I loved this film, and would well recommend it heartily for a heart warming film also covering smalltown biggotry. The idea that the French woman just could not accept that foreign food can be good, and food is universal, was excellent.
The Brylcreem boys, an excellent film covering a weird little quirk of World War 2.
If you washed up/crashed your plane in Irish territory in WW2, due to treaties signed for neutrality, prisoners were interned in and Irish prison camp for the remainder of the war. If you escaped, your home country would send you back to Ireland.
The prison camp housed all the nations prisoners, so side by side. So brits and germans separated by a fence.
Two films I remember from the 90s:
The Snapper (1993)
East is East (1999)
I enjoyed both at cinemas shortly after they were released, and I recall them being fairly popular at the time, but I mention them here and now because I haven’t heard anything about them since then.
Similarly:
Insignificance (1985)
The Well
A Black girl goes missing and fans racial tensions in a town. The Black and white communities start blaming each other and the tension grown as a full-blow race riot seems likely.
Most memorable moment:
"They found the girl!
“What girl?” (softer voice) “Oh.”
A cast of mostly unknowns (except for Harry Morgan, who wasn’t the lead). It was nominated for a best screenplay Oscar.
I think that another movie that deserves more recognition is C.S.A. The Confederate States of America, a film by Spike Lee, that I watched on DVD recently. It’s about a version of America where the South had won the Civil War.
I’m not sure how “little-known” Layer Cake is, but I’ve neve ever heard anyone else mention it or talk about it, so it gets my nomination. And I like it. A lot.
I saw this quite a while ago, and remember it being hard to follow and I couldn’t understand some of the accents, but it was okay.
A favorite of mine, with a young cast of future stars. This film convinced me Daniel Craig would be good as James Bond.
Another movie that I believe deserves some recognition is S1MONE, starring Al Pacino, who plays director Viktor Taransky and Rachel Roberts as “S1MONE”, his computer-generated star. I watched it on DVD and enjoyed the movie quite a bit.
The Doberman Gang
About a group of criminals who trained Dobermans (the pit bulls of the time) to rob a bank. Not a great film, but better than it has any right to be.
This is a great film- I watch it every Christmas and try to get other people to consider it the best Christmas movie. I mean how can you go wrong with Judy Davis, the mom from Mary Poppins now playing evil grandmother, and Denis Leary’s sarcasm. Even Kevin Spacey can’t ruin this movie for me (actually, like most things he’s also quite good in it).
The Rapture
Starring Mimi Rogers, David Duchovny, and Will Patton. An examination of religious belief. Not recommended for the religiously blinkered, or the easily offended. [Rampant meaningless sex, nudity, religious mania, mass shooting, child killing, the end of times, eternal despair, and, of course, the futile questioning of God.]
And I don’t recommend it as a first date movie…
Along those lines, how about
Dogma?
Hit-and-miss, but some of it is very good.
That’s Glynis Johns. She’s had a long fabulous career. She was great in Danny Kaye’s The Court Jester, as was Angela Lansbury.
This (The Ref) is a must-see Christmas movie for us.
It was protested by Christian groups not sure why spoilers Roman Catholicism is One True Church Christ was One Begotten Son the Lord loves us and is all forgiving. Yeah plenty of objectionable stuff there. Forgive errors typing on phone
Because God was a :gasp: wo-man! 
Whoa, Man!
Best part is the depiction of Hell…also has that Miracle Mile vibe, “Is this really happening? Holy shit.”
YES!! Great choice. One of those “We just got HBO, so Im gonna watch everything that comes on.”
Like
The Warriors
Heaven Can Wait
And Justice For All
Phantasm
How about a double feature?
The Man in the Moon - Wikipedia
Reese Witherspoon’s first movie, and
Freeway (1996 film) - Wikipedia
one of her darkest.
It’s a proper mood whiplash to see them in proximity to each other.
Arthur Christmas
Animated film (by Aardman Animations) about Santa’s youngest son, who’s inept but utterly committed to the Christmas spirit. When one gift is left undelivered, he takes it upon himself to make sure the little girl is not disappointed. Frenetic but with a lot of heart. Great voice cast including Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy, and Imelda Staunton.
Aaredman is badly overlooked in general.