Lesser known films that are worth seeing...

[Ev0]

The Spanish Prisoner

 

[mcwildcard]

Night Watch (Russian)

I found Nightwatch quite disappointing, not seen Daywatch yet, but I hear the third part of the trilogy is being made by Fox, who have bought the rights to all 3 films.

 

[just Scott]

Welcome to Dongmakgol

 

[alle]

...The Limey.

 

[Cybermyk]

I found Nightwatch quite disappointing, not seen Daywatch yet, but I hear the third part of the trilogy is being made by Fox, who have bought the rights to all 3 films.

I found it quite watchable but it did lack any depth. Like it was made in hollywood really. It was different though and fairly well acted

 

[AndyOcUK]

Smoke: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114478/

Blue In The Face (Companion film to smoke [above]): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112541/

Miller's Crossing: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100150/

The Big Blue: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095250/

Glengarry Glenross: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104348/

Dream A Little Dream: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097236/

 

[alexakasloth]

Audition and Ichi though some may not thing they are lesser known.

If you're a bit ****ed then Versus would be a great one to watch.

 

[nolimit]

Top of my head these movies stand out the most.

Battle Royale
OldBoy
The Story of the Weeping Camel
The Cave of the Yellow Dog

 

[Pumpkinstew]

Red Rock West - Has since been ripped off by half a dozen newer movies
Invasion of the Saucer Men - Black and white B-Movie brilliance
Castle in the Sky - Still my favourite Studio Ghibli film

 

[bledd]

Watched In America the other day on E4 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298845/

Looks a little gay on imdb, but it was a really awesome film, about an irish family that moves to america to try and make it

Very moving film

 

[Master_X]

Dark City

 

[MookJong]

Might just be my circle of friends but nobody ever seems to have seen "Serpico" which is one of my favourite films of all time.

 

["andy"]

switchblade romance

 

[Phyre]

How about The Man From Earth http://imdb.com/title/tt0756683/

 

[Belmit]

Purely Belter is a great little British film that I won on DVD in a raffle. Decided to give it a go and found it to be really funny, touching and well made. It also has Shed Seven on the soundtrack, which is a bonus! There's a really great bit where Tim Healy (Auf Wiedersehen Pet) is singing You Are Always On My Mind on the karaoke machine at the pub, and his character completely fails to spot the irony of the lyrics he's singing. Superb film.

 

[Lysander]

Little Otik - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0228687/ (The most bizarre film I've ever seen in my life)

Hilarious film - and indeed bizarre.

As for City of God... it's good but it's not that good. I'd say it was a decent film but nothing brilliant.

As for other films I can think of, I'd go for:

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Secuestro Express
Uzumaki
Them [Ils]
I Stand Alone
Three Extremes

That's all I can think of at the moment. I won't post the imdb links since no-one'll bother going to them.

 

[Mat]

Silent Running
This Quiet Earth
Battle Royale

All already mentioned.

Run Lola, Run - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130827/

 

[miracleboy]

Not sure how lesser known it is, but I don't think it's particularly mainstream - I really enjoyed What's Eating Gilbert Grape - how LDC didn't win an Oscar I don't know (think he was only nominated).

 

[C64]

The ninth gate.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142688/

 

[Lysander]

I don't think any film with Johnny Depp could be thought of as 'lesser known'. Going by the films the OP posted, he's looking for obscure world cinema.

EDIT - just noticed he cited The Untold Story - excellent film and the best out of those I've seen from Billy Tang.