Any good films to watch?

[ReformedCharacter]

If you have access to Amazon films then I recommend The Death of Stalin.

RC

[SalvorHardin]

Amazon Prime has "Black Dynamite", a spoof / homage of the Blaxploitation films of the 1970s.

Black Dynamite, ex-CIA, is a Vietnam Veteran, Pimp, Black Power Revolutionary, Sex Machine and Kung Fu Master who is fighting against "The Man". The man killed his brother and is flooding the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor whilst getting the orphans hooked on smack.

We watched it at our film night a few weeks ago. Everyone loved it. So much so we watched it again the next week. Continuity errors, deliberate bad acting, ridiculously large hairdos, big guns, big cars, big suits and Kung Fu fighting. With Nunchucks.

Trailer

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=96Y24a0cyCE

[PhaseThree]

If you can find it "The Lives of Others" is one of my all time favorites - Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources are worth a (re)viewing if you've not seen them for a while, along with Amelie and Betty Blue/37°2 le matin

[nimnarb]

The Florida Project. Excellent. 9/10.

[doug2500]

A little out of the ordinary, and less lightly to be seen through normal channels is Black Book, a Dutch WWII film. Very good.

[tea42]

Oh brother! On Sky @ 16.10 tomorrow https://youtu.be/kID9iXY5Nuk

My alltime favourite film with a great soundtrack

[tea42]

Mars Attacks....my second favourite film. On Netflix, or £3.49 on Google etc...

Cant we just.....get along......., the President shakes Martians hand and then gets skewered

[tea42]

Metropolis from 1927 , free on Youtube https://youtu.be/5CvJAvNTSsw

Chaplin....Modern Times, the Great Dictator etc

Any other Cohen Brothers films. The Ballard of Buster Scruggs (Netflix) is a recent masterpiece

Burn after reading.

Fargo series on Netflix

Breaking bad

Yes, there is so much crap out there.

[monabri]

I'm looking for a movie rec. Everything I seem to see on Sky or Amazon is bloody superhero crap.

Anything considered. I trust you.

Amazon prime -"The Boys"..which is an anti-superhero series..black humour & revenge
Breaking Bad ..previously mentioned ( binge watched !)..followed by binge watching of "Better call Saul"
Unbroken ( WW2 , Olympic athlete, directed by Angelina Jolie)
The Big Short ( nothing to do with Carillion!)
Lord of War ( Nicholas Cage..arms dealer)
The Green Mile (Tom Hanks ...perennial favourite)
The Red Sea Diving Resort
Orphan Black
Split ( James McAvoy..)

[SalvorHardin]

I've just spotted that "Predestination" is on Amazon Prime. Now that is well worth a watch.

Science Fiction, set in the 1950s, based on the classic Robert Heinlein short story "All you Zombies". It's a Time Travel film, not a Zombie film. Starting Ethan Hawke as the Time Agent who is sent back to early 1970s New York to track down a terrorist, and in the meantime is working as a bartender (the terrorist plot line isn't in the short story, IMHO it adds a lot to it)

Ethan Hawke is also in "24 Hours to Live", a proper B-movie about an assassin brought out of retirement who has what the title says. Rutger Hauer plays his mentor. It's in Prime, it might not yet be free to subscribers.

[monabri]

I've just spotted that "Predestination" is on Amazon Prime. Now that is well worth a watch.

Science Fiction, set in the 1950s, based on the classic Robert Heinlein short story "All you Zombies". It's a Time Travel film, not a Zombie film. Starting Ethan Hawke as the Time Agent who is sent back to early 1970s New York to track down a terrorist, and in the meantime is working as a bartender (the terrorist plot line isn't in the short story, IMHO it adds a lot to it)

Ethan Hawke is also in "24 Hours to Live", a proper B-movie about an assassin brought out of retirement who has what the title says. Rutger Hauer plays his mentor. It's in Prime, it might not yet be free to subscribers.

Another E.Hawke film.... "Gattaca" ( not to be confused with films of a similar name )....EH, Jude Law, Uma Thurman

[fisher]

Blasts from the past:

Once upon a time in the west - sergio leone. Very long but.worth it IMHO.

Rumble fish - Coppola I think.

Not sure what's available streaming as I don't.

[88V8]

If available....

Crouching Tiger
American Graffiti
Blade Runner (the original)
+1 for Once upon a time in the west
Ronin
Heat
Goodfellas

V8

[AleisterCrowley]

'Kill List'
Kitchen sink drama, then violent crime film, ending up as 'English Folk Horror'

[Howard]

If you have access to Amazon films then I recommend The Death of Stalin.

RC

Very good film, watched it tonight - thank you for the recommendation.

I can't resist suggesting that, if you omitted the killing, it could be the current government. With Dominic Cummings as Biera!

regards

Howard

[UncleIan]

Lost in Translation

Can't remember if it's on Amazon or Netflix for free. But it's great. Who am I talking to? Snoves? Rightyho, the opening is a lingering shot of a 17 year old Scarlett Johansson's backside clad in pink knickers.

The rest of the film is not superheroes either.

And Bill Murray is mighty in it.

[JoyofBrex8889]

I have a few films to add to the list:

Whiplash.

Birdman.

And the best film of all time in my opinion: The Big Lebowski.

[JoyofBrex8889]

Birdman is definitely quirky and I could see why some people might be put off, but it is quite brilliant.

While I am at it, I would like to put in a word for the underappreciated "Master and Commander: Far Side of the World". It is a film I thought was merely ok initially, but on subsequent rewatching I have grown increasingly apprecative of. The film i think does a great job of bringing the Age of Sail to life. It is one of Paul Bettany's best films, howver it is the child actors playing the young midshipmen that give the heartwrenching best performances in the film. It is not often that one says that!

My only regret is that they leave us hanging and have yet to make more of the Aubrey/Maturin book series into feature films.

[AleisterCrowley]

I have a few films to add to the list:

Whiplash.

Birdman.

And the best film of all time in my opinion: The Big Lebowski.

I love The Big Lebowski but it seems to divide opinion- my mate thinks it's unwatchable.

Fargo? No country for old men?

[Itsallaguess]

Some favourites from recent watches -

Hard Eight (1996)

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

Shoplifters (2018)

Leave No Trace (2018)

You Were Never Really Here (2018)

Wind River (2017)

The Prestige (2007)

Stan and Ollie (2018)

Hereditary (2018)

Apocalypto (2006)

The Fountain (2007)

Cheers,

Itsallaguess