Unsung sleepers - Great Movies more people should take a look at. (classic)

[Coney]

Originally Posted by PAhippo

i don't pay much attention to awards and what critics think. I'd call it a sleeper because nobody watches it now.

It's on TCM and my local PBS channel a great deal. I think it's been overexposed.

[Coney]

Originally Posted by sheena12

" The World of Henry Orient" with Peter Sellers and Angela Lansbury.

One of my absolute favorites. It was on TCM a few months ago.

[Coney]

Originally Posted by Iconographer

I have noticed this with TCM in particular, where they run obscure (and often provocative) films at this time of the morning. I sometimes DVR them; my DH was shocked to find me watching recordings of John Waters films (Polyester, Pink Flamingos) one morning. "This was on TCM?" he kept asking. He hardly considered it suitable breakfast fare.

Many of the pre-code films from the 1930s are on in the morning. It's amazing how they could discuss/show these types of topics at that time.

[Iconographer]

Originally Posted by GTB365

Heavy (1995) .....starting a young Liv Tyler....and with small part, Debbie Harry ..shot in PA

Your mention of Liv sparked a memory of another great indie that she helmed...Cookie's Fortune.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126250...es%2520fortune

Amazing cast (Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Patricia Neal, Charles S. Dutton) and a great story with not one but two twists at the end.

[Hawk J]

Originally Posted by Iconographer

Your mention of Liv sparked a memory of another great indie that she helmed...Cookie's Fortune.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126250...es%2520fortune

Amazing cast (Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Patricia Neal, Charles S. Dutton) and a great story with not one but two twists at the end.

Liv was in another Great Movie......Armageddon......I watched it several times.

[LittleDolphin]

We just watched the current film "Jules." Absolutely superb. Sweet. There's a role by Jane Curtin who was a player on Saturday Night Live. She sings! A wonderful scene. Ben Kingsley plays the lead role--a terrific actor. Very worth watching this sleeper film!!

[A.Typical.Girl]

Originally Posted by Hawk J

Liv was in another Great Movie......Armageddon......I watched it several times.

And, Stealing Beauty, a Bertolucci film from '96. Adult themes, beautifully shot, very different plot. Liv was 16 & a very good actress. With Jeremy Irons & his wife, Sinead Cusack & an equally young Joseph Fiennes & Rachel Weisz in small roles.

[citylove101]

Here’s a few that I think should be better known than the are:

—The Hurricane (1937). A lesser known John Ford movie that builds to a terrific climax.

—Ace in the Hole (1951). A lesser known Billy Wilder film that’s a bleak tale about an unscrupulous reporter.

—Hope and Glory (1987). A John Boorman flick about an English kid during WW II — who loves it!

[Igor Blevin]

Originally Posted by PAhippo

i don't pay much attention to awards and what critics think. I'd call it a sleeper because nobody watches it now.

LOL. Every single youtuber who does "movie reactions" has watched 12 Angry Men, which means a lot of their Patreon members are asking them to. But "nobody watches it now". OK.

[Bruce Holbrook]

The In-Laws (1979), starring Peter Falk and Alan Arkin. I had never heard of it until a few years ago, and it is now one of our favorites. Falk stars as a secret agent who pulls Arkin's mild mannered dentist into his wacky adventures. So hilarious!


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