Ok, don’t list your favorite movie that everyone has seen. The idea is to enlighten others so that they can check them out. So with that in mind try not to post obscure silent German films from the 20s that are lost and out of print.
Ideally it should be something that is currently available on DVD, even more ideally available on Netflix where someone can watch it BEFORE they decide to buy it.
Give the name of the film, year, IMDb link and a brief synopsis.
A bureaucrat tries to find a meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.
This is a Kurosawa film but there are no samurai running around and unless you are a huge film fan and watch TCM regularly, you’ve probably never seen it.
1990, James Earl Jones… Powers Booth… the dad from Christmas Story… need I say more
“The crew of a nuclear bomber attack the Soviet Union while the President of the United States tries desperately to regain control of his military after his helicopter crashes during a limited nuclear exchange in this film with a scenario similar to Fail Safe and Dr. Strangelove. Originally a made for cable movie, it concentrates on the relationship between a veteran pilot and his female co-pilot and the president’s attempt to wrest control away from a war-mongering successor”
That was going to be my entry, good choice! It was the inspiration for The Magnificent Seven.
Okay, I’ll go with Citizen Kane. Hard to believe that Orson Welles co-wrote, produced, directed, and starred in this film at the ripe old age of 25, his first at that.
A smart, well written, and quirky comedy from 1998. I use this movie as a test of a woman’s sense of humor, if she doesn’t get this movie there is a good chance we won’t be compatible.
Akira Kurosawa was the reason spaghetti westerns were what they are today he was a ground breaking film maker
in film study he is one of the go to guys for sure he is like Carlos Hathcock to snipers
some films like this chances are nobody here has seen it good twists though ! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102583/
I do like foreign films not so predictable and dont follow the same formula
I would hope most have seen Run Lola Run
movies like http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1932695/
not so great reviews but anyone who likes WWII stuff should watch it for a dif perspective of the war !
also I am a huge Pearl Harbor interest
got to dive on the USS Arizona and take photos then went down through Chuuk and did some other photography work on WWII Shipwrecks so have kinda a connection to anything WWII South Pacific big time
It’s a German film about a serial killer/child molester who reaches out to a cop in a rural town who’s in the middle of another child murder investigation, and a bunch of shit happens, and I suck at describing plots.
Oh, and Norman Reedus is in it for like 5 minutes.
I also love Rob Zombie’s The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto. Animated film. Rediculously obscene, and a musical. Tits, nazis, robots, the whole shit. I love it.
From Wikipedia, ‘In 1989, this film was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.’
This is truly a time capsule, showing a glimpse into the daily lives and hunting techniques of the Inuit as they were for centuries. The seal and walrus hunting scenes are epic. It was a way of life that was all but gone when this film was shot, some 91 years ago. EVERYONE should see this movie, and reflect on how “tough” we have it today!
It was the inspiration for 
he was a ground breaking film maker