Considered posting this to the Netflix recommendations thread, but honestly some of the recommendations on there are really terrible (sorry, it's not my fault half of you don't have taste!!!), so thought I'd keep that filth in its own pen and do a serious, proper movies thread for serious, proper film fans with serious, proper taste.

No, but seriously, merge this with the Netflix one if it's a problem.

Anyway, so I watched Tar the other day (watch it, it's incredible) and thought it was almost perfect, but it hasn't had a huge amount of marketing and it's not too well known, despite it being probably the best film to come out this year. It'll be totally forgotten about in five or ten years, and so I'm looking for films like that which are bloody amazing but have been forgotten about over the years. Everyone knows your Apocalypse Nows and your Godfathers and your Shawshanks etc so what about lesser remembered ones?

Great idea. There are a lot of naff recommendations on the other thread so this should be good. I’d never heard of Tar so that’s gone straight onto my list thanks. I love my films but there’s been a dearth of decent releases over the last few years so I generally go back and re-watch films that I’ve not seen in a while - it’s always good to stumble across a good one that I’ve forgotten.

I watched the Banshees of Inisherin last night, which doesn’t exactly fit the theme for this thread, but I would highly recommend.

Watched Banshees just this Friday! Really good. In Bruges is one of my favourites so I knew I was going to like it.

By no means am I saying these 2 are the best films ever made and they are not my favourite films either but think they fall into the category of the OP.
Peanut Butter Falcon
Honey Boy

Both starring Shia LaBeouf - the second one an autobiographical look at his own life as a famous child actor.
If you haven’t seen either give them a watch as they are not what you would expect.

Don't read a single thing about Tar, just go into it completely blind, I can't recommend doing so enough.

Oh and btw I love In Bruges !

Amadeus is a film that is about two million times better than it had any right being, but nobody I know has seen it. That's the kind of thing I'm looking for.

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Sun Dec 18, 2022 11:22 pm

Watched Banshees just this Friday! Really good. In Bruges is one of my favourites so I knew I was going to like it.

Likewise, great chemistry between those two, and I’ve always really liked Colin Farrell. In fact off the back of that I’m currently watching Seven Psychopaths by the same director, which isn’t exactly in the brilliant category but a decent watch.

Recently also watched Killing of a Sacred Deer and The Lobster whilst waiting to get a decent copy of Banshees, then watched Dogtooth by the same director. I tend to end up going down a bit of a wormhole after watching something I enjoy.

I’ll also contribute Call Me by Your Name, maybe this is too mainstream but it just came to mind.

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Sun Dec 18, 2022 11:30 pm

Amadeus is a film that is about two million times better than it had any right being, but nobody I know has seen it. That's the kind of thing I'm looking for.

Really struggled with that to be honest. I think I wasn’t in the right mood to watch it when I did. I should watch again.

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Ooh, been meaning to watch The Lobster for ages but never get round to it, always forget. Glad I did this thread now. Cheers!

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Sun Dec 18, 2022 11:32 pm

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Go back to your Netflix shite, you philistine!!! Get...be gone with ya!

The Way Way Back.

Up there with some of the best coming of age films, I’ve seen.

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Sun Dec 18, 2022 11:32 pm

Really struggled with that to be honest. I think I wasn’t in the right mood to watch it when I did. I should watch again.

It's a wee bit camp and it's really, really long, but loved every minute of it. I was in a bit of a baroque-period mood/phase/obsession when I watched it years ago, which probably contributed to my enjoyment of it a bit.

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Sun Dec 18, 2022 11:39 pm

It's a wee bit camp and it's really, really long, but loved every minute of it. I was in a bit of a baroque-period mood when I watched it years ago, which probably contributed to my enjoyment of it a bit.

yeah guess I wasn’t in a baroque mood that night. I’m the same with certain foreign language films such as Korean, and even black and white films. I go through spells of being in the mood for them and then go months without considering them. During the first lockdown summer I remember watching pretty much the whole Woody Allen back catalogue!

Can relate. Sometimes I'm up for, like, late Soviet-era philosophical art films like Andrei Tarkovsky's stuff, then other times I'm like, I wanna' watch Troy.

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Mon Dec 19, 2022 12:00 am

Can relate. Sometimes I'm up for, like, late Soviet-era philosophical art films like Andrei Tarkovsky's stuff, then other times I'm like, I wanna' watch Troy.

Have you seen Come and See? That’s a nice lighthearted Sunday night flick

Glengarry Glen Ross

Raining Stones...and I'll always add Local Hero

Rileybobs wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 19, 2022 12:05 am

Have you seen Come and See? That’s a nice lighthearted Sunday night flick

I've got Mosfilm https://www.youtube.com/@Mosfilm_eng bookmarked because there's a few on there I'm interested in. Come and See is one I've heard about through some video essays but haven't got around to it yet. I'll get to it eventually though.

Was just scrolling down to suggest Local Hero - I always had a thing for the western Highlands, astronomy and good music so it ticked all my boxes.

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Mon Dec 19, 2022 12:43 am

Was just scrolling down to suggest Local Hero - I always had a thing for the western Highlands, astronomy and good music so it ticked all my boxes.

My late brother was an extra and they used my dad's house in Penan as the hotel...RIP Peach

Spiral wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 19, 2022 12:00 am

Can relate. Sometimes I'm up for, like, late Soviet-era philosophical art films like Andrei Tarkovsky's stuff, then other times I'm like, I wanna' watch Troy.

You'll know Stalker then?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

I recently saw 'Cow' on TV:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11548822/? ... _sr_srsg_0

Jump Tomorrow

Sitting Pretty

A New Leaf

Johnny Stecchino

Mon Oncle (and some other films by Jacques Tati)

Le Trou (superb prison escape film)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054407/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

The Nice Guys with Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling is very good.

Sorry To Bother You is very weird.

I have to say I like the Walter Presents films/series.

Margin Call

The thinking man's Wolf of Wallstreet.
Takes place over 24 hours the board of a wall street investment bank decides to fire the starter pistol of the 2008 subprime market crash.

A stellar cast; Kevin Spacey, Zachary Quinto, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Stanley Tucci.

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Mon Dec 19, 2022 12:07 am

Glengarry Glen Ross

Belter of a film - Jack Lemmon was immense in it. I saw Christian Slater play Ricky Roma in the stage version in London about 5 years ago.

The Painted Bird

Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe.

Leon

everyone will have seen the parody of the map scene, but Downfall is a also a tremendous film

harold and maude
romper stomper
repo man
the guard
cry-baby
dark star

The Founder: about the guy who set McDonald's on the way to what it is now.

The Quick & the Dead (1995 - not the 1987 TV movie with the same name!)

A throw back to the old Western movies, this one involving a gunfighting competition with a twist..

Great story and a great cast including Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Leonardo di Caprio, Russell Crowe, Lance Henriksen and Keith David

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Mon Dec 19, 2022 12:46 pm

The Quick & the Dead (1995 - not the 1987 TV movie with the same name!)

A throw back to the old Western movies, this one involving a gunfighting competition with a twist..

Great story and a great cast including Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Leonardo di Caprio, Russell Crowe, Lance Henriksen and Keith David

Is that the one with Tom Conte playing Sharon Stones partner/husband?

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Mon Dec 19, 2022 12:52 pm

Is that the one with Tom Conte playing Sharon Stones partner/husband?

No, Tom Conte isn't in it Elwa

Vintage Claret wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 19, 2022 12:58 pm

No, Tom Conte isn't in it Elwa

Just checked on Conti’s career. Yep he was in it but not billed on the publicity stuff according to his bio. And Yes, cracking film(that I haven’t seen for a long long time).

Ah ok, fair enough, can't remember her being married in it to be honest but it is quite a while since I watched it as well.

I'll have to dig the DVD out over Xmas and watch it again, as you say, cracking film and definitely worth re- seeing.

Seven brides for seven brothers.

Tom Conti is in the 1987 version, not the Sharon Stone version.

Quite right Distortion. I must have seen both films because I placed Stone and Conti together in it… but I’m clearly remembering a montage of the story in my minds eye.

Breaker Morant...brilliant film starring Edward Woodward about a military injustice in the Boer War.
House of Sand and Fog...Ben Kingsley as an Iranian immigrant in America. Great film.
Wolf Creek...backpacker trauma in the Australian outback

Lifeboat. One of Hitchcock’s best.
IMHO.

Rileybobs wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 19, 2022 12:05 am

Have you seen Come and See? That’s a nice lighthearted Sunday night flick

One of the grimmest war films in existence. Brilliant direction by Elem Klimov, but by heck, it's a dark and foreboding film. Don't watch it if you're not in a good place.

Middle-agedClaret wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 19, 2022 5:01 pm

Lifeboat. One of Hitchcock’s best.
IMHO.

I recorded it the other week. I think it was on TP or some other free movie channel. I wouldn't have bothered if I hadn't recently seen a documentary about Tallulah Bankhead.

Billy Balfour wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 19, 2022 5:02 pm

One of the grimmest war films in existence. Brilliant direction by Elem Klimov, but by heck, it's a dark and foreboding film. Don't watch it if you're not in a good place.

Hadn’t heard of this film. Just checked it out. Sounds grim.

Not sure if it makes the lesser known films, but I watched the other year called ‘seven years in Tibet’ which I really liked.

What's not to like about Tom Hanks being married to Carrie Fisher, with Bruce Dern for a neighbour?

If you haven't seen 'The 'Burbs', you need to.

Pontypool

Climax

2 strange horror films that are hidden gems