During this isolation, I would be interested in suggestions of great movies you like.


please suggest films you feel are worth, actually very worthy, of watching now?  Looking for very good and intelligent films.  As far as ones that simply pass the time, that will be for another day.  I may have the most interest in any classics I may have missed.....you know, films like 'Howdy Doody, Man or Myth"...and "Sex and the Single Dentist". 


whatjd
Not everyone’s cup of tea....but just watched Jasper Mall documentary on prime....very very analogous to what’s happening to audio high end.

Highly recommend for those who like a bit of humanity in their movies... Again some will not get it....no explosions or people being accidentally hit in the groin (which can admittedly be funny at times. ; )

...one of the very best of 2020 ....imo.
Thanks to all for your thoughts/feelings. 

Both of my sons work in "film", both have taught on the subject at state universities......seems taking them to great films at various theaters in their youth did sink in.  The town I lived in had 2, and sometimes 3, independent "art" theaters and offered the chance to take my sons to films that were beyond special effects and explosions.


The Favourite, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos 
Inglourious Bastards,  Quentin Tarantino
Hannibal,  Ridley Scott
Dark City (blu ray version),  Alex Proyas
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,  David Fincher
Seven,  David Fincher   
The Revenant,  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The Drop,  Michaël R. Roskam
Taboo - the series -  Michaël R. Roskam,  Kristoffer Nyholm 
T
he Night Of - HBO miniseries -  Steven Zaillian, Richard Price
True Romance
Out of Time
A Boy and His Dog
A Beautiful Mind
Bad Teacher
Jarhead II
No Way Out
Phase IV
Bugs
My Dinner With Andre
David and Lisa
Queen of Outer Space
The Heartbreak Kid
Forbidden Planet (seed for Star Trek)
The Other Guys
The Naked Prey
Year One
Panic in The Year Zero
Bedazzled (original)
The Road
Creation of the Humanoids

About Time: fantastic soundtrack but not a "serious" flick just a nice RomCom

Contact: Book was better of course but I like the movie too
A Serious Man is perhaps the most overlooked Coen Brothers films. I wouldn't have understood it nearly as well if I hadn't had a Jewish girlfriend. It is like no other movie you have sever seen, which is true of all theirs.
You guys are really coming up with the stuff. Wings of Desire!  Ran!  Treasure of the Sierra Madre!  Anything by the Coen Brothers.

Real good one @r_f_sayles. Wings Of Desire is, amongst other things, one of the most beautiful looking films ever made, breathtakingly so.

The Black & White cinematography in the Coen Brothers The Man Who Wasn't There (starring Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, James Gandolfini, and Scarlett Johansson) is the best I've ever seen: deep, deep black, and shimmering, almost iridescently-silver white. 

Wings of Desire -Wim Wenders 1987

Diva -Jean-Jacques Beineix 1981

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs -Ethan & Joel Coen 2018




These are not thin philosophical soup, and are also shockingly beautiful frame-by-frame:

  • Akira Kurasawa - RAN.
  • Terrence Malick - Thin Red Line.
@skyscraper--Cool--Treasure of the Sierra Madre.  One of my fav film lines of all times...you all know what it is, certainly.

Good one!

Cheers!
I like old movies, grew up on them as television reruns on the local NYC stations like WPIX in the fifties.

King Kong (the original)
Babes in Toyland, later reissued as March of the Wooden Soldiers, (with Laurel and Hardy. It’s got real boogie men in it and is a memorable film in a Wizard of Oz kind of way)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (with Humphrey Bogart)
Anything by WC Fields, particularly his later films
The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin)
The Crawling Eye
Both the original Frankenstein and Dracula movies
Those old Fred Astaire flicks, and I don’t even like musicals



@an10490413 

It appears that you have been heavily influenced by the tweeting style of the "leader of the free world".
Nice to see that some members share my taste for off-beat foreign dramas! I can highly recommend these mostly esoteric ones:

Western – Directed by Valeska Grisebach

A Separation – Asghar Farhadi

In the Fog – Sergei Loznitsa

Broken Circle Breakdown – Felix van Groeningen

The Kid With a Bike – (or any film by) the Dardenne Brothers

Couscous – Abdellatif Kechiche

Man on Wire – James Marsh

The Lives of Others – Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Favorite movies with music that sticks with me:
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Master and Commander
The Deer Hunter
Josie and the Pussycats, of course!

Also, Ruthless People if only for the sets and Bill Pullman's part...and Bruce's song, as well.

(Someone listed Tender Mercies; a SUPERB film from every variable important in film making.)

@mwatsme There is BRIEF NUDITY in that film!!!  Your family will be incensed, shocked, and apoplectic, no doubt!
The Fifth Element has it all, ancient aliens, action, comedy, off-world space, high-tech weapons, etc. Good for the whole family!
@whatjd 
Perhaps another thread on movies we like and probably shouldn't?

The Core - completely ridiculous and I've watched it a dozen times and will do so again.
Hey whatjd, your mention of classics in relation to what you might be most interested in, brought a few to my mind, that I think you would love -

1. Letter to three wives - Joseph Mankiewicz
2. M - Fritz Lang 
3. Scarlet Street - Lang
4. 5 Fingers - Mankiewicz

Subject matter and narratives as modern as anything you might have seen three days ago : )

In friendship - kevin
After giving it some more thought, and staying away from the horror themed, you might wanna check out:
Lonely Are The Brave
Paths of Glory
Jean de Florette & Manon of the Spring
(kind of a part one and two)
Hombre
Lawrence of Arabia
Dr. Strangelove
Charlie Varrick
The Taking of Pehlam, One, Two, Three (the original)
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Snatch
American Hustle
Killing Them Softly
In Bruges
Rocknrolla
Road to Perdition
Arsenic & Old Lace
Public Enemies
Fargo
Raising Arizona
No Country For Old Men
Winchester ’73,
The Far Country
Rear Window
The Searchers
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Donovan’s Reef
Liberty Valance
The Magnificent Seven (the original)
The Naked Spur
Valdez is Coming

That should keep you occupied for awhile

All the best,
Nonoise




Robin Hood, Sea hawk, Captain Blood
Earl Flynn 
How to murder your wife
Jack lemon 
My blue heaven 
Steve Martin
Guide for the married man
Walter Matthau.
A night to remember 
loretta young 



And I do have some that people will Po-Po......likely the most Po would come when I admit I like Steve McQueen films.  McQueen and Newman in the "Towering Inferno" is commercial trash....and I have watched a half dozen time...including on release.  And I can still watch Dracula, Frankenstein and others with pleasure.

Perhaps another thread on movies we like and probably shouldn't?

  • Au Lait.I shall have to look out Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors as you obviously have a great knowledge of movies. Thanks.
  • I wish to add The Lives of Others as a must-watch IMHO" In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives."
  • tonykay -Great idea, really enjoy finding recommended movies I haven't watched. As with all of us here we most probably have seen most of the above mentioned but there's always the gems that slip through the cracks.
  • dpac996- .Lilyhammer.Nice choice.The Miami Steve Van Zandt(or Little Stevie or just Steve Van Zandt, or E Street band legend) shines in what is a hilarious Tv Series set in Norway and available hopefully still on Net flix in collaboration with a Norwegian broadcaster. All 3 series are gems.

Two of my favorite vintage, don't-miss movies are "Random Harvest" and "The Shop Around the Corner." Neither will change your life, but you will remember them for a long time and recommend them to others.
Since it's October,
Ravenous
It Follows
Hereditary
The Innocents
The Haunting  (the original)
The Thing (the original)
Wait Until Dark
Near Dark
Let Me in
Pans Labyrinth
Jacobs Ladder
28 Days later
28 Weeks Later

I left out the ones that everyone knows about and some here are well known but are worth seeing again.

All the best,
Nonoise



  • Man Bites Dog.

  • A black comedy (shot in B&W )and requiring English subs the story of a professional  Serial killer. I found it really funny.
  • Ran.
  • An epic Kurosawa. Ran is Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s reinterpretation of William Shakespeare’s King Lear. Other films he made including Seven Samurai are well worth investigating.
  • The Game.
  •  An Australian Comedy from the late seventies. An Aussie sense of humour is not required, its funny to all.
  • Fitzcarraldo.
  • Werner Hertzog Dir "The movie is wonderful, but the story behind the making of the movie is practically unbelievable - but it is true. I urge anyone interested in Fitzcarraldo or the hazards of motion picture making in the jungle to also see Burden of Dreams, Les Blanks’ movie about the making of Fitzcarraldo"
  • The Tin Drum. "
  • The Tin Drum is a 1979 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Günter Grass. It was directed and co-written by Volker Schlöndorff. It was mostly shot in West Germany. "
  • Come and See.
  • Another epic Movie. "After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II."
Ben Hur - The chariot race will never be equalled

How the West Was Won

Sexy Beast

The Cook , the thief ,His wife and her Lover

The Ipcress File
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I meant off the beaten path, not stuff most of us have seen.

The Independent
Jerry Stiller, Ted Femme & Roger Corman
Music by Ben Vaughn who recommended it at the R&R Hall
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Western:
The Shooting ('66)
Jack, Monte Hellman and Roger Corman produce Millie Perkins & Warren Oates

Horror:
Reeker
MDA anyone?

The Antichrist
"You filthy bastard!"
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I Saw The Devil 2011
Born Yesterday 1950
The Accountant 2016
The Mechanic (guilty pleasure) 1972
The Medusa Touch (another one) 1978
Sorcerer 1977
The Professionals 1966
Lawman 1971
The Maltese Falcon 1941
A Perfect World 1993
The Bedford Incident 1965
Gandhi 1982
The Seven Ups 1973
Get Carter 1971
The Third Man (my favorite old movie) 1949
The Yakuza (one of my all-time favorites) 1975
Bad Company 1972


....don’t forget Smokey And The Bandit ! 1977
This now-retired movie industry guy gives hearty thumbs ups to practically every film mentioned above. Dive in! I'll add "Smiles of a Summer Night," "La Dolce Vita" and "La Strada."
The Good Shepherd dir. Robert de Niro (complex thriller, not religious!).
Being John Malkovich (not autobiographical or biographical).
Death in Venice.
Another thing I do is to pick an actor I like and then search their work on the IMDb database (then search our satellite provider and Netflix for listings).

Recently did this with  Bill Nighy and Bill Pullman (Pullman does odd/enjoyable parts as does Nighy).

DeKay
A few of my favorites are "Hoosiers" (with Gene Hackman); "The Verdict" (with Paul Newman); and "Jerry Maguire" (with Tom Cruise). I believe you would find many vintage movies you would like on TCM (Turner Classic Movies) channel.
"If", 1968

"King of Hearts", 1966

Both are commentaries on war.

Recently watched "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" and after not caring for DiCaprio for years I finely liked him in a part.

Also enjoyed the "what if" justice of the film.

"Gunga Din", 1939 - was more entertaining than I recalled (watched it a couple months ago).

This upsets my wife...

I’ve recently been recording Steven Seagal movies off cable and then giving them a try (FF and Delete are my friends in this case).

I had no idea that he made so many (FITB) movies.

Aside from movies I recorded and watched "The Office" TV series in its entirety (in order).

Starting to do the same thing with "Bob’s Burgers" an animated series.

Also recorded 11 seasons of "Midsummers Murders" (British TV series) and am finally starting season 11.

Having trouble recalling the titles of the movies watched since being shut-ins, but there may be a history stored in the cable/satellite box.

DeKay

PS:

"Ford VS Ferrari" was really good, and I'm not a car guy.