Recommend a movie for me!

Do Me Good

I like movies that are a tad slower moving than modern movies... something to take me away from the feelings of this short attention spanned iWorld! I think I possibly like a bit of drama mixed with seduction, and maybe a murder thrown in. I don't like too much violence though.

Please don't recommend anything too well known; like 'Basic Instinct' for example, as I'll most likely have already seen it.

Examples of ones I've enjoyed: Bitter Moon, Malice, American Beaty, Unfaithful, One flew over the cookoo's nest, Rope, K-PAX, Mr Brooks

rednik

Cutter's Way should fit your bill.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082220/

e_e

Certified Copy
Museum Hours
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Keplar240B

Lost in translation.
wow just wow

Ageyev

Top of my head here:


Brick- neo-noir with Joseph Gordan Levitt as a teenager

Stoker - one of them cerebral thrillers with a sense of foreboding about a family with secrets

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - intricate spy thriller based on a famous novel

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - "quirky" film about a TV show host who is recruited by the CIA for assassin missions

Blue Ruin - a vagrant returns to his hometown to exact revenge (there is violent though the lead is almost a pacifist reluctant killer)

Gone Baby Gone - two small time private investigators try to solve a case of a missing baby from a family who likely neglected it (see also Mystic River)

Mystery Road - aboriginal Australian cop investigates a local murder

The Pledge - Jack Nicholson is a retired cop who makes one last promise to sole a murder

Predestination - sort of sci-fi thriller but heavy on dialogue scenes with a good story about a cop making sacrifices travelling through time to catch a serial killer


Recent films in past few years:
Nightcrawler
Foxcatcher
Gone Girl
Argo
Captain Phillips
Fruitvale Station
Cold In July
Inherent Vice


If you're not adverse to an old/B&W film:
All About Eve is quite good - obsessive fan of an actress plots against her;
Sunset Boulevard -agoraphobic former famous actress reflects on her life and wants a change;
Double Indemnity is a classic noir about a pact made to commit murder for the purpose of an insurance claim;
Riffi, slow burn heist French film;
Tokyo Story might be the best "slow film" I've seen - it's a Japanese film about the life of a family wherebthe camera barely moves and there are not many cuts




Hope some of them might be of interest or maybe ring a bell!

Brian?

This might tickle your fancy:

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt3661798/

cowboyBuilder

The Prestige - pure cinematic masterclass
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482571/

Do Me Good

Brian? wrote: »

This might tickle your fancy:

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt3661798/

I don't know if I see anything in common between this and my description. Not to mention; there's Chinese people in it.

gerrybbadd

Some i've watched lately, that I'd recommend:

Interstellar

Southpaw

e_e

Do Me Good wrote: »

I don't know if I see anything in common between this and my description. Not to mention; there's Chinese people in it.

There are at least 4 things wrong with this post.

suicide_circus

The Untouchables simply cannot be bate

jester77

A tad slower, hhmmmm
Gerry springs to mind

shazzerman

You'll be wanting:
Le Boucher
Diabolique
Charley Varrick
Cutter's Way (already mentioned)
Thunderbolt & Lightfoot
The Pledge (already mentioned)
Death Trap (great fun with Caine and Reeve)

Telecaster58

Do Me Good wrote: »

I like movies that are a tad slower moving than modern movies... something to take me away from the feelings of this short attention spanned iWorld! I think I possibly like a bit of drama mixed with seduction, and maybe a murder thrown in. I don't like too much violence though.

Please don't recommend anything too well known; like 'Basic Instinct' for example, as I'll most likely have already seen it.

Examples of ones I've enjoyed: Bitter Moon, Malice, American Beaty, Unfaithful, One flew over the cookoo's nest, Rope, K-PAX, Mr Brooks

I can suggest two films that fit these criteria, both by John Dahl, who seems to have stopped making films. Both are like old style film noir with strong leads and great femme fatales. The two films are The Last Seduction and Red Rock West.

e_e

shazzerman wrote: »

You'll be wanting:
Le Boucher
Diabolique

Watch out there, might be a few too many cheese eating surrender monkeys for the OP. :pac:

Le Boucher is a great movie though!

Do Me Good

e_e wrote: »

Watch out there, might be a few too many cheese eating surrender monkeys for the OP. :pac:

Le Boucher is a great movie though!

Are you Chinese or something?

Do Me Good

rednik wrote: »

Cutter's Way should fit your bill.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082220/

I'm afraid I didn't take to it. It's definitely slow moving alright!

Chain Smoker

That list of examples all read like films with a kind of sleepy vibe that you'd stick on at around 2am in the night, which I would say is markedly different to slow pacing and also probably not altogether suited to subtitles. Plus I've a general rule that if the person doesn't list some subtitled films in their examples, they probably aren't looking for that bother, nothing wrong with that at all!


With that in mind, The Last Seduction and Red Rock West as mentioned by Telecaster58 are two fantastic suggestions imo.
Ageyev's selections are pretty damn on point too.

shazzerman

One False Move
A Simple Plan
The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Do Me Good

Chain Smoker wrote: »

That list of examples all read like films with a kind of sleepy vibe that you'd stick on at around 2am in the night, which I would say is markedly different to slow pacing and also probably not altogether suited to subtitles

You're right, it's not necessarily 'slow moving' that I'm after. You must know you're movie Chain!

Charlie19

I liked most of those movies you mentioned.

Sling blade
United states of leyland

Not slow moving as such but just very good.

11.14

jaysisjames

A couple of suggestions for films I've watched more than once and really enjoyed.

Aaltra
Barneys Version
The Phantom of Liberty

cashback

Do Me Good wrote: »

I don't know if I see anything in common between this and my description. Not to mention; there's Chinese people in it.

Well, I was going to recommend a few films, but after this post....Nah.

Footoo

Paris, Texas

Do Me Good

Telecaster58 wrote: »

I can suggest two films that fit these criteria, both by John Dahl, who seems to have stopped making films. Both are like old style film noir with strong leads and great femme fatales. The two films are The Last Seduction and Red Rock West.

Thanks,

I watched The Last seduction and really enjoyed it.

However, Red Rock West simply wasn't realistic. Too many coincidences it in. It was very similar to the other though, but the director didn't get it right this time. As soon as I heard the 'let's go to Mexico' part, I just thought it's time to turn it off.

bnt

See Heat if you haven't already. It has some of the greatest action scenes on film, but it's long, the best word I would have for it is methodical. The leader of the criminal gang (played by Robert de Niro) is methodical to a fault, but there comes a point where he breaks his own rules has to deal with the consequences.

Keplar240B

The latest 2 hour toy commercial by the Disney corporation Is really good.
Or you could watch Racing extinction instead.