Odd Movie Suggestions

Many people put up lists of their favorite movies. Movies like "Gone with the Wind", "Ben Hur", "Doctor Zchivago". This is a list of movies that I liked and are good but also have the two properties: they are little bit odd and you may not have seen them before. Give them a try. (Note that over the years some of these have gotten a lot more popular.)

About a Boy (A comedy about a boy who adopts a bachler because he needs "a backup" should his mother die. Very interesting people in odd twists of fate and emotional survival in London. Very funny.)
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (outrageous as a troupe of transvestites travels across the Outback giving shows to cattle stations etc)
The Acidental Tourist (Compulsive travel writer has a hard time dealing with people until he finds Miss Right but doesn't know it.)
Amelie[aka Le Fabuleux destin d'Amilie Poulain](A surreal French romantic commedy about a very shy girl that decides that by playing tricks and inserting herself into people's lives she can make a positive difference in the world. But can she find happiness for herself? It is very imaginative and a lot of fun. English subtitles, adult references.)
Being There (one of my favorites about a gardener who has never been outside of the grounds of the house he has lived in. Miraculous things happen to him and the people around him)
Blade Runner (a dark scifi movie about an android hunter. Very very good.)
The Brave Little Toaster (the bonding of household appliances in the wild. Annimation of a set of appliances looking for their master. Kind of like "Incredible Journey" but for appliances.)
Brazil (a very dark monty python)
Bride and Predjudice(This is fabulous musical in the style of Bollywood. Lots of colorful characters, colorful costumes, great music and dancing and fun story based on Pride and Predjudice.)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (This is the movie that was the origin of the TV series. See Pee Wee Herman as a vampire)
Coca Cola Kid (gotta have a coke... anywhere)
Cold Comfort Farm (a forward thinking young woman arrives at a farm in the 1920's and changes everything.)
Doc Savage: Man of Bronze (extreme camp)
Dr. Strangelove (how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb)
Duel (a salesman on a lonely desert highway finds himself the target of vengeful semitruck driver. We never see the truck driver but we see the truck as evil. This is road rage in the extreme. An early Steven Spielberg film worthy of Hitchcock.)
Earth Girls are Easy (low budget alien arrival commedy. Don't expect a great movie and you won't be disappointed.)
Edward Scissorhands (frankenstein meets the burbs)
Elizabethtown(A movie about family, death, and romance. A flight attendant and a failure feel like substitute people but their attraction for each other leads to their finding they really real after all.)
Fargo (a plot becomes a murder plot becomes just bizarre)
Flashdance (A forgotten movie that may have presaged music videos. In it a lady works days as a steel worker and nights as a dancer in a hard hat bar. Quirky.)
Forbidden Planet (not such a weird movie and really marvelous for 1956. I think you should see it.)
5th Element (very imaginative, futuristic Bruce Willis movie, lots of explosions)
Galaxy Quest (not a top notch movie but fun. The actors from a Star Trek like show are abducted by aliens to save their race. The aliens don't know that it was only a TV program.)
Garden State(A guy has been on sedatives all his life finally gets off of them and warms up to the joys of life. Wonderful odd movie. Quietly funny.)
Get Shorty (Odd movie about producing a movie. Violence and language.)
Grand Canyon (A movie about the current of life in LA that takes a group of widely different people and situations like leaves in a fast flowing river. Thought provoking)
Heavy Metal (An animation of good vs evil. A lot violence and nudity, but good music)
Koyaanisqatsi (must be seen on the big screen, a moralistic movie with only pictures and music. This is the director who made time lapse photography an idiom. The music is by Philip Glass.)
Like Water for Chocolate (a very passionate movie about love of food, sibling rivalry and passion)
Little Big Man (Dustin Hoffman is an Indian that has seen the tragic absurdity of the "conquest" of the American West)
Little Shop of Horrors (man eating plant that can sing)
Lonely are the Brave (A cowboy is out of place in the modern (late 1950s) world and gets in jail to help his friend break out. He finds that his friend has moved on like the rest of the world and left him behind. He escapes jail anyway and makes a run for the border. He is running from modern life as well as the law. Script is by Edward Abbey and has his "natural man" vs "modern man"/"modern life" theme. Although it isn't quit weird enough to make this list, Kirk Douglas' character is very different. Note: animals get hurt in this movie and it is has a slow 1950s pace.)
Mars Attacks (fun and campy, mars invades, can nothing stop them?)
Memento (A guy has lost his ability to make new memories and tries to live in the world by using notes, tattos and pictures. His wife has been killed and he must find the killer. The movie is shot from the end of the movie to the beginning so you the viewer have the live in a world where you can't remember the last thing you did because they haven't shown you yet.)
Murial's Wedding (the troubled and wild life of a misfit. You will never think of ABBA the same way)
Mystery Alaska (almost didn't make this list because it isn't weird enough but it is quite nice. The hocky players of a small town in Alaska take on the New York Rangers (That's a hocky team, I am told :-) ).)
Nightmare before Christmas (What if Christmas were like Halloween?)
O Brother, where art thou (Fast talking guy from the south escapes from prison around 1910. Based on "The Odyssey" with a little "Moby Dick" thrown in, believe it or not.)
Princess Bride (a fairy tale of a great love and bigger than life people)
Pumpkin(a melodramatic-comedy about the queen of a sorority falling in love with a guy in the special olympics and how that "ruins" her life. Very funny in an over the top/social comentary sort of way.)
Risky Business (used to be unheard of movie has become more popular in recent years. Spoiled rich kid in the rich burbs becomes intangled with a prostitute. Balances between a coming of age story and the surreal and symbolic.)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (Lips! Lips! Frankenstein is a transvestite from outerspace. The classic.)
Run Lola Run (What if I had only left this morning for work 1 second earlier? What if I had left 1 second later? How would it change my life or someone elses? German with subtitles seconds count as woman runs to save her boyfriend's life and she might not survive. It is all a matter of timing.)
Rustler's Rhapsody (a movie that knows its a movie about a classic western hero and his sidekick. Must see.)
Seven Percent Solution (Sherlock Holmes meets Freud... really.)
Sleuth (when has a game of murder gone too far? This is essentially shot as a stage production.)
Spirited Away (Fabulous use of color and light in this animated work. It is about a bathhouse/resort run by a witch for spirits and a human girl who gets stuck in this magical world when her parents are turned into pigs by the witch. *Extremely* imaginative.)
Stranger than Fiction (An IRS auditor finds that he seems to be a character in someones novel. He can hear the author as she describes his life. It seems to predict the future. When he finds the author will kill him off in the novel he must hunt down the author and stop her. Funny and touching.)
Thelma and Louise (This movie gets kind of surreal about half way through. Great movie. This movie is reminiscent of "Lonely are the Brave" above. People get caught up in events that escalate out of control to a climatic ending that didn't have to be that way.)
Time Bandits (fun, small kid and dwarves run through time being chased by God. Definitely one of my favorites of all time. "Don't touch it! It's evil!")
Toys (A story of the imaginary and wonderful Zevo Toy Company and the military industrial complex)
The Usual Suspects (Very violent but a very very clever murder mystery. Overlooked for yours.)
V is for Vendetta (Is the vigilante a valorous visitation or a vaudevillian villain cast by the vicissitudes of fate?)
Waitress(A waitress in a diner with a truly stupid husband tries to make a get-a-way from her life and yet she has trapped herself. A story with odd turns and a warm heart.)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (There are people and there are toons. Who is killing off the toons? Why? )
Wizards (An animation of good vs evil, a violent (elves being shot down with machine guns), NOT for young kids)
Zardoz (Could even the perfect society be planned to fail for its own good? And where does "The Wizard of Oz" fit in all of this? Very violent. Low production values.)