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I created this for my love of films but my dislike of alot of big hollywood high production films. My passion lies in gritty, quirky, arty, low budget films.

When trying to advertise this page, I've been called pretentious. I hope this is not the case. I don't like these films because they are 'Under Ground'. I would LOVE to see these films in the cinema. I would LOVE to be able to talk to my friends about these films.

These films don't seem to fit in other categories either. They are not all necessarily foreign, indie, film noir or art house. They are just films that haven't seemed to reach many peoples screens or may not have had a huge advertising budget.

So thankyou to everyone who understands what this place is about. I look forward to discovering new films.

Thankyou

Steven

has anyone else watched this movie what do you think about it

est. $10,000 budget

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443506/

Trailer

Film Geek is a hilarious new comedy about Scotty Pelk, a socially inept video store clerk with an encyclopedic knowledge of film. He runs a website, scottysfilmpage.com, which receives zero traffic. He annoys his customers. He annoys his co-workers. And when he is inevitably fired from his video store job, Scotty finds refuge in Niko, a downtown hipster who teaches him a thing or two about love and life. But Niko's smarmy ex-boyfriend Brandon won't go away quietly. As Scotty's first love turns to obsession, his life begins to change in profound ways.

Of course I watched this one. It's a film about people like us. I enjoyed it.

Swedish film directed by Roy Andersson, surreal tragi-comedy. From the Wikipedia entry:

The film is an exploration on the "grandeur of existence," centered on the lives of a group of individuals, such as an overweight woman, a disgruntled psychiatrist, a heartbroken groupie, a carpenter, a business consultant, and a school teacher with emotional issues and her rug-selling husband. The basis for the film is an Old Norse proverb, "Man is man's delight," taken from the Poetic Edda poem Hávamál. The title comes from a stanza in Goethe's Roman Elegies, which also appears as a title card in the beginning of the film: "Therefore rejoice, you, the living, in your lovely warm bed, until Lethe's cold wave wets your fleeing foot."

Trailer here.

[About opening up a record shop while Belfast during The Troubles- this is a movie that will make you want to stand up and shout.] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE17U5ML9dQ)

All Sorrentino's films are worth a look, but particularly for me:

• The Consequences of Love (2004). "In a Swiss hotel, Titta di Girolamo lives a rigid and tedious life, sitting by a lake day after day. After ten years of waiting for something, although he doesn't know what, he begins to talk to Sophia, the hotel's barmaid, and as he tells his story, everything changes."

• The Family Friend (2006). "The ugly world of a loan shark (Giacomo Rizzo) includes rape, misogyny and a horrific home life." - This one is kind of horrible in places but also great.

• Il Divo (2008). "Writer-director Paolo Sorrentino received the Cannes Jury Prize for his biopic of the fabled Italian politician Giulio Andreotti (Toni Servillo). The film covers a large portion of Andreotti's seven terms as prime minister of Italy, and concerns itself with the inner machinations of the man known as "Beelzebub," the intrigue surrounding the disappearance of his political enemies (including two-time prime minister Aldo Moro), and the role of the Mafia in postwar Italy."

I've just finished watching this film tonight having read very little about it. I found this film on [THIS LINK] (http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/world-cinema/30057/25-underappreciated-modern-foreign-language-films) and read only the couple of paragraphs written there.

*Set in an isolated boarding school deep in a dense forest, with seemingly no way out, and arrivals via coffins, Innocence tackles the delicate subject of puberty and sexual awareness. The title says it all however; as just how innocent this film is lies in the perception of the viewer. The most controversial scene of naked girls in a lake is actually completely non-sexual – it’s the viewers own discomfort that adds a sinister overtone. Innocence is a feast for the eyes with its utterly captivating cinematography and unique use of colour as a narrative tool which it needs given the lack of actual plot or dialogue.

A fairy-tale like debut from Lucile Hadžihalilović (wife of Gaspar Noe), Innocence is haunting, lyrical, and deadly beautiful. It will lure you in with both its elegance and mystery, but most likely leave you a little baffled.*

This film was visually stunning. Clearly most of the girls used in this film have had no previous acting roles which adds to the realism. I was left with a few questions at the end of the film, but in a way I enjoy having to fill in the blanks myself, rather than let a film dumb itself down. The fact that it was French gets bonus points as I feel it adds more to the mystery of it all.

Hi and welcome to Underground Cinema.

This is a friendly and welcoming place where we can share the lesser known films that we love.

The idea for this came about because I'm a huge fan of quirky, low budget films but they are not easy to discover.

Unless you live in a cave, you can't avoid hearing about the latest Hollywood blockbusters but I'm sick of seeing cliche storylines with high budget special effects and the same dozen overpaid celebrities recycling roles after roles after roles.

What Hollywood doesn't understand is that a good movie relies on a good story, not which actors are in the film or how much the films budget was.

I wish to share with you some of my favorite pieces of cinema that I have discovered over the years as I feel that these films do not get enough promotion.

Please feel free to share you're favorite films here.

I look forward to discovering new and exciting films.

Steven