I hear you! A lot of movies these days are either obvious remakes or the sneakier kind that don't actually give credit to the original they've stolen from. I watch a lot of films with my wife that I can identify as stolen from an older film but they're often ones she never heard of or watched. And new films for a variety of reasons don't often please me, though the details of that statement are too long to discuss here.
When I read what you said about older movies (and you're spot on about poor dialogue being rampant) I first thought of some Vincent Price films as good classics. Have you ever seen Diary of a Madman? It's an excellent horror movie based on the short story "The Horla" by Guy de Maupassant.
For newer movies (and by newer I only mean not silver screen, because my concept and tracking of time is very bad
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) let me recommend Once Were Warriors to you. It's a foreign film, offbeat for an American audience but very powerful.
I'm not certain how much our taste in movies align, TrailMyx, so I'll leave my recommendations at that for now.
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Hopefully we can revive that lost love of films, haha