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.

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Torch Song Trilogy - excellent movie full of drag queens and a very young Matthew Broderick.

Popcorn. A horror film based around a film festival of old gimmicky horror films. It's awesome but I'm the only person I know who has ever seen or heard of it

Wish you were here? A coming of age story set in a English sea side town in the Early 1950s, and loosley based on the memoirs of the infamous madam Cynthia Paine. Hilariously funny and incredibly sad its without doubt one of the best movies i have ever seen . Its free to watch on Amazon Prime.
If you like it also watch Personal services starring the incredible Julie Walters, as its a kind of follow on to the story and shows how Paine became a madam and set up her brothels.

@Chimeraforce I LOVED Lion, as did the friends who watched it when I raved about it.

Shag, coming of age movie 4 girls go on a last weekend away before one of them gets married. They’re supposed to go to Fort Lauderdale but sneak off to Myrtle Beacj instead. I love it

Also Kind Hearts and Coronets from 1949 with Alec Guinness playing a range of characters.

Living out Loud - I don’t know anyone else who has seen this but I enjoyed it!

Home Alone - very dark thriller in which a wealthy boy with psychopathic tendencies tortures two underprivileged men.

Avengers Endgame - a ragtag group of traumatised misfits discovers time travel. They then inexplicably rush to reverse a prior catastrophic event (despite literally having as much time as they could ever want), in the most unnecessarily complicated way. For hours.

Jurassic Park - screwball comedy set on an island. Rare performance by Jeff Goldblum as an offbeat eccentric who adds unconventional pauses to his sentences.

The Yellow Rolls Royce. A film following a new rolls Royce through different owners. I cried my eyes out through parts of it.

The Boys in Company C. One of the very first Vietnam war films.

I watched both films when I was much younger and both have stayed with me for different reasons.

Dazed and Confused - coming of age set in 1970s Austin Texas, from Richard Linklater, who also made ...

Slacker - unique ensemble film that appears to be about fuck all as it follows disparate narratives around ... Austin, Texas.

Mystery Train and Night on Earth - both classics from Jim Jarmusch, who was a contemporary of Hal Hartley -

Amateur and The Unbelievable Truth - which featured the tragically murdered Adrienne Shelly.

@moonlight1705

One none of my musical loving friends seem to have heard of is The Slipper and the Rose.

It has Richard chamberlain and Gemma craven and is a gorgeous musical romp through the Cinderella story.

Oh my goodness I had forgotten all about that film - I used to have it on video tape! I wonder if they do it in DVD!

Has anyone seen The Music of Chance with Mandy Patinkin? Based on a Paul Auster novel (a good early Paul Auster novel before Paul Auster discovered he is Paul Auster and became pretentious).

The tall guy had a great soundtrack and some Madness songs.
Sightseers is dark and nobody has heard of it.
Mark kamode mentioned it in his cult film documentary!

One none of my musical loving friends seem to have heard of is The Slipper and the Rose.

DM took me to see that at the cinema - 1976 ?

@YesItsAPeacock

Home Alone - very dark thriller in which a wealthy boy with psychopathic tendencies tortures two underprivileged men.

Avengers Endgame - a ragtag group of traumatised misfits discovers time travel. They then inexplicably rush to reverse a prior catastrophic event (despite literally having as much time as they could ever want), in the most unnecessarily complicated way. For hours.

Jurassic Park - screwball comedy set on an island. Rare performance by Jeff Goldblum as an offbeat eccentric who adds unconventional pauses to his sentences.

@noego

Edie with Shiela Hancock

Loved this. Massively underrated.

Four Lions is a bit more modern. If you like your humour dark and intelligent, this is for you, brother crow.

I went to see the slipper and the rose in the mid 70s with my mum. It was on tv once a few years ago and the music in it was terrible ; I didn't notice that when I was only 11.
Cinderella with Lily James is a bit better.

Breathless with Richard Gere. A remake of Au Bout de Souffle. My favourite film ever, and also a favourite of Mark Kermode apparently.

Brassed Off - well known at the time, but maybe a bit forgotten now.

Muriel's Wedding

I adore Muriel's wedding. I could watch it every day.

I'm always waiting for Blue Collar with Richard Pryor to turn up on TV again but it never does. I've only seen it once but it's a brilliant film about crime & unions in the 1970s.

@ArtichokeAardvark

Keeping Mum - blackest of black comedies, with Rowan Atkinson, Maggie Smith and Kristen Scott-Thomas.

We went to see this in the cinema in Malacca in Malaysia. My English friend abs I were screaming with laughter and the Chinese Malay locals just looking bewildered. Amazing experience

@the80sweregreat

I went to see the slipper and the rose in the mid 70s with my mum. It was on tv once a few years ago and the music in it was terrible ; I didn't notice that when I was only 11. Cinderella with Lily James is a bit better.

Sacrilege! The music is amazing . Glad there is so much love for this film. It reminds me to ask for it on blueray for my birthday.

Letter to Brezhnev

Peter’s Friends

Brassed off is good.
I also enjoyed Pride. Only about 6 of us in the cinema for that one.

Very Annie Mary is one of my favourite films but I don’t think anyone else has ever seen it - even people I’ve tried to force 🙁