles
Bombers B52
Fail Safe
On the Beach
Threads

This post was edited on 1/3/26 at 8:00 pm

Posted by TheNameIsDalton

Huntsville

Member since Mar 2021

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Posted on 12/28/25 at 11:42 am to Chesticles

Late to the party but I'll throw some out there

Miracle Mile
Southern Comfort
Sorcerer
Cure
The Vanishing
The Swimmer
Living in Oblivion
Murder by Contract
Gambit
Black Christmas
Peeping Tom
Something Wild
A Better Tomorrow
Light Sleeper
Miami Blues
Trees Lounge
Sorry Wrong Number
Night of the Running Man
Audition
Prince of Darkness
Society
The Keep
Way of the Gun
Blown Away
Tequila Sunrise
F/X
Delirious
Freeway

This post was edited on 12/28/25 at 11:43 am