Family movie night suggestion.

Hi everyone. I am looking for a movie suggestion to watch with the family tonight. My wife and son watch a movie together once a week and we always have a genre or topic that we take turns picking. This time around the theme is "Movie suggested by a friend"

This week's criteria:

It must be something I have not seen before.

It cannot be overtly sexual or have a lot of nudity *My son is a teenager, but we like to keep it somewhat "family" ) "R" rating is fine, but a lot of sex scenes or a lot of naked people is a no go.

Nothing too mainstream - we have probably already seen that.

Foreign films are totally cool as long as subs are available - we try to avoid dubbing unless it is done really well.

That is it, or all I can think of right now.
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I know you all have no idea what I have already seen, but just throw out some ideas. If this goes well maybe I will ask now and then for suggestions as we have been doing this going on 3 years or so and running out of ideas. Please also do not throw up a large list of films, I can google that or look at the top 100 lists on here - and I have done that too. This is a great site for finding movies to watch., I want movies that you feel are great and special or thoughtful or whatever suits your fancy.

I will review whatever show we pick in the thread here.

Thanks much.

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“The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

del Toros Pinocchio is on Netflix.

Have you seen The Fabelmans? I would recommend that. It is available to rent or purchase on demand and it's one of the best films of the year.

Thanks - We have actually not seen either of those. Fableman's is on my too watch list.
Pinocchio looks like an interesting twist to a story I always loved.

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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.

Well I said overtly, so "some" is okay.

Cinema Paradiso?

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Does your family/son have some favorites that could give us a clue about your taste?

Some thoughts:
Kubo and the Two Strings
Die Hard
Point Blank (60s version)

Way underseen, sci fi:

Miracle Mile (1988)

Hey 7th! Good to see you around.

I hope all is well!

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Thanks for suggestion. I have seen this film, but it has been quite awhile. Maybe next time we do something sci-fi or even romance related we will check it out..

Thank you for suggestions, we have seen these before - We all really liked Kubo.

Hey there,

Things are not too bad. Hope all goes well with you.

"I, Tonya" is good family fare.

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelle.


On a more serious note, I’d say The Adventures of Tintin by Spielberg

Here are some suggestions that have less than 8000 votes on IMDb

Velocipastor--maybe the best intentionally bad film. There is some brief nudity, I believe, but not a lot. Lots of cheesy velociraptor related carnage.

On the Count of Three--dark, dark comedy about two friends who decide to spend one last day together before helping each other die. Definitely only for a more mature teenager, and does have some heavy content, like mentions of serious bullying and child abuse.

Road Games--horror/thriller/comedy with Stacy Keach as a truck driver who suspects the driver of a van may be a murderer

Pilgrimage--historical (fictional) action-adventure film

Derek DelGaudio's In & Of Itself --a live show by a storyteller and comedian. My whole family really dug this, including my little brother who isn't really into movies

Disorder--a soldier with PTSD is assigned to guard the wife and child of a wealthy man. He begins to think they are in danger, but is it real or just in his head?

Ooh, good suggestion!

Some recent non-mainstream films that I really liked :

Help (2021) - Horror hits a nursing home staffed by one lone carer when the pandemic hits and she finds herself with stricken patients and a hospital system so overloaded that there is nobody coming to her aid. Jodie Comer and Stephen Graham.

Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020) - Great film and true story about a United Nations translator trying to save her husband and sons during the Bosnian war. Really heart-rending stuff.

Babyteeth (2019) - A terminally ill teenager and her older, drug addicted boyfriend form part of a strange family dynamic when they're accepted into a family ready to grant the girl anything she wishes.

Sorry We Missed You (2019) - From the director of I, Daniel Blake - a similar story about a family struggling to get by.

Waves (2019) - A demanding father pushes his children too far, and the family as a whole will have to deal with the consequences.

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These are some of my favorite lesser-known movies:

August Rush (2007) - An orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift to try to find his birth parents.

City Island (2009) - Prison guard Vince tells Molly from acting class, that one inmate is his 24 y.o. love child. Vince takes him home to stay with his family - straight A son with fat girl fetish, college dropout/stripper daughter and cute wife.

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School (2005) - A widowed man's life turns upside down when he embarks on a journey to find a dying man's long lost love.

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I enjoyed that one a lot as a kid. Haven't seen it in ages though.

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