OT: The best movies most have never heard of...

[MikeRodg]

Or stranger things. Awesome series

[AgilisMerlin]

Originally Posted by Lovetoclimb

Dead Man

My favorite Johnny Depp and favorite Jim Jarmusch film.

+1 for The Fall by Tarsem Singh

dead man, yes

[merckxman]

The new ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT on Netflix. Intense. I preferred watching it in German with English subtitles.

[uno-speedo]

Le Week-End with the brilliant Jim Broadbent.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2392326/

[echelon_john]

Brutal & well done. Watched the same format.

Originally Posted by merckxman

The new ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT on Netflix. Intense. I preferred watching it in German with English subtitles.

[erolorhun]

I much enjoyed The Tree of Life. YMMV

[Tz779]

Wages of Fear with Yves Montand
Two Lane Blacktop w Dennis Wilson and James Taylor

[copperfox]

A Man Called Ove
A Swedish film with a human story and some classic Scandinavian dark humor.

I just saw Hollywood picked up the story and it's now being given a very American treatment with Tom Hanks, from the looks of the trailer.

[fiamme red]

I just watched a delightful silent film that is almost 100 years old, Our Hospitality. In one scene, Buster Keaton rides a velocipede.

https://americanhistory.si.edu/colle...t/nmah_1322521

According to biographer Rudi Blesh, Keaton once visited the Smithsonian to see his velocipede on display. He quoted Keaton recalling "I was playing Washington in Three Men and a Horse. I said, 'Eleanor, I've got something to show you.' We went to the Smithsonian, and there it was -- the Gentleman's Hobbyhorse, a replica of the first bicycle ever made. There hadn't been one left in existence, so we built it from an old print."

[chirpy999]

If 1968 a slice of life in a British Public School

[paredown]

Originally Posted by Tz779

Wages of Fear with Yves Montand
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This may be one of the most suspenseful films ever made--and its noire-ish/Casablanca setup is perfect for what follows. I first saw this as part of a local series honoring Montand (I think--it was a long time ago--late '60s) and spent years hoping I would get a chance to see it again.

Apparently HBOMax currently has it--and we don't have a subscription--Drat!

And while we are on the French--I have long been a fan of 'Rendezvous' (which I first saw as a 16mm print at a friend's house, who brought home a projector and a bunch of old films -- 10 minutes of pure adrenaline while the man races through the streets of Paris at dawn.

IMDB shows only purchases (I was given a DvD as a gift)--but it used to be available on YouTube. There is also a French TV program where the director, Claude Lelouch is interviewed about making the film, which also used to be on YouTube.

[blindwilly]

Aftersun is currently in theaters. I found it to be a good yet sad movie dealing with mental health, adolescence, memory, and father daughter relationships.

[jamesdak]

I found Where The Crawdads Sing to be quite good.

https://youtu.be/PY3808Iq0Tg

[trevorrrr]

Originally Posted by jamesdak

I found Where The Crawdads Sing to be quite good.

https://youtu.be/PY3808Iq0Tg

My partner really wanted to watch that and I wasn't too keen to at first, but it turned out to be very good. Would recommend it.

[fiamme red]

The Sniper (1952): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045161/. Excellent but little known thriller and psychological study of a mentally disturbed man who preys on women. Terrific location shooting on the streets of San Francisco.

The Breaking Point (1950): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042281/. An adaptation of Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not" that's much closer to the novel than the version starring Bogart and Bacall, and it's much darker.