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More films like this?

posted 14 years ago by BERSERKERpoetry
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If I were to give you this list, what would you add to it?
I'm looking for anything with this same feeling.
Quiet, personal films with good cinematography.

Whistle Down the Wind (1961)
Paper Moon (1973)
Alice in the Cities (1974)
Harry and Tonto (1974)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Days of Heaven (1978)
The Black Stallion (1979)
Breaking Away (1979)
My Brilliant Career (1979)
Threshold (1981)
The Dead Zone (1983)
Never Cry Wolf (1983)
Silkwood (1983)
Tender Mercies (1983)
Testament (1983)
Country (1984)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Places in the Heart (1984)
The Stone Boy (1984)
Vigil (1984)
The Quiet Earth (1985)
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
Ironweed (1987)
Matewan (1987)
High Tide (1987)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Signs of Life (1989)
An Unremarkable Life (1989)
The Long Walk Home (1990)
Rising Son (1990)
The Inner Circle (1991)
Passion Fish (1992)
On My Own (1993)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
The Secret Garden (1993)
A Place for Annie (1994)
Imaginary Crimes (1994)
The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
Dead Man (1995)
Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Margaret's Museum (1995)
A Family Thing (1996)
Fly Away Home (1996)
Eve's Bayou (1997)
New Waterford Girl (1999)
The Straight Story (1999)
Wit (2001)
In America (2003)
Off the Map (2003)
The Snow Walker (2003)
Old Joy (2006)
The Necessities of Life (2008)
Wendy and Lucy (2008)
Winter's Bone (2010)

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[–] BERSERKERpoetry 14 years ago

Wow, I've seen a lot of those. I think it's really cool that you mention "'night, Mother". I saw that on TV years ago, and it always stuck with me. Don't know if I could ever take watching it again. It's the only film I've seen that understood depression on a real level that I could relate to. To "Sleep with Anger", very good as well. Mostly unseen film. I loved it. "Dolores Claiborne" is one of the best films I've ever seen. A lot of it was filmed only about an hour from where I live (the coastal scenes, on the ferries, etc). "Eve's Bayou" is another of those great overlooked stories. I think you've got brilliant taste in movies.

These are the only ones on your list I haven't seen yet. I'll make a note of it.

Stanley and Iris (1989)
Mississippi Masala (1991)
Frankie and Johnny (1991)
Gas, Food, and Lodging (1992)
Love Jones (1997)
Down in the Delta (1998)
Living Out Loud (1998)
All the Pretty Horses (2000)
The Gift (2000)
Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
The Secret Life of Words (2005)
The Bucket List (2007)
Little Ashes (2008)

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[–] Tyger-Flynn 14 years ago

These may not be quite what you had in mind, but all are atmospheric, create a distinct time and place and all have very sweet love stories -

Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986)
The House On Carroll Street (1988)
Cousins (1989)
Bell, Book and Candle (1958)

Will be for sure checking out films on your list and the list of all the posters. Thank you for the great thread!

[–] BERSERKERpoetry 13 years ago

I saw "The House On Carroll Street" back in the spring, it's a really fun film.

[–] highrground 13 years ago

surprised no one added:

Turtle Diaries
The Spitfire Grille
Tupelo Honey

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[–] sohmflooring 12 years ago

The Night of the Iguana (1964)

[–] rascal67 11 years ago

SHY PEOPLE (1987)
MAURICE (1987)

[–] andy-todd-1 11 years ago

Smoke
The Trip to Bountiful
The Sweet Hereafter
Among Giants

[–] IcySpoon 10 years ago

Wow! A very comprehensive list-I was thinking off the top of my head, "A Circle of Friends", "An Unmarried Woman", "On Golden Pond", "Manny and Lo" "Cousins", "Lars and the Real Girl"

For what it's worth - I adore "Tender Mercies" - great film-Duvall and Tess Harper are perfection. Aso "Harry & Tonto".
"Gentlemen you can't fight in here!" "This is the war room!" Dr. Strangelove

[–] orbit991 10 years ago

The Station agent (2003)

[–] IcySpoon 10 years ago

I finally watched that film a few weeks ago-it was excellent. Great cast-perfection.

"Gentlemen you can't fight in here!" "This is the war room!" Dr. Strangelove

[–] dvlaries 10 years ago

If you're willing to go back to 1939, black and white, and definitely a pre-feminist mind-set, "The Women." And I mean only that original.

Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine, Phyllis Povah, Florence Nash, Lucile Watson, Marjorie Main

Competition and cattiness among a group of well-heeled Park Avenue "friends." Women with "nothing on their idle minds but gossip, grooming and other women's husbands." Said play author herself, Claire Boothe, "the kind of women who should be hit over the head with a meat-axe."

"A clawing pack of females guaranteed to make any feminist recoil in sheer horror."

Crawford plays a trashy perfume saleswoman who get her hooks into Shearer's husband, and Russell is the trouble-making gossip who lives to bring gasoline and match together.

Second only in 1939 box office receipts to "Gone With The Wind," made the New York Times Ten Best List, almost singlehandedly established Russell's facility for comedy, and worth extra delight when you know Crawford and Shearer got along like two queen bees under a drinking glass in the hot sun. Crawford may have hated Bette Davis more famously, but she hated Shearer much earlier, and much longer.

http://youtu.be/T4XTeh6tjIs

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[–] Helena727 9 years ago

If you like classics, then you probably know these four, but just in case:
- The More, The Merrier (awful title but great comedy w Jean Arthur)
- The Devil and Miss Jones (also Charles Coburn and Jean Arthur)
- I Love You Again (IMO, the funniest/best Loy-Powell movie)
- Midnight (scr Billy Wilder, dir Mitchell Leisen)

"All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people."