Recommend/talk about (mostly) non-mainstream films!

Input Cinephile Shodown
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Let’s talk about our favourite (mostly) non-mainstream films!

Old movies, cult classics, foreign movies, indie movies.

Anything you want, even if you think we’ve all heard of it already.

Let us broaden our horizons, together.

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love exposure
paper airplane/zhi fei ji
battle girl : the living dead in tokyo bay
neco z alenky
deathstalker ii
turbo kid
parallels

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have you heard

about

Citizen Kane?

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this one is on streaming services believe it or not! it’s on my watch list

yes i’ve seen it and played the pinball adaptation

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This answer is impossible.

Citizen Kane is a myth.

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pontypool
the counselor
sexy beast

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Requiem for a Dream
Rogue One

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are you taking the mickey

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what’s that mean?

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a brighter summer day

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oh if I’m taking the piss. yes, sort of because they’re not indie and all that but you should still watch them :smile: That’s what I’d watch right now, anyway

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just get lost in youtube like never before

learn how to clean a boat or something

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A Touch of Zen
Attack the Block
Gandahar
Stray Cat Rock

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A Flame At The Pier or In the Lions Mane
It’s a 60s Yakuza film which there are so many of. But it has great sound design, a more nuanced than normal plot and two incredible gut punch moments. And it is one no one has heard of at this point so you get indie points.

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12:01
Overdrawn at the memory bank
Alice in Wonderland 1915 edition
Alive and ticking
Transformers 1
Transformers 2
Transformers 3
Transformers 4



I tried to be serious, honestly! (j/k, watch alive and ticking.)
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godzilla vs hedorah
wrath of daimajin
a bullet for the general
ninja III the domination

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Cinephile:
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Grindhouse:
http://theflophouserecommends.herokuapp.com/hosts/2

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uncle boonmee who can recall his past lives
angel’s egg

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These are all perfect movies, except for the honorable mentions, most of which are imperfect but make up for it by being amazing.

Favorite Fictive Movies That Come to Mind (in Rough Order)

  • Noriko’s Dinner Table
  • La Dolce Vida
  • The Barefoot Contessa
  • Battle Royale

Honorable Mentions

  • Children of Men
  • The Spirit of the Beehive
  • Rebel Without a Cause
  • American Astronaut
  • Hausu
  • The Prestige

Unquestionably Some of the Best Documentaries Ever Made (in Rough Order)

  • The Act of Killing
  • O.J.: Made in America
  • The Devil and Daniel Johnston
  • The Decline of Western Civilization Pt. 2
  • The Deceline of Western Civilization Pt. 3

Whatever Tarantino you haven’t watched.

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Damn, I’d second at least five of those. We can’t be too similar, TMKF, stop this nonsense right now

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