Please RECOMMEND A GOOD MOVIE to watch

Funny? Scary? Drama?

The Italian film Il Ladro di Bambini

The Indian film Pather Panchali

I enjoyed Minari

The Danish film Ordet

The Armenian film The Color of Pomegranates

Something uplifting or exciting.

How about some pretentious bullshit? I think you'd really enjoy it!

Lazy Susan, starring Sean Hayes.

North

Au Hasard Balthazar

R3 - You might as well also suggest the other two films from that Bengali-language trilogy - Aparajito (1956) and The World of Apu (1959).

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

You can never go wrong with a Kathleen Turner film festival.

Cats...

Can we do an actual good movie please? A feel good movie!

The Spy who Dumped Me was funny

R16 Most "feel good movies" are mindlessly brainless and avoid the basic venality of the human race and the unpleasant futility of our existence.

How about Working Girl?

Not some pretentious bullshit.

Or that movie with the kids in the rock band, School or Rock? Those are actual movies people enjoy watching.

R18 Look man, I don't need more reasons to kill myself.

The original Coming to America also fits the bill.

Also the original Shall We Dance? is good. It's really not that hard to think of feel good movies that don't suck-- and I say this as someone who hates feel good movies.

Ok R24 what's a movie you watched that you thought "wow, that's a great fucking movie!" and it didn't make you feel like shit, or the world is all fucked and there's no hope?

R25 are you even looking at the specific suggestions people have shared? There are several feel good movies in here

"Madea's Big Happy Family" (2011)

Dawson’s 50 Load Weekend

r25, I am also r19, r21, r23 as well as r24. Those are the movies I recommend. Also the Peter Sellers Pink Panther movies. Just looking at Peter Sellers cracks me up. I would check out r17. It sounds funny. The best recommendation I ever got from DL ever was for the series The Windsors. It's really, really funny.

The Red Balloon

La Ronde

Tilsammans (Together), Swedish, 2000

Walk on Water (Israel), 2004

Burnt Money (Argentina), 2000

Waiting for Guffman

Juwanna Mann

Salmon Fishing on the Yemen (with Emily Blunt and Ewan McGregor)

The Ghost Writer (also with Ewan McGregor)

The Name of the Rose (with Sean Connery)

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

Although it was underappreciated when released "Death to Smoochy" is excellent.

R36 Was coming to say the same. Spooky

Okja on Netflix. Changed my life.

Geek Maggot Bingo

The Human Centipede was the feel good film of the year!

Blue Velvet

The Mission

The Year of Living Dangerously

Thunder Road

The Pizza Boy: He Delivers

The Kid Stays in the Picture

R8 for real.

Gattaca.

In & Of Itself- on Hulu

Cloud Atlas... if you want to see terrible race-bending makeup.

Music & Lyrics, with Hugh Grant & Drew Barrymore. Frothy and feel good!

Hunt For the Wilderpeople. It’s a New Zealand movie from 2016 or so. It’s funny, it’s got Sam Neill in it, and the kid is a good little actor. It’s better than the trailer suggests.

It’s majestical. Check it out. I think it’s on Netflix, but it may have been Prime.

I Love You to Death

Start the Revolution Without Me

Tom Jones

The Great Escape

Tombstone

Session 9

The Sting

The Fugitive

Minority Report

“Napoleon Dynamite” always makes me feel better. “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”, “The Hangover”. Just goofy movies that don’t make me go anywhere dark.

Spy - movie with Melissa McCarthy

Dig was an innocuous little historical drama that was one of the few things I didn’t get board with and turn off unlike most films of last year. But then again I like history and archaeology, so your taste may vary.

Round 2:

Mrs. Doubtfire

Shaun of the Dead

The 'Burbs

The Warriors

Mixed Nuts

O Brother Where Art Thou?

The Thing

Tootsie

Death of the Maiden

Carnal Knowledge

R56 Is that Death of the Maiden movie the one where Sigourney Weaver is held hostage and tortured with a piece of music based on a play? That doesn’t sound uplifting.

"Sullivan's Travels" has it all. Slapstick, screwball comedy, romance, adventure, and a sweet, soulful, uplifting message. It is one of my favorite movies!

That is Death and the Maiden, r57, and no, it is far from uplifting.

R57 and R59 Where did OP say the movie had to be uplifting? He simply asked for a GOOD MOVIE to watch. The thread was hijacked by a bunch of feel-good fuckers.

The Last Wave

R60 I just want it to not make me worse. No Crash, Little Children, or something showing people hurting and the worst of humanity.

Cibrail

R62 Are you OP? If not, this isn't your thread. Start your own.

[quote]Mixed Nuts

I watched this for the first time over the Christmas holidays and found it painfully unfunny. Does it improve if you watch it again? (I will say that Liev Schreiber looked great in drag.)

R65 I saw this for the first time last year also and had the same reaction. It looked like something that was intended to be a cult film but just couldn't pull it off.

R65 I personally think that humor is often in the eye of the beholder, and I doubt that you would find it any more funny after a second viewing. I'm quite sure that I have a rather twisted sense of humor, and sometimes things strike me as funny that aren't conventionally humorous.

I do agree, though, that Liev Schreiber looked unexpectedly good.

The Golden Girls season 2 & 3

Godzilla vs. Megalon

Kung Fu Hustle.

Shaun of the Dead is always good.

Get Shorty

I came in to recommend the same as r53- Spy with Melissa McCarthy and Jason Statham. It unexpectedly has become one of my favorite funny movies. Love it

Kung Pow- Enter the fist

Local Hero, Stage Door, Working Girl.

Although you've probably seen it, "Witness for the Prosecution" remains hugely entertaining.

Charles Laughton, Marlene Dietrich and Tyrone Power show us what true movie stars can do with good material.

Gayn¡ggers from Outer Space

BEEFCAKE the 1999, docudrama about photographer Bob Mizer, the Athletic Model Guild and Physique Pictorial magazine. Fascinating vintage erotic photos and film mixed with recreations of the era. Worth seeking out.

R73 Yes, Local Hero! I need to watch that again!

R76 Just watched the clip and now I have to find the movie! I swear I heard mama say: 'Where did you find all these bussy men?"

"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" makes me laugh every viewing.

"The Rocky Horror Picture Show" is worth it for the descent in the elevator.

"A Hard Day's Night" for the fun and music. Same with "Hairspray."

"Babe" or "Benji: The Hunted" for the animals. Cute, sweet, conniving, vicious, hapless, but most of all cute!

I'm not about foreign movies, unless they're British. Then I'm a fan, especially of the "Kitchen Sink" genre.

R76 I found the movie and loved it, thank you! Gorgeous naked men, few tatts, no steroids. I'd like to see a thread devoted to Beefcake!

Designing Women season 6

[quote]I'm not about foreign movies, unless they're British. Then I'm a fan, especially of the "Kitchen Sink" genre.

Have you seen the underrated "East is East"? I think you'll enjoy it.

Pacific Heights starring one of our greatest thespians, Melanie Griffith, in one of her greatest performances.

Just watched "Love Me Tonight" again. Pure pleasure. and probably best film musical of all time. Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette McDonald, Myrna Loy - Rodgers and Hart score with 3 standards, witty, funny script, pre-code sexiness, innovative direction by Rouben Mamoulian (who directed original stage productions of "Oklahoma!" and "Porgy and Bess"), use of slow and fast motion and zoom shots, etc. adds up to 90 minutes of delight.

The Man in the Moon with Reece WItherspoon when she was 12 or 13.

Dogfight with Lily Taylor and River Phoenix

House of Games with Lindsay Crouse

She-Devil. Roseanne acts circles around Meryl. A Martinez in a speedo. Linda Hunt looking really weird.

The Out of Towners (1970) Neil Simon's first screenplay and Jack lemon and Sandy Dennis are terrific.

Uncut Gems Never thought I'd really like an Adam Sandler movie but this proved me wrong.

Hello My Name is Doris Likeable film with a terrific Sally Field

Notes on a Scandal Cate Blanchet and Judi Dench at their best. Riveting.

Nightcrawler Network for the new millennium. Jake Gyllenhall is effectively creepy

Get Shorty.

NOT Alvin Hobbs or whatever, with a man playing a woman playing a man. So cliche! I’m sure no one remembers anyway.

The Rider based on a recommendation here. Real people not actors so good. You won’t be disappointed.

"El Chata" on HBO Max.

The movie's just OK, but there is about 5 seconds of a nice uncut Puerto Rican penis, which makes it a DL Movie of the Year contender.

High Anxiety. Mel Brooks.

History of the World Part 1.

Salo: 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

A light-hearted romp about the dying days of fascism in Italy but not for the faint of heart.

Ma Vie en Rose. The 1956 film showing the child with the red balloon made me think of this film. I'd seen it just once over twenty years ago, but remembered the main character's name - Ludovic. It may be free on YouTube.

Dogfight with Lily Taylor and River Phoenix

The Man in the Moon, with Reece Witherspoon when she was 12 or 13.

The Man in the Moon was based on a true story. I loved Sam Waterston in it.

Peanut Butter Falcon. Wonderful little indie film. Loved it.

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959). Fun, imaginative effects, a Bernard Herrmann score, and a great sexy cast. A bit long and it doesn't make a lick of sense but delightful romp with vintage thrills. View only in widescreen please or you miss half the Cinemascope fun.

I find this guy lists some great movies every year that I would never have heard of if not for his TOP 50 list for the past 11 years. Most are just movies that were never on my radar. Many I checked out and was pleasantly surprised. The gay themed films he generally picks I have never heard of (he doesn't usually pick the films that made a big cultural splash (except for 2017). And he does pick some real head-scratchers sometimes: "Hard to be A God", "Kajillioaires", and Xavier Dolan's, "It's Only the End of the World". At any rate, here is his 2020 list and it is full of gay themed movies that I have not seen mentioned in most lists through the year. But most important is the myriad of just good, unknown movies (like "Moffie"), which I never would have probably heard of without seeing this:

Death at love house with Robert Wagner & Kate Jackson.

OP Then you would have watched ALL of my films I take it.

Avoid anything with G. in it except that one we made together back in the early 1990s. I was outstanding. G. was boorish.

The amazingly short amount of time between the making of the movie, Short Term 12 , and the Oscar nominations that keep rising for the cast in their movies that have followed. That movie was blessed by what....I don't know. But it wore its heart on its sleeve and had an impeccable screenplay. And, finally, it was very fucking GOOD! Which seems to be rewarding, over and over, the cast as time goes by. I mean, who on earth saw coming that nomination for LaKeith Stanfield?????? I'll tell you: Nobody! Not even Melania!

I watched American Gigolo last night and thoroughly enjoyed it.

It's probably not that good, but it's breezy and stylish.

Do yourself a favour and check this basket of non-deplorables that even Hillary would love not to punch. Everyone knows the unwritten rule: you can't punch GOOD. GOD said so, or was that TRUMP. I don't know but, just to be clear, ONE of them was imaginary.

[italic]Places In the Heart.[/italic] A perfect film, perfect cast with nary a sour note. Also features Ed Harris at his hottest.

[italic]The Liberation of L.B. Jones.[/italic] Omg, what a FANTASTIC, grossly underrated film. Roscoe Lee Browne deserved an Oscar nomination for his pitch-perfect performance. Plus a delightfully fuckable Lee Majors.

[italic]Below.[/italic] Suoer-watchable suspense aboard a WW2 submarine. Featuring Bruce Greenwood, Holt McCallany, Scott Foley, and Matthew Davis at their hottest.

[italic]The Enchanted Cottage.[/italic] Beautiful little film with Robert Young and Dorothy McGuire.

[italic]Sitting Pretty[/italic] and [italic]Mr. Scoutmaster,[/italic] both starting Clifton Webb at the top of his game.

[italic]Frenzy,[/italic] my personal favorite Hitchcock film, though most people would disagree. Jon Finch (who should've had a bigger career), Barry Foster, Anna Massey, Billie Whitelaw are the perfect cast; along with the DELIGHTFUL and slyly sexy) Alec McCowan and Vivien Merchant.

"Promising Young Female"

SO GOOD OMG !!!

Hope it nabs Best Picture Oscar

Would be the first cynical dark comedy to win since American Beauty in 2001. After 9/11 it got syrupy (Chicago won 2002)

Frenzy.

Thanks. I'll give that a try.

OP, pls come back with your thoughts on Frenzy. It's not typical Hitch, but I just love it. Gritty late 60s/early 70s London, just the way I love it.

Oohh, speaking of gritty, you should check out [italic]The Seven-Ups.[/italic] It's like a Valentine to gritty early 70s NYC.

OP should watch “Fly Away Home” about the girl who builds a canadian goose to show retarded geese how to migrate. She doesn’t even get shot.

"The Dig" on Netflix is wonderful.

Ralph Fiennes transforms himself...the story is compelling

And it's based on a True story...

Resolution and it's sequel, The Endless

It's absolutely amazing how resourceful these guys are. These two movies are heartbreaking and inspiring.

Like watching a DL resident carrying on with her tranquil, peaceful life......

Playtime Jacques Tati 1967

Broadcast News.

R15 The trailer gave me hives.

For mindless escapism I do like a Jason Bateman film festival. Bateman’s charisma and chemistry with co-stars make them work.

Game Night with Rachel McAdams

Identity Thief with Melissa McCarthy

Bad Words - he also directed this. Quirky but fun.

If you want funny, check out Jumanji: The Next Level (2019), Rough Night (2017) and Zombieland: Double Tap (2019). Pure comedy, no intricate plot.

But I'd give all the awards to this year's The Forgotten Battle (2020). Definitely for cinematography and sound editing. Tom Felton manages to look elderly at 33 and Gijs Blom (from the gay movie Jongens) delivers an amazing portrayal of a "humanized" Nazi soldier. The guy can act!

The revolt of Mamie stover, I’m surprised it’s not more widely talked about. Jane Russell in a role I could easily see Marilyn playing. Beautiful location shoot in Hawaii.

[quote]For mindless escapism I do like a Jason Bateman film festival. Bateman’s charisma and chemistry with co-stars make them work.

My favorite was The Gift.

OP must be Gene Shalit.

For more tense fare: The Invitation & Green Room, both fr 2015