A Filmmaker's Selection (46 titles)
I'm not a big fan of blockbuster films, so this is a selection of more interesting, but still mostly mainstream films (although some multiplex fans would probably call many of them "boring").
65.8% from 51 members
Badlands
Fantastic. A real must-see (got that out the way early) for the blockbuster-haters.
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Badlands
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Ramon Bieri
Director: Terrence Malick
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Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek are Kit and Holly in this incredible debut feature film from elusive writer/director Terrence Malick. South Dakota, 1959. Kit and Holly are adrift in a double fantasy of crime and punishment, a headlong flight from nowhere, to nowhere. They're playing make-believe but ..read more »
69%
from 6,350 members
Dog Day Afternoon
They really did make some cracking stuff in the 70's. My fave Pacino performance.
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Dog Day Afternoon
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Al Pacino, Charles Durning, James Broderick
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Before Peter Finch was 'mad as hell' in NETWORK, Sidney Lumet's scorching indictment of the American television industry, Al Pacino played an equally ferocious and fed-up bank robber in Lumet's classic film DOG DAY AFTERNOON. Pacino is heartbreakingly real as Sonny, a smart and tough if self-..read more »
72%
from 11,362 members
Bullitt
Steve McQueen drives a Mustang. Fast
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Bullitt
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
Director: Peter Yates
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In one of his most memorable roles, Steve McQueen stars as Detective Frank Bullitt, a hard-driving, tough-as-nails San Francisco cop. Bullitt has just received what sounds like a routine assignment: keep a star witness out of sight and out of danger for 48 hours, then deliver him to the courtroom ..read more »
69%
from 8,240 members
Rear Window
For all those budding filmmakers amongst us, watch and learn.
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Rear Window
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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The weather is getting hotter, and photographer L.B. Jefferies (James Stewart) is stuck in his apartment with a broken leg and nothing to do--that is, nothing to do but spy on his neighbours through their open windows across the way in the apartment complex. There's an attractive and scantily clad ..read more »
77%
from 21,534 members
The Italian Job
The Radio Times only ever gives it 3/5. I don't think I'll ever watch the remake.
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The Italian Job
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Benny Hill
Director: Peter Collinson
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In this classic crime film, small-time crook Charlie Croker (Michael Caine) organizes a motley group of thieves to steal four million worth of gold bullion from an armoured car in Turin, Italy. The mastermind of the heist is Mr. Bridger (Noel Coward), an experienced convict who has come up with the ..read more »
73%
from 34,097 members
Taxi Driver
One of those films that shows how important making something personal is.
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Taxi Driver
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese's intense film, a hallmark of 1970s filmmaking, graphically depicts the tragic consequences of urban alienation when a New York City taxi driver goes on a murderous rampage against the pitiable denizens inhabiting the city's underbelly. For psychotic, pistol-packing Vietnam vet ..read more »
72%
from 44,216 members
Punch-Drunk Love
The funniest film I have ever seen. I don't dare watch it again in case I'm disappointed. Plenty of people hate Adam Sandler, but this definitely isn't an "Adam Sandler comedy". Even though it is.
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Punch-Drunk Love
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
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Adam Sandler gives an amazing and unusual performance as Barry Egan, a socially impaired owner of a small novelty business, who is dominated by seven sisters and is unlikely to find love unless it finds him. When a mysterious woman comes into his life, his emotions go haywire, fluctuating between ..read more »
56%
from 12,776 members
Blue Collar
Nobody has ever heard of this film, but it was written and directed by the writer of Taxi Driver. And it's from the 70's. Released the same year as Darkness on the Edge of Town actually.
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Blue Collar
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto
Director: Paul Schrader
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In 'Blue Collar', Paul Schrader's strong directorial debut, three assembly-line auto workers (Richard Pryor in one of his only serious dramatic roles, Harvey Keitel, and Yaphet Kotto) are equally angry and disenchanted at factory management and their own union. They are also, as the film reveals in ..read more »
71%
from 776 members
Get Carter
Brutal. Unforgiving. Michael Caine. Set up here.
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Get Carter
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Michael Caine, John Osborne, Ian Hendry
Director: Mike Hodges
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A man out to avenge his brother's death enters the world of pornography and crime. Based on the novel 'Jack's Return Home' by Ted Lewis.
70%
from 12,844 members
Psycho
I think it's often forgotten how good Anthony Perkins is in this. Worth it even just for his performance.
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Psycho
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Credited with inventing the genre of the modern horror film, PSYCHO has had its share of sequels and imitators, none of which diminishes the achievement of this shocking and complex horror thriller. Alfred Hitchcock's choreography of elements in PSYCHO is considered so perfect it inspired a shot-by-..read more »
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from 22,261 members
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