Great films that are hardly ever, if ever, shown on TV.

Ah yes, The Music Lovers, a film in which Glenda Jackson is actually a hot babe, yeah THAT Glenda Jackson !!

[and you see her completely nakkit, bushy ladygarden and all ]

That 1968-73 period was full of great and controversial Brit films, the BBFC seem to have let everything through, rape, nudity, violence, swearing, the lot,.

Straw Dogs, Walkabout, 10 Rillington Place, The Devils, A Clockwork Orange, If, Performance, The Offence, Get Carter.

Great Stuff.
 
I would like to mention Harold & Maude. Without reading the whole thread I don't know if this has been mentioned and I can't remember the last time it was on TV, unless I somehow didn't notice. I do own the DVD though and I love this film
 
True Romance was on Channel 5 not too long ago, but I do agree with you about Harold And Maude, one of my faves but I have never seen it on TV!!
 
"Wild is the Wind", 1957 melodrama starring Anthony Quinn and Anna Mangnani; never released on VHS or dvd, never on tv, except maybe in the US. It's on YouTube though.
 
SWTWC is a very good movie, it has some incredible sequences (my favoritte is Jonathan Price' Mr Dark tearing out the pages of the book in the library, and in so doing taking off a year off Jason RobarRAB life per page in the process), good effects for the time and a better than average story for a Disney movie. It had some very early CGI effects too, though I believe a lot of them were not used (such as the fairground assembling itself on it's own).

The remake of Wages of Fear is called Sorcerer and was directed by William Friedkin. It is much maligned, but I actually don't mind it (original is obviously far superior). It is something of a confused storyline, but it does have some standout sequences, most notably the trucks containing the nitro trying to negotiate their way across a rickety rope bridge in driving rain.

It is available on R1 dvd, but it's a pretty ropry, pan and scan bare bones edition.
 
They've shown them on the Disney Channel. The first half of my Sky Box is full of all of them "to keep".:o

Somebody mentioned Breaking Away earlier in the thread, fraid to say that was shown at least 2/3 times last year on Sky so not sure when it will come round again (got that as a keeper as well).

Near Dark, one of the best vampire films ever made, got that on video.

Also like to add;

Hardware
(sci fi horror)

The Brave Little Toaster
(fantastic animated children's film, the director went on to Pixar I think)
 
Jawbreaker

The original mean girls. But less successful and more dramatic. My fav movie of all time. Shame it's never on tele. Thank god my sister's friend never asked for the dvd back.
 
Agree with that ! i remember years ago they used to do a "FEAR ON FRIDAY" featuring a lots of old b/w horror classics and hammer horrors ! Now all we get on a friday night is the Johnathan Ross house of Horrors!:)
 
Having just read Roger Moore's autobiography, he reveals that Basil Dearden, director of the above film, was in an accident and got decapitated on the very same stretch of road seen in that opening sequence, shortly after the film's release.
 
Come and See(Idi i Smotri)1985.
Only ever shown once as part of C4's 'Soviet Spring' season.
Russian film with subtitles.It's the best and most reliastic war movie i've ever seen.
Harrowing,shocking and disturbing-you won't forget it in a hurry.And it's all based on fact.
 
:eek:

Didn't realise Dearden was the director - IMO he has another couple of greats that would fit the thread too, namely the sublime Technicolour gothic costume drama Saraband For Dead Lovers, and the wonderfully poignant little comedy The Smallest Show On Earth.

The other Man Who I was thinking of turned out to be The Man Who Had Power Over Women, also a British flick from 1970 which I caught around the same time as TMWHH (although it's hardly, if ever shown on TV yes, but not especially great at all IIRC).
 
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