Rarities, Oddities and Obscurities
by strangefishdesign | created - 08 Aug 2022 | updated - 1 month ago | PublicA list of movies which have been, or currently are, difficult to see; plus strange, surreal, obscure, irreverent or just plain weird!
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1. The Devil (1972)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Horror
During the Prussian army's invasion of Poland in 1793, a young Polish nobleman, Jakub, is saved from the imprisonment by a stranger who wants in return to obtain a list of his fellow ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Leszek Teleszynski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Malgorzata Braunek, Iga Mayr
Votes: 2,849
2. Shanks (1974)
PG | 93 min | Fantasy, Horror
A mute puppeteer uses a deceased scientist's invention to control dead bodies like puppets.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Marcel Marceau, Tsilla Chelton, Philippe Clay, Cindy Eilbacher
Votes: 772
3. Private Vices, Public Virtues (1976)
104 min | Drama, History
Prince Rudolf, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, deliberately provokes his father, Kaiser Franz Joseph, by his dissolute and feckless behaviour. His defiance of the ... See full summary »
Director: Miklós Jancsó | Stars: Lajos Balázsovits, Pamela Villoresi, Franco Branciaroli, Teresa Ann Savoy
Votes: 877
4. San Babila: 8 P.M. (1976)
101 min | Crime, Drama
A group of neo-nazi youngsters, usual customers of a bar in the famous Milan public square, lives through one day of madness passing between assaults, rapes and homicides. Thanks to the ... See full synopsis »
Director: Carlo Lizzani | Stars: Daniele Asti, Brigitte Skay, Giuliano Cesareo, Pietro Brambilla
Votes: 478
5. Snatch (1976)
90 min | Crime, Thriller, Drama
A teenage girl is kidnapped by 3 guys and taken to an abandoned house in the country, and make her write her own ransom letter. She soon discovers that one of her captors is infatuated with... See full summary »
Director: Eriprando Visconti | Stars: Michele Placido, Rena Niehaus, Flavio Bucci, Bruno Corazzari
Votes: 556
6. Maladolescenza (1977)
TV-MA | 94 min | Drama, Romance
A teen boy grows from playing and fighting with his German-shepherd dog to playing kid--then adult--games with two equally young girls in a dream-like forest which eventually turns eerie and somber.
Director: Pier Giuseppe Murgia | Stars: Martin Loeb, Lara Wendel, Eva Ionesco
Votes: 2,445
7. Innocence (II) (2004)
R | 122 min | Drama, Mystery
A look inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls.
Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic | Stars: Zoé Auclair, Lea Bridarolli, Bérangère Haubruge, Marion Cotillard
Votes: 6,451
8. Siege (1983)
R | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A gay bar is hit by a group of sociopaths, and all the patrons are killed except for one man who escapes and takes refuge in an apartment occupied by a group of friends, who will do anything they can to protect him and survive the siege.
Directors: Paul Donovan, Maura O'Connell | Stars: Tom Nardini, Brenda Bazinet, Daryl Haney, Terry-David Després
Votes: 1,301
9. Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon (1973)
R | 82 min | Horror
The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, then put into action their own ideas of how the place should be run.
Director: Juan López Moctezuma | Stars: Claudio Brook, Arthur Hansel, Ellen Sherman, Martin LaSalle
Votes: 1,304
10. Girl Slaves of Morgana Le Fay (1971)
Unrated | 86 min | Horror
Two French girls get lost in the woods and accidentally enter the realm of sorceress Morgana Le Fay - who gives them the choice of either staying young forever as her lovers, or rot in a dungeon for eternity.
Director: Bruno Gantillon | Stars: Dominique Delpierre, Alfred Baillou, Mireille Saunin, Régine Motte
Votes: 810
11. The Inheritors (1983)
TV-MA | 90 min | Drama
A neo-Nazi organization is recruiting in the 1980s, and two youths of high-school age join for similar reasons, despite class differences. Thomas is the son of a self-made industrialist ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Bannert | Stars: Nikolas Vogel, Roger Schauer, Wolfgang Gasser, Anneliese Stöckl-Eberhard
Votes: 278
12. Born of Fire (1987)
R | 84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A musician searches for the Master Flautist, a supernatural creature who is planning to blow up the world.
Director: Jamil Dehlavi | Stars: Peter Firth, Suzan Crowley, Stefan Kalipha, Orla Pederson
Votes: 651
13. What? (1972)
R | 112 min | Comedy
During her Italian vacation, a young and beautiful American tourist finds herself as a guest in a coastal villa inhabited by some odd people.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Sydne Rome, Hugh Griffith, Romolo Valli
Votes: 4,493 | Gross: $0.00M
14. Mondo candido (1975)
107 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Candide, lovelorn youth and eternal seeker from the pages of Voltaire's immortal classic novel, finds himself thrown out of an entirely comfortable castle after his affection for the ... See full summary »
Directors: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi | Stars: Christopher Brown, Michele Miller, Jacques Herlin, José Quaglio
Votes: 339
15. Images (1972)
R | 104 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Whilst writing a children's book, a woman interrupted by images unsure if they may, or may not be real
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Susannah York, Rene Auberjonois, Marcel Bozzuffi, Hugh Millais
Votes: 7,758
16. The Holy Mountain (1973)
16+ | 114 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky | Stars: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horacio Salinas, Zamira Saunders, Juan Ferrara
Votes: 48,069 | Gross: $0.06M
17. Of Freaks and Men (1998)
93 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Dariya the maid getting a boy to touch her large breast is just one incident that occurs when Yohan and Victor infiltrate two families, forcing young Liza and blind Ekaterina to appear in porn, but they are not so innocent themselves.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Sergey Makovetskiy, Dinara Drukarova, Anzhelika Nevolina, Viktor Sukhorukov
Votes: 4,347
18. Shoot (1976)
R | 99 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Two groups of armed men eye each other across a body of water. An deadly incident ensues and the first group returns to their town in fear of the consequences, which never come.They realize that far greater danger is offing.
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Ernest Borgnine, Henry Silva, James Blendick
Votes: 379
19. Four Times That Night (1971)
R | 83 min | Comedy, Romance
A night of attempted seduction is recalled from the perspectives of the woman, the man, a lecherous doorman and a psychoanalyst.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Daniela Giordano, Brett Halsey, Dick Randall, Valeria Sabel
Votes: 995
20. The Final Programme (1973)
R | 81 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A trio of scientists plan to create a self-replicating, immortal, hermaphrodite using the Final Programme developed by a dead, Nobel Prize-winning scientist.
Director: Robert Fuest | Stars: Jon Finch, Jenny Runacre, Sterling Hayden, Harry Andrews
Votes: 1,079
21. No Blade of Grass (1970)
R | 96 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
An environmental catastrophe destroys civilization. Led by father John and mother Ann, the Custance clan sets out on a quest for safety in a savage world that may just end up turning them into the very thing they are fleeing.
Director: Cornel Wilde | Stars: Nigel Davenport, Jean Wallace, John Hamill, Lynne Frederick
Votes: 2,059 | Gross: $0.35M
22. Angels (1976)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A bizzare and funny movie about the mysterious ways in which God sometimes works.
Director: Spencer Compton | Stars: Drew Abrams, Vincent Schiavelli, Keith Berger, Marquita Callwood
Votes: 82
23. Hangover (1973)
80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
About a Saturday in Lasse and Lena's life.
Directors: Hans Dittmer, Jörn Donner, David Gilbert | Stars: Christine Hagen, Diana Kjær, Jörn Donner, Rolf Bengtsson
Votes: 180
24. 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
Passed | 100 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Western
A mysterious circus comes to a western town bearing wonders and characters that entertain the inhabitants and teach valuable lessons.
Director: George Pal | Stars: Tony Randall, Barbara Eden, Arthur O'Connell, John Ericson
Votes: 5,403
25. The Valley (Obscured by Clouds) (1972)
101 min | Drama
Consul's wife, Viviane took part in an expedition to New Guinea. She falls in love with Gaetan, the leader of a group of explorers, whose objective is to reach a mysterious valley.
Director: Barbet Schroeder | Stars: Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Michael Gothard, Valérie Lagrange
Votes: 1,445
26. Enter the Void (2009)
Not Rated | 161 min | Drama, Fantasy
An American drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal. His soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection.
Director: Gaspar Noé | Stars: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy, Olly Alexander
Votes: 88,076 | Gross: $0.34M
27. Baba Yaga (1973)
Unrated | 89 min | Horror
A photographer finds herself falling under the spell of a witch.
Director: Corrado Farina | Stars: Carroll Baker, George Eastman, Isabelle De Funès, Ely Galleani
Votes: 2,242
28. Massacre in Dinosaur Valley (1985)
Unrated | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A small plane carrying fossil hunters crashes in the Amazon jungle, and the survivors must battle their way through cannibals, wild animals, and slave traders.
Director: Michele Massimo Tarantini | Stars: Michael Sopkiw, Suzane Carvalho, Milton Rodríguez, Marta Anderson
Votes: 2,421
29. Vidocq (2001)
R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy
Paris, 1830: Vidocq is killed by a mirror masked man. A thief turned investigator, he was working on a case of men killed by lightning. His biographer tries to solve the case.
Director: Pitof | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Guillaume Canet, Inés Sastre, André Dussollier
Votes: 23,111
30. Long Live Death (1971)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, War
At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Arrabal | Stars: Anouk Ferjac, Núria Espert, Mahdi Chaouch, Ivan Henriques
Votes: 1,497
31. L'arbre de Guernica (1975)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, War
The Spanish Civil War, as experienced by the town of Villa Ramiro. The local count and his Fascist nephews ally with the rebels; the count's son, indifferent to politics at the outset, ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Arrabal | Stars: Mariangela Melato, Ron Faber, Cosimo Cinieri, Rocco Fontana
Votes: 449
32. I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse (1973)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
Running away from the police, Aden goes to the desert where he meets an uncivilized man who has a special link with Mother-Earth. He ends up by convincing the hermit to come along with him into another desert... the big town!
Director: Fernando Arrabal | Stars: Gerard Borlant, Jean Chalon, François Chatelet, Raoul Curet
Votes: 968
33. Stay Hungry (1976)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
So-called 'special agent' infiltrates into the gym, which is targeted by a dirty business fraud.
Director: Bob Rafelson | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Sally Field, Arnold Schwarzenegger, R.G. Armstrong
Votes: 5,054
34. The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A young man who has spent his life as a member of an ultraconservative Christian cult loses his parents and becomes disoriented, wandering into a forest and meeting a coffin transporter, a caring woman, her mute boyfriend, and his mother.
Director: Philip Ridley | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Ashley Judd, Viggo Mortensen, Loren Dean
Votes: 4,213
35. The Bod Squad (1974)
R | 99 min | Action, Comedy
Five Western girls are kidnapped by Chinese pirates and sold to a brothel. While they are being trained to become prostitutes, a couple of local citizens take mercy on them and plots their ... See full summary »
Directors: Ernst Hofbauer, Chih-Hung Kuei | Stars: Hua Yueh, Hui-Ling Liu, Sonja Jeannine, Diane Drube
Votes: 400
36. The Black Decameron (1972)
98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
The endless search for pleasure and love by African men and women.
Director: Piero Vivarelli | Stars: Beryl Cunningham, Serigne Ndiaye Gonzales, Jacqueline Scott, Fatou Djame
Votes: 68
BB3
37. Endless Night (II) (1972)
86 min | Horror, Thriller
Ive is a man on the edge whose traumatic childhood causes him to develop a thing for sex, perversion, violence and murder.
Director: Philippe Brottet | Stars: Alice Arno, Velly Beguard, Johnny Cacao, Yvon Dorval
Votes: 51
38. Sukkubus (1989)
80 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After a delirious night of drinking, two herdsmen and a boy who are all alone in the alps with their cattle, create a primitive female doll. When their creation comes to life as a beautiful succubus, they have to fear for their lives.
Director: Georg Tressler | Stars: Peter Simonischek, Giovanni Früh, Andy Voß, Pamela Prati
Votes: 391
BB2
39. Beyond Erotica (1974)
R | 89 min | Drama, Thriller
A mentally unstable man living with his mother in their sprawling farm estate plays cruel games with the new servant girl.
Director: José María Forqué | Stars: David Hemmings, Francisco Rabal, Alida Valli, Andrea Rau
Votes: 330
BB7
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