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

National Lampoons European Vacation . I don’t usually like “silly” films but this one really makes me laugh

Ridley Scott's very first film "The Duellist's". A magical period piece spanning the Napoleonic wars.

And then he went on to do the Alien films.

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

That should say “it” not “w”!

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother starring Gene Wilder. Very, very silly but I love w.

I thought The Road was a brilliant film. I even read the book after seeing the film and loved that, too. But I bought the dvd and lent it to my daughter who said how could you have given me something so depressing to watch.

Janetashbolt

I watched Omega Man and Soylent Green in a cinema double bill BOTH really scared me, never recommended them as they are both very different end of civilisation movies.

Was that the Charlton Heston Omega Man? I was scared to go outside after dark for years after seeing that! I’m really careful about what I watch these days because once seen never forgotten; I will never watch The Blair Witch Project because of it.

Cinema Paradiso. Lovely story, and the music is haunting.

Out of Africa - wonderful film. I’d be upset if I recommended it to someone and they didn’t like it! Better to keep it to myself.

The Heiress with Olivia DeHavilland, Ralph Richardson and Montgomery Clift. On the face of it, it's just a Victorian melodrama but the acting is so good and the plot so well planned, I love it.

It’s The Colour Purple for me. Thought the acting was fantastic and there was a proper story. Every emotion was in there I laughed with them and cried with them. There was sadness, kindness, cruelty and love. A beautiful film.

Apologies, ladies. I obviously don’t know how to comment on a message!

I watched Omega Man and Soylent Green in a cinema double bill BOTH really scared me, never recommended them as they are both very different end of civilisation movies.

He was actually called Rudolph Höss. The ö in German is pronounced like the u in “murder”.

Is is actually Rudolph Höss, or can be spelled Hoess. The ö in German is pronounced like the u in “murder”.

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

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 absolutely love Random Harvest, have it on VHS somewhere

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

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.

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 … 😌

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

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

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.

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.