Suggest a film you love that no-one else knows

[CormoranStrike]

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.

I’m sure people know it, but Maudie. Loved it! About a reclusive artist.

Instant family, it recently went on to Netflix & it is hilarious!

Also ladder 49, it’s a film about a fireman & it’s a tearjerker!

Blue in the Face. A follow up to Smoke (also great) largely made up of bits of improvised scenes and in character ad libbing clips that weren't used in the Smoke.

Thank you amazing coffee 😂😂😂
I’m glad you know what’s in my pea size brain.😂
Rockhopper
I think you’re right and I should know mila kunis whom I’ve seen in black swan

Gambit with Shirley Maclaine and Michael Caine. 1966 crime heist.

Also the Parallax View with I think Robert Redford and or Warren Beatty

Yes that’s the one amazing coffee and rockhopper
Well done from my very limited recall of the plot
I need to watch it again.
The other clue was it was really fast paced..
I need to pay more attention !

The Tall Guy has a great sex scene.

I always thought The Life of David Gale was underrated.

@EssexLioness

Cry Baby. Quirky film featuring a very young Johnny Depp, before he hit the big time.

YES! I love that film and no one seems to have seen it

Pretty much anything Australian (their film industry is criminally underrated in my opinion). All of the below are brilliant, exciting, funny and sometimes very moving):

Two Hands (Heath Ledger as the lead, extra poignant)
Gettin' Square
The Hard Word
Little Monsters
Dirty Deeds

Otherwise, Pitch Black (semi Aussie and with a very fit young Vin Diesel), and Saving Grace.

@Blue2021

Blithe spirit the old version from 1940s. My all time favourite film. It’s in technicolour. Reminds me of my nana xx

This one is brilliant too - so witty and the colours are beautiful.

@Insert1x20p

The Tall Guy has a great sex scene.

I always thought The Life of David Gale was underrated.

There is a dreadful film with Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas which has such an explicit sex scene that I am sure they actually had sex. In fact i re-watched it several times just to be sure.

(The film is exceedingly shit though)

More love for Babette's Feast - such a beautiful film. DH was a bit put off by subtitles then realised there was hardly any dialogue anyway .
Crossing Delancey - quirly little romantic comedy with Amy Irving and Peter Reigert - I love films set in NY.
The Enchanted April.
The Dish.

[quote 0blio]Tarsem's The Fall. Beautiful story and incredible scenery.

[/quote] All-time best and most beautiful overlooked film! I have seen it 6 times, and make everyone watch it.

I used to review films so have seen pretty much everything released between 1986 and 1999, whether I wanted to or not. So yes, I agree with so many of these gems. I interviewed David Puttnam at a screening of the War Of The Buttons, @LookAtWhatYouCouldHaveWon!

@CormoranStrike, we put Hear My Song on for the kids last weekend!

Goodbye, Lenin; Run Lola, Run; Lives of Others are my favourite German films that we rewatched recently, and they are all worth seeing (helping DC with revision, hence the German theme)

I loved Leaving Normal, with Christine Lahti and Meg Tilly, which I honestly have never heard another soul mention. I sometimes think I must have imagined it.

Also The Package with the incomparable Tommy Lee Jones and Gene Hackman - action thriller.

Staggered - Martin Clunes in a weirdly surreal comedy.

The Gods Must Be Crazy - oddly touching gem from South Africa

speaking of South Africa ..

A Dry White Season - harrowing tale from the height of apartheid. Worth it for Marlon Bando alone.

speaking of Marlon Brado ...

Don Juan de Marco - charming comedy

and

The Freshman - oddball comedy with Brando absolutely ripping the piss out of his "Don Corleone" role with Matthew Borderick ...

speaking of Matthew Broderick ...

Glory - powerfully moving tale of the first African American regiment in the US civil war. Also starts Denzil Washington and Morgan Freeman ...

And that's before you dabble in non-English films.

Days of Glory.

More recently Death of Stalin appears to be doing a good job of slowly sinking ..

Ooh Moliere! Moliere!!

@thecognoscenti also Ricki Lake being awesome

Oh yes The Freshman! I loved that film.

Also there was another Matthew Broderick film called Family Business with Sean Connery and Dustin Hoffman about a grandfather who is an ex con and his son (Hoffman) wants a normal life and his grandson (MB) wants to be a thief.

Plus Inside Man with Clive Owen, Christopher Plummer and Jodie Foster- I love that film, and the twist is brilliant.

@DGRossetti

More recently Death of Stalin appears to be doing a good job of slowly sinking ..

It is fabulous

Babette's Feast

@MonkeyPuddle, agree with Safety Not Guaranteed, fab film.

I also love Harold and Maude.
Oh and Seven psychopaths.

Land and Glory - a tearjerking story of the Spanish Civil war (it's a British film) and a young Liverpudlians adventures in it.

Naked - a slice of post Thatcher Britain with a tour-de-force performance by David Thewlis,

Miracle Mile - 1980s independent end of world thriller.