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.

@Lobelia76

Dead Again - Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson. I loved it when it came out but can never find it to stream / buy on dvd. I think I had it on VHS!

It’s on Amazon to buy or rent

@Dunairbeanat

White Palace with Susan Sarandon and the gorgeous James Spader

Another truly bad film is Rancid Aluminium. I only went to see it because Rhys Ifans was in it. There were four of us in the cinema

Sex lies and videotape with James Spader too!

Liam Neeson made a film a year or so ago called Cold Pursuit. I watched it and thought it a bit meh.
Anyhoo - it is a Hollywood remake of a Norwegian film called In Order of Disappearance, from 2014.
The 'forrin' movie is superior in every way - much funnier for one thing.

The main character - a morose snow-plough operator, with a bad marriage, a retired gangster brother and a recently murdered son, is played by the magnificent Stellan Skarsgard.

If not seen I can unequivocally recommend. (It is on Amazon Prime.)

howrude yes I loved Lantana too. It was actually on tv a few years ago and I loved rewatching it

@AmazingCoffee That sounds like a fantastic experience! And how interesting about Russians fleeing the Revolution to China - I had no idea that was a thing. Did they stay there?

They certainly did stay there, and there is still a Russian speaking community in Harbin I understand.

Also Shanghai was a similar place of refuge.My father';s family were Jewish and there was another fleeing in the 1930s.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin

:) This discussion is bringing back alot of memories and very happy ones. :)

@AmazingCoffee That’s so interesting! My father’s lot were also Russian/Polish Jewish but they mostly ended up in Whitechapel - a lot less exotic.

A life less ordinary

Brasses off

Big fish

Rogue trader

(Ok. Maybe obsessed with Ewan mcgregor!)

Also burn after reading and I brother where art thou are very good dark comedies. Gone through a load of coen brothers stuff lately. All very good.

Some of ours did as well! My father's grandmother's family fought really hard to come to the UK, I think because her own father had a friend who was English and that connection (although fairly remote). Some went to South Africa and some to Australia. We have lost touch with the South African side but still have Australian relatives.

I'd love to research it further one of these days.

...Norwegian film called In Order of Disappearance, from 2014...The main character - a morose snow-plough operator, with a bad marriage, a retired gangster brother and a recently murdered son, is played by the magnificent Stellan Skarsgard.

Will look out for that, thanks!

Highway 61. Canadian film. Saw it as a young teen (probably inappropriately) and have never forgotten it.

Mulholland Drive

Also:
Arctic
House of Sand and Fog

The Red Violin. Canadian film about the 'life' of a violin through the ages, starting in 17th (?) Century Europe and ending in contemporary Canada. Stunning and beautiful music.

The Double Life of Veronica, again wonderful music by Zbigniew Preisler who composed the music for Three Colours Blue as well. I have the soundtrack.

Three colours trilogy
Blue
White
Red
Amazing films

@DuesToTheDirt - can you come back when you have watched it?

Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)

The Dreamers (good bits but not consistently good)

Robinson in Space. A hour or so musing about the architecture, history, and cultural landscape of England. Extremely wry humour. I've never seen anything else like it. The narrator is the fabulous Paul Scofield!

Three Colours Blue is iconic. Krzysztof Kieślowsk at his best.

A Cock and Bull Story - Steve Coogan & Rob Brydon in a frankly necessarily mind bending adaptation of Tristram Shandy

I didn’t realise that the Three Colours films were not widely known. I lived in Newcastle U Tyne in the 1990s and spent a lot of time in the Tyneside Cinema watching less well known films! It was Avery cheap night out, less than a fiver including ice cream and the bus fare!

The Descendants - George Clooney film set in Hawaii

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - the Ben Stiller one

The Dressmaker - love Kate Winslet in this. Actually, all the cast were really good.

The Way way back - hated Steve Carrells character, loved Toni Collette and her son. Love her in pretty much everything I've seen her in tbh.

Lantana! Thanks for reminding me of this excellent Aussie film.

I said it earlier in the thread but Australia really does produce some brilliant underrated movies.

What's that one based on the Raymond Chandler short story So Much Water So Close to Home? A group of guys fishing discover the murdered body of an Aboriginal girl?

Mystery Road is also good.

Les Diaboliques, 1940s pyschological thriller, properly spooky ending.

On the French theme, The Assassin is an American remake of La Femme Nikita, both good films ( but then I love everything with Jean Reno in. Leon's fairly well known isn't it?)

Needhelp, it was Jindabyne. Yes, that was very good. A film that stays with you. I really liked Lantana too. One of the best things Anthony Lapaglia has done.