Old yet glorious and obscure movies

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I've always loved The Amazing Mr Blunden but am amazed so few people have heard of it.
Anyone else have old yet glorious and obscure movies they love?

Heavenly Creatures is based on a true story AFAIK.
Now, Voyager, truly glorious film.
There are too many to mention, really. Somewhere in Time, that was a favourite when I was a young teenager.

Random Harvest. Another Greer Garson gem. Ridiculously improbable plot but totally love it. Best watched on a wet Sunday afternoon with hot buttered crumpets.

Another vote for This Happy Breed and Twelve O Clock High!

Into The West, wonderful irish film, starring Gabriel Byrne, two excellent young boy actors and a horse.

The Princess Bride, a sort of cue set up to Stardust. Quirky and culty.

Ice Cold in Alex.

The night my number came up.

@HolgerDanske yes, Heavenly Creatures was based on a real incident. One of the girls involved (not the Kate Winslet character - the other one) grew up to become a well-known historical novelist. She writes detective fiction set in Victorian London under the name Anne Perry.

Just checked and I should have said that Anne Perry/Juliet Hulme was the basis for the Kate Winslet character in Heavenly Creatures

Interesting.

There's another film on the tip of my tongue, but I lost it now. So frustrating!

This happy breed, my dad loved that film!
And the Third Man.

YY to the Summer of '42 - I've never met anyone else who has seen that film - I only saw it once on TV many, many years ago and it made such an impression. Also The Collector, I'd forgotten that one. I remember my Dad getting Samantha Eggar's autograph for me as they filmed part of it in Edenbridge where we were living at the time. This thread is bringing back lovely memories.

Please can this thread go into classics as a reminder for film fans.

It might have been a tv movie but does anyone remember Summer of my German Soldier - loved that film!

Summer of my German Soldier - loved that film!

Oh yes! Kristy McNicholI think and a lovely blond guy called Bruce someone.

Pimpernel Smith - Leslie Howard as a mild-mannered archaeologist helping people to escape from Nazi Germany. Leslie Howard had played the actual Scarlet Pimpernel previously. It was on YouTube last time I looked.

And Night Train to Munich has a similar story, with Rex Harrison starring.

LouiseBrooks bloody love that book - Summer of my German Soldier - don’t know if I’ve ever actually seen the film but the book was seared into my memory and I had to get a copy as an adult.

The Gods Must Be Crazy ?

Whew! Made it to the end of this post (for now).

Thank you!!! I have a whole winters worth of films to watch. I feel like I've missed out on a whole chunk of cinema! I am embarrassed I know only a few of all of these movies.

My re-watches are:

Flight of the Navigator as other's have said.
Labyrinth
Rebecca (though prefer the book)
Alien (does it count as old? it's 1979)
Some Like It Hot
Calamity Jane

and prob more (modern - i.e. 80s) movies I go back to like Dirty dancing and Grease.

Another worthy mention for Gaslight [origin of the modern term 'gaslighting'] reminds me that there were two versions - the first British in 1940, with a suitably sinister Anton Walbrook.

I do prefer the later Ingrid Bergman/Charles Boyer version [1944] but both are a good watch.

Scenes From The Class Struggle in Beverly Hills. Waspish bed hopping, very 80s.
I've seen Summer of 42, really sad.
Manon des Sources, Emanuelle Béart all vengeful fury.
Cool Hand Luke

Gosh, thete's a film of Summer of My German Soldier? Read it at school when i was 13-ish and loved it! I'll definitely have to look it up on Amazon.

The Legend of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, stars Bob Dylan, there's classic moment with Slim Pickens which I won't reveal ...

I Never Sang for My Father, an early Gene Hackman, worth seeing

YY to Kind Hearts and Coronets and Yield to the Night. Both fantastic films.
Not RTFT but there is a channel on freesat called TPTV which has lots of old B&W UK films, some of which are definitely obscure but rather good
Film4 sometimes have a decent old B&W film on about 12 pm. Another great film has John Mills in it and called The Long Memory.

All those French films where nothing much happens. Like "Chacun cherche son chat".
Diva-80s, daft but beautiful.
Yaaba-Senegalese. Poetic.
Colonel Redl-Hapsburg empire drama
Sholay-one of the greatest Indian films of all time. The dancing on glass scene! The man with no arms who fights on! Four hours long though.

Black and white films:
Anything with George Burns and Gracie Allen, or Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Super-fast witty dialogue, dangerously raked hats, creepy head-still-on fox furs, great songs.
The Cruel Sea
Annie Oakley
Stella Dallas
Convoy
The Man in Grey-Stewart Granger!
Saraband for Dead Lovers-more Stewart Granger!
The 1935 Lorna Doone
Fire over England

So many favourites already mentioned! I'm a sucker for a Danny Kaye film - The Court Jester is brilliantly silly. Also love The Thief of Bagdad (Alexander Korda - just magical!), Ivanhoe (Anthony Andrews version), Victim (Dirk Bogarde) and practically anything with Bette Davis.

Thanks for starting this thread, OP. I also adored The Amazing Mr Blunden. I remember being terrified by it when I was about 8 but utterly loved it too.

Other films which I loved from my younger days (always watched when I was off sick from school after Farmhouse Kitchen) were: A Matter of Life and Death, Blithe Spirit, The Ghost and Mrs Muir, Murder by Death and then two I don't think have been mentioned so far, Margie (which starred Jeanne Crane who was in The Ghost and Mrs Muir) and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs which starred Angela Lansbury.

There is something magical about putting the to on and coming across one of these old classics - really cheers me up.