Lesser known film recommendations.

[red_tom]

I'm looking for little known screen gems to add to my collection. Any recommendations?

To start things rolling I'll offer

Harold and Maude Funny, very touching, brilliantly acted and a groovy Cat Stevens soundtrack. I've also just noticed it was released the day after I was born.

 

[Aperitif]

I liked this - probably my last sortie to the cinema...

 

[Kirstie]

Apartment Zero
Little known cult film from the late 80s and has the blackest of black humour.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

The Gods must be Crazy. I think it's a South African film from the 1970s. Funny and touching (and, if truth be told, slightly patronising, but hey).

 

[Dayvo]

This offering from Australia is one of the blackest, sickest, and funniest films I have seen!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Boy_Bubby

A Swedish classic: a real feel-good film.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Life_as_a_Dog

Another Swedish classic:

http://www.filethirteen.com/reviews/tillsammans/tillsammans.htm

 

[Hilldodger]

I really like the Czech film Closely Observed Trains

http://film.guardian.co.uk/Century_Of_Films/Story/0,,89442,00.html

 

[Cathryn]

A fantastic couple of french films:

1) He loves me, he loves me not
2) Don't tell anyone (ne le dit a personne)

Wicked films!!

 

[beanzontoast]

Fail Safe. The original with Henry Fonda as the President. A truly disturbing film.

 

[yello]

'Saratoga Trunk' with Gary Cooper & Ingrid Bergman. Absolutely superb performances all around but the thing I remember most is the sharp as a tack dialogue. Bergman's character is really sassy and she delivers the lines brilliantly. The scenes between her and Cooper sizzle! A great script.

 

[User169]

A few more suggestions...

"Les Valseuses" - a young Gerard Depardieu shags his way back and forth across France

"Sonatine" - Takeshi Kitano plays a world-weary Yakuza holed up on Okinawa

"Summer with Monica" - an early Bergman classic

"LA Takedown" - Michael Mann's original TV version of the De Niro/Pacino "Heat"; I like this version more than the remake.

 

[goo_mason]

Le Diner De Cons (The Idiot's Dinner)
Tatie Danielle
City Of Lost Children

The Happiness Of The Katakuris
Ichi The Killer

Mars - Russian Amelie-esque treat (may not be available in the UK; film company sent me a free copy after I complimented them on it after seeing it at the EIFF)

36 Quai D'Orfevres

Tae Guk Gi (The Brotherhood of War)

Torremolinos '73


American Splendor

 

[Aperitif]

Flippin' 'eck Goo - I just popped in to post about the Diner des Cons.
That is one great laugh and I defy anyone not to hold their head in their hands and say 'Arrrggh!' when the 'fall guy' is on the telephone trying to explain stuff...watch it now - it's brilliant!

 

[Odyssey]

Tae Guk Gi (The Brotherhood of War)

I love that film. Also A very Long Engagement, which is a fairly popular French war/romantic movie. R-Point too - another South Korean war flick but with a bit of an unusual angle. I like war movies...

 

[Globalti]

Fargo by the Coen Brothers - fascinating accents and black humour.

Fitzcarraldo - madness in the Amazon and Burden of Dreams, the film about the making of Fitzcarraldo.

Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources - tragic, keep a hanky ready, excellent acting.

 

[simonali]

Haven't seen it, but I like the look of this.