Tele's List of 100 Lesser-Known or Under-Appreciated Films Everyone Should See (THE LIST IS COMPLETE! p26)

[Dementeleus]

LAWRENCE and KWAI are amazing and legendary and must-sees, but they're too well known.  Maybe if I do a 100 Movies Made Before 1970 list.

[4815162342]

Tele should continue the WW2 run with The Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, and The Dambusters, etc.

[ttr]

Tele should continue the WW2 run with The Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, and The Dambusters, etc.

Not every WW2 film is a must see ?

[ttr]

 

Agreed, but a lot of this forum (as with most of the interwebs) are less than 25 years old.

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[Dementeleus]

95. Dead Again (1991)

written by: Scott Frank

directed by: Kenneth Branagh

starring: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Robin Williams

 

 

Synopsis: 

Mike Church is a Los Angeles private detective who specializes in finding missing persons. He takes on the case of a mystery woman whom he calls Grace. She is suffering from amnesia and has no memories of her own. She keeps having nightmares involving the murder of a pianist, Margaret, by her husband Roman Strauss in the late 1940s. In an attempt to solve the mystery about these nightmares, Church seeks the help of Madson, who is an antiques dealer with the gift of hypnosis. The hypnosis sessions will soon begin to reveal some surprises.

 

 

A rip-roaring, tremendously entertaining néo-noir thriller. Branagh and Thompson are both brilliant as the detective and the mystery woman, and Robin Williams is hilarious in a small role as a former psychiatrist. Visually striking and featuring a wonderful score by Patrick Doyle, this is the sort of movie Hitchcock might’ve made if he was alive in the 90s.

 

 

[baumer]

2 hours ago, grey ghost said:

List is okay.

 

Needs more Jurassic World. 

 

 

If anything, I need more cowbell.

[Porthos]

YEEEEEEEAAAAAAASSSSSSS!!!!!!!!! Love love that film.  Also one of the type of films that is enhanced on re-watch.  I won't say why (), but, yes.  Glorious.

 

Robin Williams alone might be worth price of admission.

[baumer]

1 hour ago, Telemachos said:

95. Dead Again (1991)

written by: Scott Frank

directed by: Kenneth Branagh

starring: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Robin Williams

 

 

Synopsis: 

Mike Church is a Los Angeles private detective who specializes in finding missing persons. He takes on the case of a mystery woman whom he calls Grace. She is suffering from amnesia and has no memories of her own. She keeps having nightmares involving the murder of a pianist, Margaret, by her husband Roman Strauss in the late 1940s. In an attempt to solve the mystery about these nightmares, Church seeks the help of Madson, who is an antiques dealer with the gift of hypnosis. The hypnosis sessions will soon begin to reveal some surprises.

 

 

A rip-roaring, tremendously entertaining néo-noir thriller. Branagh and Thompson are both brilliant as the detective and the mystery woman, and Robin Williams is hilarious in a small role as a former psychiatrist. Visually striking and featuring a wonderful score by Patrick Doyle, this is the sort of movie Hitchcock might’ve made if he was alive in the 90s.

 

 

 

One of the best twists of all time....one of the biggest HOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED moments in film history.  Also, Robin Williams shows up for about 5 minutes.  Excellent choice, Tele.

[Ethan Hunt]

I've successfully seen nothing so far. Expected 

 

[baumer]

For anyone that likes Sixth Sense or even the Usual Suspects, you should definitely find Dead Again.  It's pretty awesome.

[Porthos]

5 minutes ago, Baumer said:

 

One of the best twists of all time....one of the biggest HOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED moments in film history.  Also, Robin Williams shows up for about 5 minutes.  Excellent choice, Tele.

 

I know, right?  This is also one of those films where it is actually difficult to talk about why it is so great without spoiling stuff.  Luckily, there's things one can talk about.

 

Like that opening?  Sets the tone for the entire film.  Another scene that is realtively safe to talk about is the glove scene which lead to the fight at the iconic Shakespeare Bridge. 

 

Come to think of it, there is plenty on can praise about the film without getting into the plot and its resolution. Perhaps why I like it so much.

[Dementeleus]

Thanks for all the comments and participation, guys. I'll have more up when I get to work. 

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

Haven't even heard of many of these. Need to check some of them out.

[baumer]

3 minutes ago, Jayhawk said:

Haven't even heard of many of these. Need to check some of them out.

 

Holy crap, if you haven't heard of these, I hate to see what happens when we start getting to films I've never heard of lol.  

 

My two cents.....for today's audiences, Tequila Sunrise might be too script heavy but if you love terrific dialogue, beautiful people, witty exchanges and cinematography that makes you feel like you are on the beaches of LA, then you should definitely see it.

Dead Again is just straight up smart and twisted and you will NEVER see the Shyamalan type twist coming.

The Edge, another really fun film with good dialogue and terrific scenery and great action as well.

[Dementeleus]

94. The Long Goodbye (1973)

written by: Leigh Brackett (from the novel by Raymond Chandler)
directed by: Robert Altman
starring: Elliot Gould

 

Synopsis:
Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.

 

 

Raymond Chandler is famous for his hardboiled detective novels, and Philip Marlowe is his most famous character. Usually when Chandler's been adapted for the movies, the result is pure classic noir -- sleek, elegant, badass, and usually set in the 1930s and 40s -- when the novels were set. (Think Bogart in THE BIG SLEEP, for example). But Leigh Brackett (who famously wrote the film version of THE BIG SLEEP in the 40s) and Robert Altman turn the whole concept on his head. THE LONG GOODBYE is set in the 1970s, "present day" for when the movie was made. Elliot Gould's Marlowe isn't some cool badass guy. He's a smart-ass slob. He's not particularly good at fighting, he isn't stoic in the face of pain, all he has are his instincts and his quips. The resulting movie is fascinating because it makes Marlowe such an ordinary man, and because it plays out a classic noir story in incongruous settings: a beach house in Malibu, the rundown areas of west LA.

 

 

[Dementeleus]

93. After Hours (1985)

written by: Joseph Minion
directed by: Martin Scorsese
starring: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Teri Garr, John Heard, Catherine O'Hara

 

Synopsis:
An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.

 

 

The only reason this is so low on the list is because, c'mon, it's Scorsese. And it's pretty much been a cult classic for like, ever. AFTER HOURS is a pitch-perfect absurdist black comedy; it starts small and normal, and steadily cascades into insanity. Griffin Dunne is perfect as the Everyman we can all relate to -- he doesn't really aspire to anything big, all he really wanted was a date with a cute girl. Instead, he finds himself wandering through an increasingly bizarre New York, without money for a taxi and forced to rely on the kindness of strangers to let him make a phone call or give him a ride. It's absolutely brilliant, and very, very funny.

 

 

[Ethan Hunt]

Tele I'm awfully disappointed in you. I've heard of both of the last two

[Dementeleus]

Just now, Ethan Hunt said:

Tele I'm awfully disappointed in you. I've heard of both of the last two

 

You've taken your first step into a greater universe.

 

Now go watch them.

[baumer]

Haven't seen the last two. I really need to see after hours

[The Stingray]

After Hours didn't do much for me, tbh.