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Sad Bastard and Loser Cinema

Overweight, loveless, wood ing, empty parking lots, basements, loners, madness, sadness, isolation, depression, fantasy, eccentric, filth, sleaze...

Charlie Kaufman, Todd Solondz, Christopher Guest, Robert Bresson, Terry Zwigoff, Spike Jonze, Noah Baumbach, Jim Jarmusch, the patron saints.

One day we'll get our Confederacy of Dunces movie...

Here's a list on fandom: letterboxd.cinevost.com/monocle/list/mondo-aficionado-documentaries-on-fandom/

ADDED NOTE: It is kind of amazing how popular this list is, and fittingly this is probably the most well received thing I have ever done in my life. Sad indeed!

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There are 43 films in this list released in the 1970s.

  • 10 Rillington Place
  • Bad Ronald
  • The Battle of Love's Return
  • Being There
  • Breaking Point
  • Brewster McCloud
  • Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
  • California Split
  • Carrie
  • Cockfighter
  • The Conversation
  • Don't Go in the House
  • The Driller Killer
  • Eaten Alive
  • The Enigma of Kaspar Ha
  • Eraserhead
  • Fat City
  • Five Easy Pieces
  • Gates of Heaven
  • Goin' Down the Road
  • Grey Gardens
  • Harold and Maude
  • The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher
  • The House Without Steps
  • Joe
  • The Long Goodbye
  • Martin
  • Paperback Hero
  • Payday
  • Pink Flamingos
  • Scarecrow
  • Serial Rapist
  • Stroszek
  • Taxi Driver
  • Three on a Meathook
  • The Toolbox Murders
  • Two-Lane Blacktop
  • Vanishing Point
  • Vengeance Is Mine
  • The Whole Shootin' Match
  • Willard
  • Wise Blood
  • Woyzeck