Suggest a film you love that no-one else knows

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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.

@Iveputmyselfonthenaughtystep
The Assasin is my all time favourite film.I had the dvd years ago but somehow I misplaced it and could never find anywhere that sold it then last year for my birthday my Dh bought me it.

Jackie Brown
Mr Holland’s Opus
Blackball
Here comes the Boom
Candleshoe (a kids film starring a young Jodie Foster)
Little Rascals (kids film)
The Elephant Man

Whatever happened to Baby Jane

I watched it as a child, so scary!

Also another black and white film with Bette Davis and a young Wendy Craig - The Nanny. Freaked me out too!

Sunshine Cleaning love that film

@MargotMoon love Gregory’s Girl. Dh also does the covering up of the nipples thing if one of our DDs walks in

383 posts in and no My Own Private Idaho ? Or Drugstore Cowboy ?

I think because they're fairly mainstream and well known?

So I Married An Axe Murderer
Just so funny..at the time. Lived in a houseshare and we played it constantly. Mind you, housemate also had Bad Boy Bobby on every night too..

*Bubby not Bobby

Just remembered another one I used to watch with my mum - Plaza Suite. 3 separate stories based in a New York hotel suite.

‘Mimsie - cool it’

And one of my favourite films ever The Odd Couple with Jack Lemmon and a Walter Matthau 😀

This Beautiful Fantastic

Never heard of it, DD made me watch it recently, and it was fab. Really sweet, quirky, terribly English, tale. Gentle watch.

On BBCiPlayer now.

Gregory's Girl was mainstream for many 80s kids.. it was part of the school curriculum in English Literature! I watched it several times at school.
Would love it see it again.
Loved Shag..have the soundtrack on vinyl somewhere!

Another one.. The Little Girl Who Lived Down The Lane
Foxes
(both Jodie Foster)
Nell is a classic too

@dotdashdashdash

383 posts in and no My Own Private Idaho ? Or Drugstore Cowboy ?

I think because they're fairly mainstream and well known?

And yet no one I know has ever heard of them, let alone seen them ...

I wonder what counts as "mainstream" ? Shown on TV ?

Just watched this - Love is All You Need , on Amazon Prime.
Pierce Brosnan in a gentle room-com.

Open Range, a Kevin Costner western with everything you could possibly want from a Kevin Costner western, including Robert Duvall.

@alltoomuchrightnow

Gregory's Girl was mainstream for many 80s kids.. it was part of the school curriculum in English Literature! I watched it several times at school. Would love it see it again. Loved Shag..have the soundtrack on vinyl somewhere!

Another one.. The Little Girl Who Lived Down The Lane
Foxes
(both Jodie Foster)
Nell is a classic too

@alltoomuchrightnow I love Gregory’s Girl and Scottish films of that time. We watched The Girl in the Picture with John Gordon Sinclair. Restless Natives too (though he’s not in that).

I was wondering what JGS was up to now and then I remembered he narrates Biggleton on CBeebies

Anything by Hal Harley, but especially his earliest films. The pre-Internet ennui together with the small rays of hope for the human condition are perfect for these times. Also funny and great music.

Oh I loved The Girl In The Picture! Forgotten all about that one

The Tall Guy. Comedy directed by Mel Smith with Emma Thompson and Jeff Goldblum.

Hilarious film about putting on a musical version of "The Elephant Man". Best sex scene ever (very funny).

@onyourway

The Tall Guy. Richard Curtis' first film with Emma Thompson, Rowan Atkinson and Jeff Goldblum. I can't find it anywhere and I'd love to watch it again.

Think Richard Curtis has buried it

Sorry. Just saw this. Hadn't read the whole thread. At least that makes 2 of us.

Four Rooms

Somebody mentioned Jodie Foster's "Foxes".. That was brilliant.

Harold and Maud

Harold and Maude is a 1971 American coming-of-age dark comedy–drama film directed by Hal Ashby and released by Paramount Pictures. It incorporates elements of dark humor and existentialist drama. The plot revolves around the exploits of a young man in his early 20s named Harold Chasen (Bud Cort) who is intrigued with death. Harold drifts away from the life that his detached mother (Vivian Pickles) proscribes for him, and slowly develops a strong friendship, and eventually a romantic relationship, with a 79-year-old woman named Maude (Ruth Gordon), a Nazi concentration camp survivor who teaches Harold about the importance of living life to its fullest and that life is the most precious gift of all.

After Hours

After Hours is a 1985 American black comedy film[4] directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Joseph Minion, and starring Griffin Dunne with an ensemble cast. The film follows Paul Hackett, portrayed by Dunne, as he experiences a series of misadventures while making his way home from New York City's SoHo district during the night.

Yes I loved Foxes when I was young... and still love it now I'm nearly 50...got a box set of Jodie films and it's in there..