Quick hits on the "new" movies on Amazon.
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold--Still the best LeCarre adaption with Richard Burton perfectly cast as a faded cold war spy.
Eye of The Needle I never liked this WWII spy thriller with Donald Sutherland, but you might like it.
Gorky Park--frustrating adaption of the Martin Cruz Smith novel which just misses the mark.
The Conversation--I think this is Francis Ford Coppola's best movie. A great Gene Hackman performance in a film loosely based on Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow Up.
The real The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy, not easy but very good.
The Long Goodbye--Robert Altman's modern day update of Raymond Chandler's book with Elliot Gould as Philip Marlowe is nothing short of amazing. And he lives in the ultra-cool High Tower Court apartments.
Mondo Cane--in the early days of UHF they would experiment with the offbeat to build an audience. They would regularly show. bull-fighting for example and of course it was the home eventually to professional wrestling for many years. And then you would find an odd film like this one playing regularly. It's a documentary of short pieces with some of the more distributing things that the world's cultures and religions sometimes engage in. Often quite visceral and made even more surrealistic with the constant theme song playing in the background. This obscure 1963 movie won the Academy Award for a song which now almost everyone knows, More--"More than the greatest love the world has known."
Among the disturbing images is a more normal short piece on the artist Yves Klein using his human "paintbrushes." To add to the weirdness Klein suffered a heart attack in May 1962 at the Cannes film festival while watching the film. After about a month, and a couple more heart attacks later, he died a month later at the age 34.
Run Silent, Run Deep--despite some Hollywood-type flaws a gripping WWII submarine movie with Burt Lancaster and Clark Gable.
Finally for fans of Galaxy Quest there's Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary. I think that parody is often the cheapest form of comedy and is rarely that clever. (See Mel Brooks' failures in this department.) However, Galaxy Quest is a wonderful exception particularity because of the sincere acting of its leads ("By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Worvan, you shall be avenged"), but also that it's a movie with a surprising amount of heart.
I'm fascinated by behaviors, beliefs, phrases etc. that were perfectly acceptable in the past that when viewed through the lens of modernity appear abhorrent. 
