The Best Movies Nobody Has Heard Of

[Ludvig]

Clocker,I'm going to watch Primer on your advise.

[clocker]

Plan on watching it twice.

It still won't make complete sense though.

[hawk7]

where i live nobody has ever heard of lucky number slevin, which was my favourite movie of 2006, and believe it or not in my little country it was released as an stv title, and everyone i tell about the movie can't believe that a movie with so many famous actors didn't even make it to the big screen.
anyway, i also think everyone should watch chan-wook parks trilogy (although it's not actually a trilogy) about revenge, i'm talking about the movies sympathy for mr vengeance, oldboy (probably the most famous of the three) and sympathy for lady vengeance. i knowthose movies i mentioned are not really unknown, but there are too many ppl who haven't seen them.
finally, i want to mention one of my absolute favourites, a movie by a danish director called i kina spiser de hunde (in china they eat dogs). this movie is so hilarious, you just have to see it!

[armandox]

some movies are good
it's very difficult to choice what is the best movie

[Aermetikvm]

BEGOTTEN! arguably by far the greatest horror movie ever made...

[clocker]

The TV Set- David Duchovny and Sigourney Weaver.

Duchovny is a writer trying to shepherd his script into production for Weaver's network.

Oddly, I had just finished the book Sit, Ubu, Sit by Gary David Goldberg (creator of Family Ties and Spin City), which goes into some detail about behind the scenes of TV shows and this movie, although satirically hyped, is very consistent with Goldberg's descriptions.

Duchovny seems very comfortable in these smaller, normal-guy type roles and Sigourney is just good in everything, so the movie is quite watchable and occasionally very funny.

[lsw0794]

The Strangers
Standard Operating Procedure

[clocker]

Employee of the Month (2004)- Matt Dillon, Christina Applegate (nom!) and Steve Zahn.

Not to be confused with the 2006 Dane Cook film of the same title. Actually, do not confuse anything with Dane Cook in it as a real movie.
This film, a Sundance winner, got a lot of really pissed off reviews and sank quickly but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Anything I say about the plot would require a spoiler alert, so I'll remain mum, but...
-Make sure you watch the credits all the way to the end and...
-Jenna Fischer (Pam from The Office) has a small role as a hooker so if you ever dreamed of hearing Pam talk dirty, here's your chance.

[clocker]

Color Me Kubrick- John Malkovich

Any movie with JM in it is worth a look, I mean, come on...he's got to have one of the weirdest cv's in all of filmdom.
In this film ( billed as "A true...ish story") he plays Alan Conway, a man in London circa 1990 who (pretty) successfully passed himself off as Stanley Kubrick.
Despite not looking anything like the famous director nor even knowing anything about Kubrick's films, Conway scammed money, sex (with boys mostly) and travel from various gullible folk...all of whom were thrilled at first and too embarrassed later to press charges.

Malkovich envisions Conway as an outrageous fabulist with a totally outre fashion sense (which doesn't faze any of the victims because Kubrick is famous and therefore probably semi-crazy).

It's always fun to see what JM will do in a film and this is no exception.

[deepak1uw]

The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)

Set in 1898, this movie is based on the true story of two lions in Africa that killed 130 people over a nine month period, while a bridge engineer (Val Kilmer) and an experienced old hunter (Michael Douglas) tried to kill them.