Film buffs, post your favourite films. Not the current Hollywood blockbusters, but films slightly off the beaten track, old classics, and leftfield pics (but not too leftfield and obscure).

I'm a great fan of British B/W flicks from the 40's and 50's, and so I'll start with "Hell Drivers"

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For British TV and film genre fans, the 1950's film Hell Drivers is a pick-out-your-fave-actor exercise in fun. Not only is the movie's villain played by Patrick McGoohan, but the supporting cast is filled with cool British actors: a pre-Bond Sean Connery in a tiny appearance, David McCallum (later, Illya Kuryakin from The Man From U.N.C.L.E.), Herbert Lom of the Pink Panther sequels, and even William Hartnell, the actor who originated the first Doctor Who. This 1957 release lets you enjoy all these fine actors before they vaulted into their famous roles. (http://www.entertainment-geekly.com/web/general/dec2002/reeling_drivers)

pukka.

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The movie was so cool the cast,cars,storyline,plot and music. If you are a car nut like me this is the perfect movie for you. There is cool music from the movie like Ozzy Osborne,Lion,Honeymoon Suite,Billy Idol,Richard Palmer,and Motley Crue. The gang is cool how they take your car if you lose the race...... ( [url)

Like totally cool.

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I've got this thing for Aliens, It just seems perfect.
Heaps of great shit from carpenter exists. The Thing remake that he did was rather whoopydoopyslimebloodyfunfun

Apocalypse Now is rad. Anything with arny. 80s action films and horror scifi. Easy Rider is good. I like old humphry bogart flicks. Robocop is a bit of a classic. just watched thelma and louise, that wasn't bad. In the mouth of madness is truly awesome. and the original buffy movie wasn't bad.
Back to the future, Bill and teds excellent adventure and bogas journey, Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, Two hands, Chopper. This list could go on. I love the truman Show the music was good. Bringing out the dead, Leaving las vegas. 8mm, City of angels.
Sphere, The Graduate. From dusk till dawn. ok that'll do

certpsycho:
yes, excellent film. Fonda was very good.

Movies off the beaten path you say? Well, sure, I've got a few:

The Big Lebowski - A Coen brothers movie.
Harvey - Based on a play. Starring Jimmy Stuart.
High Fedelity - John Cusack, Jack Black, and Tim Robbins. No one seems to know about this movie. When they see the DVD they go "What's that?"
On The Beach - Gregory Peck, based on a book by Nevil Shute.
From Dusk Till Dawn, Resovoir Dogs, and Pulp Fiction.
The French Connection
Dr. Strangelove

And finally Shane. But he's dead.

*EDIT* Donnie Darko.

*ANOTHER EDIT* I keep coming up with more. Tora! Tora! Tora!, In Like Flint, The Flesh and the Fantasy, and The Day the Earth Stood Still.

High fidelity, is that the flick based on the Nick Hornby book??

PS: have you seen john cusack in the "grifters"?

Wraith, yes I have. And yes, it's based on the Nick Hornby book. So is Election with Mathew Broadrick and About a Boy with Hugh Grant, I believe.

Any movie John Cusack is in, is great. Except Idenity.

isn't Angelica Houston sexxy for an older woman? no?

....just me then....
;)

Yes, just you. I like Rachel Weiz.

High Fedelity - John Cusack, Jack Black, and Tim Robbins. No one seems to know about this movie. When they see the DVD they go "What's that?

I hated the flick the first time I saw it. John Cusack's character came off as a whiny, self loathing, prententious boob but after a second viewing a year later i loved the flick. I have no clue what changed in that year. Good movie, more people should watch it.

1. Forbidden Planet

2. Kronos

3. Joe Hill

4. The Gods Must Be Crazy #1

5. Videodrome

6. Soylent Green

7. Network

8. Vanishing Point #1

9. All That Jazz

10. Woodstock

11. Catch 22

12. A Shot In The Dark

13. Being There

14. The Magic Christian

15. The Yellow Submarine

16. M.A.S.H.

17. Mighty Joe Young #1

18. Sargent York .
With a backbone made strong from tilling rocky farmland, a trigger finger made precise by hunting wild game, it"s no wonder that Alvin C. York became a superior soldier. In fact, despite his moral objection to war, York became the most decorated man of WW I, earning his medals on the battlefields of Argonne when he single-handedly extinguished a German machine gun squadron armed with only a Springfeild rifle and a Colt .45 pistol. A pacifist turned patriot, York became not only a daring freedom fighter, but also one our nation"s most revered heroes!

Based on a true story and nominated for 11 Academy Awards, this "powerful and engrossing" (Look) WW I classic is an honest and fitting tribute to heroism that is further distinguished by the Oscar winning performance of the remarkable Gary Cooper.


19. Cat Bellou

Long before Unforgiven deconstructed the Western, or Blazing Saddles lampooned it, Cat Ballou poked the genre in the eye. An altogether enjoyable comedy, the film is full of small surprises, big laughs, and wonderful character turns. Catherine Ballou (Jane Fonda) is a schoolteacher until a hired thug kills her daddy. To protect what she loves, she collects two petty criminals, a wisecracking hired hand, and a hired killer, Kid Shelleen (Lee Marvin). Unfortunately, Shelleen is a raging drunk who is so inebriated and unsteady with a gun he literally misses the broad side of a barn. However, Cat, has, as they used to say in those days, a mind of her own, and she masterminds a spectacular train heist that puts them all on the lam. Marvin was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as the derelict Shelleen, and his performances (he actually has two) are still topnotch and on target. The framing device, two wandering minstrels, played by Stubby Kaye and Nat "King" Cole, are the maraschino cherries on the top of this Wild West confection.


20. Meet Joe Black

21. The Rose

22. The Hustler #1

23. THX 1138

24. Flesh Gordon, yes FLESH.

25. Motel Hell

26. Spawn

27. Dark Star

28. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

29.As Good As It Gets

30. Bullitt

31. Gran Prix

24. Flesh Gordon, yes FLESH.
Great movie:D

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The Apartment w/Jack Lemmon and Shirley McLaine
Zatoichi - the Blind Swordsman
Farewell My Concubine
Raise The Red Lantern
Amelie
Run Lola Run - a Tom Tykwer film
The Princess and the Warrior - a Tom Tykwer film
Heaven - a Tom Tykwer film
Donnie Darko
The Royal Tennanbaums - a Wes Anderson film
Rushmore - a Wes Anderson film
The Man who Fell to Earth w/David Bowie and Rip Torn
My Neighbor Totoro
Kiki's Delivery Service
Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade
Zu Warriors - sort of an Asian Lord of the Rings...kinda
Dead Man w/Johnny Depp
Blade Runner
Alien
Akira
After Life
Charade - a Stanley Donnen film
Singin' in the Rain - a Stanley Donnen film
Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
Army of Darkness

...that's all that comes to mind. More later.

Run Lola Run - a Tom Tykwer film

agreed. Loved this film.

cert psycho:

Never saw this though

neither have I.
I haven't even seen citizen K

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Animal House

The Sandlot.

cosmictraveller already mentioned this movie : soylent green :cool:
another really cool one is aliens !!!

i can´t remind the name of another nice movie .... it was in b/w , and it was about the end of the world ( and it was really funny )
if i remember correct , kirk douglas was the crazy general .......

pentax, I'm surprised you haven't seen "Run Lola, run"

sweet Pentax

The name of that movie I think your mentioning is Dr. Strangelove

Leone's masterpiece, IMHO the best western ever. It had the longest opening credit sequence (12 mins).
I love the opening scene. Three men are waiting for Charles Bronson's train to arrive. They wait at a desolate station, waiting for Bronson to arrive because they have not been sent to meet him, but to kill him.

The train duly arrives, and there in the distance is a raggedy Charles Bronson accross the train track, and opposite him the three sinister hitmen, dressed in long dusters face him.
Tension mounts, mean stares all around, Leone focussing on the eyes as always:

CB: "You bring a horse for me?"
Hitman looks back at the three horses on which they arrived (off course they didn't, they're gonna kill him)

Hitman (with a wrye smile) : "Well....looks like we're shy one horse"

CB: "Nah.....you brought 2 too many......"

BAM...BAM....BAM

classic.:cool:

yeah, Dr. Strangelove is amazing.

1. "Singing in the Rain"
2. "Caligula"
3. "Titus"
4. "Stalker"
5. "Adams Family"

Originally posted by whitewolf
3. "Titus"
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Anthony Hopkins painted blue freaks me out.

there was a time i thought peter o' toole was god.
the movie? the ruling class.

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Lone Star- 1995-6 I think. Kris Kristopherson, Matthew McConaughey.

Fight Club

Raising Arizona

Black Hawk Down

Close Encounters

Mitchell (MST3K)

spookz, O'toole was fantastic in L.O Arabia.

Favorite film(s)? I don't know; there are so many to choose from. However up at the top of my list would be Pulp Fiction.

While I'm under the topic of films I will post my hatred of the evil Walt Disney (who is supposedly a(n) (American) person, for any of you who didn't know).

Having recently watched the Jungle book I am now more aware of the evil the West teaches its' children, so i can understand the rebellion of great religions against a-theist America, which attempts to recruit others (and to induce its' children) to its' demonic cause. Having written this the film was 'inspired by the Rudyard Kipling "Mowgli" stories' (Rudyard Kipling who was 'educated' in England (http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1907/kipling-bio.html), however the spread of Satan's ideas are now through a new media, and I'm sure 'Walt Disney' produces films of selected writings. Notice Mowgli, the child, who does not want to go and live with man, and the animals who try to make him do something he doesn't want to do, and their interaction together. Bageera; the sensible panther who only wants 'what's best' for the child. Baloo; the bear who takes life easy and who doesn't work, and whose laziness, causes him to lose the child (to the monkeys), and quite often places Mowgli in dangers path. Kaa (the snake) and Sheer-khan (the tiger) (which incidently I would say are naturally dangerous animals) clearly represent eastern values, and (in the film) they wish only to harm the child. They appear to be in disagreement with each other, despite sharing values, and one of the only real differences between them is Sheer-Khan's use (and the threat) of force; thus they fall out through hypocrisy. Sheer-Khan learns of the man-cubs existence only through 'ear wigging', which is the only way he can get information due to his disunity with the whole of the jungle; with not only his enemies, but with his allies too. It has to be written that Kaa (and his methods) is/are portrayed as tolerable, while Sheer-Khan's 'terrorism' is shown to be the greatest danger, but then Kaa is still shown to be willing harm to the child, and to be taking a childs liberty. Colonely Haithi emphasises the need for a 'clean trunk', as well as other things, and King Louie and his monkeys destroy their own temple. In the end Mowgli does something he doesn't want to do for 'the love of a woman'.

There are religious themes running through the film; the child found in a basket in a river, and mans disunity with the animals, which are both encouragable, however I feel the film does not tell the whole story, and it only serves to support western values.

Watch and learn!

I look forward to watching Bambi and other 'classics'. :)

...Black Hawk Down... I hate this film! It is pure American propaganda, and it encourages evil. :)

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I will try stick with films off the beaten track or older ones, there are so many films I love.

One of my all time favourites:

Kelly's Heroes - Clint Eastwood, Donald Sutherland, Telly Savalas

other good ones:

-The Green Berets
-Run Lola Run - Awesome show!
-Much Ado About Nothing - hilarious
-The Seven Samuarai
-Soylent Green
-The Omega Man - another Charleton Heston
-The Ten Commandments
-The Time Machine - both versions
-Logan's Run
-The Wild Geese
-Shogun
-Strange Brew - Take off! Eh!
-Rear Window
-The General - Silent movie with Buster Keaton
-Blame It on the Bellboy
-Planet of the Apes
-Any Mad Max movie
-Lorna Doone
-any Warren Miller ski movie
-Neon City
-The Stand
-Three Days of the Condor
-The Holcroft Covenant
-Victory
-The Andromeda Strain
-Dawn of the Dead - basically any apocolyptic movie
-First Blood
-Braveheart
-A Fish Called Wanda
-Holy Grail
Just to name a few!
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Right after watching Black Hawk Down I went out and kicked the first puppy I could find.

What a broke dick.

Originally posted by 15ofthe19
Right after watching Black Hawk Down I went out and kicked the first puppy I could find.

What a broke dick.
damn you!!!!!!!!!, puppies rock :p They get the chicks :D
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Good Movie......

Inherit the wind
Amelie
Ghost Dog: way of the Samurai
To kill a Mockingbird

Three fine films, sarge!

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This movie is simply brilliant. THE rock opera.

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This is also quite good.

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1. Taboo (japanese version)
2. 7 Samurai
3. Insomnia (swedish version)
4. Antz

Originally posted by Wraith
High fidelity, is that the flick based on the Nick Hornby book?? the book is 200X better than the movie, btw.. :)

Army Of Darkness

The Big Lebowski

Miller's Crossing

Ghost In The Shell

The Green Berets

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

The Wild Bunch

The Alamo

Run Lola Run

Grosse Pointe Blank

The Magnificent Seven

The Seven Samurai

Red Dawn

The Road Warrior

Ronin

Dirty Harry

There are plenty of "blockbusters" that I love as well, such as Black Hawk Down; Aliens; any James Bond movie; The Bourne Identity (maybe the best action movie of the last 15 years); The Matrix, Indiana Jones, The Terminator and original Star Wars trilogies; Predator; Die Hard; Saving Private Ryan and The Italian Job.

Originally posted by Mucker
I hate this film! It is pure American propaganda, and it encourages evil. :)

I liked the movie, but I agree that it encourages evil in the sense that the main character tries to promote American interventionism to save foreigners from themselves.

Galt says:
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

Never woulda pegged you as a fan...

Originally posted by BigBlueHead
Never woulda pegged you as a fan...

Shocking, eh?

I'm a big fan of 80's B-movies and all crappy horror flicks you can throw my way.

Originally posted by DCLXVI
I'm a big fan of 80's B-movies and all crappy horror flicks you can throw my way.
what are some crappy horror films i can throw at u

Originally posted by certified psycho
what are some crappy horror films i can throw at u


Killer Klowns from Outer Space......

anther really great movie is The day after (http://www.lawrence.com/news/movie_specials/story/124521)


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- Flesh & Blood, Plague-ridden, medieval fest!

Naturally like in all Paul Verhoeven movies, his twisted obsession for kinky pornography and cruel violence, but all done with within a good storyline and fine acting with a sick sense of humour that one can't help to enjoy.

People you should see "Young Frankenstein" The shit is funny. Plus Guyute how good is the movie.How scary