Sleeper movies

[Black wallnut]

Windwalker 1980 with subtitles. Great Native American film.

[jussi]

Not sure if this qualifies as a sleeper but my all time favorite movie is "The Usual Suspects". If you like thriller-mystery type movies I suggest you check it out. Best ending ever. Another less well known movie is "The Spanish Prisoner"

The Usual Suspects


The Spanish Prisoner

[gjat]

Best 'sleeper' movie, ever.

"Waking Ned Devine"

[Tom Slick]

Best 'sleeper' movie, ever.

"Waking Ned Devine"

That movie as GREAT!!!

[Ed62]

Best ending ever.

Better than "The entertainer"?

Ed

[gsmittle]

Hmmmmm..........

How about George Lucas's first: THX 1138.

Or: Christopher Guest's Waiting for Guffman.

Or Rock 'n Roll High School with PJ Soles and the Ramones?

g.

[SHADOWFOX]

Not sure if this qualifies as a sleeper but my all time favorite movie is "The Usual Suspects".

"The Usual Suspects" is the bomb!! Kevin Spacey was awesome on that movie!

[scmhogg]

THE HILL (1965)

This B&W movie, starring Sean Connery, takes place in an army prison in Libya during WWII.

Co-Star, Harry Andrews has a great scene when he marches into the center of a loud rioting cell block. He asks for the KR's [King's Regulations], and reads aloud that leaders of a riot will be shot.

A voice rings out saying, " and who are the leaders?".

Andrews wheels about and points with his swagger stick and shouts, "Every fifth man!" Powerful.

Steve

[Lance]

Lock, stock, and two smoking barrels is really good, it's sequal was more well known, snatch.

Another vote for Lock, stock...

[JoeyGee]

Another vote fot The Usual Suspects, what an awesome movie. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that that movie doesn't exist...

I have to mention The Commitments. What an awesome, kind of off-the-beaten-track movie that is. It's about a bunch of west-end Dubliners that form a soul band. The soundtrack is incredible, too.

I'm sure there are more, I just can't stand mainstream Hollywood anymore.

[Knottscott]

How about High Crimes with Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd....great movie, very little hoopla about it.

Sea Biscuit is one of my favorites, and I don't think that got many accollades, but I could be wrong about that.

[jussi]

Better than "The entertainer"?

Ed

Never heard of it. I tried to look it up in IMDB but there is like a dozen movies with that title. Which one is it?

[onedash]

well I have a lot of DVD's but one of the all time greatest is Karate Kid. He gets hit and feels pain, unlike most movies where they get the living he!! beat out of them and keep coming back for more. A few punches and a kick and he is down for the count. LOVE IT. a swift kick to the face and they dont come back for more. Now I like some of steven segals older movies but do you really think if you seen your buddies getting beat up like that you would take a turn or try to grab them and get out of there????
And Mel Gibsons three awsome war movies, Patriot, Bravehart and we were soldiers...Love good war movies....

[Daibach]

Sleeper Movies

Another enthusiastic vote for "Second Hand Lions"
I never noticed a theatre release; tripped across it in the video store.
(yes, it's possible I was the sleeper, not the movie)

[Ed62]

Never heard of it. I tried to look it up in IMDB but there is like a dozen movies with that title. Which one is it?

I didn't know there were more than one. The one I'm talking about was with Robert Redford and Paul Newman. It's the only movie I ever saw where the audience in the theatre gave a standing ovation at the end.

Ed