Obscure Cinema
by videogameboomer | created - 22 Nov 2021 | updated - 22 Nov 2021 | PublicSome of the most obscure films I have discovered.
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1. Sodura (2015)
104 min | Drama
Sodura is a young woman from the Tsaatan, the reindeer people of the eastern Mongolian taiga, a formerly nomadic tribe who have now settled. As a little girl, she relocated to the big city ... See full summary »
Director: Jargalsaikhan Baatar
Votes: 42
2. Khadak (2006)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance
Set in the frozen steppes of Mongolia, a young nomad confronted with his destiny after animals fall victim to a plague which threatens to eradicate nomadism.
Directors: Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth | Stars: Batzul Khayankhyarvaa, Tsetsegee Byamba, Banzar Damchaa, Tserendarizav Dashnyam
Votes: 966 | Gross: $0.00M
3. Jaffa (2009)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama
In the city of Jaffa; a young girl plans to run away with her secret lover, when a tragedy forever changes the course of their lives.
Director: Keren Yedaya | Stars: Dana Ivgy, Moni Moshonov, Ronit Elkabetz, Mahmud Shalaby
Votes: 776
4. Heartstone (2016)
Unrated | 129 min | Drama, Romance
In a fishing village in Iceland, a boy develops feelings for his best friend as his best friend pursues his affections for a girl.
Director: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson | Stars: Baldur Einarsson, Blær Hinriksson, Diljá Valsdóttir, Katla Njálsdóttir
Votes: 6,178
5. Life in a Fishbowl (2014)
129 min | Drama
A Reykjavik pre-school teacher struggles to raise her daughter while selling casual sex to help make ends meet.
Director: Baldvin Zophoníasson | Stars: Hera Hilmar, Þorsteinn Bachmann, Thorvaldur Kristjansson, Atli Óskar Fjalarsson
Votes: 1,877
6. Mutluluk (2007)
105 min | Drama
When an unmarried teenage girl is believed by her family to have given up her virginity, she is ordered to be killed out of shame. But before her relative is able to complete the task, the two encounter a college professor.
Director: Abdullah Oguz | Stars: Talat Bulut, Özgü Namal, Murat Han, Mustafa Avkiran
Votes: 7,831 | Gross: $0.04M
7. She Monkeys (2011)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama, Sport
Two adolescent girls on an equine acrobatics team form an intimate friendship that becomes threatened by their competitive nature.
Director: Lisa Aschan | Stars: Mathilda Paradeiser, Linda Molin, Isabella Lindquist, Sergej Merkusjev
Votes: 2,405
8. Snowland (2005)
142 min | Drama, Romance
In the snowy landscape of Lapland, a newly-widowed writer discovers the traces of a bygone love story through which she finds a way back to her own life.
Director: Hans W. Geissendörfer | Stars: Thomas Kretschmann, Julia Jentsch, Maria Schrader, Ulrich Mühe
Votes: 391
9. Let Me Fall (2018)
136 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Drawing on true stories and interviews with the families of addicts, this harrowing portrait of addiction follows Stella and Magnea through the decades as precarious teenage years morph into perilous adulthoods.
Director: Baldvin Zophoníasson | Stars: Elín Hall, Eyrún Björk Jakobsdóttir, Lára Jóhanna Jónsdóttir, Kristín Lea
Votes: 1,037
10. On Body and Soul (2017)
Not Rated | 116 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
When slaughterhouse workers Endre and Mária discover they share the same dreams, where they meet in a forest as deer and fall in love, they decide to make their dreams come true, but it's difficult in real life.
Director: Ildikó Enyedi | Stars: Alexandra Borbély, Géza Morcsányi, Réka Tenki, Zoltán Schneider
Votes: 29,887
11. Water Lilies (2007)
85 min | Drama, Romance
After meeting at a local pool over their summer break, a love triangle forms between three adolescent girls, which proves difficult to sustain as they each desire the love of another.
Director: Céline Sciamma | Stars: Pauline Acquart, Louise Blachère, Adèle Haenel, Warren Jacquin
Votes: 13,453 | Gross: $0.08M
12. The Scent of Green Papaya (1993)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A Vietnamese servant girl, Mui, observes lives within two different Saigon families: the first, a woman textile seller with three boys and a frequently absent husband; the second, a handsome young pianist with his fiancée.
Director: Anh Hung Tran | Stars: Nu Yên-Khê Tran, Man San Lu, Thi Loc Truong, Anh Hoa Nguyen
Votes: 9,986 | Gross: $1.91M
13. Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
R | 105 min | Drama, Romance
When tradition prevents her from marrying the man she loves, a young woman discovers she has a unique talent for cooking.
Director: Alfonso Arau | Stars: Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos, Regina Torné, Mario Iván Martínez
Votes: 18,842 | Gross: $21.67M
14. Les filles ne savent pas nager (2000)
Unrated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
Even though they grew up in opposite parts of France, Gwen and Lise are best friends and spend every summer vacation together on the Brittany coast where Gwen lives and Lise's family has a ... See full summary »
Director: Anne-Sophie Birot | Stars: Isild Le Besco, Karen Alyx, Pascale Bussières, Pascal Elso
Votes: 626 | Gross: $0.07M
15. And So We Put Goldfish in the Pool. (2017)
28 min | Short, Drama
A story of four girls who released 400 goldfishes into a school pool.
Director: Makoto Nagahisa | Stars: Hina Yukawa, Rina Matsuyama, Marin Nishimoto, Reina Kikuchi
Votes: 638
16. The Angel (2009)
97 min | Drama
As the film opens, a doped-up Lea (Maria Bonnevie) makes an extremely bad impression on her baby daughter's foster parents; later, flashbacks reveal her disturbing youth and young adulthood... See full summary »
Director: Margreth Olin | Stars: Maria Bonnevie, Gunilla Röör, Antti Reini, Benjamin Helstad
Votes: 872
17. Drifting Clouds (1996)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
The recession hits a couple in Helsinki.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Kati Outinen, Kari Väänänen, Elina Salo, Sakari Kuosmanen
Votes: 9,059
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