What's a movie you love, but you never recommend to anyone?

Zone of Interest.
My Dad started taking me to the cinema when I was 5 and in the intervening 73 years I have watched umpteen films but never one like this. It is, without doubt, the most disturbing film I have ever seen.
This true story centres on Rudolph Hoss and his family life with his wife and 5 children. They have a beautiful home and splendid garden where the family enjoy entertaining, enjoying the best of everything. Through the garden gate is another world entirely. Auschwitz. Hoss is the Kommandant of this hell hole, cheek by jowl with his home. We never see inside. Jonathan Glazer, the director, makes our imagination work out the horrors. The distant screams, the sound of another train pulling in, the smoke spiralling into the sky.
I hesitate to recommend it because it has never left me and as brilliant as this film is it has the power to shock. Many would not want to watch it.

"More than Heaven Allows" . Made in 1955 and starring Jane Wyman & Rock Hudson. A love story with some interesting issues of the day. (Children think widowed mum in past it!)
Could be considered "schmaltzy" especially these days, but it includes issues of "class" and age differences, which are just as relevant these days, IMO.

Oh i agree Sarnia, i have watched Zone of Interest 3 times now, and each time i hear/see things i have missed, its an amazing film.

Bridey

Oh i agree Sarnia, i have watched Zone of Interest 3 times now, and each time i hear/see things i have missed, its an amazing film.

Yes, quite unique but chilling.
I couldn't fathom out what the silhouette scenes were all about. I had to look it up. The director, Jonathan Glazer, wanted to show that even in the darkest times, there are always those with compassion. So he included the black and white scenes where the Polish girl is leaving apples for the prisoners to find.

A French Film called Les Yeux Sans Visage. (Eyes without a face) A horror film about a man whois trying to repair his daughter’s damaged face and experiments of women to do so. B/W 50’s. Scary.

I agree. Absolutely chilling,

Twister. I cant really say why but it is one that both middle DD and I love

jenpax

Twister. I cant really say why but it is one that both middle DD and I love

Snap, it’s a favourite in our house.

i have 2 films that i have watched over and over soylent green and a matter of life and death.

Brief Encounter but I think some people would find it over romantic.I found it had good moral story and the way some men just said yes dear to their wife without listening said it all!

The potato men with jonny vegas

Its actually Rudolph Hess..not Hoss...just to be correct.

Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train". So cleverly put together, but it's now considered old-fashioned and - worse - it requires a bit of thinking about to "get" it. People prefer easier entertainment these days. I wouldn't recommend any film/play/book/music to anyone - people ought to make their own choices and decisions, not just do what other people recommend.

A good year with Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard. It has everything in it. But, watching it makes you want a nice red wine. The beginning is difficult to watch but the rest of the film is very enjoyable.

CarrotTop

Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train". So cleverly put together, but it's now considered old-fashioned and - worse - it requires a bit of thinking about to "get" it. People prefer easier entertainment these days. I wouldn't recommend any film/play/book/music to anyone - people ought to make their own choices and decisions, not just do what other people recommend.

One of my favourites. The plot is clever but chilling.

Sparky51

Its actually Rudolph Hess..not Hoss...just to be correct.

I am afraid it is you who are not correct.

Rudolph Hoss and Rudolph Hess are 2 different people.

Hoss was the first and longest serving Kommandant of Auschwitz.

Hess was Hitler's Deputy and was nowhere near Auschwitz.

The French 'La Cage aux Folles' - you can have subtitles. Not the same as the USA one at all.

Ray82

Brief Encounter but I think some people would find it over romantic.I found it had good moral story and the way some men just said yes dear to their wife without listening said it all!

Oh I love 'Brief Encounter' and also 'Random Harvest' which so few people seem to know

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is the one that I usually keep quiet about - I love it and have seen it countless times

Well, I’m definitely going to have to watch Zone of Interest - it sounds fascinating and chilling all at once (and it’s one I’ve not heard of before). Mine (in comparison) is totally flippant but it never fails to make me laugh out loud and weep in equal measure - When Harry Met Sally - it explores a subject close to my heart, which is the age-old question of whether men and women can be best friends without being attracted to each other. But my own kids (in their forties) and certainly anyone younger I’m sure think it’s very dated now which is why I wouldn’t recommend it. I’ll never stop loving it though … 😌

Yes Brief Encounter is a firm favourite especially as I was once in a very similar situation.
I love Le Boucher by Claude Chabrol and I have watched it many times. I like the sheer Frenchness of it, the era and fashions in the 1960s and the slow building of fear and tension, But the two people I have shared it with have been bored and didn’t get it.
Oddly the film is set in Tremolat the small, rural village in the Dordogne, France where the Englishwoman Karen Carter was murdered in 2025 and was also stabbed like the film. A French woman has been charged with her murder.

The Hunger, I love the story (modern vampire), the filming and the music, MrJ was not impressed!

I absolutely love Random Harvest, have it on VHS somewhere

A Matter of Life and Death always had DH riveted. He'd been a young RAF pilot in the 1950s and was also an incurable romantic. It seems very dated now.
A film I love - so did DH - but younger people don't seem to get is The English Patient, another war drama (with aeroplane!) made in 1997.

I love The Bodyguard with Whitney Houston and Kevin Kostner. The song 'I will always love you' performed by Whitney is spellbinding.