It's a great thread but so long I almost wish I could delete the ones I'd checked out as I went along. It's a film library!

Agree with Last day and Bagdad Cafe

I'd like to throw Darker Than Amber into the mix. Cracking little film starring Rod Taylor with a fantastic fight sequence between Taylor and William Smith.. That had to hurt..

Based on the level of exposure in Ireland, this seems to be quite an unknown film. We just watched it recently in advance of a trip to the Edinburgh Festival. I saw it on what I believe was its only performance in Ireland during the Jameson film festival years ago. It's a great evocation of Edinburgh during the festival and a cutting depiction of the backstabbing shallowness of the comedy world. I can't help recognising the characters played by Chris O'Dowd and Stephen Mangan as piss-takes of well-known names one in the UK and one in Ireland. I'm surprised they didn't sue. I should also add that it's hard to shop in Armstrongs of Edinburgh without picturing one particular scene. Ouch!

Ghosts Of The Civil Dead?

Olivier, Olivier from director Agnieszka Holland. A young boy disappears without a trace, many years later he is returned to his family. But is this teenage boy really their son ?
Beautiful and gripping film.

And a quick reminder of some rather well known classics:
The King Of Masks, Chinese melodrama, be prepared to cry your eyes out. The little girl will crush you!
A Special Day, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni in an Ettore Scola masterpiece. Just lovely, and sad.
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, my favourite Scorsese film, Ellen Burstyn is magnificent as Alice, no mafiosi to be seen...
Wonder Man, the funniest comedy starring Danny Kaye in dual roles as a couple of twins. One of them is killed before he can testify against some gangsters and his ghost takes possession of his brothers' body to put away his killers. The scenes in the delicatessen are comedy gold, mr and mrs Schmidt possibly the best supporting roles in the history of motion pictures. S Z Sakall and Gisela Werbiseck - I salute you! ("He's talking to the salami!")

Dennis Hopper's "The Last Movie" (but don't look for it, it's not there any more)

EDIT: Here's a nice review with lots of cineastastic terminolgy:

"Movie-made violence, its limits and implications, is the explicit subject of Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider follow-up The Last Movie (1971), which chronicles the departure of a movie company from a small Peruvian town, leaving behind a stuntman, Kansas (Hopper), and the fascinated locals, who fashion their own cameras, lights and booms out of bamboo and start making their own "film", but with real blood and real violence in place of movie fakery, and a sacrificial victim in the hapless Kansas. As a moderately clever reality-and-fiction puzzle with a sheen of anti-imperialism, the scenario has a certain pulp Pirandellan charge, but Hopper refuses to let his fictional mechanism play itself out. Rupturing the frame with time-shifts, mad montages and Brechtian distancing devices ("Scene Missing" cards occasionally obtrude into the action), Hopper coughed out one of the most notorious wild turkeys of auteur cinema, a critical and financial disaster that effectively ended his directing career for a decade (reverseshot.com)"

"Le Trou", which as any fule kno is fr for "The Hole" (FNARR!). It's a largely wordless, sort-of real-time telling of a prison break. In black and white. In French. And it makes every other prison break movie look soft.

"The Committee". The rarest film ever to receive an original Pink Floyd soundtrack, and also the best. Paul Jones (the Manfreds) stars, and there's a dynamite live appearance from Arthur Brown, but the movie's much more than a swinging London document - it's a genuinely weird trip. There's a website, where you can order the DVD, and a lot of interesting information about this "lost" movie.

Rots of ruck finding these at the local Blockbuster.

How could I forget!

A black comedy, Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov play an ultra straight-laced couple who dream of opening a restaurant but don't have the required capital. They stumble across a highly original, highly risky and highly illegal get rich quick scheme.

Endlessly quotable, "He's turned me into a big maricon!" you may not like it but you won't soon forget it.

To me, Ed Begley Jnr will always be the Grateful Dead loving hippie from Eating Raoul.