Recommend a movie

Since Salo is Brendan Frasier fan club, everyone should know about Doug McClure, who is older and better version of Brendan Frasier. The two greatest classics of his oeuvre are "The Land That Time Forgot" (possibly greatest schlock film ever made) and "At the Earth's Core" -both are based on Edgar Rice Burroughs stories. Both are presently on youtube.

"The Land That Time Forgot" has it all; German WW-1 submarine crew, limey fisticuffs, cavemen, dinosaurs, lost continents, explosions, accelerated evolution.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/rWZGpgMrBU8

"At the Earth's Core" has Peter Cushing, Doug McClure and this chick from bad British movies who probably permanently warped my developing libido with her amazing gazongers. They drill to the center of the earth using a Victorian drilling machine and discover dinosaurs, cavemen, cannibalistic alien religious cults and actual hellfire.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/pGuupTk8HkU

I have a carefully curated collection of 60s-70s British adventure schlock (mostly made by Hammer and Amicus films); possibly worth another thread. All of it is mindless entertainment, but vastly better as such than, say, recent Star Wars movies. In fact, original Star Wars was heavily influenced by these movies which is why Cushing and Christipher Lee were in Star Wars movies. All of them are imaginative, have interesting (if one dimensional) characters, terrible special effects (a positive for me), a clearly defined sense of good and evil, and zero strong and empowered career women. Low art is often good. Will make a thread if anyone is interested.

"The Duellists". I've mentioned this film before. It's based on a Joseph Conrad short story (which he based on a real-life story). It was Ridley Scott's directorial debut, and it shows just how good directing could be using only costumes, camera angles, and good actors.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/9e6XE4E0Rvk

"A Fish Called Wanda" may be the funniest film I've ever seen. Kevin Kline was sublime, and won Best Supporting Actor for his role as a Nietzsche-loving (but not a Nietzsche-understanding), ex-CIA agent. I think it was the first time an actor ever won for a comedy role.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/eRCQs-nqoYo

Double feature of amazonian exploration. "Fitzcarraldo" (1982) and "Embrace of the Serpent"(2015) Good stuff.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Elyp8BmBEI8?list=PLOaddjLeL7waUXWmQaYexs--TGPSS-AbU
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/4ff7TcnqHUc

I'm reminded of one of my favourite fun, mindless romps thanks to the post by perkunos above: the 1967 British spy movie "Fathom" starring Raquel Welch at her physical peak.

"Fathom Harvill, a beautiful skydiver, is in Spain with a U.S. parachute team. She is abducted by a man called Timothy and taken to see Douglas Campbell, who says he is a Scottish agent working for NATO and wants Fathom to help him find a triggering mechanism for a nuclear weapon that has gone missing in the Mediterranean.

The device is hidden inside a figurine known as the Fire Dragon. In hot pursuit of it is an Armenian man named Serapkin who is working on behalf of Communist Chinese interests. Fathom skydives into the villa of a second man, Peter Merriwether, who has a trusted Chinese assistant Jo-May Soon, and is also searching for the figurine."

She parachutes into Franco's Spain thus allowing the filmmakers a fun vacation with a lot of scenic shots in the countryside, small towns, and of course on the coast. The great Anthony Franciosa (I had a high school friend of the same name) is her co-star. The entire thing is a great jaunt, with no message, no preaching, no nothing of that sort. It's pure escapist entertainment.

Welund please note the Armenian angle in the summary I've included.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/ST5AkfNVULY

Cyclo (1995, Vietnam)
Stars Tony Leung.
Not as famous as the same director's "Scent of Green Papaya", but makes a deeper impression. Poor boy falls in with gangsters of post-communist Saigon. Would work as a silent movie, the highest praise I can give. Has a great ending.

Honourable mention to Snotown (2011) which was already discussed in this thread. The name 'Snotown' is associated with the horrific murders that took place on an Australian housing estate (and surrounding locale) in Salisbury, South Australia during the nineties (the bodies were disposed of in Snotown). As another poster said, it's not so much about the murders but about the world in which they took place. The fucked up, atomised and debased (borderline bestial) world of people with no prospects of purpose in life. I live about 8 km's from the place of the murders and that part of the city still has estates where sexual abuse, drug use and mass ennui is rife.

Tombstone (1993)

Val Kilmer is steely resolve personified. Devoid of the "glitz" elements that creep into recent law and order films.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/FRiWAxMMX5o

Valhalla Rising (2009)

I didn't really enjoy the film but I liked how it didn't have some militant atheist subtext (a la Troy or Kingdom of Heaven).

Valhalla Rising was one of those things I know I'm supposed to like, and it was pretty at least, but it was mostly mindless violence. Kind of boring mindless violence.

If you likes the cowboy movies and slightly less mindless violence, "High Plains Drifter" is cowboy as avenging overman. Also, best 2-3 minutes in cinematic history on how to treat a lady.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/RjFuN00yGzI

Personally I think it is a unique and close to perfect movie. Blasphemous to say, but better in many ways than any of the Sergio Leone macaroni westerns.