Best obscure movie

Cave Dwellers with Miles O'Keefe is a great movie.

 

This movie is possibly the most unique movie I have ever seen and Bowie is exceptional in it.

 

Lowkey one of Nic Cage's BEST movies. This was after Adaptation too. Man what happened to him

 

He had tax troubles and had to just accept whatever movie had a paycheck to work off his debt.

 

This and his main focus isn’t making movies anymore. He has a lot of interests and issues off the screen. Sobriety isn’t his strong point.

 

And while we're talking unheralded Nicholas Cage movies, I'll throw in Lord of War. That movie has a 61% on Rotten Tomatoes. What were critics thinking.

 

I'd have to say Raising Arizona

 

The Mighty Quinn (Denzel Washington as chief of police on a fictitious Caribbean island. Awesome reggae soundtrack.)

Local Hero (Houston connection)

 

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.

and Midnight Madness.

 

I posted on the first page. I would include Avatar also though.

 

Any fans of Dark City? Don't want to say much about it since there may be some spoilers.

There's also a dog movie called Fluke that I thought was suprisingly good and a little bit dark. It's rated PG

 

Dark City is great.

Thinking about this thread: http://bbs.clutchfans.net/index.php?threads/this-is-bugging-me-yall.288109/ reminded me of The Bay, a pretty good found footage horror-type movie.

 

Lost Highway

Donnie Darko

Jacob's Ladder

 

Lord of War is criminally underrated!! Jared Leto and Ethan Hawke owned as well

 

LOVED Dark City. "HE CAN TUNE"

 

I liked Nobody's Baby a lot. Gary Oldman is brilliant in this.

 

@elrond Dark City is awesome. Great movie.

I'll throw a couple of my favorites out there:

- Brick - Rian Johnson's first film. Stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt. This is inexplicably one of my 3 or 4 favorite ever movies.
- Sing Street - From the guy who wrote and directed "Once." Really cute, great to watch with a lady.
- Green Room - Violent... fun, kind of scary. Good stuff.
- Miller's Crossing - Not exactly obscure as it's a Coen Brothers movie, but it always feels criminally under-discussed among their oeuvre. It's amazing... especially if you only know Albert Finney as a fat old man.
- Way of the Gun - Dumb, violent, messy movie with Ryan Phillippe and Benicio Del Toro as guys kidnapping a pregnant woman.
- Hush - Taught scary movie about a deaf and mute woman locked in her nice house in the woods... as it gets attacked by a crazy killer.
- Kicking and Screaming (NOT the Will Farrell movie) - It's (IMO) a better version of the Houston-filmed Reality Bites. College kids not sure what to do after graduation in the 90s. Eric Stoltz leads the cast... a Noah Baumbach joint.
- The Two Faces of January - Great, thoughtfully paced neo-noir starring Aragorn, Mary Jane Watson (version 1), and Poe Dameron.


All I can think of at the moment...

 

I think we're probably stretching the use of the word "obscure" with some of these. It's more like great movies that have been forgotten or were just underrated.

In Bruges
Bringing out the Dead (keeping the Nicholas Cage train going)

 

@DCkid... you're totally right. My list is not very "obscure." There is a genuine "movie star" in each one of those films, which raises their profile considerably.

That being said... Bringing out the Dead is HUGELY underrated. Nobody talks about it only because it's like Scorsese's 7th best movie... turns out his 7th best is WAY better than most people's best. Great Nic Cage performance.

 

The greatest 'teen rebellion' movie ever made: