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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

“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.

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

Sorry that should be "Pink Flamingos."

Sparky51

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

No, it’s Hoss. The OP is correct.

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, ….

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.

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

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.

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.

Chestnut

The depiction of pubic school life

Ugh, sounds most unsavoury!

😳

I have see 'If' Chestnut.

As you know doubt know already, the title was taken, ironically, from the famous poem by Rudyard Kipling. I found it a rather disjointed film and very much of its time when people were starting to challenge the class system.

Marty, it's about a Butcher and a Teacher. It was made in the mid 50's.
I saw it years ago on TV and it was so wonderful. I have never seen it since and would love to. I think it was in Black and White, a low budget film. It was billed as a support film, but it ended up winning the Best film Oscar and 4 other Oscars plus a raft of other awards plus I believe, a BAFTA.
I have never met anyone else who has seen or heard of it.

Night Crawler with Jake Gyllenhaal.
I liked it but know that nobody I know would like it as well.
Is quite dark. But excellently filmed and the acting by Jake is amazing.

Flippinheck

Sparky51

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

No, it’s Hoss. The OP is correct.

Thank you Flippinheck

Sparky 51 Rudolph HESS was Hitler's Deputy and Rudolph HOSS was the first and longest serving Kommandant of Aushwitz. 2 different men, both as obnoxious as each other but not the same person.

Visgir1

Marty, it's about a Butcher and a Teacher. It was made in the mid 50's.
I saw it years ago on TV and it was so wonderful. I have never seen it since and would love to. I think it was in Black and White, a low budget film. It was billed as a support film, but it ended up winning the Best film Oscar and 4 other Oscars plus a raft of other awards plus I believe, a BAFTA.
I have never met anyone else who has seen or heard of it.

You can see it on Amazon Prime, You Tube, Google, Apple and Sky but it's not free, £3.49 on You Tube for instance. The fact it's not free means it has quality. It gets 96% on Rotten Tomatoes so people seem to like it.

The book and the film of The Color Purple -brilliant ,but harrowing.

I recently watched a Chinese film called Black Dog. It won the Dogd’Or at Cannes a couple of years ago. My son bought it on Amazon films for me and I’m trying to get hold of the dvd. It’s bleak and funny and the dog looks just like my dog. It’s set in China just before the Beijing Olympics and obviously has subtitles. I’ve wanted to see it ever since it came out and wasn’t disappointed. It made me laugh and cry.

youtu.be/zDUoY7lZiL8

Dr Zhivago, the 1965 film and I loved the book too. For me it covers everything I want in a film, great acting, wonderful scenery, evocative music and a doomed love story against a backdrop of tragedy. It's such a sad film and it brings back sad memories of the last time I went to the cinema with my sister and we both cried on the way home.

Dr Zhivago - wonderful book and film and a real tear jerker.