Off the Beaten Track Movies

[oldbandnerd]

Excalibur - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082348/" target="_blank
A really well made of version of the story of King Arthur . It uses a lot of Wagner music ( Prelude to Parsifal, Prelude to Tristan and Isolde, Siegfrieds Funeral March and O Fortuna) in the soundtrack and won an award for it costumes. It also has Patrick Steward ( still with no hair even though it was filmed in 1981) playing Leondengrace ,Guinevere's father.

Here's the trailer on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emF-m9qnF5o" target="_blank

"They Live" is also a good one. It has one of the best fight scenes I've seen in a movie .

[pwhitaker]

Hard Times with Charles Bronson, James Coburn and (one of my favorites) Strother Martin.

It's about underground bare-knuckle fights in New Orleans during the depression (Hoover's - not Obama's). One of the scenes is in a black Baptist church with an incredible gospel choir.

[Uncle Buck]

I don't think it's been mentioned already, but I think The Hudsucker Proxy fits the description in this thread. A great work by the Cohen brothers before they were as well known as they are today.

[ZNC Dandy]

"The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday." Lee Marvin, and Oliver Reed. Rife with hilarity, and a very humable soundtrack.

[sousaphone68]

here are my contenders

Our man Flint (parody of the Bond movies from the 60's)
Mystery Men
The Party
The Italian Job (1969 version)
Micmacs
Man bites dog
Delicatessen