Obscure non blockbuster films worth seeing. Follow

Better off dead and one crazy summer are obscure movies along the lines of the breakfast club, and launched john cusack's career as an actor. Also Versus, by Ryuhei Kitamura is the japanese version of the evil dead films, and Chris Marker's la jetee does science fiction perfectly in 25 or so minutes and with still frames.

It's a tragedy. I don't have to like incest to think the film is awesome. That's like saying I need to like regicide to appreciate Macbeth.

"A tale of two sisters" if anyone wants more Korean horror movies of a good quality. (imo anyway)

And I almost forgot Belgium's top absurd and weird b-movie "C'est arrivé pres de chez vous". Basically proving that for good movies, the Walloons are still number one.

I'm reminded of "Wings of Desire". 1987, by the director Wim Wenders. Original German title translates out to The Heaven/Sky Over Berlin.

It's a gorgeous, gorgeous little contemplative film. It's about two angels who companionably hang out together, while they do their job of contemplating and recording what goes on on Earth. No humans but children can see them. From angel perspective, the world is in monochrome, and from human perspective it's in colour.

They sit around in peculiar places, like on top of lofty statues on obelisks. And they watch some mortals in particular. So it's the angels' story, and it's the story of some particular human people, as well as a story about the city of Berlin.

Eventually they meet a human who used to be an angel himself, but became mortal.

I'm not telling any more of the story, because I don't want to give away the ending.


If you think you know a film that sounds like this one, you'd be right. Wings of Desire has in part or in pieces inspired more than a few other movies since.

Personally I found Wings of Desire to be an intense and riveting movie, for one where very little happens in it. Also I fell in lust with one of the angels. But then I'm prone to do that.

Also, if you haven't seen A Fish Called Wanda, you suck and you need to remedy that.

City of Lost Children, if it hasn't been mentioned.

Nexa

I saw the topic of this thread in the active threads part of the forum list and just had to come in and mention that "Obscure non blockbuster" is redundant.






Carry on.

I can suggest two that I found funny:

The Guru
Eulogy

I've seen it. It's not bad, but it's forgettable. I remember the gun-fu sequences, but not much else from it. If you haven't seen Gattaca either, you should.

The girl next door is a much better movie than it seems from looking at the previews.

I recently enjoyed Persepolis, and I'm planning to see The Triplets of Belleville.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space

Also, City of God was phenomenal. Though it did receive some Academy Award nominations (Cinematography, Directing, Editing, Writing - 2004), it's still not a very well-known film IMO.