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Man Bites Dog (French: C'est arrivé près de chez vous, literally "It Happened Near Your Home") is a 1992 French-language Belgian black comedy crime mockumentary film written, produced and directed by Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde, who are also the film's co-editor, cinematographer and lead actor respectively.

The film follows a crew of filmmakers following a serial killer, recording his horrific crimes for a documentary they are producing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Bites_Dog_(film)

Playtime (stylized as PlayTime and also written as Play Time) is a 1967 comedy film directed by Jacques Tati. In the film, Tati again plays Monsieur Hulot, the popular character who had central roles in his earlier films Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953) and Mon Oncle (1958). However, Tati grew ambivalent towards playing Hulot as a recurring central role during production; he appears intermittently in Playtime, alternating between central and supporting roles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playtime

Drive-In is a 1976 American comedy film directed by Rod Amateau and written by Bob Peete. The film stars Lisa Lemole, Gary Lee Cavagnaro, Glenn Morshower, Billy Milliken, Lee Newsom and Regan Kee. It was released on May 26, 1976, by Columbia Pictures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive-In_(film)

Con Air is a 1997 American action thriller film directed by Simon West and starring Nicolas Cage, John Cusack and John Malkovich in the lead roles. Written by Scott Rosenberg and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, the film centers on a prison break aboard a JPATS aircraft, nicknamed as "Con Air". It features an ensemble supporting cast of Steve Buscemi, Ving Rhames, Colm Meaney, Mykelti Williamson and Rachel Ticotin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Air

The poster:

Ready Player One is a 2018 American science fiction action film based on Ernest Cline's novel of the same name. The film was co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Cline and Zak Penn, and stars Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, and Mark Rylance. The film is set in 2045, where much of humanity uses the OASIS, a virtual reality simulation, to escape the real world. A teenage orphan finds clues to a contest that promises ownership of the OASIS to the winner, and he and his allies try to complete it before an evil corporation can do so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_Player_One_(film)

tbh this is an "okay" but not really great film. The film's about the conflict between a corrupt Carribean governor and a ship of pirates. It's mostly interesting because James Earl Jones (RIP) is in it.

He must have been around 44 when this was filmed. He'd been winning awards on Broadway and had been getting movie roles here and there. He would have been doing the voice of Darth Vader around the time this came out and then in the 80s and 90s his career really took off.

In this movie he plays a supporting role, but gets a decent amount of screen time. Anyway, the movie bombed so it's usually forgotten. I just thought of it because of his passing -- he seems to be having a good time in the movie, or maybe he was just acting.

(another James Earl Jones role posted previously is in: Conan the Barbarian: https://lemm.ee/post/36207082)

A couple of lovable, degenerate Juggalos must sojourn through America's hellish underbelly to The Gathering of the Juggalos, the one place on earth they feel accepted.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12245606/

It's an independent movie, but fairly well-shot, -written, and -acted, and surprisingly heartwarming. More cult than The Crow, more irreverent than Wolverine and Deadpool. The main characters are shifty lowlifes, but they have their own code and their own standards, and the film laughs with them not at them. Hey you said you were sick of franchises, right?

• the link from above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeRZcPopLms Someone posted this to youtube 1 day ago, so you never know how long it'll be up.
• find an invidious: https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=jeRZcPopLms

Beauty and the Beast (French: La Belle et la Bête – also the UK title) is a 1946 French romantic fantasy film directed by French poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. Starring Josette Day as Belle and Jean Marais as the Beast, it is an adaptation of the 1757 story Beauty and the Beast, written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont and published as part of a fairy tale anthology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Beast_(1946_film)

The Way We Were is a 1973 American romantic drama film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford. Arthur Laurents adapted the screenplay from his own 1972 novel of the same name, which was based on his college days at Cornell University and his experiences with the House Un-American Activities Committee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_We_Were

Roman Holiday is a 1953 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by William Wyler. It stars Audrey Hepburn as a princess out to see Rome on her own and Gregory Peck as a reporter. Hepburn won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance; the film also won the Academy Award for Best Story and the Academy Award for Best Costume Design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Holiday

It's the 80s in England and there's this kid who's getting picked on at at school, and he's walking home and he makes some friends. Nice guys, but they all shave their heads. It's cool though, they listen to Toots & the Maytals and other first-generation Jamaican ska and are pretty down-to-earth people. Pretty soon the kid's hanging out in good-times montages.

Everything's going great, but then their old pal gets out of prison. Next thing you know, things are getting kind of tense, and people are making political speeches and going on racist rants and having to pick sides. In fact, this is a coming-of-age film for the kid, and there's also a theme on the Falklands War, which comes to an end just as the film reaches its conclusion.

• the link from above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_9QPrpbbHw
• look for an invidious link: https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=d_9QPrpbbHw
• another link, with Spanish subtitles embedded (480p): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WimN_9vh3_8
• this movie was posted here on fullmovies over a year ago but now you got to sign in to confirm your age for that link
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_England

BONUS FILM

Made in Britain (1982)

A UK made-for-TV film, Tim Roth's first role, and he nails it, playing a crazed racist skinhead in the 80s. It's amazing what a modest budget will get you if you have quality actors and a strong script. Definitely one you want to watch without advertisements.

• 780p: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2vuZXiW68Q
• look for an Invidious link: https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=N2vuZXiW68Q
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_Britain

Kung Fu Chefs is a 2009 Hong Kong action film directed by Ken Yip, starring Sammo Hung, Louis Fan, Vanness Wu, Sammo Hung's real life son Timmy Hung, Ku Feng and Lee Hoi-sang. This was Lee Hoi-Sang's final film appearance. This film was shot with a low budget.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fu_Chefs

Blocked in China, Taiwan

Kung Fu Chefs is a 2009 Hong Kong action film directed by Ken Yip, starring Sammo Hung, Louis Fan, Vanness Wu, Sammo Hung's real life son Timmy Hung, Ku Feng and Lee Hoi-sang. This was Lee Hoi-Sang's final film appearance. This film was shot with a low budget.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fu_Chefs

Blocked in China, Taiwan

Planet of the Apes is a 1968 American science fiction film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a screenplay by Michael Wilson and Rod Serling, loosely based on the 1963 novel by Pierre Boulle.

The film stars Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly, and Linda Harrison. In the film, an astronaut crew crash-lands on a strange planet in the distant future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes_(1968_film)

This is a TV movie about a high-school girl who has a problem with alcohol. It's not a bad example of the "after school special" genre, but it's mainly interesting because of the actors in it.

Mark Hamill plays the boyfriend of the main character. This was a couple years before Star Wars (and far, far away from the abominations that Disney would later produce).

Linda Blair plays the main character; she'd recently starred in The Exorcist, had been doing a number of supporting roles in films, and would go on to make a series of horror films.

Other actors of interest include Larry Hagman who had a number of other successful TV roles such as "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Dallas", and William Daniels who did the voice of KITT the talking car in Knight Rider.

Other than that, the "70s mood" abounds...

• The link from above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvcXvkJwORY It has Italian subtitles, but they're not embedded, you can turn them off.
• Look for an Invidious instance: https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=EvcXvkJwORY
• For more information see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_T._%E2%80%93_Portrait_of_a_Teenage_Alcoholic

edit: BONUS FILM: "Cocaine: One Man's Seduction" (1983 480p) - another TV movie, this time about the perils of powder cocaine. James Spader plays a supporting character in an early role.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToLYAzOwiqY
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine:_One_Man%27s_Seduction

My Super Ex-Girlfriend is a 2006 American superhero romantic comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Uma Thurman and Luke Wilson with Anna Faris, Eddie Izzard, Rainn Wilson and Wanda Sykes in supporting roles. In the film, when a regular guy (Wilson) dumps a superhero (Thurman) for her neediness, she uses her powers to make his life a living hell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Super_Ex-Girlfriend

Platoon is a 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone, starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Keith David, Kevin Dillon, John C. McGinley, Forest Whitaker, and Johnny Depp. ... The film, based on Stone's experience from the [Vietnam] war, follows a new U.S. Army volunteer (Sheen) serving in Vietnam while his Platoon Sergeant and his Squad Leader (Berenger and Dafoe) argue over the morality in the platoon and of the war itself. ...

...On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 89% based on 120 reviews, with an average rating of 8.5/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Informed by director Oliver Stone's personal experiences in Vietnam, Platoon forgoes easy sermonizing in favor of a harrowing, ground-level view of war, bolstered by no-holds-barred performances from Charlie Sheen and Willem Dafoe."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platoon_(film)

• English dub (the link from above): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8qqdwf
• Spanish dub? (I haven't watched it): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8r6zo2
• German dub? (I haven't watched it): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x93kduo

Hard Boiled (Chinese: 辣手神探) is a 1992 Hong Kong action thriller film directed by John Woo from a screenplay by Gordon Chan and Barry Wong based on a story written by Woo.

The film stars Chow Yun-fat, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, and Anthony Wong. It follows a police inspector whose investigation of a brutal Triad leader entangles him in the complex world of undercover policing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Boiled