There are so many brilliant, less well-known, films out there. My particular favourite is "The Legend of 1900", about a pianist who has spent his entire life aboard a ship. The acting and the music was superb.
2006-11-03 11:38:43 · 20 answers · asked by marcoporres 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
The most memorable film that I have seen is A Child Lost Forever. It is about a little boy who is taken away from his mother and father at birth because they are both underage and put in the American adoption scheme. 21 years later the mother goes looking for her son, only to find out that he died when he was 3 years old. The boys adopted mother physical abused him beating him and making him eat his own sick because he was an untidy and lud child unlike her son that she had, who was taught to be tidy. The child died of a ruptured bowl, which kills you after a number of symptoms if not treated. The case was closed as her whle family were police in the same department. They eventually found her guilty after opening the case again. She got life in prison. What hit it home for me and made me cry through it was the fact that it was a true story and that there are people out there back in them days that would take away a child to an underage mother yet nowadays it is becoming more and more common for 11 and 12 year olds to keep there babies. I think that the laws should be changed and that kids as young as that should be put on birth control and taught the risks of having sex at an earlier age. That is the film and that is my view.
2006-11-03 12:34:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Hours. It is the story of three different woman living in three different eras. One is Victoria Woolf, the other is a lesbian and the other one commits suicide. Now, I know it sounds like a really depressing film but it is full of superb acting, which really touches you in an emotional way. Parts of it are so poignant it makes you blurb. I have watched it over and over and I never bore of it. The film attempts to betray how life for woman has changed through the centuries and how as a society we perceive women.
2006-11-03 19:52:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blossoms in the Dust (1941 starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon). I saw it in the 70's as a child and it sparked an avid interest in old movies (pre 50's). To me they are far better than modern movies as they embody stronger storylines, deeper morals, and a sense of hope. No-one had their innards graphically displayed with a microscopic camera, and yet they could scare you just as much even though the murder was seen as a shadow on the wall and sex was subtly implied. I think nowadays we are becoming desensitized by the increasingly graphic nature of pictures..and the plots are predigested and dumbed down..not alot of room for free thought and making your own connections..except perhaps in some arthouse pieces.
Getting down off my soapbox now..lol.
2006-11-03 20:01:44 · answer #3 · answered by anything_my_child 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sophie's Choice-classic Meryl Streep
The Red Violin-beautiful music and loved seeing Samuel L Jackson out of the gangster role
2006-11-03 19:48:50 · answer #4 · answered by satckaren72 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Legend of 1900 was fantastic. I've seen it at least a doaen times. I totally agree with you there. My favorite is a movie called "still Crazy" about a group of aging Rock Musicians trying to relive thier glory days.
2006-11-03 19:41:32 · answer #5 · answered by mustangsally76 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Birthday Girl.
Hear me out for a second... I am NOT a fan of Nicole Kidman. I am a big fan of redheads, but Nicole is definitely not my bag, baby. Anyway.....
While flipping through the one of the Indi channels, I found this movie (b-day girl)... I gave it a chance, and I gotta tell you, it was pretty good. Really good actually.
Nicole plays a russian mail-order bride for this British guy......well... check out the movie or IMDB for more info.....but I gotta tell you, I never found her as attractive as I did in this film. I guess that is a big draw, because I hate all of her other movies.
It was the best and most believeable role I've ever seen her play.
2006-11-03 19:52:32 · answer #6 · answered by sectumsempra_avada_kedavra 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
National Treasure, a government input to Hollywood wake fantasy movie about 9/11.
2006-11-03 21:02:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The original 'The Ladykillers'.
Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers and more.
A classic British Film.
A time when the quality of script, acting and atmospheric directing were important elements.
Before loud bangs, explosions and overplayed violence became the formula.
2006-11-03 19:54:32 · answer #8 · answered by Apple Crumble(Devils Advocate) 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
LA HAINE,
NIGHTWATCH
The Usual Suspects (wasn't a huge hype film as it didn't have the budget to be. When it came out, hype took over because people realised what a superb film it is).
2006-11-03 20:00:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
United 93.
2006-11-03 19:44:38 · answer #10 · answered by MovieGeek 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋