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Old yet glorious and obscure movies

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cafenoirbiscuit · 13/10/2017 20:59

I've always loved The Amazing Mr Blunden but am amazed so few people have heard of it.
Anyone else have old yet glorious and obscure movies they love?

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namechangefordummies · 14/10/2017 04:13

What a carve up.

HerBigChance · 14/10/2017 03:56

1950s melodramas: Imitation of Life, and All That Heaven Allows.

Both directed by Douglas Sirk, I think.

bobthebuddha · 14/10/2017 00:38

ChinkChink glad you love it too! I used to watch a lot of these with my late mum - happy days Smile

JingsMahBucket · 14/10/2017 00:38

"Bon Voyage Charlie Brown, And Don't Come Back!"

"Rope" by Alfred Hitchcock

"La Jetée" by Chris Marker

ChinkChink · 14/10/2017 00:31

Glad I have a fellow Death in Venice fan bobthebuddha and in the same post you mention another I love, Hindle Wakes. What a picture of working class life that was.

OliviaStabler if you like The Bishop's Wife you will love Random Harvest. Many happy hours spent with my recently deceased Dad watching those. Also The Shop Around the Corner.

MexicanBob · 14/10/2017 00:28

Another "yes" for The Green Man, plus Kind Hearts and Coronets (Alec Guinness as the D'ascoign family - all of them), and also AG in The Captain's Paradise where he's a ferry captain with one wife in Gibraltar and another in Tangiers.

GrockleBocs · 14/10/2017 00:05

Badlands is another lesser mentioned gem.

GrockleBocs · 14/10/2017 00:02

lady Harold and Maude was seriously weird but great.

OliviaStabler · 13/10/2017 23:59

The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant

VelvetSpoon · 13/10/2017 23:58

Loved the Amazing Mr Blunden as a child. And Flight of the Navigator.

Some others (not all old and/ or obscure)

The Wicked Lady
Blithe Spirit
The Ghost and Mrs Muir
Fedora
Tampopo

bialystockandbloom · 13/10/2017 23:51

Anyone remember the bbc2 series of B-movies years ago - The Wild Women of Wonga? Grin

bialystockandbloom · 13/10/2017 23:49

Ooh and on Dirk Bogarde, The Servant. Chilling. I love these threads!

ClinkyMonkey · 13/10/2017 23:47

LittleHearts - love Drop Dead Fred too. Smile

So I Married an Axe Murderer.

bobthebuddha · 13/10/2017 23:44

ChinkChink I loved Death in Venice - that and Victim (& The Night Porter of course, but that's not on my list of likes) were such monumental departures from Bogarde's matinee idol stuff, but then it was deliberate!

Used to love anything with James Cagney in - he was totally unique!

And has anyone seen Hindle Wakes? Silent British film - it's stuck in my head for years...

Bloodybridget · 13/10/2017 23:42

Black Orpheus made by Marcel Camus, I saw it on television a long time ago and thought it was wonderful. Set in a Brazilian favela during Carnival.

ladyballs · 13/10/2017 23:40

Harold and Maude

RemoveAllPicturesOfRon · 13/10/2017 23:37

Paris, Texas

The score, the cinematography, Harry Dean Stanton - all amazing.

bialystockandbloom · 13/10/2017 23:30

ohwhatfuckery I love busby Berkeley musicals too, my childhood was basically watching or reenacting Goldiggers of 1933/5 Smile

Argeles · 13/10/2017 23:27

The Spiral Staircase
The Good Die Young
The Man in the White Suit

All the above are totally brilliant in my opinion.

HarrietVane99 · 13/10/2017 23:27

There's one whose name I forget about a young woman working in a munitions factory during the war whose husband is in the RAF.

Gasp0de, that sounds like Millions Like Us. Gordon Jackson was the pilot.

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crow2018 · 13/10/2017 23:26

Attack of the killer tomatoes it's awful but amazing Grin

TinklyLittleLaugh · 13/10/2017 23:25

Ooh yes, love an epic: Spartacus, Ben Hur, The Vikings.

Also She. Was that Ursula Andress?

IamDBCooper · 13/10/2017 23:20

Dracula AD 1972.

Dracula resurrected in swinging 70s Chelsea! So bad it’s good!

Im a Chelsea fan and have even found some of the locations along the Kings Road on the way back from a match!

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 13/10/2017 23:19

Some of these aren't old! (It's strange that when I was a kid in the errrrm 60s and 70s films from 30 or 40 years before were regarded as old, but now films from the 80s and 70s I don't regard as being that old)
I was a fiend for old films when I was younger, still love them.
Some favourites-The Band Wagon, The Black Cat(bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff in Art Deco black magic hokum), love a big religious film(despite being a huge atheist), Busby Berkley musicals, The Amicus portmanteau horror films. Dd asked for a list of 100 must see films last weekend, lots on this list.

bialystockandbloom · 13/10/2017 23:15

Not totally obscure but The Dead of Night, portmanteau British late 1940s horror. God it's brilliant.

Also love Went the Day Well.

And Magic, 70s film with Anthony Hopkins playing mentally ill ventriloquist. Makes me shudder thinking about it.