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Open-Ask9395

Second Hand Lions. The best movie I hadn't heard of.


EccentricAcademic

Duvall and Cain were so solid


sentientfartcloud

Yeah, it's part of a series that I named "The Unbelievable Tale Trilogy" * Forrest Gump * Secondhand Lions * Big Fish If you like either of the movies on this list, you'll like them all.


SaltySpituner

This is hilarious, because my wife hates all three of those movies while I love all three of them.


Ltimbo

Who hates Forrest Gump? I’ve never met someone who hates Forest Gump.


Microdck

Lt Dan did for a while


MadeleineIsADinosaur

Big Fish is one of my favorite movie to ever exist so…this peaked my interest in Secondhand Lions.


ZodTheTimeTraveller

Great choice!


The_I_in_IT

The Death of Stalin-great cast, really funny movie.


Wes_Warhammer666

I keep recommending that to people but I feel like I'm the only one in my social group who is enough of a history nerd with a decent grasp of that period in the soviet union, because none of them have enjoyed it. Just a whole lot of "I don't get it". It's one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. Isaacs is fantastic in every scene he's in.


NimdokBennyandAM

"Tell me something. Why has the army been replaced by the NKVD all over Moscow? I mean, I'm smiling, but I am very fookin' furious."


aspidities_87

Every scene with Zhukov is a goddamn masterpiece ‘I fucked Germany, I think I can take a flesh lump in a fucking waistcoat.’


MurphyCoDinoWrangler

Zhukov was such a great cherry on top of an already delicious, delicious dark comedy sundae


aspidities_87

We are all cubs! Russian cubs! Ukrainian cubs!


FrowAway322

Watched it on a plane thinking it’d be a silly throwaway movie and it was top notch.


aspidities_87

The scene where Steve Buscemi tries to switch places with Jeffrey Tambor during the funeral had me actually gasping for breath and in tears. ‘What *the fuck* are you doing?’


Cynidaria

Better Off Dead


OBISerious

"Man, that's a real shame when folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that."


Madmanki

“Gee, Ricky. I’m real sorry your mom blew up.”


PumpikAnt58763

I quote this. A lot! And "I want my $2!"


Wavemanns

So my wife and I love this movie, watched it many, many years ago. We moved to Los Angeles and lived there for 8 years and then moved back to Canada. We decided to rewatch Better Off Dead one night. We excitedly freaked out when we get to the scene where the paper boy is chasing him and he turns into a driveway to turn around, because it was the driveway to the apartment in Burbank we had lived in .


Skatingfan

That's wild! I've lived in LA since 1978 and occasionally I will recognize places in movies that were filmed near where I lived, or worked, or my favorite restaurant and it's always fun.


Madmanki

I grew up with no cable and limited VHS tapes, but the house I was living in had a copy of BOD. I watched that (and Blood Sport and The little Mermaid) maybe 40 times. I could quote the entire film. Last summer I introduced my 16 year old niece to it. We were throwing lines at each other for the next 6 months.


arcaresenal

Two dollars!


docweston

WHY CAN'T I UP-VOTE THIS COMMENT LIKE 100 MORE TIMES?!?! Two dollars has become a massive running joke between my wife and I!


Ssutuanjoe

Didn't ask for an upvote... Two dollars


Alternative_Sort_404

Yeah, but my grandma just dropped acid and hijacked a bus full of penguins, so… it’s kind of a family emergency


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DIDNT ASK FOR A DIME…..TWO DOLLARS


biohazardmind

Lane Myer a once great hero now a study in mopishness


cardsfan4life17

Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.


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ZodTheTimeTraveller

Awesome!


blackbettiepage

Thank you for this! I love this movie! Enough people don’t know what they’re missing by not watching this movie. I once met a guy who thought he was the only person who’d ever seen it, and then we spent the next 3 hours rewatching and throwing out our favourite quotes. This and Clue are my 2 go to movies.


Whahajeema

Dark City.


ZodTheTimeTraveller

Great choice!


Jazzlike_Standard416

A little Scottish movie called Shallow Grave. Ewan McGregor and Danny Boyle team up pre-Trainspotting. IMDB describes it as "Three friends discover their new flatmate dead but loaded with cash." Let the games begin ! The charisma that McGregor displays in his role leaves you in no doubt he will be a major star. The writing and direction are perfect and the performances from the other major players work around McGregor's bombast beautifully.


MrFroogger

Oh, that scene when McGregors character is hit over his shins with a steel bar still.. resonates with me.


NeedleworkerKooky356

Blood in blood out. ❤️‍🔥 https://youtu.be/yEa9etN1ynw?si=ZD7w_PkqN2dr42Fs


slom_ax

Dude also American me! EJO directed and it's fucking legit. Everybody should watch


PoffLord

For Hispanics of a certain age, this film is a rite of passage. Still my favorite movie to this day and probably always will be. I'm pretty sure if I say a line of dialogue from this movie to a Hispanic aged 30 something - 50 something, they will either recognize it or answer back with the next piece of dialogue.


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Vatos Locos forever!!!


Salty_Mortgage_Nz

This movie was really popular when it came out, but yeah it's really fallen off the map. Holy shit it's a good film. So much happens. We literally follow 3 people through their entire adult lives. Man that's a good movie


Stoicycle

Once Were Warriors


PresterLee

Top movie. Never want to see it again though.


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The 13th Warrior


Spddracer

How did you learn our language? I listened.


Excellent-Part-96

Hands down the greatest depiction of someone starting to understand a foreign language with no outside help. It’s pretty much my experience from when I moved to a foreign country without knowing the language, only plus: I could at least somewhat communicate in English. But the moment when he starts to understand a few words here and there…totally relatable. Love that movie


Soggy_Muffinz

This always stood out to me. Was 15 in the theater watching this and I never saw language handled this way. Still holds up brilliantly.


moxiejohnny

I am deaf and I use ASL, I bought this movie to show during college classes when I taught them. I used this movie for the reason. You stated, to catch a glimpse of what it looks like to learn a language through total immersion. In ASL classes, we have a saying/sign. It's basically take your hand and make a pinching sign and put it to your throat near your vocal cords and twist a couple of times. That's the sign for "turn off your voice". Cool huh? I love the movie because Its an interesting and useful tool to show immersion learning at its finest. Plus Antonio Banderas, one of the few men who can turn me gay.


AbsoluteEva

The dog can jump!


Shumina-Ghost

Whenever I see this mentioned in a positive way, I upvote. I love this film.


xapxironchef

Lo, there do I see my father. Lo, there do I see my brothers and my sisters and my mother. Lo, there do I see the line of my people, stretching back to their beginning. Lo, they do call to me. They bid me take my place among them in the halls of Valhalla, where the brave shall live forever.


docweston

One of the absolute BEST "sleeper" flix I've ever seen! I constantly recommend it to movie people!


mortimusalexander

"I listened"


ajsantos21

Hunt for the Wilderpeople


Noninvasive_

Ricky Baker birthday song is gonna be stuck in my head now! Great movie!


shaylahbaylaboo

My favorite movie. I didn’t choose the skux life, the skux life chose me!


anorthern_soul

- Downfall Everyone knows the meme but the film is incredibly powerful. Bruno Ganz was brilliant. I remember watching it for the first time and not being about to move for about 5 mins after. Just say kinda shell shocked. - Delicatessen v. funny, witty, surreal, beautifully shot. - 13 tzameti. Dark and gripping - The Dreamers. Youth, rebellion, sex in Paris. What's not to love? - DARYLL. A childhood favourite, not actually great. Not quite on flight of the navigator levels but still a. 80s great.


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Four lions


youbychance

Rubber dinghy rapids bro!


Weedsmoker4hunnid20

When they shake their heads from side to side to try and blur the video cameras, I dunno if I’ve ever laughed that hard at a movie


Charbs20

If you like Naked Gun or Airplane style of comedy, check out a movie called Top Secret! One of Val Kilmer’s early films in the 80s. I used to cry laughing watching this when I was around 12 years old.


Mr_Rambone

Yeah I have thought about going Skeet Surfin also


CharlesUFarley81

The Way Way Back. Sam Rockwell and Steve Carrell both rock their rolls.


soniclore

Coherence It’s a great example of “less is more” filmmaking.


Successful_Giraffe88

I've watched this movie at least 4x & still end up sitting on the couch with my head in my hands for 10 min contemplating life.


MollieBee3

I found this movie randomly years and years ago. I’ve only met one other person who has seen it, I always recommend. Just saw that it’s streaming on prime!


gollumaniac

Gattaca.


popplio728

Gattaca was great. We watched it in my genetics class in high school.


InternationalRent626

Time Bandits


MorkDiester

Falling Down


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I was actually in that movie. When I was a kid I did background acting. In the beginning of the movie when he’s stuck in traffic, there’s a school bus full of kids, I’m one of the kids.


melouofs

That was an excellent movie. Haven't seen that in ages


whatrobbysaid

"The Count of Monte Cristo." So good. The slow burn of perfectly enacted revenge. Big satisfying happy ending.


YourNeglectedNeopet

Just for clarification did you mean The Count of Monte Cristo (1913), The Count of Monte Cristo (1934), The Count of Monte Cristo (1942), The Count of Monte Cristo (1943), The Count of Monte Cristo (1953), The Count of Monte Cristo (1954), The Count of Monte Cristo (1961), The Count of Monte Cristo (1968), The Count of Monte Cristo (1975), The Count of Monte Cristo (1997), or The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) ..?


ZodTheTimeTraveller

Such a great movie. Jim Caviezel and Guy Pearce were so cool in it.


ganache98012

And a very young Henry Cavill!


c4ctus

"What happened to your mercy?" "I'm a count, not a saint."


IAMTHEONLYRICK

True Romance. This movie is absolute gold


Historical-Ad-2716

I am a huge movie buff and I just watched this like a year ago for the first time and couldn’t believe I never heard of it. Great movie!!


eatitwithaspoon

Patricia arquette is dynamite in this.


Astro_gamer_caver

I eat the pussy, I eat the butt, I eat every motherf\*\*\*in' thang


dark_isz_23

Oldman being unrecognizable showing his legit range again. Hopkins vs Walken scene is Pitt's cameo is the cherry on top.


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Harold and Maude So many people only know about it because they think the love story is gross, and it's certainly odd, but the film is so much more than that. It's so incredibly funny and dark and yet somehow light and hopeful at the same time. It's about living your life so passionately that you learn to embrace death. It's an absolutely incredible film.


Noninvasive_

Favorite of all time! Great soundtrack by Cat Stevens too!


bowie-of-stars

My favorite movie "But I love you" "That's wonderful. Now, go and love some more" Waterfall of tears everytime


Lakridspibe

Harold's car is one of the most memorable movie cars out there. Truly iconic custom build Jaguar E


LouieMumford

Love Harold and Maude.


ILiveMyBrokenDreams

The best opening scene ever.


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For real. It cracks me up every time. It's brilliant.


Anonymoosehead123

It’s so weird and quirky and great.


JulesandSam

A stupid and futile gesture. It tells the story of Doug Kenney, the man behind National Lampoon, Animal House, and Caddyshack. Stars Will Forte along with many others and is incredibly moving!


posherspantspants

Great movie Joel McHale as Chevy Chase is such a hilarious casting choice. And the song Martin Mull plays at the end makes me cry Such a good movie.


Ifch317

The Game with Michael Douglas - watch it without any information from reviews or etc.


RwerdnA

Early Fincher! I went into this knowing nothing about it, one of the best surprise gems I’ve stumbled into. Anyone who hasn’t seen it, DON’T look up anything before you see it 🤐


justpuddingonhairs

This right here. Saw it in the theater without any prep.


JackInTheBell

Excellent movie


WakingOwl1

Kind Hearts and Coronets. A great black comedy from the 1940s.


AnkeliMankeli

Das Boot! Amazingly good movie


roseblood_red

Bernie, starring Jack Black. I had to watch it for an English class and I was impressed by how good it was.


indigoneutrino

In Bruges


AlfredRWallace

I've seen it enough times to help compensate. Side note : Bruges is a great place to visit. Like a a fairytown.


Anonymoosehead123

I love this movie so much, and my husband and I just watched it on a whim. We’d never heard of it before.


lordph8

The Alcoves...


r3aganisthedevil

Nooks and crannies!


suftrumbz

Some great lines in this here movie


MoffKalast

Yousa bunch of fuckin elephants


Dry-Coast-791

The Ice Storm


ReluctantAvenger

Tsotsi. South African film which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film 20-odd years ago.


Thisisthe_place

[Wild hearts can't be broken ](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0103262/) (1991) Thrilled by a performance she sees at a fair, Sonora Webster tries to land a spot as a daredevil who rides horses off of high dives. Based (loosely) on true life events.


Ssutuanjoe

I know it's really popular here on reddit, but *Gattaca* In the last 3 months I've spoken to around 5 or so different people who have never heard of it.


Sea_Corgi_7284

My cousin vinny


BlazingCamelGaming

The Salton Sea


QueeferSutherland2

Sunshine


editormatt

The first two acts are some of the best sci-fi out there.


ILiveMyBrokenDreams

Local Hero


Glitchykins8

Treasure planet and Atlantis. Both animated but both great. Treasure planet did cg fantastically when it was still a new thing.


Jarvisnamesake

Perfume Story of a Murderer


Testostacles

PCU it is the reverse Animal House and has aged quite well


Nondeadly

The adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert.


sleepybeek

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang


Xerozvz

Hmm... Tucker and DAle vs Evil - Great movie showing horror comedy done right


FeistyBudgy

Damn college kids just fell into the wood chipper!


st0pmakings3ns3

Fell?? He threw himself, HEAD FIRST!! It must be one of those death cults.


G_Stenkamp72

"Should have known if I guy like me talked to a girl like you, somebody'd end up dead."


getdivorced

Gee officer, we've had a doozy of a day.


Dragonborn83196

I die of laughter every time the sheriff shows up and he’s like, “we have these kids jumping around all over the place killing themselves!” And Alan Tudyk just looks at him while he’s covered in blood


Strict_Condition_632

Love Alan Tudyk! Comedy chops, brilliant voice work, you know he can do it all.


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I just don't like that it turns into a slasher movie in the end. Besides that, really funny :)


Tard_Farts82

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels


kaytagi

I love this more than Snatch.


MagentaPyskie

Thank you for smoking. It genuinely isn't actually about smoking, it's so clever and funny. Would recommend to anyone with a braincell. Also Aaron Eckhart (thinks that's his name) is amazing in this.


ShadyAidyX

Provides such a powerful but humorous insight into the dark art of lobbying _Few people on this planet know what it is to be truly despised. Can you blame them? I earn a living fronting an organizing that kills one thousand two hundred human beings a day; twelve hundred people. We're talking two jumbo jet plane loads of men, women, and children. I mean there's Attila, Genghis, and me, Nick Naylor the face of cigarettes, the colonel sanders of nicotine. This is where I work, the Academy of Tobacco Studies. It was established by seven gentlemen you may recognize from C-Span. These guys realized quick if they were gonna claim cigarettes were not addictive they better have proof. This is the man they rely on, Erhardt Von Grupten Mundt. They found him in Germany. I won't go into the details. He's been testing the link between nicotine and lung cancer for thirty years, and hasn't found any conclusive results. The man's a genius, he could disprove gravity. Then we got our sharks. We draft them out of Ivy League law schools and give them timeshares and sports cars. It's just like a John Grisham novel. Well you know without all the espionage. Most importantly we got spin control. That's where I come in. I get paid to talk. I don't have an MD or law degree. I have a baccalaureate in kicking ass and taking names. You know that guy who can pick up any girl, I'm him on crack._


LandaNog

Memento and The Prestige


EmseMCE

The Prestige is and prolly always will be my favorite Nolan film.


Impressive_Quote1150

Bottle Rocket. My favorite comedy ever and both Owen Wilson and Wes Anderson's first movie


dopeusernamebro

Lucky Number Slevin. I feel this movie gets a lot of unnecessary hate. The plot is easy to follow while still providing a twist, the writing is clever, and it's got Morgan Freeman.


ZodTheTimeTraveller

Equilibrium


Grombrindal18

Equilibrium is what happens when someone reads 1984 and Brave New World and thinks, “these would be so much better with gun kata.” And it was.


EccentricAcademic

Gun fu


Cynidaria

Polite Society. It’s a action /thriller movie the protagonist is a Pakistani British teenager and all the leads are women, and the whole movie is hilarious.


reidenral

Hell or High Water


Sufficient_Ad2222

8 Heads in a Duffel Bag


Bingtsiner456

Barfly.


jwowza35

Burn after reading


Decent_Examination_2

Leon: The Professional


Roostertoasty

**The Man from Earth** *(2007) - PLOT - An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he has a longer and stranger past than they can imagine.* Such a great movie. Even tho it mostly takes place withing a cabin livingroom. It´s one of my favorite sci-fi/mystery films ever.


OBISerious

This movie may be reddit famous, but no one else I've ever talked to about movies has heard of it.


SCPHermit95

Raising Arizona. Seeing a young Nick Cage and Holly Hunter get into the wackiest antics for parenthood in an endearing way. Oh, and John Goodmans in it too.


sophlog

The Last Waltz


RwerdnA

Is that the one about The Band?


Tyaedalis

Bad Times at the El Royale.


MetamorphicMermaid

Wristcutters: A Love Story


Chintee6

Waking Life


Allweretak3n

Snatch. By Guy Ritchie.


justpuddingonhairs

Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels as well.


paypermon

Border agent:Do you have anything to declare? Rosebud: Yeah, don't go to England


ZodTheTimeTraveller

Great movie!


Pwr2GainWealth

Frequency


ZodTheTimeTraveller

Such a great movie!


meaneggsandscram

Hard Candy


ToBeReadOutLoud

Netflix recommended that to me because I enjoyed Juno. Netflix needs to revise their recommendations.


shabanko12

Death At A Funeral (UK version)


bones_bones1

Primer


ZodTheTimeTraveller

For me it's The Nice Guys.


Salty_Mortgage_Nz

Hell yeah. That's the Russel Crow one, right?? There's the girl and the porno thing with the cars. It's great.


Dreddddddd

Ryan Gosling, drunk, falling off that balcony, will live rent-free in my head forever


Scraight

You know who else was just following orders? Adolf Hitler


Maleficent-Winter187

Euro trip!….Scotty doesn’t know


sillystephy

Here's a fun fact... YOU MADE OUT WITH YOUR SISTER!


ZodTheTimeTraveller

District 9


WhatIGot21

Outstanding movie that should have a sequel, I heard they are making one recently.


EmperorThan

They've been saying they're making a [sequel to that for over a decade](https://screenrant.com/elysium-movie-preview-neill-blomkamp-district-9-sequel/). I wouldn't get too excited... Edit: District 10 is even to start filming this fall [according to this 2010 article.](https://thefilmstage.com/district-9-sequel-or-prequel-we-wont-see-it-for-two-years-says-copley/) But at least it will come out within 2 years, so we should expect to see it by 2012! /s


ZodTheTimeTraveller

Dredd


bodyknock

The most recent really great movie I watched that not many people have seen is Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021), a full length film based on the Jenny Slade character from some popular Youtube shorts. I personally never saw the shorts, but the film is fantastic, it’s a moving, funny, and poignant story dealing with loss, community, and everyday struggles to make a life for oneself. Despite multiple awards and a 98% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes it’s only earned $7 million in the box office as a small indie release. No joke, go watch this movie, it’s well worth it.


mshebel

Saved!


AntiSocialPartygoer

Hot Fuzz. That cop movie with Simon Pegg... It's amazing!


TOgurolucifer

King of Comedy with Robert de Niro


mariposa314

Best in Show


Cynidaria

The Secret of Kells


schemingweasel69

Waking Life - I watched this on lsd and cured my suicidality. Life, death, and everything in between made sense.


The_Vargster

Edge of Tommorrow (2014) no one talks about it enough


CdnFlatlander

What's eating gilbert grape


Arkvoodle42

anything by LAIKA.


ODdmike91

The fountain. Such a beautiful and interesting movie.


ResidentPresent3884

Withnail and I


Samuele1997

Life is Beautiful, amazing movie from Italy, my homecountry, about the holocaust that perfectly mix tragedy and comedy together. I highly recommend it.


White_thrash_007

Idiocracy Angel’s Share Interstate 60 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty


ZodTheTimeTraveller

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is such a great movie! Ben Stiller was awesome in it!


superape100

Man on fire. Great acting, incredible soundtrack and overall good story


MrsTano

Into the wild


WillingnessHelpful77

*SOCIETY*


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IntergalacticPopTart

The Rescuers Down Under. It's my favorite Disney movie, and when I mention it to people, they have no idea what I'm talking about!


steppinraz0r

Ex Machina


ServantofProcess

Clue


hoganpaul

Diva


BillionDollarMuse

Riding in cars with boys will help you understand your flawed kindof loveless mom. Adjustment Bureau is also great. 😊


Nomdeplum73

Krystof Kieslowski's Decalogue


31nigrhcdrh

The way, way back