Obscure masterpieces
films with less than 1,000 votes that I think are overlooked masterpieces that need more attention (If you can find them!)
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- DirectorDon AskarianStarsSamvel OvasapianMargarita WoskanjanOmig SaadetianThe film is dedicated to the Armenian monk and genius composer Komitas, and the 2 million victims on his people in Turkey in 1915.
- DirectorMariya SaakyanStarsAnna KapalevaOlga YakovlevaSos SargsyanIn the 90s, Lena returns to the home of her grandparents in a tiny, war-torn village in Armenia. Lena begs them to follow her lead and retreat to the safety of Moscow. They are hesitant to leave and as Lena stays to aid them in the rebuilding process, she finds herself being drawn back into the familiarity of the surroundings that she once chose to leave behind.
- DirectorSara DriverStarsSuzanne FletcherEvelyn SmithLucy SanteA young woman escapes from a mental hospital during the chaos of a nearby multiple-car accident. She is mistaken for a shock victim and is driven to her sister's house by a rescue volunteer. Then the real story begins...
- DirectorJoão César MonteiroStarsMaria de MedeirosTeresa MadrugaLuís Miguel CintraThe daughters of a nobleman give shelter to a stranger. After that visit ends with a severed hand, the pilgrim takes on different identities to seek revenge. The nobleman goes missing and his youngest has to pose as a knight to save him.
- DirectorPiotr KamlerStarsMichael LonsdaleWeary immortals inhabit a metropolis in the sky and amuse themselves with constructions as they kill time and await whatever comes next.
- DirectorSharunas BartasStarsFrancisco NascimentoValeria Bruni TedeschiAlex DescasA ramshackle mansion in the woods: individuals of all type, age and condition eat, roam or rest inside. But always in strict silence.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsAleksandr SokurovFrom a misty night into the dark exposition rooms of a museum to ponder philosophically at paintings by 'Pieter Jansz Saenredam', 'Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers', Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen, Andreas Schelfhout, Vincent van Gogh, Pieter Bruegel, Charles Henri Joseph Leickert.
- DirectorJens RavnStarsJohn PricePreben NeergaardLotte TarpMr. Steinmetz has the ability to create things and beings by will alone, but his creations always disappear. He approaches a famous brain surgeon to help him, but when he refuses, Steinmetz brings his doppelganger into being to replace him.
- DirectorMike SmithPrincess Budu sleeps, and dreams. She dreams of whimsical fairies and a wicked, restless beastial spirit. Her dream is one unmoored from identity and self - perhaps she is the fairy, perhaps those other fairies are other persons also. Also moving through her dream, always recurring in her thoughts is her lover Prince Kamar. The beastial spirit desires Budu; Kamar desires Budu, and she only has eyes for Kamar. Through her dream she floats and fades across an Arabian fantasia of minarets and mosques. These flickering moments, fleeting snatches of slumbered thought, are filled with an intoxicating, ethereal beauty.
- DirectorDon AskarianStarsAlik AsatryanMikhail StepanyanKaren DzhanibekyanSet around the central figure of an Armenian trying to forge a life in the West the film offers a series of impressions of Armenian history.
- DirectorKenneth AngerNine of Kenneth Anger's films: Fireworks, Puce Moment, Rabbit's moon (extended version), Eaux d'Artifice, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, Scorpio Rising, Kustom Kar Kommandos, Invocation of My Demon Brother, and Lucifer Rising.
- DirectorJuraj JakubiskoStarsPhilippe AvronJirí SýkoraMagda VásáryováThree adolescent war orphans seclude themselves in an anarchic and playful existence of denial and juvenile joy.
- DirectorShûji TerayamaStarsHiroshi MikamiTakeshi WakamatsuKeiko NiitakaA young man, haunted by his past, travels the land in search of the lyrics to a lullaby his mother used to sing to him.
- DirectorPhilippe GarrelStarsLaurent TerzieffBernadette LafontStanislas RobiolleA 4-year-old child is the element from and around which the action develops, and brings sentiments and emotions to light. The French word révélateur" describes the procedure to develop or "reveal" film negatives.
- DirectorSarah MoonStarsAlexandra CapuanoDavid LoweIsabelle MolyAfter being released from a mental hospital, David Woolf kidnaps his daughter, Melodie and drives from Paris to Belgium, stopping to get the young girl's hair cut to disguise her. The car breaks down and the two check into a hotel.
- DirectorYvon MarcianoStarsVeronika VargaOlivier RamonMarie DavidEmilie Muller a young petite woman goes to her first audition, the director asks her to talk about what is inside her handbag. Then she shows many objects (photographs, book...) and tells what those things remind her.
- DirectorStephen QuayTimothy QuayStarsMagdalena CieleckaIn a technologically developed but feudal world beautiful Duenna is forced to choose between love and the task for which she was created.
- DirectorDavid AndersonDavid Anderson's waking dream is a poetic animated journey through the rich fantasy life of a child's unconscious, combining elaborate cut-outs, intricate drawn cell animation and live action. A young boy finds himself in a mysterious express train travelling through a forbodeing and surreal landscape.
- DirectorTheodore UshevStarsRossif SutherlandDonald SutherlandManuel TadrosA saga of childhood reveries and adult regrets that is also the first-ever fully animated film using encaustic painting.
- DirectorStan BrakhageIn his description for A CHILD'S GARDEN, Brakhage quotes from poets Ronald Johnson and Charles Olson.