Unappreciated films

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I am watching Clue for the first time. Tim curry is amazing in it. Its made me proper laugh out loud a couple of times.
What other old films have been forgotten that I might enjoy? I need some light watching :-)

Loving these film recommendations. Especially as Netflix is so limited where I live.

I've mentioned it before on here but another film that had me cracking up laughing as well of floods of tears was an Aussie movie called Red Dog.

Blast from the Past - Brendan Fraser has been living in a late 1950s bubble in a nuclear shelter with his parents for the last 25 years and emerges into 1980s LA to meet valley girl Alicia Siilverstone. Funny and sweet.

Yes to Eurotrip.....the man on the train makes me laugh every time....escusee!

@Parthenope. Yes of course. I was thinking of L'ete Meurtrier! Confusing my seasons! Though I did also love Un Coeur en Hiver.

Forget Paris
Black Widow

Both Debra Winger films.

Crossing Delancey . Who would have thought a film about a pickle seller could be so good? stars Amy Irvine

Irving that is

For those who like French cinema 8 Femmes / 8 Women is great. Good soundtrack too. :)

A film I only saw once but really want to see again is Miracle Mile, I seem to remember it was about the last hour or so before the outbreak of a nuclear war.

Another vote for the Station Agent and Overboard here too.

Identity
Legends of the Fall
The Road to Perdition
The Talented Mr Ripley

Second My Cousin Vinny - great film!

Also Glory with Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman- only saw this recently and it's brilliant. Won Denzel an Oscar I think.

Parthenope Les Amants du Pont Neuf was the first film dh and I went to see after we'd started going out together. It holds a special place in our hearts! We also loved "Un Couer en Hiver". We went to see lots of French films, DH used to speak French fluently (now very rusty) but I always had to read the subtitles!

I remember going to see one film with Emmanuel Beart (whatever happened to her? She was everywhere in the 90s) which I found very disturbing. I think it was called "L'enver". I'd like to see that again to see if I could make more sense of it with the perspective of age.

L’enfwe, directed by Chabrol. You’re taking me back to my youth now!

L’enfer 🙄

Emma, my DH and I got together as students, and saw a lot of late 80s/early 90s French films at a student film society, so they have huge sentimental value for me, as well as the fact that I still like them.

I think EB is heavily involved in anti-immigration and UN activism now, and acts far less. You've reminded me that I actually have a DVD copy of 'L'enfer' that someone gave me, which I've never watched.

not read all replies but wanted to add Mr Holland's Opus

Thought of another, watched it when I worked at a cinema and thought oh gosh what do I have to sit through (I also saw Titanic enough to last a lifetime during that job!) Anyway, I really got into it, it's called The Spanish Prisoner. All about a con game and never knowing who to trust, twists and turns, has Steve Martin in it.

Some more of my favourite French and other foreign language films.

Central Station.
Lucie Aubrac
La Reine Margot
The Horseman on The Roof
MR-73 aka The Last Deadly Mission
Tell No One
36 Quai des Orfevres
Le Bossu
My Best Friend
Conversations with My Gardener
Romuald et Juliette
Apres Vous
Fateless
Little White Lies
Rust and Bone
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
Wings of Desire
Children of Paradise

Hot tub time machine

Priceless is a fun French Rom-Com.

The Mirror Has Two Faces...Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Lauren Bacall and Pierce Brosnan.

JB is middle aged maths lecturer who after a slew of affairs with inappropriate younger women, marries frumpy English lecturer BS who has lived in the shadow of her glamorous mum and sister (Mimi Rogers) her entire life. He wants companionship with an intellectual equal but when she wants to take their relationship to a physical level they run into problems.

Yes to Blast from the Past

I love many of these already mentioned, to which I'll add:

Dead Again
When a mute woman suffering from amnesia (Emma Thompson) arrives at the gates of an old orphanage, private investigator Mike Church (Kenneth Branagh) is asked to find out who she is. With the help of a hypnotist (Derek Jacobi), the woman regains her voice and recalls vivid past memories of a couple from the 1940s torn apart by murder. Church begins to develop feelings for the woman, who he calls Grace, and then discovers he has a connection to the tragic couple from the 40s.

The Lake House
Fantasy romance about a relationship that forms between an architect (Keanu Reeves) and the doctor (Sandra Bullock) who lived in his new lakeside house two years previously. Only able to communicate by passing letters into the house's mailbox, the pair begin to fall for each other, but will they ever be together?

White Palace
Max Baron (James Spader) is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker (Susan Sarandon) is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of life. Mismatched or not, their attraction is instant and smoldering. With time, however, their class and age differences become an obstacle in their relationship, especially since Max can't keep Nora a secret from his Jewish friends and upper-crust associates forever.

And not really a film, but a stand alone hour long episode of Rik Mayall Presents called Dancing Queen
Dancing Queen is a 1993 British romantic comedy film starring Rik Mayall and Helena Bonham Carter. It follows the misfortune of Neil, a bridegroom trying to get back to his bride with the help of his newfound friend Pandora/Julie the stripper.

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Red Dog broke me!

"not read all replies but wanted to add Mr Holland's Opus" LOVE this film!

Also not really underrated as I think they were even award winning but are largely "forgotten"

"Blackboard jungle" and "to sir with love"

Also "music of the heart" & "dangerous minds" (highly recommend the book of this one too)

I've also heard good things about "the Ron Clark story" but haven't managed to see it yet.

"All about a con game and never knowing who to trust, twists and turns, has Steve Martin in it." I'll keep an eye out for that, I'm not keen on Martin comedically but love when he does drama or poignant more.

Also see that's a David Mamet film - one of his earlier ones was "the verdict" which is fantastic. Again critically acclaimed but not a very well known film.