There are some great films here! I am especially pleased to see "Ossessione" and "Apartment Zero" mentioned. My candidate for a great unknown film is "The Leather Boys," with Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell, and the great Dudley Sutton. It's a black-and-white masterpiece of the kitchen sink school of British filmmaking, although it was directed (in 1963) by a Canadian director, Sidney J. Furie, who is perhaps better known for his action films, like "Iron Eagle" and a host of sequels. It's a flawless evocation of that period in England just before the Beatles hit it big and London began to swing. Campbell plays a working class lad who marries Tushingham; however, they are both much too immature to handle marriage, and Campbell finds he relates better to his motorcylce buddy, Sutton, whom he ends up sharing a bed with at his grandmother's after he and Tushingham separate. The problem is, the Sutton character wants more from the friendship. It's a classic study in sexual ambivalence, and audiences are still debating what Furie means by the ending. It's based on the novel by Gillian Freeman, who also wrote "That Cold Day in the Park" (another neglected masterwork, directed by Robert Altman in 1969) and who worked on "Girl on a Motorcycle" (the camp classic with Marianne Faithfull).
