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.

Ooh just thought of 'Keeping Rosy' a low budget British movie staring Maxine Peake as high powered career woman Charlotte who has just bought a new executive fiat in new development.

A bad day at work leads to a horrific incident at home that has unforeseen knock on implications meaning Charlotte's life will never be the same again.

Also stars Blake Harrison of the Inbetweeners as a sleazy security guided.
Well worth watching if you can find it.

Flat not fiat! LOL

I remember Joe’s Apartment (and the cockroaches)!

Nil by mouth - written/directed by Gary Oldman based on his childhood (I think) - Ray Winston & Kathy Burke (who's amazingly heartbreaking in this). It's grim viewing but at total must see- its not one I rewatched, or I think would want to, my soul ached for Burkes character but will always remember this as a brilliant masterclass in British film making.

The Spanish Prisoner. Steve Martin film (not a comedy though), twists and turns con story. I only saw it as I was working in a cinema at the time, and you got to watch the films with a seat at the back and a torch to help anyone who needed to leave. Saw a lot of films, including more times seeing Titanic (with an interval!) than anyone should.

Death Note, not the Netflix one which I still haven't seen. I'm talking the 2006 live action one. And the sequel.

@rosegoldwatcher

Ooh quite well known maybe but Secretary a strange and saucy film with whassername and what's hiname is great. (Sorry hungover).

@NeedToKnow101 - Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader. Quite shocking at the time...

Thanks Rose 😘 I actually always thought it was Steve Buscemi.

"Dazed and Confused" - Richard Linklater's coming of age movie about the last day of high school for a group of teens in 70s USA.

"Take This Waltz" - Sarah Polley directed this about a young woman who finds herself. (And it has singularly the best chemistry between the two leads that I've ever encountered.)

@WhatMattersMost - you mentioning Dazed and Confused made me remember the film The Song Remains the Same - basically about Led Zeppelin.
I went to see this at the cinema in 1978(?) - saw it twice around. (In those days once in your cinema seat you could stay as long as you liked.)

A Good Year with Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard - lovely, funny, feel good film.

Strange Relations/My Beautiful Son with Julie Walters. One name was for the UK and the other for the US release (I think). If you are adopted this is a must see movie.

Evita - with Madonna

Mamma Mia 2 (Here we go again)

@TottiePlantagenet

Tokyo Story, amazing and so touching.

Gosh, I love Tokyo Story. When I studied Japanese at uni we talked about it during our Japanese Cinema course. I can recommend Yesterday's Children with Jane Seymour. It's about a women that lives in US and she gets those strange visions of distant place. She eventually realises that the visions are of a small Irish town during the 1930s and she decides to go there to resolve the mystery. It's a total tear-jerker.

I actually always thought it was Steve Buscemi.

@NeedToKnow101 - Steve Buscemi has many qualities. Sexy is not one of them.

Another vote for Tokyo Story, so gentle and sad
And Gattaca, with Uma Thurman and Judy Law

This is why MN is becoming a bit insipid. The idea is to post films you love that no one else knows. The problem is that half of the films posted here people will know. I do and I am no film buff.

@NoMackerelInSwindon

This is why MN is becoming a bit insipid. The idea is to post films you love that no one else knows. The problem is that half of the films posted here people will know. I do and I am no film buff.

Is it not worth it for the 50% of films that have been mentioned that you do not know?

Different age groups will know/not know a whole set of different movies.

@rosegoldwatcher

I actually always thought it was Steve Buscemi.

@NeedToKnow101 - Steve Buscemi has many qualities. Sexy is not one of them.

😂😂😂 Can't argue with that!

Eat Drink Man Woman.
Topsy Turvy by Mike Leigh, with Jim Broadbent and Lesley Manville

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.
Sleepers.
Martha meet Frank Daniel and Lawrence.
Big fish.
Pay it forward.
Flatliners.

@Crankley

As Good As It Gets Me Before You One Hundred Foot Journey Wonder

Me Before You was on this afternoon C5 I think. I'm not sure about the film but the book was a huge seller and kind of puts me off the film as it's likely to not be as good

Evita - with Madonna

Mamma Mia 2 (Here we go again)
I think everyone in the world has heard of these films

I had forgotten about Secretary!
I loved that film. Probably not for everyone....

Instructions not included- it's a lush comedy about a guy living the life of Riley in a beach resort essentially just shagging tourists and ends up a single dad to a little girl.

It's my go to comfort movie. A bit silly but not too slapstick. It reminds me of comedy movies from the 90s and 80s (3 men and a baby/overboard etc) just a bit of inoffensive fun with a couple of bits to tug at the heartstrings. I really recommend it!

@NoMackerelInSwindon

This is why MN is becoming a bit insipid. The idea is to post films you love that no one else knows. The problem is that half of the films posted here people will know. I do and I am no film buff.

Keep yer hair on!

@NoMackerelInSwindon

This is why MN is becoming a bit insipid. The idea is to post films you love that no one else knows. The problem is that half of the films posted here people will know. I do and I am no film buff.

So post some unknown gems yourself then!

Dazed and Confused made me remember the film The Song Remains the Same - basically about Led Zeppelin.

Saw that (aged 16) at the Roxy Club in Wardour St ... (Double bill with "Easy Rider"). Hard to argue with Peter Grants label: The most expensive home movie ever made