Non Block Buster Movie Recommendations?

[Santeria]

Hi i was wondering if you guys could recommend me some movies that arent block buster films...

i enjoy horror,action,thriller,sci fi, comedies pretty much all movies.

the only movie i can currently think of is... city of god.

any other recommendations?

i have seen oldboy, the descent, cashback, hostel, full metal jacket, memento, the machinist, zoolander, and liked those.

they dont have to be on BLU, DVD Is fine..

thanks

[Jayromy]

Just off the top of my head:

Zodiac (Blu in January)
Eastern Promises
The Proposition
The Prestige
There Will Be Blood
3:10 to Yuma

[Crim122]

Have you seen City of God? If not SEE IT! its one of the best movies ever made imo.

ANd if you can see it in theaters I would highly recommend Slumdog Millionaire.

[assydingo]

Hot Rod - comedy
Gingersnaps - horror
Equilibrium - action
Torchwood (show) - sci-fi

[Santeria]

heres my list of movies i saw were of interest to me from forum posts..

Movies to watch
1. City Of God
2. Green Street Hooligans
3. Gattaca
4. Big Fish
5. The Thirteenth Floor
6. Blade Runner
7. Zodiac
8. Eastern Promises
9. The Proposition
10. The Prestige
11. There Will Be Blood
12. 3:10 to Yuma
13. Equilibrium

any more ?

list of movies ive already seen and liked..

Eurotrip, Zoolander, Pineapple Express, Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Drillbit Taylor, Meet the Fockers, Big Daddy, Happy Gilmore, Wedding Crashers, Bruce Almighty, 40 Year Old Virgin, Harold and Kumar 1 & 2,Just Friends,Click, Superbad, Knocked Up, Transformers, The Dark Knight, Hellboy 1&2, Bourne Identity, Ironman, The Incredible Hulk, Batman Begins, Lord Of the Rings 1-3, The Matrix, Oceans Eleven, Fight Club, The Italian Job, Gone in 60 Seconds, Reservoir Dogs, 300, Pirates of the Carribean 1-3, Terminator 1-3,SAW IV, Cloverfield, Memento, The Machinist, Beowolf, The Departed, Lucky Number Slevin, Rush Hour, Coach Carter, Invincible, Fearless, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, My Sassy Girl, American History X, Cash Back, 11:14, Battle Royal, Old Boy, The Fast and the Furius, Toy Story, Better Luck Tommorrow, The Descent, Requiem for a Dream,

[DeadDog]

Almost Famous (probably my favorite movie)
In America
The Station Agent
Amelie
Dummy
Igby goes down
A very long engagement
The Cooler
Adaptation
Cinema Paridiso

Just a few off the top of my head.

EDIT^^^^^^^beat me to In America. Great movie.

[toef]

Originally Posted by DeadDog

EDIT^^^^^^^beat me to In America. Great movie.

Haha, yes!

I was visiting a friend once during college, and after he went to bed, I looked through his DVDs (all 4-5 of them) and saw In America, so I popped it in and watched it, and then after going back home the next day, instantly ordered it on Amazon.

I was going to mention Igby Goes Down too, but figured I'd just stop naming movies, because I could go on for a while.

[toef]

A couple Brad Anderson movies:

The Machinist -- edit: just saw you already saw this

Transsiberian (w/ Woody Harrelson, Ben Kingsley) -- a murder mystery set aboard a train on (get this...) the Trans-Siberian rail-line.

As for some others:

Audition -- won't say much about this, but seems up your alley

Der Untergang -- a WWII movie about Hitler's final days; it's obviously in German, but is easily one of the best (if not the best) WWII movies (not to mention a scene was used in what became one of the funniest clips on YouTube, when Hitler had his X-box Live account banned).

In America -- a story about an Irish family immigrating to the US, sometime in the 90s or so (though the movie never specifically states when), told mostly through the perspective of the 10 year old daughter...for some reason this movie really got to me

Cube -- I mention this because you mentioned liking sci-fi, and this is sort of a cult-classic sci-fi/thriller movie; a bunch of strangers are put into a deadly, never-ending maze of cubes; might make you scratch your head, but I say give it a shot

Also, I disagree with some of the movies others have recommended. Not because they aren't good movies (because they are good) but because they're not exactly non-block buster. Movies like Big Fish and 3:10 to Yuma had pretty wide releases while in theaters, and Big Fish in particular had quite a marketing campaign behind it, heralding it as "our generation's Wizard of Oz", or something like that.

[Booyahs the name]

Street Kings
Run Fatboy Run
Stranger Than Fiction
Be Kind Rewind

Just a few you can try that i liked that weren't too mainstream

[mikejet]

Frailty

[Deadset]

Ran (1985) - An epic film that should be viewed by all

Others:

Amelie - a great chick flick
Thank you for Smoking - 2nd this one, funny, a great rental
Basketball Diaries - not sure if it was popular or not, but a great movie that doesn't get alot of love
Lifeforce - space horror / thriller, look it up, it's def. worth a view (directed by Tobe Hooper)

[ground chuck]

drugstore cowboy.

[Knightowl23]

Try Revolver on Blu and Running Scared on DVD.

[Booyahs the name]

Originally Posted by mikejet

Frailty

Good movie i haven't seen that in a while

[franklinpross]

The Prestige is done well.

[Edo]

theres a few horror thrillers i recomend you

1. Eden Lake
2. Rec
3. Ils ( aka Them)