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

Chestnut

The depiction of pubic school life

Ugh, sounds most unsavoury!

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Everyone's talking about Jamie' is another teenage type film I enjoyed but would not recommend in case people think I'm obsessed with teenagers and therefore weird.
But you are right, Tenko, these films are about the parents too.

The film I would recommended but no-one seems to have heard of is If.... (1968) with Malcolm McDowell. The depiction of pubic school life during that period is personal and brutal, and you almost feel like you're there. Then it goes off into fantasy and you're never sure what is real and what is the fantasy, then the two seem to mix. It's an incredible film.

In 2017 a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine ranked it the 9th best British film ever.

After seeing his performance Stanley Kubrick chose Malcolm McDowall for Clockwork Orange.

Bottle Rocket. An early Wes Anderson film with the Wilson brothers. Weird but not too weird.

Lovetopaint037

Reading above about Zone of Interest reminded me of The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas. Sounds very similar.

Exactly my thoughts, although I found the ending of The Boy in the Striped pyjamas more moving than anything.

There was a programme about traumatised children of Nazis where a man had actually lived as a boy in an exact same house next to a camp. There was a gate in a wall he was not allowed through, and he eventually went through it as an adult. Very moving.

Black Narcissus.
Went The Day Well.
Mildred Pierce.
Kind Hearts And Coronets.
Brief Encounter.

All old films, but so comforting and familiar.

The music, the costumes, the accents, the furniture and houses….

A more modern one, (but still pretty old) is Witness, with Harrison Ford.

It’s got everything, drama, romance, humour, ….

Sparky51

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

No, it’s Hoss. The OP is correct.

Sorry that should be "Pink Flamingos."

I have many favourite films that I would never recommend to anyone. Top of the list is "Pink Flamingoes."

“The Painted Veil”. A story of love, loss and redemption, based on a novel by W.Somerset Maugham. A rather repressed doctor marries a beautiful woman and when she has an affair he drags her off to a remote part of China to battle an epidemic of cholera as a punishment.

A Night to Remember with Kenneth More. Old Titanic movie, I like it better than the ‘modern’ one with Kate Winslet which I reckon is a bit trashy. Another one we sometimes watch is The Wicker Man 1973 version with Britt Ekland, Christopher Lee and Edward Woodward.

Reading above about Zone of Interest reminded me of The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas. Sounds very similar.

Just want to say, what a wonderful thread. Thanks reid88.

Marg75

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

I love Dolly's version, so lovely and gentle.

Whitney belted it out! It was very popular though.

Rocketdog6

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.

Not heard of that one, perhaps we'll try to find it, thank you.

Oreo

The Producers ( the original version)
I don’t recommend it to others as people’s reaction to it varies but me and all the family, Jewish btw all think it’s really funny.

I’ve watched the film and also saw the play in London earlier this year . I have a weird sense of humour and find it very funny

henetha

Dear Evan Hansen is a film I've seen twice and really enjoyed. But I wouldn't recommend it to friends as it's basically a film for teenagers and some might think I'm weird for liking it.

I saw the play and loved it . Even though it’s about teenagers , it’s also about the parents .

Camelot with Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave. It has a real sentimental pull for me. Took my sister and younger brother to see it, I was about 14. It was so cinematic and sweeping, and the music is wonderful. Richard Harris was wonderful, handsome and caring.But I cannot watch it again, it meant so much to me at the time, and the music is haunting. A truly beautiful film. Another one i immersed myself in was called The Dollmaker. It starred Jane Fonda, as a young mother with young daughters, a husband who was doing his best to put food on the table. It is incredibly sad, so I cannot really tell people to watch it, for that reason.

TattyBluebell

I love this question!
ROOM is an absolutely wonderful film. It isn't a film I would recommend to people because of its dark subject. The way it is written though is excellent. It is from the perspective of a little boy called Jack and begins on his 5th Birthday...
I'll leave it there, but the acting is superb, especiallythe bond between Jack and his mum. I read the book first as I like to do before I watch the film. If you do watch it let me know what you think.
It is a story that has never left me and I like to watch it now again.

I agree. It is a subject matter that I thought I would find difficult but it was so well done. I mentioned it to my daughter and she said no way could she watch it so I never recommended it again to anyone.

I love this question!
ROOM is an absolutely wonderful film. It isn't a film I would recommend to people because of its dark subject. The way it is written though is excellent. It is from the perspective of a little boy called Jack and begins on his 5th Birthday...
I'll leave it there, but the acting is superb, especiallythe bond between Jack and his mum. I read the book first as I like to do before I watch the film. If you do watch it let me know what you think.
It is a story that has never left me and I like to watch it now again.

I could watch Billy Elliott every day, but a film that I loved and have never recommended is The Road to Perdition.
In my opinion it's one of Tom Hank's better films.

Sarnia

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.

One of the best, if not the best, depicting the true horrors of the time. I have however recommended it to close friends as it’s just so good. The ‘lipstick’; if you know you know.

The Producers ( the original version)
I don’t recommend it to others as people’s reaction to it varies but me and all the family, Jewish btw all think it’s really funny.

Dear Evan Hansen is a film I've seen twice and really enjoyed. But I wouldn't recommend it to friends as it's basically a film for teenagers and some might think I'm weird for liking it.

Arto1s

Actually, Sparky51, to be pedantic, the exact spelling of the name is Hoess.

There are a few spellings on his surname. Britannica uses Hoss. Wikipedia uses Hoss with 2 dots above the o, which I can't seem to get on my computer but was corrected by Rosamunde.

Whichever spelling is used it doesn't detract from the OP's request for films we would not recommend .