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

One of my favourite films is Midnight Express . Set in a Turkish prison . It’s a hard watch and for that I don’t really recommend it to others . Ditto Schindler’s List .

The holiday I love it!

Terms Of Endearment is a very sad film .
I don't want to watch it again .

I loved An Officer and a Gentleman starring Richard Gere. Also Pretty Woman.

It’s got to be The Shining for me. I still find it as frightening when I watch it today as I did when it was first made. Jack Nicholson is mesmerising and horrifying. I also watched a very interesting documentary on Kubrick and all of the little quirks he put into the film.

MayBee70

Esmay

Far From The Madding Crowd is another deeply moving book and film .
I cried at Troy's treatment of Fanny Robin,his cruelty to Bathsheba and then ,
the pain and actions of Farmer Boldwood resulting in his death.

It ends happily-even so it's a real tear jerker.

I preferred the more recent adaptation with Carey Mulligan except I thought Captain Troy was mis cast; if only a young Terence Stamp could have been in that version, too. I can watch that film over and over again. Along with the latest tv adaptation of Tess with Gemma Arterton. To me that was perfection. My eyes well up just thinking about it so I’d only recommend it to someone like me who enjoys wallowing in misery

There were actually three versions, Julie Christie, Carey Mulligan and also a TV series from 1998 which is very good, possibly the best because it's in 4 parts. Nathanial Parker as Gabriel Oak. It won a Bafta. And so cheap on DVD at £2.73!
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The 1950s screen version of The Thirty Nine Steps. Great story, read and seen many times. This version stars my first ever screen hero, Kenneth More.

If we are talking favourite films of all time, it has to be “The Lion in Winter”. Powerful story of complicated family dynamics and power struggles with a fabulous, largely English, cast - Katherine Hepburn, Peter O’Toole, Anthony Hopkins, Timothy Dalton et al. Sparks fly, swords are drawn, and everyone ends up friends (almost). Hepburn and O’Toole are mesmerising.

My utter favourite film is Ben-Hur. I saw it first when I was about fifteen , so an impressionable age. Such a majestic film

A Man and a Woman. Very romantic 60s black and white French film and a lovely soundtrack. I love French films and identified with Anouk Aimee. Handsome leading man too.

Esmay

Far From The Madding Crowd is another deeply moving book and film .
I cried at Troy's treatment of Fanny Robin,his cruelty to Bathsheba and then ,
the pain and actions of Farmer Boldwood resulting in his death.

It ends happily-even so it's a real tear jerker.

I preferred the more recent adaptation with Carey Mulligan except I thought Captain Troy was mis cast; if only a young Terence Stamp could have been in that version, too. I can watch that film over and over again. Along with the latest tv adaptation of Tess with Gemma Arterton. To me that was perfection. My eyes well up just thinking about it so I’d only recommend it to someone like me who enjoys wallowing in misery

seasider

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

Is that the one where Chevy Chase knocks Eric Idle off his bike and Eric apologises to him? Very funny but I would only recommend it to anyone with a certain kind of sense of humour.

Far From The Madding Crowd is another deeply moving book and film .
I cried at Troy's treatment of Fanny Robin,his cruelty to Bathsheba and then ,
the pain and actions of Farmer Boldwood resulting in his death.

It ends happily-even so it's a real tear jerker.

I feel very concerned that youngsters of today will never watch the amazing 20th century films we watched. They may watch some of the more famous/popular ones but there are so many which sit under the radar and they may never see them. That worries me because those movies provide such a fantastic glimpse into the past. Our generation never had that from the previous century because they didn't make movies in the 1800s. I don't think todays youngsters realise how lucky they are to have all those old movies, just hope they get to see them when they're a bit older.

Oh yes, I loved Dr. Zhivago.

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

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.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.