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Here are some movies in my MP4 NAS collection that struck me as unique and necessary, even though they aren't award winners. Would like to hear your recommendations to add to my collection:

Looker (Albert Finney, James Coburn, Susan Dey) - digital theft of beauty, murders included.

Ticket to Heaven (Nick Mancuso, Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek, Meg Foster) - young man gets sucked into a cult.

The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (Treat Williams, Robert Duvall, Kathryn Harrold, Paul Gleason) - great movie in terminal legal dispute. Had to buy a VHS version to rip to MP4.

Deep in the Valley (Chris Pratt, Denise Richards) - OK, this is purely a guy flick, and alcohol enhances the effect...

Absence of Malice (Paul Newman, Sally Field) - OK, not so obscure, but the scene near the end with Wilford Brinley is classic.

Gorky Park (William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy) - murders in Moscow.

Posse (Kirk Douglas, Bruce Dern) -- ah, the thin line between the good guys and the bad guys.

The Beguiled (Clint Eastwood) -- injured deserter takes advantage of hospitality during the Civil War.

Hanna (Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana) - teen death machine.

A Boy and His Dog (Don Johnson, Jason Robards) - one of the strangest movies I ever saw -- at PSU in the Forum on a Saturday night.
 
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'Silent Partner' -- Elliot Gould and Christopher Plummer
'Girl in the Cafe' -- Kelly MacDonald and Bill Nighy
'Bagdad Cafe' -- C.C.H. Pounder, Jack Palance and Christine Kaufmann (memorable for me in 'Taras Bulba')
'Black Book' -- Carice van Houten (great actress), Sebastian Koch. (Dutch movie with subtitles)
 
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The Last Detail - Jack Nickleson, Randy Quaid
Cinderella Liberty - James Caan
Pope of Greenwich Village - Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts
Twenty Bucks - Everybody in Hollywood
Buffalo 66 - Rucci
The Lives of Others -
Boxing Helena-
The Bank Job-
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels-
Snatch-
Get Shorty-

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Trumbo - Brian Cransten

I'm an engineer, I can't spell!!
 
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King of the City - Treat Williams. Intense NYC Cop corruption drama.
Divided We Fall - Czech foreign film winner with subtitle. Drama/Comedy of couple hiding jewish neighbor during Nazi occupation.
Buffalo 66 (as mentioned above) - Comedy (dark). If you like band Yes watch this.
 
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Arlington Road - creepy tale about domestic terrorism. Jeff Bridges, Joan Cusack, Tim Robbins
 
King of Hearts - 1966 - Genevieve Bujold - WW2 setting in which lunatics run a town after the town inhabitants evacuate
Brazil - 1985 - Monty Python-esque - influential, dark and wierd
The Third Man - 1949 - Orson Welles - unique cinematography - great acting
 
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LionJim said:
Fat City
You Can Count On Me
Local Hero
The Last Picture Show
Winter's Bone
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Forgot 'Local Hero'. I watched it 3-4 times. Really good.

Jim, you ought to read Texasville, McMurtry's sequel to The Last Picture Show. Texasville is a very funny and poignant novel. Duane and his wife are a pisser. When his wife sees Duane walking a distance and not in his pickup, she knew something was wrong. :eek::) The movie version sucked. Really disappointed me.
 
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PSUTENN1 said:
The Last Detail - Jack Nickleson, Randy Quaid
Cinderella Liberty - James Caan
Pope of Greenwich Village - Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts
Twenty Bucks - Everybody in Hollywood
Buffalo 66 - Rucci
The Lives of Others -

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Trumbo - Brian Cransten

I'm an engineer, I can't spell!!
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Pope of Greenwich Village, another good one. Eric Roberts is very good. Try reading the novel. Well worth the time.:)
 
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Im not sure if these are obscure enough but they are favorites

Nobody's Fool - Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy and Melanie Griffith
Diner - O'Rourke, Daley, Bacon, Rieser, Barkan...
Michael Clayton - Clooney, Wilkinson, Pollak
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Love this thread.

Nobody's Fool was superb. Once again, the novel is excellent. Sully is a classic character. Russo just published a sequel, Everybody's Fool. Good, but not nearly up to Nobody's Fool.
 
Yeah, read "Texasville." McMurthy is always enjoyable.

And, yeah, "Nobody's Fool" is a great film, my favorite Paul Newman performance. Bruce Willis is great in it as well. Yes, the book is excellent, but if I had to push one Richard Russo book on anyone, it would be "Straight Man." It's hysterical. It's the one book I regularly gift.
 
Warlords of Atlantis

King of the Gypsies (A very young Eric Roberts as the heir, a drunken Judd Hirsch as the passed over/pissed off father, Sterling Hayden as the dying "king", Zharko Stepanovich, Susan Sarandon as a "boujou" woman).
 
Maybe not obscure, but mine would be Miller's Crossing.

It's gettin' so a businessman can't expect no return from a fixed fight. Now, if you can't trust a fix, what can you trust? For a good return, you gotta go bettin' on chance - and then you're back with anarchy, right back in the jungle.
 
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Wow, this brings back some memories of films I had forgotten about.
Three Days of the Condor ( it's just old, not small budget )
 
Liberty Heights -- Joe Mantegna, Adrien Brody ("You don't walk out on Sinatra")
 
"New York Stories." These are three 40-or-so minute films directed by Scorsese, FF Coppola, and Woody Allen. The FFC one is bad, the Allen one is very funny but slight, and the Scorsese one, "Life Lessons," with Nick Nolte as a famous artist, is a masterpiece, brilliant.

 
Here are a few obscure ones I enjoyed... sometimes it was just because they were unexpected. Also This will have a scifi twist.

SciFi:
THX-1186 (mainly the white prison scene)
Logan's Run
Capricorn One
Primer

Not SciFi
Mulholland Drive
The Spanish Prisoner
Touching the Void
Short Cuts
 
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The Conversation - Hackman and Coppola
To Live and Die in LA - William Petersen, Willem Dafoe, a surprisingly good Jon Pankow

Like "Looker" from out of the blue! Could watch Miller's Crossing and Ronin over and over again.
 
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"Night Shift" with Henry Winkler and Michael Keaton. Keaton is awesome as Bill, the idea guy.

"Wanna know why I carry this tape recorder? To tape things. See, I'm an idea man, Chuck. I got ideas coming at me all day... I couldn't even fight 'em off if I wanted. Wait a second... hold the phone! Hold the phone! [speaking into tape recorder] Idea to eliminate garbage. Edible paper. You eat it, it's gone! You eat it, it's outta there! No more garbage!"
 
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Charlie Wilson's War
Cider House Rules
The Ipcress File
The English Patient
Pan's Labrynth

I agree on Diner, Buffalo 66, and Waking Ned Devine (which I just rewatched)

And 2 recent ones:
Bridge of Spies
Eye in the Sky
 
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