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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDo you have a favorite "little-known" movie?
'Little-known' means "not widely known or recognized by many people. It refers to something or someone that is not famous or popular.
It's the opposite of being well-known or famous."
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essaynnc
(930 posts)With Adam Sandler
leftieNanner
(16,029 posts)From 1969.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(24,287 posts)Now, I get the news via DU. And the drum.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PTo1DWVCUNY
dpibel
(3,633 posts)Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, and script by Thomas McGuane. Hard to beat.
Hope it's sufficiently obscure.
mahatmakanejeeves
(66,375 posts)I’ve it before, but I sat down and watched chef again.
Although the disc is physically in good shape, the transition from film to DVD was poorly executed.
Sneederbunk
(16,508 posts)bamagal62
(4,092 posts)Was a movie! Loved the book.
yellowdogintexas
(23,400 posts)
DUgosh
(3,119 posts)Bette Midler, Danny DeVito, Judd Reinhold, Helen Slater
JoseBalow
(8,215 posts)
Raven123
(6,959 posts)yellowdogintexas
(23,400 posts)Enter stage left
(4,096 posts)Hidden Figures,
About the 3 black women who were responsible for the early success of NASA, based on a true story!
Secondhand Lions,
Fictional, but fun. It captures you over the whole show.
And Bottle Shock.
The true story of the huge success of the Napa Valley in the 1970's against the French wine industry. Very entertaining and if you like excellent wines, a true wake up call to the brilliance of the US wine industry.
Jeebo
(2,510 posts)It shows up on cable TV all the time.
— Ron
Enter stage left
(4,096 posts)brush
(61,010 posts)
Harker
(16,739 posts)Thus, it's unknown to me.
brush
(61,010 posts)FalloutShelter
(13,711 posts)Paladin
(31,410 posts)I've seen it often enough to recognize the scene you posted: in lonely, loud Houston at the conclusion of the movie---right before the phone starts ringing in the little coastal village, perfectly ending the film. Gives me goosebumps, just thinking about it...
FalloutShelter
(13,711 posts)And the Mark Knopfler score… and a dream cast.
Local Hero is one of my five desert island movies.
Glad someone recognized that scene and it gives me goose bumps too.
Rustynaerduwell
(759 posts)That is the effect 'Local Hero' has on me.
FalloutShelter
(13,711 posts)Also known as farsickness ( sounds like the flip side of homesickness): longing for or being drawn to a place you’ve never been.
Paladin
(31,410 posts)Reminds me of their schadenfreude (taking pleasure in someone's bad fortune).
NowsTheTime
(1,195 posts)FalloutShelter
(13,711 posts)Future Dr. Who
underpants
(192,313 posts)Both have all star casts.
Garden State has a great soundtrack.
LastDemocratInSC
(4,116 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(66,375 posts)Alsteen
(89 posts)By Jim Jarmoush (sp) with Joe Strummer, Screaming Jay Hawkins and a special appearance by Elvis.
OrwellwasRight
(5,234 posts)Night on Earth is good too! Jim Jarmusch is a favorite.
mobeau69
(12,090 posts)
ms liberty
(10,473 posts)
no_hypocrisy
(52,718 posts)Last edited Sat Aug 16, 2025, 07:13 AM - Edit history (1)
I love it.
ms liberty
(10,473 posts)Saving Grace https://share.google/q1nzC1TuhEIdAa3j4
no_hypocrisy
(52,718 posts)no_hypocrisy
(52,718 posts)ms liberty
(10,473 posts)It also has Martin Clunes in the role of a local doctor. A role that became the springboard for the Doc Martin series, according to interviews with the principals involved. Clunes' doctor in Saving Grace is less awkward than Doc Martin, but once you know, you can see the germ of the idea in the movie.
Easterncedar
(4,838 posts)
rickyhall
(5,459 posts)w/Don Johnson
rurallib
(64,068 posts)
KitFox
(365 posts)Christopher Walken, Carlos Riqueime, Sonia Braga, Chick Vennera. From the book by John Nichols.
El Supremo
(20,405 posts)I say that every morning since I first saw the movie.
KitFox
(365 posts)
DBoon
(24,149 posts)Repo Man is a 1984 American science fiction black comedy film written and directed by Alex Cox in his directorial debut. It stars Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez, with Tracey Walter, Olivia Barash, Sy Richardson, Vonetta McGee, Fox Harris, and Dick Rude among the supporting cast. Set in Los Angeles, the plot concerns a young punk rocker (Estevez) who is recruited by a car repossession agency and gets caught up in the pursuit of a mysterious Chevrolet Malibu that might be connected to extraterrestrials.
- wikipedia
callous taoboy
(4,730 posts)The vibe of this movie is as perfect as a weird little gem like it can get. Produced by Michael Nesmith.
“Repo man never sleeps!"
Easterncedar
(4,838 posts)
red dog 1
(31,700 posts)"Rotten Tomatoes" gave the film a 98% approval rating based on 51 reviews.
We have a copy of it, and I've watched it at least a dozen times over the years.
ProfessorGAC
(74,070 posts)My band adopted "plate of shrimp" as a substitute for "coincidence" because of the movie.
hatrack
(63,368 posts) Squeaky41
(387 posts)Carole Lombard and Jack Benny in "To Be or Not To Be" (1942)
NBachers
(18,828 posts)1. Breakheart Pass with Charles Bronson
2. American Hot Wax, about Alan Freed, with Jay Leno and Fran Drescher in early-career roles.
3. Tuff Turf with a young James Spader and Kim Richards
mucifer
(25,279 posts)LogDog75
(789 posts)1. People Will Talk starring Cary Grant and Jean Craig
2. While You Were Sleeping starring Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman
3. Streets of Fire starring Dianne Lane and Michael Pare
4. It Happened to Jane starring Doris Day and Jack Lemon
OrwellwasRight
(5,234 posts)I have the DVD. Saw it in the theaters with one of mz high school boyfriends and never understood why it wasn't a hit. It was a huge flop.
While you were sleeping was pretty big hit though -- I wouldn't call it little known...
ProfessorGAC
(74,070 posts)It's allegorical so a lot of people disliked it because things didn't fit together like a normal story.
genxlib
(5,971 posts)One of my favorite romantic comedies of all time
Oeditpus Rex
(42,392 posts)It's a true cult classic in that it was a cult classic even before it was released.
Only those of us who saw it on the old USA Night Flight were/are fans.
applegrove
(127,613 posts)
Bayard
(26,574 posts)Two of my very favorites. Johnny Depp is outstanding in both. A very young Leonardo deCaprio in Gilbert--I personally think its his best career role.
Easterncedar
(4,838 posts)Great cast altogether. Oliver Platt. CCH Pounder. Dan Hedaya. Julianne Moore is wonderful. Aiden Quinn is very sweet in it, too.
bamagal62
(4,092 posts)
MorbidButterflyTat
(3,537 posts)
bamagal62
(4,092 posts)OrwellwasRight
(5,234 posts)dpibel
(3,633 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(13,250 posts)Academy Award foreign film. At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity, oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him.
ZZenith
(4,396 posts)I don’t think it’s ever gotten the credit it deserves.
It’s about food. And family. And dreams. It’s real good.
OrwellwasRight
(5,234 posts)I recommended it to a lot of people and made some people watch it with me.
greatauntoftriplets
(178,084 posts)
markodochartaigh
(3,698 posts)it is apparently lost media now.
Also, "Glass Bottom Boat" and "Hopscotch". And "Pedro Páramo", the old black and white one, not the new one. Maybe it isn't so unknown, but it doesn't get the respect that it deserves.
ultralite001
(1,990 posts)Stuart Townsend + Cate Beckinsale
A Boy Ten Feet Tall a/k/a Sammy Going South… w/ Edward G Robinson… this was available on YouTube for a while…
Fortress w/ Rachel Ward…
Ffolks!… w/ Don Ameche + Tom Selleck…
+ too many more to mention…
OrwellwasRight
(5,234 posts)The Dao of Steve (also an excellent sound track)
Von Ryan's Express
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108410/
LearnedHand
(4,942 posts)
cayugafalls
(5,905 posts)fierywoman
(8,407 posts)
PufPuf23
(9,535 posts)First saw and became aware of at The Metaphysical Film Society in Berkeley in mid 70s.
Commercial flop with Otto Preminger as director and many famous stars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skidoo_(film)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063612/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063612/
Trailer
Film (only watched the first several minutes but link works and I saved for later)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8yfh88
Jeebo
(2,510 posts)The Wall and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly are foreign films. Millennium is a Hollywood science fiction film with Cheryl Ladd and Kris Kristofferson. I read the John Varley novel before I knew they were going to make a movie out of it. These three films never show up on the cable movie channels I get on Mediacom cable. That is the criterion I am using to determine whether they fit in this category. Also the fact that nobody I know has ever seen or even heard of these three films. The first two films are among the best foreign-language films I've ever seen. Millennium is an attempt to make an intelligent science fiction film. I applaud it for the effort, but apparently a lot of people think it doesn't succeed. I disagree with them profoundly.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1745686/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_9_tt_7_nm_1_in_0_q_The%2520Wall
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401383/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_The%2520Div
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097883/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_4_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_Millennium
— Ron
red dog 1
(31,700 posts)I liked it.
(I thought it would be like a "Diving Bell" amusement ride like the one they had at San Francisco's Playland at the Beach)
Rotten Tomatoes gives it a score of 94% based on reviews from 176 critics.
B.See
(6,228 posts)one badass lil movie....Scott Glenn, Gabriel Byrne, Jürgen Prochnow, Alberta Watson, Ian McKellen.
Early Michael Mann. music by Tangerine Dream.
RazorbackExpat
(549 posts)with Basil Rathbone (1940s Sherlock Holmes) in one of his last roles, as a movie bad guy.
Emile
(36,878 posts)ScoutHikerDad
(71 posts)HeartsCanHope
(1,233 posts)I'll have to find it in my DVDs and watch it!
IcyPeas
(24,070 posts)nonaa
(23 posts)Wild in the Streets
Dersu Uzala
Evil Roy Slade
The Southerner
The 1931 version of 'Waterloo Bridge'
genxlib
(5,971 posts)But ‘JoJo Rabbit’ is one of my favorite movies of all time.
A comedy about Hitler seen through the eyes of a young boy sounds like a risky idea. But it is brilliantly written and acted. Both funny and heartbreaking.
red dog 1
(31,700 posts)It was nominated for 6 Academy Awards, including for Best Picture (It won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay)
Chasstev365
(6,023 posts)Ritabert
(1,549 posts)red dog 1
(31,700 posts)(All the musicians were real and actually played their instruments, except for Joey the Lips)
Jimmy's sister, Sharon, was played by Andrea Corr, and the lead guitarist in the "Avant Garde a Clue Band" (skating rink band) was her brother Jim Corr,.
Both of them are members of the Irish band, The Corrs.
Ritabert
(1,549 posts)ScoutHikerDad
(71 posts)#1. Quest for Fire with Ron Perlman as a Caveman
#2. My Bodyguard with Christopher Makepeace. I used to show it to classes after we were done for the semester, generally after exam review
#3. KPAX with Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges. I would sometimes show this one in a creative writing class with some prompts; very thought-provoking!
Emile
(36,878 posts)red dog 1
(31,700 posts)Adam Baldwin later played Animal Mother in "Platoon" & Chris Makepeace (the kid) was also in "Meatballs" (1979)
Paladin
(31,410 posts)An absolutely flawless German movie. It concerns an utterly vicious Stasi police agent in E. Berlin, and how his life is redeemed by the humane qualities of the people he's surveilling. Too many great scenes to recount, but one that sticks with me is when a room-full of Stasi operatives hear that the Berlin wall is coming down (after a few seconds of considering the enormity of what's happening, they all just put down their listening devices, stand up, and silently walk out of the room). One of those rare movies that makes you feel like a better human being, after you've watched it.
10 Turtle Day
(837 posts)One that sticks with you for a long time after watching it.
Upthevibe
(9,713 posts)This is the movie I was going to say. It remains in my top 10 favorite movies of all time.
It's an amazing film.
Paladin
(31,410 posts)So glad to hear you appreciate it, as I do. Definitely in my "Top 10" list.
mwmisses4289
(1,911 posts)Earth Girls are Easy with Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum and others who became stars in Hollywood
and
Hudson Hawk with Bruce Willis.
Both are comedies and have no redeeming value except to make you laugh.
betsuni
(28,222 posts)
PJMcK
(24,140 posts)It's a comedy/thriller starring very young Michelle Pfeiffer and an equally young Jeff Goldblum with a title song by B.B. King. John Landis directed the film and is featured as an Iranian terrorist. The film was released in the mid-1980s. I still have a VHS copy!
samplegirl
(13,284 posts)So many to chose from!
Vadergator
(10 posts)Dead Man starring Johnny Depp with music by Neil Young. "Stupid fucking white man"
red dog 1
(31,700 posts)Welcome to DU!
Vadergator
(10 posts)Actually visit here daily since around 2002 just don't post much. Had a few posts under a different name years ago but didn't update my account when the site updated years ago.
KT2000
(21,671 posts)I just watched it on Prime and have been telling my friends to watch it since.
True story. In England, during WWII, a research group asked people to keep diaries of their lives and send them to the group. Five hundred people did, including Nella Last. This 90 minute film from 2006, is from her diary during the war. Rich is the only way I can describe this film.
Wiz Imp
(6,647 posts)Last edited Sat Aug 16, 2025, 10:33 AM - Edit history (1)
Two youngsters declare to their parents that they want to get married. Not sometime in the future but as soon as possible. The story is told from the children's point of view.
Great Soundtrack by the Bee Gees along with Crosby, Stills & Nash's "Teach Your Children Well" in the closing scene.
catbyte
(37,606 posts)bamagal62
(4,092 posts)Soooo funny.
Rustynaerduwell
(759 posts)perfectly cast as the perfect gentleman. But the greatest pleasure comes from watching Anthony Quinn and Giancarlo Giannini in support. Full of people and a place that is easy to fall in love with.
USAF Brat
(61 posts)A fabulous swash buckler with, still today, the longest sword fight on the big screen at over 18 minutes long! My family loves this movie just as much as The Princess Bride.
https://share.google/IoYsiMExD1p0IYElp|
Cast:
The film stars Stewart Granger as Andre Moreau, Eleanor Parker as Lenore, Janet Leigh as Aline, and Mel Ferrer as the Marquis de Maynes
Release date: June 27, 1952 (USA)
The Blue Flower
(6,099 posts)Audrey Hepburn, Sean Connery star. Supporting are Nicol Williamson, Robert Shaw, Denholm Elliot, and Richard Harris. 1976. Directed by Richard Lester.
Sibelius Fan
(24,731 posts)HeartsCanHope
(1,233 posts)the_liberal_grandpa
(240 posts)
Ocelot II
(126,689 posts)brush
(61,010 posts)theactrical production of the same name.
Also "Limitless", a 2010 film starring Bradley Cooper and Robert DeNiro. Explores the possibilities of using the entire brain capacities.
justaprogressive
(5,172 posts)First Monday in October
Critical Condition
cbabe
(5,435 posts)The Brother from Another Planet is a 1984 low-budget American science fiction film, with a legacy as a cult classic, written and directed by John Sayles. The film stars Joe Morton as an escaped extraterrestrial slave trying to find a new life on Earth.
Full movie
https://m.
red dog 1
(31,700 posts)Thanks for posting
subterranean
(3,670 posts)It's been a few decades since I last saw it, so I just might watch it again with the link you provided.
One interesting thing about this film is that the main character, played by Joe Morton, did not speak a single word in the entire movie. Morton is best known for his role as Miles Dyson in Terminator 2.
Devilsun
(326 posts)
some_of_us_are_sane
(1,788 posts)Andy Griffith as a CREEPY celebrity TV rising in politics. Hard to watch Andy as a villain. (Remind you of anyone??? 
)
Cloudhopper
(118 posts)A comedy w/Danny DeVito, Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Afflect, and others. I thought it was very funny.
WhiteTara
(31,026 posts)totally a woman's film.
3catwoman3
(27,481 posts)Not sure if it is exactly little known, but I don’t remember hearing about it when it was released.
I totally love this movie, and sappily wished the story could have ended with Jenny and Starman being able to stay together.
red dog 1
(31,700 posts)bamagal62
(4,092 posts)"Oh, I've got the prettiest mother. I've got the nicest mother."
some_of_us_are_sane
(1,788 posts)Great choice! 
vanlassie
(6,071 posts)bamagal62
(4,092 posts)some_of_us_are_sane
(1,788 posts)I LOVED that one.
jmbar2
(7,214 posts)Loved it.
For some reason, it really reminds me of Trump's meeting with the European contingent tomorrow. They are all pretending that Trump is sane, and coming together as a community to try to help him not screw up the whole world. Putin is Bianca.
Sequoia
(12,675 posts)Cover rock band from Russia invited to play at a wedding in Mexico but first travel and play their songs through several USA cities to get there. Hair styles and shoes are super cool.
cachukis
(3,397 posts)Short spoof on Ingmar Bergman. Nominated in late 60's.
A revist of Seventh Seal if I remember. Only about 15 minutes. Some made up language.
yorkster
(3,336 posts)
getagrip_already
(17,773 posts)Off beat sci fi flick. Love it.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,039 posts)It is, as far as I'm concerned, the most purely science-fictional movie ever.
Godot51
(599 posts)Harold and Maude...
Five...
Raising Arizona...
As several of these, and so many others, have become "cult" movies because of video, DVD, and streaming it's difficult to say what movies are "little known" any longer.
I simply recall liking these. People whom I exhorted them to usually had blank faces.
There were many on this list I have seen and many of them were and are excellent films.
yellow dahlia
(2,676 posts)It plays out psychology aspects and perhaps a parable - elements of film which draw me in.
some_of_us_are_sane
(1,788 posts)One of my FAVORITES since I was 14. Tells the story of John Wilkes Booth's brother Edwin, a fine Shakespearean actor, whose career almost ends after his brother shoots President Lincoln. MARVELOUS!
You can watch the whole movie for free right on YouTube.
Thunderbeast
(3,686 posts)Both from the mid-70s.
Figarosmom
(7,890 posts)Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
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some_of_us_are_sane
(1,788 posts)Soooooooooooo great in the Man in the Glass Booth!
Coventina
(28,578 posts)
Marthe48
(21,522 posts)About someone in a small Irish village who wins a lottery.
Xavier Breath
(6,035 posts)Sitting in the theater, as the credits rolled, I was very tempted to sit through it again. I have it on DVD and have watched it countless times, but if I run across it on tv, I always stop and watch it again. It's a great mash-up of sci-fi, farce, drama, romance, and fantasy.
Through the years I've recommended it to anyone that will listen.
Upthevibe
(9,713 posts)Last edited Sun Aug 17, 2025, 09:54 PM - Edit history (1)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is exceptional!
I don't care for Jim Carey's comedies but I think his serious work has been excellent in at least two cases: Eternal Sunshine....., The Truman Show.
CTyankee
(66,888 posts)and a wonderful story based on an E.M. Forster novel. It is a Merchant-Ivory film.
The music running through it is "O Mio Babbio Caro," a lovely aria by Puccini.
It is a love story set in late 19th century and tells the story of a young, upper class British woman on a 19th century visit to Florence and finding love.
This film is gentle on your nerves and feeds your soul with its charm. See it or see it AGAIN. (I've seen it about 10 times since its release in the late 1980s). The kiss in the cornfield scene is passionate and elegant at the same time.
Chemical Bill
(2,867 posts)Chemical Bill
(2,867 posts)MLAA
(19,413 posts)Ocelot II
(126,689 posts)I know, Mel Gibson is in it, but it was made before he went nuts, and anyhow the main character is Linda Hunt playing a male Chinese dwarf and she's brilliant. Also, it's how I discovered Kiri Te Kanawa and Strauss' Four Last Songs.
gordianot
(15,654 posts)Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Jilly_in_VA
(12,743 posts)with Carol Kane as the matchmaker and Amy Irving. Also The Gods Must Be Crazy, which had even our kids (teenagers at the time) rolling on the floor.
yorkster
(3,336 posts)Dean Stockwell and Melvyn Douglas.
Beautiful film.
Saw it when I was 19 and found it not long ago on TCM.
Emile
(36,878 posts)NoNewTexas
(5 posts)Old and unavailable on Blu-ray
Creator with Peter O'Toole
Tapeheads with John Cusack and Tim Robbins
If you know, you know.
red dog 1
(31,700 posts) odins folly
(450 posts)Kirk Douglas
Henry Fonda
Whole bunch of other folks
Also, My Favorite Year
Peter O’Toole
Mark Linn-Baker
bottomofthehill
(9,234 posts)Very funny. Dry humor.
Borogove
(213 posts)A very well-made sci-fi flick that practically no one went to see.
haele
(14,509 posts)About a small, previously neutral fairy tale island between Sweden and Germany "claimed" by a German industrialist to be turned into "Deutchneland" resort. And what the natives try to do to push back ...
Hilarious to a 12 year old book nerd in a "Mouse that Roared" way.
Other somewhat obscure/hard to find favorites - "The Fearless Vampire Killers".
Mel Brooks "Silent Movie" - a lot of people didn't like it.
Any of the old Alec Guinness comedies.
I also liked "The Last Starfighter" and "Warriors". Cheesy fun.
Auggie
(32,512 posts)1953 film noir directed by Phil Karlson and starring John Payne and Evelyn Keyes. I love it.
The Slient Partner:
1978 Canadian thriller film directed by Daryl Duke and starring Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, and Susannah York. A Toronto bank teller, Miles Cullen (Gould), discovers a discarded holdup note during the Christmas holiday season revealing an imminent robbery. Suspecting the mall Santa, Harry Reikle (Plummer), Miles secretly hides $48,300 from his transactions in a lunchbox, giving Reikle only a small amount during the robbery. Realizing he's been shorted, Reikle stalks and threatens Miles.
Winner of three Canadian Film Awards including Best Feature Film and Best Direction.
LoisB
(11,431 posts)
LeftInTX
(33,172 posts)1991 parody of the "soap craze"
NowsTheTime
(1,195 posts)LoisB
(11,431 posts)Bok_Tukalo
(4,496 posts)Greatest movie about time travel ever.
And it cost around 7000$ to make.
Coloradan4Truth
(383 posts)Funny and heartwarming. Directed David Lynch
Laffy Kat
(16,758 posts)It's a Czech film from the eighties. Precious. You can get it on youtube.
El Supremo
(20,405 posts)
Oh dear, what can the matter be,
seven old ladies stuck in the lavatory
they were there from Sunday to Saturday,
and nobody knew they were there.
soldierant
(8,847 posts)Saw it when was in high school (graduated in 62) It was a WWII movie, mostly in Italian but some German bit with subtitles. Triple-A list European actors from both countries for the title character (sort of) and the German commander.
It's about a con man whose income, like everyone's, has been negatively affected by the war. He bears a resemblance to the General, and is arrested by Germans as being the General. He is coerced into pretending to be the General (since con men can pretend to be anything). His German captors want to use him to identify another important figure in the resistance whom they believe to be in the prison they put him in. His demeanor, behavior, and words help give confidence to other Italian POWs, and seeing the difference he can make makes a difference in him. . In the end, he takes it all the way, is shot by a firing squad after being allowed to speak some inspiring last words and requesting a photo be given to "his" family. If this reminds you of Sydney Carton in "Tale of Two Cities," it did me too. But so many details are different and peculiar to the time make it a very different experience.
It may not be "little-known" in Europe, but it surely is little known here in the States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Della_Rovere
betsuni
(28,222 posts)yellowdogintexas
(23,400 posts)"Undercover Blues" It's uproarious fun as Dennis Quaid and Kathleen Turner, ex-U.S. spies turned new parents, are persuaded to take on a case that soon has them juggling dangerous world affairs with diapers and 3 a.m. feedings. Our introduction to Stanley Tucci (he steals every scene he is in)
"Feast of the Seven Fishes" A slice of life story that follows a large Italian family on Christmas Eve as they prepare for the traditional Feast of the Seven Fishes. Big Italian family in West Virginia, featuring an evil-eye casting Grandmother, the uncles who take over the cooking, the bickering, the wine and a sweet love story.
"American Dreamer" 1984 This is a gem. We sat through it twice in the theater (back when you could still do that) Frustrated housewife/writer Cathy Palmer ghostwrites a story about Rebecca Ryan, a dashing international spy, and wins a trip to Paris. While there, she is involved in an accident, and awakens in the hospital believing she IS Rebecca Ryan. Much craziness ensues as she meets the writer of the Rebecca Ryan books, thwarts real international spies, and eventually gets her memory back. starring Tom Conti and JoBeth Williams I would love to find a DVD of this one.
red dog 1
(31,700 posts)
SharonAnn
(14,098 posts)Takes place on a Polynesian island post-WWII. Good story line, beautiful scenery, good music.
Jeebo
(2,510 posts)... about 10 or 15 years ago on one of the cable movie channels I get I saw a WWII movie set in a city in Poland about a city sanitation worker who had access to the underground sewers in the city. The man hid about a couple dozen Jews in the sewers, along with the rats, trash and sewage. Those people were down there for several years until the war ended. The sanitation worker looked out for them, did what he could to protect them, keep them hidden, bring them fresh water and food. That man was a hero, an Oscar Schindler-like hero. I would love to see it again and I keep hoping it will show up somewhere on cable again.
— Ron
AllaN01Bear
(27,161 posts)paper planes : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_Planes_(film)
GoCubsGo
(34,206 posts)It's a "cult" film, but outside of die-hard sci-fi fans, I don't think most people have ever heard of it. The cast is full of "just before he/she became famous" actors. It's a fun, goofy movie.
kerouac2
(1,218 posts)With John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd
TimD82
(9 posts)hatrack
(63,368 posts)Based on actual correspondence between a New York bibliophile (Bancroft) and the gentlemanly London bookstore owner (Hopkins) who finds what she's looking for. Sweet and sad and a love letter to reading.
Ran - 1984 - Akira Kurosawa's last big movie. Overwhelming - "King Lear" set in feudal Japan. Pride, greed, arrogance and filial duty meet up at the castle and immolate themselves, featuring one of the greatest battle scenes ever filmed. Cool trivia - Nakadai Tatsuya, who plays the Lear character, is the protagonist in "Hara-Kiri" from 1962, one of the greatest demolitions of samurai mythology ever.
The Decline of Civilization Part II - The Metal Years - Penelope Spheeris takes on the LA metal scene in the mid-to-late 1980s. A scabrous, dark and funny documentary.
HeartsCanHope
(1,233 posts)I was pleasantly surprised to find the movie was fantastic and everything wonderful in the book came alive on the screen. Truly one of the best performances for both actors.
MorbidButterflyTat
(3,537 posts)but it's clever and hilarious and I love it!
What We Do In the Shadows
Humboldt Sage
(2 posts)Zackzzzz
(108 posts)Easterncedar
(4,838 posts)1986 Australian film starring Colin Friels.
HeartsCanHope
(1,233 posts)Easterncedar
(4,838 posts)I will look for that!
HeartsCanHope
(1,233 posts)I just love his laugh--truly infectious!
Doc_Technical
(3,698 posts)LogDog75
(789 posts)Starring Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, and David Warner.
McDowell play H. G. Wells who hosts a dinner for his friends at the end of 1893. A late guest arrives, Warner playing Dr. John Leslie Stevenson, and Wells shows his guest his invention of the Time Machine and how it works. The police come to Well's house stating Jack the Ripper has killed again and is in the area and they want to search his house. The police find Dr. Stevenson's medical bag with evidence that he's the Ripper. After the police leave, Wells discovers in Time Machine is gone and he realizes Dr. Stevenson used it to escape. The machine returned to it's original location in Well's house and he uses it to travel to where Stevenson ended up, in 1979 San Francisco to terrorize the city. Wells uses his machine to travel to 1979 San Francisco to capture Stevenson and return him to 1893 London. While in San Francisco, he meets Steenburgen and falls in love with her complicating his mission.
This is one of my favorite movies because it blends scifi, drama, comedy, and a love story into one movie.
red dog 1
(31,700 posts)(I just ordered it online from our local library)
JustABozoOnThisBus
(24,287 posts)Very creepy. Instead of seeing someone go insane, you get to go along for the ride.
And, yeah, it's Polanski, but it's still good.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(24,287 posts)It's about two hours that you will never get back