Recommend some good Netflix flicks for us...

[bicentennial_baby]

:hi:

[LoZoccolo]

1. Oasis: Familiar to Millions

http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Oasis_Familiar_to_Millions/70002184

[DS1]

2. American Movie

sweet story

[AlCzervik]

3. this one.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371939/

i watched on demand, a really good movie and fast paced, loved it.

[begin_within]

4. Here are some major ones

Tokyo Story - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Tokyo_Story/60031727?strkid=459676518_0_0
The Bicycle Thief - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/The_Bicycle_Thief/11519642?strkid=350426339_0_0
Au Hasard Balthazar - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Au_Hasard_Balthazar/70034247?strkid=1400263542_0_0
I Am Cuba - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/I_Am_Cuba/24092535?strkid=2123595411_0_0
Salt of the Earth - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Salt_of_the_Earth/70024589?strkid=971848173_0_0
Daughter from Danang - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Daughter_from_Danang_American_Experience/60027145?strkid=85329174_0_0

All of them essential viewing, in my opinion.

[taterguy]

5. I really liked Junebug

Great soundtrack by Yo La Tengo and several other charms in that movie

[grasswire]

29. I liked Junebug, too

I can't get out of my mind those primitive paintings they were promoting. I'd like to know who really painted those so I could see them again. And I liked the actor who played the father.

[taterguy]

75. The paintings were done by someone named Ann Wood

They're on the movie's official site:

http://www.sonyclassics.com/junebug/main.html

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

6. O Lucky Man!

Finally came out on DVD the other month and is just as awesome as I remembered.

http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/reviews/O-Lucky-Man!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070464/




& the opening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E07V5hphS8

If you like this, then check out "If..." and "Britannia Hospital" (although I don't think the latter is out in America yet).

& if you want to rent something that'll change your life (!) then check out Peter Watkins "La Commune":

http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2006/11/05/la-commune/
http://www.frif.com/new2002/la.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0257497/

[yellowdogintexas]

7. UnderCover Blues! ; Tea with Mussolini, Ladies in Lavender;The Lost City;

My Favorite Year, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Love, Julie Newmar
Like Water for Chocolate

[Tektonik]

8. Beautiful Thing

http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Beautiful_Thing/60027879?strkid=144771233_0_0

[Hosnon]

9. Here's a no-brainer, especially given the season: Joyeux Noël.

By far one of my favorite movies. There are subtitles because the French speak French and the Germans speak German but it is worth it for the authenticity.

And the rendition of "Oh Come All Ye Faithful" moves me to the core every time I see it.

Edit: Wrong song title.

[gmoney]

10. some good two-fers

The Killing Fields
Swimming to Cambodia

Hamlet (the Mel Gibson one perhaps)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
(or even Strange Brew)

Defending Your Life
Lost in America

[Paladin]

11. "The Lives Of Others"

Brilliant German movie, winner of a recent Best Foreign Picture Oscar---drama about an East German state police operative and how his life is transformed by his electronic surveillance of a couple of artists. Moving and extraordinarily redemptive. Enjoy.....

[Hosnon]

12. Great movie as well...(nt)

[Paladin]

16. I Saw It A Few Months Ago, Then Watched It Again, Recently.

It's one of those flicks that really sticks with you, isn't it? I don't think there has ever been a movie that gives a better depiction of what it's like to live in a prying, suspicious totalitarian regime. I had a number of friends put it on their Netflix lineups; they all loved it.....

[yellowdogintexas]

39. oh yes that is awesome. Also "The Painted Veil" nt

[SKKY]

13. If you don't have an aversion to foreign subtitled movies...

..."Talk to Her" by Pedro Almodovar is absolutely phenomenal. It will leave you absolutely
speechless- at least it did me.

http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Talk_to_Her/60025021?strkid=1835036000_0_0

[bicentennial_baby]

14. No, I love his films!!

I haven't seen that one yet...yay! Thanks babe! :hi:

[SKKY]

15. If you're an Almodovar fan, then you will love it...

...but I'm telling you, it left me speechless, and kinda messed up for about a month. You bet! :hi:

[RainDog]

26. oh, all good ones

All About My Mother, too. Thought Lives of Others was great.

You may have seen some of these suggestions, so, unless you want to see them again...

Jim Marmusch - Dead Man -my favorite movie if I was forced to name one.
--Mystery Train - or maybe my favorite movie if I had to name one.
--Down By Law -first movie in U.S. for Benigni - with Tom Waits!

Any Coen brothers movie. - tho Barton Fink is sort of eh for me.

Sci-fi?
City of Lost Children (from the guy who made Amelie)
Dark City

do you watch anime? Spirited Away is good. Grave of the Fireflies is very sad - two kids in Japan who lived through the bombing in WWII, based on the creator's experience.

I love Trois Coleurs: Blue, White, Red, from Kieslowski

OH, OH, I know one you might not have seen that's GREAT - Bob Le Flambeur - 1950s film noir - I love that movie. That wiki link said that Rotten Tomatoes gave the movie 96% on its U.S. release. I didn't know that-so makes me all the happier to recommend b/c RT is fairly decent for reviews.

[bicentennial_baby]

28. Own Spirited away, City of Lost Children is in the queue,

but thank you for all of the other suggestions! Yay!! :hi:

[CBHagman]

41. Oh, the Three Colors trilogy is a must-see.

I find that Kieslowski's Blue remains a revelation on repeated viewings.

And I loved Zbigniew Zamachowski's performance as the sad-sack hero of White.

[RainDog]

45. Yes.

I agree about Blue. Blue and White are my favorites of the trilogy too. White is just great. still makes me laugh. The Polish actors in that one are so good. The husband is also in The Decalogue... if you're a "film geek" like me that's a must see. Made for Polish tv.

Blue stuns me every time I watch it b/c Binoch is an actor, not a star. Tho of course Kieslowski's camera loves her.. but that's a diff. thing.

[annonymous]

64. Castle in the Sky and Howl's Moving Castle are wonderful too.

If you are into anime, those movies are also worth watching.

[bluhoodie]

37. My favorite that no one's heard of (foreign)

is "Central Station." Wow, what an interesting, extraordinary movie. It's a rewarding film to watch. Great child actor, not a cloyingly cute child-star - but oh, so touching!

An Academy Award-nominated 1998 drama (Best Foreign Language Film) set in Brazil. (Actress Fernanda
Montenegro was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar.) It tells the story of an unusual friendship that develops between a young boy and an unsentimental rather-selfish cynical old woman. And the "extras" on the DVD explain how real footage from the setting was included in the film, showing real people.

The description from Amazon doesn't really do it justice, but here it is:

In the opening scenes of Central Station, colorful crowds of Brazilians stream into and out of a Rio de Janeiro train, pushing through doors and windows. You're immediately pulled into the brutal vitality of a nation in motion, setting the tone for a picturesque road movie that charts Brazil's renaissance in a little boy's search for his father and an old woman's emotional reawakening. When we first meet Dora (Fernanda Montenegro), this frozen-hearted, sour-faced woman is the epitome of immobility: day after day, she sits in the train station selling her letter-writing skills to all comers, but often doesn't bother to mail these precious messages. When a woman who's paid Dora to write a pleading note to her son's long-missing dad gets run over by a bus, the child, Josue, is up for grabs. (The summary execution of a thieving street kid--in longshot--underscores the seriousness of this waif's plight.) After an abortive attempt to sell Josue for a new TV, the aspiring couch potato finds herself reluctantly propelled into an occasionally Fellini-esque odyssey through the hinterlands of Brazil's sertäo, where Dora and her sidekick find unexpected experiences, people, and outcomes.

And the final destination for the boy (you're on the edge of your seat hoping things will turn out right) is not a happily-ever-after, but seems to indicate a new direction for the character.

Very few films have moved me like this one.

[Pale Blue Dot]

17. Shortbus

Still the best movie I've see this year.

[bicentennial_baby]

18. I'll check it out, thanks!

:hi:

[Radical Activist]

43. lol

Well, it was the most graphic movie I saw that wasn't porn. I did like it.

[SarahB]

47. It's definitely graphic

The point of the movie wasn't inherently graphic for the sake of graphic, but showing people and relationships in a real and full state of being- smart, complicated, giving, needy, loving, complex, and yes, sexual. Sex is a part of life and part of relationships. Unfortunately we live in a culture with such underlying puritanical structure that non-mainstream sexual activities (heck, even typical vanilla sexual activities) are looked upon a large majority as deviant. Most people aren't even comfortable with themselves and their own private thoughts, so in our culture sexuality is often relegated to tit and fart jokes, not dialog and true honesty. This movie was honest. :)

[terrya]

58. Shortbus is a great movie!

I watched it with my boyfriend...and it was nice. :-)

[Rising Phoenix]

74. shortbus rocks

my favorite part was the national anthem.....def. get it

[SPKrazy]

19. I didn't like Netflix that much

but there's lots of movies if you look for them

[bicentennial_baby]

20. Why didn't you like it?

[NJCher]

21. The Page Turner

If you like revenge flicks, you'll love this. Takes place at a mansion in France, dramatic classical music accompanies the action. Psychological suspense.

Here's a BBC review:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2006/10/31/the_page_turner_2006_review.shtml



Cher

[jpgray]

22. Au Hasard Balthasar, M, and Les Diaboliques

Or, if you want something that expresses the dynamic of the Lounge, Le Corbeau. :D Or my favorite depressing documentary in the world, Salesman.

[bicentennial_baby]

23. I will most heartily investigate your suggestions...

:D

:pals:

[jpgray]

25. Depends what you're in the mood for!

Depressing Frenchies, expressionist German crime, -more- depressing Frenchies only in thriller form, or the unspeakable yet compelling moral decay of door-to-door Bible salesmen. So actually it depends if you're in the mood for a very limited set of moods. :P

[RainDog]

33. M is available online for free

...a lot of really older films are around.

Not all of them are free, but this site lists a lot of public domain films online. This is the first time I've ever been there with the female flesh on the right column.

[begin_within]

51. Au Hasard Balthazar is on my top-ten best of all time list.

Although I found it depressing it is still brilliant. Hollywood filmmakers could learn much from Bresson, then Hollywood films would be shorter, cheaper, more concise and more effective.

[opiate69]

24. Kinky Boots.

Nice little flick..
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434124/

[havocmom]

40. Stranger Than Fiction

Emma Thompson, Will Ferrell, and a VERY odd premise.

And a hearty second to Kinky Boots. Very sweet film. And very funny.

[terrya]

65. I quite liked "Kinky Boots"

Agreed. :thumbsup:

[krispos42]

27. Monty Python

They have the entire TV series on 14 DVDs.

I just finished Season 1 Disc 1, and I'm lovin' it!


I'm also working my way through Hitchcock. "Strangers on a Train" is next to my PS2...

[IzaSparrow]

30. Me and You and Everyone We Know...

Baseball by Ken Burns (9 discs). That will keep you busy.

[grasswire]

31. Shower & Night On Earth

Shower is a vintage family drama set in a Chinese bathhouse -- one adult son comes home from city life and becomes re-entangled with his mentally disabled brother and their aging father. It is charming, sweet, and poignant, and the setting is so fascinating with the daily bathhouse life of the village men.

Night On Earth is a series of vignettes in the lives of taxi drivers in Paris, Rome, LA, Helsinki, and NYC. In the middle of the night. It contains some of the funniest scenes I've ever seen, the settings are very cool, and it is INTERESTING in the slices of human life revealed through the conversations between the drivers and passengers. Music by Tom Wait, directed by Jim Jarmusch.

[alphafemale]

56. I loved Night on Earth. nt

[bridgit]

32. alright, here's like our 1st 20...

The Bourne Ultimatum
Beowulf and the Anglo-Saxons
The Amazing Screw-On Head
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Black Christmas
Saw III
Seraphim Falls
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
God Grew Tired of Us
Premonition
In Search of History: Salem Witch Trials
The Kingdom
Throne of Blood
Raise the Red Lantern
The Exodus Decoded
Girl 27
The Return
Transformers (cept my guy's going to dump that one i'm sure)
Sicko
Poirot: Vol. 2
:hi:

[RainDog]

35. Hero and House of Flying Daggers!

You reminded me of those with the Raise the Red Lantern title.

I LOVE those two. the colors make those "tall tale-fairy tale" even better.

I haven't been to hardly any movies lately because I've been so busy.

[bridgit]

42. Flying Daggers was cool, but Hero was more like Pulp Fiction meets Crouching Tiger for me...

at least as i remember it :7
Raise The Red Lantern is an amazing film piece :thumbsup:

[terrya]

34. Well, since you asked.

:-)

:hi:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7221342

[no name no slogan]

36. Strange Brew

because it's seems like it's in everybody's queue :)

[grasswire]

38. take off, hoser (eom)

[Radical Activist]

44. What sort of movies do you like?

There are a lot of things I'd recommend that I know some people wouldn't like at all.

[bicentennial_baby]

66. All sorts of stuff...

Documentaries, drama, historical, comedy, indie, foreign, horror...The only thing I don't watch is 'chick flicks', pretty much.

[NMDemDist2]

46. Baghdad Cafe (it's not about Iraq) n/t

[datasuspect]

48. "Salo: the 120 Days of Sodom"

"Bad Lieutenant"

[CBHagman]

49. I can second "The Painted Veil" and...

...would recommend the following:

Rodrigo Garcia's stories of interrelated lives:

Nine Lives
Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her
Ten Tiny Love Stories

From France:

He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
The Closet
My Best Friend

John Sayles:

Matewan
Silver City
The Return of the Secaucus 7

For Christmas-themed movies, I liked:

La Buche
Hi-Life

Things that don't fit into the above categories but are worth seeing:

The Saint of 9/11
My House in Umbria
The Station Agent
Lantana
A Mighty Wind
Friends with Money
Cradle Will Rock

Happy viewing! :hi:

[mwooldri]

50. If you want WW2 with a twist: "This Happened Here".

Note: This film is not entertainment but this film has haunted me the first time I watched it late night in my youth and watching it again still brings back painful thoughts just thinking about it.

My explanation of it doesn't do it justice... basically it's a "What If" look, if Hitler won the Battle of Britain and was able to send over a land invasion. It's a deeper look about how fascism could happen here, even here in the US, and how it works.

Here's a review about the film that I think sums it up better than anything I could say.

http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s100here.html


Mark.

[harmonicon]

52. 32 short films about glenn gould

It's good even if you don't know who he was or aren't a classical music fan (he was a pianist). It's also fairly family-friendly (no boobs or guns) if that matters.
and/or anything directed by Werner Herzog

[Inchworm]

53. Holy Smoke

Kate Winslet loves me

:hi:

[Lindsey]

54. "The Lives of Others" has already been mentioned and I have to say

it's one of the best films I've seen period. It's subtitled so you can't have it on and do other things and it pays off because paying close attention is critical to really get the message of the movie. It effected me on so many levels (some very personal). All I can say is WOW.........

[Inchworm]

55. worth a look'into

Kate is in it?

:hi:

[alphafemale]

57. "Turtles Can Fly" is one I liked. It's about kids in a Kurdish refugee camp in Northern Iraq.

Keep a box of tissues handy though. :cry:

[Highway61]

59. I asked the same question a while back

"Bif" suggested a few and he really liked "The Station Agent". Well, not only was it good, I went a bought it (which I rarely do). Great movie...you'll laugh and cry. Also "Garden State"....good movie, great sound track...bought that as well.

[racaulk]

60. Clockwatchers

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118866/

:hi:

[bif]

61. A Song for Martin

[sakabatou]

62. What genre do you like?

[DeanDem10]

63. Barbara Trent's Oscar Winning film

The Panama Deception

[redqueen]

67. Naked

Warning: it's kinda depressing.

[Taverner]

68. Children of Men

V is for Vendetta
Brazil
1984

I'm kind of on this Dystopia kick lately...

[martymar64]

69. Any Zatoichi film

:)

[Radical Activist]

72. I really like those too. n/t

[MrCoffee]

70. The Castle

i'm on a mission to convert the world into recognizing the comedy genius of this wonderful little Australian movie.

[Mutley]

71. Idiocracy -- very amusing.

Also frightening, and not in a horror movie kind of way, but... well, you'll see when you watch it. :D

[MrCoffee]

73. Hackers

it's incredible...it's got everything: computer-savvy teens vs. evil mulitnational oil company, really awful special effects (the control room of the Gibson is so awesome, i want it), Fisher Stevens on a skateboard, dialogue to KILL FOR.

it's so great. omg is it great. it's absolute shit, but it's the best shit you'll ever watch. oh, Hackers is the awesome.

[Radical Activist]

76. Some of my favorite political movies that are also entertaining

Sir No Sir! - Its a new documentary about the Vietnan Vet and GI movement against the war in Vietnam. Amazing.

The Battle of Algiers - Its an old movie people said had lessons about Vietnam but I think it has more lessons about the war on terror.

Z - One of my all time favorites along with a lot of other peoples' favorites. Another old one with a lot of parallels to today.

Live Nude Girls Unite - Documentary about strippers who form a union. You'll really like this one if you haven't seen it already. Its much more than an excuse to show naked women.

Harlan County, USA - A documentary about a coal miners strike in the 70's. Its one of those movies that changes how you see the world.

Those are some of my favorite "essential" movies that you'll like if you haven't seen them already.