Help me with 2010s Movie Recommendations

Thank you for the recommendations.

Frances, Ha is the only movie on your list that I've seen, and it was good, but I wouldn't consider it for my list.

I think I might have also seen Carol, but if I did, I don't remember much about it, so I'll have to rewatch it.

Meek's Cutoff was on my watchlist for the Westerns Countdown, but unfortunately I didn't have time to watch it before the deadline. Maybe I'll be able to get to it for this countdown.

I've seen older versions of Little Women, but I haven't seen this version. I like the older versions, so I added this to my watchlist.

I don't know much about the rest of the movies on your list, so I'll have to look into them.

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Thanks for the recommendations.

I've seen Margaret and The One I Love, and I remember liking both movies, but it's been a while since I've seen them so I'll have to rewatch them.

I've heard good things about both Mr. Turner and Bernie, so both movies have been on my watchlist for a while. I have both movies on DVD, so I'll bump them up on my watchlist.

Christopher Robin is one of two movies about Winnie the Pooh that are already on my watchlist. (The other movie is Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017).) I'm looking forward to both of them, and I bumped them up on my watchlist.

I haven't heard of the rest of the movies on your list, but I'll look into them. I'll also check out your link to your Letterboxd page to see if there's anything else on your list that I might be interested in watching.

Thanks for the recommendations.

The only movie on your list that I've heard of is The Rider, and it sounds like my type of movie, so I added it to my watchlist.

I'll have to read up about the other movies.

Thanks for the info about Anomalisa and You Were Never Really Here. You're probably right that they're not likely to be my kind of movies.

Reading this thread, I really need to bone up on my foreign fare.

@cricket,
I started my 2010s movie watching with Stronger (2017) because it aired on one of the cable movie channels today. I liked the movie, especially how they didn't focus on the bombing. It was only a few minutes at the beginning of the movie, and then the movie focused entirely on Jeff Bauman, and how losing his legs in the bombing affected his life. That makes it a powerful movie that is anchored by Jake Gyllenhaal's powerful performance.

The only thing that might have made the movie a bit better would have been a little bit more of his backstory before the bombing. We only met him for a few minutes before it happened, so we never got a chance to know who he was before, so we don't really know how it changed him. Other than that, this was a great movie.

Thank you for the recommendation.

@Miss Vicky,
I also watched Ernest & Celestine (2012) today. (I watched the English dub with Forest Whitaker and Mackenzie Foy voicing the title characters.)

This is an adorable story of an unlikely friendship between a mouse and a bear. I loved everything about this, from the shadow puppets on the wall when the little mice are listening to a scary bedtime story, to the way Ernest and Celestine comfort each other after they have nightmares. The voice actors are terrific in this, making it easy to fall in love with both main characters.

Thank you for a great recommendation.

You’re very welcome. I absolutely adore that movie and it’s a lock for my ballot - probably very high.

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But your reasons are now more aligned with a more correct impression of the movie and thus the dissonance in my mind is settled.


I enjoyed the movie, I don't love it like others do. I enjoyed Flight of the Conchords (also Waititi and Clement) from the previous decade, so it just felt like a continuation of that for me.

A couple off the top of my head:

Shuddh Desi Romance
The Brawler AKA Mukkabaaz
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani

I don't know how it works on mobile devices. I use a desktop computer.

Maybe @Yoda, can figure out why it's not working on mobile?

Thanks for the recommendations, but I don't watch a lot of foreign language movies because I have issues with subtitles. Regardless of how good they are, they rarely make my lists because rewatchability is a factor in my favorite movie lists.

But maybe some other people will check out these movies.

Today's movie was Forever My Girl (2018), a nice tearjerker romance about a country music star who left his fiance at the altar eight years earlier, and then returns home and tries to pick up the pieces of the life he left behind. This movie wasn't on anyone's recommendations list, but it aired on cable, and it sounded like my type of movie, so I decided to watch it.

It's a story that we've seen a million times in the movies, but it still works. Alex Roe and Jessica Rothe have great chemistry together, and Abby Ryder Fortson is adorable. The movie is a bit of a roller coaster ride of emotions, but I enjoyed it. It helps if you like Lifetime movies and country music.

There's a TV series as well! Don't miss it!!!

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I didn't know about the TV series. I'll have to look for it.

Thank you.

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Today I watched The November Man (2014), which was another movie that wasn't on anyone's list, but it aired on cable, and it caught my attention. I liked Pierce Brosnan as Jame Bond, and this sounded like a similar type of spy movie, (without the gadgets and the girls), so I decided to give it a try. It was okay, but not great. It kind of felt like they were trying to do too much with too many twists and turns, and some of them just didn't work. It was just clichéd in a "been there, done that" kind of way. But I liked Luke Bracey as Brosnan's ex-partner. I don't think I've seen him in anything else.

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I watched Columbus (2017), and I liked it. The movie starts off slow, and it took a while to get where it was going, but once it got there, it was worth the wait. I liked the chemistry between John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson. This movie kind of reminded me of the movie Before Sunset, where we're basically just watching two people wander around, talk and get to know each other for a lot of the movie, but instead of a romantic feeling, they seem to be building a friendship. It's not quite the same thing, and there's more to it than just that, but it had a similar feel at times.

Thanks for the recommendation.

@Siddon and @Thief,

I watched Eighth Grade (2018), and I found this movie to be very awkward to watch, but that's probably what made it such a good movie. There were parts of the movie that I could relate to, like the way she was treated by the other kids in school, but because I don't use any of the social media sites, I couldn't really relate to the way she seemed to be attached to her phone.

This kind of made Kayla seem like two different people. One was the awkward person in school, and the other was the confident person who made the videos. She seemed to try so hard to make friends that she did and said everything wrong.



This is a very good movie, but a bit of an uncomfortable movie to watch at times. I think a lot of people can probably relate to what she was going through, even if they went to middle school many years ago.

Thank you for the recommendation.