# Your favorite movies no-one knows **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 7, 2000, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-knows/36041 "2000-10-07T04:25:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-knows/36041/21 "2000-10-07T12:23:06Z")
_Yours, Mine and Ours_ – starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-knows/36041/22 "2000-10-07T12:33:08Z")
[A Matter of Life and Death](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0038733) ( _Stairway to Heaven_ in the States ) . A gem of a movie starring David Niven and Kim Hunter. It’s a movie that if you see as a kid the images will never leave you. I never miss this movie when it’s shown on TV. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-knows/36041/23 "2000-10-07T12:36:36Z")
**Annie-Xmas** I loved _Time After Time_ aswell. Malcolm McDowell was great as Wells and David Warner was even better as the ripper. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-knows/36041/24 "2000-10-07T12:53:04Z")
_Psychos In Love_ - a straight-to-video horror/comedy. _The Secret of Roan Inish_ - John Sayles Irish fable. _Morgan, A Suitable Case For Treatment_ - 1960s Vanessa Redgrave comedy. I’ll probably think of a few more after I hit “submit” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-knows/36041/25 "2000-10-07T13:00:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yojimbo \* > \*\* **Annie-Xmas** I loved _Time After Time_ aswell. Malcolm McDowell was great as Wells and David Warner was even better as the ripper. \*\* Yojimbo, you are the second person I’ve meet who actually saw this movie. I went six times in the theatre, and bought the video. It is so good (and thanks for remembering who played the Ripper). ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-knows/36041/26 "2000-10-07T13:20:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ChiefScott \* > \*\*_Yours, Mine and Ours_ – starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda \*\* I love this movie-catch it occasionally on weekend tv, and hunt, off and on, for a copy to buy. Is it available? Do you know? I also like _Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (Women on the verge of a Nervous Breakdown)_. A 1988 Spanish flick, with Antonio Banderas, directed by Pedro Almodovar. I also really like(yes, I know people will have heard of it, _sigh_) _Coal Miner’s Daughter_. I don’t know why, I know it’s a bad movie…but I can’t help myself. There was a British nuclear war movie back in the 80’s. _Threads_. Loved it. One that I can’t find a copy of anywhere, but would love to own. Very creepy. And of course, there’s \* Hell comes to Frogtown\*. Post apocalypse movie where male fertility is rare, and the most fertile man is held prisoner by a military dressed in pink. I find it hilarious-and no, it’s not a porn flick. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-knows/36041/27 "2000-10-07T13:21:40Z")
i have been wonderin what are the favoirte movies of dopers! how diiifcult is it to find these movies? one of my all-time favorites is A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Forum ---
**Author:** ![lolagranola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-knows/36041/28 "2000-10-07T14:14:18Z")
I liked **Valmont**. I thought it was much better than Dangerous Liasons. Strangely, almost no one ever seems to have heard of it. **Dark City** , which was discussed in another thread a while ago. LOVED IT! **The Snapper**. When I went to rent it again, the clerk at the video place had never even heard of it. Although I hear about the movie all the time online (and they made a cartoon of it!), pretty much no one I know IRL has heard of **Clerks**. How does this happen? Do I just have really sheltered friends? Wait, I think I just answered that. I also liked **Run, Lola, Run** , but again, it’s a movie I saw reviewed in magazines, but certainly didn’t seem to make any conversation, as I don’t know anyone else who watched it. ---
**Author:** ![BornDodgy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@BornDodgy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BornDodgy)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-knows/36041/29 "2000-10-07T14:22:31Z")
**The Grassharp** is cool, **Steal (sp?) Magnolias** and **The Englishman** (the book is better though…) I guess nobody of you d know Stadtgespräch - **Talk of the Town** - cause it is German. Hillarious!!! loons who used to be a film freak ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-knows/36041/30 "2000-10-07T14:34:43Z")
I just did a search on the Internet Movie Database, and I can’t find any movie with a title even close to _The Englishman_ that was based on a novel. What film are you talking about? ---
**Author:** ![BornDodgy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@BornDodgy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BornDodgy)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-knows/36041/31 "2000-10-07T14:45:59Z")
wow. I guess with this I win the contest of “most unknown film” Wait… I got the video in the other room… The Englishman (who went up a hill but came down a mountain) The book is by Christopher Monger and has exactly the same title. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-knows/36041/32 "2000-10-07T15:33:32Z")
It’s not at all an obscure film. I’ve seen parts of it. (In fact, I’ve heard of nearly all the films mentioned in this thread and watched about half of them.) It was one of the films that it occurred to me that you might mean, but on IMDb it doesn’t mention that it was made from a novel. I’m sorry about this, but this is one of my pet peeves. Someone mentions a film, but they only give a part of the title. When I ask for fuller information, since there are usually half a dozen other movies with vaguely similar names, they get huffy about giving the full title or the year or director or star or something, as if I’m supposed to be able to read their mind. ---
**Author:** ![BornDodgy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@BornDodgy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BornDodgy)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-knows/36041/33 "2000-10-07T15:40:10Z")
LOL You can ask me for as many titles as you want… 🙂 I always thought it was just “The Englishman” cause it is written in REALLY BIG LETTERS and then there is “who went bla bla bla” in very small letters as if it was not more than one of those annoying subtitles… how I hate subtitles… grr but if I d explain that you d think I am mental… _smile_ ---
**Author:** ![bunnymom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c4cdca/32.png) [@bunnymom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunnymom)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-knows/36041/34 "2000-10-07T16:35:51Z")
ruadh - I _love_ The Secret of Roan Inish!! I even went out and rented it so I could force BunnyPapa to watch it. 🙂 As for the OP, **The Vogues of 1938** - imdb [description](http://us.imdb.com/Plot?0029737) The costuming is just gorgeous. Great rainy day girl movie. **Ensign Pulver** - imdb [description](http://us.imdb.com/Plot?0058060), Friggin’ hysterical. The description doesn’t come close to doing this one justice. You just have to see it. ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-knows/36041/35 "2000-10-07T16:50:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yojimbo \* > \*\* [A Matter of Life and Death](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0038733) ( _Stairway to Heaven_ in the States ) . > > A gem of a movie starring David Niven and Kim Hunter. It’s a movie that if you see as a kid the images will never leave you. I never miss this movie when it’s shown on TV. \*\* Had a chance to see a restored print of this on a big screen a few years ago at the High Museum here in Atlanta. Good stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Grendel69](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7bcc69/32.png) [@Grendel69](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grendel69)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-knows/36041/36 "2000-10-07T16:54:24Z")
“Kicking and Screaming” gets my vote… ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-knows/36041/37 "2000-10-07T17:46:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kilt-wearin’ man \* > \*\*“Flesh+Blood” (Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh in a 16th century action/psychological drama. One of Paul Veerhoeven’s pre-RoboCop movies and one of his few good ones.) > > another, which I haven’t seen in years, is “Robin and Marion”. Sean Connery as Robin Hood, near the end of his life. I forget who played Marion. Middle-aged Robin returns home from crusading and winds up having to be an outlaw again. Very good movie, from what I remember. \*\* I **loved** Flesh and Blood! Another medieval gem is “A Walk With Love and Death” – how could you miss with teenage lovers **and** the Black Plague? I believe Marion was played by Jean Simmons. I always wanted to be her when I grew up. ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-knows/36041/38 "2000-10-07T18:47:39Z")
Hi **Auntie Pam**! How are you doing? Marion was played by Audrey Hepburn. I love alot of the movies that have been mentioned here, and another really good but obscure one is “Tim” with a young Mel Gibson, and Piper Laurie. Australian, from a book written by the lady who wrote “The Thorn Birds.” Colleen McCullogh, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-knows/36041/39 "2000-10-07T18:51:46Z")
_ **Water** _ produced by Handmade Films (George Harrison) and starring Michael Caine, J.J. “Dy-no-mite” Walker, that Scottish commedian that replace Hessman on “Head of the Class”, the late Herman Munster actor, some other people, and appearances by George H. and pals Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton. So, I’m not remembering some names, but it really is a great political farce. I found my copy in the Blockbuster video $2 used video bin in Midland, TX, back in '94 and haven’t seen a copy of it anywhere since. I recommend it, and should you take my suggestion and watch it, I wish you luck finding it. ---
**Author:** ![BornDodgy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@BornDodgy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BornDodgy)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-knows/36041/40 "2000-10-07T18:57:09Z")
Reminds me of the time I tried to get a copy of **Mister Jones** with Richard Gere. It was a good film about mental illness, though a bit too hollywood style… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-knows/36041.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movies-no-one-knows/36041.md?page=3)