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Obscure movies recommendations

Submitted by Lindwyrm on May 15, 2025
Do you know about some good hidden gems I can watch?
22 Comments
TheOfficialWheel
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Level 16
May 15, 2025
Back To The Future (1, 2, 3), Saturday Night Fever, and I like documentories. Hopefully you find some of these interesting
Lindwyrm
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Level 82
May 15, 2025
these are good movies, but they're well known, i meant something more obscure.

btw 3 < 2 < 1

DarthKnight
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Level 92
May 15, 2025
What kind of movies do you like? Drama, Comedy, Musical, Action etc.?

Comedy: Be Kind Rewind (2008) PG-13

Drama: The Founder (2016) PG-13

Musical: Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) G

Action: Non-Stop (2014) PG-13

Animated: Isle of Dogs (2018) PG-13

Romance: The Vow (2012) PG-13

If you give me specific genres than I can be more accurate.

Lindwyrm
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Level 82
May 15, 2025
I'm big on sci-fi and historical movies, but action, thriller and horror are also fine.

Thanks for the recommendations!

DarthKnight
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Level 92
May 15, 2025
In that case here are some sci-fi movies: I Am Mother (2019), Predestination (2014). Thriller: The Book of Henry (2017), The Commuter (2018), Trap (2024). Historical: The Lost City of Z (2016). Horror: We Have a Ghost (2023), Heathers (1988), Transylvania 6-5000 (1985), The Fly (1986).

Non-English movies: The Farewell (2019), Minari (2020), Past Lives (2023).

If you want an quirky comedy there's also Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022).

Lindwyrm
+2
Level 82
May 15, 2025
thanks.

i was thinking about watching the fly a couple days ago.

Dimby
+2
Level 83
May 15, 2025
The Fly is great. Another really good one with Jeff Goldblum is Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
toowise
+3
Level 81
May 15, 2025
"Monuments Men" is a good war-time drama set in WW2 as is "The Book Thief"
Dimby
+2
Level 83
May 15, 2025
Green Room (very violent and tense), The Conversation (1970s), The China Syndrome, Pig, Top Secret! (goofy comedy)

Some non-English movies are: Dead Snow, Trollhunter, City of God, Burning (2018), Let the Right One In, The Wailing, The Exterminating Angel (Avante Garde-ish), Kung Fu Hustle (one of my favourite comedies ever), Lady Snowblood (inspiration for Kill Bill)

FlabberBapper
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Level 77
May 15, 2025
I would not recommend The China Syndrome, not a good movie
Dimby
+2
Level 83
May 15, 2025
Why so? I liked it. It got good reviews. It had Academy Award nominations.
rabble
+1
Level 68
May 16, 2025
Isn't it just anti-nuclear energy propaganda?
Dimby
+1
Level 83
May 16, 2025
I wouldn’t go that far. It’s more about how tightly it needs to be regulated, I’d say.
rabble
+1
Level 68
May 16, 2025
Hmm, starring Michael Douglas & Jane Fonda

"Born to a Jewish father... Douglas has received notice for his humanitarian and political activism. He sits on the board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, is an honorary board member of the anti-war grant-making foundation Ploughshares Fund and he was appointed as a United Nations Messenger of Peace in 1998"

-also the producer

"Jane Seymour Fonda is an American actress and activist. ... Fonda was a political activist in the counterculture era during the Vietnam War. She was photographed sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun on a 1972 visit to Hanoi, during which she gained the nickname "Hanoi Jane"

rabble
+1
Level 68
May 16, 2025
Oh. Jane Fonda has her own PAC. The Jane Fonda Climate PAC.

2022- "No, they took the right message (re: nuclear is too dangerous to pursure). This is dangerous stuff. It is dangerous stuff. We’ve seen that in Japan, we’ve seen that in Russia. ... there’s the problem of water. In the case of Diablo Canyon, it’s marine water. It’s the ocean. It kills marine life around there."

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Truly a mystery, who's to judge?

FlabberBapper
+2
Level 77
May 15, 2025
One recent one that came out that I remember really enjoying in theaters but I didn't know much going into it because there were like no advertisements for it and I heard no one talking about in general is Vengeance (2022)
Dimby
+2
Level 83
May 15, 2025
A brand-new movie that's apparently pretty good is Companion.
MetallicStar
+2
Level 55
May 15, 2025
There is this movie I watched a few days ago, it's called Sully, and it's based on a true story. It was really good.
toowise
+2
Level 81
May 16, 2025
If that's the one about the pilot that landed in the Hudson, it's a great movie.
MetallicStar
+2
Level 55
May 16, 2025
Yeah I'm talking about that one, starring Tom Hanks.
Swatcat
+1
Level 78
May 19, 2025
Quirky comedy: O brother, where art thou? (The only time I didn’t mind country music :))

Classic but not famous: The Man of La Mancha.

And- City of God, How Green was my valley, and Brother Sun and Sister Moon, by Franco Zeffirelli. Some of these are for when you are recovering from something cuz they are slow moving, but definitely worth a watch.

cskizz
+1
Level 56
May 24, 2025
I see you like sci-fi(as do I). I have a really good hidden gem. Not a movie but a tv show.

Taken (2002)

Directed by Steven Spielberg

You can watch the entire show on YouTube here. It's just one season(20 hours)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF7HriUoZHU&list=PLMD9ghErEvtwh2VaPoPkzAaF5mWJKlico&index=1&pp=iAQB

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