Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
#1Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
Posted: 11/28/14 at 3:17pmThe Counterfeit Traitor
#2Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
Posted: 11/28/14 at 3:28pmJOE DIRT
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#2Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
Posted: 11/28/14 at 3:34pm
Updated On: 11/28/14 at 03:34 PM
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#3Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
Posted: 11/28/14 at 3:39pm
Midnight (1939)
Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Naked Kiss (1964)
Opening Night (1977)
Persuasion (1995)
nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#4Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
Posted: 11/28/14 at 3:41pm
I love The Counterfeit Traitor! South Florida, you are the only person I've ever encountered who has even heard of that movie. William Holden and Lilli Palmer are great, as is Hugh Griffith, Stefan Schnabel (love the scene in the cemetery), and, in a memorable bit, Klaus Kinski!
Updated On: 11/28/14 at 03:41 PM
#5Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
Posted: 11/28/14 at 3:49pm
Henrik I shall look for all those movies none of which ring a bell.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#6Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
Posted: 11/28/14 at 4:32pm
Pressure Point
Ship Of Fools
Elevator To The Gallows (French)
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#7Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
Posted: 11/28/14 at 5:01pm
Mad Monster Party
Really Rosie
#8Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
Posted: 11/28/14 at 5:04pm
Liked ship of fools.
#9Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
Posted: 11/28/14 at 5:10pm
Kindred, it was intense.
#10Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
Posted: 11/28/14 at 5:10pm
meanmartin, sorry.
#11Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
Posted: 11/28/14 at 5:16pm
"I love The Counterfeit Traitor! South Florida, you are the only person I've ever encountered who has even heard of that movie. William Holden and Lilli Palmer are great, as is Hugh Griffith, Stefan Schnabel (love the scene in the cemetery), and, in a memorable bit, Klaus Kinski!"
Classic, it gets three stars and was never up for awards, but what a profound yarn, and feel good.
4 stars from me.
#12Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
Posted: 11/30/14 at 7:45pmI don't know if it's my favorite, but one that comes to mind is "Washington Square" with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney and Maggie Smith.
JbaraFan1
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/04
#13Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
Posted: 12/1/14 at 1:14am
You've all given me movies to look up. (Thanks!)
henrik, one of yours, Night of the Hunter, one of the finest films ever imo, is a favorite of mine. I LOVE it. (On the OTHER HAND, I suppose there could be those few who HATE it.)
#14Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
Posted: 12/1/14 at 2:55am
On Approval, 1944, with Beatrice Lillie, based on an earlier play by Frederick Lonsdale of the same name. It used to be on both Netflix and youtube but I have no idea know whether it's still at either place.
"You will find the dinghy by the jetty and you may row yourself across."
Wikipedia says "Filmmaker Lindsay Anderson called the film 'the funniest British light comedy ever made' (according to the DVD box)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Approval_%281944_film%29
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037149/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_5
Updated On: 12/1/14 at 02:55 AM
#15Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
Posted: 12/1/14 at 3:03am
Also, Travels with My Aunt, 1972, with Maggie Smith, directed by George Cukor. Severely flawed, but at its best, enchanting. Loosely based on the novel by Graham Greene, which was also more closely adapted as a play in the UK and then received a wonderful off-Broadway production starring Jim Dale.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travels_with_My_Aunt_%28film%29
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069404/
Updated On: 12/1/14 at 03:03 AM
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#16Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
Posted: 12/1/14 at 11:03am
Richard Lester's THE BED SITTING ROOM, a post-apocalyptic comedy set in a nuclear wasteland that used to be London, with a lot of people carrying on as best they can because, you know, they're British. A very weird little movie, lots of deadpan surrealism and strange muttered dialogue and some of the great British character actors of the 1960s like the great Michael Hordern, Ralph Richardson, Spike Milligan, Roy Kinnear, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and Mona Washbourne and Marty Feldman.
A thing of strange beauty, it deserves to be better known.
#17Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
Posted: 12/1/14 at 1:16pm
I think I've only known two other people who have seen this.
Mindwalk
#18Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
Posted: 12/1/14 at 1:18pm
Now you know three, Matt! Gosh, I saw that movie probably 20 years ago. I forgot it existed.
#19Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
Posted: 12/1/14 at 1:26pm
This is, by far, the most obscure movie I can recall seeing. We had it at a video store I worked at in high school, and I brought it home one night for my family to watch. It was so, so, strange, clearly shot on a low budget, with, if I recall, some questionable acting, but an intriguing, Jarmuschian screenplay and a lingering sense of existential dread.
Not long after, it disappeared from the video store, quick as it had showed up. A few years later, the Internet came along, and I tried for years to track it down. Not only couldn't I find a copy of it anywhere; there was no information on it at all, like it never existed. The running joke in my family was that we must have found and watched it in some kind of "Twilight Zone" alt-reality.
But eventually information about it started popping up, and a few years ago, an IMDb page for it surfaced, and now I own it on VHS, though I've never rewatched it.
Bonneville, Arizona
#20Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
Posted: 12/1/14 at 1:38pm
I liked very much this Australian movie, which doesn't seem to be widely known. Worth a look. (Toni Collette is always worth a look...)
When Thomas and his eccentric family move to a new home and he has to start at a new school, all he wants is to fit in. But achieving that goal is made more challenging when his father puts him in charge of his autistic older brother, Charlie.
#21Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
Posted: 12/1/14 at 1:45pm
You pic didn't load Jay, so I can't see the movie you're referring to but I think I've seen it based on the description.
Is it The Black Balloon?
#22Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
Posted: 12/1/14 at 1:46pm
Yes! (I can see my pic... 
)
Did you like it?
#23Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
Posted: 12/1/14 at 1:50pm
I did, very much.
I think I stumbled across it while searching Rhys Wakefield on imdb after seeing him in a great little indie called +1. When I saw Toni Collette was in it I decided to watch it.
Btw, +1 is definitely worth a look. I really had a ball with it.
Check out the trailer:
+1
#24Favorite English speaking movie you think few other people have seen?
Posted: 12/1/14 at 1:53pm
There was a movie I saw when I was a kid that I have been searching for ever since.
All I remember is that it was about a group of elderly people living in an apartment building which is about to be torn down (or sold, I forget).
They all team up and start killing off the owners and buyers of the building so they won't be evicted.
I don't recall any of the actors.
Anyone have any ideas?
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