To ask for the most profound films you have ever seen? *contains spoilers*

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Mine would be - Tokyo Story, Mulholland drive, Mary and Max, Good will hunting, Whats eating Gilbert Grape, Forrest Gump

The Deer Hunter
The Green Mile
To kill a Mockingbird
Lord of the Flies

La Haine. I'm surprised no one has mentioned it. I still remember the silence after watching it (and that was with my A-level French class, usually a chatty bunch!)

I have watched many of the films mentioned and I wouldn't really call them profound. Moving, poignant, yes, but not profound. And I think the "Before" series of films were a load of boring self indulgent bullshit, not profound at all! I think some films try too hard to be profound and fail completely.

@totallyoverthisbullshit I just watched The Pacific since lockdown - it’s absolutely brilliant and heartbreaking.

So many other excellent choices. Inside I’m Dancing is a great one that I forgot about.

Another vote for Life is Beautiful and also I think a first vote for Alone in Berlin I think.

@LakieLady
I'm a benefits adviser too (well I advise on benefits and other things) and have seen "I, Daniel Blake". I found it annoying to be honest. The inaccuracies bothered me. I spent the whole film wishing he would have just contacted Citizens Advice, we would have helped him sort it out
Quite a few of my colleagues felt the same.

Short-term 12
Dreams of a Life
The Unloved

Ok, all you people rating MULHOLLAND DRIVE, please explain it to me as it confused the life out of me

The Never Ending Story actually destroyed my life (at the time) was absolutely devastated when the darkness took Artex 😡 😭

This Happy Breed

Lion
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Pan's Labyrinth was an immensely powerful and moving film, but I found the violence so horrific that I could never watch it again.

Wag The Dog - especially pertinent at the moment

Imitation of Life
Madam X Both very thought provoking

Some more of mine

Terms of endearment
Dallas buyers club
Glengarry glen ross

Can't believe it took to page 11 for someone to mention Dead Poets Society! Amazing film and makes me howl.

Seven Pounds with Will Smith (like a PP).

Organ donation changes other people’s lives but wanting to choose the people is a depressing form of self-torture.

I can’t believe nobody has mentioned The Shawshank Redemption, by Stephen King
😆

'Profound' is indeed subjective. Some of the suggestions here reminded me of that line of Lex Luthor's in Superman: the Movie

"Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it’s a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe."

Profound films for me:

Koyaanisqatsi

Magnolia

Solaris (the original)

Eraserhead (moreso even than Mulholland Drive)

Gods and Monsters

ExistenZ

La Strada

La Dolce Vita

Peeping Tom - god that film made me seriously wonder about the way (and why) I watch films. There's a sequence in it in which we watch a static shot of woman watching a film (that we don't see) which is of a woman watching herself being murdered - nothing horrible on screen or soundtrack at all just a woman's face watching something off screen - and it's the most disturbing thing. Really squirm inducing.

Kin Dza Dza - long Russian film which helped me understand my DD's Asperger's more than any amount of reading around the subject. The film has no direct reference to any kind of autism. The plot follows two ordinary blokes thrown into an extraordinary alien world where they just flounder in a society with seeming abstract and arbitrary rules of social interaction for instance within one group the levels of deference one is supposed to show towards others is determined by the colour of their trousers;

Midnight Cowboy -

@JosieB68
Blimey I remember nil by mouth
Kathy Burke and Ray Winstone.
Life changing film.

Mmmmm....I ought to watch more profound films but am happiest in the Pixar genre to be honest.
Took me years to watch Schindler's List as had been avoiding it and it was harrowing.

Oh and I am Daniel Blake.

Stan and Ollie (laurel and Hardy). They were trying to make a come back but Stan was pissed at Ollie because he'd made a film without him they made up, fell out. Then Ollie got sick. They made up but what got me was than after Ollie died Stan carried on writing comedy as if he was still alive.. Broke my heart that did.

Famous people fade and you wo der where they are, some will be like Stan and Ollie and spend years trying to get back the fame they once had... Moved me anyway

@EmbarrassedUser
You sobbed « at the end»
???
AT THE END??

And the more updated version, 'Sorry, I missed you' about the maltreatment of delivery drivers and the gig economy. It made me leave the cinema vowing never to order anything from amazon ever again.

Also Dirty Pretty Things. 2002 film with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Audrey Tatou

@Lonan I'm glad you've listed Dreams of a Life. I came on here to add that.