Movies that you love but nobody else (in the world) seem to know about.

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What Richard Did and Adam & Paul, both directed by now Oscar nominated Lenny Abrahamson are well worth checking out. Adam and Paul tackles the streets of Dublin as two drug addicts looking for their next hit in various hilarious ways that also takes a turn for the tragic towards the end as you begin to understand their lifestyle. What Richard Did is dark thriller studying sociopathy in schools and young people, also playing with tragedy, but in a more cold, distant way, both are worth seeing, especially if you like Abrahamson's past 2 films, Room and Frank.

Marwencol is a strange but very intimate documentary that looks at a man on the fringe of society following a tragic event causing him to loose all his memory as he begins to re-piece his life through action figures and finds his identity all over again, while also shining a light on the nature of art and art form. It's the sort of film that will change your outlook on life, but it's often very funny and sweet.

Submarine, probably the most well known film I'll mention here. Is a funny look at adolescence and young love, along with the small scale sense of the world revolving around the individual and that sense of bigger things approaching that you can't fully comprehend. With great cinematography, hilarious dialogue and film literate foundation, many people dismiss it as wannabe Wes Anderson, but it far more approachable, and for my money, far better than any of his films.

Fish Story is probably the wackiest film I'll mention, a story of a failed rock band, and how their song stopped the end of the world, feels like a series of disconnected vignettes, but the story in fact weaves all the pieces together in the most unpredictable of ways, a sense of cosmic coincidence adds a sense of humour to the entire film and you won't be able to predict the outcome unless you see it.

La Zona is a Mexican allegory film following a civilised suburbs, that is enclosed from the outside world with a big wall, that is compromised during a storm and some of the people from the slums enter and a man hunt happens, turning the civilised middle class into blood thirst animals, in a story that seems all the more topical today with the current Presidential race than it did when it was made in 2007.

Birth is Jonathan Glazer's forgotten and much misunderstood second film that is on the verge of a resurgence and reappraisal, a mature and often haunting and uncomfortable story following a widowed woman who is finally moving on with her life by accepting the proposal of her new rich boyfriend, and young boy enters claiming to be the reincarnation of her husband. A supernaturally tinged story tackled with deft seriousness and drama, unflinching as it continues to push and explore the situation, it features career best performances and scenes that will be unshakable from the memory.

Spider from David Cronenberg is a very small film tackling a mentally ill person as he moves to a half-way house, retraces his steps from when he was a kid. The film feels often a bit larger than life, but is becomes clear that the main subject of the is an unreliable narrator, and reality becomes more and more warped by the past. It's a tough film to get into as Ralph Fiennes plays the main role in a way that makes him difficult to approach, but it's rather rewarding.

Buffalo Soldiers was heavily delayed after it debut the day before 9/11 at a film festival and got swept under the rug, but the film pre-dates Jarhead as a cynical satire of the irresponsibility and debauchery that can be found in the US army that most are oblivious to. Obviously badly timed and not entire accurate, it still has many funny moments and an energy to it not replicated by many films, plus it stars Joaquin Phoenix.