Sleeper Must-See Movies

[gigster]

What sleeper movies of the last ten years or so would you recommend to family or a friend.

[Scarpetta]

Alan Partridge

The Red Violin

[LouAvul]

Definitely. Psychotic even. Why would anyone consider that entertainment?

[bankwalker]

“Candy”

[HonkyTonkMan]

thx dfwgator - will check it out!

[Scarpetta]

Loved Bernie. Jack Black is great. His Nacho Libre is also a great movie and fun for the whole family.

[vetvetdoug]

My All American which is the story of Feddie Joe Steinmark. I played HS football with one of his teammates, Scooter Monzingo. Many of the players at UT that year I had played against as an underclassman and watched and cheered UT to the College Football NC. It is a great story about a player's drive to succeed and how he faced mortality. On a personal note, Arkansas tried to recruit me and Texas ignored me.

[dfwgator]

Just be warned, after watching it, I would have gladly volunteered to drop a nuke on Berlin.

[mowowie]

Nightcrawler is currently on Netflix on-demand.
Saw the beginning before i zon ked out on the couch after a hard day, looked real good i got to watch the rest.

Heard good things about it.

[gigster]

An Excellent movie is Michael Caine in Harry Brown, about an ex Royal Marine widower out to avenge his long-time friend's death at the hands of low-life street thugs. It is a must-see.

[bankwalker]

Also “to live” about China falling to communism.

[mass55th]

Remember (2015) with Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau. Got it on DVD from Netflix. Synopsis: With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.

[yarddog]

For a made for TV movie, “The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay” was good.

[mowowie]

School of Rock was a great Jack Black family flick

[Scarpetta]

I second Nightcrawler. Jake Gyllenhaal lost so much weight for the role, he became the depraved, creepy character he portrayed.

[mass55th]

"Remember"

Is that the same one I posted in reply #111 from 2015?

[killermosquito]

Tes, I like that one too and your assessment of Tom is same as mine.

[mowowie]

Two great actors.
Commander Koenig!

Sounds good, i’ll have to look for that.

[killermosquito]

I will add it to my list

[Robert DeLong]

That term was actually used at the site I pulled that info from, so I gather that is what the seeing eye dog was referred to as. I was looking up Sammie Davis Jr. Jr., wondering why I had never heard of him, or was it a mistype. Though I had a feeling that it was the name of a seeing eye dog LOL.

Sounded like an interesting movie.

[FredZarguna]

Haven't seen Calvary, but both In Bruges and The Witch are very good. I especially thought they did a great job on an obviously meagre budget with The Witch. This seemed for a while as if it was going to be a "psychological thriller" which I despise as a substitute for genuine horror. But it ultimately broke in the direction of occult. A nice offering.