Best movie nobody's heard of...

[Silver Moon]

Whoops Apocalypse! British mid-1980's cold war farce starring John Clease. Lots of good over-the-top moments including a British Prime Minister who thinks he's Superman, a Middle Eastern ruler whose sycophant servant steals every scene they are in, and a comedy of errors that ends up with Britain joining the Warsaw Pact. Warning: the first half-hour is dreadfully slow and not very funny, but then it picks up.

 

[CSB046]

The French film The City of Lost Children, directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Great "vaguely futuristic" fun in the vein of Terry Gilliam (who the directors admit was a big influence on them).

(Their previous collaboration, Delicatessen, is also worth checking out.)

It may make me a sentimental sap, but I also really enjoyed John Sayles' The Secret of Roan Inish.

 

[Pants]

Real Men with John Ritter and Jim Belushi.

it's hilariously funny in a very absurd way. you know the movie's going to be absurd when you discover the name of one of the main characters is Secret Agent Pirandello.

Wow, one movie out of dozens that I've actually seen/heard of. Didn't it have killer clowns in it?

 

[Red Baron]

In no particular order:

Cold Comfort Farm.

Wizards.

His Girl Friday. (Someone already mentioned this one, but I had to reaffirm. My wife twisted my arm to get me to watch this one, and I absolutely loved it! The film, I mean. Well, the arm-twisting wasn't really so bad, either... Seriously, though, Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell own the screen. Chemistry!!)

 

[reutbing0]

ing Åmål
No not pr0n, but a very good film about two young girls that explore their relationship. A very warm, mature film and absolutely not related to Fantasy or Sci-Fi. Still, great film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0150662/

PS: Åmål is the town the girls live in, not a character (of course some critics say environment is also a character (point in case PJ's LOTR) but you get the point)

 

[Liminal Syzygy]

Amores Perros

 

[Shadowdancer]

Dangerous Touch is one of the sexiest movies I've ever seen.

 

[TracerBullet42]

Whoa. When I saw the title of this thread, I knew right away that I was going to mention Boondock Saints. I was surprised to see it mentioned in the very first post.

Boondock Saints is a great movie, and I didn't even know it existed until a friend of mine let me borrow his DVD of it.

It sure is! Poor, poor Greenly. He has it rough...

 

[TracerBullet42]

not-quite-forgotten but not as popular as it should be -- The Hudsucker Proxy with Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Paul Newman. it's kinda like a 1950s corporate fairy tale.

Shame on you...you forgot to mention Bruce Campbell...

Great flick.

"Ya know...for kids!"

 

[Qlippoth]

Village of the Damned (an early 60s Twilight Zone-ish, low-budget, unusually well done horror/thriller flick).

The original (1961) film treatment of Lord of the Flies still gives me the creeps.

Another hearty vote for His Girl Friday! ("What does he look like? He looks like ah, that fella in the movies, you know, Ralph Bellamy!")