Films that have stayed with you

[MattyWilbur]

We need to talk about Kevin (the book too)
The hand that rocks the cradle.
The Wicker Man.
Audition.
Midsommar.

I'm so glad @EugenesAxe mentioned Dancer in the Dark.

I think I'd agree with most of the above but this one made me all out sob. And I never actually cry at a film.

Interstellar has been mentioned twice. I thought it was utter dross. I couldn't bear it. Funny that.

Schindler’s List. I watched if then rewound the tape and watched it again. Also planet of the apes. The one with Charleton Heston. The closing scene with the decrepit Statue of Liberty jolted me.

The boy in the striped pyjamas.

I remember walking home from the cinema alone (I'd gone to see it by myself) and getting back to an empty house and just needing to talk to someone about it.

In a similar Nazi vein, I watched an old French film as part of my degree called Night and Fog that showed footage from the liberation of the concentration camps. I was about 18 and had never really thought about what it all entailed - it just showed piles of bodies, and rooms full of discarded spectacles etc. Truly harrowing.

Bangkok Hilton (was a series, but still)
The Woman In Black (the original)
Raise The Red Lantern
Escape From Sobibor
Scum

Also:

Whatever Happened To Baby Jane
City of Lost Children
Full Metal Jacket

Call Me By Your Name - beautiful and affecting.
Lost in Translation.
Manchester by the Sea - had to sit and compose myself in the cinema at the end before I could get up: the grief!
Etre et Avoir - about a small French school: quiet and lovely.
The Hairdresser’s Husband - about love, sad.
Babette’s Feast - another quiet film about food and senses: loved it.

My husband says I like films where nothing happens

Oh @PetrovYelyenaAndMe I'm in love with all those films!!!

Sleepers, it still makes me sad just thinking about it.

A Single Man
Osama
Willow

Vivarium. Hits too close to home at the moment, and the kid is seriously creepy.

Hush 2008.

Duel.

Will try and think of more.....

@PetrovYelyenaAndMe good taste in movies! You have to watch In the mood for love.

The pursuit of happiness, had me in tears.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Joker
Atonement

Trainspotting 2. There is something so poignant in the sense of wasted years. I saw it and then went again with another friend. We came out of the cinema and just cried.
I, Daniel Blake
Million Dollar Baby - ages since I saw it but I remember it affected me at the time

I made DD 14 watch the pianist this week, we counted it as school time because the kids cannot possibly compute what happened through textbook learning.

And the insidious nature of what happened to me Jewish people during the rise of the Nazi bastards chills me to the core, how easy people are to manipulate. Awful.

To whoever mentioned the butterfly effect- hear ye! That one has stayed with me and really makes me consider the impact of my actions in daily life.

The Whistleblower. DP covered my eyes for one scene but hearing it was almost just as bad.

Scum
American History X

All for the same reasons actually.

Pans labyrinth
Bad boy bubby
Se7en

Wolf Creek. Have still never been able to watch this till the end..

Into the Wild. Remember talking to a woman in the loo after at the cinema, were both emotional and ended up hugging each other goodbye!

Wolf Creek. Went spur of the moment one afternoon by myself. Great, I thought, about backpackers gone missing in Australia.... My god!!! I was heavily pregnant at the time - was having multiple braxton hicks watching that!

Moulin Rouge. Had just split with someone when I saw it. Sobbed my heart out. There was a guy a few rows down doing the same!

@fluffmonkey82 Dont know how I managed to get to the end. Was hardly anyone in cinema as well!

The Help

@Milomonster Will check out In the Mood for Love - haven’t come across it, thanks.

Candy (with Heath Ledger)
Atonement
A beautiful mind
The Truman Show

I have loved this thread and have so many film contenders for the weekend...

I would like to add Gorillas in the mist.