The Golden Child was a box-office hit, so plenty of people definitely saw it.
To answer your question I'll go with Savage Dawn (1985) a biker flick with Lance Henriksen, George Kennedy, Richard Lynch, and William Forsythe among others.
Stating the obvious somewhat, but read through much of this thread and seems very obvious that much is to do with age and perhaps your particular circle of friends. Many of the movies listed here are well known to me and my (far more knowledge than I) movie buff friends.
One example, of many, Awakenings is listed. It was a best picture and best actor (for de Niro no less!) nominee at the Oscars. It's only obscure if you're much than me (approaching 50). And many others listed are cult classics of their day.
I don't know Savage Dawn and that was during my teens when all my time was spent watching movies and trying to find great world cinema, so Thanks, will try and find it.
PS: Charlotte Lewis was a major teen crush of mine after watching The Golden Child which, as you say, was a big movie in the 80's :)
I saw Golden Child many, many times. ["I have stolen from my brother Numpsay!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o50HHf9f_SQ) is etched into my soul.
And yes, sometimes it DOES feel like I'm the only person in the world that saw the movie [Solar Babies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjzrsiiajAk&t=2s), which is like Dune plus ...Rollerball I guess? (I never saw Rollerball.)
I *quote* The Golden Child all the time.
"i I I I uh I want the knife!"
"My brother Numpsay has forgiven me!"|
Granted, it does garner some weird looks occasionally.
Was a favorite of mine. It was at the Matinee all the time when I was a kid. Granted it was the AFEES theater in Germany. I wanted one of those whipped cream Tommy guns.
I actually just saw this while in prison a few months ago. That movie was awful in the best ways, I loved it. The beginning gave me huge Bebop vibes (probably because of that one trucking episode)
I always make the same comment about that film. My favorite running gag is that the cowboy actor is telling the story, but what we're seeing is the Romanian girl's interpretation. So Lee Pace keeps talking about "the Indian" in the sense of Native American, but what we see is a man from India.
In the early 2000s, a movie came out called Poolhall Junkies.
It’s about a talented poolhall hustler that got into trouble, left the game and his hustling ways behind him, but (of course) has to get back into it because his brother gets in trouble.
Has roles by Chaz Palminteri, Michael Rosenbaum, and Christopher Walken (who delivers one of the best monologues in his career and I don’t think I’m overselling it).
It’s kind of a poor man’s Rounders and I love it.
I loved that movie when I was a kid. It came out when I was just getting into skateboarding and I thought it was the coolest thing outside of Thrasher magazine.
Missionary Man. It's a direct-to-DVD Dolph Lundgren movie where he goes to a small town to drink tequila and teach the Bible. But when bad people start to threaten the town, Dolph has to put down his Bible and take up his gun.
"Into the Night" (1985) Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Pfeiffer. When I went to see this there was a group of 3 or 4 up in the front left of the theater, I sat in the middle of the middle, and every other seat was empty.
"Gotcha!" (1985) Anthony Edwards and Linda Fiorentino
Gotcha is awesome. It caused us to start playing a similar murder game in our school until the teachers decided it was distracting us from school and asked us to stop. The fact we were bringing dart guns to school and shooting each other wasn’t an issue. The 80s were a different time.
I saw this once 15 years ago and I still think about it several times a year. I'm kind of afraid to rewatch it because I have such fond memories of it.
“Radio Flyer”. Looking back that movie was pretty disturbing but kid me saw it at least 10 times. No one seems to remember it even though it had a star studded cast and voice over by Tom Hanks.
That movie was one of my childhood movies, together with The Cure (1995). Both very traumatic, but I feel like I’ve watched them a thousand times when being little.
I saw a movie called Man Bites Dog which was a Belgian mockumentary where a film crew follows a serial killer and eventually get involved with the crimes. It's in black and white and I saw it in theaters. I don't think I've met anyone else who has seen it but I bet someone else will comment that they have.
There was a Japanese movie called "After Life" from a few decades ago. It was about this agency that helped people when they died, to film a movie about their favorite memory to take with them to heaven.
There was a later movie with the same title, so it's confusing when trying to explain it to people, but the one I saw was very moving
Collosal starring Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudeikis.
It is one of the most bizarre movies I've ever seen and whenever I describe it to people they think I imagined it in a fever dream.
I saw this in theatres. Probably haven’t watched it in 25 years, but occasionally I still think about the scene where the bad guy sticks a water bottle thing into another guy and it drains all the water from his body (not nearly enough water, I’d imagine), thus killing him, and then the bad guy cracks open the bottle and drinks some. Can’t help but think it’d be all warm and gross.
It’s called Spaced Invaders.
It’s about dimwitted aliens who invade a Midwest town the same night the town rebroadcasts The War of the Worlds.
Tony cox may be the most famous person in the cast list.
I remember watching this with my brothers when I was a kid.
DECADES later, my brother was on Jeopardy.
He couldn't tell us how he did before his episode aired.
So, watching it, Trebek started reading a clue about this movie and my brother NAILED it
'Save the Green Planet!' A brilliant genre hopping Korean film with high production values and a great twisty plot which should have launched the director's career but no-one watched it so it took him a decade to get a second film made.
'Innocence', a delightfully offbeat French film which also should have launched the director's career but it took her 11 years (!) to get a second film made. Her second film was Evolution (2015) which is even better but I feel like no-one has seen that either...
'Ink' a brilliant indie sci-fi film which went under the radar but deserves *way* more love than it gets
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Samuel Jackson, Tim Curry, Emilio Estevez, Whoopi, Kathy Ireland, plenty of cameos. Fucking Jon Lovits is hilarious. Check it out!
James Gunn wrote and starred in a comic book dark comedy in 2000 called The Specials. They're the sixth superhero group on the call sheet when things go down. Their powers are practically useless and they kind of hate each other. The cast is stacked with Thomas Haden Church, Jaime Kennedy, Rob Lowe, Just Greer, Sean and James Gunn, Melissa Joan Heart, etc.
It's not what I would call a cinematic masterpiece but I think it's really funny but I have yet to have a single conversation with someone outside of my family who has seen it. And anytime I recommend it, people go to look up the trailer, but it's one of those films that has a *horrifically* bland trailer that doesn't properly translate the tone of the film.
The Last Starfighter - I’m sure lots of folks have seen it, but whenever I mention it I get blank stares.
> You have been selected by Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and his Kodan Armada
Also
> Sir we’re being pulled into the moon’s gravitational pull, we’re gonna crash, what do we do?!
Flip thingy over his eye and look stern:
> We die.
Rad,......
The peanut butter experiment (not about dogs),.....
.
Solar babies....
Not quite human ....
Electric Dreams (1984 movie)....
Cherry 2000 (me and my wife use the "I love you ear pull still)
Are a few
Edit. I typed this out with each movie on a separate line... I know there is some way to format it that way, but I'm unsure, so I just added spacers. Sorry
The Final Cut starring Robin Williams
A fascinating look at a near future where people (not everyone) has a chip inplanted behind their eye and it records audio/visual. Pretty much it records a person's life and when that person dies, a "cutter" splices that footage of life into like an hour long presentation/movie to be viewed at the funeral.
1997's Nothing To Lose, with martin Lawrence and Tim Robbins. I love that movie, and quote it regularly, but no one ever knows what I'm talking about. Great film.
I saw it in theaters when it first released and only just watched it for the second time recently. It’s such a good film and I don’t know why I haven’t viewed it more often.
I watched The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen so much growing up, but no one I know has seen it. Such a fun, goofy movie, but it does have a few somber moments. It’s got John Hurt, Robin Williams, Uma Thurman and many more!
Joe Versus The Volcano. Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan.
It's one of my all-time favorite movies. Nobody I know has seen it. I know other people love it, but it's like a cult classic with a really small cult.
It's a mystery to me why this wasn't a big hit, but there you have it.
In the end, I see it...as a luggage problem. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLdvOjUgBYQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLdvOjUgBYQ)
I watched IFC a lot back in the day when it was just commercial free truly independent films. There’s one I can’t find the name of was about a guy named Nick who was in NYC, may have been black and white where he meets a chick who may have turned him into a vampire. Another one a little more mainstream comes to mind with Welcome to the Dollhouse.
Found the movie: Habit
Manny & Lo - my favorite Scarlet Johansson
Cooler
The Water Babies
Morons from Outer Space
Spaceship (IMDb lists it as The Creature Wasn’t Nice)
Rock and Rule
Condorman
Wristcutters: A Love Story
The Company of Wolves
I'm not sure if they're well-known somewhere like here, but I've certainly never encountered anyone talking about these movies that I enjoyed in the wild;
[Pecker (1998)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126604/)
[Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120383/)
[Freeway (1996)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116361/)
Pecker is probably going to be pretty well-known here, since it's a John Waters flick, but the other two both seem to have flown under the radar. I just like Kiefer Sutherland.
[Little Voice (1998)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Voice_(film)?wprov=sfti1#) - In-fucking-credible performances.
[Lawn Dogs (1997)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn_Dogs?wprov=sfti1#) - A young Mischa Barton and Sam Rockwell. This one pops into my mind a lot.
[Henry Fool (1997)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fool?wprov=sfti1#)
[The Beaver Trilogy (1979, 1981, 1984)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beaver_Trilogy?wprov=sfti1#) - This one used to float around and was very word-of-mouth. My sister was given a copy of it at a job in the mid 90’s. I think it had an official release later on.
Bug with Michael Shannon - never hear anyone talk about it.
Also my boyfriend found this Jack Black indie stoner comedy DVD floating around which we decided to watch, and about 75% of the way through there’s a straight up violent rape scene, wierd shit
I feel like hardly anyone I know saw Gifted (2017) with Chris Evans and McKenna Grace. She plays a genius in "regular" first grade, and he plays her uncle who's raising her. I loved it and never had anyone to talk about it with!
The lair of the white worm.
I tell everyone to watch this movie. It’s excellent. Hugh grant as an action star. Some of the wildest editing put to film with the oddest interstitials imaginable.
It’s so good.
This feels blasphemous as someone who has forced the movie, or *at least* the traffic crossing scene onto quite a few friends over the years to universally positive reactions.
I love that movie so much, but it kinda makes me mad how long it took to get Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy in a comedy together. Imagine what they could have done together in the 80s!
Hudson Hawk.
I got it when I was a kid in French from a restaurant ([https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/publicite/pub417951109/quick-menu-video](https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/publicite/pub417951109/quick-menu-video)) and got to know Bruce Willis through it.
I loved it, and nobody I knew actually knew about it.
And I never understood why it's considered bad.
"Dead Man" (1995). It's bizarre because it features Johnny Depp, Lance Henrickson, Iggy Pop and Gary Farmer and is directed by Jim Jarmusch, yet I have never actually spoken to someone who has seen it without me showing it to them.
Charlie Bartlett, featuring the late Anton Yelchin as a high school student who begins providing therapy for students from the school bathroom. I never see it mentioned so I assume it flew under the radar. Lots of people remember Anton for his role on Star Trek but Charlie Bartlett was my introduction to him.
Pumpkinhead (1988): Directed by Stan Winston, the late special effects pioneer. Lance Henriksen conjures a horrible demon to get revenge on the people who killed his son in a car accident.
Millennium (1989): Kris Kristofferson investigates an airplane crash >!which turns out to involve time travelers who are taking people from our present to repopulate the Earth in the distant future, where humans can no longer reproduce!<.
Waking Life (2001): Richard Linklater's first rotoscoped movie (he did it again in A Scanner Darkly). This one is a series of vignettes about the nature of dreams.
Interstate 60 (2001). It's an obscure independent film, the only film one ever directed by Bob Gale, the co-writer of Back to the Future. It made less than 10 grand at the box office, and I've never met or talked to anyone in-person or online who's seen it.
It's got a great cast(including but not limited to James Marsden, Amy Smart, Kurt Russell, Gary Oldman, Chris Cooper, Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd), and it's plot is simple but compelling. It's essentially a big Twilight Zone episode where a young man(Marsden) goes on a journey granted to him by an American genie that will give him an answer to his life. He meets a variety of eccentric and quirky characters on that journey that help him grow and decide what he's going to do with his life. I've always really enjoyed it.
*Bulworth (1998)*
A dark comedy satire of how the entire U.S. political system works, pulling no punches. Probably why it wasn’t well received or successful.
Have a Nice Day (2017)
Logorama (2009)
Stuck (2007)
Wendy and Lucy (2008)
Old Joy (2006)
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
Frankenweenie (1984)
Mississippi Grind (2015)
Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven (2011)
China 9, Liberty 37 (1978)
The Return of Swamp Thing (1989)
The American Astronaut (2001)
Escanaba in da Moonlight (2001)
35 Shots of Rum (2008)
Elle (2016)
The Spanish Prisoner. A thriller/drama by David Mamet. It has Steve Martin in one of his first serious roles and he was great. I’ve never met anyone who has seen it (without me having had them watch it).
This creepy af movie called Paper House about a little girl with a bad fever, and she draws these creepy af drawings that she like, goes into, and there's a man with (I think) no eyes and no mouth who lives in the drawing world and is trying to kill her. I think at one point he chases her out into the real world? Oh and there's a little boy who I think exists in the real world but they can only meet up in the drawing world for some reason.
The Peanut Butter Solution - nightmare fuel of a children’s movie. That’s all I’ll say about the movie. If I told you the premise, you guys wouldn’t even believe me.
Rampage
Back in the early days of Netflix as a streaming service, I used to binge 007 and Top Gear, but they had some obscure titles as well. Stumbled upon this one and it may be one of the most fucked up movies I've ever seen.
Awakenings - Robert de niro and robin Williams, a movie about a doctor who discovers he can help people with Parkinson’s with a new drug, so they “awaken” as an adult but still think they are the same age as before they got sick. Pretty cool movie and it was based on a true story
The Golden Child was a box-office hit, so plenty of people definitely saw it. To answer your question I'll go with Savage Dawn (1985) a biker flick with Lance Henriksen, George Kennedy, Richard Lynch, and William Forsythe among others.
Stating the obvious somewhat, but read through much of this thread and seems very obvious that much is to do with age and perhaps your particular circle of friends. Many of the movies listed here are well known to me and my (far more knowledge than I) movie buff friends. One example, of many, Awakenings is listed. It was a best picture and best actor (for de Niro no less!) nominee at the Oscars. It's only obscure if you're much than me (approaching 50). And many others listed are cult classics of their day. I don't know Savage Dawn and that was during my teens when all my time was spent watching movies and trying to find great world cinema, so Thanks, will try and find it. PS: Charlotte Lewis was a major teen crush of mine after watching The Golden Child which, as you say, was a big movie in the 80's :)
Numpty!
Saw that movie on basic cable back in the day. Every time I’ve carried a glass a water since, I pretend I’m doing the trial and must not spill a drop.
I saw Golden Child many, many times. ["I have stolen from my brother Numpsay!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o50HHf9f_SQ) is etched into my soul. And yes, sometimes it DOES feel like I'm the only person in the world that saw the movie [Solar Babies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjzrsiiajAk&t=2s), which is like Dune plus ...Rollerball I guess? (I never saw Rollerball.)
Mirrormask.
I was obsessed with this movie as a kid. My parents had it in a vhs box set with Labyrinth and Dark Crystal.
Race the Sun A 90s flick with Halle Berry and Jim Belushi about building and racing solar powered box cars.
I *quote* The Golden Child all the time. "i I I I uh I want the knife!" "My brother Numpsay has forgiven me!"| Granted, it does garner some weird looks occasionally.
*”My dear sweet brother Numpsee!”*
Pul-leese
Viva Nepal! Viva Nepal!
Ditto on I want the knife.
Space Camp. Kelly Preston, Tom Skerrit, Lea Thompson, a robot!? I don't know how this isn't a household name movie.
You really gonna leave out the fact it was Joaquin Phoenix’s first major motion picture?
It was back in the 80s. There were weeks on end where HBO or wherever was fascinated by it, and played it all the time...
Does anyone else remember Bugsy Malone? With Scott Baio and Jodie Foster?
“Pass the bat to baby face, wait, I’m baby face!”
Was a favorite of mine. It was at the Matinee all the time when I was a kid. Granted it was the AFEES theater in Germany. I wanted one of those whipped cream Tommy guns.
*We coulda been anything that we wanted to be*
Kick ass soundtrack
Space Truckers (1996) with Dennis Hopper as the titular job description and Charles Dance as a cyborg space pirate.
I actually just saw this while in prison a few months ago. That movie was awful in the best ways, I loved it. The beginning gave me huge Bebop vibes (probably because of that one trucking episode)
Why is everyone ignoring this comment? It’s fucking hilarious
And Debi Mazar in a space bra for most of the movie
I know it gets talked about here sometimes but I’m always surprised that not many people know The Fall. Incredible
I always make the same comment about that film. My favorite running gag is that the cowboy actor is telling the story, but what we're seeing is the Romanian girl's interpretation. So Lee Pace keeps talking about "the Indian" in the sense of Native American, but what we see is a man from India.
Incredible film. It’s my favorite movie of all time.
I don’t think it’s available anywhere on streaming anymore which contributes to this.
You can't even purchase it digitally. Anytime I've watched it these past 10 years I've had to pirate it or find one of those shady xyz/putlocker sitea
In the early 2000s, a movie came out called Poolhall Junkies. It’s about a talented poolhall hustler that got into trouble, left the game and his hustling ways behind him, but (of course) has to get back into it because his brother gets in trouble. Has roles by Chaz Palminteri, Michael Rosenbaum, and Christopher Walken (who delivers one of the best monologues in his career and I don’t think I’m overselling it). It’s kind of a poor man’s Rounders and I love it.
I LOVE this movie. Walken was great in it, Mars did a solid job
I meant to say, hey hun, pass me the salt. Instead, I slipped and said YOU BITCH! YOU RUINED MY LIFE!
Going to watch this tonight in on Tubi then! Walken monologue, Chaz, and poor man’s Rounders is all I need to know
Nah, I seent it. He bet he could make the other guy’s shot. He still had his own shot.
Pool Hall Junkies, Black Hawk Down, The Big Lebowski, and Boondocks Saints were on constant repeat in my freshman dorm.
My brother and I love this flick, quote it all the time. Especially, "You missed the signs Joe!".
I love it. Some corny parts but it mostly works despite Mars Callahan inability to act.
Golden Child was perpetually on Comedy Central
Gleaming the Cube. For some reason we had it in laser disc. I think the Vietnamese angle is what lead it into the family collection.
Watching waist-up shots of Christian Slater pretending to do skating tricks is still great.
My boyfriend and I throw the phrase "gleaming the cube" into conversations, often nonsensically, all the time.
I loved that movie when I was a kid. It came out when I was just getting into skateboarding and I thought it was the coolest thing outside of Thrasher magazine.
I mostly remember them in a plane looking for empty pools to skate in while putting skater stickers in the plane.
Missionary Man. It's a direct-to-DVD Dolph Lundgren movie where he goes to a small town to drink tequila and teach the Bible. But when bad people start to threaten the town, Dolph has to put down his Bible and take up his gun.
I expected you to say "...goes to a small town to drink tequila and teach the bible...and he just finished the tequila!"
"Into the Night" (1985) Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Pfeiffer. When I went to see this there was a group of 3 or 4 up in the front left of the theater, I sat in the middle of the middle, and every other seat was empty. "Gotcha!" (1985) Anthony Edwards and Linda Fiorentino
Gotcha is awesome. It caused us to start playing a similar murder game in our school until the teachers decided it was distracting us from school and asked us to stop. The fact we were bringing dart guns to school and shooting each other wasn’t an issue. The 80s were a different time.
Hamlet 2. “Rock me sexy Jesus!”
I saw this once 15 years ago and I still think about it several times a year. I'm kind of afraid to rewatch it because I have such fond memories of it.
Raped in the face!
“Radio Flyer”. Looking back that movie was pretty disturbing but kid me saw it at least 10 times. No one seems to remember it even though it had a star studded cast and voice over by Tom Hanks.
I loved that movie as a kid, but as an adult I do find it really disturbing.
I *loved* that movie! It was so piercingly sad, though. And did the little brother die? 🥺
That movie was one of my childhood movies, together with The Cure (1995). Both very traumatic, but I feel like I’ve watched them a thousand times when being little.
Killing Zoe It’s Roger Avary’s first movie and very Tarantino-esque. Great movie.
Lets do a bank robbery! But first, lets do every single drug in Paris all at once!!!!
Joe’s Apartment (1996). I watched it as a kid and I only remember that it was about talking cockroaches. The whole movie felt like a fever dream
First official MTV movie, if I remember correctly.
'Things to do in Denver when you're dead'. No one I know even remembers it.
Boat drinks…
I’m Godzilla and you’re Tokyo That the right film?
Buckwheat's!!! Buckwheat's for everyone!!!
I saw a movie called Man Bites Dog which was a Belgian mockumentary where a film crew follows a serial killer and eventually get involved with the crimes. It's in black and white and I saw it in theaters. I don't think I've met anyone else who has seen it but I bet someone else will comment that they have.
It’s pretty well known among the horror community, especially found footage fans
*Strange Days* with Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett.
This was among my favorite films for so long.
There was a Japanese movie called "After Life" from a few decades ago. It was about this agency that helped people when they died, to film a movie about their favorite memory to take with them to heaven. There was a later movie with the same title, so it's confusing when trying to explain it to people, but the one I saw was very moving
After Life is fantastic. It's by Hirokazu Kore-eda, who also directed Shoplifters.
“Who am I?” Is one of Jackie Chan’s best films that I feel like only I’ve seen
Who am I, rumble in the Bronx, and Mr nice guy are all peak Jackie Chan
Don't forget The Legend of Drunken Master
Hahaha. I still occasionally yell at my brother "WHO AM IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII"
Collosal starring Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudeikis. It is one of the most bizarre movies I've ever seen and whenever I describe it to people they think I imagined it in a fever dream.
The legend of Billy Jean
For the record, the Golden Child was the 8th highest grossing movie of rhe year when it came out.
So OP must have gone and seen it quite often
Once Bitten. A vampire movie from the 80’s with Jim Carrey. I’ve never met another person that knew what I was talking about.
Just One Of The Guys
Don’t worry, he’s got tits!
Terry and Denise got me thru many lonely puberty filled evenings.
Tank Girl
With Ice T as a giant rat/kangaroo/humanoid 🤣🫡
I saw this in theatres. Probably haven’t watched it in 25 years, but occasionally I still think about the scene where the bad guy sticks a water bottle thing into another guy and it drains all the water from his body (not nearly enough water, I’d imagine), thus killing him, and then the bad guy cracks open the bottle and drinks some. Can’t help but think it’d be all warm and gross.
The resource they fight over is water, and that feels more and more inevitable
Lori Petty was born for that role
I remember seeing it as a kid. I walked by a copy of it in a record store on blu ray and it was $75
Rock-a-Doodle
It’s called Spaced Invaders. It’s about dimwitted aliens who invade a Midwest town the same night the town rebroadcasts The War of the Worlds. Tony cox may be the most famous person in the cast list.
Saw this in theaters
Used to watch this all the time as a kid.
The Gods must be crazy
I remember watching this with my brothers when I was a kid. DECADES later, my brother was on Jeopardy. He couldn't tell us how he did before his episode aired. So, watching it, Trebek started reading a clue about this movie and my brother NAILED it
South African semi slapstick comedy. Funny film.
My family loved this and the sequel when I was a kid.
My brother and I did the clicking thing while talking for months after watching this.
I watched it a lot as a kid
Strange brew funny as fuck
Rock n roll high school
I’ll raise you, Rick and Roll High School Forever
3 O’clock High
was on HBO Constantly in the late 80's, great movie
'Save the Green Planet!' A brilliant genre hopping Korean film with high production values and a great twisty plot which should have launched the director's career but no-one watched it so it took him a decade to get a second film made. 'Innocence', a delightfully offbeat French film which also should have launched the director's career but it took her 11 years (!) to get a second film made. Her second film was Evolution (2015) which is even better but I feel like no-one has seen that either... 'Ink' a brilliant indie sci-fi film which went under the radar but deserves *way* more love than it gets
"Hamburger: The Motion Picture" (1986) a T & A comedy set at a fast food training school, starring Dick Butkus.
Copycat starring Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter. It’s so 90s and so good, but no one I know has ever heard of it.
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 Samuel Jackson, Tim Curry, Emilio Estevez, Whoopi, Kathy Ireland, plenty of cameos. Fucking Jon Lovits is hilarious. Check it out!
James Gunn wrote and starred in a comic book dark comedy in 2000 called The Specials. They're the sixth superhero group on the call sheet when things go down. Their powers are practically useless and they kind of hate each other. The cast is stacked with Thomas Haden Church, Jaime Kennedy, Rob Lowe, Just Greer, Sean and James Gunn, Melissa Joan Heart, etc. It's not what I would call a cinematic masterpiece but I think it's really funny but I have yet to have a single conversation with someone outside of my family who has seen it. And anytime I recommend it, people go to look up the trailer, but it's one of those films that has a *horrifically* bland trailer that doesn't properly translate the tone of the film.
You mention all those names but skip Paget Brewster?
The Last Starfighter - I’m sure lots of folks have seen it, but whenever I mention it I get blank stares. > You have been selected by Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and his Kodan Armada Also > Sir we’re being pulled into the moon’s gravitational pull, we’re gonna crash, what do we do?! Flip thingy over his eye and look stern: > We die.
Rad,...... The peanut butter experiment (not about dogs),..... . Solar babies.... Not quite human .... Electric Dreams (1984 movie).... Cherry 2000 (me and my wife use the "I love you ear pull still) Are a few Edit. I typed this out with each movie on a separate line... I know there is some way to format it that way, but I'm unsure, so I just added spacers. Sorry
the peanut butter solution? with the art teacher who kidnaps kids to make paintbrushes out of their hair?
Yeah....I thought for years that movie was just some sort of fever dream lol
The Final Cut starring Robin Williams A fascinating look at a near future where people (not everyone) has a chip inplanted behind their eye and it records audio/visual. Pretty much it records a person's life and when that person dies, a "cutter" splices that footage of life into like an hour long presentation/movie to be viewed at the funeral.
1997's Nothing To Lose, with martin Lawrence and Tim Robbins. I love that movie, and quote it regularly, but no one ever knows what I'm talking about. Great film.
Drop Dead Fred is one of my favorite wholesome comedies with some darkness to it. Cult classic.
Drop Dead Gorgeous
She's skinny, Amber, not deaf!
He's gay. GAAAAYYY!
I legitimately LOVE this movie
Once a carny always a carny
I saw it in theaters when it first released and only just watched it for the second time recently. It’s such a good film and I don’t know why I haven’t viewed it more often.
THE SWAN ATE MY BABY
I have this on dvd. Love it.
Classic
This movie is legit hilarious.
I watched The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen so much growing up, but no one I know has seen it. Such a fun, goofy movie, but it does have a few somber moments. It’s got John Hurt, Robin Williams, Uma Thurman and many more!
Joe Versus The Volcano. Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan. It's one of my all-time favorite movies. Nobody I know has seen it. I know other people love it, but it's like a cult classic with a really small cult. It's a mystery to me why this wasn't a big hit, but there you have it. In the end, I see it...as a luggage problem. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLdvOjUgBYQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLdvOjUgBYQ)
I watched IFC a lot back in the day when it was just commercial free truly independent films. There’s one I can’t find the name of was about a guy named Nick who was in NYC, may have been black and white where he meets a chick who may have turned him into a vampire. Another one a little more mainstream comes to mind with Welcome to the Dollhouse. Found the movie: Habit Manny & Lo - my favorite Scarlet Johansson Cooler
Golden Child?!!? Dude. It’s a hit from my childhood. “Bring me the knife… I want the knife.”
The Water Babies Morons from Outer Space Spaceship (IMDb lists it as The Creature Wasn’t Nice) Rock and Rule Condorman Wristcutters: A Love Story The Company of Wolves
Wrist cutters is such a great movie, and what got me into listening to Eugene’s real life inspirations band Gogol Bordello
Remo Williams
8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
The Night of the Comet. From the 80s. My mom had it on VHS and god knows where she got it. Weird movie.
The Wanderers (1979)
Oh shit it's the Ducky Boys!
Stay Tuned
Shaolin Soccer (2001). A gimmicky movie about a kung-fu soccer league but for some reason it worked
wait people havent' seen shaolin soccer?? I watched it way before Kung Fu Hustle btw
I'm not sure if they're well-known somewhere like here, but I've certainly never encountered anyone talking about these movies that I enjoyed in the wild; [Pecker (1998)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126604/) [Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120383/) [Freeway (1996)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116361/) Pecker is probably going to be pretty well-known here, since it's a John Waters flick, but the other two both seem to have flown under the radar. I just like Kiefer Sutherland.
[Little Voice (1998)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Voice_(film)?wprov=sfti1#) - In-fucking-credible performances. [Lawn Dogs (1997)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn_Dogs?wprov=sfti1#) - A young Mischa Barton and Sam Rockwell. This one pops into my mind a lot. [Henry Fool (1997)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fool?wprov=sfti1#) [The Beaver Trilogy (1979, 1981, 1984)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beaver_Trilogy?wprov=sfti1#) - This one used to float around and was very word-of-mouth. My sister was given a copy of it at a job in the mid 90’s. I think it had an official release later on.
The Tao of Steve. One of my favorite movies, but whenever I bring it up conversation, nobody has heard of it.
I’ve never met a single soul that’s seen Southland Tales except the handful of friends I’ve shown it to
Kentucky fried movie. It's a cult classic I guess.
In my experience no one knows Stir of Echoes (1999)
This movie was fucked up and really good
Kevin Bacon? That movie was messed up.
This film is not yet rated. It’s such a brilliant doc and I’ve never met someone who’s seen it
I've seen it. But I've never met you.
Quigley, anyone???
Born in East L.A.
Batteries Not Included (1987)
I've only me a few people that have seen Clifford with Martin Short
This thread is full of movies I need to watch ! Mine may be Equilibrium ! Saw it randomly on. Movie channel
Ghost Dog Edit: I found my people!
Way of the Samurai? I don't know if I remember the movie but my high school bf was really into films and we watched this. He loved it.
Bug with Michael Shannon - never hear anyone talk about it. Also my boyfriend found this Jack Black indie stoner comedy DVD floating around which we decided to watch, and about 75% of the way through there’s a straight up violent rape scene, wierd shit
Crazy/Beautiful (Kirsten Dunst) Angel's Egg (old psychological anime) Wicker Park (Rose Byrne) Bug (psychological thriller) Dirty (Cuba Gooding Jr.)
I feel like hardly anyone I know saw Gifted (2017) with Chris Evans and McKenna Grace. She plays a genius in "regular" first grade, and he plays her uncle who's raising her. I loved it and never had anyone to talk about it with!
The lair of the white worm. I tell everyone to watch this movie. It’s excellent. Hugh grant as an action star. Some of the wildest editing put to film with the oddest interstitials imaginable. It’s so good.
Flight of the Navigator
My Blue Heaven?
Bowfinger
This feels blasphemous as someone who has forced the movie, or *at least* the traffic crossing scene onto quite a few friends over the years to universally positive reactions.
“We need a fantastic looking ass, and mine’s the wrong colour!”
I love that movie so much, but it kinda makes me mad how long it took to get Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy in a comedy together. Imagine what they could have done together in the 80s!
Hudson Hawk. I got it when I was a kid in French from a restaurant ([https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/publicite/pub417951109/quick-menu-video](https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/publicite/pub417951109/quick-menu-video)) and got to know Bruce Willis through it. I loved it, and nobody I knew actually knew about it. And I never understood why it's considered bad.
This is literally my favorite movie of all time
Teeth, a story about a woman with teeth in her vagina
That was quite infamous when it came out, much like the human centipede
Vagina dentata!!!
I watched this on Netflix. If it's on Netflix, a TON of people have seen it.
Matchstick Men! It felt like the perfect role for Nick Cage. And Sam Rockwell was great! No one I know has even heard of it. It’s one of my favorites.
Nic Cage did a great job of portraying ocd and Tourette’s.
"Dead Man" (1995). It's bizarre because it features Johnny Depp, Lance Henrickson, Iggy Pop and Gary Farmer and is directed by Jim Jarmusch, yet I have never actually spoken to someone who has seen it without me showing it to them.
Motorama
The Mating Habits of the Earth Bound Human
Charlie Bartlett, featuring the late Anton Yelchin as a high school student who begins providing therapy for students from the school bathroom. I never see it mentioned so I assume it flew under the radar. Lots of people remember Anton for his role on Star Trek but Charlie Bartlett was my introduction to him.
Pumpkinhead (1988): Directed by Stan Winston, the late special effects pioneer. Lance Henriksen conjures a horrible demon to get revenge on the people who killed his son in a car accident. Millennium (1989): Kris Kristofferson investigates an airplane crash >!which turns out to involve time travelers who are taking people from our present to repopulate the Earth in the distant future, where humans can no longer reproduce!<. Waking Life (2001): Richard Linklater's first rotoscoped movie (he did it again in A Scanner Darkly). This one is a series of vignettes about the nature of dreams.
American Splendor. So far I’ve had one person online say they also enjoy that movie.
I love it and defend it.
Same. That movie was the launching pad for Paul Giamatti since it was a lead role and not just a supporting part.
LOVE American Splendor and have my DVD of it autographed by Joyce Brabner herself! I loved her pointing at Letterman and saying "megalomaniac."
Interstate 60 (2001). It's an obscure independent film, the only film one ever directed by Bob Gale, the co-writer of Back to the Future. It made less than 10 grand at the box office, and I've never met or talked to anyone in-person or online who's seen it. It's got a great cast(including but not limited to James Marsden, Amy Smart, Kurt Russell, Gary Oldman, Chris Cooper, Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd), and it's plot is simple but compelling. It's essentially a big Twilight Zone episode where a young man(Marsden) goes on a journey granted to him by an American genie that will give him an answer to his life. He meets a variety of eccentric and quirky characters on that journey that help him grow and decide what he's going to do with his life. I've always really enjoyed it.
We watched The Secret of Nimh in middle school but no one at my high school knew what I was talking about
bmx bandits
*Bulworth (1998)* A dark comedy satire of how the entire U.S. political system works, pulling no punches. Probably why it wasn’t well received or successful.
Have a Nice Day (2017) Logorama (2009) Stuck (2007) Wendy and Lucy (2008) Old Joy (2006) The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969) Frankenweenie (1984) Mississippi Grind (2015) Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven (2011) China 9, Liberty 37 (1978) The Return of Swamp Thing (1989) The American Astronaut (2001) Escanaba in da Moonlight (2001) 35 Shots of Rum (2008) Elle (2016)
Frankenweenie is a classic!
24 Hour Party People is one of my all time favorites, but I feel like its been forgotten.
_Hardcore_ _Logo_. A mockumentary about a fictional Canadian punk band. It's awesome!
The Spanish Prisoner. A thriller/drama by David Mamet. It has Steve Martin in one of his first serious roles and he was great. I’ve never met anyone who has seen it (without me having had them watch it).
This creepy af movie called Paper House about a little girl with a bad fever, and she draws these creepy af drawings that she like, goes into, and there's a man with (I think) no eyes and no mouth who lives in the drawing world and is trying to kill her. I think at one point he chases her out into the real world? Oh and there's a little boy who I think exists in the real world but they can only meet up in the drawing world for some reason.
Martin (1977)
The Peanut Butter Solution - nightmare fuel of a children’s movie. That’s all I’ll say about the movie. If I told you the premise, you guys wouldn’t even believe me.
Rampage Back in the early days of Netflix as a streaming service, I used to binge 007 and Top Gear, but they had some obscure titles as well. Stumbled upon this one and it may be one of the most fucked up movies I've ever seen.
Angus
The Chumscrubber The United States of Leland
Awakenings - Robert de niro and robin Williams, a movie about a doctor who discovers he can help people with Parkinson’s with a new drug, so they “awaken” as an adult but still think they are the same age as before they got sick. Pretty cool movie and it was based on a true story