Random Movies nobody ever heard of that are actually really good

I remember that film.

Girl of the Night with Anne Francis

All Good Things with Kirsten Dunst and Ryan Gosling

Thunder Road

OP film is called ‘52 Pick-Up’.

While Scheider was filming 52 Pickup (it's an Elmore Leonard novel) he was staying at the Sunset Marquis in WeHo. I was, too. We used to share the NY Times in the hot tub most mornings.

Nice guy but our interactions were pretty minimal. His skin was so tanned that his nickname was "Lizard Man."

52 Pick Up just landed on Amazon Prime, btw.

R5 I love random, interesting stories like this on DL.

Hot Millions, a caper comedy starting Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, Bob Newhart, and Karl Malden.

Genuinely funny.

And some of the only footage known shot inside the Beatles' Apple Store.

Gardens of the Night- 2008 indie movie about two teens who were kidnapped as children by pedos and had to live on the street about the pedos ditched them as teens

Dream Lover (1993) with James Spader and Mädchen Amick. An overlooked entry in the early 90s erotic thriller genre that sort of flew under the radar.

[quote]While Scheider was filming 52 Pickup (it's an Elmore Leonard novel) he was staying at the Sunset Marquis in WeHo. I was, too. We used to share the NY Times in the hot tub most mornings.

Why wasn't he on the set most mornings?

R11 probably not for night shoots

52 Pick-Up is a horrible movie for depicting a snuff film in which a woman is raped and killed for kicks.

R13 oh my god. Get over it! It was over 30 years ago. Is the metoo movement going to require that any film depicting rape be censored?

52 Pick Up is a decent enough film, underrated and forgotten. Directed by John Frakenheimer (with a pretty good commentary track on the DVD), the movie also has a hand-to-hand fight sequence with Roy Scheider wearing only briefs.

R10, I liked that movie

R11 It was usually fairly early in the morning, like 7 am. I forget what he called it - is "post-production" the right term? - where he had to go in to re-shoot scenes or re-record dialogue at random times of day, not head to the studio at 6 am. It wasn't scintillating conversation. More like "Can I see the financial section if you're done?"

It was a fun read, as were most Leonard crime novels. "Why didn't anyone warn me about Albanians?" or something like that. I just started it on Amazon Prime. It's a Golan-Globus/Cannon movie, like many of Stallone and Schwarzeneggar's shlock movies.

[italic]You Kill Me[/italic] - It's a little indie with Sir Ben Kingsley, Tea Leoni, Luke Wilson, Bill Pullman, Dennis Farina and more. Kingsley plays an alcoholic hit man who is sent to a family friend to dry out while the family business in Buffalo is under siege from Farina. Lots of black humor. For all Kingsley's reputed grandiosity, I like that he was willing to do a little movie like this. Pullman plays evil for a change. '

HARPER with Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Shelley Winters, Janet Leigh, Janet Leigh and Robert Wagner.

I saw it for the first time last year and was blown away with how entertaining it was. It's a great look at how L.A. was in the 1960s.

Harper was a very big film.

Sign of the Ram

And what is so good about this Sign of the Ram?

R20, It wasn't. I had never heard of it.

Jean Renoir fled the Nazis to USA and his first movie Swamp Water, 1941, is very watchable and atmospheric. "Southern Gothic" but more than that.

Panique au Village

Other People (2016)

Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)

Billy Crudup conducts the famous psychological experiment. Ezra Miller is one of the inmates subject to torture, which explains so much. The rest of the cast is comprised of talented young actors before they became famous.

Lisa 1962 also known as The Inspector

Starring DL favs Delores Hart and Stephen Boyd.

Dutch Inspector goes rogue to help a young Holocaust survivor get to Palestine.

“The Blood of Heroes” (Australian title: Salute of the Jugger)

Peak Rutger Hauer.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 (1972), a wry, black comedy about British aristocracy; how countries are run by barking mad blue bloods. Peter O'Toole plays the 14th Earl of Gurney, a paranoid schizophrenic who believes he's Christ. One of the film's highlights is where he's pitted against another madman, McKyle, the High Voltage Messiah (Nigel Green) in a contest over which one is God.

R23, Harper was a pretty well-known at the time, part of Paul Newman's three H movies: Hud, Hondo, Harper.

Immediate Family with Glenn Close (shut the fuck up M. - I'm warning you in advance), James Wood, Kevin Dillion & Mary Stewart Masterson.

François Ozon's Swimming Pool starring Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier. Very good and Hitchcockian.

[quote]Sarah Morton is a famous British mystery author. Tired of London and seeking inspiration for her new novel, she accepts an offer from her publisher John Bosload to stay at his home in Luberon, in the South of France. It is the off-season, and Sarah finds that the beautiful country locale and unhurried pace is just the tonic for her--until late one night, when John's indolent and insouciant French daughter Julie unexpectedly arrives. Sarah's prim and steely English reserve is jarred by Julie's reckless, sexually charged lifestyle. Their interactions set off an increasingly unsettling series of events, as Sarah's creative process and a possible real-life murder begin to blend dangerously together.

"The Mirror Has Two Faces" with Michele Morgan. The horrid Babs version was supposedly inspired by it, but the two films don't really have much in common. The original is much, much better and also darker in tone.

R33 fabulous movie

The Tenant

Matt Dillon made a lot of memorable 80s angst, but this early 80s story of Texas teens seems often overlooked.

Cindy Fisher married soap star Doug Davidson, a fact I just learned while looking for a link to this film.

The 6+ hour Italian film The Best of Youth. (I saw it in NY at the Film Forum, where it was shown in two parts on different days.)

Its focus is on two brothers over a period of about 35 years

And it's wonderful.

Desperate Characters

Puzzle of a Downfall Child

The Bliss of Mrs Blossom

The Wrong Box

The Little Devil

Diva

Jean de Florette

Manon Des Sources

Mon Oncle d'Ameriques

A comedy no one has seen except, It seems, me called The Big Tease. Craig Ferguson as a gay, Scottish hairdresser. Quite funny and has cameos from a lot of celebrities.

Thank You Mr. Wonderful.

I saw this decades ago at the FIlm Forum. It features Joe Pesci, Evan Handler, and Andrea Marcovicci .

I really enjoyed it. It was about a New Jersey family with a father who wanted to be a singer.

But I have not been able to find it anywhere since.

Here's another one:

Dinner Rush

It's about a guy who owns a Tribeca restaurant, with his son as the star chef.

Housekeeping- loved it

American Dreamer.

Punishment Park

r31 Newman's movie is Hombre. Hondo is a John Wayne movie.

was this the movie where scheider did a pretty sexy racy soft porn like sex scene? or was it some other movie from that era i'm remembering of his that he did such a scene? or maybe i'm remembering some other actor! lol!....

The Coca-Cola Kid

Action/Suspense film Run (1991) starring Patrick Dempsey and the late Kelly Preston. Barely released on VHS, don't believe it's been released on DVD.

Gangster 1 with David Thewlis and terrific Paul Bettany. Rise and fall of british gangster. Terrific sexual chemistry between main male characters. Best acting of Paul Bettany's career. He is pathetic and terrifiyng at the same time.

A Walk in the Spring Rain starring Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Quinn.

[quote]Immediate Family with Glenn Close (shut the fuck up M. - I'm warning you in advance), James Wood, Kevin Dillion & Mary Stewart Masterson.

It's not Wood you fucking cunt. It's Woods. I'm not that dead cunt Natalie.

Cracks

[quote]In an austere and remote all-girls boarding school, the most elite clique of girls are the illustrious members of the schools' diving team. Their glamorous teacher Miss G (Eva Green) is the willing object of their adolescent fantasies, fueling the girl's obsession with illicit nighttime excursions and fantastic scandalous stories. As Team Captain, Di is closest of all the girls to Miss G but her position is challenged when a beautiful Spanish girl, Fiamma, arrives at the school, immediately attracting the attentions of Miss with her beauty and maturity. Consumed with jealousy, Di encourages the group to bully their team mate, and Fiamma becomes isolated and vulnerable to the attentions of her teacher.

I guess it's safe to assume James Woods make horrible puns about his last name when trying to pick up women.

R15- The Roy Scheider film with him in briefs in a fight scene was MARATHON MAN, not 52 PICK UP.

I love 52 PICK UP because it gives John Glover one of his best roles. A psychopath.

To R31 and R23. There was even a sequel to Harper called "The Drowning Pool" in 1975.

I slept with John Glover R15. He still texts me sometimes. He's a pothead and a bottom.

Trading Hearts (1988), a sweet movie with Raul Julia, Beverly D'Angelo and Jenny Lewis. I don't think it made it to DVD.

Accident

The New Age

The Rapture

Female Perversions

Def. The Rapture. Mimi Rogers was amazing. Plus it was nice to see David Duchovny's naked butt.

And his low hangers from behind r61.

Tell us more about John Glover r57. Ask him what John Oates was like in bed.

The Great Santini

[quote]François Ozon's Swimming Pool starring Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier. Very good and Hitchcockian.

Oh god I've just had a flashback to Rampling's nipples and her having sex with a hunchback dwarf.

Top 5. Chris Rock movie- really funny with great performances.

[quote]To [R31] and [R23]. There was even a sequel to Harper called "The Drowning Pool" in 1975.

I had no idea. I'm excited to see it now. Is it a good movie?

The Business Of Strangers with Stockard Channing and Julia Stiles.

It came out in the early 2000s and was trailed for what seemed like every single film for 2 months solid.

Rip Kelly Preston! She was a very loyal and good Scientologist.

R68 Kelly is the hooker that gets sniffed out.

The Company of Wolves. Now almost forgotten.

Angela Carter's riff on Little Red Riding Hood, directed by Neil Jordan with Stephen Rea as the Wolf and Angela Lansbury as Grandma.

Footsteps in the Fog, with Jean Simmons and Stewart Granger

Rancho Deluxe - Sam Watterson, Jeff Bridges.

Wild Rovers - Directed by Blake Edwards, Ryan O’Neal and Bill Holden

Two 70s buddy westerns!

Crazy from the Heart...a sweet little romantic movie about a school principal who finds love with the Mexican-American school custodian. I really liked it because it does capture the prejudices that exist in SE Texas to this day regarding not only ethnicity but class. Christine Lahti and Ruben Blades.

Titanic - the ending was wild!

This might be a famous movie, but I'd never heard of it until I saw it on Prime the other night, and it was amazingly gripping.

An absolutely great watch.

I was delighted as all I was expecting was a decent 90's thriller.

nlluu

Burglar starring Whoopi Goldberg

Well we had a good run, but once they start posting summer blockbusters it’s done.

The movie Titanic!

A big ship hits... okay, no spoilers!

Red Rock West

Bedazzled, starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. It shows up on Netflix from time to time and if you've never seen it, you need to. Utterly hilarious!

I'll second r77. If you're looking for a faithful adaptation of the Lawrence Block Bernie Rhodenbarr stories on which the film was loosely based, you're shit outta luck (fun fact: the project was originally developed to be a more serious piece with Bruce Willis as Bernie and Whoopi in what became the Bobcat Goldthwait role, but when he dropped out, she said "What about me as the lead?" and Hollywood said sure), but this made for an entertaining movie.

It's got some terrific performances from Whoopi, G.W. Bailey, Lesley Ann Warren, Goldthwait, and John Goodman in an early supporting role, and the soundtrack, if a little synth-heavy, isn't bad either. (I especially like the number by the Jacksons - sans Michael - called "Time Out For the Burglar." Underrated track.)

God Bless America. Dark comedy and a scathing look at today's society.

[qoute] This might be a famous movie, but I'd never heard of it until I saw it on Prime the other night, and it was amazingly gripping.

Air Force One was a huge hit when it came out. And you’re right; it’s terrifically entertaining. Ford in peak movie star form.

Opening rant from God Bless America. Classic.

[quote]I hate my neighbors. The constant cacophony of stupidity that pours from their apartment is absolutely soul-crushing. It doesn't matter how politely I ask them to practice some common courtesy - they're incapable of comprehending that their actions affect other people. They have a complete lack of consideration for anyone else, and an overly developed sense of entitlement. They have no decency, no concern, no shame. They do not care that I suffer from debilitating migraines and insomnia. They do not care that I have to go to work, or that I want to kill them. I know it's not normal to want to kill, but I also know that I am no longer normal.

Don't Think Twice- 2016 movie about an improv comedy group that goes through conflict after one member ends up on SNL type sketch show.

Whoopi Goldberg did a number of movies after her successful turn in The Color Purple, most of which turned out to be flops or quickly disappeared. Burglar, Fatal Beauty, The Telephone, Clara's Heart and The Long Walk Home.

I really like Burglar and Fatal Beauty, both of which flopped but tried to be star vehicles for Goldberg.

The Long Walk Home is a terrific movie, released the same year as Whoopi's comeback in Ghost. A much better film than The Help, both Goldberg and Sissy Spacek are excellent in this film. Sadly, still not on Blu-Ray.

There goes the neighborhood with Jeff Daniels and Catherine O’Hara

I spent part of my childhood in the UK and part in the US. For some reason, this random Albert Finney movie used to air on UK TV a lot in the late 80s. I thought it was so cool at the time. Not sure if it holds up. Anyone? Michael Critchton wrote and directed.

[quote]Looker is a 1981 American science-fiction thriller–horror film written and directed by Michael Crichton and starring Albert Finney, Susan Dey, and James Coburn. The film is a suspense/science-fiction piece that comments upon and satirizes media, advertising, television's effects on the populace, and a ridiculous standard of beauty. Though sparse in visual effects, the film is notable for being the first commercial film to attempt to make a realistic computer-generated character, for the model named Cindy. It was also the first film to create three-dimensional (3D) shading with a computer,[4] months before the release of the better-known Tron.

The Last of Sheila (1973)

r89 Thirty-minute review of Looker.

r91 - 30 minutes?? Jeeze Louise. Might as well just rewatch the whole film.

The Last of Sheila is a cult movie and definitely not random nor forgotten. How could it be with that cast?

“Living In Oblivion” (1995). A truly great, generally unknown film. Currently streaming on HBO.

R41 The actual title is "Dear Mr. Wonderful" (1982). It's available on DVD. Several old/new copies are for sale on eBay. I also see someone's loaded the entire film on youtube. (btw - The lead female is Karen Ludwig, who kind of resembles Marcovicci.)

Mugsy's Girls starring Laura Branigan and Ruth Gordon

Independence Day (1983) Dianne Wiest has never been more brilliant. The rest of the cast including Kathleen Quinlan, David Keith, Frances Sternhagen & Cliff De Young are also very very good.

R97 sounds good. I’ll have check it out. Love DW & KQ.

R94's mention of Living in Oblivion (co-starring James LeGros) made me think of Floundering . . .

Thank you, R95.

I became friends with one of the cast members and he also consistently got the title wrong.

R93, I had neither seen nor heard of The Last of Sheila until last night.

Every gay person needs to watch The Last of Sheila and Harper at least once in their life. Your life isn't complete until you do.

Born to Win (1972; I believe it only ran in NY for a week) -- George Segal as a former hairdresser turned heroin addict. Supporting cast includes Karen Black, Robert DeNiro, Hector Elizondo, and Paula Prentiss. Also features Times Square in all its seedy 70s glory, and a great jazzy soundtrack by William Fischer.

Movie is public domain and is on YouTube and several other streaming services.

Siam Sunset, an Australian dark romantic comedy starring Linus Roache.

Dyan Cannon and Richard Benjamin fondly look back at ‘The Last of Sheila’

Liquid Sky (1983). New Wave fashions and music (Bowie contributed a catchy song or two) and a plot involving a young woman hooked on smack and trailed by an alien presence who is offing her sex partners. Hilarity ensues. Saw it while at UT Austin back in the 80s on campus where they showed everything from ultra-independent like this film to Driving Miss Daisy. Hope they still are.

Most memorable line ever: I kill. With my cunt.

Things May Come - a 2016 French movie about a college professor going through a marriage separation. it's one of those pitch perfect French ennui type of flicks. stars Isabelle Huppert.

Things to Come* !

That was released around the same time as Elle and was equally praised.

And if we're dipping into Isabelle movies I love School Of Flesh (1998). In Paris, Dominique (Isabelle Huppert), a middle-aged fashion professional, solicits the services of the handsome Quentin (Vincent Martinez), a bisexual bartender and prostitute who is 15 years her junior.

1988’s “Apartment Zero” set in a Buenos Aires where everyone speaks English. Starring the so hot Hart Bochner and a young Colin Firth. Very homo-erotic.

I remember "Apartment Zero" it was interesting with a delicious young Colin Firth.

"The Zero Effect" with a great Bill Pullman performance a funny, clever script and a surprisingly not-annoying Ben Stiller. Pullman is a modern-day junkie/Sherlock Holmes figure called Darryl Zero. Stiller is his sidekick.

Ryan O'Neal is the shady client. I forget the girl's name but it's a take on the Belgravia Holmes mystery.

Everyone I've ever loaned it to or recommended it to has liked it.

Oops, sorry, here's the trailer for "The Zero Effect"

Top Secret with Val Kilmer is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.

Really? This movie was a repeat play on the earliest pay cable stations. Over and over and over again.

Tune in Tomorrow with Keanu Reeves and Barbara Hershey.

The Night of the Hunter - Robert Mitchum plays a psychopathic preacher who plots to kill a widow and her children for money that was hidden on their farm by the kids' late father. Charles Laughton directed his only film, which is a shame because he made an outstanding movie.

R112 I’ve always wished that they’d made a series of movies with those characters.

R106, I am a big fan of Liquid Sky. I even own the DVD.

But no. Bowie did not contribute anything.. He was not involved at all. It was a very low budget film.

R109 I had forgotten about Elle. Now that's one movie that never in a million years would have been made in the US.

The Reflecting Skin, 1990, with Viggo Mortensen. Very creepy art / horror film.

My Favorite Year was a wonderful film. Directed by Richard Benjamin. Peter O ‘Toole was terrific and nominated for Best Actor. And Lainie Kazan was a riot.

“Jonathan” this film did the festival circuit where i saw it but it never got picked up for wide release. Really good film, great performances by Ansel Elgort, Patricia Clarksman, Suki Waterhouse and a small role with Mathew Bomer. It’s currently on available on Netflix.

“Clarkson”. Hate autocorrect

The French film The Perfect Nanny . It's based on the notorious killer nanny case in 2012 Manhattan. A surprisingly dull and snooze inducing movie, but Karin Viard was very good as the nutty nanny.

“How I Live Now” (2013) with Saoirse (sp?) Ronan but also George MacKay and a young Tom Holland. Starts out with teenagers left alone in an idyllic countryside, quickly descends into chaos and survival after a devastating event. Pertinent in the Trump era.

The Changeling (1980) is unheard of today. It needs more attention.

R117 At the time and for a couple of decades The Night of the Hunter was unknown. However, it became a cult item in the late 70s and has since been widely seen and considered a classic so its no longer a random movie nobody has ever heard of. The saddest part is Charles Laughton never lived to see his obscure film achieve the class/materpiece status that is has had now for several decades.

[quote] But no. Bowie did not contribute anything ...

Jesus H! Thanks R119 for the correction. Must have been the acid (which was also terrific in mid-80s Austin Tx!)

The Answer Man - Jeff Daniels as a reclusive author.

Agora - Rachel Weisz as 4th cent. philosopher Hypatia

Brother Sun, Sister Moon - St. Francis via Zeffirelli

Dreamchild - Quirky update on Alice in Wonderland

The Fugitive- Spiritual Calvary via John Ford in Mexico.

The Gift - Psychic Cate Blanchett finds redemption.

Handsome Harry - Fascinating character study

Lady in White - Multi-level ghost story/nostalgia journey,

My Brother Talks to Horses - Quirky fun via vintage MGM.

One, Two, Three - My very favorite comedy.

Rembrandt - Laughton and Lanchester in a beautiful biopic.

Savage Messiah - Ken Russell’s best movie.

Truly Madly Deeply - The passage of grief, with a ghostly edge.

Westward the Women - Memorable, moving wagon train saga.

Clockwatchers- a 90s indie movie about a group of office temps

I recently watched a Spanish movie on Netflix titled THE INVISIBLE GUEST. (Original title CONTRATIEMPO)

It's about about a businessman who, after being attacked, awakes in a hotel room to find that his female lover has been killed. As there is apparently no way in or out of the room, he is arrested for her murder. Out on bail and about to go on trial, he works on his defense with his attorney.

An excellent murder mystery with a ton of twists & turns. It's been remade in several other languages (Italian, Hindi, and Talugu).

R41 it’s called Dear Mr Wonderful and is on Amazon Prime

Femme Fatale. Gloriously shot and Rebecca Romijn is actually quite good in it. It’s such a wonderful salute by De Palma to euro thrillers of the 60s and 70s and equally wildly implausible and breathlessly, elegantly silly — something many critics seem to have completely missed.

The end credits are heartbreakingly gorgeous. I also adore the scene when Romijn and Banderas first kiss. It’s like a thrilling fever dream of a movie. The music by Sakamoto is amazing.

....

r121 I thought I was the only one who remembered that movie. I was drawn to the "dark side of the rural small town" aspect.

Another creepy atmosphere movie was The Believers with Martin Sheen. IIRC, it was one of those movies where the third act is a bit wonky, but it's worth it if you like atmospheric thriller/horror.

Hearts of the West - 1975.

Love those weird depictions of old Hollywood in 70s films. Has a cast that just goes on and on.

Jennifer 8, featuring a young Uma Thurman playing a blind woman and arguably her best ever performance.

The Believers is really good and entertaining. It seems to have become a cult favorite on cable in recent years.

I think The Four Seasons with Alan Alda and Carol Burnett is one of the most underrated films of the 1980s. I watch it every year and never get tired of it.

“Stretch” starrIng Patrick Wilson and Chris Pine.

Silk (Gui si), 2006. A Taiwanese ghost/horror movie about a police detective investigating murders seemingly connected to the ghost of a young boy and a team of paranormal researchers also investigating the location of the boy's haunting. Some scary and creepy moments, but with more dramatic parts as well.

I've seen quite a lot of these recommendations already, that makes my FOMO feel so much better.

Raise the Red Lantern is a beautiful Chinese film. It got a lot of play so I wouldn't call it "obscure" but if you haven't seen it it's worth seeing.

Concubines in old China. It's gorgeous and haunting.

A movie called, "C.R.A.Z.Y." (2005)

A Quebecois gay "coming of age film."

100% Fresh on Rotton Tomatoes and 93% Audience Score

I always bring it up when gay coming of age movies are a topic and no one has ever seen it. I suspect that's because it's not an American movie.

C.R.A.Z.Y. is very popular in Canada r143

I saw C.R.A.Z.Y on cable a few years ago. I liked it.

I figured it was popular there R144 -- but not here. :) The only gay Canadian movies I can think of off the top of my head are Mambo Italiano and A Touch of Pink. I thought the second one was really unique.

American Fabulous. Anyone have memories of this?!?

Thief of Hearts from 1984. The leading man was sex on a stick. The song "Thief of Hearts" from the soundtrack was awesome. Melissa Manchester with Giorgio Moroder producing.

I just re-watched [bold]C.R.A.Z.Y.[/bold] a few weeks ago. I had forgotten how good it is. Unfortunately, it has become extremely difficult to find in an English-friendly version. (I was able to get the UK DVD from the Amazon UK Marketplace several years ago for only £3. It is, however, region-locked so you need a region free player.)

[quote]The only gay Canadian movies I can think of off the top of my head are Mambo Italiano and A Touch of Pink.

You forgot the granddaddy of all gay Canadian movies [bold]Outrageous![/bold] (1977), starring the late Craig Russell and Hollis McLaren.

I’m always looking for a British movie called Shattered (or Something To Hide). A gloomy b/w one. Peter Finch picks up a pregnant teenage hitchhiker....very creepy.

During a summer in the mid 2000-s, during which I was concerned of getting a beard, I watched a movie called 'Where The Heart Is' with Natalie Portman on German television channel VOX one morning. It is about a young woman who gives birth to a baby in a Walmart in Oklahoma during a tornado. She makes national news headlines for giving birth to the 'Walmart Baby'. At the end of the movie she attends Harvard with the baby, because she is super smart. Y'all should watch it.

I love watching obscure movies taking place in the American Midwest or the South (But more in the Midwest)! It is like watching porn to me, seriously!

Too funny that someone mentioned Clockwatchers above! Loved that one!

In 1999 when I I was out of school and had my first adult apt I joined "Columbia House Video Club" lol

Clockwatchers was one of 5 FREE movies I chose. Watched it all the time..

The Company of Wolves

Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence (well known in the early 80s because of David Bowie, but sadly forgotten by this generation, I think)

Angel (yes, I know it's trashy, but it had an odd appeal when I was young)

The Osterman Weekend (love Rutger Hauer)

The Boy Who Could Fly (1986)

I worked at a video store that had practically every VHS tape known to mankind. There were films we had one or two copies of that sat for years collecting dust. There were films that were big renters while on the new release shelf that once they went into general circulation people seemed to forget about. We had to create an "Employee Pick" section so lesser known films could be re-discovered. Among my picks:

"They Might Be Giants" (1971), George C. Scott & Joanne Woodward, a sweet light fantasy comedy. "There Was a Crooked Man" (1970), Henry Fonda & Kirk Douglas, a delightful but violent western comedy. "Fedora" (1979), Billy Wilder's attempt for another Sunset Blvd., but great on its own merit. "A Private Function" (1984), Maggie Smith joins the Monty Python company, a great double bill with 1982's "The Missionary", also starring Maggie, with Michael Palin in both. "Murder By Decree" (1979), a Sherlock Holmes film about Jack the Ripper, a great double bill with "Time After Time", also 1979, where H.G. Wells follows Jack the Ripper to modern day San Francisco.

R155... did your store have any of those great hard to find male stripper videos?....i remember long ago like 1990 going to a video store and seeing a male stripper videotape entitled "G-MEN" with a bulging thong crotch on the cover and i so wanted to buy it as i was on sale, however, back then i was "ahem" too shy to buy such a tape, a week later it was gone.. bummer!..

"After Dark, My Sweet" Based on a novel by Jim Thompson, this is one of the best of the many neo-noirs of the 1990s.

"Jolene" in Jessica Chastain's film debut, she plays a young woman trying to navigate life while taking on a multitude of personas.

"Undertow" A gorgeous southern gothic fairy tale starring Jamie Bell.

"Blue Ruin" Possibly the only realistic movie about revenge. Instead of a tough avenger, the main character is a broken down shell.

"Shotgun Stories" A slow-burn southern gothic noir with a great performance from Michael Shannon.

"Hush" A genuinely terrifying horror movie about a deaf-mute being terrorized.

"Stone Reader" A compelling doc about a guy tracking down a reclusive author that explores why people love to read.

how about the homoerotic "biker film" STONE COLD starring in his debut hot as hell brian bosworth! (black bikini underwear? check!, spray painted on blue jeans that actually rip showing ass skin as he's riding on top of the hood of a car? check! no shirt and black leather vest outfit? check! multiple no shirt and only vest and nips showing scenes? check! closeups of his baby blue eyes and chiseled tan face? check!)...

a total homoerotic (on purpose?) film...

r155, good picks. I like There Was a Crooked Man and Murder By Decree

Murder by Decree is terrific. It was just released on Blu-ray although apparently the transfer is not that great especially the night scenes. Great Canadian cast plus James Mason.

Paradise with Melanie Griffith, don johnson and a baby Elijah wood.

Deceived with Goldie hawn.

r161, I remember Paradise. I had a crush on Elijah Wood as a gayling. It also features a young Thora Birch.

R69, and snuffed out

The Asphyx

UFOria (1985)

with: Cindy Williams, Harry Dean Stanton and Fred Ward

Static (1985)

with: Keith Gordon, Amanda Plummer and Bob Gunton

The Wrong Box with Michael Caine, Dudley Moore and Ralph Gielgud. "Don't bother to apologize!" Hilarious.

Shattered Glass. It's the only time I thought Hayden Christensen had any talent.

I bet most of those who post to this thread spent a lot of time in decades past rummaging through discount store DVD and VHS movie cut-out bins. Buying piles of shitty videos each costing $.99 in hopes of finding good entertainment. Bah!

R169 I feel seen.

R151 Her character doesn't attend Harvard. At the end of the movie, she goes looking for the friend who was in love with her, and finds him at an unnamed east coast college. Then they're shown getting married in Wal-Mart.

The Last American Virgin (1982)

Scream for Help (1984)

White Water Summer (1987)

Grandmother's House (1988)

Josh and S.A.M. (1993)

Judgment Night (1993)

Body Shots (1999)

Pretty Persuasion (2005)

Girls Against Boys (2012)

Lamb (2015)

The sequel to Harper (The Drowning Pool), is pretty awful. Newman pretty much phones it in. Even Woodward can't save it.

Our Mother's House, a 1967 film directed by Jack Clayton about a group of kids who keep their mother's death a secret. With Dirk Bogarde, Pamela Franklin, and a pre-Oliver Mark Lester.

The House That Screamed (a.k.a. La Residencia), a horror film from Spain set in a 19th Century school for wayward girls with murders and repressed sexuality. With Lili Palmer as the headmistress.

Deep End, a 1969 British film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski about a teenaged boy who takes a job at the local swimming baths (hetero) and becomes obsessed with an attendant played by Jane Asher.

Ruben Brant, Collector (2018). Animated film about a psychiatrist who uses his kleptomaniac patients to steal famous paintings. I realize some people have heard of this movie but it's not well-known.

R172 My sister and I were obsessed with Josh and S.A.M. as kids. Whenever I bring it up in conversations about nostalgic childhood favorites, nobody else has heard of it.

"Heavy" (1995) with Liv Tyler, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Shelley Winters, and Debbie Harry. It's a great, understated drama with good performance all around. Harry plays a slutty waitress who is mean to the young Tyler, a new waitress at a tavern run by a batty Winters. It was James Gold's first feature film.

James Mangold, not Gold--stupid autocorrect.

I watched a pretty decent hood movie from 1995 tonight called New Jersey Drive about teenagers stealing cars and being killed by police. Same director who did Laws of Gravity (1992)

R178 That director, Nick Gomez was an indie darling in the 90s, but seems kinda forgotten now.

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne. Maggie Smith and Bob Hoskins. I think it’s Maggie’s best performance.

That Cold Day in the Park starring Sandy Dennis

Play It as It Lays starring Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins

The Daytrippers; Long Island housewife Hope Davis finds a love letter signed "Sandy" in her husband's (Stanley Tucci) jacket. She and her family (dad, pushy mom Anne Meara, sister Parker Posey, sister's fiancee Liev Schreiber) pile into the station wagon for a drive into the city to confront him and Sandy. Many truths are revealed.

Fear of a Black Hat -- think This is Spinal Tap, but with a rap group. Very funny, and the music video parodies were dead on.

If you know the controversy involving C and C Music Factory and zaftig vocalist Martha Walsh, this clip is a million times funnier.

R150 It's on youtube.

The indie film, "Independence Day", with David Keith, Kathleen Quinlan, and Dianne Weist. Dianne was remarkable in this as an abused wife, and it was only her 4th film.

"Resurrection" with Ellen Burstyn and a young, hot Sam Shepard.

The Tall Guy; Jeff Goldblum as an American actor in London who gets his big break in a musical version of The Elephant Man (!). Also features an appealing Emma Thompson in her first big starring role.

R182 That got a Criterion re-issue a year or two ago.

R31 That's Hud, Harper, Hombre (1967)

Huge at the time, and a break out from the art house and foreign film niche to mainstream theaters, The Gods Must be Crazy was fun, adventurous and even philosophical and appealed to the whole family. But I never saw it show up on TV, cable or streaming and though it had many international sequels I don’t recall them in American theaters.

Edmond (2005) David Mamet wrote the screenplay based on his play, directed by Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) and starring William H Macy in a nervy performance that my be his best.

Payday (1973) A portrait of a self-destructive country western singer played by Rip Torn in his best performance. Not as elaborate as Nashville , but certainly more realistic. 4 stars from Roger Ebert. The film was released sporadically and Ebert's review is from 1975. 'Payday' is a brilliant, nasty little chrome-plated razor blade of a movie- NYTimes 3/11/73 'The totality of Rip Torn's inspired portrait is overwhelming' - Judith Crist New York Magazine

Pretty Poison (1968) ' a remarkable first feature film by a gifted young American, Noel Black' -Pauline Kael The New Yorker 11/2/1968 Psychological thriller with Tuesday Weld, Anthony Perkins and Beverly Garland as Weld's mom at their best.

Night Moves with Gene Hackman and a slutty teenaged Melanie Griffith who bares her its on camera. It's a weird, sort of creepy thriller that you rarely hear talked about.

And by its I mean tits

Another unremembered '70s flick: Straight Time, starring Dustin Hoffman as a career criminal, and Theresa Russell as his young girlfriend. A pre-fame Kathy Bates also has a minor part. It's a great drama with solid acting from everyone involved. Even Russell, who has a dicey track record, gives a good performance here.

A New Leaf

The Box - Frank Langella, Cameron Diaz, James Marsden

Men Don’t Leave. Jessica Lange.

[quote]Independence Day

I saw this on cable when I was young and would love to see it again, but it seems to be one of those films that is impossible to track down. Dianne Weist is what I remember most about it.

Alain Resnais’ Providence, with Sir John Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde, and a very young Ellen Burstyn

The Verdict with Paul Newman

The Friends of Eddie Coyle with Robert Mitchum and Peter Boyle

Big Shots (1987)

The Guard with Brendan Gleeson & Don Cheadle; it has a lot of humor that's specific to Ireland (like making fun of Dubliners), but it's hard to imagine an American movie getting away with the things these two say to each other

A Table For One (aka "Wicked Ways") starring Rebecca de Mornay. Not a great film but a good distraction on lazy Sunday afternoons when one is too tired to go out or do anything productive.

Really? There are people who've never heard of "The Verdict"?

As long as their are lawyers, people will watch The Verdict.

Clockwatchers

House of Sand and Fog...heartbreaking

"Calvary"; a priest hears the confession of a (now adult) pedopriest victim, who reveals his intent to murder the innocent priest seven days later. Brendan Gleeson should've gotten an Oscar nomination for this.

^^^By the way, this American trailer dumbs the film down considerably, making it look like it's about some vendetta-priest hellbent on finding his would-be killer, at the expense of his vows -- that's not what it's about at all.

R206, House of Sand and Fog is pretty well-known. It received multiple Oscar nominations. I wouldn't call it a movie nobody's heard of.

R172 I watched Judgement Night. One of those "hidden gems" that is actually a bad movie. I couldn't stand how the characters spent half the movie dicking around and screaming at each other. Denis Leary had to do a big bad guy speech every time he seemingly had our heroes cornered. I really grew to HATE the sound of his voice. I did like how creepy and deserted they made Chicago look.

This was brought up in recent threads, but Night of the Comet is quite good for its genre and hella fun.

Suicide Kings with Christopher Walken

Into Temptation with Jeremy Sisto and Kristin Chenoweth

The night of counting years. Classic Egyptian movie.

Run Lola Run

When I'm Sixty-Four (2004), a lovely gay BBC television film.

[quote]Unmarried schoolteacher Jim retires from the school he has worked at all his life and starts making plans of what to do. He meets widowed cab-driver Ray who is of a similar age and they strike up a friendship which ends up being more than just friends.

Dogfight. River Phoenix is good in it.

[quote] When I'm Sixty-Four (2004), a lovely gay BBC television film.

Thanks for this recommendation, R216. I had never heard of this film before but it sounds very interesting.

Bully (2001) is great if you can get over the director Larry Clark's pervy camera shots.

3 by Frank Perry: The Swimmer (1968) with Burt Lancaster and a cameo by Joan Rivers, Last Summer (1969) and Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)

"Bully" is great, R219. It's Larry Clark's best movie IMO. Just brutal. Brad Renfro and Kelli Garner were the standouts in that movie for me—after repeat viewings over the years, I've been more and more impressed by Garner's performance in particular, even though her role is smaller than some of the others. She completely embodies the nonchalant, airy fucked-upness of her character. The monologue she gives about her grandfather being a rapist and killing her grandmother (and then engaging in necrophilia with the corpse) is chilling. Fantastic acting.

R217 I agree with Dogfight, one of the better lesser known independent films from the 1990s.

Funny and well played.

𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹'𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 (1999)

Starring: James Belushi, Sheryl Lee and Kyle Chandler.

Tony wants to be a hitman for the Mafia, but first he has to learn from a master. Enter Stevie California-cool, eats veggie burgers and quotes Neitzche.

Tony may not agree with Stevie's style, but he has to complete his training so he can go back and kill the Mafia's accountant, who's about to turn state's evidence. His final test: kill whoever is randomly picked out of the yellow pages. His target: Angel Chaste. Angel works the graveyard shift at a mortuary. She thinks a doll is her baby. Her mother left when she was little. Basically, Angel has PROBLEMS.

Never go to war with a crazy girl who has a library card.

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𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐓𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞 (2002)

Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Stanley Tucci , Janeane Garofalo, Dennis Farina

Smart script plus slapstick directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. Unfortunately the late 2001 public wasn't in the mood for a comedy involving nuclear weapons smuggling and airline hijackings

R219 I was surprised to learn that Clark is gay. All those fish close-ups in Bully...

R224 I've never heard that Clark is gay--he just seems to be a perv who likes watching teenagers fuck

Larry started off as one of the most provocative photographers of the 60s and 70s.

Wilby Wonderful

“A day-in-the-life dark comedy concerning a group of islanders, their respective secrets, and one man's plan to kill himself quietly.”

Sandra Oh, Elliot Page, and Paul Gross

At the risk of being flamed…the movie is wonderful.

(R57 - I hate you for living my fantasy.)

A Month in the Country

Young Colin Firth, Young Kenneth Branagh, and Young Natasha Richardson. They are all wonderful. A very small, quiet movie.

"Set in rural Yorkshire during the summer of 1920, the film follows a destitute World War I veteran employed to carry out restoration work on a Medieval mural discovered in a rural church while coming to terms with the after-effects of the war."

It's an adaptation of the 1980 novel by J. L. Carr.

It is weird that the musical based on Dogfight is now better known than the film itself.

To live and die in LA

Rain (2001). New Zealand film set in the 70s about a family on vacation at their beach house as the parents’ marriage dissolves. Music by Neil Finn.

Elmore Leonard story, always enjoyable.

R232 Which Elmore Leonard story?

Happy as Lazzaro -- Italian movie, currently streaming on Netflix. Makes you think.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle with Robert Mitchum and Peter Boyle.

All of them

“Bodies, Rest, and Motion.”

So Gen X it hurts.

Fucking Nick!

“August”

Adam Scott, Josh Giant Mole, and... David Bowie?

Resurrection (with Ellen Burstyn)

The Name of the Rose (Sean Connery)

The Ghost Writer (Ewan McGregor)

Salmon Fishing on the Yemen (Emily Blunt)

Big Night (Stanley Tucci)

Seven Waves Away - Tyrone power takes charge of a little boat of survivors following a sinking out at sea. The boat is too small and the rations too few for twenty survivors so eventually they must decide who gets left to certain death.

Do people know about ‘the revolt of Mamie’ stover, I can’t stop thinking of the beautiful Hawaiian scenery.

r233 52 Pick-Up is an Elmore Leonard story.

Gas Food Lodging from the early 1990's was great, featuring two actresses with weird names: Fairuza Balk and Ione Skye.

But I guess it is fairly well-known.

Loving (1970) with Eva Marie saint and George segal was a low key film about mid life ennui.

Two movies from 2003 that were loosely based on the Columbine massacre: Gus Van Zandt's "Elephant", and the smaller-budget "Zero Day". One thing, though: after viewing, you'll never want to watch either of them again.

"Elephant" did receive some publicity when it was released, but it's pretty much forgotten now.

Have people heard of exotica (1994)? That one was a good one.

R246 Atom Egoyan? He’s a brilliant film maker who seems to have slipped into obscurity and his films fallen by the wayside, especially masterpieces like Sweet Hereafter.

R247 Egoyan is kind of a hack. His only good movie was Sweet Hereafter.

I thought Ararat was pretty good, GGG.

R245 Why wouldn't you want to watch a good movie again?

R250 Knowing the ending makes these two films in particular beyond grim and depressing. It's like watching a slow motion car crash. "Elephant" depicts an heroic young African American student helping others escape; he's based on the real life student (the only African American) murdered at Columbine.

We Need to Talk about Kevin. Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly. It's a different take on a Columbine-like event.

I love Roger Dodger with Campbell Scott and Jesse Eisenberg. It apparently made less than $2 million at the box office.

I've Heard the Mermaids Singing. Quirky Canadian film about a two lesbian art gallery owners and their new assistant.

High Art. It may not have aged well, but it's Ally Sheedy's late 90's comeback film, also about the art world, set mostly in Williamsburg. Loved the very last scene.

Grim movies can be hard to revisit, I keep meaning to go back and watch Mysterious Skin, which I remember as being amazing, but that assault scene in the bathroom makes it hard for me to get into the right headspace to bare watching it again.

R252 we need to talk about Kevin is well known it doesn’t belong on this thread.

R246 It's fairly well-known in Canada and in art house circles.

R253

Yes! I love Rodger Dodger. Criminally underrated. I thought Campbell Scott should have been nominated for an Academy Award.

I'd never heard of this film so I don't know if it's one that nobody's heard of or whether it was bigger than that and drew attention...

But I just watched this and loved it.

End of the Century (2019)

"Two men meet in Barcelona and after spending a day together they realize that they have already met twenty years ago."

Very sliding doors.

Seven Waves Away - Tyrone power

Yes a very good movie and based on a true story. Power was moving away from his pretty boy romantic leads and was finally acting.

But in the US it was distributed as "Abandon Ship". Maybe they figured audiences would think "Seven Waves Away" was a screwball service-comedy about women sailors.

Come Next Spring (1956), nice feel good rural film starring Steve Cochran and Ann Sheridan.

Hateship, Loveship. It's a great little film, check it out.

Speaking of Roy Scheider the movie he made with Ms. Streep 'Still of the Night'

[quote]that assault scene in the bathroom makes it hard for me to get into the right headspace to bare watching it again.

oh, dear!

Johnny Suede starring a not yet famous Brad Pitt.

Very quirky and dark. Also stars Nick Cave.

Running on Empty

River Phoenix, Martha Plimpton, Christine Lahti and Judd Hirsch.

I start counting (1969) after a series of local females are murdered, a young girl (Jenny agutter) begins to suspect her older foster brother might be the murderer. British thriller that also deals with sexual awakening.

Say hello to yesterday (1971) romance between mature unhappy housewife Jean Simmons and young lad Leonard whiting with plenty of London location shots.

It's definitely not unheard of, but no one ever seems to mention Mel Brooks' "The Twelve Chairs", which is unfortunate, because it's absolutely hilarious.

Greenfingers

R228, A Month In the Country is streaming on Amazon Prime. I just watched it a couple of weeks ago, though I'd seen it long ago around the time it came out. It's OK. I was somewhat underwhelmed by it in spite of some good acting.

The Hireling, an adaptation of the L.P. Hartley book with Robert Shaw as a chauffeur who falls for his employer (Sarah Miles). Solid film, but not as well known as the other Hartley film adaptation, The Go-Between from a few years earlier.

Goodbye Gemini, a rather lousy early 70s psychological drama/thriller about twins, with Judy Geeson, Martin Potter, and Michael Redgrave.

R269 YES! I rewatched The Twelve Chairs about 2 years ago. Fab film!

I think Running on Empty is fairly well known.

Deep End (1971) 'a powerful and uniquely slanted coming-of-age film about the troubling sexual awakening of a young boy in a sleazy setting' -Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Ruby in Paradise

I know how you guys feel about Ashley Judd (and about Florida, for that matter), but this is a gem of a slice of life movie that shows how the underclass lives without being maudlin or condescending. Also stars Todd Field.

Seriously -- try it.

This is a quite good B film by Jose Ferrer. The deceased "great man" in question is loosely based on Arthur Godfrey.

Directed by and starring José Ferrer, based on a novel by Al Morgan. Joe Harris (José Ferrer) is a popular, established local radio news reporter covering Broadway entertainment with a wise-guy attitude. Herb Fuller is the network's undisputed star. When Fuller dies in an auto accident, Philip Carleton (Dean Jagger), president of the Amalgamated Broadcasting Network, assigns Harris to prepare a memorial extravaganza, including an elaborate public viewing and a special memorial show featuring interviews with Fuller's radio cast, and others who knew him. Carleton dangles a chance at Harris becoming Fuller's replacement if he succeeds.

But the more he learns about Fuller the more he finds the great man he must glorify was a malignant louse.

The Rebound, starring the eternally youthful Catherine Zeta-Jones and a very handsome Justin Bartha. Written and directed by the husband of Julianne Moore. Seriously.

R276 You couldn't put the title in your post?

Manny & Lo (1996) with Mary Kay Place and a very young Scarlett Johanssen.

Ghost Town -- Billy Campbell, Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear, Tia Leoni

The Comfort of Strangers - Rupert Everett, Christopher Walken, Helen Mirren, Natasha Richardson

Beautiful Venice location, beautiful people, creepy story

Heart Like a Wheel - Story of drag racer Shirley Muldowny played by Bonnie Bedalia (Oscar nominee), costarring Beau Bridges.

Bump. Three of Hearts with Billy Baldwin, Kelly Lynch and Sherilyn Fenn.Billy was oddly hot in this brief era!

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I'll reiterate a few choices upthread

Coca-Cola Kid - delicious and sexy and Eric Roberts quite enjoyable

Shattered Glass -

One of my favorites during the great Aussie film explosion of the early 1980s - Careful He Might Hear You. Based on his own childhood custody battle by Sumner Locke Elliot. With Wendy Hughes and Robyn Nevin. Great performances especially by Nicholas Gledhill as the child, PS.

imdb plot summary: His mother dead, PS lives in Sydney with working-class Aunt Lila and Uncle George. When he's six or eight, his posh Aunt Vanessa descends from England. Named a co-guardian by PS's feckless, absent father, she asserts her rights and convinces Lila to have PS live with her weekdays. PS is happy at Lila's, playing with children, running about, speaking up. At Vanessa's, there's a regimen of private school, round vowels, piano and riding lessons, and lonely indoor play with fancy toys. He's miserable and when he objects, she sues for complete custody. Will anyone listen to him?

A Fine Madness 1966

Quartermass And The Pit 1967

Life is Sweet (1991) a dramatic film w/ some comedy, and great characters The Sweet Hereafter (1997) a drama about parents, kids, and the power of one event/ accident to change everything.

The World Of Henry Orient (1964)

Breaking The Waves (1996) Subtitled but worth it. Staggering.

The Ramen Girl (2009), starring the always delightful Brittany Murphy. A low budget indie film made when her career was on the downslide, but surprisingly charming with a lot of heart. All the friends I’ve recommended this one to have enjoyed it.

Friendly Persuasion (1956 ish) with Gary Cooper, Dorothy Malone. A Quaker family in Indiana at the start of the Civil War. Not unknown, more like forgotten, and more “Hollywood” than others posted here. It’s a sweet story. I’ve always wanted a goose named Samantha, a pure pet.

Wow, R282, I had NO IDEA that Bonnie Bedelia is a freaking CULKIN!

Great idea for a thread, I just added over a dozen films to my Amazon watchlist. Thanks OP.

Great movie r291

Ape, an indie from a few years ago. Odd and raw.

The Little Fugitive. Two young boys from Brooklyn take the subway to Coney Island, along with the little brother of one of the besties. When they get there, the boys decide to abandon the little guy, who is about four or five. Shot in black and white at a very crowed Coney island with real people, not extras. I can't recall how it ends, but the film is gritty, bleak and heartbreaking.

99 Homes, which is the first movie I saw Andrew Garfield in. It wasn't a great movie, but Andrew was really good, and so was Michael Shannon. I started looking for everything Andrew Garfield was in immediately thereafter.

Bump

"The Comedy" (2016) starring Tim Heidecker as a drunken, obnoxious asshole. It got some brutal reviews, but I thought it worked as a very dark satire.

R291 Brittany also produced the film but director said she was a nightmare to work with.

Heartburn 1986.

R301 I refuse to believe that Brittany Murphy was anything but a total sweetheart.

“She was very conscious of being liked and it was very hard for her to concentrate too long on any one thing,” Ackerman says. “I enjoyed the on-set relationship that I had with her. The problem was getting her to the set, and keeping her focused. She had so many distractions that were in her own mind. I think a lot of it was fear.

“She was on the one hand adorable and vulnerable and one had the feeling that you wanted to take care of her and, in a way, parent her. But at the same time, on a professional level, she could be incredibly maddening. It’s such a sad thing, because I wish she could have appreciated how good she is in (the film), and see that it eventually did find an audience. She is absolutely wonderful in it, I think. It’s just so tragic what happened to her. It’s heartbreaking.”

𝑨𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒍'𝒔 𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆

Tony wants to be a hitman for the Mafia, but first he has to learn from a master. Enter Stevie California-cool, eats veggie burgers and quotes Neitzche. Tony may not agree with Stevie's style, but he has to complete his training so he can go back and kill the Mafia's accountant, who's about to turn state's evidence.

His final test: kill whoever is randomly picked out of the yellow pages. His target: Angel Chaste. Angel works the graveyard shift at a mortuary. She thinks a doll is her baby. Her mother left when she was little. Basically, Angel has PROBLEMS.

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Very clever low budget movie. Hardly anybody has even heard of it.

The Shop Around the Corner (1940) — a Christmas movie like It’s a Wonderful Life, and also featuring Jimmy Stewart. IMO The Shop is the better film, and a heartwarming watch. Strongly recommend you watch Christmas Day!