. The White, The Yellow And The Black (1975)
AKA ‘Samurai’ and ‘Shoot first… Ask Questions Later’. A pretty funny and well written spaghetti western. Worth a watch if your looking for some light entertainment and a few laughs.
. Get Him To The Greek (2010)
Don’t understand why films like ‘Superbad’ (2007) and ‘21 Jump Street’ (2010) become beloved classics while this was forgotten. It’s got the comedy of a raunchy late-2000’s Seth Rogan like film and the action of a James Bond movie. The inclusion of Pedo Diddy didn’t age well but that can be forgiven.
I recently saw this mind bending time travel movie called Primer.
Kidding.
A few indie movies I really like are Ink (2009), Sidewalls (2011), and Cashback (2006). I’ve linked to some trailers but I hope people just jump feet first without knowing or presuming anything.
Ink is super low budget but it’s really one of my all time faves. It starts off sort of like film school assignment early 2000’s dystopian scifi fantasy and ends as tear jerker. The full movie is on YT here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIdqnPxfzj0
2022’s Vesper was fantastic but I assume a lot of people know this one.
Also, for those looking for some 90s nostalgia, I recently rewatched Singles (1992) for the first time since the nineties and it still holds up.
A few I liked that maybe went under a few radars were The Guest, The Dead Don’t Die, Brick, and Dave Made A Maze.
I don’t like the phrasing ‘only you know about’ because that’s not an easy standard to meet, however I have seen a lot of movies…
The Man From Earth (2007) - College professors discuss many topics with a colleague who claims to be thousands of years old. Fully dialogue driven movie shot almost entirely in one room. Great pacing but just a little cheesy in a few spots.
Cube (1997) - Without remembering how they got there, several strangers awaken in a prison of cubic cells, some of them booby-trapped. Also sort of cheezy but quite engaging and dialogue driven. Oddly enough this one was also shot in one room, sort of.
Suburbia (1983) - An overwhelming sense of despair impels a teenager to leave his suburban home and join up with a group of punk rockers. I highly recommend this movie to anyone who has a soft spot for the punk scene of the early 80s…
SubUrbia (1996) - not as good as the totally unrelated 1983 suburbia, but still pretty good - Five teen friends spend their time hanging out behind a convenience store in a sleepy Texas town. This one really reminds me of my childhood, spending all night smoking cigarettes with friends in the parking lot of a gas station, doing nothing, wasting away life.
I’ll add more if I think of any.
I mostly watch old movies these days (40’s and 50’s) and I have a million of those that I love but it’s kind of hard to judge how obscure they might be. People who watch old movies probably have heard of most of the great old movies I have seen.
Def History of the Occult (Historia De Lo Oculto), an Argentinian sort of supernatural horror/thriller. Came out in 2020, I searched high and low for it, it used to be on Shudder. I couldn’t even find it to torrent it.
Probably fairly well known in Argentina itself, though.
