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Even more obscure! Blaxploitation movies that, even among those who know the genre, are under-the-radar! Things that are genuinely hard to find! I want the Cut-Throats Nine and The Boldest Job in the West of the genre. Think along the same popularity lines as Up Tight! and Rod Serling's The Man. Gotten some good stuff so far though. Somehow I've never heard of Penitentiary, which looks terrific.
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Alright, fine! The Black Klansman, Cosmic Slop, Space is the Place (loving great film starring SUN RA), Trick Baby (which is the adaptation of Iceberg Slim's novel) and I recently watched Youngblood on Netflix streaming and was pleasantly surprised. I was looking at a list of stuff, and cherry-picked stuff I've seen and liked. Mandingo is the blacksploitation Myra Breckenridge, but nobody ever talks about it.
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I would love to see a sci-fi film that is halfway as nice to look at as Planet of the Vampires.
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Sep 27, 2011 20:36
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I would love to see a sci-fi film that is halfway as nice to look at as Planet of the Vampires. Ignoring the obvious Alien/2001 stuff. Phase IV, Queen of Blood, Invaders from Mars (original), Beyond the Time Barrier, Message from Space, Starcrash, X - The Man with X-Ray Eyes, Ikarie XB-1, Our Heavenly Bodies, Messiah of Evil, Altered States, The Creature Walks Among Us, The Colossus of New York, The Creation of the Humanoids, Son of Frankenstein. Thanks for your list. Everyone always says Mandingo is so-bad-it's-good, but it's actually just really good. That thing is cruel.
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Serendipitaet posted:I love gangster and heist movies, especially British ones. I've pimped it in this thread before, but my favorite movie in this genre is Heist with Gene Hackman and Delroy Lindo.
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Serendipitaet posted:I love gangster and heist movies, especially British ones. Heist is definitely awesome, and if you're interested in con movies as well as heist movies, The Spanish Prisoner (also by David Mamet) is worth watching, and The Sting (a classic with Newman and Redford) is the gold standard. For whatever reason, I didn't care for The Bank Job, but you'll probably love it -- a British heist movie from a few years ago, starring Jason Statham. And since you liked Snatch, you must see Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, also with Statham, also by Guy Ritchie. EDIT: How about Inception? It's a sci-fi heist movie with really well-dressed people. And there's always The Usual Suspects and Reservoir Dogs, which both deal with the aftermath of botched heists, and Goodfellas, the best gangster movie aside from Godfather 1 and 2 (which includes heists as well). Big Bad Voodoo Lou fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Sep 28, 2011 |
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One of my favorite heist movies is Rififi, a French noir film from the 50's.
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I think maybe there should be a 'Frequently Asked Recommendations' in the OP for certain genres/subgenres of movies. Heists seem to come up a lot, and certain movies like Friends of Eddie Coyle have been recommended many times in this thread.
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Loved Paris, Texas, what should I watch next? I especially liked the desert scenery, the constant feel of either the break of dawn or the approaching dusk, the whole roadmoviesh vibe, the excellent dialogue and superb acting.
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These Loving Eyes posted:Loved Paris, Texas, what should I watch next? I especially liked the desert scenery, the constant feel of either the break of dawn or the approaching dusk, the whole roadmoviesh vibe, the excellent dialogue and superb acting. Alice in the Cities is another road movie by Wim Wenders that tackles similar themes. No desert landscapes, though.
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penismightier posted:Even more obscure! Blaxploitation movies that, even among those who know the genre, are under-the-radar! Things that are genuinely hard to find! Across 110th Street?
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Sep 28, 2011 15:26
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Any other movies where the protagonist fixates on revenge against someone that is remorseful for their crime, served their time and is trying to get back to their life. Like 21 Grams, Red Road or The Crossing Guard
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Heist is definitely awesome, and if you're interested in con movies as well as heist movies, The Spanish Prisoner (also by David Mamet) is worth watching, and The Sting (a classic with Newman and Redford) is the gold standard. I got Heist but haven't watched it yet. I hadn't heard about the Spanish Prisoner at all and The Sting looks good, too. Both are noted. The Bank Job seemed like well made movie, but for some reason I found it super boring. I tried watching Lock, Stock etc a few years ago and didn't like it then but I was probably too young really. The rest I've seen and mostly enjoyed. Inception was cool. Although, I couldn't help but wonder the entire time why people were so up in arms about its complexity.
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Recommend me psychological horror films in the vein of Session 9 or Jacob's Ladder; the more disturbing the better.
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Serendipitaet posted:I love gangster and heist movies, especially British ones. If you like British crime movies, you should see The Long Good Friday with Bob Hoskins. Hell, throw in Mona Lisa for extra Hoskins action, not to mention Michael Caine's scariest role ever.
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llama_arse posted:Recommend me psychological horror films in the vein of Session 9 or Jacob's Ladder; the more disturbing the better. Even though its an anime, I highly recommend that you check out Perfect Blue. Also Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes) and still...Triangle
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llama_arse posted:Recommend me psychological horror films in the vein of Session 9 or Jacob's Ladder; the more disturbing the better. In the Mouth of Madness, Silent Hill, Event Horizon -- all have bigger set pieces than Session 9 and Jacob's Ladder and are more "fantastical," but they're all good and disturbing. Also, Angel Heart. Serendipitaet posted:The Bank Job seemed like well made movie, but for some reason I found it super boring. I tried watching Lock, Stock etc a few years ago and didn't like it then but I was probably too young really. I found The Bank Job boring too, and I usually love that kind of thing. Since you liked Snatch, I'd definitely give Lock, Stock another chance some time.
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llama_arse posted:Recommend me psychological horror films in the vein of Session 9 or Jacob's Ladder; the more disturbing the better. I'm going to go with a very generous definition of "psychological" and tell you to watch Tetsuo: The Iron Man. It makes a great companion film to Jacob's Ladder, in an inverted sort of sense.
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llama_arse posted:Recommend me psychological horror films in the vein of Session 9 or Jacob's Ladder; the more disturbing the better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmemeDLtvbg
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morestuff posted:Alice in the Cities is another road movie by Wim Wenders that tackles similar themes. No desert landscapes, though. Alright, will check this out. I think Wenders might've become my favorite director after seeing Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire within a short period of time. I don't know how to exactly put my next request into words but here goes nothing. So, I'm looking for something that captures the feeling of pervasive superstition in High or Late Middle Ages in Europe. The feeling that world is at its end, that the nearby woods are crawling with creatures straight out of folktales, that the Devil just can't wait to make a pact with you. Also, it would be nice if the imagery consisted mostly of misty small villages, unpenetrable forests, the whole gut-wrenching feeling of isolation from the rest of the world. Lycantrophy, diabolism and the occult are a big yes-yes. Something like a Dürer, Dore or medieval woodcut come to life, I think. On the other hand, I'd want the film to be something with a substance, not some B-level horror in a half-assed medieval setting.  Bergman's Seventh Seal had some of this and I was hoping Hour of the Wolf would be what I was looking for but it turned out to be something completely different. I've already seen Black Death which felt soulless and handled its themes hamhandedly.
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These Loving Eyes posted:Alright, will check this out. I think Wenders might've become my favorite director after seeing Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire within a short period of time. Have you seen The Golem? It has many of the elements you're looking for although it takes place later, in the 16th century. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0011237/
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These Loving Eyes posted:Alright, will check this out. I think Wenders might've become my favorite director after seeing Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire within a short period of time. Blood On Satan's Claw Marketa Lazarova Valley Of The Bees The Company Of Wolves Mother Joan of the Angels Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
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El Graplurado posted:Blood On Satan's Claw Many of these seem to fit the bill quite nicely. Thanks! 
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I think I'm going to hijack that list; I love Company of Wolves but I've never even heard of any of the others.
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Hey all, recently the GF and I've been on a Japanese movie roll; particularly comedies. Any recommendations for something good? Last couple of films we saw were Fine, Totally fine, Instant Swamp and Brass Knuckle Boys On the non-comedy front, I really, really loved Parade Please and thank you
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Summer Time Machine Blues, Tanpopo, the Tora-san movies, Water Boys, Swing Girls. If you want to go a bit out there into absurdist territory, there's Cromartie. One of my favorites is Bubble he Go!! with Abe Hiroshi, but I don't know if it's ever been subbed in English.
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These Loving Eyes posted:Alright, will check this out. I think Wenders might've become my favorite director after seeing Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire within a short period of time. Its also based on a true story.
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Dinosaur movies please! Jurrasic Park for example, and to a lesser extent The Lost World. Dinosaurs are badass.
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Shenadigins posted:Dinosaur movies please! Jurrasic Park for example, and to a lesser extent The Lost World. Dinosaurs are badass. Carnosaur I watched Mean Guns off a whim on Netflix Instant and fell in love with how stupidly over the top it was and above criticism. I've seen the majority of modern movies in this vein but I wanted to know if there were any other off-the-radar films like it from the 80s or 90s
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These Loving Eyes posted:Alright, will check this out. I think Wenders might've become my favorite director after seeing Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire within a short period of time. Valhalla Rising.
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I'm looking for some good contemporary German and French films. I understand 'contemporary' can define a bit of an arbitrary time period, but for the purposes of this post I'm just going to say post-1990 France and post-1995 Germany (not sure exactly how the German film industries amalgamated and settled down after unification, so the half-decade grace period is again, rather arbitrary). German films I've enjoyed: The Lives of Others, Yella, Run Lola Run, The Wave, anything by Haneke or Hirschbiegel. French films I've enjoyed: La Haine, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Noe's works, A Prophet and quite a few action films such as District 13 and its sequel and Mesrine films. I'm looking for anything and everything really, I just have no idea where to start!
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oceanside posted:I'm looking for some good contemporary German and French films. I understand 'contemporary' can define a bit of an arbitrary time period, but for the purposes of this post I'm just going to say post-1990 France and post-1995 Germany (not sure exactly how the German film industries amalgamated and settled down after unification, so the half-decade grace period is again, rather arbitrary). Germany post-1995: The Goebbels Experiment Wings of Hope Downfall Invincible The White Diamond The Tunnel The Counterfeiters France post-1990: Three Colors Trilogy The Double Life of Veronique Innocence Amelie Delicatessen A Very Long Engagement The Class Rosetta The Son L'Enfant The Kid With a Bike The Illusionist Lovers of the Arctic Circle The Lovers on the Bridge Irma Vep Leon
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I will add a recommendation for the German film Goodbye Lenin!, and from FitFortDanga's list, be especially sure to see Amelie both because it is a fine film and because it is relatively well-known in the English-speaking world. Also, if you enjoyed District 13, Luc Besson's original Taxi is a fun, goofy action movie in the same vein. Just don't get the American one with Jimmy Fallon. (I also have a secret love for In July)
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Recommend me some gritty, seedy old New York movies! For examples: I've seen Taxi Driver, Panic in Needle Park, Serpico, Death Wish, The Warriors, New York Ripper, French Connection, Shaft, Prince of the City, Dog Day Afternoon, New Jack City, Light Sleeper, Saturday Night Fever, Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Midnight Cowboy,Taking of Pelham 123, Born to Win... I've even seen Street Trash. Also a few others I know I'm forgetting. Taxi Driver, Midnight Cowboy and Panic in Needle Park are probably the best examples of what I'm looking for. Basically I like seeing NYC as the dark, grungy city it used to be, particularly in the 70s and 80s when some areas of the city looked like war zones and Times Square was the epicenter of filth and crime. No comedies or romances please.
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7point62 posted:Recommend me some gritty, seedy old New York movies! Basket Case!
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7point62 posted:Recommend me some gritty, seedy old New York movies! You didn't list it but have you seen Marathon Man?
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The Incident, for my money the great forgotten New York crime film. Blast of Silence isn't quite as violent as the ones you list, but it's really genuinely gritty and awesome. Also watch some episodes of "Naked City." gently caress yes on all of those Hundu posted below me, too. penismightier fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Oct 18, 2011 |
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Cruising. Driller Killer. Fort Apache The Bronx.
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