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Lesser known film gems?
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Does anybody have a film they really love that they feel should have a wider audience? I think this would be a good place to share recomendations. For instance, I'd have to recommend I Went Down (an Irish gangster road movie with Peter MacDonald and Brendan Gleeson) and Living In Oblivion (Steve Buscemi as frustrated director making an independent feature) for top black comedies, The Changeling for scariest movie ever, and split screen nuclear threat Vietnam vet wants justice pic, Twilight's Last Gleaming (Burt Lancaster and Charles Durning). Also Electra Glide In Blue (70's who dunnit, moral dilema for 2 Highway Patrol cops).
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Snotmonkey, I have seen Malcolm a couple of times and I thought it was an excellent film, both funny and sad.
I would choose Hedwig and the angry inch. It won an award at the sundance festival last year. It's a musical set in Germany about a man who had a sex change operation and whose lover stole all the songs he had written and became famous. It really is a terriffic film. The songs are excellent too, I loved them so much I downloaded them and listen to them regularly.
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paulhopps22, Johnny Dangerously is one of the funniest films i've seen - almost anything Roman Maroney says has me on the floor in hysterics. I made a tape once of just his lines from the film, and used to play it whenever i needed a laugh. Films i'd recommend are The Big Lebowski - (he peed on my rug!) - The Dead Zone (i know, but Christopher Walken is pure class) - and Le Femme Nikita (anything by Luc Besson is worth watching really). There are more, but i'm boring you. ;)
Say Anything...good one Mr Darko (have you seen The Sure Thing)? I remember a Neil Jordan film named The Company of Wolves based on an Angela Carter short story. Basically about the coming of age of a young girl, whose dreams are set within a nightmarish fairytale. The soundtrack is absolutely gorgeous.
Race With The Devil with Loretta Switt, Peter Fonda and Warren Oates, about 2 motorcycle mechanics going on a camper van trip with their wives, and upset local townsfolk who happen to be devil worshippers.....magic movie and quite scary too. Others are:
Revenge, (with Joan Collins, a 70's movie about a family who get revenge for their daughters abduction/killing).
When A Stranger Calls, (with Charles Durning playing a psychopath who terrorizes a babysitter while killing the children she's looking after, this scared the sh1t outta me).
Chopper, (with Eric Bana, about the true story of australian gangster/hardnut, Mark "Chopper" Reed, amazing independant movie well worth a watching).
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