Yours, Mine and Ours – starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda
A Matter of Life and Death ( 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.
Annie-Xmas I loved Time After Time aswell. Malcolm McDowell was great as Wells and David Warner was even better as the ripper.
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”
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).
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.
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
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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
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
The costuming is just gorgeous. Great rainy day girl movie.
Ensign Pulver - imdb description, Friggin’ hysterical. The description doesn’t come close to doing this one justice. You just have to see it.
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.
“Kicking and Screaming” gets my vote…
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.
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?
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.
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…