Movies which are never on!

Thank you NanKate. If you put 'Classic films' in search on YouTube it comes up with lots. Also there are lots of old TV drama series. Remember Shoestring and A Horseman Riding By? Some of them have had subtitles added (they describe them as CC), but I think they are AI generated so they can be a bit weird! I recently enjoyed Longitude with Michael Gambon which was originally shown on BBC.

Holiday Inn - Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire

I echo some of the choices here - particularly A Kind of Loving and This Sporting Life.

I would also like to see:

Once Around (Richard Dreyfuss and Holly Hunter)
Starman (Jeff Bridges)

|I rarely go to the cinema now but when the trailers for new films come on, they all seem to be Hollywood-type blockbusters with lots of CGI and nothing like real life.

TwiceAsNice

Sidney Poitier in To Sir with Love. My most favourite film of all time. I think he was gorgeous

Mine too, TwiceAsNice! I adored him! I also loved him in “In the heat of the night”. Another wonderful film of his is “Guess who’s coming to dinner”.
They don’t make films, or men, like that any more, more’s the pity, although I do rather like Denzel Washington.
I think nearly all the male actors I have liked have been black.

Yes, In the Heat of the Night is a brilliant film. It was on BBC 1 very late on Monday night. (I know because I had a bug and couldn’t go to bed 🫤) There are definitely a lot of classics on I player, and two are shown most Saturdays on BBC 2
Amazon Prime have a lot, but you may have to buy or rent them. That’s the joy of this new TV world! I remember scrolling through The Radio Times all year looking for my favourite film ‘Meet Me in St Louis’ and my father in law had a new fangled Beta Max recorder. He would tape it for me and I’d go round and watch it. How times have changed!

Babs03

In the heat of the night with Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger, brilliant film, got it on DVD once but can’t find it now, can’t see it elsewhere.

In the heat of the night is on iPlayer Babs03, go to Films on the menu page, and scroll to the bottom, to View Films A-Z. They have lots of good films on there.

Thank you littleannie for suggesting YouTube. I have just found the film Deadly Pursuit that I want to watch for the 3rd time 👍

All three are an available to stream or buy if you want to pay Chestnut, either NowTV, or Amazon.

There are lots of old films on YouTube

In the heat of the night with Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger, brilliant film, got it on DVD once but can’t find it now, can’t see it elsewhere.

Chestnut

I'd like to see 'Once Upon a Time In Hollywood' but it doesn't seem to be on Netflix. I see it's on Cinema Paradiso!

Also would like to see 'Phil Spector' (the movie with Al Pacino and Helen Mirren). Not sure if that can be found anywhere.

Once upon a time in Hollywood is still on Netflix.

If you use the app IMBD you can find every movie and it will tell you which streaming platform has them.

TwiceAsNice

Sidney Poitier in To Sir with Love. My most favourite film of all time. I think he was gorgeous

That's on quite regularly.

The 'Discovering......' series on Sky Arts is amazing. They have done all my favourite actors with a detailed analysis of their lives and careers. There are so many clips from their movies that are never shown on TV.
Some years ago I bought Whatever Happened to Baby Jane on DVD as I hadn't seen it it many years. Then they did a drama series on the Crawford and Davies feud and also showed the movie on TV!

I enjoy ‘Discovering Cary Grant/ Orson Welles/ Joan Crawford et al’ on Sky Arts.

Some of their earlier films, 40’s/50’s/60’s, are shown as clips. I have never seen the film, and they never seem to be on any channel either.

Some of the early 1960s new wave (kitchen sink) dramas can be seen on Talking Pictures, A Kind of Loving, Woman in a Dressing Gown, This Sporting Life and so on. I was too young to see them at the time but have seen them recently. All good movies.

Amazon has copies of Billy Budd DVD on sale

Two of my 60s favourites were Morgan A Suitable Case For Treatment with David Warner and Vanessa Redgrave and The Knack with Michael Crawford and Ray Brooks. Both black and white and very 60s. I loved If as well.

I bought Billy Budd on DVD and then someone borrowed it. Foolishly I didn't write down who it was and never got it back! It cost a fair bit too. Very good movie and Terence Stamp is so beautiful and young. That one is NEVER on TV for some reason.

Sidney Poitier again in Deadly Pursuit.

Chestnut I wanted to watch Once Upon A Time In Hollywood after ny granddaughter told me about it but it is on Sky Cinema which you have to pay an extra subscription for evennif you have Sky tv which we don’t. So I took out a free month’s trial of Now TV, I had the Entertainment and the Cinema packages, could have had Sport too but I didn’t want it.

Phil Spector was an HBO made for TV film from David Mamet which might explain why it isn't on Cinema Paradiso but it is available on Amazon Prime to rent or buy.

Thanks Chestnut

I'd like to see 'Once Upon a Time In Hollywood' but it doesn't seem to be on Netflix. I see it's on Cinema Paradiso!

Also would like to see 'Phil Spector' (the movie with Al Pacino and Helen Mirren). Not sure if that can be found anywhere.

I watched Nell quite recently, I think on Netflix. It was lovely to see Liam Neeson with his wife who was a beautiful woman.