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Hitch-HikerHitch-Hiker Posts: 2,873
edited January 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
brainofPJ suggested this in the underrated movies thread. So here we guy.

The idea is to recommend some of your favourite movies, (like the recommend a band thread in Other music) preferably lesser known movies, so everyone can go watch them and broaden their horizons :) Doesn't matter what genre it falls under, if it's foreign or whatever. Anything goes
So no Pulp Fictions, Raging Bulls, or any other giant movies that everyone already knows.

brainofPJ already recommended Salton Sea to me, which I never heard of, so I'm downloading it now.

I'll start off with District 13. It's an awesome French action movie from Luc Besson. A cop is sent into a closed off area in Paris which is overrun with criminals to stop a nuke from going off. Similar premise to Escape from New York, Very silly, but it's great fun and the action is amazing. Loads of Parkour all the way through, and some cool martial arts and stuff. Well worth watching.
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  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) by Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck. Won the Oscar for best foreign film and won more German Film Awards than any other film in history but it's not exactly a household name so I think it's suitable for here. Excellent about the final years of the cold war and follows a spy for the Stasi who is assigned to spy on a playwright suspected of subversive behaviour. It's very thought-provoking.

    Also on the subject of german films, I recommend Werner Herzog's entire works but specifically Aguirre: Der Zorn Gottes (The Wrath of God), Fitzcarraldo, Jeder fur Sich und Gott gegen Alle (english title is The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser but the german translates as "Every man for himself and God against all") and Stroszek.

    Finally I'd like to recommend Vincent Gallo's Buffalo 66, a remarkably touching film considering what a bastard the man is in real life :) It's amazing how much one can find themself empathising with a character who kidnaps a girl and makes her pose as his wife to pretend to his parents that his life is going well.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • RygarRygar Posts: 8,685
    Boondock Saints.
    Layer Cake.
  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,228
    Rygar wrote:
    Boondock Saints.
    Layer Cake.

    both were very good

    two that flew under the radar a little this year that i liked a lot were:
    Stardust
    Sunshine

    both really cool and i've recomended them to others and they dug them as well!
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  • RygarRygar Posts: 8,685
    intodeep wrote:
    both were very good

    two that flew under the radar a little this year that i liked a lot were:
    Stardust
    Sunshine

    both really cool and i've recomended them to others and they dug them as well!
    I've heard good things about Sunshine but haven't seen it yet...
  • duggroduggro Posts: 1,343
    eagle vs shark

    yeaaah
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  • Hitch-HikerHitch-Hiker Posts: 2,873
    intodeep wrote:
    both were very good

    two that flew under the radar a little this year that i liked a lot were:
    Stardust
    Sunshine

    both really cool and i've recomended them to others and they dug them as well!
    Sunshine was one of my favourite movies of the last year. Absolutely brilliant.
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  • Dylan StoneDylan Stone Posts: 1,145
    Weird....older (like 2000?) rental...

    The Corndog Man


    (PS- I agree with the above poster...Buffalo 66 is great.)
  • Pacomc79Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    Glengarry Glen Ross.
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    the korean film Oldboy was immense... i also thought The Black Book was fantastic.. Black Book is dutch i think... ergo it has some baps in it for those who cant stand a film with subtitles
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Sprunkn7Sprunkn7 Posts: 5,286
    Run Lola Run
    Princess and the Warrior

    Loved those two...Buffalo 66 was a great flick and yes he is a prick in real life, what a weirdo.
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  • rmc1981rmc1981 Posts: 114
    No Holds Barred. Hulk Hogan playing a wrestling does it get any better brother.
  • anothercloneanotherclone Posts: 1,688
    I really like this film from the late 80's called "Hope and Glory". It is a really good movie about WWII from the perspective of a little boy in England. It is really actually kind of funny the way its done, and not overly sappy or sad at all considering the time.

    It is one of my all-time favorite movies. You can read more about it on imdb.com .
  • polarispolaris Posts: 3,527
    Hitch-Hiker wrote:
    Sunshine was one of my favourite movies of the last year. Absolutely brilliant.

    for those that watched sunshine - was that dude alive at the end? ... he looked a bit like a computer program in some scenes ... trying to ask in a non-spoiler kind of way ...

    as for this thread ... some great recommendations - seen most of them ... here are some of mine:

    recent movies:
    Persepolis (the book works much better but it's creativity makes up for it)
    U2 3D - best concert film i've seen (the juxtapositioning of politically charged songs with images was a nice surprise)

    older movies:
    Baraka (visual piece similar to koyanasqatsi - sp?)
    My Name Is Nobody (for thsoe that like westerns)
  • tonadaxtonadax Posts: 594
    There's two movies who everybody's must see:

    City Of God
    and Amores Perros
    both are brilliant movies from latin american.......
  • mole1985mole1985 Posts: 1,119
    tonadax wrote:
    Therer's two movie who everybody's must wacht:

    City Of God
    and Amores Perros
    both are brilliant movies from latin american.......

    They are both excellent movies.

    Try 'Kenny' hilarious film from Australia. A mock documentary about someone who cleans and maintains portable toilets.
    'Oldboy' Superb Korean revenge drama that is highly rated.
    'Ichi the killer' very violent, very funny, very unique (japan i think)
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  • Matt LukinMatt Lukin Posts: 647
    Sprunkn7 wrote:
    Run Lola Run
    Princess and the Warrior

    Two great movies here.

    Here are some suggestions:

    The Seventh Seal (http://imdb.com/title/tt0050976/)

    Pierrot le fou (http://imdb.com/title/tt0059592/)

    The Vanishing (http://imdb.com/title/tt0096163/)

    Brother's Kepper (http://imdb.com/title/tt0103888/)
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  • in_hiding79in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    Brokeback Mountain

    American Psycho

    Go

    Some like it Hot
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
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  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Matt Lukin wrote:
    Two great movies here.

    Here are some suggestions:

    The Seventh Seal (http://imdb.com/title/tt0050976/)

    Pierrot le fou (http://imdb.com/title/tt0059592/)

    The Vanishing (http://imdb.com/title/tt0096163/)

    Brother's Kepper (http://imdb.com/title/tt0103888/)
    Everyone needs to see The Seventh Seal, and Persona and Wild Strawberries.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • failedpersephonefailedpersephone Posts: 3,424
    Jesus' Son.

    I love this movie.

    There are so many great movies...but I am no where near my DvD shelves..and I have a really bad level of recall (duh, IOW I am drawing a blank)
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  • brainofPJbrainofPJ Posts: 2,361
    Hitch-Hiker wrote:
    Sunshine was one of my favourite movies of the last year. Absolutely brilliant.


    this was a good movie.

    i said in another thread awhile ago that this movie here makes me want to go out and buy a blu-ray player.

    great looking film.

    hmm, another Val Kilmer movie: Spartan.


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  • seanw1010seanw1010 Posts: 1,205
    Seven
    Training Day
    Swordfish
    Fight club
    American History X
    Lord of War

    not really under the radar, but my favorites
    they call them fingers, but i never see them fing. oh, there they go
  • urbanhippieurbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    This is England

    Awesome, awesome film...
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  • Dylan StoneDylan Stone Posts: 1,145
    urbanhippie wrote:
    This is England

    Awesome, awesome film...

    I've heard that! Must try to see it!

    More mainstream films I love are:

    1. Billy Elliot
    2. Finding Forrester
  • LostdogsinthegardenLostdogsinthegarden Posts: 844
    Donnie Darko.
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    seanw1010 wrote:
    Fight club
    American History X
    My two favourite films ever. I think AHX takes the title. Just. Norton is incredible.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • zircona1zircona1 Posts: 293
    Matt Lukin wrote:
    Pierrot le fou (http://imdb.com/title/tt0059592/)

    I actually watched that a couple of weeks ago on VHS, the video store I rent from has a lot of foreign films. It was hard to follow, but a lot of Godard's movies need to be viewed more than once. I'll probably see it again when Criterion releases it on DVD next month.

    And The Vanishing (the original) rocks.
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  • in_hiding79in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    My two favourite films ever. I think AHX takes the title. Just. Norton is incredible.


    American HIstory X is great, I just bought it from Best Buy not to long ago!
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  • jamie ukjamie uk Posts: 3,812
    Twin Town.
    An early Rhys Ifans role, very funny, very dark.
    p.s. I shit on Fight club :p. Seriously, that Ed Norton is wooden, in the extreme. Pitt is under rated as an actor though, in Meet Joe Black he is simply excellent.
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,175
    GTFLYGIRL wrote:
    I've heard that! Must try to see it!

    More mainstream films I love are:

    1. Billy Elliot
    2. Finding Forrester

    Yep, two thumbs up for those.

    If you're tired of Will Farrell, Owen Wilson, Jim Carrey, etc., type "funnymen", check out these two GEMS from Albert Brooks:

    Lost in America
    Mother

    Might be a bit slow (i.e. no crotch or flatulence jokes) for some, but I love this dude!
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    jamie uk wrote:
    Seriously, that Ed Norton is wooden, in the extreme. Pitt is under rated as an actor though, in Meet Joe Black he is simply excellent.
    He's supposed to be, that's his character. He's uptight. have you seen American History X? Nothing wooden about that performance.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
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