What Films Would Make a Good Double Bill?

In the good old days, i.e. before the spread of the multiplex, theaters would often show a double bill - two movies for the price of one. The recent release Grindhouse tried to recapture this era.

Not all double bills had to be B-Movies, they could also be A list films.

Here is suggestion for a good double bill (IMO):

1. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)





2. The Parallax View (1974)


Joe Frady is a determined reporter who often needs to defend his work from colleagues. After the assassination of a prominent U.S. senator, Frady begins to notice that reporters present during the assassination are dying mysteriously. After getting more involved in the case, Frady begins to realize that the assassination was part of a conspiracy somehow involving the Parallax Corporation, an enigmatic training institute. He then decides to enroll for the Parallax training himself to discover the truth

What's the second movie supposed to be?

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Good Idea for thread ...

Phillip K Dick - Double Bill

Blade Runner


Minority Report

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Sorry, I added a short synopsis to the original post. It is a film about a conspiracy for political assasinations.

Ah, now I get you.

Here's a good double bill - the theme is "cheesy adventure comedy".

Film #1 - Big Trouble in Little China



Film #2 - Army of Darkness

A Perfect World (1993 - Clint Eastwood)
The Sugarland Express (1974 - Steven Spielberg)


Bound for Glory (1976 - Hal Ashby)
Honkytonk Man (1982 - Clint Eastwood)


The Mosquito Coast (1986 - Peter Weir)
Fitzcarraldo (1982 - Werner Herzog)


After Hours (1985 - Martin Scorsese)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999 - Stanley Kubrick)


Last Night (1998 - Don McKellar)
Miracle Mile (1988 - Steve De Jarnatt)


The Ox-Bow Incident (1943 - William Wellman)
Fury (1936 - Fritz Lang)


The Wild Bunch (1969 - Sam Peckinpah)
The Professionals (1966 - Richard Brooks)


The Conversation (1974 - Francis Ford Coppola)
Blow Out (1981 - Brian De Palma)


The Butcher Boy (1998 - Neil Jordan)
Heavenly Creatures (1994 - Peter Jackson)


Schizopolis (1996 - Steven Soderbergh)
Being John Malkovich (1999 - Spike Jonze)


Network (1976 - Sidney Lumet)
Putney Swope (1969 - Robert Downey)

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Network
In 1975 terrorist violence is the stuff of network nightly news programming and the corporate structure of the UBS television network is changing. Meanwhile, Howard Beale, the aging UBS news anchor, has lost his once strong ratings share and so the network fires him. Beale reacts in an unexpected way. We then see how this affects the fortunes of Beale, his coworkers (Max Schumacher and Diana Christensen), and the network



Videodrome
Sleazy lowlife cable TV operator Max Renn discovers a snuff broadcast called "Videodrome." But it is more than a TV show--it's an experiment that uses regular TV transmissions to permanently alter the viewer's perceptions by giving them brain damage. Max is caught in the middle of the forces that created "Videodrome" and the forces that want to control it, his body itself turning into the ultimate weapon to fight this global conspiracy



I'm not sure why, but that just came into my mind...

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Dark Hero double bill:

Sling Blade
Taxi Driver

Libertarian Hero double bill:

Cool Hand Luke
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

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MUTATED REMAKES


The Fly (Cronenberg, 1986)




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The Thing (Carpenter, 1982)






LITERARY HIGHS


Naked Lunch (Cronenberg, 1991)





AND


In The Mouth of Madness (Carpenter, 1995)







Violence?


A History of Violence (Cronenberg, 2005)



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Funny Games (Haneke, 1997)

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Excellent Post!!!

Three of these films I have never heard of. I ordering some double bills from Netflix!

The Third Man
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Heavenly Creatures

Dog Soliders and The Descent would make a great double bill

A Zed & Two Noughts


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Dead Ringers

:::sneaking back in:::
I think I posted a thread about this a while ago, but at any rate it's a favorite subject of mine.
Here are a few suggestions, just off the top of my head:

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Films that will make an Aussie Cringe ... Paul Hogan and Steve Erwin <shudder>






Another, this one by the same director Yahoo Serious ... he dun gone and left Aussieland and moved to the States to become a big big starr

Come to think of it, even better than Harold and Maude and King of Hearts would be the pairing of Harold and Maude and Being There. Both are sublime comedies.

I also can't help but think that Dr. Strangelove and Fail-Safe would make an interesting double bill. They share a very similar plot line, but with vastly different treatments of it.

I was trying to think of what would make a good companion to Marat/Sade. Quills, perhaps? I dunno.

Beetlejuice & My Life

Raising Arizona & City of Angels

Secondhand Lions & Pay it Forward

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