Suggest a film or tv series to watch.

nacho libre

Peatys wrote: »

How did you get past the terrible soundtrack? We got bored rewinding to try and make out what they were saying, totally ruined what was meant to be a good show

I did find some dialogue hard to decipher, but the story is good so i presevered.

You might like to try the Angel and the Sacha Baron Cohen series (The Spy) both are on Netflix.

Quantum Erasure

theres a film called 'Love' produced by Tom DeLonge formerly of Blink182, whose new band Angels & Airwaves also did the soundtrack to.

it starts with an American civil-war battle but focuses mostly on a lone astronaut on the International Space Station in the present day, has a 'Moon' vibe to it...

its up on youtube in HD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGsKQfGhi8A

Redneck Reject

Homelander wrote: »

It's so terrible I couldn't even finish, and it was cancelled due to bad ratings. For excellent sci-fi, The Expanse or Battlestar Galactica are king.

Never knew it was cancelled. Thanks for that. Will give your suggestions a try.

Justin Credible Darts

best tv shows

The Wire
The Shield
Waking the Dead
New Tricks
Forbrydelsen- danish subtitled
Borgen - Danish subtitle
Gomorrah- Italian subtitled
Money Heist - Spanish subtitled
Luther
Breaking Bad
Justified
Braquo - French subtitled
Engrenages (spiral) - french subtitled

dasdog

All TV series

Detectorists - Two lads with metal detectors set in the English Countryside - very easy going with light humour

The Knick - Set in the early 20th century about medical advances and surgeons self medicating mostly with liquid cocaine

The Deuce - Last episode aired this week and made by the creator of The Wire. About the porno industry in the US in the 1970's/80's

Rumpole of the Bailey - About a London barrister in the 1970's - quite quirky but the writing is great and I think only on Vimeo

Patrick Melrose - Mini series about a messed up heir of a wealthy family

Redneck Reject

Justin Credible Darts wrote: »

best tv shows

The Wire
The Shield
Waking the Dead
New Tricks
Forbrydelsen- danish subtitled
Borgen - Danish subtitle
Gomorrah- Italian subtitled
Money Heist - Spanish subtitled
Luther
Breaking Bad
Justified

Luther is very good. I watched a British cop show called Happy Valley I thought was good too.

Neames

Line of Duty


Super cop drama...

SafeSurfer

The Lives of Others, about surveillance in East Germany is worth a watch.

Irish Guitarist

A Simple Plan is a good film. If you have a Roku or a Fire Stick you can watch it free on a channel called Popcornflix. They also have the original The Stepfather.

Carawaystick

theres lots of foreign series on the "Walter Selects" label on the 4 player, watched Hotel Beau Sejour a 10 part murder mystery series set in Belgium

9th Company - Movie about the soviets in the Afghan war

The Death of Yugoslavia is a great history of that time, on youtube, 4 or 5 episodes

Event Horizon is a good Horror, with Larry Fishbourne and Sam Neil

FrKurtFahrt

Making A Murderer. A documentary series that staggered me. I'm sure it's on Netflix

Three Billboards outside Ebbing Missouri is a movie I saw just last week, and thought it brilliant.

Greyfox

TV series

Battlestar Gallactica - It's basically the wire set in space, the first episode asks if it's ok to risk letting over 1,000 people die. The next few episodes deal with humans fighting amongst themselves over things like food, water and fuel. It deals with conflict in a very serious, adult and realistic way. It's just a pity the show has a terrible name.

Game of thrones - yes they made a mess of the ending but when GOT was at its best it was the best tv show ever made. The famous battle of the bastards episode is head and shoulders above anything else you'll ever see on tv.

Film - as its Halloween I'm watching A Quiet place again, for me it's one of the best horror films ever made. It has none of the gore or character stupidity that you'll see so often in horror films

AMKC

The Tunnel is a very good watch,

''Agents of Shield'' is an excellent series up to season 5 anyway after that it gets a bit boring and loses its way.

Gotham is a very good series.

''The last ship'' was very good as well until the last season.

11.22.63,
Agent Carter,
Continuum
Timeless,
Colony,
The Orville,
and
Falling Skies'' are all well worth a watch as well.

Austria!

Apocalypto
In Bruges
Ex Machina

Capt'n Midnight

SafeSurfer wrote: »

The Lives of Others, about surveillance in East Germany is worth a watch.

Shaka, When the Walls Fell :P


Good Bye, Lenin!
Deutschland 83

I'd recommend Power and Mindhunter on Netflix.

thomasm

Fargo
When They see us now
Mindhunter
The Crown...Surprised how much I enjoyed this

kowloon

Primer - Time travel Sci-fi
Band of Brothers - War tv series
The Room and The Disaster Artist - Comedy gold
Everest - surprisingly good mountaineering flick

Greyfox

For the 25 people who have Amazon prime The Boys is the best thing on Amazon prime

The premise is what if superheros where uncaring and arrogant arseh*les. Whats interesting about it is when superheros cause people to die they get away with it as corporate companies cover up their bad deeds because superheros endorse brands and are worth a lot of money.. kind of a little exadduration of the real world obsession with celebrities.

Unearthly

Few other recent good tv shows

The Deuce
Succession
The Righteous Gemstones

All HBO shows so the best in the business

Capt'n Midnight

Filums

Manhunter - Brian Cox is the best Hannibal Lecktor because he could be real.

Police Story - Jackie Chan doin' his thing.


Iceland , because why not ?
Noi the Albino
Cold Fever - "the best Icelandic-Japanese road movie of 1995".
Jar City

Finland
Rare Exports - should be on at Christmas, very bad Santa.
The Cuckoo - ménage à trois in Lapland. On the Eastern front during WWII.
Iron Sky - Moon Nazi's invade - what's not to like ?
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning - Fan fiction at it's best. I lost it when I saw what was coming out of the wormhole.

Norway
Trollhunter - does what it says on the tin.
Arn - The Knight Templar - It's like Kingdom of Heaven but it's a different true story.

Sweden
The Seventh Seal. Cons - It's in black and white and it's got subtitles. Pros - An amazing film.
Let the Right One - Oskar makes a new friend and hilarity ensues
Sophie's World - It's a movie about the history of philosophy but disguised.

griffin100

TV Show - Oz - hasn’t aged, still grim.

Movie - Das Boot - long, tense and has you rooting for the nazis

Left field suggestion - Sunderland Till I Die - not a football fan but really enjoyed it. Helps explain the passion northerners in England have for their football team and very entertaining

The J Stands for Jay

JupiterKid wrote: »

As a fan of the horror film genre, I could recommend lots of horror classics for Halloween night.

But if you truly want to be shocked and frightened, watch the film Threads from 1984. Very very difficult watch...

Where is threads available?

robindch

Off the top of my head:

Series - House (good doctor gone bad or bad doctor gone good?), Breaking Bad (chemistry teacher gone bad), The Crown (Liz up close), Chernobyl (tick, tick, ticktick, ticktickticktick...), The Young Offenders (Cork lads aren't so bad after all, mostly), The End of the f'king world (two teenage headcases meet), Happy Valley (UK lady cop has work and personal issues), Veep (US vice president does not have an easy job), Das Boot (some Nazis did their job well).

Films - Wadjda (Saudi girl wants a bike), Leviathan (in Russia, corruption corrupts you), Blade Runner (original; machine kills machines), Clockwise (1986; John Cleese as Basil Fawlty as neurotic headmaster), Down Periscope (what goes down usually comes up), Hot Fuzz (UK bobby finds peaceful English village not always peaceful), Agora (2009; Hypatia of Alexandria goes down fighting; books burn), Airplane ("Do you have the vector, Victor?", "Roger, Roger.").

Documentaries - Maidan (Tracy Edwards sails around the world), Street Food (series), anything with Jonathan Meades, Frozen Planet (Attenborough gets cold).

Podcasts - News Quiz (BBC R4 topical satire), Clear and Vivid (Alan Alda speaks with thinkers), You're Dead To Me (BBC R4, historian + comedian = history as fun), The History of Rome (Mike Duncan, not as much fun).

Stacksofwacks

Breaking bad, now that's a mind**** rabbit hole I'm still recovering from, I keep rewatching to see if I saw what I really saw

LETHAL LADY

Mindhunter on Netflix definitely. I thought it was great and it was my elderly parents (late 70's folks) first ever binge watch Netflix series :eek: :pac:
The ballad of Buster Scruggs is a recent enough film I'd recommend to anyone too.

Potential-Monke

Everyone else is sticking to the realistic or live action stuff, so I'm gonna go the anime route! Most of these, if not all, have way more life lessons than the vast majority of live tv shows, you just have to let the craziness happen, some animes can be a bit OTT! Plus, being an anime, it can do stuff most other shows can't. To me, watching something must take me away from the mundane world, so I rarely like shows based on reality. Couldn't get into The Shield (too old, tech, or lack thereof, was annoying me), I don't think The Sopranos is as good as people make out. Oh, and don't watch any of them with english voice overs, they're not a patch on the crazy Japanese!

Hunter x Hunter - My first anime, and while not finished and unlikely to (writer/main dude has health issues), it's a fantastic introduction to the world of anime
One Piece - The daddy of anime, has cult followings and you will see OP merch everywhere in Japan, like you'd see Coca Cola everywhere here! Running for the last 15 years plus and still weekly episodes, 909 at current count
Demon Slayer/Kimetsu no Yaiba - One of the newest animes out there, and stunningly beautiful. Will win all the awards imo. Highly recommended, but very few animes will look as good afterwards
Bleach - Great Samurai type show, starts to drag towards the end, but still well worth a watch imo, some good character development

This is taking too long, so i'll just list my favourites!

Black Clover
Naruto
Baki
That other fighter one on Netflix
Fairy Tail
That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime
Assassination Classroom
Attack on Titan
My Hero Academia
The Rising of the Shield Hero
Goblin Slayer
Akame ga Kill
Mob Psycho 100
Blue Exorcist
Dr. Stone
Is It Wrong To Try And Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon
Berserk
GATE
Hundred
Seven Deadly Sins

Dave_The_Sheep

When it comes out, the Witcher. Netflix.

I've read the books, played the games. If the show is even close to those, it'll be excellent.

nacho libre

One film I forgot to mention in my list is the Swedish movie Border. It's a good fantasy film about Trolls

pure.conya

lilyhammer

you're welcome

Masala

The Spy on Netflix

Top Boy on Netflix

vriesmays

War and peace, the Russian version from the 1960s, 7-hour masterpiece.


https://www.criterion.com/films/28891-war-and-peace

Planet X

Netflix.
"Still Game"
Scottish comedy, 6 odd seasons.
It's a riot!! :P:P:P:P

igCorcaigh

McGaggs wrote: »

Where is threads available?

Nowhere!

Used to be on YouTube years ago but gone.
Not sure if it can be torrented.

phantasmagoria

My favourites over the years:

The Shield (imo will never be topped)
The Wire
Boardwalk Empire
Sopranos
Weeds
Friday Night Lights (which is good even if you don't like American football)
The Boys (new superhero genre)
Banshee (all action and leave your brain at the door!)

Justin Credible Darts

sopranos was the most over rated tv show ever.
not only was it not a classic, it was not even good

Quantum Erasure

His Dark Materials, starting tomorrow BBC, 8pm, should be good

scamalert

phantasmagoria wrote: »

Banshee (all action and leave your brain at the door!)

+1 on that one, seems rare to see it mentioned.


Black Sails from me, for series.

also Gangster's.Paradise.Jerusalema.2008 if one can find it gem of a movie.

The high horse brigade

Masala wrote: »

Top Boy on Netflix

Be sure watch the first 2 seasons that has 4 episodes each from 2011/2012 before Netflix rebooted it for season 3

TheValeyard

The Line of Duty, TV series. Go watch. Now.

JohnnyFlash

Fargo is an absolutely brilliant TV show.

RobAMerc

kildare lad wrote: »

Gomorrah, it's about the mafia in Naples, it's in subtitles, but if you like a crime drama ,it's an excellent series

where can i get this pls?

Also, watch Once upon a time in the west - simply brilliant !

BalcombeSt4

Justin Credible Darts wrote: »

sopranos was the most over rated tv show ever.
not only was it not a classic, it was not even good

Based on???

ILoveYourVibes

The King.

RikkFlair

The OA on Netflix...if you like your shows a bit Twin Peaks-ish.

Justin Credible Darts

BalcombeSt4 wrote: »

Based on???

eh...my opinion.


Thats how people know if they like something

Raconteuse

Seconding Chernobyl and Line of Duty. Absolutely superb.

True Detective season one.

ben.schlomo

Raconteuse wrote: »

Seconding Chernobyl and Line of Duty. Absolutely superb.

True Detective season one.

Agreed.

Tired Gardener

Too many for an exhaustive list, here are a few TV shows that I found to be very watchable.

TV drama,
Chernobyl,
Breaking Bad,
The Wire,
True Detective (season 1),
Narcos,
Mind Hunter,

TV Comedy,
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,
Peep Show,
Nathan For You,
Review,

TV Documentary,
Abducted in Plain Sight,
Tell Me Who I Am,
Making a Murderer,
Fyre,

is_that_so

Comedy

In the Thick of It
The IT Crowd(in case you've missed it)
Sex Education

TV
Original House of Cards
Treme - another David Simon one about post-Katrina New Orleans, HBO
The Bridge -Danish/Swedish crime

Films(Oldies!)
Intouchables ( Buddy movie)
Diva
La Haine
The French connection
Assault on Precinct 13(1976 version)
Escape from New York(Snake Pilsen!)
Capricorn One