What movie do you like that most people never seen?

Me

[deadsteve]

BRICK
Private eye flick set in high school.

[buccaneer81]

Love all of Bronson’s films. “Mr. Majestyk” is excellent, so are “The Mechanic” and “The Valachi Papers.”

[Jack Deth]

The Brother From Another Planet was one of John Sayles earliest directing efforts. Which put Joe Morton on the map as an escaped alien hiding out in Harlem. Very funny film!

Undercover Brother was a send up of the 1970s 'Blaxploitation' films turned on its head. Both films had their moments, but The Brother From Another Planet's were more memorable.

Check out either Across 110th Street from 1972. With Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Tony Franciosa and many parts of forgotten Harlem as major characters.

Or Report To The Commissioner from 1975. Again with Kotto trying to determine why rookie cop, Michael Moriarty shot a female undercover cop while undoing its cover up.


Jack.

[mellow velo]

>> Manhunter with William Peterson ... <<

Wow, this movie was the 2nd one that came to mind when I saw this thread! It was just on last weekend, too, so I was able to catch it again. The "prequel" to Silence of the Lambs (one of my top 3 movies), and I may even like it better than Red Dragon, its updated version with Hopkins & Ralph Fiennes.

The movie I 1st thought of for this thread was Sling Blade.

[JoeProBono]

No Escape (AKA: Escape from Absolom) (1994)

A man from the future fights to survive in a society thrown back to the dark ages in this sci-fi adventure set in 2022. Capt. Robbins (Ray Liotta) is a military man who, after he's convicted of the murder of his superior officer, is sentenced to a high-tech prison ruled by the Warden (Michael Lerner), a cruel taskmaster who enjoys torturing his inmates. After a scuffle with the Warden, Robbins is transferred to a primitive island penal colony known as Absalom, where the civilization is dominated a primitive island penal colony known as Absalom, where the civilization is dominated by two groups, the Insiders, a peaceful tribe led by the Father (Lance Henriksen), and the Outsiders, a pack of violent misfits led by Marek (Stuart Wilson). Robbins runs afoul of the Outsiders and is injured in a skirmish; he escapes to the Insiders' camp, where he plots his revenge. No Escape was based on the novel The Penal Colony by Richard Herley.

[Stonewall Jackson]

"The Hill" is an excellent movie. I'm rather surprised that many people have not seen a lot of the classic World War Two movies.

Some of my favorites include "Patton", "Von Ryan's Express", "The Longest Day", "A Bridge Too Far", "Battleground", "PT-109", and "Where Eagles Dare".

Another excellent movie is the made-for-television "By Dawn's Early Light". Shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union, a group of Soviet officers steal one of their own nukes, smuggle it into Turkey, and fire it at one of their own cities. Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces respond with a massive barrage against the United States before they realize what had happened. Powers Booth, Rebecca DeMornea, James Earl Jones, and Rip Torn star.

[kaylar]

The Edge is a great film-and I mean no disrespect to the human actors when I say Bart the Bear was the best actor in that film. I swear to God that bear adjusted his facial expressions to suit his role-he actually looked enraged when he was on the attack. Gorgeous bear, great film.

One sorta vaguely like that one (but with lions instead of a bear, and set in Africa not Alaska) is The Ghost in the Darkness. Great film, and based on historical events (albeit embellished...) I own Col Patterson's memoirs, and when I went to the Field Museum in Chicago, I made a point of looking for the taxidermied killer lions on display there.

[Political Junkie Too]

You mean, OJ Simpson was an astronaut before he went to prison? ;-)

He was also a building security chief in The Towering Inferno. So he was trained to look for the real killers!

-PJ

[cfrels]

Another Duvall movie, “Wrestling Ernest Hemingway”, with Richard Harris.
Very good.

[Rex Anderson]

Lars and the Real Girl
One of the sweetest indie movies of all time.

[OregonRancher]

“Behold a Pale Horse” filmed in 1964 starring Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif and Anthony Quinn. A great movie about the Spanish civil war.

[buccaneer81]

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

October Sky is also an anagram of Rocket Boys. Just a cool factoid.

[DejaJude]

My ex went to high school with the brother of the author of, To live and die in LA. I actually met him once. A very nice, down-to-earth type guy. I don't know if you noticed, but the brother had a cameo role in the movie.

[FreeMaine]

The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry

Why can't I get the youtube trailer to play here?

[smallelmike]

Breaking the Waves - Lars von Trier. One of his early films about an unlikely saint. He’s gotten pretty nasty over the years, but this is an excelletn movie.

The Lives of Others - German. I saw it once and remember the whole thing.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I totally loved “Assassination Tango”.

Other favorites are”

“Southern Comfort” 1981. Powers Booth, Fred Ward and David Carridine. A National Guard group carries out manuevers in the LA swamps and ends up having to defend themselves from ticked off local cajuns. A great cult film.

“Babette’s Feast” 1987 foreign film winner.

“The Hired Hand” 1971 A moody wetern starring Peter Fonda, Warren Oates and Verna Bloom

“Goin South” 1978 Western comedy with Jack Nicholson and Mary Steenbergen.

[patriot08]

Shall We Dance 2004

The Shawshank Redemption
A terrific ‘feel good’ movie

[exDemMom]

Cannery Row a 1982 film directed by David S. Ward. It stars Nick Nolte and Debra Winger adapted from John Steinbeck's novels Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday.

Oh, yes, how could I forget that one? I love that movie; plus, it reminds me of the time my husband and I spent at Cannery Row before we were married. The aquarium wasn't there, and we'd watch the Rocky Horror Picture Show every weekend at a quaint old theater (which, sadly, was a victim of arson). I think some of our old haunts are still there.

[patriot08]

Recently saw ‘Heartbreakers’ on TV
Real good. Funny
About two female grifters