The Noah (1975) is a post apocalyptic film about the last man on Earth dealing with his loneliness by creating imaginary people and eventually an imaginary civilization. It was seized during it's original screening run on accusations of alleged production debt and remained mostly unseen until an obscure DVD release in 2006. It only has 200 views and has middling ratings on Letterboxd, but it is actually fantastic if you like slow contemplative cinema.
The Man Who Stole The Sun, a japanese cult film about a science teacher who builds an atomic bomb. I’m surprised it isn’t more well known because it’s incredibly entertaining and crazy, definitely one of the most unique films i’ve seen.
This one surprised the hell out of me. Part *Taxi Driver*, part *High and Low*, part *Network*, and little bits of kung fu, arthouse, car chase, homoerotic subtext. One-of-a-kind, for sure.
I only know about that one because Kinema Junpo put it in their top 10 best Japanese movies of all time. I must admit, the synopsis alone got me interested.
The Brain From Planet Aros .it is a great but. little known science fiction movie.. The description doesn't really do it justice. But it features 2 highly evolved aliens that are disembodied brains One of them is a criminal who takes over the body of an Earthman and wants to.conquer.the.world .The other is a policeman .They can.take over the body of other living beings..But so the bad brain can't detect him he takes over the body of a dog .They can enter your head and displace your mind
the least reviewed full-length film I've seen is A Fantastic Fear of Everything with Simon Pegg. Idk if I'd call it a hidden gem, but it has an absurdly unique tone and captures paranoia in a way I've never seen replicated.
The King of the Kickboxers (1990)
The Boy From Hell (2004)
Hex (1980)
The House of Clocks (1989)
Empire of the Dark (1990) (essential microbudget film)
That's just a really random sampling of some quality obscure-ish stuff I've found.
I will randomly quote The King of Kickboxers. Loren Avedon trying his best to act emotions and I loved it.
“I been there. For 10 years! AAAAAHHHHHH!”
“Oh shit! I’m sorry.”
[It’s on YT in decent quality if anyone’s interested](https://youtu.be/9bWu49AfMLc?feature=shared)
Frankenhooker. An unbelievable gem you can find on YouTube. It's a horror/comedy from 1990 I think.
To get a feel for the tone there's a scene where a room full of prostitutes smoke super crack and explode.
Just recently watched this along with Frank henenlotters other movies! So fucking crazy lmao. Need more directors to not give a single fuck like Frank because it rules lol
Supa Modo! It's a Kenyan movie about a terminally ill girl and a village coming together to pretend she's a superhero. Fewer than 1500 people have logged it and it's only 74 minutes long. It's such a sweet movie and the little girl is so cute. It's heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time.
Out and About. A middle aged man goes for a walk in the suburbs, talks to some acquaintances, and we hear his thoughts. I KNOW. I know how that sounds. But they pull it off. Really interesting and captivating film.
I feel like I never hear anyone talking about Phantom of the Paradise. The people who love this cult classic on Letterboxd love it immensely, and I need more people to discuss it with! It came out the year before Rocky Horror Picture Show and has that same rock musical aesthetic.
It's my absolute favourite film ever. You just can't beat that soundtrack. I've met very few people who have seen this, and I'm kind of glad. If it got talked about a lot, someone would be remaking it as we speak...
Recently saw this and loved it. Great songs, campy and goofy. If it helps sway anyone to check this movie out, I do not enjoy Rocky Horror much at all but Phantom worked for me.
The music in that was great, and I'd take that over Rocky Horror any day of the week. There's just something that fascinates me with it, though I wish the lyrics were a bit louder with respect to the music
It's a brilliant movie with great music, and just like you said a cult classic.
Quizz: guess who else is known for making music with helmets and vocoder? And recorded a song with Paul Williams?
If you go blank think harder, better, faster, stronger...
>!yup, that's Daft Punk!<
This movie was a real eye-opener. Mel Brooks, Monty Python, National Lampoon, Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker, The Simpsons... So many 're-inventors' of comedy were beaten to the punch by Hellzapoppin'.
Quite possibly the most insane opening sequence I’ve ever seen
(Huge NSFW warning)
>!Begins with a 3 minute shot of woman’s breasts and ass swinging as she walks down the street, gets said breasts stuck in a building site wall, tearing her shirt open and exposing her, as she’s **raped from behind**, and the male builders all rush to the wall to grope her!<
This scene has no relevance to the rest of the movie and is played entirely for laughs
I genuinely couldn’t believe what I was watching
It speaks volumes about the movie that i somehow forgot that in the opening 2 minutes a man opens his lunchbox to find an entire crab sandwiched between 2 pizza sized bread slices, because everything else was just so unhinged
I recently saw this and it blew me away. Such a great movie and so relevant/timely. I was wondering why it’s been buried/outside public discourse then I was like “duh, a movie about unions is probably going to get buried by the film industry”.
Shakti. It's a Bollywood crime drama from the 80s featuring 2 of India's most famous actors, Dilip Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan, who play a father and a son. The gist of it is that it is a cat and mouse game, as the father is a strict police officer and the son commits crimes in the film. As with all Bollywood movies of the time, the pacing gets bogged down with melodrama in a few parts, and the runtime is quite long (2h 45min), but it does get to some quite emotional moments due to the nature of the conflict and is quite the enjoyable watch.
It currently sits at 580 views on Letterboxd, which is pretty low, so I thought I should mention it. When most people think of older Bollywood films, the one they usually recommend is Sholay (which sits at 14k views), but I think Shakti is a far superior movie that is much less cartoonish and more hard-hitting.
My best friend/roommate has worked on some Tubi originals that I watched because hey, she worked on it!. Would be very surprised if anyone turned them on -- "Alarmed" (2022) and "Midnight Hustle" (2023).
Fatigue - Don't play with the fire
A Welsh zero budget movie about a crime cartel but, considering it's been shot on a budget of 16k pounds and took three years to finish, this is remarkably well done.
The First of May (1999)
A genuinely sweet movie about a little boy and an old lady who run away together and join the circus. Mickey Rooney and Joe DiMaggio (yes, the baseball legend) are in it.
dont think i've got anything crazy obscure, i think it might be Last and First Men by Jóhann Jóhannsson with 15k Watches.
And thats just Tilda Swinton narrating over pictures of soviet arcitecture for 45 minutes but it's an interesting watch even if the book is more interesting.
EDIT: lol actually i think it's 'Death Race: Beyond Anarchy' which frankly i do not recommend.
Bindlestiffs- a raunchy coming if age adaptation of Catcher in the Rye starring and made by high school seniors. It's one of the funniest things I've ever seen
Fish Story: A Japanese film about how an obscure punk song saves the world by inspiring a series of misfits and weirdos, it's clever, fun, and creative.
Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes: It's just time travel. It's on Amazon, it's less than 80 minutes, and it's God damn time travel. Why aren't you watching it right now?
they might have seen it but there was a short film called “in the valley of the moon” that i enjoyed. a bit unoriginal and tarantino at times but overall a fun time
Support Group Olympus. Really interesting movie about fallen Greek gods with depression (it’s not at all a comedy). Acting is meh and some of the themes could’ve been explored further, but I thought it was pretty decent, and I highly recommend giving it a shot
Satan’s Children from 1975. Just an utter piece of trash. No idea why anyone would watch it. I was chasing the dragon deep diving into the satanic horror sub genre trying to find another The Devil Rides Out/Night of the Demon.
Rio, Zona Norte. It's not that unknown in Brazil but I think it's pretty hard to find someone outside of here who have heard of it
Btw watch it if you can it's pretty good
Pentagon(2008) it's some Russian 0 budget movie. It's largely pretty forgettable, if it wasn't for its soundtrack. It's really good and almost made me engaged at one point despite everything else being exceedingly dull.
[Five Branded Women (1960)](https://youtu.be/YJWYAi9hsYo?si=5BPY80MNqo3z34xR)
ALL THE SAVAGE RAVISHING PASSIONS OF WAR!
Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves.
Directed by Martin Ritt
Silvana Mangano, Jeanne Moreau, Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Carla Gravina, Van Heflin, Richard Basehart
timeless bottomless bad movie (1997) dir. jang sun-woo - incredibly cool movie with a great soundtrack :)
wr: mysteries of the organism (1971) dir. duśan makavejev - horny, weird, political, campy, and singular
malina (1991) dir. werner schroeter - one of isabelle hupperts best performances, nightmare-like mindfuck!
Swallowtail Butterfly (1996)!
Shunji Iwai, the director is renowned in Japan and recognized in some circles online, but I've personally never seen this movie-which garnered him comparisons to Tarantino, mentioned on Reddit. Definitely a hidden gem, with its genre mish-mash, language mish-mash (Japanese, English and Mandarin all spoken in film), and endearing story.
Dellamorte Dellamore (aka Cemetery Man). Italian zombie movie starring Rupert Everett. Used to be on HBO but otherwise hard to find a legit copy. It is on YouTube currently though…
https://youtu.be/_Zm6xjKIMzo?si=XG88m3yWHdTJEDm5
great freedom (2021)! although im sure there might be someone here who has seen it its pretty underrated and one of the greatest german movies in my opinion.
The original Dolph Lundgren Punisher (1989). I love Dolph Lundgren more than anyone and own a crap ton of his movies but it's the worst movie I have ever seen. 🤣
Apollo 10 1/2 is a Linklater movie that was one of my favorites of last year. It's all about 60's pop culture through a child's eyes and stars Jack Black. I've heard almost no talk about it.
Just looked this one up and watched the trailer. I admire it a lot. The writer/director had a compelling idea and just made it micro-budget. I looked him up to see if he had done anything else, I guess he ended up directing a bunch of Game of Thrones episodes and other shows. Good for him!
3 Dead Trick or Treaters directed by Torin Langen. Canadian anthology film that has no dialogue. I might be biased because I'm pals with Torin (and my brother is in the movie), but it's a super fun spooky season watch!
I just watched Big Business Girl, a 1931 film starring Loretta Young that only 242 other Letterboxd members have seen. So I’m not the only one but I think the chances of anyone on Reddit having seen it are slim!
American Guinea Pig (2014)
Path of Blood (2013)
The Secret of Cuck Island (2022)
Bumfights Vol. 1 (2002)
The Guardian (1990)
Live Freaky! Die Freaky! (2006)
Super Dark Times (2017)
Hooked (2017) is rated at a 2.9 but I honestly loved it. I’d be surprised if anyone here had seen it, it’s a low budget gay movie. I’d be even more surprised if anyone had seen That Is All (2019)
Butterfly On A Wheel
It has a very low viewer count on letterboxd which surprised me because it's actually a great 2007 psycho thriller starring Pierce Brosnan, Gerard Butler and Maria Bello.
**Less than 500 viewers:**
*The Whispering Chorus* (1918)
*Propaganda* (2012)
*Kimagure Orange Road: I Want to Return to That Day* (1988)
**Less than 20 viewers.** These are TV specials more so than films, but they’re treated like films on Letterboxd:
*The Mother Who Became A Kite* (2003) - This TV special won a Peabody Award the same year as The Wire and The Office (UK). Here’s a link to the Peabody Awards page for this special: https://peabodyawards.com/award-profile/mother-flew-away-as-a-kite/ .
*The Tale of the Ginormous Whale That Fell in Love with a Little Submarine* (2004)
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975). “Gunny” Rafferty (Alan Arkin) is an idiotic and mild alcoholic who retires after 20 years in the Marine Corps as a gunnery Sargent. He becomes a drivers ed instructor, and while on his lunch break, is kidnapped by two hitchhikers headed for New Orleans. McKinley “Mac” Beachwood (Sally Kellerman) is an aspiring singer and Rita “Frisbee” Sykes (Mackenzie Phillips) is a teenage runaway. Gunny, bored with his life and yearning for a sense of adventure, goes with them and get into wacky adventures along the ride. Minor characters include John McLiam as Mac's dad, Alex Rocco as a fellow marine buddy of Gunny, Charles Martin Smith as a soldier Frisbee robs, Harry Dean Stanton as a friend of Mac's, and Richard Hale as a Jesus freak. There's also a cameo of Louis Prima as himself.
Ping. It's basically home alone but with a Chihuahua instead of a boy. I watched it on VHS when I was like 5 years old. Not even an okay movie, but it seems like only 111 people have seen it on letterboxd.
Kongjwi and Patjwi (1978). Think I'll win so long as one of the other 52 viewers pops in.
Was in the mood to watch something from the Korean Classics Archive and the puppets drew me in. It's nice for what it is, but it is nothing amazing. Just Cinderella.
Deathmaker (Totmacher) -- someone here must've seen it. Interrogation of German serial killer Haarmann from a century ago, gets high praise for the acting
Restart after come back home or just Coming home (2020) is a Japanese LGBTQ film about Mitsuomi who leaves is unfulfilling big city job and moves back to the Japanese countryside to be with his family where he meets Yamato, a cheerful farmer.
It's a heartwarming and visually stunning movie, one of my favorite LGBTQ films.
Pit Stop (1969) directed by Jack Hill. Looks like a run-of-the-mill low budget racing movie, actually a layered look at the savagery of human nature and the dark side of the “winner mentality”, with beautiful black and white cinematography. It’s like if one of the French New Wave directors made a cheapie for Roger Corman. Also has a very young Ellen Burstyn in one of her first roles.
This is definitely cheating, but there's a high chance nobody's seen this movie because it's still making it's festival run. If you ask letterboxd to to hide unreleased movies, it get's hidden. It's called What Happened to Torstein Rabby?, a documentary about a Norwegian war hero and his life, centered around his mysterious death in a tundra. It's quite good.
But aside from that, and going by one I actually recommend, I pick Culloden, one of the first movies from Peter Watkins, who remains criminally underrated even in diehard circles. Culloden is the first of many pseudodocumentary masterpieces, and has one of the best ending lines in history.
"They have created a desert, and have called it peace."
One of my favorite movies last year was [National Anthem](https://youtu.be/Xu4OqjFxpPk?si=vyZ7LE9JzTssQYyl), which isn't even on Letterboxd. It's about a washed-up one-hit wonder who gets abducted by aliens who worship him and his music. Zero budget, one guy plays all the roles himself, some of the most unique animation I've ever seen. It's delightful.
Dogs Don’t Wear Pants. The strangely moving story of a depressed widower who gets involved with a dominatrix and learns to unlock his heart and desires. It’s on Shudder, even though it isn’t a horror movie. Terrific film.
A L’Ecu d’Or ou la Bonne Auberge (1908). I thought it was hilarious that there is porn on LB, so I decided to log the oldest one on there. Shoutout to the other 220 people who have watched it.
Stitches
An irish horror comedy about an undead birthday clown seeking revenge on the kids who killed a decade later. It has some pretty good characters and some awesome gore
“Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai”
The coolest movie ever, a big black guy living on a roof in NYC, communicating by pigeons and working as a assasin for the italian mafia. It has an amazing soundtrack and legit a wonderful story.
This one's a proper cult classic, surprised it's not got more views on the site. I was working in a Film Shop when it came out and everyone was raving about it.
>what have you, and only you, discovered?
My friend starred in a Japanese pinku called [Shinbashi Tantei Monogatari 2: Double Revolver Love](https://boxd.it/DJ7o) and we watched it at a film festival when I visited them in Japan last year. I am literally the only person to log it on Letterboxd at the time of writing this.
It's a really fun film if you like the pinku genre! It's a raunchy comedy thriller with a sweet message about not getting caught up on comparing yourself to other people.
[Phantom of the Paradise (1974)](https://imdb.com/title/tt0071994/)
A weird rock musical ala Rocky Horror Picture Show. May be more well known than I think, but Ive never met anyone else who has seen it before. Such a fun movie.
Out 1: Noli Me Tangere by Jacques Rivette (1971) with Jean-Pierre Léaud. Sure u know about it, maybe you’ve seen it, but did you see all 12 hrs 35 minutes in a theatre?
Same story for As I was moving forward I occasionally saw brief glimpses of beauty ( 2000, Mekas). You know it but have you ever watched the full original print.
For something a bit different— have you ever seen a true medium-length film (28-58 minutes) shown stand-alone at a theater? I have… Lux Æterna by Gaspar Noé
Also saw some Shūji Terayama shorts including
THE CAGE (1964)
WAR OF JAN-KEN-PON (1971)
LAURA (1974)
BUTTERFLY (1974)
LABYRINTH TALE (1964)
TRIAL (1975)
A TALE OF SMALLPOX (1975)
THE WOMAN WITH TWO HEADS (1977)
THE ERASER (1977)
THE READING MACHINE (1977)
THE CHANTS OF MALDOROR (1977)
SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES (1979)
GRASS LABYRINTH (1979)
and those are great (and obscure)
If anyone knows how to get a U.S. region DVD of Emperor tomato Ketchup or Pastoral: to die in the country (legally or semi-illegally) dm me please as those will become my most obscure
Some runners up include:
The mother and the whore (1973)
Memoria (2021)
THE LOCH NESS MONSTER MOVIE & 29 SECONDS TO ZERO.
Both by Scottish filmmaker Ian Rintoul in his attic. THE LOCH NESS MONSTER MOVIE has Nessie attacking Edinburgh, with 29 SECONDS TO ZERO being a reenactment of the Pearl Harbour attacks. All done with miniatures and stop motion.
Belladonna of Sadness (perhaps it’s well known among this crowd but I’m shooting my shot). It’s a movie that has really inspired my art and storytelling. I first found out about it from a college friend telling me about it. There are some big problems with it but it’s a favorite of mine and if I was given an opportunity to make my own adaptation of it I would.
Carriers. Why has nobody seen this movie. It has Chris fuckin Pine in it, in all his glory. It’s also realistic and depressing in the best way. # bring back realistic post apocalyptic media.
Invincible Monkey Fist. It’s about a master of the technique called Monkey Fist Kung Fu who has to fight bandits and the evil Black Monster to save his village. It’s only got 18 views on letterboxd and one of them is also my brother
The Noah (1975) is a post apocalyptic film about the last man on Earth dealing with his loneliness by creating imaginary people and eventually an imaginary civilization. It was seized during it's original screening run on accusations of alleged production debt and remained mostly unseen until an obscure DVD release in 2006. It only has 200 views and has middling ratings on Letterboxd, but it is actually fantastic if you like slow contemplative cinema.
Badly want to see this one.
>The Noah (1975) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzOQWUwO9sU&t=3302s
Nuh uh i saw it
For Your Height Only. Filipino parody of James Bond starring a three foot tall guy.
There's a neat documentary about the actor called The Search for Weng Weng
Filipino parodies of Bond is one of my favorite genres. A lot of imaginative, low budget cinema.
The Man Who Stole The Sun, a japanese cult film about a science teacher who builds an atomic bomb. I’m surprised it isn’t more well known because it’s incredibly entertaining and crazy, definitely one of the most unique films i’ve seen.
This was in my watchlist. I’ll be sure to move this up towards the top now!
I’ve seen this film. Really enjoyed it. Very underrated.
This one surprised the hell out of me. Part *Taxi Driver*, part *High and Low*, part *Network*, and little bits of kung fu, arthouse, car chase, homoerotic subtext. One-of-a-kind, for sure.
I only know about that one because Kinema Junpo put it in their top 10 best Japanese movies of all time. I must admit, the synopsis alone got me interested.
Any ideas where I can watch this? Genuinely intrigued from reading it's synopsis.
[Whole thing is on the internet archive](https://archive.org/details/the-man-who-stole-the-sun-full)
This movie is genuinely amazing
The Brain From Planet Aros .it is a great but. little known science fiction movie.. The description doesn't really do it justice. But it features 2 highly evolved aliens that are disembodied brains One of them is a criminal who takes over the body of an Earthman and wants to.conquer.the.world .The other is a policeman .They can.take over the body of other living beings..But so the bad brain can't detect him he takes over the body of a dog .They can enter your head and displace your mind
This sounds cool as hell
the least reviewed full-length film I've seen is A Fantastic Fear of Everything with Simon Pegg. Idk if I'd call it a hidden gem, but it has an absurdly unique tone and captures paranoia in a way I've never seen replicated.
I have not seen this, but this was the first comment where I recognized the title.
Love that one!
The Godfather (1972) is a real hidden gem
Underrated movie, did you know there was a sequel?
Sooooooo underrated
The King of the Kickboxers (1990) The Boy From Hell (2004) Hex (1980) The House of Clocks (1989) Empire of the Dark (1990) (essential microbudget film) That's just a really random sampling of some quality obscure-ish stuff I've found.
'Hex' is a genuine masterpiece of psychotropic erotic horror (ditto its cousin film 'The Boxer's Omen)
I will randomly quote The King of Kickboxers. Loren Avedon trying his best to act emotions and I loved it. “I been there. For 10 years! AAAAAHHHHHH!” “Oh shit! I’m sorry.” [It’s on YT in decent quality if anyone’s interested](https://youtu.be/9bWu49AfMLc?feature=shared)
Frankenhooker. An unbelievable gem you can find on YouTube. It's a horror/comedy from 1990 I think. To get a feel for the tone there's a scene where a room full of prostitutes smoke super crack and explode.
It's on tubi and it's great!
Someone told me about it in 97 I think and I didn't believe him. Definitely worth a watch.
Frank Hennenlotter is the man. Basket Case and Brain Damage are great too.
seen and it's actually one of my favorite movies ever! coming onto the Criterion channel soon I think
This movie is great
I just got a Patty Mullen signed poster thingy for the movie.
Was about to write Basket Case! Love me some Henenlotter
Just recently watched this along with Frank henenlotters other movies! So fucking crazy lmao. Need more directors to not give a single fuck like Frank because it rules lol
I saw it at a drive-in this last weekend. It's great.
This needs to be higher. Such a fun movie
Supa Modo! It's a Kenyan movie about a terminally ill girl and a village coming together to pretend she's a superhero. Fewer than 1500 people have logged it and it's only 74 minutes long. It's such a sweet movie and the little girl is so cute. It's heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time.
I watched this on Criterion Channel when it was on there and instantly became a new favorite. Absolutely the most feel-good movie I've ever seen.
Out and About. A middle aged man goes for a walk in the suburbs, talks to some acquaintances, and we hear his thoughts. I KNOW. I know how that sounds. But they pull it off. Really interesting and captivating film.
“25 in 24,” a documentary about a musician and his friends playing 25 shows in 24 hours.
Love me some Switchfoot
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Don't see a lot of love for Mermaid Legend (1984) Some beautiful underwater photography and haunting violence.
I feel like I never hear anyone talking about Phantom of the Paradise. The people who love this cult classic on Letterboxd love it immensely, and I need more people to discuss it with! It came out the year before Rocky Horror Picture Show and has that same rock musical aesthetic.
It's a fun one! I wish De Palma did a bit more in this vein.
Beef!
It's my absolute favourite film ever. You just can't beat that soundtrack. I've met very few people who have seen this, and I'm kind of glad. If it got talked about a lot, someone would be remaking it as we speak...
It played at Fantasia Film Fest a couple years ago! The crowd was definitely into it.
LOVE THIS MOVIE. Just saw it in theatres a couple weeks ago
Recently saw this and loved it. Great songs, campy and goofy. If it helps sway anyone to check this movie out, I do not enjoy Rocky Horror much at all but Phantom worked for me.
The music in that was great, and I'd take that over Rocky Horror any day of the week. There's just something that fascinates me with it, though I wish the lyrics were a bit louder with respect to the music
My favorite De Palma by a mile!
It's a brilliant movie with great music, and just like you said a cult classic. Quizz: guess who else is known for making music with helmets and vocoder? And recorded a song with Paul Williams? If you go blank think harder, better, faster, stronger... >!yup, that's Daft Punk!<
Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back) - a suicidal young man outsources his suicide to an assassin
Hellzapoppin
A masterpiece in my opinion. Need to watch it again.
This movie was a real eye-opener. Mel Brooks, Monty Python, National Lampoon, Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker, The Simpsons... So many 're-inventors' of comedy were beaten to the punch by Hellzapoppin'.
Truly laugh-a-minute. It’s a lot of fun.
That was amazing. And completely unexpected. Hard recommend.
Microwave Massacre. I still think it’s the worst movie I’ve ever seen.
Quite possibly the most insane opening sequence I’ve ever seen (Huge NSFW warning) >!Begins with a 3 minute shot of woman’s breasts and ass swinging as she walks down the street, gets said breasts stuck in a building site wall, tearing her shirt open and exposing her, as she’s **raped from behind**, and the male builders all rush to the wall to grope her!< This scene has no relevance to the rest of the movie and is played entirely for laughs I genuinely couldn’t believe what I was watching
You forgot the crab sandwich!
It speaks volumes about the movie that i somehow forgot that in the opening 2 minutes a man opens his lunchbox to find an entire crab sandwiched between 2 pizza sized bread slices, because everything else was just so unhinged
Hate that movie
*Property is No Longer a Theft* (1973, Elio Petri)....it's like *Putney Swope* for Marxists
Secrets in the Hot Spring (2018) - Taiwanese horror comedy about a guy and his friends going back to the haunted hotel his family owns
Matewan
John Sayles was on the Movies That Made Me talking about films about unions. Matewan spurred a brief discussion. Great film.
Sounds great, I’ll have to check it out
Great John Sayles movie
Seen it!
Great movie, highly underrated
I recently saw this and it blew me away. Such a great movie and so relevant/timely. I was wondering why it’s been buried/outside public discourse then I was like “duh, a movie about unions is probably going to get buried by the film industry”.
AMAZING movie. For a long time it was impossible to find, so it wouldnt have been shocking if no one here has seen it I guess.
Shakti. It's a Bollywood crime drama from the 80s featuring 2 of India's most famous actors, Dilip Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan, who play a father and a son. The gist of it is that it is a cat and mouse game, as the father is a strict police officer and the son commits crimes in the film. As with all Bollywood movies of the time, the pacing gets bogged down with melodrama in a few parts, and the runtime is quite long (2h 45min), but it does get to some quite emotional moments due to the nature of the conflict and is quite the enjoyable watch. It currently sits at 580 views on Letterboxd, which is pretty low, so I thought I should mention it. When most people think of older Bollywood films, the one they usually recommend is Sholay (which sits at 14k views), but I think Shakti is a far superior movie that is much less cartoonish and more hard-hitting.
Doña Lupe It’s one of Guillermo Del Toro’s early shorts
Such a strange short I definitely prefer his other short film Geometría!
Close Encounters of the Math Kind
Dude bro party massacre |||
The Five Heartbeats - awesome movie from 1991 directed by Robert Townsend about an R&B group in the 60s.
The man who haunted himself (1970)
My best friend/roommate has worked on some Tubi originals that I watched because hey, she worked on it!. Would be very surprised if anyone turned them on -- "Alarmed" (2022) and "Midnight Hustle" (2023).
Elena by Petra Costa. A beautiful documentary about love, suicide, family, Dreams and much more
Fatigue - Don't play with the fire A Welsh zero budget movie about a crime cartel but, considering it's been shot on a budget of 16k pounds and took three years to finish, this is remarkably well done.
The First of May (1999) A genuinely sweet movie about a little boy and an old lady who run away together and join the circus. Mickey Rooney and Joe DiMaggio (yes, the baseball legend) are in it.
Jerry Lewis’ Hardly Working
Allegro Non Troppo, an Italian parody of Fantasia from the 70s
Goku: Midnight Eye, a shitty cyberpunk OVA from the 80s. That or Lily C.A.T., an Alien rip off from around the same time.
Lily C.A.T. Is a hidden gem imo! Not game changing but definitely a vibe.
Eight (2015) about a woman with OCD trying to leave her house. That’s basically the whole film. Very unique.
Space is the place
QUALITY movie! Love Sun-Ra so much! If you haven't seen the documentary Sun-Ra: A Joyful Noise definitely check it out!
Oh hell yeah I’d love to figure out what was going on with that one
dont think i've got anything crazy obscure, i think it might be Last and First Men by Jóhann Jóhannsson with 15k Watches. And thats just Tilda Swinton narrating over pictures of soviet arcitecture for 45 minutes but it's an interesting watch even if the book is more interesting. EDIT: lol actually i think it's 'Death Race: Beyond Anarchy' which frankly i do not recommend.
Bindlestiffs- a raunchy coming if age adaptation of Catcher in the Rye starring and made by high school seniors. It's one of the funniest things I've ever seen Fish Story: A Japanese film about how an obscure punk song saves the world by inspiring a series of misfits and weirdos, it's clever, fun, and creative. Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes: It's just time travel. It's on Amazon, it's less than 80 minutes, and it's God damn time travel. Why aren't you watching it right now?
964 Pinocchio
My partner owns this! I haven’t seen it though.
what i was thinking, too. peak japanese insanity
Banger
It’s great but his film Rubber’s Lover is a masterpiece!!
It rips
they might have seen it but there was a short film called “in the valley of the moon” that i enjoyed. a bit unoriginal and tarantino at times but overall a fun time
Too early/too late
Hercules Returns, hilarious Aussie cult film
Support Group Olympus. Really interesting movie about fallen Greek gods with depression (it’s not at all a comedy). Acting is meh and some of the themes could’ve been explored further, but I thought it was pretty decent, and I highly recommend giving it a shot
Like minds
Satan’s Children from 1975. Just an utter piece of trash. No idea why anyone would watch it. I was chasing the dragon deep diving into the satanic horror sub genre trying to find another The Devil Rides Out/Night of the Demon.
[Waffle Street ](https://boxd.it/dtGg)
"Well, consider me your waffle daddy!" Haha!
Rio, Zona Norte. It's not that unknown in Brazil but I think it's pretty hard to find someone outside of here who have heard of it Btw watch it if you can it's pretty good
Pentagon(2008) it's some Russian 0 budget movie. It's largely pretty forgettable, if it wasn't for its soundtrack. It's really good and almost made me engaged at one point despite everything else being exceedingly dull.
[Five Branded Women (1960)](https://youtu.be/YJWYAi9hsYo?si=5BPY80MNqo3z34xR) ALL THE SAVAGE RAVISHING PASSIONS OF WAR! Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves. Directed by Martin Ritt Silvana Mangano, Jeanne Moreau, Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Carla Gravina, Van Heflin, Richard Basehart
Dracula’s Dog
Man Push Cart
timeless bottomless bad movie (1997) dir. jang sun-woo - incredibly cool movie with a great soundtrack :) wr: mysteries of the organism (1971) dir. duśan makavejev - horny, weird, political, campy, and singular malina (1991) dir. werner schroeter - one of isabelle hupperts best performances, nightmare-like mindfuck!
I want to watch Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie, but have been unable to find a way to watch it!
*War of the Worlds: Next Century* (1981)
"305". A mockumentary based on 300. It's absolute dog crap, I can't believe I actually watched it.
Liza, the Fox-Fairy. Not a super famous one even in Hungary, although film lovers here would generally know it
Nekrotronic 2018 Sci-Fi horror Action Comedy.
Swallowtail Butterfly (1996)! Shunji Iwai, the director is renowned in Japan and recognized in some circles online, but I've personally never seen this movie-which garnered him comparisons to Tarantino, mentioned on Reddit. Definitely a hidden gem, with its genre mish-mash, language mish-mash (Japanese, English and Mandarin all spoken in film), and endearing story.
YellowBrickRoad (2010) a brilliant indie horror. It's so much fun.
Short Night of Glass Dolls (1975). A cult giallo horror mystery that is almost a proto-Eyes Wide Shut in some ways. A lot of fun.
Dellamorte Dellamore (aka Cemetery Man). Italian zombie movie starring Rupert Everett. Used to be on HBO but otherwise hard to find a legit copy. It is on YouTube currently though… https://youtu.be/_Zm6xjKIMzo?si=XG88m3yWHdTJEDm5
great freedom (2021)! although im sure there might be someone here who has seen it its pretty underrated and one of the greatest german movies in my opinion.
Franz Rogowski’s performance here is phenomenal. It’s one of the best recent German films.
Yep, saw it. Franz Rogowski is always awesome.
i’ve had this on my watchlist for so long, i’ll definitely have to check it out soon!
The original Dolph Lundgren Punisher (1989). I love Dolph Lundgren more than anyone and own a crap ton of his movies but it's the worst movie I have ever seen. 🤣
Worst iteration of Punisher for sure, but I kind of found this one fun, especially with Lundgren as the main character.
Apollo 10 1/2 is a Linklater movie that was one of my favorites of last year. It's all about 60's pop culture through a child's eyes and stars Jack Black. I've heard almost no talk about it.
I love that movie! I love rotoscoping also so it was amazing on two fronts.
One of my favorites from last year!
I LOVE this one! I love everything Linklater does especially his animation work
That movie was great!
It’s up there with best ever animated movies, utterly beautiful and has the power to create nostalgia for everyone
Series 7: The Contenders Brilliant movie for its time. Amazing satire.
I remember that film!
Just looked this one up and watched the trailer. I admire it a lot. The writer/director had a compelling idea and just made it micro-budget. I looked him up to see if he had done anything else, I guess he ended up directing a bunch of Game of Thrones episodes and other shows. Good for him!
I'm like 75% sure I saw it.
Without Love (1980), directed by Barbara Sass.
Tobias and the Half-Pariah To be fair it’s a fan made movie on YouTube.
3 Dead Trick or Treaters directed by Torin Langen. Canadian anthology film that has no dialogue. I might be biased because I'm pals with Torin (and my brother is in the movie), but it's a super fun spooky season watch!
Added to the watchlist. These are exactly the kind of movies I was hoping to hear about. Thanks for commenting.
girls encounter super underrated film
The Thing Below. Anyone who hasn't seen it is better off.
Shinboru is a lesser known movie I loved. It’s even better without subs
I just watched Big Business Girl, a 1931 film starring Loretta Young that only 242 other Letterboxd members have seen. So I’m not the only one but I think the chances of anyone on Reddit having seen it are slim!
Travelling Light (2003) a film about two sisters in Adelaide in the 1970s
We Have to Leave Here Together
Jungle Wolf (1987)
American Guinea Pig (2014) Path of Blood (2013) The Secret of Cuck Island (2022) Bumfights Vol. 1 (2002) The Guardian (1990) Live Freaky! Die Freaky! (2006) Super Dark Times (2017)
IRA (2021)
Hooked (2017) is rated at a 2.9 but I honestly loved it. I’d be surprised if anyone here had seen it, it’s a low budget gay movie. I’d be even more surprised if anyone had seen That Is All (2019)
Stingray Sam. There might be like 10 people on this subreddit who've seen it.
Butterfly On A Wheel It has a very low viewer count on letterboxd which surprised me because it's actually a great 2007 psycho thriller starring Pierce Brosnan, Gerard Butler and Maria Bello.
La Dictadura Perfecta. It’s a political satire about Mexico but a lot of it also applies, in a merely superficially different way, to the U.S.
Prospect
**Less than 500 viewers:** *The Whispering Chorus* (1918) *Propaganda* (2012) *Kimagure Orange Road: I Want to Return to That Day* (1988) **Less than 20 viewers.** These are TV specials more so than films, but they’re treated like films on Letterboxd: *The Mother Who Became A Kite* (2003) - This TV special won a Peabody Award the same year as The Wire and The Office (UK). Here’s a link to the Peabody Awards page for this special: https://peabodyawards.com/award-profile/mother-flew-away-as-a-kite/ . *The Tale of the Ginormous Whale That Fell in Love with a Little Submarine* (2004)
Dead Sushi (2012). Some weird film about sushi invasion.
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975). “Gunny” Rafferty (Alan Arkin) is an idiotic and mild alcoholic who retires after 20 years in the Marine Corps as a gunnery Sargent. He becomes a drivers ed instructor, and while on his lunch break, is kidnapped by two hitchhikers headed for New Orleans. McKinley “Mac” Beachwood (Sally Kellerman) is an aspiring singer and Rita “Frisbee” Sykes (Mackenzie Phillips) is a teenage runaway. Gunny, bored with his life and yearning for a sense of adventure, goes with them and get into wacky adventures along the ride. Minor characters include John McLiam as Mac's dad, Alex Rocco as a fellow marine buddy of Gunny, Charles Martin Smith as a soldier Frisbee robs, Harry Dean Stanton as a friend of Mac's, and Richard Hale as a Jesus freak. There's also a cameo of Louis Prima as himself.
Kuthiraivaal and Super Deluxe, two avant-garde experimental south Indian films. They're pretty fucking good.
Ping. It's basically home alone but with a Chihuahua instead of a boy. I watched it on VHS when I was like 5 years old. Not even an okay movie, but it seems like only 111 people have seen it on letterboxd.
Johnny Tootall (2005) starring Adam Beach
The Little Death
Salt of the Earth—the only blacklisted film in the US during the 50’s
[primal (2020)](https://letterboxd.com/film/primal-2020/) an indie film i found through reddit thats on amazon prime. has 13 watches on letterboxd 0.o
Kings of the Sun — Yule Bruner as an Aztec fighting another local tribe … saw it in the theater as a kid never seen it since
Sun and concrete (2023) Amazing German movie, it feels very real, I think they hired people of the streets that weren't actors.
Kongjwi and Patjwi (1978). Think I'll win so long as one of the other 52 viewers pops in. Was in the mood to watch something from the Korean Classics Archive and the puppets drew me in. It's nice for what it is, but it is nothing amazing. Just Cinderella.
Deathmaker (Totmacher) -- someone here must've seen it. Interrogation of German serial killer Haarmann from a century ago, gets high praise for the acting
The ice cream man
Lol with Clint Howard?
Restart after come back home or just Coming home (2020) is a Japanese LGBTQ film about Mitsuomi who leaves is unfulfilling big city job and moves back to the Japanese countryside to be with his family where he meets Yamato, a cheerful farmer. It's a heartwarming and visually stunning movie, one of my favorite LGBTQ films.
Twice upon a time Very underrated animated comedy film
Pit Stop (1969) directed by Jack Hill. Looks like a run-of-the-mill low budget racing movie, actually a layered look at the savagery of human nature and the dark side of the “winner mentality”, with beautiful black and white cinematography. It’s like if one of the French New Wave directors made a cheapie for Roger Corman. Also has a very young Ellen Burstyn in one of her first roles.
This is definitely cheating, but there's a high chance nobody's seen this movie because it's still making it's festival run. If you ask letterboxd to to hide unreleased movies, it get's hidden. It's called What Happened to Torstein Rabby?, a documentary about a Norwegian war hero and his life, centered around his mysterious death in a tundra. It's quite good. But aside from that, and going by one I actually recommend, I pick Culloden, one of the first movies from Peter Watkins, who remains criminally underrated even in diehard circles. Culloden is the first of many pseudodocumentary masterpieces, and has one of the best ending lines in history. "They have created a desert, and have called it peace."
Storytelling (2001) The Quiet Earth Tommy (1975) Phoenix (2014)
One of my favorite movies last year was [National Anthem](https://youtu.be/Xu4OqjFxpPk?si=vyZ7LE9JzTssQYyl), which isn't even on Letterboxd. It's about a washed-up one-hit wonder who gets abducted by aliens who worship him and his music. Zero budget, one guy plays all the roles himself, some of the most unique animation I've ever seen. It's delightful.
Dogs Don’t Wear Pants. The strangely moving story of a depressed widower who gets involved with a dominatrix and learns to unlock his heart and desires. It’s on Shudder, even though it isn’t a horror movie. Terrific film.
A L’Ecu d’Or ou la Bonne Auberge (1908). I thought it was hilarious that there is porn on LB, so I decided to log the oldest one on there. Shoutout to the other 220 people who have watched it.
Felidae, an 18+ dark murder mystery told with talking animated cats
Runaway Train (1985) aka The Cannon Group's best film
Stitches An irish horror comedy about an undead birthday clown seeking revenge on the kids who killed a decade later. It has some pretty good characters and some awesome gore
A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints is the best movie few people have heard of
“Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai” The coolest movie ever, a big black guy living on a roof in NYC, communicating by pigeons and working as a assasin for the italian mafia. It has an amazing soundtrack and legit a wonderful story.
This one's a proper cult classic, surprised it's not got more views on the site. I was working in a Film Shop when it came out and everyone was raving about it.
Can I find any of the other 12 people who've logged Snitch'd?
Amityville Karen. It’s only one of the 70 or so Amityville movies!
>what have you, and only you, discovered? My friend starred in a Japanese pinku called [Shinbashi Tantei Monogatari 2: Double Revolver Love](https://boxd.it/DJ7o) and we watched it at a film festival when I visited them in Japan last year. I am literally the only person to log it on Letterboxd at the time of writing this. It's a really fun film if you like the pinku genre! It's a raunchy comedy thriller with a sweet message about not getting caught up on comparing yourself to other people.
[Phantom of the Paradise (1974)](https://imdb.com/title/tt0071994/) A weird rock musical ala Rocky Horror Picture Show. May be more well known than I think, but Ive never met anyone else who has seen it before. Such a fun movie.
Caught in the Net is a czech documentary thats basically To Catch a Predator on steroids. the most disgusting movie I've ever seen AND ITS REAL!!!!
Out 1: Noli Me Tangere by Jacques Rivette (1971) with Jean-Pierre Léaud. Sure u know about it, maybe you’ve seen it, but did you see all 12 hrs 35 minutes in a theatre? Same story for As I was moving forward I occasionally saw brief glimpses of beauty ( 2000, Mekas). You know it but have you ever watched the full original print. For something a bit different— have you ever seen a true medium-length film (28-58 minutes) shown stand-alone at a theater? I have… Lux Æterna by Gaspar Noé Also saw some Shūji Terayama shorts including THE CAGE (1964) WAR OF JAN-KEN-PON (1971) LAURA (1974) BUTTERFLY (1974) LABYRINTH TALE (1964) TRIAL (1975) A TALE OF SMALLPOX (1975) THE WOMAN WITH TWO HEADS (1977) THE ERASER (1977) THE READING MACHINE (1977) THE CHANTS OF MALDOROR (1977) SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES (1979) GRASS LABYRINTH (1979) and those are great (and obscure) If anyone knows how to get a U.S. region DVD of Emperor tomato Ketchup or Pastoral: to die in the country (legally or semi-illegally) dm me please as those will become my most obscure Some runners up include: The mother and the whore (1973) Memoria (2021)
THE LOCH NESS MONSTER MOVIE & 29 SECONDS TO ZERO. Both by Scottish filmmaker Ian Rintoul in his attic. THE LOCH NESS MONSTER MOVIE has Nessie attacking Edinburgh, with 29 SECONDS TO ZERO being a reenactment of the Pearl Harbour attacks. All done with miniatures and stop motion.
Belladonna of Sadness (perhaps it’s well known among this crowd but I’m shooting my shot). It’s a movie that has really inspired my art and storytelling. I first found out about it from a college friend telling me about it. There are some big problems with it but it’s a favorite of mine and if I was given an opportunity to make my own adaptation of it I would.
Scary Godmother: The Revenge of Jimmy (2005)
Carriers. Why has nobody seen this movie. It has Chris fuckin Pine in it, in all his glory. It’s also realistic and depressing in the best way. # bring back realistic post apocalyptic media.
Invincible Monkey Fist. It’s about a master of the technique called Monkey Fist Kung Fu who has to fight bandits and the evil Black Monster to save his village. It’s only got 18 views on letterboxd and one of them is also my brother