Doom Break! What are some of your all time favorite films that you think were extremely underrated? Obscure oldies? Hidden gems?

I will give you one.

One of my favorites.

The Wilderness Family.
-A Walt Disney Production from the 1970s.

He just wanted to buy a lawnmower.

The Car.

Tobacco Road.

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A lot of good ones here. I'll add a few.

Wild Bill
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Solomon Kane
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Under the Silver Lake
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The Zeros
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And one I recently saw:

Head Hunter
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Thanks WhyKnot I am going to watch this now.

1936 Munich Olympics

I was just about the post this one. Love the Coen brother's movies. This is one of their best.

The best scene from the movie:



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I always liked The 13th Warrior too, but they say it was re-edited from what was originally a much better film to something that would have more popular appeal. I'm still waiting for the original director's cut on DVD.

For some reason, The Pact did not get that much attention although it's quite an achievement as a horror film.

Logan's Run original

Sometimes a Great Notion (1971). Great movie.

Amazon description:
The story focuses on a family that bucks their close-knit timber community in order to deliver a shipment of logs in defiance of a strike. In the process, one man is killed, the family patriarch Henry (Henry Fonda) is injured, and the eldest son Hank (Paul Newman) almost loses his wife (Lee Remick) to his half brother (Michael Sarrazin). Filled with complex characters and issues that still resonate today, Sometimes a Great Notion is an intense portrait of life set against the backdrop of logging.

It's been so many years & I'd love to watch it again but not likely to spend $16 on the dvd. I still have the book it was based on though: "Never Give an Inch" by Ken Kesey.

....was just daydreaming about how long ago that was. Damn I'm old!

Zenna Henderson was a Christian who wrote science fiction stories about extraterrestrials who were Christians who had crash landed on the Earth and remained isolated like the Amish to protect their identity. The books are really terrific. One was sort of made into a tv movie called The People and made in the seventies.

Ok, this one might fall under obscure oldies or cheesy movies, depending...

Sweet Hostage (1975) Linda Blair & Martin Sheen
An escaped mental patient kidnaps an illiterate teenage farm girl and takes her to his mountain hide-away, where they soon become friends and, eventually, lovers.

Here's the thing, I was 19 and Martin Sheen was a "hunk" (as we said back in the day). I remember fantasizing that it was me he kidnapped & watched the movie whenever it played. I even memorized the Coleridge poem Kubla Khan. I can only admit this 44 yrs later because you all are strangers :)

Cherry 3000
Barbarosa
Snatch
Bad Times at the El Royale
Secret Garden
Ranchero Deluxe

5 obscure but personal faves, in no particular order:
THIS LAND IS MINE (1943) starring Charlie Laughton, directed by Jean Renoir. Occupied France during WWII, Laughton is a timid schoolteacher caught between the pro-Nazi collaborators and the French Resistance. Laughton's speech from the dock is superb, when he finally shows a little spine and tells it like it is. "And the mayor, he acts like he's saving the town, but he's only saving himself!"
CISCO PIKE (1972)stars Kris Kristofferson as a one-hit wonder musician trying to get his career back on track after a stint in prison for selling weed. Gene Hackman plays an insane cop blackmailing Kris into selling weed Hackman has stolen from other dealers. Great soundtrack, especially Sonny Terry's harp rave "Wailin' and Whoopin'" (Hackman's theme music), and a bunch of songs from Kris' first album. Stellar perf by Harry Dean Stanton playing Kris' guitar-playing partner. As Kris makes the rounds of music producers they keep telling him to get back together with Harry and everything will be great, but when Harry shows up near the end of the movie he's a stone junkie and it's absolutely heartbreaking.
RANDOM HARVEST (1942) has Ronald Coleman as an amnesiac wounded in the Great War escaping from an English asylum with the help of Greer Garson. Epic love story. Watch it with your favorite girl (or guy).
BATTLEGROUND (1949) Any fan of HBO's BAND OF BROTHERS must see this film, also based on the 101st Airborne.
RHYTHM ON THE RIVER (1940)is a musical with Bing Crosby as a songwriter, ghosting tunes for Basil Rathbone who has "lost his muse". Oscar Levant plays Rathbone's acerbic toady. Wingy Manone leads a jazz combo and sprinkles in some great double-talk, prompting Bing to ask, "where'd you get that?" Wingy: "I just dug it."

Constantine
Cashback
Brawl in Cell Block 99
Mandy
Siberia

Legends of the Fall

Dark City
Tank Girl

The Wanderers
Over The Edge
Bonfire of the Vanities
Santa Sangre

Night of The Comet

"Daddy would have gotten us Uzi's"

Suburbia (1983) - Trailer

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Jeau D'Enfants

Is a french flick w hottie Marion Cotillard and a guy who play childhood friends. They grow up playing an increasingly anti-social and dangerous game of "dare". Pretty wacky.


Another good Frenchy one is "He Loves me, He loves me not". Its essential a love story from the viewpoint of a completely psychotic stalker lady, Audrey Tautou. So it seems like a romance and ends up beinf a really creepy thriller.

Havent watched these in years, thanks for helping me remember them!

"Ink"
Watch only when you can pay attention. Great film

Lol!!!

This movie was so unobtainable, if you once had it on VHS everyone watching and borrowing it every Christmas wore it out pretty fast. It was a pretty sweet Christmas movie my kids were crazy over. Now, for however long it lasts, it looks like someone posted the whole thing on YouTube, It takes place in Australia.

Frankenhooker

Bubba Ho-Tep





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