Great obscure movies?

[Rev. Rye]

Recently, I went on an "Archers" kick. And for those of you who don't know, The Archers were a filmmaking team made up of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger whose work underwent a major renaissance in the 1970s due to some guys you might know named Martin Scorsese, George Romero, and Francis Ford Coppola.

Here are some clips from the films of theirs I've seen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcZ6fnRLDLU
When I saw this scene from "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp," I knew I just had to share this scene. This scene actually got the pair in trouble with Winston Churchill, because of the fact that it put the words for a blistering Anti-Nazi speech in the mouth of a German. For the Yanks here, it's going to be released on Blu-Ray in March.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdTILENaYXw
The 49th Parallel is commonly considered one of their weaker efforts, but I still think it's part of a 3-way tie for the best Archers film along with "The Life and Death of Col. Blimp" and "A Matter of Life and Death," although I think that this scene from a Hutterite colony might be responsible for this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGFJamy3CQg
It was hard to pick just one scene from this film to highlight, but once I chose the Trial Scene, I had a big problem in trying to find a representative clip from the scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmC1bGPq7Js
And to think that nobody would even think of putting ballet to the screen in such beauty until 2010's Black Swan. Of course, Norman McLaren did it later, but since it's a Canadian short it doesn't count.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1AL8SAmWeQ
Tales of Hoffman is probably the weakest of the five films I've watched, but only because the other four are so strong. But, strangely, it was actually the inspiration for George Romero to go into film, so, basically, if it wasn't for this film, we wouldn't have the zombie craze we have today.

So, anyone else have films they think aren't well-known enough that they must be shared?