Quality films that start with the letter X?

liah

Does anyone know of any quality films (and I don't mean X-Men) that start with the letter X?

Reason being, I'm more than a little OCD when it comes to my movie collection, and I've recently discovered I've films starting with all letters of the alphabet save X.

So, any suggestions would be great!

Basq

Slim pickings really..

johnny_ultimate

Xanadu, X-Files: I Want to Believe...

They're good, right?

Latchy

Xanadu is one although it may not what you call 'Quality '

pasta-solo

X-Men 2 is decent!

Basq

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Xanadu, X-Files: I Want to Believe...

They're good, right?

I'd recommend the first movie - 'X Files: Fight The Future' - it's the better of the two movies IMO!

My girlfriend and I watched the entire X-Files series and 'Fight The Future' leading up the release of 'I Want To Believe' - what a bloody anti-climax!

pasta-solo wrote: »

X-Men 2 is decent!

Better than the first IMO... not as "childish".

But I get the opinion that liah wants to stay away from the X-Men franchise... and after X2, I think most people would want to stay away from that franchise!

johnny_ultimate

basquille wrote: »

I'd recommend the first movie - 'X Files: Fight The Future' - it's the better of the two movies IMO!

My girlfriend and I watched the entire X-Files series and 'Fight The Future' leading up the release of 'I Want To Believe' - what a bloody anti-climax!

I'm not an X-Files fan, so that film gave me and my friends plenty of inadvertent laughs.

Especially the scene where Scully is looking up something related to genetics on the internet, and then presses the 'print all' button or something equally stupid.

smcgiff

I see your X and triple it

xXx

and

xXx 2

Sad Professor

I miss The X-Files.

Still haven't seen the second film yet. After everything I've heard I'm afraid to watch it.

bbbbb

Malcolm X and American History X 'feature' the letter x?

johnny_ultimate

Sad Professor wrote: »

I miss The X-Files.

Still haven't seen the second film yet. After everything I've heard I'm afraid to watch it.

Stare at the image below for about two hours.



Congratulations! You've just watched a better film than I Want to Believe.

Basq

Sad Professor wrote: »

I miss The X-Files.

Still haven't seen the second film yet. After everything I've heard I'm afraid to watch it.

Yeah.. don't!

Seeing much-loved characters like Fox Mulder, Dana Scully and even Walter Skinner after so many years should have been great, but it was just a real disappointment.

johnny_ultimate wrote:

Especially the scene where Scully is looking up something related to genetics on the internet, and then presses the 'print all' button or something equally stupid.

And that's probably the least unbelievable thing in 'The X-Files'..



But it was a great show - Duchovny just became better and better in it, and episodes like 'Monday' just shows how inventive the show could be:

A woman is trapped in an endlessly repeating time loop that ends in a tragic bombing in which Mulder and Scully lose their lives every time.

Bear in mind, this was 1999... but back on topic!

iMax

Latchy wrote: »

Xanadu is one although it may not what you call 'Quality '

You take that back. RIGHT. NOW.

One of the greatest musicals ever.

ELO & Olivia Newton John. Gene Kelly. The bloke who plays the lead (would have loved it to be Travolta) who's name I can't remember, Fantasy & dance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m1UWSD-FaA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYWA2c5w5bw

I don't care if it brings on the ghay in me.

liah

bbbbb wrote: »

Malcolm X and American History X 'feature' the letter x?

They don't count, wouldn't make sense in my organization system which is alphabetic.. wouldn't solve my problem. Plus, I already have AHX.

Sad Professor

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Stare at the image below for about two hours.
Congratulations! You've just watched a better film than I Want to Believe.

basquille wrote: »

Yeah.. don't!

Seeing much-loved characters like Fox Mulder, Dana Scully and even Walter Skinner after so many years should have been great, but it was just a real disappointment.

Urge to watch... fading... fading... gone. :pac:

D-Generate

The Expendables?

Close enough.....

bnt

Another vote here for Xanadu - if only to watch the luminous Miss Olivia Neutron Bomb in her prime. She didn't need special effects, but you got them anyway. :cool:

Or, if you want to get more serious, there's XXY: an Argentine film about a 15-year-old "intersex person" that won a Critic's Prize at Cannes - but I haven't seen it.

paulosham

bbbbb wrote: »

Malcolm X and American History X 'feature' the letter x?

We might as well say just The Mexican then.

pickarooney

There are a fair number of Chinese films beginning with X but I can't really recommend any as I haven't watched them.

Xiao Jiang
Xi Chu Bawang
Xin tian long ba bu zhi tian shan tong lao ?

Or take your pick from here

Actually, I can recommend Xiyan (The Wedding Banquet) now that I remember the story.

smcgiff

liah wrote: »

They don't count, wouldn't make sense in my organization system which is alphabetic.. wouldn't solve my problem. Plus, I already have AHX.

Have you seen xXx? And no, it's not a porn movie.

liah

smcgiff wrote: »

Have you seen xXx? And no, it's not a porn movie.

Isn't that Vin Diesel?..

I'm not really one for "showy"/hollywood-with-no-substance films, so unfortunately a lot of these X titles aren't great.

My quest continues..

pickarooney

Ignore my Asian romantic comedy with a biting satirical undercurrent suggesting at your peril, for I will shun you! SHUN YOU!

LittleBook

pickarooney wrote: »

There are a fair number of Chinese films beginning with X but I can't really recommend any as I haven't watched them.

Xiao Jiang
Xi Chu Bawang
Xin tian long ba bu zhi tian shan tong lao ?

Or take your pick from here

Actually, I can recommend Xiyan (The Wedding Banquet) now that I remember the story.

I like that pickarooney, that's thinking outside the box

If you like Roger Corman and/or Ray Milland and/or oldies (as I do) you could complete your collection with X: The Man With The X-Ray Eyes.

pickarooney

There seems to be a long series of the worst films in Brazilian history about a character called Xuxa. They bring out one a year and they get less than 2 points on IMDB. Probably not quite what you're looking for.

Also, I reckoned there must have been a film made at some stage about Xerxes and it turns out there's one due for release this year, but I think it's the sequel to 300 so more than likely not something you'll be pre-booking tickets for!

You'll likely find a lot of pornos beginning with 'x' - do they count liah?

strobe

There's a movie (documentary) about the influential American punk band X, called X: The Unheard Music, after this song of theirs. It's actually not a bad film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW9Hdbim3FI

Nolanger

Xala - African movie where a group punish a guy by spitting at him.

bbbbb

How about Dudley Moore & Bo Derek in '10'?

Improbable

XX/XY

Aisling(",)

Nolanger wrote: »

Xala - African movie where a group punish a guy by spitting at him.

I watched that for college
Sembene Oussmane may be heralded as the father of african cinema but my god i find his films to be useless!
I've fallen asleep in college while watching Moolade which is meant to be "amazing"

tdv123

X,Y & Zee

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069516/

Not sure about the quality but hey.