Film Recommendations

[MrMark]

I can highly recommend The Lives of Others.

+1

Some more foreign films that I enjoyed

The Red Squirrel
Cinema Paradiso
We don't talk about it - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106678/

And some other English language
The Transporter (sheer nonsense but enjoyable)
The Recruit (Pacino again!)
A night at the museum (I though I'd hate this one, but loved it)
Road to Perdition
The taking of Pelham-123

[stingman123]

The Shawshank Redemption


Great Movie....

[TriggerHippy]

After Hours (1985) http://imdb.com/title/tt0088680/
Grave of the Fireflies (1988) www.imdb.com/title/tt0095327/
The Changeling (1980) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080516/
Purely Belter (2000) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246875/
I.D. (1995) www.imdb.com/title/tt0113375/
Joe's Apartment (1996) www.imdb.com/title/tt0116707/

[Pogle]

Dont watch 'Love Actually' - Saw it last night on TV - UTTER UTTER dross

[EternalOptimist]

Plan 9 from outer space. a sci-fi that gets a lot of press

[Lockhouse]

Watched "The Strange Case of Benjamin Button" last night - recommended
also "Valley of Elah" with Tommy Lee Jones

[DaveB]

Dont watch 'Love Actually' - Saw it last night on TV - UTTER UTTER dross

WTPS +1

And add "Down With Love" to the list to be avoided as well. That was even worse.

[Clippy]

The Mist

Top movie.

[TinTrump]

I'm in the same boat as the OP as now based in the Middle East. Suggest:

The Sopranos (had never seen it before I came out here)
3 Colours: Red
3 Colours: Blue
A bit equivocal about 3 C White
X Men 1&2
Rollerball (70s original)
The Thing
Control

[OwlHoot]

Here's a list of DVDs I've bought in the last month or two (normally buy one or two in Sainsbury each time I do a major order). I'd say they were all excellent.

05/07/2009 17:13 <DIR> Any Which Way You Can (1980)
05/07/2009 17:24 <DIR> Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
05/07/2009 17:29 <DIR> Behind Enemy Lines II - Axis of Evil (2006)
05/07/2009 17:03 <DIR> Beowulf & Grendel (2005)
05/07/2009 17:20 <DIR> Blind Horizon (2003)
05/07/2009 17:17 <DIR> Emmett's Mark (2002)
05/07/2009 17:22 <DIR> Everest (2007)
05/07/2009 17:08 <DIR> Every Which Way But Loose (1978)
05/07/2009 16:41 <DIR> LD 50 Lethal Dose (2003)
05/07/2009 16:46 <DIR> Martyrs (2008)
05/07/2009 16:44 <DIR> North Face (AKA NordWand) (2008)
05/07/2009 16:54 <DIR> Pathfinder (2007)
05/07/2009 16:32 <DIR> RocknRolla (2008)
05/07/2009 17:07 <DIR> Saints and Soldiers (2003)
05/07/2009 17:19 <DIR> Smokin' Aces (2006)
05/07/2009 17:05 <DIR> The Duchess (2008)
05/07/2009 17:15 <DIR> The Last Great Wilderness (2002)
05/07/2009 16:29 <DIR> There Will be Blood (2007)
05/07/2009 16:34 <DIR> Valkyrie (2008)
05/07/2009 16:37 <DIR> Wind Chill (2007)

(I scan the covers and put the DVDs in a book, hence the directory for each one.)

If you want my main list of a couple of thousand, let me know.

P.S. Behind Enemy Lines 3 was recently released, but I haven't seen that on DVD yet.