What's your favourite movie...that chances are, none of your friends have even heard of?

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The Beast

Tackling a war that most people never knew happened until the US entered Afghanistan following Sept 11th, The Beast occurs in 1981, where a Soviet tank crew in Afghanistan gets separated from its column, and ends up lost in an unforgiving terrain...pursued by the Mujahideen whose small village they've just destroyed.
The tank commander however is nuts, and kills one of his own men, and leaves another, Koverchenko, as bait for his pursuers, however the Afghans are obliged to take Koverchenko under their protection and hospitality when he cites the tribal code of Nanawatai.
Not only does the entire cast perform beyond Hollywood expectations, but unlike many war movies, this is neither a propane-tanks-blowing-up, nor a lovestory-set-against-the-backdrop-of-war. This is war in its human form.
Plus there's the delicious irony of the Afghans being the protagonists, since this was prior to Sept 11th and the villainization of Afghan warlords...at the time this movie was made, the Afghans were the good guys trying to fight off the Evil Soviet Empire...

It's an incredibile war movie, possibly even surpassing Saving Private Ryan, A Bridge Too Far or The Longest Day...yet very few people have ever heard of it.


What's your secret?

 

I've not seen many obscure films that my friends would not have seen...

So, that's a difficult question...

 

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Six Degrees of Separation
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There are a few: "The Spider's Web" by Bernhard Wicki; "Goodbye, Boys!" by Mikhail Kilik; "Secrets of a Soul" by G.W. Pabst; "The Letter Never Sent" by Mikhail Kalatazov; "The Legend of the Holy Drinker" by Ermanno Olmi; "Profound Desire of the Gods" by Shohei Imamura; "Cabiria" by Giovanni Pastrone; "The Meadow" by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani; "The Son" by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne; "Behzin Meadow" by Sergei Eisenstein; "Vengeance is Mine" by Imamura; "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" by Sergei Paradjanov; "Nishi Ginzi Station" by Imamura; "Cammina, Cammina" by Olmi; "Platform"; "The Day a Pig Fell into the Well"; "An Inn in Tokyo" by Yasujiro Ozu; "Zero Kelvin" by Hans Petter Moland; "Berlin Alexanderplatz" by Rainer Werner Fassbinder; "The Last Bolshevik" by Chris Marker; "Woman of Tokyo" by Ozu; "The Secret of the Old Woods" by Olmi; "The Clockmaker" by Bertrand Tavernier; "Little Otik" by Jan Svankmajer; and so on......

 

Wasabi with Jean Reno, man does that movie rule.

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Wow, those are some obscure movies!

 

Bottle Rocket - it could just be that my friends don't get out much...

 

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The Quiet Earth

 

If I hadn't gotten most of my friends to see the show and movie... End of Evangelion. But I have, so I have no clue.

-P!-

 

Initially I'd say Donnie Darko but most of my friends have heard of it by now so I'll say Clue.

 

For some odd reason most of my friends have not seen Garden State. Its my favorite movie that none of them have seen.

 

Hackers, probably. It's a terrible movie, but between the cheesiness and the soundtrack I like it a lot.

 

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I actually have friends that haven't heard of these movies.....

Blue Velvet
Wild at Heart
Drugstore Cowboy
Naked Lunch

 

The Crow.

For some odd reason, no one in my circle of friends knew about it until I told them.

 

Well, Raiders is my favourite movie, but the one that I really do love, that not a lot of people around my area know about is Dazed and Confused.

IT ROCKS! It also helped launch the careers of some celebs...Matthew McConaughey, Milla Jovovich, Ben Affleck, Adam Goldberg, Parker Posey, Joey Lauren Adams, and if you look carefully you can see Renée Zellweger in an uncredited cameo!

I got my friends hooked on Bruce Campbell vs. the Army of Darkness.

 

Closet Land with Madeline Stowe and Alan Rickman

 

I don't know too many people who have seen Paris, Texas. Another more recent obscure one is Empire Records, released I think, at the wrong time.

 

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Was tunn, wenn's brennt? ~ What To Do In Case of Fire? tells the humorous and touching story of six former creative anarchists who lived as house squatters in Berlin during its heyday in the 80s when Berlin was still an island in the middle of the former eastern Germany. At the end of the 80s they went their separate ways with the exception of Tim and Hotte, who have remained true to their ideals and continue to fight the issues they did as a group. In 2000, with Berlin as Germany's new capital, an event happens forcing the group out of existential reason to reunite and, ultimately, come to grips with the reason they separated 12 years ago.

 

None of my friend's have seen Reservoir Dogs... What losers...

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My friends had never seen Falling Down, but I showed it to them and they loved it.

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Falling Down was a great movie. Depressing, but great.

 

"Until the End of the World"

It's a Wim Wenders film starring Sam Neill and William Hurt. Great flick.

 

Star Wars.

 

Boondock Saints...American Splendor...

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