That movie's pretty awful and not even close to "must see". "KIDS" is way way better but still not "must see".

advice for future posts:

if a movie is listed here, especially towards the top, then it likely is not obscure.

I didn't remember that I had seen this until I looked it up, and I agree that it is a very good movie about the 1968 riots and it is also legitimately obscure (only 714 votes on IMDB).

Some more

Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944) - great wartime (life at home) movie

Barfly (1987)- Mickey Rourke's best performance as Charles Bukowski

In Cold Blood (1967)- excellent adaptation of Truman Capote's real-life crime novel

Evil Roy Slade (1972) - one of the funniest movies ever made.

Wake in Fright (Outback) (1971) - Best Australian film ever made in the opinion of some critics - but very hard to find and has not been widely viewed since it's release.

The Shawshank Redemption. SUCH a good movie, man i really loved it. first time i saw it was right before me and my frat buddies went out to a Dave Matthews/OAR concert

, on multiple levels

Oh, here's one: Spirit of the Beehive

Please keep the leveling to bbv. Don't make me pull out "American Beauty".

Sol Goode

A couple of movies that I think not enough people have seen:

Le Grand Bleu, Luc Besson's early work before he started making total crap.

Buffalo Soldiers, a recent movie which didn't get a whole lot of commercial success but I would easily put it into my list of greatest ever if i had such a list.

I actually disagree. I believe Festen and M are both on that list and I would guess that far fewer than 1% of people on this board have seen either one.

1% might be a bit low but you have a point.
Although it should be noted that he said it LIKELY is not obscure.

FWIW - I've seen M.

It's mostly coming down to a semantics debate as to what qualifies as 'obscure'.

Take another movie on that list like Dog Day Afternoon (another one of my all-time faves, a young Al Pacino in a botched bank-robbery attempt).
I really don't think it should be counted as 'obscure' but I also suspect there are many people on this forum who have never seen or heard of it.

So in the context of this forum it counts as obscure.

wow, there are some obscenely unobscure films in this thread, lets get this back on track

if you like crime films and are used to watching foriegn films, then try out Le Cercle Rouge

for another recent american indie film that deserves wider recognition, check out mean creek

--some guy. Many layers of stupid here, but the definition of MUST SEE is the cherry on top.

--some dudes who think obscurity is automatically attached to any movie made more than 10 years ago, even if it was directed by one of the most famous directors in the world or was extremely famous in its time.

--some dude who either hasn't seen Flirting With Disaster or The Royal Tenenbaums, or who has and is an idiot.

--2461Badugi. Could not agree more.

Here is a nice little movie that I think escaped most people.

Midnight Clear - Stars Ethan Hawke, Kevin Dillon, John McGinley among others. It is a war film that without battle scenes. It isn't perfect, but it is damned interesting. It is set late in 1944 in an undescribed forest in Germany. I have often wondered how interested I would be in killing the enemy if I knew we were looking at a matter of months until the war is over. Neither side in this remote corner of the war really wants to kill the other, but they also can't be sure of their enemy's intentions.

Citizen X - I am going to engage it what seems like hyperbole. There are three great serial killer movies that have ever been made. M, Silence of the Lambs and Citizen X. This is a made for HBO movie that never entered theaters. Stars Stephen Rea and Donald Sutherland. I was so entranced in this movie I actually started it again as soon as it was over. I love Stephen Rea, and he is perfect here.

The film is set in the Soviet Union as Communism is crumbling. It is based on a real case with Rea playing a police detective trying to capture a serial killer operating over several years and killing dozens of victims. Everything about this movie is fascinating, from the look at Soviet obstruction of the investigation, to the police work, to the killer himself. I am amazed that this was never shown in theaters. It really is a testament to the quality of HBO films.