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Any good films on Netflix or iPlayer?

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T0AST · 25/02/2024 17:17

I like scandi noir but have watched loads
I like British films
No rom coms

Any suggestions that were really good?

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Owlontheprowl · 25/02/2024 17:20

Salt burn. Nice family film.

T0AST · 25/02/2024 17:21

That's on prime! Don't have that

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CaptainMyCaptain · 25/02/2024 17:22

Owlontheprowl · 25/02/2024 17:20

Salt burn. Nice family film.

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royaloris · 25/02/2024 17:22

Owlontheprowl · 25/02/2024 17:20

Salt burn. Nice family film.

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CarpeVitam · 25/02/2024 17:32

Owlontheprowl · 25/02/2024 17:20

Salt burn. Nice family film.

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Beebumble2 · 25/02/2024 17:40

The Next Three Days, with Russel Crowe and Elizabeth Banks. Suspense thriller.

Dostadning · 25/02/2024 17:43

Femme is coming on Thursday and looks good.

Powerplant · 25/02/2024 17:54

Just watched My Son on Netflix. James McAvoy and Claire Foy set in Scotland.

UnctuousUnicorns · 25/02/2024 17:56

I enjoyed "The Falling", on iPlayer right now, from 2015. I loved the music.

LeSoleil · 25/02/2024 18:35

Here are a few which I enjoyed. Not sure what your genres are, but I hope this helps. I have limited my choice to three films at this moment all available on Netflix.

My 'go to everything' films are the Millennium Trilogies. I think from your first post and reference to Scandinavian films you may have already seen them? If so, ignore rest of this paragraph. Otherwise I would say first and foremost watch those films. They have been available on Netflix for many years and there are no plans to pull them, I believe. There are different productions of the films on different platforms (not always Netflix). Rooney Mara and Noomi Rapace each give you different versions of* Lisbeth Salander, while both enhance the original storybook. The third film was a toss up between Melanie Laurent in Inglorious Basterds and Emma Thompson in The Remains of the Day*.

Not in any order of preference and far from it:

(1) The Outfit - USPs: I love Mark Rylance's acting. I love his whole persona. The whole film is shot inside a tailor's shop except for two shots showing people arriving at the shop door. Sorry, I said tailor. Actually it goes like this - "I am not a Tailor, Sir. I am a Cutter" he says. "A tailor sows on buttons. A cutter makes suits to fit", after a short but important pause. All part of the film which is like a who-dun-it inside a single room after an accidental murder.

(2) What Happened To Monday - USPs: Noomi Rapace A dystopian future where families are limited to one child. Seven daughters are born in a single family and named after each day of the week. Living together they are each allowed out on their name-day. Except one daughter goes astray. Breaks the pact it seems. Then the authorities try to track down the remaining six. It is hard for 6 individual sisters to try to be one. Going to the same places outside, remembering what they should say. (I am sure when this film first came out it was Whatever and not What, but moot point).

(3A) Inglorious Basterds - USPs: Great character study. The scenes between Melanie Laurent and Christopher Waltz, even when not together and fused, are a masterpiece in character study. The restaurant scene with the milk and the layered pastry is a great character study. [Similar to the scene in Once Upon A Time in America when the young boy eats the cream cake in the Depression, albeit due to hunger]. I dislike the killing of the Nazi's scene and the monologue by Brad Pitt - I think that was poorly directed. But otherwise the film has great acting. See it for that and ignore the violence and don't be hijacked by sublimity.

LeSoleil · 25/02/2024 18:37

(3B) The Remains of the Day.

Lovetotravel123 · 25/02/2024 18:43

King Richard is worth watching and Will Smith performs very well.

Dostadning · 25/02/2024 19:13

Carrie Philby is good - not a romcom but a coming-of-age movie.

Parapapampam · 25/02/2024 19:25

Everything Everywhere All at Once
Dune (before part 2 released next week)
Snowpiercer
The Wonder
Glass Onion
OKja (very sad!)

CakeItLikeYouMeanIt · 25/02/2024 19:36

I watched Hunger on Netflix last night. Not my usual choice but I enjoyed it enough to stay interested for the 2hrs 25mins AND the subtitles.

Mumteedum · 25/02/2024 19:36

So British Films?

Gosford Park

71

Belfast

The Favourite

itsgettingweird · 25/02/2024 19:46

Powerplant · 25/02/2024 17:54

Just watched My Son on Netflix. James McAvoy and Claire Foy set in Scotland.

Was going to suggest this too.

Watched to today and really enjoyed it.

Beginningless · 25/02/2024 19:47

itsgettingweird · 25/02/2024 19:46

Was going to suggest this too.

Watched to today and really enjoyed it.

I third this one

newnamethanks · 25/02/2024 19:48

Just watched Hidden Assets on iplayer. 2 series. Dodgy money, crime and concealment in Ireland and Belgium.

MrsJackRackam · 25/02/2024 19:50

Bill. BBC iPlayer. Horrible Histories gang do the life of Shakespeare. Funny and lightheaded.

Em308 · 25/02/2024 20:55

Nyad
Last night in Soho
My son
I came by
Bank of Dave

DDivaStar · 25/02/2024 21:50

Ladt night in Soho is leaving Netflix at the end of the month, I'd recommend it.

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