Posted on 08/20/2026 1:53:38 PM PDT by Chickensoup
Looking for Film DvD Bluray recommendations. Life is hard right now and I am looking for immersive films and shows that aren't too treacle sweet but have a bit of depth. Not violent, complex is good. Nice is good.
My beloved Morse trilogy has worked, Gentlemen prefer Blonds, Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend, Harvey, the original All Creatures Great and Small, the Poiot series, Babbetes Feast, Primer, Signs, singing in the Rain, It happened one night,Mrs Miniver, Blast From the Pat, Galexy Quest, Christmas in Connecticut, An ebayer is trying to screw me over by having sent me the wrong region when i asked for Make Way for Tomorrow.
I guess I am looking for feel good black and whites and early color films. Some films that have left you smiling. Not haha comedy. Just nice. Like Singing in the Rain nice.
Ones without a message.... just watched the film Pleasantville and found it beyond stupid. Was it marketed to young teens?
Anyhow again I will compile and put together a lost and post it at the end of the thread for everyone to have to print off.
Thank you.
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I borrow DVDs from the local library. I liked:
Foyle’s War
The Gilded Age
Mission Impossible (TV series)
Grand Hotel
A French Village
Hawaii Five-O [Jack Lord]
Maigret
The Crown
Danger Man
I watched Brideshead Revisited, Poirot, Inspector Morse, Columbo, NCIS, JAG, Nash Bridges over the air.
Very true. I think I read once that on one particular day during WWI something like 25,000 men died. Can’t recall if that was just Brits or Brits and Germans.
Another B/W screwball comedy is Ball of Fire, with Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck.
-PJ
The Sands of Iwo Jima is light and fun.
I am assuming you have high speed internet. Set up a free account with Tubi and Pluto. There are countless free movies. Otherwise. Hot up the thrift stores for cheap movies. I think liberators check out dvds too.
Just a few I like in the mild, non violent or crude,
Man from Snowy River
The Black Stallion
Red Dog
Amazing Stories
World’s Fastest Indian
Holes
Second Hand Lions
Major Payne
The Right Stuff
TV
Malcom in the Middle
Emergency
Anything from Donald P. Bellisario in the 80s
The nice thing about out the online streaming services is they will fill your “watch next” with movies similar to what you have watched before.
It is partly in Japanese so, subtitles for part of it, and in my humble opinion brings up questions that people really need to think about. We are not quite as far down the road as Japan but it is looming.
Would really enjoy hearing your opinion of it.
For old TV series you might enjoy Columbo or Cadfael if you like medieval mysteries. Lovejoy is another series that you might like.
Personally, i would recommend one of my all-time favorites in “The Count Of Monte Cristo” starring Jim Caveizel. Period-piece with an intense storyline, based on the novel by Frwnch author Alexandre Dumas. You won’t be sorry.
Other stuff:
Sandford & Son
Benny Hill
Bizarre
Lawrence of Arabia
The Saint
Mutiny on the Bounty
Get Smart
Lord Jim
5 Fingers
Key Largo
The Blue Max
Chinatown
Bonnie & Clyde
The Untouchables
Monty Python
The Young Lions
Fawlty Towers
Birdman of Alcatraz
Cape Fear
Blazing Saddles
Star Trek [original]
Another one of my favorites is a 1960 movie based on the short story by Edgar Allen Poe; “The Fall Of The House Of Usher”. Vincent Price is starring in this one and this again is one of my all-time favorites. Very Gothic-horror if you can watch that.
One, Two, Three is a manic comedy set in early Cold War Berlin, with James Cagney as the local head of Coca Cola who has to talk and scheme his way out of a complicated scrape. The visiting daughter of the head of Coca Cola is under his care and gets engaged to a scruffy young East German Communist. Cagney manages to remake the young man into a finely groomed, freedom loving German with an aristocratic pedigree.
Humphrey Bogart was at his best in Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Big Sleep, The African Queen, and The Maltese Falcon. They are all worth watching.
It is a great movie, I always thought that could have been a great show too. Where every week the boy learns another lesson about being a man and a little more of his uncles speech…
But that would be family and conservative affirming so no way it was going to be made
I just went to some of the old movies on streaming like tubing and to watch Jeremy Brett on you tube. Does the video quality get a lot better if you pay for the streaming services? The films were all grainy and blurry?
I like that one! In my opinion, not a fan of the young kid I that movie, his personality just didn’t sit well with me. Overall the premise and the acting was very well done.
Another good movie is “Somewhere In Time” beautiful story.
Seven Days in May
Kung Fu
Gone With the Wild
Dragnet
Cannon
Laugh-In
Green Acres
The Big Valley
Twilight Zone
Monk
Sherlock Holmes with Basil Rathbone
The Great Escape
The Hawaiians
The Ten Commandments
Cleopatra
Funny Girl
The Wild, Wild West
The Rockford Files
Bannon
Roots
Ken Burns series
Generally I like the violent adventure and noir type movies, but I saw one a couple weeks ago, despite being aimed more at kids, I really enjoyed and found quite endearing:
“Flora and Ulysses”... About a young girl and a squirrel with superpowers.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/yIEFBrbxjnWD
The old films are filmed for old TVs. But I never had an issue with grainy movies. But if you’re watching something really old on a new TV you might have to adjust your TV to scale down to the format.
Don’t forget the newer Andy Weir movie “Hail Mary”.
Ben Hur
Twelve O Clock High
I Remember Mama
Daddy Long leggs
A Damsel in Distress
Brigadoon
The Incredible Shrinking Man 1950s
Final Countdown
20,00O Leagues Under the Sea
Anne of Greene Gables
Most recent movies are junk.
More recent movies that aren’t junk are
“The Holdovers” 2023 (mostly overlooked and that’s a shame)
Also “Song Sung Blue” 2025 particularly if you’re a Neil Diamond fan, but also some people coping with severe adversity.
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