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Ask for movie recommendations here! Guidelines For Those Asking For Suggestions:  Try to be clear about what you're looking for. If it's something specific, say so. If it's a vague direction, say so. List movies/books/comics/video games/tv shows or anything else that is relevant to what you're looking for. If you're looking for results on a specific streaming service, specify what services you have available. If you think a recommendation is inappropriate for the request, try to explain your thoughts constructively and without insult. This is not a thread to dunk on other movies or posters.Guidelines For Those Recommending Films: Explain why you think people might like the film -- don't just throw out a title and say "it's awesome", explain why ("I liked the parts with the Michael Shannon's rear end", "A dude gets decapitated with a blow torch") Try to recommend something specific. "You'd probably like every Harmony Korine film" is fine, if it's appropriate and you give enough reason. If you're responding to someone's request by recommend something they didn't ask for, make sure you say why the person asking for a rom-com might enjoy what appears to be a murder-mystery on the surface. If your recommendation is lengthy, try to do a tl;dr sentence or two at the end.Of course all CineD rules and SomethingAwful rules apply here. This is not GenChat, or the Identify A Movie For Me thread
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What are some movies and documentaries about photography and photographers? Something where the art of photography is part of the text or themes, not necessarily something like You're Next where a character uses a camera for a single iconic scene.
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Sep 23, 2020 18:01
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These are all excellent suggestions, and all are new to me. Thank you.
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Sep 24, 2020 13:17
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space marine todd posted:Thanks! Also, recommendations for grand/"epic" romantic movies (like The Fountain)? I feel like Chungking Express and In The Mood for Love fit this. The Before Trilogy, too
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Oct 20, 2020 16:54
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Is there a best or definitive documentary about HP Lovecraft? Preferably something that doesn't hold back on his lovely views/fears, how weird he was, and what inspired him to write.
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Oct 19, 2021 21:43
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feedmyleg posted:I have no idea about anything longer or more in depth, but here's a great short doc about his place within the science-fiction pantheon, framed on his relationship with Howard: That was fun and cool. I’m gonna check out more of these. Thanks!
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Oct 20, 2021 02:03
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feedmyleg posted:Other than Star Wars, what other proper "space fantasy" movies or TV shows are there? Which I would define as movies where Earth or human beings from Earth are not involved at all, yet there are multiple planets and/or methods to get to and from those planets. Flash Gordon is a pretty obvious one with a contemporaneous setting. Zardoz, too, I think
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Oct 25, 2021 15:21
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Is Barbarella from Earth?
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Oct 25, 2021 15:38
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tuyop posted:I’m looking for under-appreciated or less known 70s movies, any genre really. Foreign is good too. Stuff like The China Syndrome or The Parallax View, or even borderline 70s like The Changeling. Last Hurrah For Chivalry Driller Killer Tourist Trap Someone's Watching Me Magic The Eyes of Laura Mars Long Weekend The Fury Petey Wheatstraw Desperate Living Klute Martin Alice Sweet Alice God Told Me To Who Can Kill A Child The Tenant Barry Lyndon The Last Detail Yakuza (1974) The Last Detail Shivers The Devils The Switchblade Sisters Mr. Majestyk Deathdream The Legend of Hell House Coffy Paper Moon Images Whoever Slew Auntie Roo Blood On Satan's Claw Wanda Theater of Blood Black Belt Jones Let's Scare Jessica To Death Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Nov 4, 2021 |
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Nov 4, 2021 20:09
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No idea why this became a double post.
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Nov 4, 2021 20:09
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Recommend me some Peter Sellers movies. I watched Being There over the weekend and loved it, and it gave me the itch to dig into the lesser-known movies. I've seen the Kubricks. I've seen a few Clouseau capers but I don't remember any of them, so maybe a recommendation on where to stop with those would be fun. I plan to work in The Ghost of Peter Sellers in there, but I feel like it would be more interesting after watching a few more films of his first.
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Jun 20, 2023 20:37
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Xiahou Dun posted:And Kind Hearts and Coronets if you just want him playing every role. I added Mouse That Roared, but I believe you're mistaking Alec Guinness for him in Kind Hearts. Gripweed posted:The Magic Christian! Peter Sellers is a millionaire, Ringo Starr is the homeless man he adopted as his son, and together they use their riches to get up to shenanigans The novel this is based on is very funny, so I'll check it out.
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Jun 20, 2023 21:46
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WHY BONER NOW posted:Looking for an action movie where the hero beats up the bad guys, but he/she also gets hosed up over the course of the movie. Persistent, meaningful wounds, now he walks funny, oops bad guy really hurt his hand so now he's favoring his left, that kind of thing. Pretty much any Jean-Claude Van Damme movie fits the bill, but specifically Bloodsport, Lionheart, and Sudden Death come to mind. I have a soft spot for Inferno and Kickboxer as well. Bruce Lee and early Jackie Chan know how to take the blows, too. Enter The Dragon for Lee, Police Story films or Drunken Master films for Chan. Deadbeat At Dawn. Blade of the Immortal. VFW. Best of the Best. Die Hard, Robocop, Gladiator, The Raid, Mandy are obvious picks. For anti-recommendations, pretty much avoid anything with Chuck Norris and Steven Seagal. They've never been hit on celluloid. (Well, Norris took hits before he became a lead actor.)
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Jul 20, 2023 15:48
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buglord posted:requesting movies that don't make you feel like poo-poo after. world is bleak and tough, need something that inspires hope, offers a way to look at things in a more positive light. it doesn't need to have political tones or relevance to the world today, it can just be "heres a story about a frog that wanted to be as big as a house and then did so" or "this goblin's family got killed by the heroes and here's how he made peace with that" or maybe its a movie you like that features cars but makes you feel like you can take on the world each time you finish it. David Lynch’s The Straight Story Linklater’s first two movies in the Before trilogy Harold & Maude, Being There Raising Arizona Tokyo Godfathers if you want Christmas vibes. Paper Moon Night Is Short Walk On Girl Mister Lonely Your Name for lots of song and dance numbers, The Young Girls of Rochefort
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Jul 23, 2023 14:07
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Before Midnight is a great film, but like Gaius said, it's about a lived-in relationship with baggage and sometimes old scars get exposed, especially with two strong-willed characters like Jesse and Celine. It's my least favorite of the three, but it's no less great. It's just more serious and the conversations and situation are heavier compared to the love-drunk Sunrise and Sunset.
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Jul 24, 2023 18:48
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What's an adventure movie that blends sci-fi and fantasy in a cool and fun way like KRULL? My buddy and I watched KRULL a while ago, and he's always asking me for something similar, but that movie's weirdly specific in tone and style. Beastmaster kinda scratched the same itch, although it doesn't have the sci-fi elements with the fantasy. I watched Zardoz, thinking it'd maybe work, and while that movie is a lot of things, it's not in the same vein.
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Apr 11, 2024 16:00
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Fighting Elegy posted:I got a fun one for you The new-ish term for most of these are Yuppie Nightmares, so you can also look up Letterboxd lists for more recs. The Fan The Net Shallow Grave Consenting Adults Sleeping With The Enemy The Guardian The Hand That Rocks the Cradle - (The opening sequence has a sexual assault with a gynecologist and a patient. Nothing is shown, it's not rape, and it's integral to the subsequent events.) If you liked Raising Cane, also check out Snake Eyes. Also check out thrillers written by Joe Eszterhas, he's great at these: Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge, Sliver; also the schlocky and nonsensical Jade (which is very bad but also bizarre and watchable, albeit confusing).
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Fighting Elegy posted:Thanks for this! Had no idea what I was looking for was sort of a sub-genre. It seems a lot of seems to involve a Femme Fatale leading to the destruction of the main character's American Dream and while I usually prefer my villains to not have to rely on bedding the protagonist to make their plan work I can certainly enjoy an unhinged pretty lady too so long as they are good at acting. I've got another recommendation, cuz I watched it last night: The River Wild with Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, John C. Reilly, and Buffy the dog as "Maggie".
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