Little Known Movies You Enjoyed

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Krull
Murder by Death
The Gay Falcon
Sometimes in April
Léon (a.k.a. The Professional. It's starting to get some recognition)
Wasabi
The Court Jester
Hadashi no Gen (an anime about the bombing of Hiroshima told by one of the survivors)
The Worst Witch
City of Lost Children
Freeway
Phone Call From a Stranger
Big Fish
Arabian Nights
A Little Princess

I loved Leon in the "Professional"soooosexy but didnt that movie seem to incourage the "loletta" theme?

The Onion Field
Swimming to Cambodia
The killing Fields

Not so much because even though the girl was in love the hitman I think he made it pretty clear nothing physical would happen between them. Therefore taking away creepy factor.

Barcelona (sort of a sequel not quite as good)
The Big Lebowski
The Fabulous Baker Boys

Hopkins did a movie in Australia right after Silence of the Lambs "Spotswood". May be hard to find outside Oz. Hopkins plays a company liquidator/accountant who begins to like and feel for the workers in a factory he has to close down.

Yeah, too bad he's going to be remembered as Hannibal Lecter.

Cohen & Tate.

Twelve Monkeys.

It was a fairly successful film, but didn't get half the praise it deserved. IMHO it's absolutely brilliant.

-Me & You & Everyone We Know (think Garden State, but weirder and with more characters)
-Strings (A POWERFUL PUPPET MOVIE! YAY! Dude. This movie made me cry. A PUPPET movie made me cry because it was so sad. You know this kicks ass!)
-Jiri Barta: Labyrinth of Darkness (DVD with a bunch of animations by this Czech animator; just came out. Highly recommend it, but not to the easily disturbed)
-Avalon (from the creator of Ghost in the Shell, though it's live action; very cool visuals and story and AMAZING score. Very slow paced though)
-Immortal (some people will HATE this deep, cg-heavy sci-fi movie, but I liked it a lot--amazing visuals and a pretty damn cool, if slightly confusing, plot)

Some slightly better known ones:
-Mirrormask (one of the most cool looking films ever, made with a budget of merely $4 million!)
-The Devil's Backbone (okay, I know Ain't It Cool News gives this movie a blow job everytime they bring up "Pan's Labyrinth," but whatever--it's still not very well known. It's no masterpiece, but it's way better than most horror movies out right now.)
-Never Cry Wolf (sweet movie about this guy who goes to live with wolves...based on the book of course)
-A Scanner Darkly (got a very small release but I loved it.)
-Unleashed (such a tearjerker, this one. Absolutely brutal but amazingly tender. Not for those sensitive to violence.)

I loved "Soñar no cuesta nada" or "Dreaming don't cost a thing". Excellent, is the real story of the soldirs who found 46 million dollars from the colombian guerrilla...

Want "little-known movies"? Look no further than Mind Game. That movie didn't even get any release in the US outside of one festival at the MFA, which is a shame because its an amazing film. Its animation is beautiful (think a really cool cross between your typical anime, The Triplets of Belleville, Waking Life, The Yellow Submarine, Spongebob, Billy Plympton's work, and some Disney-quality computer animation, jumping between and blending styles almost every few seconds), has philosophy abound, and is very, very, very surreal and funny.

And although this one is more well-known for its infamous production, very few people have seen the uncut Richard Williams-directed version of The Theif and the Cobbler. If you're into classic animation like the type Warner Brothers used to make, try watching it on Youtube. The plot is a bit laborous, but the visual design shows the 30 years of effort getting into self-producing it. Just DON'T watch the editted version by Miramax, its essentially a completely different movie outside of one or two scenes.

I've seen The Spitfire Grill. My parents rented it when I was 12 and I enjoyed the movie. I didn't see it again until I was 14.

Here is another movie I like and it's not very well known and it has Johnny Depp in it. He is very well known a lot. The movie is Benny & Joon. Filmed in Spokane, Washington. Julianne Moore is in that movie too. Anyone know her? I don't know if she is very well know but I do notice Mary Stuart Masterson isn't very well known so I don't think she is real famous. She played Joon in Benny & Joon. as the mentally ill, as Benny sees it IMO, instead of her as a person but Sam saw her as person played by Johnny Depp and they both fall in love and Benny finds out and kicks him out of their home and things go downhill but then the movie gets better again and it's a happy ending but there has been rumors floating on the internet about Joon accidently burning down their house when she lights a black and white photo on fire and it catches this rag on fire too that was in the sink where she put the burning photo. The rumor is they had that scene in the movie too but cut it but the director doesn't say anything about it in the commenary on the DVD and Benny is wearing different clothes the next day after Joon is put in the hospital and Joon is wearing different clothes at the end and the same shoes she always wear throughout the movie so how can she still have the same dress and shoes if their house really did burn down and why was Benny wearing different clothes he had already worn in the movie. That's why i never bought the rumor.

"Far from heaven" directed by Todd Hayne, a great great film, with a stupendous performance by Julianne Moore. Moore is an exceptional actress, somehow shunned by production because she is not a sex bomb like Scarlet.

Mindwalk (1990)-not to everyone's taste (or p.o.v.), but what is ? It's 3 characters walking & talking about stuff, reminded me a tad of "My Dinner with Andre", only less dull & esoteric. All they do is walk & talk, but my interest didn't flag, watched it twice in a row. Sam Waterston, John Heard, & Liv Ullmann, as a politician, a poet, and a physicist. Ione Skye has cameo as Ullmann's daughter.
I quite liked (of previously listed films) Ghost World, Station Agent, and Freeway.
Other lesser-knowns (mid-to-late 90's):
A Map Of The World (Sigourney Weaver as woman accused of child abuse, David Strathairn as her husband, Julianne Moore as her friend). Wrenching & painful but great movie.
The Safety Of Objects (Patricia Clarkson as the older woman, Glenn Close as the mom of the younger man, played by Joshua Jackson). Another unhappy film, but it was richly textured & quirky.

I think Brad Pitt was in that. It's underappreciated, but hardly obscure.

Some of my favorite weird movies are Crimewave by Sam Raimi, Blueberry, very trippy, Ravenous, God Told Me To by Larry Cohen, el topo another trippy movie, Alice's Restaurant with Arlo Guthrie, PI, The Quiet Earth, Glen and Randa, A Boy and His Dog, alot of these movies might be hard to find now but might be on one of the bit torrent sites.