It would be great if you could add a line or two saying why you recommend a film. 'though it may be kind of ineffable, so it's ok if you don't.
Some Voices - mental illness, romance, brit indie.
My Summer of Love - disparate, idiosyncratic young female lovers
Espíritu de la colmena, El
Ratcatcher - tension between nature and society
In America
Mysterious Skin is pretty unknown and dealing with similar issue as MBT. I have both on disc, but after watching MBT, I couldn't watch another so depressing movie on same theme.
If you like nature, maybe you would like (the best) slovak movie Zahrada (The Garden, 1995), it's available as dvdrip with eng subtitles on net.
Other good european movies (maybe unknown to somebody), most of them depressing:
Lilja 4-ever
4 Months 3 Weeks And 2 Days
The Bothersome Man
Italiensk For Begyndere
The King Is Alive
One Point O
And some good, but not famous US movies:
Ghost World
Igby Goes Down
Me And You And Everyone We Know
My Life Without Me
The Good Girl
The Woodsman
Peter Markoff
If you don't like my english, write it to me in my own language.
Yeah I've seen most all of the US ones (all but My Life Without Me).
Mysterious skin is really really good, but i wont be watching it again for a pretty long time.
Lilja 4ever is really desolate, but I agree worth watching.
I'm going to have to check out the others.
Other films that I liked that are ultimately less depressing are the Chummscrubber, The Thumbsucker and they arent rated so highly, I also like Stay.
Lightning Bug is pretty good if you can find it (but it goes a little crazy towards the end)
The french film Delecatessen is only rated around 7 on here, i think that it is better than that.
A couple films that i liked a lot are:
Fresh (9/10)
The King (8/10)
Paranoid Park (8/10)
I thought these were also a bit underrated.
I was passing out when you were passing out your rules
Mysterious Skin is such an amazing movie, I've seen it about five times and it never fails to kill me inside.
JESSIE There, now I can change my ID as often as I damn well please.
i think the 2001 Irish film Disco Pigs is quite similar to My Brother Tom and they're both underrated here on IMDB in my opinion. i gave them both an 8, but their average IMDB user ratings are in the 6s.
Disco Pigs http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0236157/
out of all the things i've lost i miss my mind the least
I can second Disco Pigs as having similarities.
It's a poetically written film (yet candid and raw) featuring a fringe couple trying to make their own way -- much like MBT.
I've never considered the similarity between disco pigs and MBT but I definitely see it now. It was exactly what I was looking for after watching MBT, so anyone who's reading this and is on the fence should definitely give it a go. Both films have such beautiful talented acting
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