Films you may never have heard of but you'll never forget (12 titles)
A collection of films that are easy to have missed at cinemas or on DVD but are really refreshing and different from what you're probably used to watching
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Koyaanisqatsi
No plot, no characters, just a deeply affecting arrangement of music and images, presenting the impact of humans on our world. Sad, spectacular, magisterial, uplifitng, magnificent.
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Koyaanisqatsi
on DVD
(1983)
Director: Godfrey Reggio
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First-time filmmaker Godfrey Reggio's experimental documentary "Koyaanisqatsi" from 1983 - shot mostly in the desert Southwest and New York City on a tiny budget with no script, then attracting the support of Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas and enlisting the indispensable musical contribution ..read more »
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Safe
A housewife discovers she's allergic to modern life and retreats further and further into a surreal world. Strange, poignant and darkly funny.
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Safe
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Julianne Moore, Peter Friedman, Susan Norman
Director: Todd Haynes
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SAFE is an unnerving story about a housewife, Carol (brilliantly played by Julianne Moore), who falls physically and psychologically ill from her environment. Director Todd Haynes casts an instantly eerie spell with hypnotic cinematography as Carol's stoic, perfect world is introduced. Her home is ..read more »
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Vamp
Unusual comic horror in which three teenagers looking for vice enter a bizarre parallel world populated by vampires. Strong, stark, savage, silly and thrilling.
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Vamp
(1986)
Starring: Grace Jones, Chris Makepeace
Director: Richard Wenk
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A couple of college kids scouring the sleazy, local red-light district for a stripper for their party make the mistake of visiting the After Dark Club, where a vampiric Grace Jones is the marquee talent. Keith, Vic, and A.J., looking for strippers for their next frat party, unfortunately happen ..read more »
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Kundun
Story of the Dalai Lama and the loss of his country, Tibet, to the Chinese while the rest of the world does nothing. Beautiful, mystical, moving. Martin Scorsese's most distinctive film.
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Kundun
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese's telling of the life story of the 14th Dalai Lama is a spiritual and deeply moving event. Barely able to walk, the young Tenzin Gyatso (played respectively by Tulku Jamyang Kung Tenzin, Gyurme Tethong, and Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong) is identified as the newly reincarnated form of His ..read more »
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Missing
An American wife and father search for a missing man in an unnamed South American country after a coup, their own government strangely reluctant to help them. Ronald Reagan didn't like this film - there is no greater recommendation.
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Missing
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron
Director: Costa Gavras
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A father goes in search of his missing son in South America.
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Southern Comfort
A squad of reserve soldiers anger some Cajuns in the bayou and have to fight their way out - without any bullets... A bloodthirstier nastier film than Deliverance.
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Southern Comfort
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward
Director: Walter Hill
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A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
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Defence Of The Realm
A reporter investigates a cover-up at a USAF base and the British Govt will do anything to stop him. Intelligent, atmospheric Cold War thriller about power, the press and politics.
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Defence Of The Realm
(1985)
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott
Director: David Drury
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DEFENCE OF THE REALM is a gripping thriller that stars Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, and Denholm Elliott. Nick Mullen (Byrne), a young reporter for a national daily newspaper, is beginning to drift into a cynical and bored routine when he suddenly stumbles across a political cover-up. With the aid ..read more »
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What The Bleep Do We Know!?
A unique collection of interviews and comments from scientists, mystics and others about "reality" and that neither science nor religion has all the answers. A film that will make you think for weeks afterwards, trust me.
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What The Bleep Do We Know!?
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Marlee Matlin, Elaine Hendrix, Barry Newman
Director: William Arntz, Betsy Chasse
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Amanda, a divorced photographer, finds herself in a fantastic Alice-in-Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel, revealing the cellular, molecular and even quantum worlds which lie beneath.
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Lost Highway
A saxophonist is imprisoned for murdering his wife and then literally becomes someone else and switches back again! What is going on?! Very weird and disturbing film from David Lynch (who else?) but also very satisfying.
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Lost Highway
(1997)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty
Director: David Lynch
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Director David Lynch ups the weird ante with this "psychological fugue." Fred Madison (Bill Pullman) is a jazz saxophonist who is married to the beautiful Renee (a brown-haired Patricia Arquette). After receiving menacing videotapes taken from inside their home, the couple begin to worry. Fred's ..read more »
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Pi
A mathematical genius seeks the secrets of the universe, risking insanity and the wrath of several mysterious individuals desperate to know what he finds out. Rough, raw, compelling.
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Pi
(1999)
Starring: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman
Director: Darren Aronofsky
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Low-budget film that won Aronofsky "Best Director" at 1998's Sundance Film Festival. Gritty, inventive black-and-white photography drives this story of genius mathematician Max Cohen who is exploring the possible existence of discernible patterns in the stock market. With the aid of Euclid, his ..read more »
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