Hollywood Babylon

[sab]

Hello from the basement, I'm here pleading for movie recommendations. Any help? SWF with VCR but no cable ISO movies in the style of the following movies I have seen and perhaps moderately enjoyed:

• Space Movies: (Starship Troopers, Lost in Space, Event Horizon)
  
• Submarine Movies: (Das Boot, The Hunt for Red October, U-571, Below)
  
• Undersea Alien Movies: (The Abyss, Sphere)
  
• Natural Disaster Movies: (Twister, Volcano)
  
• Unnatural Disaster Movies: (The Andromeda Strain, Outbreak, The Stand)
  
• Wilderness Disaster Movies: (A Perfect Storm, Limbo, K2)
  
• Expatriate or Colonial Movies: (Out of Africa, Gorillas in the Mist, Gandhi)
  
• 70s or Early 80s Romantic Dramas: (Kramer vs. Kramer, Author Author, An Unmarried Woman)
  
• War Movies: (Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, Enemy at the Gates)
  
• Heist Movies: (The Thomas Crown Affair, Heist, Nine Queens)
  
• Psychological Thrillers: (needs no introduction...)
  

That'll do it for now. Vote early, vote often. Thank yew.

Comments

[laurakaye.livejournal.com]

I think you might enjoy eXistenZ- directed by David Cronenberg, starring Jude Law and, er, a ton of other Canadian people. Jennifer Jason Leigh, I think. Doesn't really fit any of these genres but spans many of them- kind of cyberpunky.

Have you seen Sneakers? That's an enduring favorite, a combo of heist-movie and spy-movie.

If you can find a copy, and are in the mood for something quieter, you might enjoy Don McKellar's Last Night, which is about the last night of the world and how people spend it.

(if you like these, I've got more...)