This is not exactly a recommendation since I've only seen a few minutes of it…but Friday night (or Saturday morning, depending on your point of view), Turner Classic Movies is running The World's Greatest Sinner. This is one of those movies that film buffs often discuss even though few of them have seen it. It was made in 1962 but never really released. No matter how few people tune in to see it on TCM, their number will probably be greater than all the people who've seen it to date.
The film was a vanity production, written and directed by Timothy Carey, who popped up in a number of films by Stanley Kubrick or John Cassavettes. He stars, as well, playing an insurance man who quits his job and becomes a Rockabilly star and a cult leader. The legendary Paul Frees was the narrator and the music was done by Frank Zappa, who later called it "the worst movie ever made" and urged his fans not to seek out copies.
Is it all that awful? I dunno. I've seen about five minutes of it in clips over the years and while nothing in those clips was inconsistent with that description, you hate to label a movie that way without actually seeing all or most of it. Is it so awful it's funny? Same answer. But its trailer did include this blurb: "The most CONDEMNED and PRAISED American movie of its time!"
That's quite a claim for a movie that wasn't released and which very few people ever heard of. In fact, it's enough to make me want to see the thing. So I've set my TiVo. Whether I'll watch the film it records remains to be seen.