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?

Paris, Texas

The score, the cinematography, Harry Dean Stanton - all amazing.

Harold and Maude

Black Orpheus made by Marcel Camus, I saw it on television a long time ago and thought it was wonderful. Set in a Brazilian favela during Carnival.

ChinkChink I loved Death in Venice - that and Victim (& The Night Porter of course, but that's not on my list of likes) were such monumental departures from Bogarde's matinee idol stuff, but then it was deliberate!

Used to love anything with James Cagney in - he was totally unique!

And has anyone seen Hindle Wakes? Silent British film - it's stuck in my head for years...

LittleHearts - love Drop Dead Fred too.

So I Married an Axe Murderer.

Ooh and on Dirk Bogarde, The Servant. Chilling. I love these threads!

Anyone remember the bbc2 series of B-movies years ago - The Wild Women of Wonga?

Loved the Amazing Mr Blunden as a child. And Flight of the Navigator.

Some others (not all old and/ or obscure)

The Wicked Lady
Blithe Spirit
The Ghost and Mrs Muir
Fedora
Tampopo

The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant

lady Harold and Maude was seriously weird but great.

Badlands is another lesser mentioned gem.

Another "yes" for The Green Man, plus Kind Hearts and Coronets (Alec Guinness as the D'ascoign family - all of them), and also AG in The Captain's Paradise where he's a ferry captain with one wife in Gibraltar and another in Tangiers.

Glad I have a fellow Death in Venice fan bobthebuddha and in the same post you mention another I love, Hindle Wakes. What a picture of working class life that was.

OliviaStabler if you like The Bishop's Wife you will love Random Harvest. Many happy hours spent with my recently deceased Dad watching those. Also The Shop Around the Corner.

"Bon Voyage Charlie Brown, And Don't Come Back!"

"Rope" by Alfred Hitchcock

"La Jetée" by Chris Marker

ChinkChink glad you love it too! I used to watch a lot of these with my late mum - happy days

1950s melodramas: Imitation of Life, and All That Heaven Allows.

Both directed by Douglas Sirk, I think.

What a carve up.

I have very fond memories of watching what I now know are Pressburger films. I love that era. I tried (not particularly successfully) to recreate a list of all those that I sort of vividly remember.
I recall Greer Garson being in many. There was one that I desperately want to watch again where there is a couple who are (can't remember the reason) quite facially disfigured and live a reclusive life but because they're happy and in love, they don't see that in each other. (Hope that makes sense).
Love Mrs Miniver, Brief Encounter etc.
Does anyone remember films produced under (I think) Cavendish?

I first saw If This is Tuesday, It Must be Belgium when I was 11. I adored that film and still have a soft spot for it. Lovely music as well. And with the gorgeous young Ian McShane and Suzanne Pleshette.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=G6iikEhltA8

Just had a lightbulb moment - they were Gainsborough films!

I remember the Gainsborough lady- I always thought her hat would fall off!

Ice Cold In Alex.

Not sure it's obscure enough though.

I love Ice cold too!

Another vote for

Kind hearts and Coronets
Arsenic and old lace

Dougal and the Blue Cat