Neglected / Forgotten Films.

Minus 5 with a broken thumb for me..

Fffs don't get him started on Jeff (drawwwwlllll) Bridges

Die Fremde Frau a tv film with Corinna Halfouch and Ulrich Tuker. A cracking 90 minute suspense story.

Missing - Jack Lemmon
Amen - Ulrich Tuker
both Costa-Gavras films.

Guinness2dear, play nicely please. I have already conceded that the original True Grit was in a different class to the remake.

My favourite filum of all time is There Will Be Blood.

The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)

Sums up where we are now. The super Rich and ordinary people.

Manhunter (1986)

"You've seen this film, haven't you, my man?"

Lust For Life - Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn

The Servant - 1963 Dirk Bogarde.

I remember seeing this creepy psychological drama when I was ABOUT 16 a few years after its release,at my local fleapit. Brilliant film which I've only noticed once on TV.

Vanilla Sky. Got absolutely smashed by critics and many hated it. I did too when I watched it the first time as a 21 year old when it came out. Re-watched recently, now I think it's brilliant. Amazing how your perspective changes on everything as you age.

Shawshank Redemption a little known very underrated film.

Intacto

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220580/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Should be obligatory for most people on here to watch it

Bad boy Bubby, a very dark Australian comedy drama.
The Wanderers, great american coming of age gang movie with a great soundtrack.
Blackout, an old HBO slasher film.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_(film)

All time classic!

Paranoid Park
The Night Porter - Dirk Bogarde
L'Agression - Jean Louis Trintignant

La Reine Margot.. Great movie, if a bit blood thirsty in parts
Sands of the Kalahari.... Susannah York, enuff said
Naked Prey... Cornell Wilde white hunter trying to evade pre-PC natives
Ice Cold in Alex... John Mills at his best
Jean De Florette... magical  cinema and the follow up
Manon Des Source... box of chocolates, bottle of wine and great viewing

The Professionals.Burt Lancaster Lee Marvin Robert Ryan and Jack Palance playing a Mexican bandit better than a real Mexican.A proper cowie.Cool Hand Luke.Newman at his very best.Get Carter.Great English cast top homemade gangster film.The Pledge Jack Nicholson as retired cop hunting child killer,needs watching at least twice but you will be rewarded.finally The treasure of Sierra Madre.A classic. be lucky fred.

Emir Kusturica's Underground. A wonderful film if you can stand the music.

In the public bar someone has mentioned "The Blue Lamp", a b/w classic.

I've made many a mention of this film previously - and you have to be of a certain...shall we say...'mentality' to appreciate its greatness - but W.C.Fields 1934 film 'It's A Gift' is one of my favourite films of all time.

Here's the synopsis from IMDb:

"The owner of a general store (Harold Bisonette) is hounded by his status-anxious wife ("That's 'Bee-soh-nay'" and "I have no maid you know"). To get some sleep he goes out on the porch where he is tormented by a little boy from the floor above (Baby Dunk) and an insurance salesman down below ("LaFong. Capital L, small a..."). He uses an inheritance to buy an orange ranch through the mail, then drives off with his family for California. The orange grove consists of a withered tree, the ranch house is but a shack, and the car falls to pieces. But a racetrack operator wants the land, so all ends happily."

And here is a comment by a 'user reviewer':

W.C. Fields as everyman seeking his dreams.
12 July 2000 | by georgeeliot (NYC) – See all my reviews

"As close to a perfect film as have ever been made. Running a fat free 62 minutes, not a second is wasted. Several of the ten minute scenes were released by Castle films as mini-masterpieces. Each of them can stand alone but are greater as part of the whole. W.C. Fields wrote one of his funniest, and easily most sympathetic role as the loving husband and father who dreams of escaping his life as a Eastern shopkeeper and traveling to sunny California where he can own an orange grove. He wrote wonderful supporting roles including the blind man, Mr. Muckle, and the irritating man looking for Carl LaFong. He stoicly suffers the barbs of his wife, the indifference of his children, the incompetence of his hired help and the wrath of his customers. When he reaches California and when his dreams appeared dashed, he triumphs at last. The everyman rewarded after suffering the slings and errors of outrageous fortune. It belongs with Homer, with Shakespeare, with Mark Twain. It is perfection."

..agree with HM re The Thin Red Line..

..plus the "Three Colours" trilogy....

...Nikita (original French version)...

Spoorloss is very good, aka the vanishing over here. I wont spoil the ending.

^^^ Forget the Hollywood remake, (The Vanishing), Spoorloos is the only film that, 20-odd years after watching it, still freaks me out. Excellent.

If you like the colour trilogy you are likely to appreciate "La Double Vie De Veronique". A mysterious work of art and the puppets are something else(man).

Cul De Sac , Roman Polanski late 60s.

Respiro , an Italian film that gets better with every viewing. The music is good, what there is of it. One reviewer said that he did not care much for the alto sax playing. Hardly surprising since it was a bass clarinet.

Tommy Toes, you're right, It's A Gift is a truly great film.

Build my gallows high.
Key Lago.
Boom Town.
Serpico.
Ronin.
All worth a watch.

Play It Again, Sam. Very funny comedy with Woody Allen & Diane Keaton in it.

not actually neglected/forgotten but the Chilean film "No" is certainly recommended


(as is the Irish feature-length documentary "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised")

Lee Ho Fooks    03 May 15 10:24 
"Once" from 2006 which is billed as a modern day musical (and I think was made by the Irish Film Board). BTW thanks to whoever it was on Chit Chat that first mentioned this gem such a long time ago.


i recommended that one to Tommy Toes and others a while back. fantastic film.

The Quiet Earth.(New Zealand Sci-Fi classic)

So many brilliant and loved films on here and most withought the excessive swearing,sex and violence obligatory in too many modern films.

Skirt Day - I Adjani

Unchained,b&w prison drama with theme music "Unchained Melody".

Kes


Part of my growing up

The night porter and House of whipcord.

Murder By Decree - Plummer, Mason ; a good Holmes/Ripper yarn.
The Torture Chamber Of Dr Sadism - Lex Barker, a smashing German vampire offering with Herr Christopher Lee supporting.

Hi Dunlaying…. it's going back a few pages in the thread but "Un Honnete Commercant"… does your copy have English subtitles perchance?

regards etc

No Sir , I recorded it from Arte or TV5 Monde. I thought there was a subtitled version for sale on Amazon UK.

Thank you. I've tried to establish whether there are English subtitles on the DVD, but my various enquiries have remained unanswered.

DVDs of French movies produced by French companies very often don't have the subtitles, and I was caught once before.

Nude Nuns with Big Guns

Alun, the title you are looking for is "An Honest Dealer" .

Thank you.

A classic example of cranking up tension till its unbearable,is the 1963 film THE BEDFORD INCIDENT.Stars Richard Widmark,Sidney Potier.How about the incredible arty,director Michael Mann's, THE KEEP.It has a terrific soundtrack by Tangerine Dream.
For Science Fiction,INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS,the 1953 version.
Also the best film to capture a nightmare on film.filmed in a process that gave everything a strange coloured hue,and accompanied by possibly the most eerie soundtrack ever.The film INVADERS FROM MARS.

Michael Mann's Last of the Mohician's has some excellent action scenes and the shoot out scene in Heat is the best ever.

The Siege Of Pinchgut.  Aldo Ray and Heather Sears.

Prisoners on way to serve a long sentence escape and take refuge on a small island in Sydney harbour, take a family hostage, and threaten to detonate an ammunition ship in the harbour firing at it with a big naval gun on the island.  Old British black and white film but a landmark film because it was the last film ever produced at Ealing Studios.

Aldo Ray, I had forgotten him and Bendix.

The Blue Dahlia - A. Ladd , W Bendix
Farewell My Lovely - Dick Powell

Both loved and loathed -

The Who's 'Tommy' on tonight BBC2

benghazi

highnoon

Crossroad , a fantasy based on the meeting of Robert Johnson and The Devil. (In fact Tommy Johnson met the Devil at the crossroad and Bob nicked the story.) Steve Vai turns up in it .

I'm in the the "loved" corner Poppydog, I've seen it more times than I can remember - I usually go to youtube & Tommy full movie to watch it. (Ann-Margret)

Tiré A Part - Terence Stamp, Frank Finlay , Hannah Gordon, English version called Limited Edition.
A fine film and unusual. While searching for the English title I came across another film of his that has cult status, The Hit. That is worth watching too.

Hey Vel.

I think it was Yugoslavian - late 70s?  Episodic.  Started with an Alice-in-Wonderland sequence, there was a Napoleonic Wars sequence with villagers being cut down by cuirassiers - bit of rapo with the baker's wife/daughter and lots of flouncy stuff.  Near the end there was a WW2 Eastern Front partisan/Nazi sequence with everyone being shot at the end after rumpy-pumpy.  It was entertaining and I miss it.  Thought it may have been Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders - what a mistake, don't go near that.

Any thoughts?

The 1 with the two Czech girls is a riot...eh...and there are a few odd Frenchie ones...

Sedmikrasky.....The Big Grasshopper...Tante Zita...

La Grande Sauterelle...

Sober up man and fly right.

Goto, Island of Love.....La jettee 1962...Ligia Branice...

One of my ex-mothers-in-law has a couple of pages on IMDB.  I'd ask her, but she's dead.

There's an outside chance it may have been Czech - but they're not so keen on partisan slaughter.

I watched it on Oxford Street or one of the streets off Oxford Street.

Yes have seen Valerie - lovely girl amongst such dark material and Celine and Julie go boating as well.

No, Valerie was really boring and not much happened.  Tell me more about Celine and Julie.

Man, you was so heavy with the DISRESPEC on that other thread...so glad we done shifted...

Why weren't you paying attention then?  There was sod-all going on in the late-70s.  Asleep on the job again?

Eh...what can I say? A nice looking girl follows another nice looking girl and they become fiends and go boating. There is too much "magic" in it for my liking, and it is basically a tasteful French reworking of SEDMIKRASKY / DAISIES. It lasts for about 3 hours or something.

Ligia Branice is also in BEHIND CONVENT WALLS, a bare naked nun-fest that is...sorry, WAS...quite shocking in its day...I will recommend another NUN film in a minute...

Yes - In This House of Brede starring Diana Rigg and Judi Bowker...best film I saw in 2015 bar nun.

I know you'll find it.  I failed because I lacked True Northern Grit.  I know you wont let me down.  I must go now, I have to bite the nuts off the latest bunch of spring lambs.  They're really early this year.

Yes - Diana Rigg is a wealthy, successful career woman and she gives it all up, including her cat, to go to a nunnery permanently. As a novice, she gets a bad time of it from the 2nd-in-chief nun, yet she persists in her nunning. Judi Bowker, a beautiful young nun, falls in love with Diana Rigg nun and this is noticed by the chief nun who is played by Gwen Watford who is a lovely, wise nun. The evil nun keeps giving Diana Rigg nun grief and aggravation. Diana Rigg nun also has to reject the love of Judi Bowker nun, so lovely and pure...yet Judi Bowker nun turns vicious...then Japanese novice nuns turn up at the convent, backed by a Japanese businessman who wishes to start a Japanese convent for contemplative and humble Japanee nuns...Diana Rigg teaches 'em young Japanee nuns in the ways of the English convent as she speaks their language, being well educated and all...there is more, so much MORE, with twists and turns along the way until, if you will pardon, the SULIME ending...NO SPOILERS...

*SUBLIME

Thief. James Caan. Directed by Micheal Mann. Some excellent scene's in it. Bit slow moving but well worth a watch.

Really enjoyed the 1948 version of Oliver Twist which was on during the xmas hols

Not seen it for around 40 years

The 39 Steps - Robert Donat
Don't Come Knocking - Sam Shepard
Frances - Jessica Lange

THE TURIN HORSE is a bundle of laughs...

Sometimes In April , a Raoul Peck film set in Rwanda.
Copycat , a good thriller .

I was reading a list of 'the best films youve never seen' the other day and got about as far down as no5 which, the piece explained, had a plot involving Elvis and a black JFK fighting an Egyptian mummy in a retirement home. Didnt finish the list as had to see immediately!

Bubba Ho-Tep

It's on youtube in full. Not saying its great or owt, but whats not to like about a plotline like that? Me and the missus liked it anyway. (Apologies if mentioned multiple times in thread already.)

Not sure if it's already been mention but "The Long Weekend" (1945) is a good film:

There is an Australian classic called , I believe , Lost Weekend.

Two French b/w goodies. La Verité with BB and Le Septieme Juré with another BB , Bernard Blier. Both available with English subtitles. More drama than murder mystery. The latter is available on Arte at present.

The Stranger aka The Intruder (1961).

This stars William Shatner and he's brilliant in it. It's about a racist (Shatner) that comes to a Southern town to stir up trouble about black kids going to white schools.

Johhny Nobody (1961).

An atheist American writer is killed in a small Irish village whilst he's outraging the locals with his blasphemy. Thought provoking story with shades of the 39 Steps. Also features Bernie Winters in an acting role, but don't let that put you off.

The 'Long' Weekend (1945) mentioned is surely The Lost Weekend (1945), Ray Milland's finest film probably about an alcoholic.

Haven't read theough this so apologies if already mentioned but a film i loved when i saw it as a young lad and have just found out what it was called is "Proud Valley" with Paul Robeson, this is a review i found!

I caught this 1930's curiosity on an outlying PBS channel at 2 a.m.— thank goodness for recorders, otherwise 5 people probably saw it at that hour. In all my years of old movie watching, I don't recall Proud Valley being shown in big market LA. My point is that for decades Robeson's few films were withheld for political reasons, and when finally released, had become dated curiosity pieces with graveyard show times. Too bad, because Robeson is a cultural treasure whose misfortune was to ally with one of the most aggressive anti-racist forces of his time, the American communist party. Whatever the wisdom of that move, given the circumstances, it was an understandable alliance, at least in my little book.

Robeson's name may be above the title, but he really shares the starring role with the Welsh mining community he becomes a part of. I expect that's one reason this was his favorite film. He really has only one spotlight vocal, but it's a show-stopper, a terrifically moving version of the old spiritual Deep River. Otherwise, he blends into an ensemble cast, even though his sheer presence remains commanding throughout.

It's a good story, about a community surviving the shutdown of its central coal mining industry. There are echoes of leftist styles here, particularly in the mobilized-crowd scenes with their banners, etc. Nonetheless, as another reviewer astutely points out, labor issues are folded into the larger war effort that was then breaking out (late 1939) along the Polish corridor. In fact, by the look of the latter sequences, I wouldn't be surprised if some re- editing and re-shooting were involved to keep abreast of fast moving global events.

There are several arresting scenes. The set for the Robeson solo with the huge choral backdrop remains impressive even by today's standards and accentuates this, the film's emotional centerpiece. Another eye-catcher is the unemployed men picking over the mountainous slag heap like starving birds amid growing desperation. Also, the collapsing mine tunnel looks almost too real to be a "special effect", and I'm still wondering how they did it in those days before blue screens and digitalized computers.

Thanks to the Worst film thread, I mentioned seeing a series in the 1980's called "The Worst of Hollywood"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worst_of_Hollywood

I watched the first film in the series "Plan 9 from Outer Space" last night, widely regarded as the worst film ever made.

I had to lol at a lot of it, microphones visible, aliens were humans in foil suits and spoke English, the alien spaceships were hats on strings ect. It was so corny I honestly enjoyed it.

I look forward to seeing the rest of the series.

Not having a tv, I have been watching loads of old films on youtube and it has been surprising.  They are mostly not brilliant but because I have never seen them before I have usually enjoyed them.  I think that is because some of them are unusual,  a western where a woman has a baby out of wedlock by a married man, not your usual john wayne stuff!  I think it is because of the 'code' not being applied or ignored!

But beware, they do cause my pc to crash sometimes.  The pc is not damaged, I restart and it is fine, but it could be compromised.  It could be my cheap pc, £68 for a 19" screen, windows 7 etc and a one year guarantee from amazon - a bargain.

Type PUBLIC DOMAIN MOVIES in youtube and you will be amazed at the choice. Old, long forgotten films from the 30s to the 50s, a lot of them capital B movies, but some of them have a lot of charm.Only discovered this today.A real trasure trove.

Annie`s computer getting prepared for sale

Seraphine , about the painter Seraphine De Senlis.

L'Annulaire , terrific camerawork available as The Ring Finger.

Flanders , very good Belgian film.

All available with subtitles.

Brodeuses , a little masterpiece. I can not find a subtitled version.

Comrades - a Bill Douglas film from 1987. Smashing!

Betty Blue
Baise Moi
Like Water For Chocolate

Three gooduns there.

HANDGUN from 1984 with Karen Young...it goes under various other titles.

Portrait of Jennie, with Joseph Cotten and Jennifer Jones.  Strangely haunting 1940's love story

Saturday night and Sunday morning.1960

Albert Finney

Written by Alan Sillitoe who always wrote The Loneliness of the Long Distance runner.  Both had similar themes of the working class being repressed by the system.

I'm Alright Jack, an absolute gem.

my name is nobody - Henry Fonda, Terence Hill

a Gunslinger comedy.

on Ytube?

Longford , a TV film with Jim Broadbent as Lord Porn.
Me And You And Everyone We Know, an odd film where the youngsters are the stars .

What about Cornel Wilde's own gem, The Naked Prey

The 1992 film fortress starring Christopher Lambert.

THE WAR LOVER...STEVE MCQUEEN...watched it twice in 3 days...MICHAEL CRAWFORD in this too!

Not sure its a recommendation but The Human Centipede is a horror film that makes you ask yourself why am I watching this but you feel compelled to see how it ends.  Once is enough.

Monsieur Hire , I believe it has already been mentioned but I will top it up. I watched it again last night and , although filmed in 1989 , it is still crisp.