Less well known films from the 70s and 80s you enjoy

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I thought I would start a thread for films from the 70s and 80s which you enjoy but most people have forgotten. Here's a few to start you off:

Rolling Thunder
Time after Time
Somewhere in time
Star Trek IV the voyage home.

I'll add more in a while,
Feel free to add yours.

Don't look now was on BBC 2, maybe a week or 2 ago.

Omg I can't even watch the opening credits of the first one without weeping!

I tried to watch it just to see a naked Michael Hutchence but didn't find much else to recommend it!

About Last Night & Class (yes, I loved Rob Lowe!)
Outrageous Fortune
I was a huge horror fan & my fave was a low budget slasher called House if Evil

No idea if these are less well known, but:

1. The Towering Inferno! I adore it. The rest of my family hate it. I don't care. Paul Newman and Steve McQueen! Glorious.
2. Airplane!
3. The Sting. In my view, just about as good as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

The 1970s was an amazing decade for film-making.

I love the 80s remake of The Fly

Cassandra crossing is on talking pictures quite a lot.

They Live! is also on , guy who finds glasses that lets him see aliens.

There is a little known horror called 'The Comeback', staring Pamela Stephens, Jack Jones and Compo from last of the summer wine, I saw it one at the midnight movies.

Swing Shift with Goldie Hawn
Sweet Dreams story of Patsy Cline
Starman with Jeff Bridges
The Buddy Holly Story with Gary Busey
Hear my Song, the story of Joseph Locke the tenor.

Couple more:

Pacific Heights
The Bedroom Window with Steve Guttenburg
Arthur
Arthur 2

I'm off to get me video player out.

Some kind of wonderful

Noone has ever heard of it... met a boy at work he asked me what my favourite film was i replied ahh you will never have heard of it and then before I answer he says mine is some kind of wonderful 😍 have never forgot that boy...

The Rockey Horror Picture Show.
Adore the soundtrack but you just can't beat watching the film and singing along. One of those films I have watched dozens of times (often while doing the ironing).

Oxford Blues.
Absolutely stupid story but the shots of Oxford are so atmospheric (filmed in winter with lots of fog & frost) I can forgive it and actually......... I find it very amusing.😆 Plenty of top actors in the cast, many of which must have wondered what they had signed up for when they read the (frankly awful) script!🤣
It is a film showing what I call MY Oxford. 🥰
The path alongside the Isis (where I used to walk with my grandparents, run at lunchtime and lounge on sunny days drinking beer/wine/Pimm's while almost watching Eights Week), Iffley Road Sports Ground, The Bear Inn & Head Of The River (many a night spent in them!) and of course the many colleges & buildings in which I spent so much time when I was younger.

The Company of Wolves… magical.

had forgotten about Oxford Blues! One day will have to watch again.

Then computer wore tennis shoes
Last Snows of Spring

Earth Girls Are Easy (Jeff Goldblum looks totally hot in this too which is another reason to watch it)

Weird Science

Mannequin

I forgot to add The Legacy from the late 70’s. It’s a horror film (I usually hate horror films) but I think this one is great.

Running on Empty, with Christine Lahti, Judd Hirsch, River Phoenix and Martha Plimpton.

Don’t Look Now is still on iPlayer.

Some great films here (tbf some are fairly well known - Kramer vs Kramer won the Oscar for Best Film. Still good tho, and maybe it has slipped out of people's memories). Loved Grosse Pointe Blank.

I would add Tin Men with Richard Dreyfuss and Danny DeVito, I would argue a finest hour for both. Very funny. Also features the wonderful Bruno Kirby,sadly no longer with us.

I watched that so many times
Know the classic lines off by heart.
Oi Ferdy got anything nice for me💊💊
Scum
Blues brothers
Airplane.

I'm not sure they count as less well known as believe they were both quite big hits at the time, though I never hear them mentioned now and absolutely love them:

The Big Chill (1983) - great ensemble cast; Glen Close, Kevin Kline, Jeff Goldblum etc. about a group of college friends who spend a weekend together after the funeral of one of their group.

Starman (1984) - Jeff Bridges as an alien who assumes the form of a woman's dead husband and they go on a road trip to a crater in Arizona so that he can catch a lift home, with pie.

Also second Paper Moon, that's going back on my watch list!

Oh and another one: Christiane F. One of tbe most powerful films I’ve ever seen. Certainly made sure I never touched drugs

One Crazy Summer with Demi Moore, John Cusack and Bobcat Goldthwait (the chap with the crazy voice from Police Academy). It had cutting edge cartoon graphics . I had it taped on VHS and watched it repeatedly. No one else seems to remember it.

Witness (1985) with Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis. A young Amish boy is the only witness to a murder at a train station, Harrison is the cop who goes into hiding in Amish country with the family after an attempt on the boy's life.

It has a great soundtrack and amazing cinematography.

Three Days of the Condor (1975). Robert Redford is a CIA researcher who gets back to his office after going out to find all his co-workers murdered, he has to go on the run and try and figure out the conspiracy.

@beezlebubnickyooh yes Witness. That scene where they build the barn!

Digby the biggest dog in the world

Raising Arizona - I know Holly Hunters lines off by heart!