# Need Movie Recommendations **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 19, 2004, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-movie-recommendations/270108 "2004-10-19T20:58:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Snaggletooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Snaggletooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snaggletooth)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-movie-recommendations/270108/1 "2004-10-19T20:58:08Z")
I am slowly running out of movies to rent. I don’t like most Hollywood movies. So I have been forced to go into the archives go underground or look off shelf. Some I like and then there are some (i.e.Caligula) that one must see first hand what the hype is. There are plenty to browse from but…have any recommendations given the list below(in no order.) Candy Lucky P.S. your cat is dead Sleepy Heads Flesh Gordon A boy and his dog Once Upon a Time in the Midlands American Splendor Caligula Go Rivers Edge Diner with the Melvin’s Dummy Welcome to the Dollhouse God Told Me To Fantastic Planet ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-movie-recommendations/270108/2 "2004-10-19T21:07:08Z")
I think, without a doubt, that the best film on the list is Larry Cohen’s provocative, strange, and bizarrely brilliant **God Told Me To**. One of the great horror movies and unjustly overlooked (as is true for almost everything Cohen did). ---
**Author:** ![Berserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Berserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berserker)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-movie-recommendations/270108/3 "2004-10-19T23:33:27Z")
Happiness and Storytelling, both films from Todd Solondz, director of Welcome to the Dollhouse. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-movie-recommendations/270108/4 "2004-10-20T00:32:10Z")
From that list I would pick **American Splendor** , it’s a really funny and moving story about comic artist Harvey Pekar. Paul Giamatti gives a really great performance. If I might add my own suggestion to your list, this is a film that I always tell people to rent because it is one of my favorites and almost no one has seen it or even heard of it- **Proof**. It’s a low budget Australian film from 1991 about a blind photographer Martin (Hugo Weaving), his friend (a young Russell Crowe), and Martin’s female housekeeper who threatens to come between them. Superb performances all around, and very emotionally moving but not in a typical cliche Hollywood way. ---
**Author:** ![Snaggletooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Snaggletooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snaggletooth)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-movie-recommendations/270108/5 "2004-10-20T01:31:44Z")
Hey, I meant:smack: to say the “list” are ones that I have seen and from that what do you recommend. ---
**Author:** ![MiniMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@MiniMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MiniMoose)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-movie-recommendations/270108/6 "2004-10-20T02:12:01Z")
Well, if you haven’t gone to the theaters to see **Napoleon Dynamite** , go see it! It’s hilarious and extremely well-done. As for films to rent, do you like any old film noir? If you do, **M** is a classic, if you can find it. Also, some of Hitchcock’s first films like **The 39 Steps** would be good. ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-movie-recommendations/270108/7 "2004-10-20T02:19:04Z")
> [@Snaggletooth](#): > > Hey, > I meant:smack: to say the “list” are ones that I have seen and from that what do you recommend. I would definitely recommend “Welcome to the Dollhouse” and “Go”. I would also recommend checking out [Netflix](http://www.netflix.com) for rental possibilities outside the Hollywood norm. Have gotten plenty of small independant movies from them. ---
**Author:** ![Snaggletooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Snaggletooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snaggletooth)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-movie-recommendations/270108/8 "2004-10-20T04:16:19Z")
I had posted my [recent list](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=281730) from netflix. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-movie-recommendations/270108/9 "2004-10-20T04:46:52Z")
Here is what is on my current Netflix list: The Wolves of Kroner State Fair ( for the musical and debating society thread) Mean Girls The Ladykillers Saved The 24th Day Fall Time Grief Dawn of the Dead Walking Tall Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Latter Days Twist I tend to like small independant films with a gay slant. Always take a chance with these, but have found alot of good ones. Two recent rentals I liked were “Die, Mommie, Die” and “2 x 4”. ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-movie-recommendations/270108/10 "2004-10-20T11:33:56Z")
I thought P.S. Your Cat Is Dead sucked. Read the book instead. ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-movie-recommendations/270108/11 "2004-10-20T12:15:15Z")
I was gonna mention **Go** but then finally caught it on your list. How about **Rushmore**?