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.

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[se-parsons.livejournal.com]

* Space Movies: Outland, Forbidden Planet, Enemy Mine, All the Alien movies, especially 2,
* Natural Disaster Movies: I have a book rec here, "Lucifer’s Hammer" by Niven and Pournell
* Unnatural Disaster Movies: Infinitemonkeys recced that new one 32 days or whatever. Night of the Living Dead, that John Carpenter one where Jesus was a mathematician, On the Beach – the black and white one with Fred Astaire, please.
* Wilderness Disaster Movies: Alive (I think, soccer team plane crash in the Andes), The Flight of the Phoenix (I can’t tell you how much I adore this one), plane crash in the Saudi desert
* Expatriate or Colonial Movies: A Passage to India, The Far Pavilions, Shogun. Tai-Pan was pretty, but bad, the Four Feathers, also pretty but bad, Kim, Gunga-Din, Beau Geste, Black Robe,
* 70s or Early 80s Romantic Dramas: On Golden Pond
* War Movies: I just saw and was impressed with "We Were Soldiers", Hart’s War also sucked less than expected and had a plot twist, Saving Private Ryan IS that good, Platoon, if you haven’t seen it, The Green Berets, because you just HAVE to, Bridge Over the River Kwai, Stalag 17, the Hill, The Great Escape, The Dirty Dozen (fun), Kelly’s Heroes, A Bridge Too Far, The Eagle Has Landed, Tora, Tora, Tora, The Eye of the Needle, (there are so many good ones from the 60s and 70s. Basically, if you see David Niven or Michael Caine in the cast, it's probably worthwhile.)
* Heist Movies: Three Kings, Taking of Pelham, One, Two, Three
* Psychological Thrillers: the Innocents (Which IS Turn of the Screw), Midnight Lace, Spellbound, Rebecca, Gaslight, The Lodger,