What is the best and most underground/niche movies you guys ever watched?

Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
I guess Ex Machina counts as obscure. I remember ordering the DVD from Best Buy and when it asked if I could find it on the shelf, I said no, assuming that nothing would be done because I'm the only one buying it. Next time I walk into Best Buy, I see Ex Machina on the shelves. I didn't write that note because I expect people to listen to me. Sorry Best Buy for fucking with your inventory a little bit.
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I am now holding you personally responsible for all of Alex Garland's work since then. Ex Machina was great but its minor success allowed him to keep making movies.

May God have mercy on your soul.

As for obscure movies, I always mention these two more recent ones, but no one ever says anything about them. These are micro-budget, but they look better, and are performed better than anything big budget in a decade.

My Heart Only Beats Because You Tell It - great slow burn (but not too slow, I mean a bunch of stuff happens) horror.

For The Sake of Vicious - I don't know why they gave it such a retarded name. It's a home invasion movie for like ten minutes and then goes batshit in every direction. I mean the movie is really good, but when you take in to account just how much the did on the budget they had, it is amazing.

Some older ones I will go into later:

Upstream Color - A real fart-huffer of a movie that I still love, despite everyone involved becoming a real piece of shit.

Intervention (not really that obscure anymore)

The Horseman
Sightseers
Prevenge
The Bay - Found footage, body horror, marine horror, but all done the right way
The Signal - (not the one with Morpheus in it)
 
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Gan Ying said:
I enjoyed:
The Red Spectacles (Japanese)
The Hourglass Sanatorium (Polish)
Stalker (Russian)
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (French)
If... (British)
Streets of Fire (American)
Death Laid An Egg (Italian)
The God of Cookery (Chinese)
Alatriste (Spanish)

Disclaimer: Some of these may be more famous and less underground or niche in their countries of origin. I'm not sure.
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Streets of Fire is nowhere near "underground" or obscure in conventional terms. What's weird about it, is that it got almost immediately forgotten despite basically starting the careers of Daniel Dafoe, Diane Lane and Rick Moranis, then being loosely (and poorly) copied by Stallone in his notorious high budget shitfest Cobra. Which somehow looked cheaper than Streets of Fire lol.

Night of the Hunter is the absolute opposite of obscure, it's literally one of the most famous examples of it's era/genre. If you somehow managed to find it by accident and watch it without preconceived expectations, I fucking envy you.
 
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Deadbeat by Dawn because I was sold as soon as I saw karate fighting gangs in Cleveland, Ohio.

Trust is this weird little 90s rom-com if you can call it that about a pregnant high school cheerleader finding solace in some autistic loner computer wiz that gets abused on the daily by his dad. Looks and sounds every bit of mumblecore 90s as you expect.
 
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Cat tit bingo said:
Obscurity is incredibly hard to judge, lots of the foreign movies mention while Obscure to general audiences are absurdly popular in film nerd circles. Average joes probably never heard of stuff like breathless or seventh seal but there still some of the most famous movies ever made.
I like a lots of weird Japanese movies like survive style 5+, big man japan, symbol, love exposer, 964 Pinocchio all the tetsuo movies, warped forest and funky forest but I know people go out of there way for strange Japanese movies so I have no idea if there considered obscure.
The one I'd recommend the most is gozu, a takashi miike movie that starts with a yakuza brutality murdering a tiny pomeranian because he thinks it's a spy and it fucking hilarious. Describing any more would be a disservice but Its beyond bizarre and absurd.
For Something great that I believe is genuinely obscure I recommend "the secret adventures of tom thumb", a weird and fantastic stop motion movie that I'm pretty sure is available on YouTube.

It sucks dogma, one of Kevin Smith's best is one of his least watched, It's almost entirely due to it being in rights limbo since i believe it 100% owned by Harvey weinstein. Man what a piece of shit I don't know anything about the guy but I'm sure keeping dogma locked up is the worst things he's ever done.
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Weinstein was involved with Death Proof, and I love that film, but I felt dirty when I saw his name pop up.
 
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Apteryx Retardi said:
Night of the Hunter is the absolute opposite of obscure, it's literally one of the most famous examples of it's era/genre. If you somehow managed to find it by accident and watch it without preconceived expectations, I fucking envy you.
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Pardon me, Mr. WELLACKSHUALLY;) Like I said, I wasn't sure if it counts as obscure (I guess I should've gone with niche) but I've had friends who are immediately turned off by black and white movies. I'm just doing my due diligence incase there are any poor, little lambs here unfamiliar with it.
 
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I'd have to go back into my ICM account to find the exact title, but about ten years back I somehow found a Japanese movie about a tetraplegic guy who suddenly decides to become a murderer (to his occasional caregiver.) I believe they used an actual spastic to play the lead role.

It wasn't quite gonzo style/videocam quality, but a very eerie quality to it, and minimal score if I remember rightly.

~20 year old watched a pirated copy of this about midnight one evening, and actually said to myself, when it finished, 'what the fuck was that?'

I can dig the name out if anyone is interested. It's actually a well done film given the insane premise.
 
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Twilight Twill*^ said:
One of favorite movies is Dogma, by Kevin Smith. It came out in 1999, long before Smith was woke-cucked.
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Cat tit bingo said:
It sucks dogma, one of Kevin Smith's best is one of his least watched
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Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
Definitely Kevin Smith's most competent movie.
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Are you turds serious?

Ignoring the fact that "god" is a woman and the most important apostle was black because whatever, the dialogue through that entire shitfest literally sounds like it was written by an edgy angsty teenager who works at the movie theater. Which, I guess is true for all of his movies, but even compared to his other shit, Dogma seemed over the top. It's one of the corniest movies I've ever seen.

As far as good obscure shit, man nothing beats the 70's. There were so many great gritty films that I think most people don't know much about because they predated Blockbuster. Here's a few:
  • Blue Collar (Richard Pryor in a non-comedy role, with Yaphet Kotto & Harvey Keitel)
  • The Friends of Eddie Coyle
  • Thief (technically early 80's but same era)
  • Taking of Pelham 123 (original, not the shitty remake)
  • Thunderbolt & Lightfoot (Clint Eastwood and Lebowski)
  • Rolling Thunder (Tommy Lee Jones & the guy that sells reverse mortgages now)
  • Mr Majestyk (good ol Charlie Bronson, better than any of his Death Wish shit)
Get up on that good old shit motherfuckers.
 
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Angst (1983)
Stroszek (1977)
Spoorloos (1988.)
Morgiana (1972)
Star 80 (1983)
Hausu (1977)

Not super obscure to film freaks, but obscure/forgotten enough that normal people have never heard of them.
 
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Your Starter for 10 said:
I am now holding you personally responsible for all of Alex Garland's work since then. Ex Machina was great but its minor success allowed him to keep making movies.

May God have mercy on your soul.
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That's fair.
Unarmed Gunman said:
Are you turds serious?

Ignoring the fact that "god" is a woman and the most important apostle was black because whatever, the dialogue through that entire shitfest literally sounds like it was written by an edgy angsty teenager who works at the movie theater. Which, I guess is true for all of his movies, but even compared to his other shit, Dogma seemed over the top. It's one of the corniest movies I've ever seen.
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Bro, I watch comedy movies to laugh.
 
ephermeral said:
Pardon me, Mr. WELLACKSHUALLY;) Like I said, I wasn't sure if it counts as obscure (I guess I should've gone with niche) but I've had friends who are immediately turned off by black and white movies. I'm just doing my due diligence incase there are any poor, little lambs here unfamiliar with it.
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You don't have to take shit from that guy, he confused Willem Defoe with Daniel Defoe
 
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I'm a stop motion fan, especially when it comes to weird stuff like that done by the Brothers Quay. Street of Crocodiles may not be obscure, since it went on to influence creators like Tool, Tim Burton, and the team behind Silent Hill, but it's doubtful that most people today have seen it.

Jan and Václav Švankmajer are also stop motion artists that I like. Svetlonos has a real Dark Souls vibe and you can view it for free on Youtube:

 
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