Your favorite SLEEPER movies...

[stillakid]

A lot of "your favorite" movies threads of late. I thought it would be informative and fun to see what "sleeper" movies everybody likes. You know, those films that are off the main radar or didn't receive a lot of press or nobody saw but should have.


One of my favorites is HENRY, PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER.

A favorite of my son's and one of my own is THAT THING YOU DO.


What other great little movies are hiding out there? Let us know!

[James Boba Fettfield]

I will go with Frailty and Below.

[Rocketboy]

A few were decent hits, yet it seems few people saw them.
Leon (The Internation Uncut version, not the sanitzed US version)
Mystery, Alaska
Formula 51
Changing Lanes
Rules of Engagement

(Yeah, I like Samuel L Jackson movies)

[2-1B]

Donnie Darko !

[James Boba Fettfield]

I second that Donnie Darko!

[B'Omarr Monkey]

Heavenly Creatures

Deep Rising

The Kingdom

The Devil's Backbone

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra

Johnny Suede

These movies can't really be called "sleepers" anymore, but at the time I saw them, they were certainly under the radar:

Rushmore

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Wings of Desire

[scruffziller]

Through and through- TRAINSPOTTING

A really kooky, humorous movie just because it is so bizzare in what should be a normal setting.- ROAD TO WELLVILLE

SLING BLADE

[General Warpig]

I think that the best and most underated movie of all time is Bladerunner. Not onlt did Scott prove his worth yet again as a sublime artist and talented director, he was the first to really do justice to Phillip K. Dick's work on screen. Where THX (1138) held a dark and claustrophobic future Bladerunner gave us a disfunctional and eclectic vision of all races mashed into one. What over films gives you (cyber)punks, Hari-kryshna, Rabbis, Asians, Quakers and many more i have yet to spot in a single scene. Not based on guns or violence, just the need to understand a life so beyond any of the characters... a true masterpiece, loved more and more each year and gathering yet more credebility (much like the original Star wars) over time.

[Turbowars]

My wife and I came up with these.

The Virgin Suicides

Almost Famous

Saved

Thirteen

I 3rd Donnie Darko

American Psycho

[mrpauldeeds]

write me down as # 4 for donnie darko

garden state and eternal sunshine of the spotless mind are also really good