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Originally posted by Chris in OC
Well, ....no, I'm sorry, that's just too easy! 
I'll toss in a vote for The Brother From Another Planet. John Sayles' second film is a low-budget oddball about an alien who lands on earth after fleeing his own world. He ends up in Harlem and fits right in because he looks like an African-American human, but he can't talk, so everyone makes assumptions for him. It's sort of like an inner-city Being There, but with a sci-fi twist, more balls-out humor, and a darker sub-plot. Joe Morton (among other parts, the "inventor" of terminator technology in T2) turns in a wonderful performance without saying a word.
This is an odd DVD release, being made on the cheap and looking like a home-brewed bootleg. The quality isn't great and the picture is full-frame, but it was more than worth the $7 I paid for it.
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This is a very good movie (I wrote a paper in college on its sociological ideas), but I saw the DVD and I hoped for a better release. Perhaps Sayles has to make another movie on the exposure level of Lone Star for the public to demand more of his stuff. If it worked for Peter Jackson, perhaps Sayles can get lucky, and we can see Brother From Another Planet, and his masterpiece City of Hope on disc (which is in 2.35 as well, the LD was cropped!). On top of that, where's Men With Guns, Lianna, Return of the Seacaucus Seven, and Baby It's You?
No one else has any other hidden treasures for the rest of us to discover?