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

YES!!! Someone else who believed the same as me!!

Me: I really want to see Its A Wonderful Life
Other folk: Oh its on every CHristmas!
Me: NO IT ISN'T I'VE BEEN WAITING YEARS!!!!!

:mad:
 
ITV2 on a loop. :D




I wish they would show 12 Angry Men, its one of my fave films.
 
I remember seeing this mentioned on this thread, a great film and I can't believe how overlooked seeing as how there's such a vampire craze.
One of my all time favourite cult films.

Anyway wanted to bump it because after the Oscars I found out it was directed by Kathryn Bigelow.

So hopefully it might get an airing now. :)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093605/
 
The was in another thread but I have never seen The Lion King on TV and also other Disney films like Jungle Book as they don't like putting these on TV.

Other films which I have but not seen on TV for years are

Crack in the World 1965 I have a copy of this but its not a very good one is as bad as VHS in LP mode.

Have not seen Flight of the Navigator which was on a lot back in the 90s but now on DVD I read the US disk is the best copy which is OK for me.

And others such as

The Philadelphia Experiment 1984
Time After Time 1979
 
Breaking Away
I really want this, and its not out on DVD currently. It will be on sometime


Brians' Song (old version with James Caan)
I have this on video, buyt would like a better version.
 
Yep, got that one too. Remember seeing it at the cinema when it first came out.

Good cast (Warren Oates, Peter Fonda), some great action/stunt sequences and a great sense of unease and foreboding.

The movie Breakdown, with Kurt Russell about a man and his wife breaking down in the middle of nowhere and getting terrorised by creepy townsfolk owed a huge debt to it.

And I would say to a certain extent it probably influenced The Hitcher too.
 
I'll second "Twelve Angry Men". Haven't seen it in (probably) decades. I'll also add a film that used to be on regularly (seemingly) when I was a teenager and which I have not seen in decades either, namely "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" - Alan Arkin as a deaf mute and a very young Sondra Locke - and all I can remember is it being achingly sad and also convincing me to go out and buy the book by Carson McCullers.
 
80's cult films and classic black and white films are my thing. For example when was the last time we ever saw:

the monster squad (only on region1 dvd) or teen wolf 2 on the tv.

Plus I wouldn't mind seeing charlie chaplin's modern times on the box.
 
I used to think ...if and the Wicker Man were something that the networks should broadcast more often. Seems like they listened mind as they have been on a few times in the last year, unfortunately on ITV4 with advert breaks.
 
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