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A thread to recommend decent movies on Netflix / Amazon Prime?

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As the evenings begin to draw in - a thread to recommend any decent movies you've recently watched on Netflix UK / Amazon Prime?
 
I watched the new Keith Richards doc, produced by Netflix, and it was more interesting than I expected it to be.

Jack
 
Check out Jesus Camp if you want a documentary to make your blood boil. It's a shocker!

Rich
 
Virunga. Quite upsetting, bloody grrrr grrrrr.

Really drew me in, a mixture of documentary and acting.
 
C'mon guys ; give the disgraced, drug cheating athlete some respect. His name was Pantani.
And in reply to the OP , I first thought you were being ironic. My Netflix experience always lowers my spirit after wading through those endless thumbnails of 3rd , 4th and 5th rate flicks.
The experience concludes a couple of hours later. Never again, I vow, after the usual lousy film. But I always succumb a month or so later, just to see if 'things have improved'
But how can anyone recommend 'a good film' to someone else without knowing their taste?
You can no more do this than recommend food or clothing. Taste is so extremely variable, and I certainly would only enthuse about the occupants of my blu ray shelf to folk I new really well.
So, whaddya' like ?
Nicholas.
 
Betty Blue on Netflix - as well as being a very good film, it has one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written.

[YOUTUBE]watch?v=fF9anFwBDA4[/YOUTUBE]
 
nws56 said:
C'mon guys ; give the disgraced, drug cheating athlete some respect. His name was Pantani.
And in reply to the OP , I first thought you were being ironic. My Netflix experience always lowers my spirit after wading through those endless thumbnails of 3rd , 4th and 5th rate flicks.
The experience concludes a couple of hours later. Never again, I vow, after the usual lousy film. But I always succumb a month or so later, just to see if 'things have improved'
But how can anyone recommend 'a good film' to someone else without knowing their taste?
You can no more do this than recommend food or clothing. Taste is so extremely variable, and I certainly would only enthuse about the occupants of my blu ray shelf to folk I new really well.
So, whaddya' like ?
Nicholas.
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No not being ironic, but I find myself in same position as you wading through for 20 minutes then giving up - hence the thread there must be some good stuff across the 2 providers.

I tend to like:

Good sci-fi (but I don't think they make it anymore?) Blade Runner, Alien, 2001, The empire strikes back etc

All the usual stuff in no particular order and off the top of my head - Fargo, Casino, Goodfellows, LA Confidential, Lawrence of Arabia, Apocalypse Now, Annie Hall, Manhattan, The Road, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Schindler’s List, Close Encounters of the third kind, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Godfather, The Apartment, Schindlers List, The Dark Knight, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Some like it hot, Pulp fiction, lots of others!
 
Not new but last week I watched "Chinatown" (Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway) and really enjoyed it. Lovely cinematography.
 
If you like Philip K Dick's work, I can recommend the Amazon Prime pilot of The man in the high castle.
 
Could be a short thread this, but grateful for the reminder to cancel my Netflix account.
 
I dunno why you lot are complaining, Netflix seems fine to me. Plenty to watch (documentaries, films, TV shows). If I can get a couple of hours a month's worth of entertainment out of it (which I can easily do) it seems worth the cash to me...

Worth it for some of the obscure foreign TV alone...
 
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