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.

Not sure if these are really unknown but whenever I mention them, no one has ever heard of them.

The Dressmaker - black comedy with Kate Winslet set in deepest Australia, my favourite film of all time, brilliant female leads and a lot to look at in the shape of Liam Hemsworth and the incredible costumes.

Once Upon A Time in the Midlands - Shirley Henderson and Robert Carlisle, always enjoyed it

Sunshine on Leith - uplifting musical, might stick it on now!

@squashyhat I agree, The Dish is a lovely film, slow but funny, always got time for it

My dh loves Sunshine on leith.
He normally dislikes musicals , but this strikes a chord. Peter Mullen is great.

Hidden Agenda - prophetically titled disappear without trace film about the UKs operations in Northern Ireland.

Brimstone and Treacle - Sting showing he could act when bothered. Not suitable for all as it's very very very dark. Amazingly it spawned the revival hit "Spread A Little Happiness". But that's Dennis Potter for you.

And pretty much any Peter Greenaway film. If you're a Helen Mirren fan The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover is well worth it. It stars Tim Roth, who also stars in

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - which may not count as it's an adaptaion of a play ?

@the80sweregreat - loved 'Muriel's Wedding', my mum and I still say "you're terrible, Muriel" to each other on a regular basis!

@Orpheline - they made a US version of 'Untouchable' a few years ago, 'The Upside' with Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart. I thought at the time I needed to see the original, but keep forgetting!

@PineappleSun - I ended up watching 'The Dressmaker' accidentally (can't even remember how now!), and although I thought it was tricky to get into at first, I ended up really enjoying it!

My Left Foot - Daniel Day Lewis at his best with amazing supporting cast.

I have a real love of Toni Collette. She is also fab in ' about a boy' and ' little miss sunshine'

@SocraticJunkieWannabe The Way Way Back was on the other night. Stayed up waaaay too late watching it but it was very enjoyable. 👍

Back in the mists of time I loved Reckless with Aidan Quinn & Daryl Hannah; my teenage self is swooning still. 😂 Great soundtrack with early INXS etc. Have no idea if it's still as good as I can't find it anywhere, so it could have just been teenage hormones in overdrive at the sight of Aidan's beautiful blue eyes! 🤣

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

I've seen that a couple of times but not for years, checked Amazon Prime and it's included so that's me sorted for the rest of the afternoon, thanks for reminding me

I loved O'horten

A quirky enjoyable film.

I am Sam - absolute tear jerker of a film. Man with learning difficulties has a child and mother leaves baby with him. He has to go through the courts to keep custody. Such a heartwarming story!

@the80sweregreat

Little boy Tate. Jodie Foster starred and directed it.

There's a boy in my DCs class called Tate, I always have to stop myself calling him Little Boy Tate as he's at secondary school now, he's the only person I've ever come across with that name

Dear Frankie. A young single mum in Scotland writes her son beautiful letters full of adventure and love that are supposedly from his absent father, who works on what she thinks is a fictional ship. When the ship docks nearby she has to find a replacement daddy for the weekend in the form of a very young( and beautiful) Gerard Butler. Beautiful, funny and moving with a great soundtrack and some twists you wont see coming.

Filth with James Mcavoy. Great soundtrack
Starter for ten.

The Parallax View

The Brotherhood of the Bell is similar fare - B&W.

No one remember The Man Who Haunted Himself ? With Roger Moore in a delicate performance that had me tearing up with the phrase "... but ... my tie !?" - although I was at Uni at the time, and possibly less sober than required.

Really grim but The Lives of Others is brilliant.

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The Tall Guy has a great sex scene.

I always thought The Life of David Gale was underrated.

Yes. Best movie sex scene ever. I can't have seen the film for 30 odd years but I still remember that!

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The Parallax View

The Brotherhood of the Bell is similar fare - B&W.

No one remember The Man Who Haunted Himself ? With Roger Moore in a delicate performance that had me tearing up with the phrase "... but ... my tie !?" - although I was at Uni at the time, and possibly less sober than required.

I remember the Roger Moore one, I clearly watched a lot of late night films in the 1970s, is that the one that starts with him crashing his car?

Victoria. It's German but a lot of the dialogue is in English and German. It was filmed in one take and I just think it's amazing. I haven't met anyone else that has seen it.

The Doberman Gang an early 1970's film about an animal trainer who uses a pack of six Dobermans to commit a bank robbery. Ridiculous but surprisingly awesome

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly%27s_Tongue Amazing film

I remember the Roger Moore one, I clearly watched a lot of late night films in the 1970s, is that the one that starts with him crashing his car?

Yup !

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

They were brilliant, and didn't Jarmusch make Until the end of the Earth too? Which had everyone obsessed with a technology which played back their own dreams, and just stared at screens all day, bit of an premonition of smart phones..

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead is one of the funniest films. I have a mad crush on Gary Oldman and he is brilliant in it.