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OT: Movies you probably never heard of but ought to check out.

“Taking Chance”. Kevin Bacon as a Marine officer escorting a deceased enlisted Marine. Thought he was getting a trip back to his hometown, but it turned out the young man came from way out in the middle of nowhere.
Got a little verklempt.
 
Max von Sudow was also great as the evil brewmeister in the McKenzie Bros. "Strange Brew", a very silly but very fun movie. Another vsbvf movie was "Waiting for Guffman", with the Second City gang.
 
Listed movies that I've seen: King of Hearts , The Gods Must Be Crazy, House of the Flying Daggers, Buckaroo Banzai. All great.

Lake Placid - Easily the best "giant killer animal" movie in the last 30 years. Great cast, great script. And great droll humor. Betty White has the best line in the movie. I never cared much for "chomping on bones" movies
but my late girlfriend loved them, and almost every one is as bad as most 50's sci-fi. You have to listen carefully to the witty dialogue which always makes me laugh.
 
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Seven Days in May.- 1964
About an attempted military coup of the U.S. government.
Kirk Douglas. Bert Lancaster, Fredric March, Ava Gardner and Martin Balsam.
Screenplay by Rod Serling (His personal favorite, of the screenplays that he wrote))
In glorious black and white.
Highly recommended.
 
If you liked Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon or House of Lying Daggers, check out Hero with Jet Li.
The color and cinematography are incredible.

Some other lesser known favorites:
Pi - directed by Darren Aronofsky
Barfly - Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway (loosely based on poet Charles Bukowski)
Memento - Guy Pearce and Carrie Ann Moss, directed by Christopher Nolan
For Love of the Game - The Costner baseball movie everyone forgot about. More Rom-Com than sports themed. Good one to watch with your spouse.

Old school:
Stalag 17 with William Holden.
The Russians are Coming with and in the same genre, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, both with too many big names to list.
 
RSHERMVIKES said:
I am a lover of movies! I have a collection of movies from 1915 to the present day! As of now at #1604 between Video and DVD's! My surprise movies are:
1. STEALING HOME, 1999, with Mark Harmon, Jodie Foster & Harold Ramis. It follows Harmon's Billy Wyatt, from HS baseball player to adulthood, and Jodie Foster is his friend and mentor with Ramis his best buddy. A coming-of-age movie!
2.. A WALK IN THE SUN, 1945, A WWII movie with G.I's in Italy. Great cast of Dana Andrews, LLoyd Bridges, Richard Conte, George Tyne, John Ireland. A platoon going to try to take a German held farmhouse.
3. SAHARA, 1943, another great cast Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish. WWII American tank crew with allied soldiers in North Africa.
4. SHENANDOAH, 1965, James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, About a family in VA during the Civil War.
5. TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE,2012, Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake, Clint is an old-time Baseball Scout in the Braves organization that is losing his sight and his estranged daughter, Adams, goes on his scouting trip, for a stud young outfielder.
6. FORT APACHE 1948, SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON, 1949, and RIO GRANDE 1950,,The trilogy of John Wayne/John Ford, Wayne, Henry Fond, Shirley Temple, John Agar, Ward Bond in Fort Apache, Yellow Ribbon, has Wayne, Joanne Dru,John Agar,Ben Johnson, Harry Carey, Jr. and 3rd Rio Grande, has Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Johnson, Carey, Jr. Takes place in the late 1870's. A U.S.A. cavalry dealing with hostile indians.
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Rshermvikes, thank you for including A Walk In The Sun. A little know but great WW2 movie. If you enjoyed that one you might want to check out "The Purple Heart", a fictional account of a trial of some American pilots by a Japanese court during WW2.
 
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The Night of the Hunter (1955)

stars Robert Mitchum
Director was Charles Laughton
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Wow. Thank you for that piece of information Stormsurge. Charles Laughton was a great actor. Is he the same one?
 
Red River with John Wayne, but I truly believe that without Montgomery Cliff it would have been just another John Wayne western. With him it is a true classic. John Ireland, normally a "B" actor also had an important role as "Cherry Valance", a "gunslinger" and Walter Brennen, possible the greatest character actor ever was great.
 
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Steelerone said:
Rshermvikes, thank you for including A Walk In The Sun. A little know but great WW2 movie. If you enjoyed that one you might want to check out "The Purple Heart", a fictional account of a trial of some American pilots by a Japanese court during WW2.
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Hey Steelerone, YES! That was the one I was searching my 72 year old mind for! A truly excellent movie!
With Sahara, The Purple Heart & A Walk In The Sun makes the perfect WWII trilogy!
 
Steelerone said:
Red River with John Wayne, but I truly believe that without Montgomery Cliff it would have been just another John Wayne western. With him it is a true classic. John Ireland, normally a "B" actor also had an important role as "Cherry Valance", a "gunslinger" and Walter Brennen, possible the greatest character actor ever was great.
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"Red River" is one of my favorite westerns. It is one of the best films for both John Wayne and by Howard Hawks, who is one of the greatest American film directors, and one of my top three favorite film directors of all time. My own opinion is that anyone who doesn't know of "Red River" probably doesn't have much knowledge of classic films.
 
stormsurge said:
The Night of the Hunter (1955)

stars Robert Mitchum
Director was Charles Laughton
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I saw Night of the Hunter for the first time several years ago. Great movie, it is another all time classic. It just might be Robert Mitchum's best film performance. Also, a great supporting role for Lillian Gish as well. This just might be the best movie ever by someone who directed only one film. Of course, Charles Laughton had a very notable career as an actor.

Speaking of Laughton, I just thought of one of his films that would fit in very well in this thread. "Ruggles of Red Gap" is a film about a British butler who's aristocratic employer loses his services to an American couple in a poker game. Laughton's butler is then transported from high society Europe to the American West at the beginning of the 20th Century. Talk about a fish out of water. This is an absolutely marvelous comedy, and one that does a nice job at pointing out differences in the class structure of both Britain and America. This film is also notable for the quotation of a classic piece of American political oratory, something that became a staple of Laughton's career when he made personal appearances when not making films.
 
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Bigboote said:
Not really unknown, but certainly a cult movie: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai,
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UpstateNY said:
Waking Ned Devine
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The guy in the next cube loved Buckaroo Banzai, so much so he gave me his VHS tape years ago in attempt to get me to watch it. Didn't work and I thought I might still have it somewhere. I just checked where I thought it might be and it wasn't there. However, there was a VHS of Waking Ned Divine that another person at work loved so much she lent me her copy in a attempt to get me to watch it. I didn't get around to that one either. So what have we learned? The titles of two movies that some love so much they give/loan copies unsolicited because they want to share the love. And don't give me a VHS if you want it back, I forget.
 
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My own nomination is Happy-Go-Lucky by Mike Leigh. I remember leaving the theater feeling good and thinking "I really liked that movie." Sally Hawkins won a Best Actress Golden Globe, she was great. En-Ra-Ha!
 
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RSHERMVIKES said:
Hey Steelerone, YES! That was the one I was searching my 72 year old mind for! A truly excellent movie!
With Sahara, The Purple Heart & A Walk In The Sun makes the perfect WWII trilogy!
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Hey Rshermvikes, don't forget "Abbot and Costello In The Navy". Seriously though, there are so many I forgot. One is "This Land Is Mine" with Charles Laughton. One of the finest actor of ours or any time. I checked a list of his movies in Winkipedia and I'm not sure that any actor of any generation has a resume close to him. Just a few - Witness For the Prosecution, Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The Canterville Ghost, Mutiny On The Bounty.
 
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dbmill said:
I saw Night of the Hunter for the first time several years ago. Great movie, it is another all time classic. It just might be Robert Mitchum's best film performance. Also, a great supporting role for Lillian Gish as well. This just might be the best movie ever by someone who directed only one film. Of course, Charles Laughton had a very notable career as an actor.

Speaking of Laughton, I just thought of one of his films that would fit in very well in this thread. "Ruggles of Red Gap" is a film about a British butler who's aristocratic employer loses his services to an American couple in a poker game. Laughton's butler is then transported from high society Europe to the American West at the beginning of the 20th Century. Talk about a fish out of water. This is an absolutely marvelous comedy, and one that does a nice job at pointing out differences in the class structure of both Britain and America. This film is also notable for the quotation of a classic piece of American political oratory, something that became a staple of Laughton's career when he made personal appearances when not making films.
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Dbmill, I think his last movie appearance was in a very political movie, "Advise and Consent". And, as usual, he was great. If you ever get a chance go to "Calf-Killer", a site for old time radio. You can download just about any program you want anywhere from the thirties on. He was a guest on the Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy show several times and the repartee between he and Charlie is hilarious.
 
Drumguy said:
I think one of the most underrated movies is "Almost Famous". Great music, great cast, fun story about rock and roll, Kate Hudson before she was famous, Phillip Seymour Hoffman - "of course I'm home, I'm uncool. ......... Friendship is the booze they feed ya. ........ I met you, you are not cool. "

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I think Hoffman is one of the most underrated actors of all time. He died too young.
 
L'age d'or (1930) directed by Bunuel.
It is available free on youtube.

If you ever find a good blu ray disc for Ragtime (1981), please let me know. For many years, I could not find this DVD on Amazon. A few months ago the DVD once again became available.

I have never watched The great impersonation (1935).

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1981) was a 8 and 1/2 hr B'way play (by the Royal Shakespeare Company) that was broadcast on TV. The tickets were very expensive. You can still get the DVD's on ebay. From the Time review: Sell the car, pawn the kids, but go.
 
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trb123 said:
L'age d'or (1930) directed by Bunuel.
It is available free on youtube.
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Directed by Bunuel with association with Salvador Dali, their second film together. The first one, Un Chien Andalou (1929), contains the famous image of the razor slitting the eye. I saw this one at the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, FL, while we were down there for a women's basketball Final Four (women's basketball and surrealism are some combination for a vacation). At any rate, these two films are possibly surrealism at its height as practiced by two of its best known artists. And I wouldn't attempt to try to explain either one of them to anyone, they are certainly out there.
 
Tip of the hat to ConnDog - I was going to mention "The Flim Flam" man w/ George C Scott- surprisingly good movie. A couple - if you like WW2 spy thrillers - check out "Eye of the Needle" with Donald Sutherland, its pretty taut throughout, Rotten Tomatoes gives it an 81% approval rating. One other is Steven Spielberg's first big success - "Duel". Very tense and captivating - R.T. gave it an 88% approval rating.
 
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Zorro said:
Have we done this? If so, the mods can delete and I won't be mad (or transfer it to the right place). If not, here are a few I would like to nominate; "Down by Law", a Jim Jamusch film starring Tom Waits. "The Wrong Box", a British farce with Sir Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine. Peter Sellers, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. "The King of Hearts", Starring Alan Bates. "Bedazzled", the original with Cook and Moore, not the tepid remake. "Rules of the Game", (Criterion dvd version), Jean Renior. Now everyone pile on!
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Not just Sir Ralph Richardson but you left out the "Sir"'s for Caine, Sellers, Moore and Bates.
 
RSHERMVIKES said:
I am a lover of movies! I have a collection of movies from 1915 to the present day! As of now at #1604 between Video and DVD's! My surprise movies are:
1. STEALING HOME, 1999, with Mark Harmon, Jodie Foster & Harold Ramis. It follows Harmon's Billy Wyatt, from HS baseball player to adulthood, and Jodie Foster is his friend and mentor with Ramis his best buddy. A coming-of-age movie!
2.. A WALK IN THE SUN, 1945, A WWII movie with G.I's in Italy. Great cast of Dana Andrews, LLoyd Bridges, Richard Conte, George Tyne, John Ireland. A platoon going to try to take a German held farmhouse.
3. SAHARA, 1943, another great cast Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish. WWII American tank crew with allied soldiers in North Africa.
4. SHENANDOAH, 1965, James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, About a family in VA during the Civil War.
5. TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE,2012, Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake, Clint is an old-time Baseball Scout in the Braves organization that is losing his sight and his estranged daughter, Adams, goes on his scouting trip, for a stud young outfielder.
6. FORT APACHE 1948, SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON, 1949, and RIO GRANDE 1950,,The trilogy of John Wayne/John Ford, Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, John Agar, Ward Bond in Fort Apache, Yellow Ribbon, has Wayne, Joanne Dru,John Agar,Ben Johnson, Harry Carey, Jr. and 3rd Rio Grande, has Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Johnson, Carey, Jr. Takes place in the late 1870's. A U.S.A. cavalry dealing with hostile indians.
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Yes!!! to 3. SAHARA ..... but I would add "The Horse Soldiers", "We're No Angels", "Night of the Generals" and "The Young Lions"
 
CajunHusky said:
Yes!!! to 3. SAHARA ..... but I would add "The Horse Soldiers", "We're No Angels", "Night of the Generals" and "The Young Lions"
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"We're No Angels (with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, and Basil Rathbone, among others) was one of my mother's favorite movies (she was a big Ustinov fan, while Bogart is one of my favorite actors). It is a fun film. "Horse Soldiers" is another in a long line of John Ford/John Wayne westerns. It is more than watchable (and my wife and I have seen it a lot), but it doesn't rank with other Ford/Wayne western classics such as "Stagecoach", "Fort Apache", "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon", "Rio Grande", "The Searchers", and "The Man Who Killed Liberty Valance".
 
Steelerone said:
Dbmill, I think his last movie appearance was in a very political movie, "Advise and Consent". And, as usual, he was great. If you ever get a chance go to "Calf-Killer", a site for old time radio. You can download just about any program you want anywhere from the thirties on. He was a guest on the Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy show several times and the repartee between he and Charlie is hilarious.
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One of Laughton's last movies was Spartacus, and he is great as a Roman senator who opposes the rise of Lawrence Olivier's political aspirations in that film.
 
Die Niebelungen (1924)
Silent film directed by Fritz Lang in two parts.
Part 1: Siegfried
Part 2: Kriemhilds Rache

The seventh Seal (1957)
Directed by Ingmar Bergman. This is certainly not an obscure movie.

Some BBC serials:

The voyages of Charles Darwin (1978) Six 1 hr episodes

The search for the Nile (1971) Five 1 hr episodes

In search of the dark ages (1981) 350 minutes
Narrated by Michael Wood
 
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