What's your favorite obscure movie?

[bif]

"Silent Running" "Baghdad Cafe" and "Local Hero" are three of mine. Oh, and Robinson Caruso on Mars"

[begin_within]

1. Tie between...

Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Soy Cuba (1964)

[MedleyMisty]

2. Pumpkin

with Christina Ricci. Her character is a sorority girl with a tennis star boyfriend. The sorority chooses the Special Olympics as its charity and she falls in love with the guy she's assigned to help.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265591/

[Joe Fields]

3. The Magic Christian, with Ringo and Peter Sellers

[bertha katzenengel]

4. "Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael" - love it.

"Baghdad Cafe" was fabulous. "PICK UP YOUR SHIT! This is an OFFICE!" LOVE CCH Pounder. :loveya:

[wavesofeuphoria]

5. The Race for the Double Helix

[Spacemom]

6. Another vote for Baghdad Cafe

Love it, love it, love it.

[jobycom]

7. A Dream of Passion. I think I'm the only one who has seen it.

Ellen Burstyn, Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin. A revisioning of Medea.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077473/

[skygazer]

8. The Navigator

Strange, surreal time travel movie. Also The 13th Warrior - combination of Vikings, an Arab, cannibalistic semi-humans and a re-telling of the Beowulf saga.

[mulsh]

9. Sudays and Cybelle

from wikipeadia:

Sundays and Cybele is a 1962 French film directed by Serge Bourguignon. Its original French title is Les dimanches de ville d'Avray (Sundays in Ville d'Avray), referring to the Ville-d'Avray suburb of Paris. The film tells the tragic story of a 12-year-old French orphan girl who is befriended by an innocent but emotionally disabled young French Vietnam War veteran. The film is based on a novel by Bernard Eschasseriaux, who collaborated on the screenplay.

You can go to their listing and get the whole plot including the plot spoiling information.

[Wetzelbill]

10. would "Miller's Crossing" by considered obscure?

I dig lots of foreign films, but most of those aren't truly obscure, I would say.

Ummmm.. if not my subject pick, maybe "The Business of Fancydancing" directed by Sherman Alexie.

[terrya]

11. "Parting Glances"

A gay themed film from the 80's. Directed by Bill Sherwood, who only made this film. It's absolutely brilliant.

[Ptah]

12. Roi de coeur, Le (1966) {King of HEarts}

Roi de coeur, Le (1966

During the latter part of World War I, Private Charles Plumpick is
chosen to go into the French town of Marville and disconnect a bomb
that the German army has planted. However, Charles is chased by some
Germans and finds himself holed up at the local insane asylum,
where the inmates are convinced that he is the "King of Hearts."
Feeling obligated to help the inmates, Charles attempts to lead
them out of town, but they are afraid to leave and frolic about the
streets in gay costumes.
Will Charles be able to deactivate the bomb in time and save his newfound friends?

http://imdb.com/title/tt0060908/

[dysfunctional press]

13. the silent partner is good.

near dark and the hidden work for me too.

[Exiled in America]

14. Pi.

Freaking love that movie.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0138704/