Netflix - Film Recommendations *READ FIRST POST*

peteeeed

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spellbound , a documentary where smarts kids in america's are put through mental torture in a televised national spelling competition has been added to irish netflix

Beefy78

tigger123 wrote: »

Watched Coherence on the Irish Netflix and I'd highly recommend it. It's low budget sci fi and the less ya know about it the better. Mind bending stuff.

I watched it last week and thought it was terrible. One of the worst films I've seen in years - and I swear that is not hyperbole. Just nothing of redeeming value at all, and I love Sci-Fi and naturalistic acting usually.

tigger123 wrote: »

Also watched Next Goal Wins, it's on US Netflix I think. Amazin g documentary that'll hit ya right in the feelers.

Whereas that I cannot recommend enough.

doc_17

Is there a list available anywhere, other than what is presented when you access Netflix, that has the films currently available on Netflix without having to use the search option?

diograis

peteeeed wrote: »

spellbound , a documentary where smarts kids in america's are put through mental torture in a televised national spelling competition has been added to irish netflix

Might watch it for this description alone.

arcticmonkeys

Check out Lone Star with Chris Copper, Elizabeth Pena and Matthew McConaughey if your into 90 Noire style movies. Criminally underrated when it was first released.

And yes must watch Pacific Heights again.

Earthhorse

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Just watched a documentary called Lost Soul about the making of The Island of Dr Moreau.

Fascinating insight into how a movie production falls apart. Far better than Lost in La Mancha in the sense that there's a much more interesting story to tell.

coolisin

Earthhorse wrote: »

Just watched a documentary called Lost Soul about the making of The Island of Dr Moreau.

Fascinating insight into how a movie production falls apart. Far better than Lost in La Mancha in the sense that there's a much more interesting story to tell.

Watched this the other night!
Really interesting.

Charlie19

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

Check out Michael Keaton in 'pacific heights' if you're looking for another good one. Nicole Kidman and Sam Neil in 'dead calm' is excellent too.

What regions are those on?

I used flixsearch.com but found nothing.

Stone Deaf 4evr

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Charlie19 wrote: »

What regions are those on?

I used flixsearch.com but found nothing.

Sorry, I don't know if they're on Netflix, I was just recalling them from memory

trashcan

Just watched "A Most Wanted Man" with Philip Seymour Hoffman, directed by Anton Corbijn. From a John le Carre novel. Well worth a watch. Possibly the last film PSH made, as it was only made last year. Not sure of that though. His performance was very good as usual.

Charlie19

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

Sorry, I don't know if they're on Netflix, I was just recalling them from memory

No problem.. I was just looking for something to watch earlier and I thought of Pacific heights because I haven't watched it in years.

I'll have a proper look over the weekend

Ageyev

trashcan wrote: »

Just watched "A Most Wanted Man" with Philip Seymour Hoffman, directed by Anton Corbijn. From a John le Carre novel. Well worth a watch. Possibly the last film PSH made, as it was only made last year. Not sure of that though. His performance was very good as usual.

I loved this. Hoffman is great as a man with the weight of the world on his shoulders.

God's Pocket on Canada netflix is good too

Ageyev

doc_17 wrote: »

Is there a list available anywhere, other than what is presented when you access Netflix, that has the films currently available on Netflix without having to use the search option?

No but I think you kight be able to browse all titles by genre on the browser version.

e_e

Yeah your best bet is picking a genre and sorting A-Z or by year.

Happyman42

trashcan wrote: »

Just watched "A Most Wanted Man" with Philip Seymour Hoffman, directed by Anton Corbijn. From a John le Carre novel. Well worth a watch. Possibly the last film PSH made, as it was only made last year. Not sure of that though. His performance was very good as usual.

Enjoyed that too, lots of good performances and a non sensationalist look at the issues involved in state security.

Charlie19

Whispers in the Dark. 1992

This is another one for the fan of the Murder mystery genre and kept me guessing right up till the end. Stars: John Leguizamo (Carlitos way), Annabella Sciorra (Sopranos) and Alan Alda (MASH).

A psychiatrist thats treating a patient who suffers from a neurotic tendencies unknowingly becomes involved with the lover of this patient.

MarkY91

Charlie19 wrote: »

Whispers in the Dark. 1992

This is another one for the fan of the Murder mystery genre and kept me guessing right up till the end. Stars: John Leguizamo (Carlitos way), Annabella Sciorra (Sopranos) and Alan Alda (MASH).

A psychiatrist thats treating a patient who suffers from a neurotic tendencies unknowingly becomes involved with the lover of this patient.

I put that on my list there.

About to watch "Mr. Brooks" this will be my 3rd serial killer movie of the week. I'm getting great tips from these movie :L

The other two were switchback and the vanishing.

tigger123

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Watched the first episode of The Fuzz and I really enjoyed it. It's The Wire meets ... The Muppets (?)

Charlie19

MarkY91 wrote: »

I put that on my list there.

About to watch "Mr. Brooks" this will be my 3rd serial killer movie of the week. I'm getting great tips from these movie :L

The other two were switchback and the vanishing.

Mr. Brooks isn't bad at all.

tinpib

fin12 wrote: »

Im going to watch that paradise lost documentary so long though its over 2 hours

Paradise Lost has 3 parts not just one film and all 3 are well over 2 hours!

All 3 together will come in around 7.5 hours.

Still prob the first docs that come to mind to recommend to people who don't watch docs that much.

They are incredible. As soon as you watch one you will probably want to find someone else who has seen them so you can talk about it.

tigger123

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tinpib wrote: »

Paradise Lost has 3 parts not just one film and all 3 are well over 2 hours!

All 3 together will come in around 7.5 hours.

Still prob the first docs that come to mind to recommend to people who don't watch docs that much.

They are incredible. As soon as you watch one you will probably want to find someone else who has seen them so you can talk about it.

Are the three of them on Netflix?

fin12

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tinpib wrote: »

Paradise Lost has 3 parts not just one film and all 3 are well over 2 hours!

All 3 together will come in around 7.5 hours.

Still prob the first docs that come to mind to recommend to people who don't watch docs that much.

They are incredible. As soon as you watch one you will probably want to find someone else who has seen them so you can talk about it.

I know this might be a stupid question but do you know why they made the doc so long? I've only watched some of the first part, maybe Im finding it quite long because I believe they were guilty and Im not sure but is this documentary trying to get across that they are innocent?

fin12

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tigger123 wrote: »

Are the three of them on Netflix?

no I dont think they are on netflix someone just recomended that you watch these before you watch the doc about the memphis three on netflix, they are on youtube. :)

tinpib

fin12 wrote: »

I know this might be a stupid question but do you know why they made the doc so long? I've only watched some of the first part, maybe Im finding it quite long because I believe they were guilty and Im not sure but is this documentary trying to get across that they are innocent?

No idea, I can only speculate.

I didn't find it long at all, I was glued to it.

It seems to me it is so long as they had so much relevant footage and they felt they couldn't trim it down.

Also the docs take place over many years. So you have the original trial time in the early 90s, the aftermath a few years later and then the conclusion from a few years back.

It's 2.5 hours a pop covering a large time frame for each one.

edit: watch all 3 and then decide on their guilt/innocence

Watching the Fuzz. It's like Southland/the Wire meets Sesame Street.

Hrududu

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fin12 wrote: »

I know this might be a stupid question but do you know why they made the doc so long? I've only watched some of the first part, maybe Im finding it quite long because I believe they were guilty and Im not sure but is this documentary trying to get across that they are innocent?

They made the first documentary about the trial. Then about 10 years or so later they shot more footage to make the second documentary about what had happened since and how there was a movement to prove their innocence (also focusing on a possible 'real killer'). The third one again was years later. All catching up with what had gone on in the time since the second documentary.

Another documentary West of Memphis was made a couple of years ago that covers the whole time period from their arrest to the most recent developments. I think thats about 2.5/3 hours. But that's covering a lot of time and information.

West of Memphis is on Netflix but the Paradise Lost docs aren't.

fin12

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Hrududu wrote: »

They made the first documentary about the trial. Then about 10 years or so later they shot more footage to make the second documentary about what had happened since and how there was a movement to prove their innocence (also focusing on a possible 'real killer'). The third one again was years later. All catching up with what had gone on in the time since the second documentary.

Another documentary West of Memphis was made a couple of years ago that covers the whole time period from their arrest to the most recent developments. I think thats about 2.5/3 hours. But that's covering a lot of time and information.

West of Memphis is on Netflix but the Paradise Lost docs aren't.

Ok Thanks :)

MarkY91

Bates motel after 1 episode seems good. Weird how Norman has an iPhone when as an adult in American psycho it was like in the 90s..but let's just go with the flow :P

Dair76

Think you're confusing your Psychos there. :pac:

*unless that's the joke

Charlie19

Seven Psychopaths (2012)

A writer gets caught up in a cross country chase after kidnapping a gang boss's dog. Hilarious comedy starring Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell and Colin Farell.