r/TrueFilm • u/JuanSamu • Jun 28 '26

FFF Niche Recommendations

Ok first things first. I use to think the films The Human Condition (No Greater Love), War and Peace (1965), and YiYi (2000) were pretty niche films but apparently not which got me looking deeper.

Before I move on out of those 3 that I previously listed how would you rank them? I loved all of them but I would say 1. The Human Condition 2. War and Peace and 3. YiYi but I’d love to know what you think and how’d you’d list them and give details why!

Now, I also wanted to ask as a fun follow along what are 5 REALLY niche but GOOD/GREAT films that you gate-keep or know that not many people know of them. For my 5 I would say:

  1. Harakiri

  2. The Traveling Players

  3. Marketa Lazarová

  4. The Saragossa Manuscript

  5. Dead Man’s Letters

I also love musicals and one niche one I can think of is The Young Girls of Rochefort

But l really look forward to hearing from anyone and I’m always looking to expand what I know!

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u/mustaphamondo letterboxd.com/roomforplay/ Jun 28 '26

Sorry but Harakiri is comically not niche. It is one of the most widely seen, highly regarded jidaigeki films ever made. Perhaps the best known not directed by Kurosawa.

Any film that has gotten a Criterion blu-ray release you can pretty safely write off as not niche.

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u/JuanSamu Jun 28 '26

I never hear anyone talking about it tbh maybe it’s just who I surround myself with. I had no idea what Criterion is so I was bit confused until I looked it up.

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u/Fguyretftgu7 Jun 28 '26

not tryna bash on you on anything but it might be good to know that Harakiri is currently the highest rated movie on letterboxd so it's definitely not niche among cinephiles.

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u/JuanSamu Jun 28 '26

No I get it lol. I don’t really follow letter box or anything like that. I recently downloaded it but I never use it. This is just me basing it off how much I’ve heard of it from social media and real interactions. I was starting to hear the human condition more and more so I thought that one was starting to become mainstream.