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    Hi, guys.

    I'd like some recommendations of films where the protagonist struggles to find something obscure.

    Off the top of my head, I've got The Ninth Gate. I know I've seen others, but can't remember them.

    Thanks, guys.

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    Re: Recommend me some films ...

    Da Vinci Code.
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    • #3
      Re: Recommend me some films ...

      Primer or Pi.
      "Forget it, Jake. It's Hollywood."

      My YouTube channel.

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      • #4
        Re: Recommend me some films where the protagonist

        Sullivan's Travels


        Searching for an ideal or social philosophy is always going to be obscure.
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          Re:Recommend me some films where the protagonist struggles to find something obscure.

          The Blair Witch Project
          Originally posted by Great White Mark
          Film is art? Just a tip, it's called show business, not show art.

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            Re: Recommend me some films where the protagonist struggles to find something obscure

            desperately seeking susan - she was a strange bird

            the borne identity - searching for his identity

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            • #7
              Recommend me some films where the protagonist struggles to find something obscure.

              KING OF CALIFORNIA
              THE GOONIES
              INDIANA JONES TRILOGY
              That **** with Nic Cage trying to get the Declaration of Independence

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                Re:

                Why?

                Sorry, had to ask.
                #writinginaStarbucks #re-thinkingmyexistence #notanotherweaklogline #thinkingwhatwouldWilldo

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                • #9
                  Re: Recommend me some

                  ALTERED STATES (primal stage of evolution)
                  PI (mathematical code to the stock market)
                  THE STONED AGE (chicks)
                  DETROIT ROCK CITY (KISS tickets)
                  THE TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE (see title)
                  AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOD (El Dorado)
                  MINORITY REPORT (see title)
                  THE COVE (footage of dolphin slaughter)
                  FRANKENSTEIN (reanimation)
                  KING KONG (see title)

                  I think you are more specifically looking for movies about collectors but I'm drawing a blank in that regard

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                    I'll qualify, an obscure tangible item or something psychological/intangible and obscure in that sense?
                    #writinginaStarbucks #re-thinkingmyexistence #notanotherweaklogline #thinkingwhatwouldWilldo

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                      Re: Recommend me some films where the protagonist struggles to find something

                      "What's up Tiger Lily?"

                      The search for a secret egg-salad recipe.

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                      • #12
                        Recommend me some films where the protagonist struggles to find something obscure.

                        Hey, guys.

                        My protag is looking for an obscure film. I'm after stories where the goal/thing is something obscure. Most of the suggestions have been good.

                        Btw, I don't mean that the protagonist is after something intangible.

                        Essentially, any film with some sort of collector as a protagonist.

                        Thanks, all.

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                        • #13
                          Re: Recommend me some fibscure.

                          There's an episode of a TV show called MASTERS OF HORROR directed by John Carpenter and cowritten by Moriarty of Ain't It Cool News called "CIGARETTE BURNS" that's exactly like THE NINTH GATE except with a rare film finder trying to find some urban legend of a film that like turns you evil or kills you or blinds you or something, I can't remember. It was decent though. And similar subject matter in Carpenter's IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, come to think of it. There's THE RING/RINGU, and 8MM with Nicolas Cage. And HARDCORE, a really good Paul Schrader film starring George C. Scott about a father looking for his daughter in the sleazy world of hardcore porn.

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                          • #14
                            A Recommendation

                            Originally posted by NikeeGoddess View Post
                            ...a strange bird
                            Here's one.
                            JEKYLL & CANADA (free .mp4 download @ Vimeo.com)

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                              Re: Robscure.

                              ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE

                              lol

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