U Can't Watch This
by pbn | created - 06 Oct 2022 | updated - 19 Oct 2022 | PublicThese movies exist, but have become unavailable for streaming or purchase. Which one would you want to watch right now?
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1. Ali the Fighter (1973)
G | 142 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport
Behind-the-scenes documentary chronicling the Fight of the Century between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali.
Directors: Rick Baxter, William Greaves | Stars: Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Joe Frazier, Burt Lancaster
Votes: 65
William Greaves's documentary
2. Angelo My Love (1983)
R | 115 min | Drama
Step into the world of gypsy life. Come meet Angelo and his family. See the gypsy court system. A gypsy wedding where a boy's family pays for his wife. Come see the gypsy lifestyle, how they live, how they love family.
Director: Robert Duvall | Stars: Angelo Evans, Michael Evans, Ruthie Evans, Tony Evans
Votes: 249
Robert Duvall's film about gypsy culture
3. Angels and Insects (1995)
R | 116 min | Drama, Romance
In the 1800s a naturalist marries into a family of British country gentry.
Director: Philip Haas | Stars: Mark Rylance, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patsy Kensit, Jeremy Kemp
Votes: 4,843 | Gross: $5.30M
Philip Haas's costume drama
4. The Annihilation of Fish (1999)
R | 108 min | Romance
After years of living alone, an eccentric black and white couple find real companionship and romance.
Director: Charles Burnett | Stars: Lynn Redgrave, James Earl Jones, Margot Kidder, Tommy Redmond Hicks
Votes: 234
Romance with James Earl Jones and Lynn Redgrave
5. The Cool World (1963)
105 min | Crime, Drama
A look at the horrors of Harlem ghetto slum life filled with drugs, violence, human misery, and a sense of despair due to the racial prejudices of American society.
Director: Shirley Clarke | Stars: Rony Clanton, Carl Lee, Yolanda Rodríguez, Clarence Williams III
Votes: 663
Crime drama in the streets of New York
6. Grim Prairie Tales (1990)
R | 86 min | Horror, Western
"Grim Prairie Tales" is a 1990 horror anthology movie where a cynical bounty hunter and a clerk traveling through the prairie rest by the campfire telling four stories of terror to each other.
Director: Wayne Coe | Stars: James Earl Jones, Brad Dourif, Will Hare, Marc McClure
Votes: 1,114
James Earl Jones and Brad Dourif tell ghost stories around the campfire
7. Lanton Mills (1969)
12 min | Short
Tilman and Lanton Mills, two cowboys who set off on horseback to rob a bank. On the way, they stop to see their boss, the "Old Man", only to discover he has been murdered by another cowboy, John Sparks.
Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, Terrence Malick, Warren Oates, Tony Bill
Votes: 133
Terrence Malick's first short film
8. Let It Be (1970)
G | 81 min | Documentary, Music
The filmed account of The Beatles' attempt to recapture their old group spirit by making a back to basics album, which instead drove them further apart.
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg | Stars: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr
Votes: 6,586 | Gross: $1.06M
The story of the final Beatles album
9. The Memory of Justice (1976)
PG | 278 min | Documentary, War
Explores the subject of atrocities during wartime, especially during World War II and the Vietnam War.
Director: Marcel Ophüls | Stars: Yehudi Menuhin, Noël Favrelières, Anthony Herbert, Edward Sowders
Votes: 384
War crime documentary by Marcel Ophüls
10. My Architect (2003)
116 min | Documentary, Biography
Director Nathaniel Kahn searches to understand his father, noted architect Louis Kahn, who died bankrupt and alone in 1974.
Director: Nathaniel Kahn | Stars: Edmund Bacon, Edwina Pattison Daniels, Balkrishna Doshi, Frank Gehry
Votes: 3,321 | Gross: $2.75M
Oscar-nominated documentary about the director's father
11. Nothing Lasts Forever (1984)
PG | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An artist fails a test and is required to direct traffic in New York City's Holland Tunnel. He winds up falling in love with a beautiful woman, after he takes a trip to the moon on a Lunar Cruiser.
Director: Tom Schiller | Stars: Zach Galligan, Apollonia van Ravenstein, Lauren Tom, Sam Jaffe
Votes: 960
Shelved MGM comedy featuring Zach Galligan, Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd
12. Snide and Prejudice (1997)
119 min | Comedy, Drama
Dr Cohen works in a mental institution where all patients believe they're historical members of the German Nazi Party, including Hitler. They are allowed to live out their delusions, so "Hitler" tries to consolidate his power.
Director: Philippe Mora | Stars: Joseph Arsenault, Remy Auberjonois, Rene Auberjonois, Jonathan Ball
Votes: 119
Patients in a mental institution believe they are high-ranking Nazis
13. Song of the South (1946)
G | 94 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
The kindly story-teller Uncle Remus tells a young boy stories about trickster Br'er Rabbit, who outwits Br'er Fox and slow-witted Br'er Bear.
Directors: Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Ruth Warrick, Bobby Driscoll, James Baskett, Luana Patten
Votes: 15,241 | Gross: $63.72M
Never released on home video in America, this Walt Disney film is controversial due to its content, though it also won its African American star an Oscar
14. Titus (1999)
R | 162 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Titus returns victorious from war, only to plant the seeds of future turmoil for himself and his family.
Director: Julie Taymor | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Osheen Jones, Dario D'Ambrosi
Votes: 21,474 | Gross: $1.92M
Anthony Hopkins in Julie Taymor's Shakespeare adaptation
15. Union City (1980)
PG | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A man is so obsessed with finding the person responsible for stealing his milk bottles that he ignores his beautiful young wife, who has other ideas on her mind.
Director: Marcus Reichert | Stars: Dennis Lipscomb, Debbie Harry, Sam McMurray, Terry Walsh
Votes: 464
Debbie Harry as a bored housewife in a satire of classic film noir
16. The Tony Blair Witch Project (2000 Video)
Unrated | 70 min | Comedy, Horror
Told in Documentary form, the film depicts a group of five British film critics and politicians who venture off into the West Virginian wilderness in search of the "Tony Blair Witch" which ... See full summary »
Director: Michael A. Martinez | Stars: Tim Jahn, C. Alan Ploegsma, Dominic Fantazzi, Greg S. Campbell
Votes: 4,487
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