The Best Movies You've Never Heard Of

[bubbacatfish]

One I don't think I had my my list earlier was "The Way of the Gun", maybe not as good as "The Usual Suspects" (same writer) but definitely underrated.

 

[FullerH]

I saw The Warlord years ago on TV & remember liking it. I wouldn't mind seeing it again, don't know if I'd buy it though.

Man, it is historically fairly accurate and well acted. What more could you ask?

 

[pcnorton]

"Duke, let's go do some crimes." Always loved that line. Or the variety store where the beer is labelled simply "beer", black lettering on a white can. Haven't seen the movie in over a decade but it's still a favourite.

I beleive the cans were labeled even more generic and were labelled "drinks"

Paul

 

[brewthunda]

I beleive the cans were labeled even more generic and were labelled "drinks"

Paul

When he ate out of the can in his parents' kitchen, the can is labelled "food".


Another good one - I can't remember if anyone posted this: "The Devil's Backbone", aka "El Espinazo del Diablo", by Guillermo del Toro, the director who made Hellboy. Very cool ghost story set in an orphanage during the end of the Spanish Civil War.

 

[FullerH]

To me, Devil's Backbone: Story of the Natchez Trace (Pelican Pouch Series), by Jonathan Daniels is the history of, as it says, the Natchez Trace from Natchez, Mississippi, to Nashville, Tennessee. It was one of the major routes of the Old Southwest in American Frontier history. Great stories, too.

 

[silenthunterstudios]

Hey, anybody seen one of my favorite movies, the Mission? It was heartwrenching to see them laying those babies like firewood outside of the church.

 

[Bumppo]

" The Tao of Steve" DO NOT WATCH WITH A WOMAN NEARBY! You have been warned. It is a mans movie disguised as a chick flick.

 

[agent jim]

They mentioned a movie on NCIS the other night that I hadn't thought of in ages which is curious since it scared the living crap out of me the first time I saw it and I usually think scary movies are just kinda stupid. Anybody seen The Believers with Martin Sheen?

On a completely different note, how bout Son of the Morning Star the, made for TV miniseries about Custer? Good period detail and probably the most accurate depiction around. That isn't saying much consideringthe competition but what are ya gonna do.

 

[Kimberholic]

Try Buffalo Soldiers with J. Phoenix. I watched it the other day and found it to be a quite good film.

 

[Bumppo]

I found it! More of a documentary, and yes, "8 below" is the disney version of it. "Antartica" Came out in 1983, the director was Nankyoko Monogatari.

 

[kapt kopter]

Well I happen to be a big a Lee Van Cleef fan esp his spaghetti westerns so here is a few of my fav's

The Big Gundown
Death rides a Horse
Day of Anger
Sabata

Kap

p.s. Lee Van Cleef was the Bad in the great Spaghetti Western the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
He also played in For a Few Dollars More another colaboration with Clint Eastwood....excellent movies

 

[kapt kopter]

I didn't read all the posts on this thread but I wanted to suggest a great site for movie buffs www.imdb.com
Its great for checking out obscure or forgotten movies as well as t.v. shows,games,current movies etc

Kap

Wife bought me the PS2 game GUN and its awesome, I beleive Kris Kristopherson is the voice of the father on the game....too cool....you even have a knife for close in battles
I can also reccomend Red Dead Revolver for western movie buffs, they use music from long forgotten spaghetti westerns in it and you play a guy loosely based on Clints "man with no name" Spaghetti western gunman from his early westerns

 

[badassjon]

christopher walken flick..check it out ...the ending was a surprise i didnt see coming...ala 6th sense kinda

 

[Horus]

Killing Words – a spanish movie with an excellent screenplay and chief character!

Horus

 

[shao.fu.tzer]

I doubt there are many 'realistic' martial arts movies.

You really think Jackie Chan fights like that in real life? As in jumping everywhere, using chairs and all?

Even Bruce Lee in real life fought slightly differently than in his movies.

Ong Bak is great 'cos you know he doesn't use any wires.

I don't consider Jackie Chan movies martial arts movies. He was trained in an opera school. They're more like acrobatics movies. I suppose you could consider it a martial arts movie, but beyond a few basic moves, what he was doing didn't look like any muay thai that I'd ever seen. I enjoyed it more for the stunts and acrobatism. The fights were pretty unrealistic but highly entertaining nontheless. Have you seen Tom Yum Goong? Same producer, director and actors.

Shao

 

[kapt kopter]

Many of us here have no doubt seen the popular spaghetti westerns from the master Sergio Leone. The trilogy includes "A Fist Full of Dollars", "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, the Bad and The Ugly". All starred by the man himself, Clint Eastwood. But has many of us seen the "other" masterpiece- "Once Upon A Time In The West"? A near 3 hour classic with both humor and violence using sounds in the background to great effect. Starring Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards and Claudia Cardinale. A movie worth seeing even if you aren' t quite the western buff. :thumbup:

N.

Oh Yeah I've seen this classic many times........and the music score is among the best all time...of course Ennio Morricone...who did so many great music scores on Spaghetti Westerns!

Also check out Once Upon a Time in America

Kap:thumbup:

 

[bubbacatfish]

This is a bit off topic as it's been seen by most of my generation & likely the ones before & after too (I'm 38 now) but in the coming years this WILL be a "Best Movie You've Never Heard Of".

The theatrical release of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back & The Return of the Jedi are movies that in another generation will be a fading memory, unless you have cafefully guarded VHS or laserdisc editions (or DVDs burned from Laserdiscs - - insert EVIL, EVIL GRIN here).

Never would have thought of this but one of the guys on USN has "Han shot first" as his tag line & I thought, ya know, in a decade or two Lucas will have successfully "edited" movie history (at least until he's dead & his kids or grand kids decide to cash in).

 

[Bob W]

Anyone see 21 Grams? Fantastic.

-Bob

 

[silenthunterstudios]

My original Star Wars tapes are tucked away, and will never see the inside of a VCR ever again. They aren't the original VHS copies though, not the one with the Twi Lek woman falling topless into the rancor pit.