Please help me select one of these films

[Markpsf]

I have an opportunity to pick up all of these discs in perfect condition used at great prices. I'll probably only choose one though. Apart from the key variable of taste, which of these, if any, do you think lends itself best to repeated viewing?

The Lives of Others (Blu Ray)
La Rafle (The Round-Up) (Blu Ray)
A Secret (DVD)

Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

Thanks.


Mark

[surfdude12]

I"ve only seen Lives of Others, but its one of my top-10 all-time, and won Foreign Oscar. You really can't go wrong with it!!!

[KOQ24]

Originally Posted by Markpsf

I have an opportunity to pick up all of these discs in perfect condition used at great prices. I'll probably only choose one though. Apart from the key variable of taste, which of these, if any, do you think lends itself best to repeated viewing?

The Lives of Others (Blu Ray)
La Rafle (The Round-Up) (Blu Ray)
A Secret (DVD)

Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

Thanks.


Mark

Lives of others

[octagon]

I can't speak to the other two but The Lives of Others is fantastic. Easily one of the best films of the past ten years.

I've probably watched it three times over the past two years or so and it more than held up. It's a nice disc too...PQ/AQ are great and there's a decent selection of supplements.

[Markpsf]

Clear choice here, which reinforces my own hunch.

Thanks folks.


Mark

[Badas]

I own all three, However only watched 2.

La Rafel is not to be missed. Lives of others is good also. Secret that I haven't watched yet is supose to be good also. Get them all.

Ta Dono

[Kaiju]

The Lives of Others

Brilliant film!

[chimeraX]

I have watched The Lives of Others and La Rafle. Both are very good films. The Lives of Others is set in Germany. GDR seeks to maintain its power with the help of a merciless system of control and observation. When Oberstleutnant Anton Grubitz puts loyal Stasi-Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler on to the famous writer Georg Dreymann and his girlfriend Christa Maria Sieland what Wiesler did not expect: the intimate view on the world of the ones he's observing changes the snitch as well. Looking at "the life of the others" makes him aware of the beggarliness in his own life and enables access to a so far unknown world of love, free thinking and speaking he is hardly able to elude. The movie is so good. It is worth watching. Out of the three films you have listed, Lives of Others is the best.

[nefilim]

Lives of others