Genuinely good movies that have went under the radar?

Technocentral

Autofocus, Blackthorn and 2010: The Year We Make Contact.

Technocentral

yourdeadwright wrote: »

Memento with Guy Pearce,

Everyone was talking about one.

ger vallely

Dirty Pretty Things. I don’t think it was too well known? A brilliant story of illegal organ harvesting of illegal workers. Set in London if I remember correctly.

ger vallely

Dirty Pretty Things. I don’t think it was too well known? A brilliant story of illegal organ harvesting of illegal workers. Set in London if I remember correctly.

NIMAN

yourdeadwright wrote: »

Memento with Guy Pearce,

I heard they are doing a remake!:eek:

Technocentral

I'd add Bad Day at Black Rock and Night of the Hunter.

saintsaltynuts

Wake In Fright(1971).About a school teacher who's supposed to stay one night in an Aussie town but get's caught up in the mayhem the place has to offer.Wont give too much away but it's a lost classic.

ryathoe

Danton - French film about the revolutionary starring Gerard Depardieu - great film.

GalwayKiefer

spookwoman wrote: »

Chopper - Story of Mark "Chopper" Read based on his book From the Inside. Eric Bana

+1 for Chopper. Eric Bana does a fantastic job portraying him. I had the dvd years ago and they interviewed Read for the dvd extras.

Lorelli!

Chev_Chelios wrote: »

The Wanderers. A 1979 movie about teenage gangs in the Bronx during the 60's. Directed by the same man who wrote Indiana Jones.

I watched that film years ago and loved it. I can't remember much of it now. I think it was a bit like grease but had a much darker element to it? The soundtrack of it was amazing.

Lorelli!

spookwoman wrote: »

Romper Stomper - Skinkheads in Australia with Russell Crowe
Chopper - Story of Mark "Chopper" Read based on his book From the Inside. Eric Bana
The Hidden - Sci Fi Kyle MacLachlan is chasing an alien parasite that taken of human bodies and goes on a crime spree
Society - Just weird

Never saw The Hidden but the other 3 are all very good.

I vaguely remember watching the comedy horror The People Under The Stairs as a kid and being creeped out. Not sure if it went under the radar but I must watch it again.

tomofson

Lorelli! wrote: »

I watched that film years ago and loved it. I can't remember much of it now. I think it was a bit like grease but had a much darker element to it? The soundtrack of it was amazing.

I seen that film the wanderers when I was like 9 or 10, and I couldn't stop saying, "nobody ****s with the baldies".

The duckie boys terrified me as a kid, I had no idea they where based off a real life Irish american street gang.

I also loved another gang movie called The Warriors from the same year.

Lorelli!

tomofson wrote: »

I seen that film the wanderers when I was like 9 or 10, and I couldn't stop saying, "nobody ****s with the baldies"..

I can't remember that part. I must say that to my brother though cause he's a baldy could have also been a line from Romper Stomper!

turbot

Old Boy (original) was amazing.
Spirited Away & Howls Moving Castle - great films too.

tomofson

Lorelli! wrote: »

I can't remember that part. I must say that to my brother though cause he's a baldy could have also been a line from Romper Stomper!

No it was definitely from the wanderers, I seen it recently, I loved romper stomper too.

Lorelli!

tomofson wrote: »

No it was definitely from the wanderers, I seen it recently, I loved romper stomper too.

I know. I was joking.

tricky D

I'll throw in Parents with Randy Quaid and Mary Beth Hurt, Dir Bob Balaban. Creepy with a great soundtrack. Beware spoilers.

spookwoman

Lorelli! wrote: »

Never saw The Hidden but the other 3 are all very good.

I vaguely remember watching the comedy horror The People Under The Stairs as a kid and being creeped out. Not sure if it went under the radar but I must watch it again.

I remember that one as well same guy who played the priest in silver bullet was in it.

Few others are
Moon 44 - sci fi with Michael Pare
Dark Angel - Sci Fi with Dolf Lundgren
Wasabi - Action with Jean Reno
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone - sci fi with Peter Strauss and Molly Ringwold

PlaneSpeeking

Probably banned nowadays given the Me too nonsense but The Life of David Gale should be mandatory to watch.

Winslet is meh as per but Spacey I don't think has been finer.

Kenny B

The Castle (1997) - Australian film with the uncle from Sullivan's and Eric Bana's 1st film, one of the funniest I've seen, brilliant writing and acting,

Management - Jenifer Aniston/Steve Zahn, simple and easy to watch with great music all through it,

Ma ma - Spanish film with Penelope Cruz, best film I watched this year, by far,

Sleep Tight - The male actor from Ma ma did another great Spanish Film, a mad storyline but very enjoyable.

and lastly because I just lover Penelope Cruz.

Volver - Spanish again but so good you don't notice the subtitles.

Wottle

Rudderless - stays with you for a while, great soundtrack

SimonTemplar

The Survivalist was one of my favorite films from 2016. Very taunt and raw film making and dripping in tension.

Donatron

Mud (2013) - An excellent film with shades of Stand By Me. Stars Matthew McConaughey and was one of the first films of his recent renaissance, before Dallas Byers Club, Interstellar etc.

hgfj

Lucky starring Harry Dean Stanton. Released in USA in October, 2017 so maybe too soon to be under the radar. He died two days before the offical release. Played a 91 year old atheist. A very personal film based on his own philosphy on life.

sicknotexi

Drugstore Cowboy.

Mrcaramelchoc

Tresspass

Hard rain

Surviving the game.

cnocbui

After Hours (1985)

A Good Year (2006)

GreNoLi

Exorcist 3

sinnerboy0

"The 25th Hour" starring Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rosario Dawson.

"A Most Violent Year" Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain, not an original story in that it's someone with a shady past trying to go legit but it's a new telling, location, and era

chatticusfinch

Chef, the Jon Favreau movie was pretty good, and the food looked class. I'd also have a soft spot for Begin Again, the John Carney movie with Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo.

tomofson

sicknotexi wrote: »

Drugstore Cowboy.

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Oh I love that film, another good one is My Own Private Idaho (1991)

Night of the comet (1984) is another good one, particularly if you are like me and love 80's horror movies.

The Funhouse (1981) I really loved this one too.

Clownhouse (1989)

Rebel Rebel

Carnage 2011

Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behavior throws the discussion into chaos.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1692486/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_38

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPX6-4Bo7XU

bnt

chatticusfinch wrote: »

Chef, the Jon Favreau movie was pretty good, and the food looked class.

Which reminds me of another great food-themed movie that seems to have dropped off the radar: Big Night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkaaUuQwRZY

Technocentral

Deleted User wrote: »

"A Most Violent Year" Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain, not an original story in that it's someone with a shady past trying to go legit but it's a new telling, location, and era

Happened upon that on TV a while back, didn't know anything about it bit it was fantastic.

kuntboy

Sorcerer
Ran
Amour
Blue Ruin
Castaway (Oliver Reed version)
Ironclad
Last Train Home
Salaam Bombay
Snow on tha Bluff
Starred Up
The Experiment
Another Year

Ipso

What about The Grey, I don't think it was a hit.

EagererBeaver

Ipso wrote: »

What about The Grey, I don't think it was a hit.

Yeah, really enjoyed that one.

The 3.10 to Yuma remake had Christian Bale and Russell Crowd but I don't remember it being a bit either. Loved it.

EagererBeaver

EagererBeaver wrote: »

Yeah, really enjoyed that one.

The 3.10 to Yuma remake had Christian Bale and Russell Crowd but I don't remember it being a bit either. Loved it.

Watched that recently, it was great, Russell Crowe was really warm and charming which I enjoyed

Ipso

Adventureland. I seem to remember the trailer making it out to be a comedy like American Pie.

NinetyTwoTeam

Ipso wrote: »

Adventureland. I seem to remember the trailer making it out to be a comedy like American Pie.

I love adventureland. It was a much more tasteful coming of age comedy than American pie which ia q terrible film. Adventureland much realer and even funnier. The part where Bill Hader chases the guy with the bat is hilarious. And Kristen Stewart looked amazing.

odyssey06

The Bounty, 1980s epic version The Mutiny on the Bounty starring Anthony Hopkins and Mel Gibson, with minor roles for Daniel Day Lewis and Liam Neeson early in their careers.

Liberty Heights, a late 1990s film looking back at the 1950s as a Jewish boy falls for an African-American girl, starring Ben Foster and Adrien Brody.

A Slight Case of Murder, with William H Macy, a screwball dark comedy.

The Sweet Hereafter by Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan, starring Ian Holm and Sarah Polley.
Also Exotica by the same director, starring Bruce Greenwood.
I don't think either of the above are that well known outside Canada.

Automan

Once Were Warriors

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110729/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Heres Johnny

Automan wrote: »

Once Were Warriors

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110729/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Top notch movie

EagererBeaver

Automan wrote: »

Once Were Warriors

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110729/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Ah no. Universally acclaimed.

gmisk

I really liked

The way way back

The hunt for the wilderpeople (but it seems to have now found its audience!)

Trick r treat (cracking little horror anthology film)

Whip it

Equilibrium

The iron giant

The cooler

I also thought the edge of seventeen was very underrated... Similar in a way to ladybird but a lot better imo

overthebridge

Kalifornia with David Duchovny, Julliette Lewis and a very young Brad Pitt.

Jimbob1977

I greatly enjoyed 30 Days of Night

A good, high tension, vampire film.

NapoleonInRags

The Station Agent and Win Win

Both written and directed by Thomas McCarthy

mistersifter

Chev_Chelios wrote: »

The Wanderers. A 1979 movie about teenage gangs in the Bronx during the 60's. Directed by the same man who wrote Indiana Jones.

first saw this in the early 90s as a kid. Bought this on DVD a while back for an aul nostalgia trip. Dont f*ck with the baldies! or the wangs for that matter.

more recently,. i liked Harsh Times with Christian Bale acting the nutter in it.