What's a really good movie you'd recommend that most people probably haven't seen? (page 9)

nancy drew

I keep thinking about more movies when I was a kid I loved the original mighty joe young I cried when he rescued the kids from the burning orphanage. I also like a movie from 1933 called lady for a day.

beksbks

Nancy I love the old ones. The '30's produced some of the best movies.

I thought of another today, The Triplets of Belleville.

Did I already mention The Little Fugitive?

GentlyFeral

beksbks,

Jean de Florette!!!

AbsolutelyJean de Florette!!! And its sequels, thought I think Manon of the Spring is the strongest of the three. But you really need them all to get the whole story. And while we're on Gerard Depardieu – The Return of Martin Guerre.

chickpea,Babette's Feast is one of my favorites, too. Get the subtitled version if you can; Babette's French accent on the dubbed version sounds fake, and it's distracting.

Let me add another vote for Pan's Labyrinth, with a warning that it is very intense; there are some brief torture scenes, neither flinched from nor lingered over salaciously. But a great film. Some others not mentioned yet:

Beijing Bicycle
Bubba Ho-Tep
Grave of the Fireflies
Mr. Stain on Junk Alley – here's the official website, but I found it on Netflix.
Ponyo – the latest Miyazaki flick. Oddly enough it didn't play everywhere.
Trembling Before G-d – a documentary on the lives and struggles of gay Orthodox Jews.
Vitus – here's Roger Ebert's review.
7 Faces of Dr. Lao – the special effects still retain their charm, though they have dated. A morally improving fantasy, starring Tony Randall as a Chinese magician.
The Cuckoo: Three people – two soldier-deserters and a Lapp Sami woman – cooperate to survive in the frigid north, though they have no languages in common.
Hukkle – what if Jacques Tati had filmed a thriller?

gently feral

watson

Jean de Florette and Mannon were a couple of my first really "foreign" films. Tops.

"Raise the Red Lantern," good.

GentlyFeral

watson,

Raise the Red Lantern is another favorite. Have you seen Farewell, My Concubine?

gently feral

watson

Have not! But will. The synopsis is amazing. Thank you.

designs

The Sand Pebbles, 1966

Steve McQueen, Candice Bergen

Jim_TX

The Gods Must Be Crazy I

The Gods Must Be Crazy II

The Russians are Coming

These are 'make you laugh' types of movies... I don't think you will lose too many IQ points watching them... but you may laugh a lot.

Regards,

Jim TX

nancy drew

I love the russians are coming Murial Everett tied up on top of the frig

miseryloveselders

GentlyFeral, I saw Beijing Bicycle some years ago, that is a good flick. I remember thinking to myself, "all that over a frickin bike!" Thinking back to my youth though, I'd defend my bike to the bitter end too. I can't remember all the specifics to that flick, and I wanted to rent it again, but independent video stores that rent out foreign and independent films are a dying breed around here.

Trainspotting is a favorite of mine. Lost In Translation is another one, although I think it got nominated or won an award or two, but nobody I know has ever sat down and watched it. Broken Flowers is another Bill Murray flick nobody has seen that I've conversed with.

Good thread btw.

What's a really good movie you'd recommend that most people probably haven't seen?

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