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Suggest a film you love that no-one else knows

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CormoranStrike · 05/03/2021 08:32

I’m just finishing Hear My Song in Amazon Prime, starring a very young Adrian Dunbar, Tara Fitzgerald and James Nesbit among others.

If you can get through the rousing final five minutes without your toes tapping and your hands clapping you are better than me!

It’s nonsensical, whimsical nostalgia and twee Irish, but marvellous.

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MargotMoon · 05/03/2021 23:14

Those Glory Glory Days! Isn't Google marvellous?

It's not black and white, that was just me being nostalgic

implantsandaDyson · 05/03/2021 23:15

MargotMoon Those Glory Glory Days? I think that's the film you might be thinking of.

VienneseWhirligig · 05/03/2021 23:19

P'Tang Yang Kipperbang is another one I have loved for years and nobody has ever heard of or seen. Lovely gentle film.

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GirlLovesWorld · 05/03/2021 23:19

Clockwork Mice.

I love Ian Hart.

grapewine · 05/03/2021 23:20

Lion is amazing. I was sobbing in places.

Blue is the Warmest Colour.

grapewine · 05/03/2021 23:22

before Paul Auster discovered he is Paul Auster and became pretentious)

Grin
FaceyRomford · 05/03/2021 23:23

101 Reykjavik. A funny tale about an Icelandic guy who has job and girlfriend issues and whose mother runs off with a female flamenco teacher. It ends happily. The hero becomes a traffic warden.

BlueLikeASmurf · 05/03/2021 23:26

My Life, which starred Michael Keaton and Nicole Kidman. It's about a man who is diagnosed with cancer as his wife is expecting their first child. It's sad, funny and uplifting. I remember watching it one night a couple of years after my DS had been diagnosed with cancer - he's fine now - and it really got me. I know it won't be everyone's cup of tea but it is beautifully made and it's focus is on love rather than loss.

I also really liked This Year's Love, set in London in 1999. It's a bit bleak but really watchable. Kathy Burke is superb as always.

And I was delighted to see news this week that a musical is being developed from the Restless Natives film. DH and I absolutely loved that. I saw reports from the articles about the musical that the film had bombed in England. Such as shame! We're in England and we totally loved it!

tobee · 05/03/2021 23:31

Thinking of Babettes Feast reminds me of Big Night with Stanley Tucci

nevernotstruggling · 05/03/2021 23:32

This Year's Love is great. A partner I had many years ago used to tease me like mad about the Jennifer Ehle character saying I was like that. When she says 'but I went to roedean!!'

ChequerBoard · 05/03/2021 23:34

@VienneseWhirligig

P'Tang Yang Kipperbang is another one I have loved for years and nobody has ever heard of or seen. Lovely gentle film.
I love this too. It was one of the very first 'film on four' series at the very start of Channel Four's existence!
nevernotstruggling · 05/03/2021 23:34

Looking for Eric - the film that Eric Cantona is in is amazing and he's great.

Livpool · 05/03/2021 23:37

Murder By Death - so funny

tobee · 05/03/2021 23:40

Oh mention of Jim Jarmusch I'm reminded of Stranger Than Paradise and Down by Law.

Also love Woody Allen's Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy and Robert Altman's Nashville

ChequerBoard · 05/03/2021 23:40

Some oldies from me:

The Wicked Lady - Barbara Stanwyck is a deliciously bad aristocratic lady who doubles as a highwayman by night.

Waterloo Bridge - Vivienne Leigh is a ballet dancer who falls in love with solider from a wealthy family during WW2. He is suddenly deployed before they can marry. A series of tearjerking tragedies follow....

tobee · 05/03/2021 23:41

@ChequerBoard

Some oldies from me:

The Wicked Lady - Barbara Stanwyck is a deliciously bad aristocratic lady who doubles as a highwayman by night.

Waterloo Bridge - Vivienne Leigh is a ballet dancer who falls in love with solider from a wealthy family during WW2. He is suddenly deployed before they can marry. A series of tearjerking tragedies follow....

Waterloo Bridge proper tearjerker.

Happyd · 05/03/2021 23:42

Stella with Betty Midler

CovoidOfAllHumanity · 05/03/2021 23:48

I really like Green Card with Andi McDowell and Gerard Depardieu.
I don't much like romantic comedies generally but this one I have such a soft spot for. Gerard is so ugly but sexy in it.

Pumpkinstace · 05/03/2021 23:49

Daylight.

alltoomuchrightnow · 06/03/2021 00:01

Vienniese, you beat me to it ! I LOVE that film
Also there was one I think about the same time called My American Cousin that i loved

Dixiechickonhols · 06/03/2021 00:04

Juliet, Naked. It’s on Netflix for few more weeks. British comedy. Ethan Hawke plays aging rock star who ends up in small British seaside town.

Walkthroughthefire · 06/03/2021 00:24

Have realised it's Dancer IN the dark , with Bjork.
Another one I remembered is Gattaca and I loved Deep impact but it was overshadowed by Armageddon!

saffire · 06/03/2021 00:27

Truly madly deeply with Alan Rickman.

Love that film, but it always makes me cry.

iloveautumn3 · 06/03/2021 00:34

Wish you were here with Emily Lloyd

RatherLostPenguins · 06/03/2021 00:54

@nzborn

Eyes of Laura Mars.
I came here to say this. My dad introduced the movie to me as a teenager and I never see anyone else taking about it. It freaked me out so much!

It was on TV a few weeks ago again, first time I've seen it for years but I missed the first hour. :(

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