Little Known Movies You Enjoyed

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One thing I hate about Hollywood is the fact that great movies often fall through the cracks. Are there any movies you like that few people know about? Here are some of mine (note: this time, I think plot descriptions should be permitted)
Singles (think Friends in Seattle)
The Spitfire Grill (a female criminal reforms and helps run a restuarant. Great redemption story)
The Watcher in the Woods (you won’t believe this is a Disney movie when you watch this)
Cube (8 people are trapped in a booby-trap filled, cubic, maze-like building)
Evolver (a toy robot that was originally designed for the military creates havoc because it can’t lose and “evolves” every time you play. I put evolves in quotes because it’s more like the robot merely adapts. Jon DeLancie, who played Q on Star Trek: TNG, plays the robot’s inventor.)
 
there was a lovely movie on TV a few years ago with Martin Sheen as an Irish-American who has made it big, and returns to Ireland for his father’s funeral. the on-screen dialogues with his dead “da” as he learns or recalls how much his father really loved him are a beautiful parable. can’t recall the name, or if it was made-for-TV, but I would like it on tape.

another one that is now starting to turn up on HBO is Life is Beautiful with an Italian cast, about a lovable clownish waiter who courts and wins a society girl. When the man and his son are taken to a concentration camp, the father makes the whole experience a big game to lessen the horror for his child. I won’t spoil the ending which shows how the game ends and who is the “winner” but it is beautiful.
 
The movie called **Little Margaret **

Blessed Margaret of Castello was born in the 1287

The “unwanted” of the world have a patron saint in a medieval woman who was born a crippled, blind and hunchbacked dwarf.

It’s real good movie and a touching one. Little Margaret was serene, cheerful and courageous. She never became bitter, never complained, never reproached others or lost heart. Her cheerfulness, based on her trust in God’s love and goodness, was extraordinary.

When she died at the age of 33 again sharing another grace with Our dear Lord

scroll down to the pictures, to Gift of being a Mother - Listen to Fr. Silvestro explain to Little Margaret that’s she becoming a woman, it’s really done so nicely

excerptsofinri.com/little_margaret.html

Another little moive is “Tilly” it’s a Message of Hope, a pro-life story on a powerful promise of love and forgiveness. Based from a true story of healing.

The story unfolds, we discover the truth about the past. This deeply moving story is the couple’s journey and struggle to reconcile within themselves and each other with the memory of the child they aborted nine years previously.

It’s a touching story and a movie I shared with my co-workers, all were touched and away to talk about abortion to bring light upon this darkness.

excerptsofinri.com/tilly_lovelifeamerica.html
 

Any film with Ronald Colman in it - such as “Random Harvest”.​

Any film with Tod Slaughter

Merrily We Live is a gem of a film - likewise the “Blondie” films, and anything with William Powell in it.

There are a lot of really good films that seem to be almost unnoticed now 😦
IMHO, older films are often far superior because there were far more constraints, technological & legal. So people had to be more ingenious.

Also with Spencer Tracy 🙂 ##
 
I’ve injoyed a number of French and Italian flicks … too bad I can’t remember the titles.

The 1960s version of Thirteen Ghosts was memorable.
 
puzzleannie said:
there was a lovely movie on TV a few years ago with Martin Sheen as an Irish-American who has made it big, and returns to Ireland for his father’s funeral. the on-screen dialogues with his dead “da” as he learns or recalls how much his father really loved him are a beautiful parable. can’t recall the name, or if it was made-for-TV, but I would like it on tape.
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The movie you’re thinking of is called “Da.”

For me, a couple good, relatively obscure movies are “Jermiah Johnson,” “Harry and Tonto” (which won an Oscar for Art Carney, I think!), and “A Midnight Clear.” I’m not sure I could think of three more different movies, but they all touch me in some way or other…

Pax vobiscum,
Alberich
 
One of my all-time favorites was a British movie called Hope and Glory. It was World War II through the eyes of a 12 year old boy. Sweet and very funny.

I guess it is not so little known, but I just saw Little Miss Sunshine and thought it was one of the best movies I have seen in sometime. The characters and the plot were all so real. Great acting. I also loved the ending.
 
One of my favorite little-known movies is Radio Days. It’s about the narrator’s childhood memories connected with old radio songs and radio shows from about 1938 to 1944. It’s a great period piece from one of my favorite slices of history. There are some adult themes and one scene of partial female nudity from the rear, but it is very well done.

It’s a Woody Allen movie, but he only narrates; he doesn’t appear in it. I know Woody Allen has a long history of sexual degeneracy, especially with his most recent wife, but he also used to be very talented and very funny, so I try to focus on that.
 
I thought this one would be better known, being a Disney production, but whenever I mention it, no one has heard of it:

The Greatest Game Ever Played

It’s about the 1913 US Open. I’m not a golfer (except for mini golf) but it is an excellent story with surprising characters (no real villains – every character has a reason for what he/she does) (also the two main characters both have Catholic ties – not played up but they are there) and, oddly enough (considering the time period involved), spectacular special effects.
 
A little Ozzie gem called “The Nugget”. A story about 3 boofheads who find a gold nugget beyond belief and how greed andambition threaten to ruin friendship, marriage and lives.
 
Speaking about little Aussie gems -

Romper Stomper (powerful movie about a bunch of neo-Nazis - with the brilliance of Russell Crowe before he got famous and belligerent)

The Idiot box - another Austrayan gem about a bunch of petty crooks, but really funny if I remember rightly

The Boys - based on a real-life story, looks at the events building up to a major crime. Fan-freaking-tastic

we Aussies do some of the greatest little-known movies around! BOO-YEAH!!
 
**I’m not sure if any of these qualify, but here goes:

Waking Ned Divine - man dies after discovering he wins the lottery, his friends try to claim his stake

Bread and Tulips - Italian film, with subtitles, about a woman who get lost from her family and finds herself

Little Voice - a bit of a love story, Ewan MacGregor is charming

The Shower - a Japanese film about a neighborhood that is being torn down to make room for a new neighborhood

Shaolin Soccer - this cast was in another movie that I liked, but I can’t remember the name of it

Saving Grace - a widowed woman who will do whatever it takes to save her home

Of course, who can resist the comedic stylings of Christopher Guest: A Mightly Wind, Waiting for Guffman, and the one with the dogs (Is it Dog Show?)

There was also an Aussie movie that I liked, but can’t remember the name of it, about a group of transvestites travelling across the country?**
 
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There was also an Aussie movie that I liked, but can’t remember the name of it, about a group of transvestites travelling across the country?**
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That would be ‘The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert’ - also a wonderful movie :thumbsup"
 
Dominick and Eugene - great film about Italian twin brothers, the Lucianos struggling to take care of each other in Pittsburgh. One is mentally disabled working on a garbage truck to help put his brother through med-school. It’s very moving.

Others:

Savannah Smiles

Frequency

The Maldonado Miracle

My Family (or Mi familia)
 
I love the movie Bandits. I don’t remember seeing any previews for it, and just happened to see it in the $5 at Walmart, and got it because I like Billy Bob Thornton. Awesome movie, one of my top five favorites- a good movie to watch with friends, still haven’t come across anyone who has seen it!

Becka
 
Run Lola Run is one of my favorites… German film, kind of weird but I loved it.
 
Wild Strawberries
Grave of the Fireflies
Jeremiah Johnson
Tae Guk Gi
 
The Shower
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If this is the one I’m thinking of, it was Chinese, not Japanese. What, do you think they all look alike or something?😉

Anyway, I like Asian movies, like the Korean movie “Chingu” (Friend), about these four friends who grow up together…and two of them become gangsters. A very sad, funny film, and Busan accents you could cut with a knife (kkang-peh instead of kkang-pae, for instance).
Any and all Zatoichi movies, about the blind yakuza swordsman, are great, especially “Zatoichi to Yojimbo,” featuring Toshirou Mifune resuming the role he played in Kurosawa’s “Yojimbo”. I except the one made by ex-standup comedian “Beat” Takeshi, because he totally misinterpreted Ichi’s character.
The horror/period/buddy movie “Onmyoji”, about the historical sorcerer Abe no Seimei and his friend Minamotou no Hiromasa, is awesome. The guy they cast for Seimei is perfect, if creepy; he really looks like his mother might have been a fox (according to legend, Seimei, like Merlin, was half human and half faery, in this case, a youko or fairy fox). The sequel isn’t quite as good.
Any of the anime by Miyazaki-sensei’s Studio Ghibli is good, except the simplistic green-agitprop “Pom Poko”, but in Sensei’s defense, he wasn’t involved in it. But I defy anyone to watch “Grave of the Fireflies” and not cry at the mere mention of “Fruit Drop”.
Finally, I’ve liked some movies based on anime series, like “X/1999” and “Cowboy Bebop: Knocking on Heaven’s Door”, though the latter is almost mainstream.
 
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