OT:I need a movie

[staxquad]

a varied selection of classic high quality films

Battleship Potemkin (1925), Russian
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), American
Sword of Doom (1966), Japanese
Atanarjuat the fast runner (2001), Canadian (Inuit)
Le Million (1931), French
In the Land of the War Canoes (1914), Edward Curtis, Canadian (Kwakiutl)
The Sweet Hereafter (1997), Canadian
Metropolis (1927), German
La Regle du Jeu (1939), French
M (1931), German
Die Brücke (1959), German
Bicycle Thieves (1948), Italian
8½ (1963), Italian
Smultronstället - Wild Strawberries (1957), Swedish
The Seventh Seal (1957), Swedish
Les enfants du paradis (1945), French
L'âge d'or (1930), Un chien andalou (1929), Spanish/French
Das Boot (1981), German
The Hidden Fortress (1958), Japanese
Le Genou de Claire (1970), French
Babette's Feast (1987), Danish
Tampopo (1985), Japanese
S.O.S. Eisberg (1933), German/American


edit:  Zero Hour (1957), Canadian, for those who like Airplane (spoofed from Zero Hour almost word for word, scene for scene)

and a few Australian films I like:

Rabbit Proof Fence (2002)
Ten Canoes (2006)
The Tracker (2002)
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
Animal Kingdom (2010),  the unexpected, diabolical mother, extremely violent


Westerns (American):

High Noon  (1952)
The Searchers (1956)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Shane (1953)

Hitchcock:

Rear Window (1954), American
The 39 Steps (1935), British

and how could I forget to add:

Some Like It Hot (1959), American
A Clockwork Orange (1971), British
Visages d'enfants (1925), Faces of Children, France
La kermesse héroïque (1935), Carnival in Flanders, France/Belgium 
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), American
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), American
 Fail-Safe (1964) , American

[Stonent]

This far down and still no mention of these classics:

 - Airplane

I used to have this scene memorized.

[Stonent]

The Thirteenth Floor

Wow the only other person I've ever heard of that had seen that movie.

It came out around the time the Matrix was out and had some similarities, but ended up being more of a thriller.

[Stonent]

Ok well I've seen many of my favorites already. I'm a general fan of submarine warfare movies so I'm glad to see U-571 and K-19 got mentioned.

Another 80s classic I'd say is Short Circuit. As a kid I used to repeatedly watch the opening scene.



Anyone able to figure out what model scope was used?

Anyway back tho the list.
Anything that includes Anthony Hopkins is always a good movie:

Freejack - Starring Emilio Estevez, Renee Russo, Mick Jagger, and Anthony Hopkins. (Come on Mick Jagger as the bad guy? You've gotta see that!)
All the Hannibal Lechter movies (Silence of the Lambs / Hannibal / Red Dragon / Hannibal Rising)
Hearts in Atlantis - A Stephen King movie but not the typical thriller, still a really good movie.
Meet Joe Black (A modern interpretation of Death takes a Holiday)
(and other Anthony Hopkins Movies)

Sean Connery:
The Hunt for Red October (my favorite of all time)
Medicine Man
James Bond (just see the whole series)
(And most other Sean Connery movies)

Morgan Freeman:
Bruce Almighty / Evan Almighty - These are just fun movies
Shawshank Redemption
Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider : Morgan Freeman plays the same character in both
(And again most others)

Random movies:
O Brother Where Art Thou?
The Mexican
The Jack Ryan trillogies (Sum of All Fears had Ben Affleck instead of Harrison Ford, but it did have Morgan Freeman)
Wall-E


I'll update this list later as I look through my DVD collection...

[mrflibble]

What, no Blazing Saddles yet? Excuse me while I whip this out!

Or Dr. Strangelove. Oh oh oh, Revolver is always fun for an easy going mindfsck. Round of with Aliens and Blade Runner and you are good to go. Oh and Snatch.

[mrflibble]

This far down and still no mention of these classics:

 - Airplane

I used to have this scene memorized.

Roger Roger. What's our vector Victor?

Yeah, I love that one. XD

[Stonent]

Ok had to share this... Someone did a compilation of Ben from Short Circuit. Ben is played by Fisher Stevens who played the bad guy in Hackers.



"I am thinking she is a wirgin, or at least she used to be." 

[Christe4nM]

So many great movie titles, and yet no one mentioned the classic must see "Once upon a time in the west"

[staxquad]

Ok well I've seen many of my favorites already. I'm a general fan of submarine warfare movies so I'm glad to see U-571 and K-19 got mentioned.

Das Boot is one of the best submarine movies (in my list).
I can always watch "We Dive at Dawn" every time it pops up on TV, a wartime submarine film, 1943, so has a wartime feel to it.   

[warp_foo]

I'll confine myself to ten favourites. Not necessarily in order.

1. Blade Runner (make sure it is Directors Cut)
2. Pulp Fiction
3. The Andromeda Strain (1971). This is a great pre cgi SciFi story by Michael Crichton
4. 2001
5. Blues Brothers
6. Silent Running
7. Moon  (this is excellent by any standard)
8. Alien
9. Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy
10. Source Code (also excellent)

I could go on but decided to stick mostly with SciFi.

I just picked up the five disk release of Blade Runner, and there are two versions of the director's cut:

1992 'Director's Cut' by Michael Arick
2007 'Final Cut' by Ridley Scott

Of the known versions, I'm pretty sure I've seen the US theatrical release, and the 'International Cut' which came out on Criterion Edition LD.

I'm looking forward to identifying the differences in the versions.

Also, since you have Alien on the list, you have to include Aliens as well. (Forget the others, there should only have been those two...)

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[staxquad]

I caught the ending once when i was out somewhere and it just looked stupid.
(No offense intended to those who love it)

Have you seen Eagle vs Shark (2007), New Zealand?
I can't believe I watched that film twice (thanks to TVO Saturday Night at the Movies) 

stupid the whole way through, but dorky funny (you'd be offended if I didn't call that movie stupid)

The Piano (1993), New Zealand is quite a good film

[ftransform]

Alien
Aliens
Alien 3

Prometheus-excellent, 2012

the thing (old one)
predator
every arnold movie

[GK]

   - Solaris , starring : George Clooney .. 

That was the Russian version of 2001 ? or a different version.

Nope, thats the newer Holywood version, same story line but with better special effect of course, yes, I've watched the original Russian version as well. Still recommending the Holywood version cause almost no change in the main concept and characters.

No offence, but was that that hookey nonsense with Clooney’s dead wife recurringly coming back to life in outer space? That was my last straw with Soderberg (or whatever his name is); another trite mystical bore ineffectively given depth with endless boring and protracted takes of Clooney staring silently and vacantly into space. 

[kizzap]

I don't think any of you have mentioned October Sky. Shame on you all.

Great movie about the Rocket boys of Coalwood.

[GK]

And three classic Aussie ones:
The Castle
The Dish
Kenny

Another Aussie classic, IMO:

The Big Steal
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099138/

[G7PSK]

Soylent Green and M.A.S.H. soylent Green is where we are heading and MASH is just great.

[BillyD]

Can't believe The Castle wasn't on page one, given that this is an Aussie forum!
It's my all time favourite film, after a lengthy tussle between it and 'Planes Trains And Automobiles'.
And after watching the Castle, it's logical to watch The Dish, from the same creators and almost as good.

[ddavidebor]

Ferris Buellers Day Off.
Apollo 13
Almost Famous
The Right Stuff (not for everyone, it's long....)
Escape from New York & Escape from LA double.

And three classic Aussie ones:
The Castle
The Dish
Kenny

Ooo apollo 13 apollo 13

Watch it first, fantastic movie, plot, actors...

[komet]

You should watch Deep Water (2006). It's all true.

[nctnico]

About disaster movies... if you want to know how many ways there are to die during diving you should watch Sanctum.

[FoXX]

This!

- Lock stock and 2 barrels

But i guess it's Lock Stock and 2 smoking Barrels though..

[qno]

the scope in short circuit is a Philips 3240.

I like the phrase of flying high

This is captain Over over,
Roger Roger.

I miss one of the funny movies

Galaxy Quest

[mrflibble]

This!

- Lock stock and 2 barrels

But i guess it's Lock Stock and 2 smoking Barrels though..

Definitely!  I thought about adding it, but already had Snatch on the list.

[jamesp15]

Only thing I could add to the lists above...

The Mist
Lord of The Rings Trilogy

Not a movie, but damned good:  Game of Thrones (all of it.)

So bad its sometimes funny:  the Police Academy movies.

[nctnico]

Ah Police Academy... when I was ten or so I talked my grandfather into seeing that movie... He didn't like it that much and had some explaining to do to my parents