Alrighty, so how about a top movie list that isn't your usual top movies. not the blockbusters, the big names, or anything, but just movies we generally haven't listed on our favorite lists because we forgot about them!! so think back to that great movie you remember you saw way back when and share it! some may have well known names, but not the usual ones quoted from the masters, or at least a movie you haven't listed on your normal "top anything" list.

1. Fortress - i've mentioned this one a few times before and highly, highly reccomend it. this was a made for tv movie back in 1986 (not the new future movie one with christopher lambert) about a kidnapping of a school class in the australian outback and how it goes horribly wrong. There's some vicious lord of the flies type undertones throughout and an incredibly chilling ending. brilliant movie. and sela ward looks really sexy as a teacher.

2. Ridicule - a french film from 1996. period piece film taking place in the time of Louis 16th as a low french lord has to raise himself high and gain favor with the king by being the wittiest person around. sounds odd i know, but very entertaining movie.

3. A Pure Formality - another french film from 1994 with gerard depardiue and roman polanski. a famous writer (depardieu) is picked up by the police of an out of the way station after an accident of some kind, without any memory of the recent events and is interrogated by the inspector (polanski) who delves into what really happenned. great ending!

4. The 39 Steps - one of my favorite Hitchcock movies. a little slow for hitchcock, with some long, quiet moments, but just brilliantly comes together slowly, and another great ending.

5. To Be Or Not To Be ( the mel brooks one) - another of my favorite mel brooks comedy, right up there, imo, with blazing saddles and young frankenstein, although maybe just a touch beneath their genius. very funny movie about a theater troupe trying to get by in world war 2 poland, and the hilarity that can only ensue from mel brook's. just great fun and a smart comedy to boot!

so if you havent seen any of the above, i'd definitely put them on the list! let's hear what obscure reccomendations everyone else has!

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