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Rocketsan

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Love dark films like Mystic River, Clay Pigeons, The Town, A Simple Plan, Fargo...

 

Love crime films like The Departed, The Godfather, Reservoir Dogs, Goodfellas...

 

Getting in to foreign films; just bought I Saw The Devil...

 

Looking for suggestions to broaden my horizons...

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Love dark films like Mystic River, Clay Pigeons, The Town, A Simple Plan, Fargo...

 

Love crime films like The Departed, The Godfather, Reservoir Dogs, Goodfellas...

 

Getting in to foreign films; just bought I Saw The Devil...

 

Looking for suggestions to broaden my horizons...

 

China town, taxi driver, clockwork orange just off the top of my head. Maltese falcon memento. Anything that Martin scorcessee does.

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City of God

 

I have only seen with subtitles....

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317248/

 

Absolutely FANTASTIC movie. Hyper stylized and incredible plot and pacing.

 

 

Now some must watch films...

Dark Films: American History X, Requiem for a Dream, American Psycho, Monster, Funny Games,

 

Crime: Léon: The Professional, Usual Suspects, Se7en, Memento, Snatch

 

Foreign: Princess Mononoke, Seven Samurai(what Magnificent Seven was based on), Amélie, Das Boot, Cinema Paradiso, Oldboy(not the remake, the Korean one)

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Two good ones that fit your request rocketsan

 

 

Martin Scorsese's 1980s Black Comedy " AFTER HOURS" with Griffin Dunne

 

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David Cronenbergs disturbing and off beat "A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE" with Viggo Morentson

 

 

aloha's

 

Is History of Violence the one with the cheerleader part in it?

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I like older movies. Off the top of my head, war movies like The Great Escape, The Longest Day, The Bridge On the River Kwai, The Guns of Navarone, The Marine and Tora, Tora, Tora.

 

Some others: Picnic, Ben Hur, The Robe, It Happens Every Spring, Singing In the Rain, The Lost Weekend, On the Town and Bringing Up Baby.

 

A few of my favorite comedies are from the 70s, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles.

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Oh yes, A History of Violence DOES have a cheerleader scene. And it is....glorious.

 

Oh, sh!t now I remember what you are talking about "ssshhhhhhh my parents might hear..."

 

 

I thought so, I think there was a stairwell scene as well. Funny as that's about all i remember from the movie.

 

That is the one scene that's unforgettable...

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After Hours is a great suggestion, as is King of Comedy (another Scorsese flic)

 

The River's Edge

 

Dream with the Fishes is an excellent, dark indy film.

 

Where the Day Takes You, Amongst Friends, Drugstore Cowboy, Clockers

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