# Just got Netflix------need some good movies to watch **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 8, 2005, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-netflix-need-some-good-movies-to-watch/334624 "2005-12-08T04:35:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ombre3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/da6949/32.png) [@ombre3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ombre3)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-netflix-need-some-good-movies-to-watch/334624/21 "2005-12-11T00:50:16Z")
Well thanks you all. I do have a lot to go with now. Thought I’d give one back to you that I just rented from Netflix. “Duel”-----a made for TV movie from 1972. With Dennis Weaver. I saw it originally in 72 on TV. Blew me away at the time. (Back then made for TV movies really, really sucked) Anyway I rented it to see if it was still as good as I remember, and it was. And SURPRISE -----it was directed by Steven Spielberg—his first movie. No wonder it was so good. Part of the add-ons to the DVD was an interview with Spielberg. He was limited to a shooting schedule of less than 2 weeks, and a budget of $150,000.—Amazing what he managed to do with such constraints. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-netflix-need-some-good-movies-to-watch/334624/22 "2005-12-11T02:42:15Z")
> [@ombre3](#): > > I saw it originally in 72 on TV. Blew me away at the time. (Back then made for TV movies really, really sucked) [J.T.](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0158681/combined) (1969) [Night Gallery](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0064725) (1969) [My Sweet Charlie](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0066114/combined) (1970) [A Storm in Summer](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0174246/combined) (1970) [Tribes](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0066490/combined) (1970) [The Homecoming: A Christmas Story](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0067209/combined) (1971) [All the Way Home](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0196328/combined) (1971) [The Snow Goose](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0067767/combined) (1971) [Brian’s Song](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0068315/combined) (1971) [The Night Stalker](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0067490/combined) (1972) [Gargoyles](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0068622/combined) (1972) [That Certain Summer](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0069368/combined) (1972) [The Glass House](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0068642/combined) (1972) [Frankenstein: The True Story](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0070074/combined) (1973) [The Marcus-Nelson Murders](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0070372/combined) (1973) [The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0071175/combined) (1974) [A Case of Rape](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0071286/combined) (1974) [The Execution of Private Slovik](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0071477/combined) (1974) [Born Innocent](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0071240/combined) (1974) ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-netflix-need-some-good-movies-to-watch/334624/23 "2005-12-11T04:04:14Z")
- Mulholland Drive - The Big Lebowski - Requiem for a Dream - Buffalo '66 - Short Cuts - Box of Moon Light - Sweet and Lowdown - Welcome to the Dollhouse - The Ice Storm - Midnight Cowboy - Barton Fink - Midnight Express - Adaptation - Maria, full of grace - Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring - Sideways - Pieces of April - What Alice Found - Swimming Pool - The Kid Stays in the Picture - Sex and Lucia - My Own Private Idaho - The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and her Lover - Flirting with Disaster - Ghost World - Muriel’s Wedding - Another Day in Paradise ---
**Author:** ![Calliope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Calliope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calliope)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-netflix-need-some-good-movies-to-watch/334624/24 "2005-12-11T04:11:55Z")
I see nobody has suggestd **Iris** yet. I thought it was really good. I’d also recommend **The Pianist.** ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-netflix-need-some-good-movies-to-watch/334624/25 "2005-12-11T09:21:59Z")
Anyone else ever seen [The Duelists](http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=60024695&trkid=189530)? First feature film Ridley Scott directed, with a couple of Napoleonic army officers (one of them, Harvey Keitel’s character, being a bit of a nut.) fighting a reoccuring duel over the course of a couple of decades. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-netflix-need-some-good-movies-to-watch/334624.md?page=1)