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Cult? Cheezeball? Drama? SF? Whut?

GoDogGo! wrote:Cult? Cheezeball? Drama? SF? Whut?

Yeah, this. Also, do you like foreign films and docs?...cause then i've got a whole load.

seeahill wrote:They don't have to be classic or near perfect. Just a good film.

That said The Third Man is classic and near perfect.

BTW - I concur on Third Man. I still believe that Welles had more than a little hand in directing that film.

Restrepo
Blood Into Wine
Arn Knight Templar
Valhalla Rising
The Horseman
Moon
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

And even though I know you've seen it I just watched it recently and it needs mentioning.
The Right Stuff

Time Bandits.

Restrepo - Like EZ said
Let the right one in - the Nordic version

I watch Restrepo everytime it is on NG.Another good one is "2 weeks in hell "on discovery channel.

GoDogGo! wrote:Cult? Cheezeball? Drama? SF? Whut?

I'm easily pleased.

I recommend the movies of Michael Haneke, an Austrian director. I would do the french language version of "Funny Games" first. very bleak and somewhat disturbing, though.

Metropolitain is a good Woody Allen style talkie from the very early 90s.
since you like The Third Man, i'd highly recommend Orson Welles' version of Kafka's "The Trial"...also The Stranger and The Lady From Shanghai
Gomorrah is a good recent film about the slums of Naples
Barton Fink, which is probably my favorite Coen Brothers film
if you don't mind slow moving films, most of the movies John Cassavetes directed are on instant. he's my personal favorite all-time director
Sin Nombre
Withnail & I

some good docs:
Monster Camp
Harlan County USA
Not Quite Hollywood
Blood Into Wine
The King of Kong
Bigger Stronger Faster
Gates of Heaven
Vernon, Florida

Exit Through the Gift Shop
Winnebago Man

Anything Guillermo del Toro had his fingers in. Currently streaming:

Cronos
The Devil's Backbone
El Orfanato (not for anyone who has young children 'cuz it'll make you want to jump out the fucking window)

GoDogGo! wrote:Time Bandits.

This was running through my mind just the other day.

Thanks. Restrepo was mentioned 3 times so it is on my queue for tonight.

Meanwhile, if you run across a good one, keep 'em coming as a public service.

It's not a streamable movie but Aguirre the Wrath of God was a great movie.

Ed Zachary wrote:It's not a streamable movie but Aguirre the Wrath of God was a great movie.

That's in my queue as well.

Oldboy

Rashomon

Aliens: Collector's Edition (not 'unknown,' but it had been a while since I had seen it...)

Dead Girl

The Horseman

Spies Like Us


Oldboy and Horseman and probably my two favorite films I have seen on NetFlix streaming...

Been watching some old SF and horror:

Them!

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (start with the 50's version and then watch the 70's Donald Sutherland dark-as-fuck version)

Aliens -as mentioned above

Getting Ahead: Reading & Writing

Learn Writing Basics

The Unflushable DEATHTURD wrote:Getting Ahead: Reading & Writing

Learn Writing Basics

Are you fucking kidding? That shit's ruined my life.

seeahill wrote:

The Unflushable DEATHTURD wrote:Getting Ahead: Reading & Writing

Learn Writing Basics

Are you fucking kidding? That shit's ruined my life.

Agreed. The lessons learned in "Oldboy," i.e. how to fight through a crowd with nothing but a claw hammer, are much harder to come by and more valuable than any grammar knowledges.

Point Blank

If you liked The Third Man, you might also like:
The Ministry of Fear
Our Man in Havana
--both based on Greene thrillers