Recommend your ever favourite movie (s) please?

Cool Cool

Or series:D

Give Scrubs a shot if you haven't already. Plus the movie Rudy

fermanagh_man

Movies:
In the name of the father
Cool hand Luke

Series:
The black list
Peep show

Shint0

The Bicycle Thief
The Apu Trilogy
Jodaeiye Nader az Simin ( A Separation)
Glengarry GlenRoss
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring

Lots more. Lots and lots more.

paidinmhaire

Movie:
The thin red line

jacksie66

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Levando92

Apocalypto (2006) is a fantastic movie, watch that.

howamidifferent

Movie: Heat
TV: Shameless (UK)

This Fat Girl Runs

Movies:

The Princess Bride
Usual Suspects

suicide_circus

Come and See

A Russian film about a rural lad's experience of the second world war. Made in 1985.

Harrowing. Visceral. Brutal. During the course of the film the guy visibly ages as the awful toll of inhuman conflict takes its course. Close up face shots convey the true horror of what the characters endure.

A thoroughly upsetting and draining experience. But powerful, skillfully executed and a unique type of cinema.

migozarad

Films:

City of God
Downfall
Amores Perros
American Beauty
Fury
Woman In Gold
John Wick

TV series:

Scrubs
Rescue Me
The Sopranos
Breaking Bad
Star Trek-The Next Generation
Boston Legal
True Detective (season1 ONLY)
Generation War (Unsere Mutters,Unsere Vaters)

Keane2baMused

Film:
Donnie Darko (love it or hate it type of movie)

The Big Lebowski

Love and other drugs

Pans Labyrinth

TV Series:

Fringe
Lie to me (only 3 seasons though boo)
Homeland
GOT (obviously)
Girls
Devious Maids
White Collar
The Flash
Scrubs is an old favourite!

Shint0

Shint0 wrote: »

Glengarry GlenRoss

Possibly the best film of the 90s.

Keane2baMused wrote: »

Donnie Darko

Possibly the best film of the 00s.

timthumbni

suicide_circus wrote: »

Come and See

A Russian film about a rural lad's experience of the second world war. Made in 1985.

Harrowing. Visceral. Brutal. During the course of the film the guy visibly ages as the awful toll of inhuman conflict takes its course. Close up face shots convey the true horror of what the characters endure.

A thoroughly upsetting and draining experience. But powerful, skillfully executed and a unique type of cinema.

I've heard others talk about this one. Must try and give it a watch. Surely this isn't one you would rewatch much though?

I watched goodbye Uncle Tom recently. A surreal experience but I will never ever watch that again and I'm very glad of it.

Agent Smyth

I highly recommend "Lone Star Ranger" with David Carradine, its a film that change my life

Alf Stewart.

Movie, pulp fiction.

Series, sopranos.

PARlance

Sharknado, any one of them.

timthumbni

I'm sort of going by what movies I've rewatched many, many times here as a guide but you really can't go wrong with

The Shawshank redemption
The Green Mile
The Mist (which would make a great play Imo)
First 3 all Stephen King books btw
City of God
The Sting
Jaws
Heathers
A Prophet (French prison movie and very good)
Pans Labyrinth
The Big Lebowski
Schindlers List

Oh and if anyone wants to get in on the marvel comic book movies that are the rage recently then try Deadpool. Far more adult orientated and actually quite funny. Any movie that can end on a wham song and have you practically cheering at the screen gets my vote any day. Plus it has that girl out of homeland and Gotham who practically devours the screen.....

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Movies.
Superbad
Shrek 2
Mean Girls
Bad Santa
Wolf of Wall st


Series:
Orange is the new black
Pretty little liars
Desperate Housewives
Grace and Frankie
Narcos

c montgomery

Being John Malkovich

So strange and original.

readyletsgo

Watch the tv show called The Leftovers. It will change you.

Rosie Rant

Films:
Leon: The Professional, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Odd Couple (the original), Dangerous Minds.

TV Shows:
Bloodline, The Americans, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Cheers, Frasier, Game of Thrones, Mr Robot, House of Cards.

Fleawuss

It hasn't changed. Get busy living or get busy dying.
The Shawshank Redemption

buried

Bad Lieutenant (1992 original)
Seven Samurai
Alien
Manhunter
King of New York
Harakiri (1962 original)
Boogie Nights
Withnail & I
Yojimbo
Apocalypse Now

The_Valeyard

Movies:

Big Fish
Deadpool
Wrath of Khan
V for Vendetta
Equilibrium
12 monkeys
Planet of the Apes reboot
The great Dictator
A night to remember


TV series

Battlestar Galactica reboot
DS9
House of Cards
The Flash
Grimm
3rd rock from the sun
Daredevil
Colony
Fringe

HiJacques

Lagenda Budak Setan

It's not really my favourite movie but it's one I'd recommend as something different you may never hear of to watch with a significant other. I've been forced to watch some awful chick flicks and pretend to have followed what was going on but this one is different.

Sweetemotion

Great films recommended already
City of God
King of New York
A prophet

I'll add

Falling down
Old boy
Dead man's shoes

m1ck007

readyletsgo wrote: »

Watch the tv show called The Leftovers. It will change you.

Absolutely. One of the best tv shows i have ever seen. High five fellow leftovers fan.

In no particular order.

Films:
Pan's Labyrinth
My Fair Lady
El Orfanato
Requiem for a Dream
The Princess Bride

Series:
Game of Thrones
The Wire
Carnivalé
The Killing
The Bridge (Swedish one)

A film marathon is always good. You could take a day and watch the three Lord of the Rings or pick a favourite director and watch all of his work.

timthumbni

Deleted User wrote: »

In no particular order.

Films:
Pan's Labyrinth
My Fair Lady
El Orfanato
Requiem for a Dream
The Princess Bride

Series:
Game of Thrones
The Wire
Carnivalé
The Killing
The Bridge (Swedish one)

A film marathon is always good. You could take a day and watch the three Lord of the Rings or pick a favourite director and watch all of his work.

Please pay careful consideration to this post people. Persepoly knows what she is on about when it comes to film/TV.

Carnivale is one I really want to watch but can't find it on Netflix or a decent stream of it. The bad prison guard from shawshank is in it. He really looks like a hardass.

timthumbni

timthumbni wrote: »

Please pay careful consideration to this post people. Persepoly knows what she is on about when it comes to film/TV.

Carnivale is one I really want to watch but can't find it on Netflix or a decent stream of it. The bad prison guard from shawshank is in it. He really looks like a hardass.

I found Carnivalé in Laser dvd on Georges Street. It's closed now unfortunately. I don't know where you would find it these doays. It's a brilliant series.

timthumbni

Deleted User wrote: »

In no particular order.

Films:
Pan's Labyrinth
My Fair Lady
El Orfanato
Requiem for a Dream
The Princess Bride

Series:
Game of Thrones
The Wire
Carnivalé
The Killing
The Bridge (Swedish one)

A film marathon is always good. You could take a day and watch the three Lord of the Rings or pick a favourite director and watch all of his work.

Actually I take issue with you recommending requiem for a dream to a casual watcher. Are you trying to depress them? Lol. Seriously don't watch this film by yourself.

timthumbni

timthumbni wrote: »

Actually I take issue with you recommending requiem for a dream to a casual watcher. Are you trying to depress them? Lol. Seriously don't watch this film by yourself.

I sometimes find it strange when "don't watch this film by yourself" is mentioned. Having company isn't going to make a blind bit of difference The film means something to me I guess.

Buona Fortuna

Films:

Fortress of War
The Pianist
Three Colours
Das Boot

Series:

Sopranos
West Wing
GoT (but waining a little as people get killed off a little predictably)

bobby lingen

Films:

Debbie does Detroit
Debbie does Hollywood
Debbie does Cedar Rapids
Das Boot

Series:

The Reardons
Fair City

Dan Chipowski

Film: Angels of the Universe (Englar alheimsins)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0233651/

TV Series: Detectorists

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4082744/

gormdubhgorm

I tried to pick one's people might not have seen rather then more obvious one's.
Films:
Nebraska (Father and son type film comedy/drama/adeventure)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821549/

Goodbye to Lenin (this is hilarious stuff and it is a German film subtitled)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301357/

Look who's Back (Er ist wieder da)
Comedy/drama Film about what it would be like if Hitler traveled back to modern Germany.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4176826/combined

Man on Wire (True story about a French fella who tightroped walked between the twin towers illegally in New York)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1155592/

The Van (since it has a lot of soccer atmosphere in it it is appropriate for the euros)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118064/

Kisses (2008);
Film about two little kids on the run in Dublin.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0975684/

Inside I am Dancing: comedy/drama about two disabled fellas out and about in Dublin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_I%27m_Dancing


Jack Strong:
Shown on Netflix. A spy film a Polish fella who acts as a double agent spying on the Polish/Russians for the the Americans. Based on a true story. There are subtitles for the Polish/Russian bits.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2785288/

Series:

Goodnight Sweetheart (Nicholas Lyndhurst - Time travelling back to WW2 very similar to the "Wrecking the rising" series that was on TG4)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106014/

Wrecking The Rising (Éirí Amach Amú):
I thought this was the best Irish series in years it was shown on TG4. A not very serious take on the Easter Rising.
http://tilefilms.ie/productions/wrecking-rising/

Club de Cuervos:
It is shown on Netflix a comedy/drama about about a fictional Mexican football team. Spanish with subtitles.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4680240/

maudgonner

Films:
The Lion in Winter
A Man for All Seasons
The Life of Brian

TV:
The West Wing
Band of Brothers
Yes Minister
State of Play
And because I'm a girl, Offspring

The King of Moo

I don't really like films or TV but I like the ads they have on before the films in the cinema (sometimes they even have long ads for other films) and I like the one o'clock news on the telly.

I suppose I also like any films with apes, but not apes that can talk because that can't really happen.

Sunflower 27

Shawshank Redemption
Mystic River
The Deer Hunter
Housesitter, always cracks me up that one. Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn are brilliant in that. Very funny

Sunflower 27

Sunflower 27 wrote: »

Shawshank Redemption
Mystic River
The Deer Hunter
Housesitter, always cracks me up that one. Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn are brilliant in that. Very funny

Oh Mystic River and The Deer Hunter are also two of my favourites You're right about Housesitter too. It's been years since I've seen it but I love those old comedies.

SlipperyPeople

suicide_circus wrote: »

Come and See

A Russian film about a rural lad's experience of the second world war. Made in 1985.

Harrowing. Visceral. Brutal. During the course of the film the guy visibly ages as the awful toll of inhuman conflict takes its course. Close up face shots convey the true horror of what the characters endure.

A thoroughly upsetting and draining experience. But powerful, skillfully executed and a unique type of cinema.

gonna watch this tonight after the football I reckon. cheers.

My favourite movie of all time will always be trainspotting. never get tired of seeing it.

Summer wind

Films
Streets Of Fire
The Burbs
The Money Pit
Jumanji
Wolf
Flashdance
Pretty Woman
The Bourne Identity
The Mummy
Jaws
Dirty Dancing
Ghost
The Skeleton Key
Housesitter
See No Evil Hear No Evil
Beverly Hills Cop
The Fog
Nuns On The Run
Volcano

TV
The Originals
Minder
Grimm

suicide_circus

hungoverbunny wrote: »

gonna watch this tonight after the football I reckon. cheers.

My favourite movie of all time will always be trainspotting. never get tired of seeing it.

You may not thank me after watching it!

Cool Cool

Ooh so many new movies to check out. Thanks guys. Thanks.

Cool Cool

I have some more to add:

The Godfather Movies
Rain man
Interstellar
Good Will Hunting
Boyhood
Freedom Writers
2001: a space odyssey
A Beautiful Mind

And a lot of Leonardo DiCaprio's movies

ultrapercy

Once upon a time in America. That scene where De Nerio walks out the bus depot a young man and walks back a senior citizen to the music of yesterday on the pan pipes is gold but it's a gold movie. There will be blood and No country for old men are class too.

So many good movies and tv shows out there; so many classics mentioned on this thread that I still need to watch too some of mine include

TV:
Game of Thrones
Pretty Little Liars
Desperate Housewives
Fringe
Lost
Breaking Bad
Misfits
Orange Is The New Black
Dexter
Prison Break
American Horror Story
The Flash
True Detective
House of Cards
Bates Motel

Movies:
Shutter Island
Saw
Bridesmaids
Twilight Saga
The Butterfly Effect
Thirteen Ghosts
Kick Ass
Scream
Kill Bill
Resident Evil
Inception
Catching Fire

and so many more

Rubberlegs

In no particular order

Movies
Stand by Me
School of Rock
Walk the Line
The Outsiders
Flatliners
The Shining

Series
Life on Mars
Ashes to Ashes
Cracker
Waking the Dead
Ray Donovan
The Sopranos
Six Feet Under
Bates Motel
The Tunnel and The Tunnel Sabotage
Penny Dreadful
True Blood
Grimm
Vikings
The Blacklist
ER
Code Black
Chicago Fire
Desperate Housewives
Falling Skies

Galwayguy35

Movies : Gladiator
Last of the Mochians
The Thirteenth Warrior
Wolf Creek
The Shining
Young Guns 2
The Replacement Killers
Troy
Braveheart

Tv : Ray Donovon
Person of Interest
Game of Thrones
Deadwood
Vikings
The Americans

TG1

Tv series would be firefly, and film would be the film that came after firefly called serenity. Such a pity more was never filmed...

Mam of 4

Films;

Leon,
Last Of The Mohicans,
Legends Of The Fall,
Murder In The First,

Series;
Scrubs,
Six feet Under,

Will think of more later..