Good movies you'd never heard of....

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Ever watched a movie that you has never heard of and then thought it was great, which made you wonder why you'd never heard of it?

I DVR'd "The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill..." sometime over the last week and watched it last night. While it wasn't the best movie ever made, but I really enjoyed it-- it's on the Second Hand Lions level.

Which made me think... I wonder what other movies people have watched that they've never heard of that turned out to be good?
 
Little Chenier

It was shot in rural Louisiana, and the entire township was essentially wiped out by Hurricane Rita a few weeks after they wrapped. The movie has nothing to do with hurricanes, but it's still an odd sidenote to what is essentialy a Sayles-ian family drama.
 
The Man Who Would Be King

It may be because of my age but I had never heard of it. I also didn't realize it was a story either. Anyway, I really enjoyed it and often recommend it (and to those I do no one has ever seen it.)
 
"My Favorite Year" with Peter O'Toole.

Welcome to our humble chapeau....

Maa..........4 years at the Sorbonne and she still can't get it right
 
"House of Games", a movie about con men. Written by the great playwright/screenwriter David Mamet, who wrote Glengarry Glen Ross, among other things. Stars Joe Mantegna.
 
This is an old one, with Elliot Gould and John Candy (a very young John Candy, in a small part before he was any kind of star): Silent Partner, or perhaps The Silent Partner...about a Canadian bank robbery. I had never heard of it in spite of the fact that I am always reading the movie review sections of magazines, newspapers, etc. Years ago I caught it at a 2-films-for-a-dollar theatre in S.A. For 50 cents, it was a pleasant surprise, a true sleeper.
 
Thief (James Caan, Michael Mann)
Chilly Scenes of Winter (John Heard)
Crossing Delancy (JM Silver directed this and the above. The above is a little dark, this one is a rather charming romantic story with Paul Rieser and Amy Irving)
Hombre (Paul Newman Western)
Ulzana's Raid (Western)
Breaker Morant (Aussie Boer War Movie)
 
Run Lola Run...

Great movie. Never heard of it, saw it on HBO maybe 5 years ago.

and walked into Galaxy Quest at the movie theatre. Thought it was going to absolutely suck... Walked out thinking it was an Awesome Movie.
 
Reservoir Dogs was one that my friends and I pulled from Blockbuster in high school (must have been 92 or 93) and it immediately became one of my favorite movies.

More recently Layer Cake with Daniel Craig that I just happened to see on Starz (or Encore?).
 
Dead Man (second Jarmusch movie in this thread). Caught the last half of it years ago and loved it. Finally bought the DVD and watched the whole thing. Great movie. Stupid ******* white man.
 
Bat* 21 - Gene Hackman
F/X - Bryan Dennehy
Memphis Belle - Matthew Modine
The Wind & The Lion - Sean Connery & Candice Bergin

Previous poster mentioned the Man Who Would Be King - allsome movie, one of my favorites. Sean Connery, Michael Caine & Christropher Plummer.
 
Back in the late 80s I dropped by a friends house. He said, check out this basketball movie and put "Hoosiers" in the VCR. I hadnt heard of it then and it was and still is a damned good movie.
 
Laurel Canyon

Another Christian Bale film, this time out with Kate Beckinsale. (Although it’s a film suited more for actors, architects and smoking hot dialog in Volvos.)
 
The Baker

Saw it on an international flight. A good British comedy about a hitman who gives up the life to become a baker. Came out recently I think.
 
I'm pretty sure most of these movies would fall under the category of "movies I've heard of but never seen". I can't think of a movie I sat through where I had never heard of it before. Except for porn.
 
Watch "The Celebration" is a Danish film that is subtitled, which alone would normally scare me off, but it was an amazingly powerful film that essentially takes place in a few rooms of a house. It would make for an amazing Broadway play, but the acting was wonderful.

Just watch it without reading what it is about on Wikipedia or another movie review.
 
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