I like watching films as I'm sure the majority of you lot do. We all have our favourites but name some of the ones you like that may not have been heard of in other countrys.
UK
Quadrophenia, set in the 60's focusing on the Brit culture of Mods and Rockers. Actually produced by The Who
Scum, rather violent and a little disturbing portrayal of life in a young offenders institution or Borstall as it's known here.
Withnail and I    two young out of work actors struggle through a haze of booze and drugs with amusing consequences
Dead mans shoes Army veteran comes back to exact revenge on the locals who taunted his killed his mentally disabled brother. Paddy Considine who stars in this is actually from my home town and the Shane Meadows who directed it went to college with my brother in law.
Sexy Beast   Ray Winstone as a retired gangster who is living in Spain is required to do one last job. Worth seeing just for Ben Kingsleys performance as a psycho criminal.
Rita Sue an Bob too Sex starved husband starts illicit affair with two girls who babysit for him. Amusing look at British life in a northern industrial town in the eighties.

This is also from the UK**

The Full Monty** Six unemployed steel workers in Sheffield form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.

It's probably fairly well known,.......but remains one of my favorites
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, a Guy Ritche film, alot of twists and turns as a group of friends try to make money in a gambling scheme. I find it absolutely hilarious.

Quote - It's probably fairly well known,.......but remains one of my favorites
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, a Guy Ritche film, alot of twists and turns as a group of friends try to make money in a gambling scheme. I find it absolutely hilarious.

IMHO the highlight of Mr Ritchie's film career.

Damn! Just when you know there are dozens you can't think of one......
All of the above, plus:
DAS BOOT - Filmed from the German point of view, a u-boat on patrol in WW II.
SILENT RUNNING - very much underrated movie about the last plants on Earth being transported to nowhere.
THE CEMENT GARDEN - a strange (erotic)movie about 3 kids who's parents die and leave them to fend for themselves. (Supposedly with incestuous overtones, but that is only implied)
TWIN TOWN - story of two teenage gangsters in Cardiff, Wales (I think)
WIDE EYED & LEGLESS - about a woman with CFS/ME and her struggle to have her condition recognised by the medical establishment. Starring Julie Walters.
SHIRLEY VALENTINE - Pauline Collins as a bored housewife who decides to stay in Greece after her vacation is over - without her husband.

Great idea for a thread though, Orbital!

When I was in high school, we saw a couple of films that I have never been able to remember the names of nor find anyone who could from my description tell me what they were. I don't know if they are even considered movies since I've never been able to find out what they were. So here goes, if anyone knows what either of these are from my description you will have my total admiration.
1st one: An astronaut named "Stoney Stevens(sp?)" apparently has a mishap in space and experiences a number of alternative scenarios of what the afterlife is. In one scene he meets up with the people in white robes. Another scene involves an ice cream truck and a little girl who I think had been killed by a car while she was going for ice cream (I could be wrong about that).

The 2nd movie: Might have had Kentucky fried chicken or something along that line for a title. I remember almost nothing about that movie, except for some food (I think) which came out of the machine and looked a lot like poop.

Ok thats enough dredging up of my odd movie memories, LOL.

Ang: #2 sounds a bit like SOYLENT GREEN

:( never heard that title before. Oh well, I may never find out the answers.

1970's "Johnny Got His Gun" with Donald Sutherland.  About a WWI soldier who gets hit by an artillery shell and is kept alive as a medical excersize because no one imagines there is any longer enough brain left to have cognizant thinking.  They were wrong. Powerful.

Battle Royale: Japanese film about a group of classmates gassed and taken to an island. They are fitted with collars that explode if they break the rules or try to escape. They are then sent out onto the island to play a game. The rules are they have to kill each other in 24 hrs and only the last one standing gets to go home. If there is more than one alive then they all die.
Once were warriors Hard hitting film about Maori life in the slums of New Zealand. The father who is a drunk violent thug played by Temura Morrison (Jango Fett) leads the family down a destructive path by his behaviour. Brutal film with explosive end results.

Of course all these I suggested are quite violent, I do like to balance it out with stuff that has a lighter side.....honest!

Gad..I spend most of the time I render watching movies out of the corner of me eye..;)
Robinson Crusoe on Mars- don't know why, I saw this in the drive-in as a yute..;)
Princess Bride - quotable and fun.
Young Frankenstein- where wolf? there wolf!
The 5th Element- big badda boom..;)
Dr. Phibes, Dr. Phibes rises again - the 1st appearance of Vickie..;)
any Star Wars or Star Trek movie(well, maybe except Star Trek V..;)- gotta keep up my geek cred up..;)
That's enough for now..;)

Jin Roh, the wolf brigade, one of the last (if not the last) traditionally made feature length animation movie. I plays in an alternative Japan in an alternative late 50ties early sixties. A young officiers struggles with himself after the death of girl, a terrorist courier (nicknamed Little red ridinghoods). He is suspended and uses that time to find out more about the dead girl, it is then when he meets her sister. He befriends her and both get dragged into the rivalries between the administration of the police and the counterterrorism commando unit 'Jin Roh' 

Nothing is who he looks likes. Jin-Roh borrows heavily and overtly from the tale of Little Red Ridinghood - the older, darker version that existed even before the Grimm brothers and certainly before it was Bowdlerized and "cleaned up".

All in all a beautifull movie, but don't watch it when in a depressed mood.

@Orbital, it was actually 72 hours, the class had been selected to play this years game of "Battle Royale", The kids are set loose on a island with the explosive collar around their necks and a random item (might be a weapon), the idea is simple, 72 hours to kill each other, the last one standing wins, not obeying rules or venturing in the forbidden zones will set off the colar. If after 72 hours 2 or more surive, everyone loses.

The manga expands a lot on the background of the students and is far more intense in gory violence and sexually graphic than the novel and film versions. The first movie had a good shock and awe level, the seccond one was utter crap in my opinion.

Yeh i heard the 2nd wasn't very good. Sometimes it's useful to read the opinions on Amazon, although the majority get posted by people who love the movie for what ever reason so it can be hit or miss.

Young Frankensein
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
My Name is Nobody
Kung Fu Hustle
Lawrence Of Arabia
LOTR (extended)
Millenium Actress
Run Silent, Run Deep
The Incredibles

...some of the fav's from my DVD collection

Some sleeper classics IMHO.  Oh, and there are a lot.

Carnival of Souls : Classic 1960s horror, even though it's cheesetastic, it's very creepy.  Scary like the Twilight Zone.

House on Haunted Hill : Vincent Price in one of his finest hours.

UHF : The much underrated, pre Kramer, Michael Richards / Wierd Al Yankovic comedy.

Blade Runner : The Penultimate Film Noir Sci-Fi classic.  It helped solidify Ridley Scott as one of the best directors in Hollywood, with an ensemble cast that's impossibly good.

Yellowbeard : The lost "Monty Python meets Cheech & Chong meets Mel Brooks' comedy acting masters and do a Pirate movie.  Look up the cast on IMDB and blow your mind.

Something Wicked This Way Comes : Disney does Ray Bradbury Horror.  Jonathon Pryce is extremely creepy as the evil Mr. Dark.

Snatch : Guy Ritchie with an all-star cast and spoof heist film.  Never give a pit bull a squeeky toy, and never piss off a man who owns a herd of pigs.

Ran : Akira Kurosawa does King Lear

Four Rooms : Tim Roth is a scream as the over stressed night desk clerk in a cruddy little hotel and the 4 events that drive him crazy.  I have to stop the tape at the end of "The Misbehavers" story cause I'm laughing too hard.

Judgement Night : Stars Denis Leary, Emilio Estevez, Jeremy Piven and Cuba Gooding Jr. in some serious breakout performances.  You'll never look at the bad side of town the same way again.

Gothic : A very strange movie with sound score by Thomas Dolby.  4 authors spend a night in a haunted chateau in Switzerland (Mary Shelley Wollingstonescraft, Percy Byche Shelley, Lord Byron and someone else I can't remember)  Twisted stuff maynard.

Nomads : Pierce Brosnan as a cultural anthropologist gets entangled with an evil set of wandering spirits that slowly seduce him to follow.

The Serpent & The Rainbow : Loosely based on the book "The Ethnobiology of the Hatian Zombie".  Every male watching it will curl into a small ball with the torture scene.

The Haunting : The original 1960's version is MUCH more terrifying than the 1990's remake.

Pleasantville : One of JT Walsh's last performances.  An incredible story about normality and being different, right and wrong.  Tobey McGwire, Reese Witherspoon, Don Knotts, William H. Macy star.

Michael Collins : Biopic starring Liam Neeson about the origins of the IRA and it's first real leader.  Very moving.

The Name of the Rose : A Midevil crime drama starring Sean Connery and Christian Slater.  Very cool to wonder how they can solve the murders with no concept of forensics.

Giant : James Dean Classic with stellar cast.  Rolling historical drama.  Fun stuff.

The Hidden : Sci Fi alien horror.  May be dated now but still kinda cool.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels : One of the funniest movies ever.  Steve Martin's "Ruprecht the Monkey Boy is one of the funniest bits ever put on film

Johnny English : Rowan Atkinson shows off his flawless physical comedy and wit in a wonderful spy spoof.

A Midnight Clear : Not your usual WW2 flick.  Follows a series of events of a scout patrol just before the battle of the bulge.  The movie is a heartbreaker.

Emperor of the North Pole : One awesome Hobo flick.  If you like trains, this is a must own.  Ernest Borgnine as a homicidal conductor is truely chilling.

Jackie Chan : Who Am I : IMHO one of his best behind "Legend of Drunken Master". 

Spirited Away : Studio Ghibli's anime masterpiece IMHO.  Great for kids and adults, and distributed by Disney no less!  Check out the voice cast specials on the DVD, very very cool.

MIllenium Actress : Another Anime movie drama about the life of a famous actress looking back over her life and it's internal drama.  It's better than I make it sound.

Yellow Submarine : Even without the drugs, this Beatle's classic is also an animation time capsule.  

Runaway Train : Another must own for train fans, and fans of Akira Kurosawa.  Prisoners escape on a train that becomes a runaway.  

Fools Parade : Last ultimate train flick... if you can find it... Jimmy Stewart, Kurt Russell are in this one about a man's quest to get his money back after getting out of prison only to find his life's savings stolen by the bank manager and local sherrif, who are willing to kill him to keep the money.  I have not found anywhere to buy or rent this one, so if anyone knows where to get a copy, tell me!  I've been looking for nigh 15 years.

as you can tell I watch a lot of movies..

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