Do you have any....

[SweetBella]

Please share some little secret gem's that you think others would love to see... not so much favorites but movies that many people may not know about or may assume aren't as good as they really are!

I love renting movies that I'm not sure of and then when they end up surprising me with such delight... I just can't wait to tell everyone to go rent it!!!

 

[antiarte]

I'd recommend Me and You and Everyone You Know. Best film I saw last year.

Also The Bicycle Thief. When people say that they don't make movies like they used to, this is the type of movie they mean.

And Brick. It just came out on DVD. It's a film noir set in a high school. Fans of the true film noirs will be probably appreciate it better.

There's also this Iranian film called The Circle. It's kinda hard to find, but it's a great film. Highly recommended.

And In The Mood for Love. It's very lyrical and poetic, but very simple. Check out the cinematography by Christopher Doyle. He's gotta be the best at the moment. He also worked on Hero and The Last Life In The Universe.

 

[SparkyMaddie]

because I started to play violin i loved this film we were shown last year in orchestra at school.it is called " music of the heart" it's a true story.

 

[Lithium Hobo]

Interstate 60. If you're any fan of the Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, and comedy, then you owe it to yourself to see this awesome flick.

 

[akasmom]

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is one of my all time faves.

 

[SweetBella]

thanks so much!! keep them coming!

 

[soblessed53]

"The Five People You Meet in Heaven",really wonderful and thought provoking. Also "Road To Redemption" was wonderful.

 

[soblessed53]

Interstate 60. If you're any fan of the Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, and comedy, then you owe it to yourself to see this awesome flick.

Since I love TW,OL, AND comedy,I will have to check this out! Thanks for the heads-up!

Rated R for language and sexual references,OOPS,I avoid this type!

 

[Sign Of The Fish Burger]

Buying the Cow- This movie is HILARIOUS. I had never seen it or even heard of it until I started dating my hubby. He went on and on and on about it... I figured it couldn't be that good if it wasn't very popular- It was.

I *think* it might be Rated R... if I remember correctly you see a nude [male] bum

 

[SweetBella]

Since I love TW,OL, AND comedy,I will have to check this out! Thanks for the heads-up!

Rated R for language and sexual references,OOPS,I avoid this type!

i found the thread you were talking about!! thank you!!

 

[SweetBella]

one of my favorite comedies is called ......"Mother" ... it has Debbie Reynolds in it.... i looove this movie, i crack up through the whole thing!!!

 

[ews]

'What’s Up Tiger Lily?' Woody Allen took a so so Japanese Action movie and asks himself why didn’t this film make it? So he changed the plot, threw out the script and re-dubbed it. The movie stayed as shot but now the plot line is about someone stealing an egg salad recipe. You can’t stop the laughter.

 

[soblessed53]

The Party, where Peter Sellers is an East Indian man,outside his element.

 

[aca_rev55]

"Creep" if you're into really weird horror movies. It might not be THAT unknown, but... whatever. Nobody I've talked to here has ever heard of it.

 

[fieldlily]

This British film is a sleeper I think about fifteen or twenty years old. I really enjoyed watching it on t.v. a few years ago. I wanted to see it again so searched for my own DVD or VHS. Copies are rare and hard to find; but I finally got a copy which became defective after a couple viewings.

Based on the book by J.L. Carr A Month in the Country [a worthwhile read] stars a very young Colin Firth as an artist commissioned by the deceased benefactor(in the will) of a small Anglican church in England to restore a white washed wall mural to it's original painting.

Firth's character is a traumatized veteran of the Great War (W.W.I) who is afflicted with stuttering and frightening dreams. Spending the same month in the country is another traumatized war veteran (Kenneth Braughan) who has been commissioned to search for ancestral remains buried in an unmarked grave outside the church cemetery. Nastasha Richardson plays the sensitive wife of the Vicar there.

The beauty of the story unfolds in symbolic and meaningful ways as all come to a sort of redemption and restoration together. And, at heart, it is a story with a Christian theme.

Mystery prevails and lures the viewer. I especially appreciated the scene where the painting is finally uncovered.

 

[If Not For Grace]

Oldies-----I want to Live (Susan Heyward)

She does the finest acting job of her career--a bad sexy vamp on death row...

 

[antiarte]

Gun crazy aka Deadly Is The Female

Greatest b-film noir ever.

 

[fieldlily]

I really liked the old B/W movie (from the fifties) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre starring Humphrey Bogart (who deserved an oscar but didn't win), Walter Huston, (who did get an oscar for his supporting role), and Tim Holt. This gem directed by John Huston (Walter's son) is about a search for gold. It is a story of greed and what it can do to people. Very well done and worth renting or buying or recording.

 

[akasmom]

Babettes Feast (Danish w/ subtitles)

did you see Amelie (French, from a couple years ago)?

Nobody's Baby

 

[Izzibeth]

Audition - by Takashi Miike