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Movie fatigue
Hello Tildes.
I feel like i have movie fatigue, i don’t feel like i manage to get hyped for new movies.
Do anyone of you have any recommendations for older movies, lets say 2010 and older. It can be any genre.
Can go really old as well, i really enjoyed 12 Angry Men.
Thank you very much in advance!
There are film festivals exist just for that reason. The committee filter out best applications for a competition, the jury vote for the very best.
My personal most favourite is Festival de Cannes, the 2026 festival just finished. Check out winning films from previous years (Golden Palm, Grand Prix, Best Director at least), it will be very diverse and interesting set of films.
Film festivals have not crossed my mind, thank for the suggestion! I thought they were mostly for people in the industry. I will check out some lists from different festivals! :)
I have no idea what's available to you, but Mubi goes out of their way to curate films of interest to cinema. Every once in a while they have 3 months for $1. Criterion Channel also has their own streaming service with a similar curation experience.
On the other end of the spectrum, you could also look for public domain film on YouTube and see what jumps out at you. Shout Factory has a YouTube channel that they don't put region restrictions on and has a lot of full films that are pretty ecceletic. and Warner Bros has full films available. YouTube in general has some free movies with ads, but your results will vary depending on the region rights.
It looks like Mubi is in fact avaliable in my country. Thank you, I will check it out.
Yeah I found a playlist from Werner Bros with movies from the 30s to the 90s i think that was full length and free to watch in 1080p but I think the playlist became unavailable again unfortunately.
Yeah, a little annoyed with the YouTube availability of Warner Bros stuff with them removing their full films and only having two or three episodes of Babylon 5 out on a clip show channel making the Tildes rewatch a pain in the behind.
Yeah, I don’t do pirating so it rules out quite a lot of films available to me unfortunately.
If you can find it around, Juan of the Dead (2011) is pretty good. It's a Cuban movie about a guy who starts a business killing the zombies that pop up around the island, and has some good comedy and commentary about the situation at the time.
The Lives of Others. ... German film, intense drama.
Amelie ... Quirky French movie, romantic and with a unique style
The Shawshank Redemption ... Brillant script, great acting in a prison movie "Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things."
Unforgiven ... Clint Eastwood's best western, which is saying something.
Das Boot ... German WWII movie about submarine warfare. One of the best WWII movies ever made.
Blade Runner ... Sci-fi classic. Watch the director's cut.
Alien ... Sci-fi horror at it's best
Young Frankenstein ... Mel Brook's masterpiece of comedy/parody
Cool Hand Luke ... Paul Newman is outstanding in this prison/chain gang drama
The Apartment ... Jack Lemmon is just a cog in the machine, until he has enough
Lawrence of Arabia ... an epic movie that really should be experienced at a wide screen cinema, but well worth watching anywhere
To Kill a Mockingbird ... bittersweet, and my favorite performance from Gregory Peck
Roman Holiday ... Audrey Hepburn's first major role, and pure romance
Casablanca ... Often cited as one of the best movie scripts. Engaging, witty, romantic and has interesting side characters. Claude Rains steals every scene he is in.
Really any of his movies are great from Robin Hood: Men in Tights to Spaceballs are such great films that had aged really well.
Thank you! Casablanca is a really good movie, enjoyed it thoroughly when I watched it!
Really wanna watch The Shawshank Redemtion, Lawrence of Arabia.
I will add all the suggestions I get in this thread to an IMDB list and I will try my best to watch them all. :)
It would help to get a bit more information about what you like or typically enjoy watching. Are you more interested in English speaking American films or films from other countries/languages? What genres have you typically gravitated towards? What directors do you enjoy?
I'm open to any movie as long as it has subtitles, I feel like i’m locked inside my own echochamber and I'm trying to get out. So i’m really open for anything.
The world of cinema is vast and blanket recommendations without any guidelines are unlikely to yield useful results for you. What did you enjoy about 12 Angry Men?
Something I do to find new stuff is look at movies I've watched that I enjoyed and look into the cast and crew. Does the director have other movies that seem interesting? Perhaps the writers? If you like the look of a movie, consider what else the cinematographer has done. Enjoyed the performances of a specific actor? Take a look at some of their other films.
What i really like about 12 Angry Men was the fact that it took place in basically just one room! So for me the cinematography and the writing had to be really good to be interesting. I really liked the way the story was presented and written. It wasn’t really set up like anything else I’ve seen before!
I quite enjoy comedy, Cop Out, Scary Movie, Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Action, The Rubbing Man I found bad in a good way, love the Legacy Monsterverse, and a new movie I found surprisingly intense and enjoyable is War Machine on Netflix. Drama, i love Oceans Eleven with the Rat Pack, probably my favorite movie of all time, The Substitute Teacher 2, The Greatest Beer Run Ever, Good Will Hunting and Homeward Bound.
Romance is a genre I’m not too familiar with but would love to explore more of!
Animation I really enjoy as well is the original Ice Age, Looney Toons, 9 and Shrek.
The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008), it is a Korean Spaghetti Western that takes place in 1939 Manchuria.
Hardcore Henry (2015) low budget action film that is shot entirely in first person, the story is not that great, but still interesting because the way it is shot.
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil(2010) dark comedy that takes the hillbilly trope in horror and turned it on its head. And the Korean version is also good, called Handsome Guys (2024).
Eight Legged Freaks (2002) monster flick that is about giant mutated spiders, also has a young Scarlett Johansson as the sister.
Mars Attacks! (1996) dark comedy about aliens from Mars in the US and extermination of the human race begins because a hippie had released a dove, which to the Martians is an open declaration of war.
Ticket & Dale is actually on my list, and these other movies look very interesting! The Korean Spaghetti Western sound VERY interesting! Thank you. :)
Tucker and Dale does the dark comedy really well. And The Good, the Bad, Weird is a personal favorite and is one of the first things that I had watched from Korea. And if you like the actors from that film Song Kang-ho (the actor for the Weird) my favorite films that has him is Snowpiercer (action-thriller) (2013), a Taxi Driver (historical drama) (2017) and Parasite (thriller) (2019)*** (which is a bit bitter considering what happened to one of the actors) three vastly different films and tones. And for Lee Byung-hun, the actor that plays the Bad, stars in KPop Demon Hunters (2025) (also really good, even if you are not into K-Pop) as the main demon.
Another great film from Korea that is new is Exhuma(2024) horror film that is such a great ride.
*** the director for Snowpiercer and Parasite does have actors that he like working with, to the point that there is a list on his wiki that shows which actor collaborated with him and which films. Song Kang-ho is also in The Host (2006) and Mother (2009) both from what I had heard are pretty good.
What’s the fatigue about
Its probably just me being tired of Hollywood now. I feel like there aren’t any new faces, all I see is Jack Black, The Rock, Chris Pratt and Zendaya. And all I get is algorithms giving me the same suggestions over and over again. I might be a bit cynical.
May I offer you a Backrooms or Iron Lung in these trying times?
I want to watch them, but I'm not based in the US so I have to wait until I can either buy it or rent Iron Lung. But I believe I can watch the Backrooms in cinemas, I’ve actually thought about little bit about that one. So thank you :)