Today’s movies are just crap, help me delve into some golden oldies.

Honestly if you think Top Gun was the best movie in the last few years you're surely not even making much of an effort to look!

And I do like Top Gun, it was great for what it was, but an all time classic it was not.

There's no end of great movies being made all the time, whether on streaming or the cinema.

Donnie Brasco with Jonnie depp and al Pacino

Reservoir Dogs with Tim Roth and Gary Oldman

Copland with sly Stallone and Harvey Keitel

A Scanner Darkly

Jonnie Mnemonic

A few more recommendations

The In Laws with Peter Falk and Alan Arkin

The Great Race with Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Peter Falk and Natalie Wood

If you like car movies, there's

American Graffiti

Vanishing Point

Gumball Rally

Genevieve which stars Kenneth More who also was in a little gem called Northwest Frontier

Great series. Very stagey but you can forgive that if the acting is at that level.

Another great one is Tinker Tailor Solider Spy - can choose from the film or TV version.

I remembered now that Peter OToole was in the Roman era miniseries Masada.

Filmwise for Peter OToole I suggest The Lion in Winter and My Favorite Year.

The Man who would be King starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Would_Be_King_(film)

Agreed a Great Film

Has anyone seen Sorcerer? It’s a remake of Wages of Fear.

Yes. Its,v slow but intense tension and top acting. I think Roy Scheider was in some interesting films... more to him than just Jaws

I remember buying Empire magazine, many years ago, Late 90's/early 00's and they had a Top Brit Flicks World Cup format, movies were drawn against each other, and the better movie moved on to the next round. The Top 2 (final)stood out as i hadn't seen them.

1. The Long Good Friday (1980)
2. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

I bought The Long Good Friday and thought it was brilliant. I thought I'd stick it up here as not a lot of people had heard of it. Bob Hoskins is great in it.

I went to see The Intouchables in the cinema when it came out, just a 'pick a random film and go see it' type evening and wow, what a film! Definitely a few 'I've something in my eye moments throughout', bloody funny too. It's one of those films it's impossible for someone not to like, doesn't really matter what you're usually into.

The Ludovico Einaudi score in it is something else, I love the whole opening driving segment with his piano piece playing over it.

As per the usual, I see there's a US remake called 'The Upside'. As much as I like Brian Cranston I cannot bring myself to watch it.

Predator : greatest action movies ever made, they need to just stop with the squeals & remakes, The beauty of the movie is they & we don't know what is hunting them, that is what makes it great & the reason squeals don't work .

It's one of those films that the 'first watch' is incredibly unique but the franchise has become so well known you kind of forgot about that aspect of it.

Same can be said for Alien and The Matrix. You didn't really know what the monster was or what the big reveal was going to be.

Re greatest action film ever made, it's between that and Terminator 2 for me. I can never decide, it's impossible. I'll go to my grave eternally debating that one in my mind 😁

Bob Hoskins was great in it ok, the ending was brilliant. Great acting without saying a word.

Picked up mini series Shogun on Blu-ray.

Salems Lot...David Soul

I would add The Chorus to that list. Beautiful little French film set in a boys reform school just after the war in France, where the new teacher and frustrated composer starts a choir with the pupils. My God, the singing on it raises the hairs on the back of your neck. If you haven’t seen it, seek it out. Some of what has been mentioned as “old”films here really has me feeling my age. The nineties isn’t old for Gods sake. It was just a few years ago, wasn’t it ?

Anyway, the 70’s is often talked of as American Cinemas golden age, and it’s easy to see why. Chinatown, One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest(Is Nurse Rachid the most horrible movie villain of all time ? ). Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, Marathon Man, just off the top of my head. People will throw the Godfather films in too, but they never really did that much for me, though they are undoubtedly fine films. Has anyone mentioned Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ? A great lesser known Hitchcock film is Rope. Then for Comedies you have Mel Brooks holy trinity of The Producers, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein.

Only have it on DVD. Looks dated now.

Bit OT but does anyone remember the midweek movie and the late late movie on Network 2/RTE 2 back in the late 90’s and early 00’s?

There must have been a real movie buff working there picking the movies back then. I remember seeing some right gems. Red Rock West, Existenz, Hard 8, The Grifters, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Tremors and every John Hughes movie. I’m sure there were loads more I was too young to appreciate either.

Back when Whatculture’s YouTube was watchable I’d regularly see movies on their ‘underappreciated/overlooked’ lists that I’d seen on Network 2 years before.

Also, justwatch.com is a great site to see where a movie is available to stream.

OK, here's a list of some favourites that haven't been mentioned yet. Trailers included.

1/ Alambrista (1977)

Illegals crossing the Mexican border. Hard-hitting but very involving.

2/ Over The Edge (1979)

Best teen movie ever. Was Kurt Cobain's favourite.

3/ Straw Dogs (1971)

Classic Sam Peckinpah rural western set in an English country town.

4/ Blue Collar (1978)

Directed by Paul Schrader. Corruption in an industrial setting. Great insight into workers/unions.

5/ Charley Varrick (1973)

Best heist flick ever. Hugely influential. Walter Matthau is brilliant.

6/ Frenzy (1972)

Hitchcock at his sleaziest. Grim early '70s London with a nasty streak.

7/ Road Games (1981)

Australian grindhouse with an American truck driver (Stacy Keach) and American hitcher (Jamie Lee Curtis).

8/ The Long Goodbye (1973)

A brilliant noir, pinnacle of the genre. "You never learn. You're a born loser."

9/ Heavenly Creatures (1994)

Peter Jackson never topped this. An intense real-life story set in the 1950s.

10/ The Tall T (1957)

Classic Budd Boetticher western. Serious tension all the way through.

11/ Fat City (1972)

John Huston directs Stacy Keach, Susan Tyrrell and Jeff Bridges in an searingly sombre boxing drama.

12/ Cash On Demand (1961)

Hammer B-movie (not a horror) with Peter Cushing and Andre Morrell giving the performance of their lives.

13/ Night Tide (1961)

Curtis Harrington directs a young Dennis Hopper in an eerie low budget carnivalesque tale.

14/ Spring Night Summer Night (1967)

Masterpiece of regional low budget filmmaking. Liberation and retribution in a small town.

15/ Like Rabid Dogs (1976)

Gritty Italian crime drama - very violent. Society under threat.

16/ Eyes Of Fire (1983)

Brilliant folk horror set in the 1700s. Preachers and settlements. "The secret is sleeping in the trees."

17/ Alison's Birthday (1981)

Really well made and creepy Aussie horror. Dodgy family circle stuff that never lets up.

18/ The Swimmer (1968)

Burt Lancaster as the man who decided to swim home via his neighbours' pools. Mighty work from Frank Perry.

19/ Repo Man (1984)

Alex Cox's fabulous cult classic. "Repo Man is intense!"

20/ Housekeeping (1987)

Bill Forsyth's endearing gem about a woman distracted by life's possibilities.

Friday night after the Late Late Show was a great slot for movies going well back into the 80s. Later on from mid to late 90s you had the Last Picture Show slot which had the movies introduced by Brian Reading. It was a rip off of BBCs Moviedrome with Alex Cox but nonetheless a great slot for cult movies. It was where I first saw the Wicker Man which was difficult to come across at the time.