OT: Favorite movies that no one's heard of.

[Judge Smails]

Anyone who hasn't seen "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"....do yourself a favor and watch it. From 1963. On Amazon Prime right now.

 

[harbest]

one of my favorites Sissy movies!! I was working on the Eastern Shore when they filmed that, sadly I never went over to the set. Let me help you out...

View embedded media

btw the Orioles won last night.

Many thanks. Mets fan but after last year, the O's need ANY wins they can get, even ones that don't count. Matter of fact, they gave a run at breaking 62 Mets futility records last year.

 

[harbest]

Anyone who hasn't seen "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"....do yourself a favor and watch it. From 1963.

View embedded media

It became well known that Stanley Kramer was casting nearly every comedy performer he could think of. Some famous stars actually contacted Kramer to volunteer for the project, or to inquire as to why they had not been contacted.

 

[PS4814]

View embedded media

View embedded media

Don't forget the spiritual successor to it: Rat Race

 

[lw37]

Streets of Fire. A real 80s movie with a who’s who cast from the day. Diane Lane, Michael Pare, Willem Dafoe, Rick Moranis, Bill Paxton, Elizabeth Daily, Robert Townsend, Ed Begley Jr, Bill Pullman.

 

[83wuzme]

Clean and Sober. Michael Keaton was good in this.
Buckaroo Bonzai. John Lithgow as an evil alien channeling Mussolini was sidesplitting.

 

[Evan Ceg]

A couple posters have previously mentioned it, but "Local Hero" is charming and beguiling.

 

[lw37]

Tony Rome. Frank Sinatra and Jill St John make their way around mid-1960s Miami solving crimes.

 

[norcalion]

Fandango. Stars a very young Kevin Costner and Judd Nelson. Directed by Kevin Reynolds who wrote it while in film school. About fraternity brothers coming of age during Vietnam draft era.

 

[Lion84]

As a native Chicagoland kid I always liked Windy City - great locations around the city.

 

[84Lion]

Four that I've always enjoyed that are somewhat obscure:

Telefon with Charles Bronson and Lee Remick. Directed by Don Siegel.
Avalon, directed by Barry Levinson - back when he made great films.
The Prince of Pennsylvania, starring a young Keanu Reeves, Amy Madigan, Bonnie Bedelia, and Fred Ward.
SOS Pacific, starring Richard Attenborough and Pier Angeli.

Biggest pity in my mind is that none of the above have yet been released on Blu Ray. All were released on DVD but Prince has now apparently become a collector's item.

 

[BBrown]

Four that I've always enjoyed that are somewhat obscure:

Telefon with Charles Bronson and Lee Remick. Directed by Don Siegel.
Avalon, directed by Barry Levinson - back when he made great films.
The Prince of Pennsylvania, starring a young Keanu Reeves, Amy Madigan, Bonnie Bedelia, and Fred Ward.
SOS Pacific, starring Richard Attenborough and Pier Angeli.

Biggest pity in my mind is that none of the above have yet been released on Blu Ray. All were released on DVD but Prince has now apparently become a collector's item.

Sine you mentioned Keanu Reeves, I think The Rivers Edge falls into this category.

 

[throw2oj]

There's a street over by where I used to live that Barry Levinson loved to use in his films (before I arrived). I first noticed it in Avalon, but later I realized it shows up in Diner as well.

 

[Nitwit]

The Band’s Visit. It’s about an Egyptian Military Band which gets lost in a remote part of Israel and is taken in by the local citizens.

 

[Locolion]

Fandango. Stars a very young Kevin Costner and Judd Nelson. Directed by Kevin Reynolds who wrote it while in film school. About fraternity brothers coming of age during Vietnam draft era.

That’s what I mentioned higher up in the string. Sooo good

 

[Victor E. Bell]

"Owning Mahowny" Very dark but based on a true story. Canadian guy goes over the brink as a compulsive gambler. It's either available free in full or you can piece it together on YT.

Coupe DeVille. Alan Arkin. Anybody with siblings will get it. Funny but a tear-jerker too. Also features gambling! But a great movie, Arkin is great but he's not in these cuts...

 

[Gnat91]

 

[MarkPSU]

Best in Show.

 

[Gnat91]

 

[Indian rocks rich]

. This isn’t the original film i think this is when his family members went to visit him

 

[rudedude]

A Mads Mikkelsen trio

 

[rudedude]

 

[doublehaul]

Let It Ride , Richard Dreyfus, Terri Garr, Jennifer Tilley and Robbie Coltrane.
A cabbie, hooked on gambling, has a very good day at the track, with many twists and turns.

 

[lions15psu]

 

[LionJim]

Good flick.

 

[m.knox]

Oh man, lots of great movies that are lesser known. Who doesn't like Falling Down?

I always get a kick out of this one.

Last one that I think I haven't seen posted........ This one might be a little too main stream.

 

[olelion]

“We caught them and we shot them under rule .303!”

I have seen that movie a dozen times and it wasn’t until recently that I figured out what the .303 meant.

I first saw it on a Qantas flight. I never miss it when it's on TV

 

[olelion]

If you encounter any Boers
You really must not loot 'em!
And if you wish to leave these shores,
For pity's sake, DON'T SHOOT 'EM!!


I have probably a few for this list, also Australian: The Castle, Picnic at Hanging Rock, and Danny Deckchair. But I'd assume someone out there has seen or heard of all of those. The real 'no one has ever heard of this' would be Love Serenade, which has Miranda Otto who was also in Danny Deckchair, among other things. It's not great, but I can't think of too much else that would truly fit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Serenade

(it beats Big Fish to the 'the main character might actually be a fish' deal by several years)

A couple more good aussie flicks:
A Town Called Alice
Caddy

 

[ClarkstonMark]

The Brothers McMullen with Ed Burns

 

[Player2BNamedL8r]

Best in Show.

Excellent choice. Best in Show was definitely the most popular of the C Guest & company movies, but Guffman is the funniest IMHO.

 

[Player2BNamedL8r]

The Brothers McMullen with Ed Burns

GREAT movie.

Another favorite from that timeframe...

 

[LionJim]

The Brothers McMullen with Ed Burns

And a young Connie Britton. It doesn't exactly work for me because someone cheats on Connie Britton in the movie. Who would do that?

 

[LionJim]

GREAT movie.

Another favorite from that timeframe...

Great movie!

 

[Waltwam]

Mine: Sansho the Bailiff (1954), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.

Here's what they say about it in Wiki:

The New Yorker film critic Anthony Lane wrote in his September, 2006 profile on Mizoguchi, "I have seen Sansho only once, a decade ago, emerging from the cinema a broken man but calm in my conviction that I had never seen anything better; I have not dared watch it again, reluctant to ruin the spell, but also because the human heart was not designed to weather such an ordeal."[3] Writing for RogerEbert.com, Jim Emerson extolled the movie: "I don't believe there's ever been a greater motion picture in any language. This one sees life and memory as a creek flowing into a lake out into a river and to the sea."

Heroes with early Winkler and Sally Fields

 

[Beachwineguy]

The Bay, by Barry Levinson. I guess it helps that my wife and I were extras in that movie.

 

[STPGopherfan]

"I Served the King of England"


Funny dark comedy movie. Follows the adult life of a character "Ditie" pre, during and post World War II in Prague.

Knowing many people who are Bohemian(German and Czech-(Sudetenland), I found this movie interesting.

 

[YeOldeCup]

Pursuit of DB Cooper (1981), with Robert Duvall, Treat Williams, and a very buxom Kathryn Harrold...

 

[fkkkjm]

Dark City. IMO one of the best SciFi films done and doesn't seem to be that famous but does get good critical reviews.

Great flick. Good call

 

[fkkkjm]

Is that Alex honnold? Where is testa to confirm?

 

[RiskyBusinessPSU]

"Counterfeit Traitor" (1962) starring William Holden and Lilli Palmer - great WW2 spy thriller.

Since Wes Anderson was mentioned: "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou" has an very touching ending.