Into the depths - interesting films away from the blockbusters (45 titles)
A collection of films that I have really enjoyed but which aren't universally known.
73.2% from 31 members
Akira Collection
The defining anime film of the 1990s
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Akira Collection
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama
Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
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In 1988, the landmark Anime film Akira, by director Katsuhiro Otomo, defined the cutting edge of Anime around the world. By today's standards, Akira remains a landmark achievement in cel animation and retains the explosive impact of its highly detailed animation and its intensely violent saga of ..read more »
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from 11,396 members
Amadeus
A powerful and emotive journey into the tale of Mozart - the soundtrack is matched perfectly to the flow of the film
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Amadeus
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge
Director: Milos Forman
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In a lavish 18th Century parlor in Austria, an elderly man is found, by his servant, with his throat slashed. The wound is self-inflicted, and the man is the little-known composer Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), contemporary and adversary of the now-famed, but once reviled, composer Wolfgang Amadeus ..read more »
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L'Appartement
A twisting French thriller with obvious but well-effected nods to the film noir genre
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L'Appartement
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Romane Bohringer, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey
Director: Gilles Mimouni
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Director Gilles Mimouni's first feature film is a stylish suspense thriller that confounds the audience while presenting them with an extraordinary and elusive mystery. Vincent Cassel stars as Max, a former playboy who has decided to settle down by marrying his current love, Muriel. However, during ..read more »
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from 8,184 members
Army of Darkness - The Evil Dead 3
Not so much scary as funny - army of darkness brings a bigger budget to sam raimi's evil dead series and is worth it for the classic lines and ridiculous acting.
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Army of Darkness - The Evil Dead 3
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert
Director: Sam Raimi
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Following a harrowing night of demonic possession and slapstick antics in EVIL DEAD II, unassuming store clerk Ash (Bruce Campbell) is time-warped into England's Dark Ages, where he must find the Necronomicon, a compendium of the black arts, before he can return home. Fortunately, he has time to ..read more »
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from 7,563 members
The Big Lebowski
A film based on a silly premise, but one that allows full development of the characters and remains one of the best black comedies around.
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The Big Lebowski
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore
Director: Joel Coen
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When unemployed Dude is attacked in his apartment by two thugs who mistakenly think he is millionaire Jeff Lebowski, he decides to pay a visit to his namesake in the hope of receiving compensation.
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from 42,420 members
Blue Blood
An intriguing although strongly subjective documentary following the build up to the Varsity Boxing Match
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Blue Blood
on DVD
(2006)
Director: Stevan Riley
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Blue Blood tracks the fortunes of several different student boxers in the run-up to the spectacular and highly-charged Oxford v. Cambridge Boxing Match. A fine-artist, astrophysicist, mathematician, biochemist and philosopher all realise that a sharpened pencil and straight As are of little use ..read more »
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Capote
If you have read In Cold Blood this will add another dimension to the story, and if you haven't this remains a film that will grip you from beginning to end. Incredibly acted.
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Capote
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr.
Director: Bennett Miller
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In November 1959, the shocking murder of a smalltown Kansas family captures the imagination of Truman CApote, famed author of Breakfast at Tiffany's. With his childhood friend Harper Lee, writer of soon-to-be published To Kill a Mockingbird, Capote sets out to investigate, winning over the locals ..read more »
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from 36,720 members
The Motorcycle Diaries
For those into travel stories and/or an interest in South America this will strike chords with you - beautifully shot with a depth to the story given its historical significance.
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The Motorcycle Diaries
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo De La Serna, Mia Maestro
Director: Walter Salles Jr.
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An adaptation of a journal written by Che Guevara when he was 23 years old. Along with his friend Alberto Granado he crossed South America by motorcycle in the 1950s and he recounts some of their adventures.
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Dog Day Afternoon
A classic piece of cinema. real, and very involving.
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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 »
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from 11,314 members
Dogma
Irreligious, low-budget, Ben Affleck. Not normally how one would go about selling a film but the biting satire and the interesting angles this film take makes it watchable again and again.
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Dogma
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino
Director: Kevin Smith
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Imaginative theology and a bigger-than-usual budget make Kevin Smith's (CHASING AMY, CLERKS) fourth film a kind of post-Catholic fantasy that only a comic-book enthusiast of his caliber could dream up. It concerns banished angels, Loki (Matt Damon) and Bartleby (Ben Affleck) who, after a few ..read more »
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