Jean Cocteau is another good french director, before the new wave. Orpheus, Beauty and The Beast, and Blood of a Poet are good early surreal french films. I didn't list Orpheus and Beauty and The Beast because they are common stories though.

Originally Posted by smokeweed101. Jean Cocteau is another good french director, before the new wave. Orpheus, Beauty and The Beast, and Blood of a Poet are good early surreal french films. I didn't list Orpheus and Beauty and The Beast because they are common stories though.

Thanks for the recommendations. I'm going to catch up on these french films, the bad part is there are only few movies that are hardcoded with English text.

If you haven't seen the popular film noirs/Neo noirs check them out (Taxi Driver, Chinatown, Sunset Blvd, Double Indemnity, Notorious, Strangers on A Train, Pulp Fiction, Touch of Evil, The Third Man, M, Laura, Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, Reservoir Dogs, LA Confidential etc.)

FILM NOIR


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[code]When a man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, her venal fiancé persuades her to con him out of some of the fortune she thinks he has. [/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038057/
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[code]When a conservative middle-aged professor engages in a minor dalliance with a femme fatale, he is plunged into a nightmarish quicksand of blackmail and murk.[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037469/
Those two have the same director (Lang) and star the same people, even similar stories. [pic]

Old school Bonnie & Clyde:
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[code]Since he was a child, Bart Tare has always loved guns.[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042530/
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[code]A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murk her husband[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038854/
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[code]Private eye Philip Marlowe hired by Moose Malloy, a petty crook just out of prison after a seven year stretch, to look for his former girlfriend, Velma, who has not been seen for the last six years.[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037101/
Very stylish and moody:
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[code]Hit men k#ll an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038669/
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[code]A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit."[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048261
Hitchcock's only surreal movie:
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[code]A female psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murk while attempting to recover his memory.[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038109
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[code]True story of an innocent man mistaken for a criminal.[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051207/
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[code]A major heist goes off as planned, until bad luck and double crosses cause everything to unravel.[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042208/
Must see if you like 'gutter' talk tough guy dialogue:
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[code]Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.[/code]

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[code]A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045555/
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[code]Bogart plays a man convicted of murking his wife who escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039302
I am about to list more. [pic]

Originally Posted by TheBallDontLie Thanks for the recommendations. I'm going to catch up on these french films, the bad part is there are only few movies that are hardcoded with English text.

They usually come with an srt file (subtitle file), if not I can find links for an srt. You can watch it easily on the computer, or use a program to burn it to a dvd with subs (forget the name). If you use PS3 you can get 'AVIADDXSUBS' and it adds the subs into a .divx file which has soft subs (just click subtitles in options) that you can play.

KG: Anything is possible. [pic]

Originally Posted by smokeweed101. They usually come with an srt file (subtitle file), if not I can find links for an srt. You can watch it easily on the computer, or use a program to burn it to a dvd with subs (forget the name). If you use PS3 you can get 'AVIADDXSUBS' and it adds the subs into a .divx file which has soft subs (just click subtitles in options) that you can play. KG: Anything is possible. [pic]

I use my XBOX 360 to stream the movies that are on my computer it doesn't recognize the subtitles. [pic]

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[code]ascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murk plot.[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040525/
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[code]A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048424
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[code] Hit man Philip Raven, who's kind to children and cats, k#lls a blackmailer and is paid off by traitor Willard Gates in "hot" money[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035432/
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[code]Steve Thompson, still obsessed with his fickle ex-wife, is drawn by her into the underworld[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041268/
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[code]Chance events trap hitch-hiker Al Roberts in a tightening net of film noir trouble[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037638
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[code]A potentially violent screenwriter is a murk suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. But she begins to have doubts[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042593/
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[code]The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four day drinking bout.[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037884
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[code]Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023042
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[code]When a prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to frame the mob for his murk.[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027652/
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[code]A man is murked, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039286/
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[code]After her cheating husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037913/
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[code]A shy young English woman marries a charming gentleman, then begins to suspect him of trying to k#ll her.[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034248/

Originally Posted by TheBallDontLie I use my XBOX 360 to stream the movies that are on my computer it doesn't recognize the subtitles. [pic]

Looks like you have to hard code them, that sucks, if your computer is fast enough do that. Otherwise get some blank DVDs or watch on the computer. [pic]

Originally Posted by smokeweed101. Looks like you have to hard code them, that sucks, if your computer is fast enough do that. Otherwise get some blank DVDs or watch on the computer. [pic]

I google'd and TVersity did the trick. [pic]

Originally Posted by TheBallDontLie I google'd and TVersity did the trick. [pic]

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I am already on like my 30th download since making this topic, I will be back with more !! later.

[pic] Just finished watching "Pierrot Le Fou". Its now in my top ten.

Originally Posted by TheBallDontLie [pic] Just finished watching "Pierrot Le Fou". Its now in my top ten.

You like it that much? I might have to check it out again.

You never mentioned Le Samouraï (1967) to me.

Originally Posted by TheBallDontLie You never mentioned Le Samouraï (1967) to me.

I did when you asked for laid back movies, it is more laid back than any Godard film imo. I will post the Melville collection though since its worthy.

His movies are like french new wave and film noir put together. He makes gangsters look cool and cops look like fools.
Jean-Pierre Melville

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[code]ob, a old gangster and gambler is almost broke, so he decides in spite of the warnings of a friend, a high official from the police, to rob a gambling casino in Dauville.[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047892/
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[code]Burglar Maurice Faugel has just finished his sentence. He murks Gilbert Vanovre, a receiver, and steals the loot of a break-in[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054821
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[code]Gustave Manda, better known as Gu, a dangerous gangster, escapes from jail. He goes to Paris to join Manouche and other friends[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060305/
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[code]Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murks and who never gets caught[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062229/
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[code]Corey is a cool, aristocratic thief, released from prison on the same day that Vogel, a murker, escapes from the custody of the patient[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065531
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[code]France, 1942, during the occupation. Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is one of the French Resistance's chiefs[/code]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064040/

I gotta get me the same coat Jef Costello is wearing. [pic]

Originally Posted by TheBallDontLie I gotta get me the same coat Jef Costello is wearing. [pic]

Costello is that dude, let me know what you think of the end and the movie as a whole, Alain Delon is the actor he is good, check him out in Le Cercle Rouge, L'eclise, and Purple Noon all posted here.

Originally Posted by DJ Idol Co-sign: Ichi the k#ller Kids Bully Blue Velvet (David Lynch is !!in crazy lol) Gangster No. 1 Blood In Blood Out Ninja Scroll Delicatessen IDK how many of you have see the Vengeance Trilogy: Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, and Lady Vengeance If not, check them all out. GREAT movies. My mind is kinda blank at the moment... [pic] I'll post more when I can think [pic]

seen the vengeance trilogy great !! good drop fam

gotta check that rise of the foot soldiers...plenty of film noir here too...my new fave thread...i'll be dropping more films soon

hey smokeweed i DL'd the Tweakmdb but i don't see links when i go to the movies you posted...i'll keep !!ing with it...i checked out the La Planete Sauvage...had seen it before, didnt remember till half way thru...great !! thanks man

Originally Posted by obscuro77 hey smokeweed i DL'd the Tweakmdb but i don't see links when i go to the movies you posted...i'll keep !!ing with it...i checked out the La Planete Sauvage...had seen it before, didnt remember till half way thru...great !! thanks man

Sometimes it !!s up, I forgot what to do. Mess with the settings or go to user reviews and try from there. [pic] I just peeped Dog Star Man the full 70 mins, movie was pretty good, the beginning and last 20 mins were nice, I need to see it again without distractions though, pure surrealism and experimental just what I am looking for. Have you seen any of the short films by Kenneth Anger? They sound similar but I haven't seen any.

Also check out the short films of Maya Deren, specifically Meshes of The Afternoon and let me know what you think.