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

Thank you for this thread, I’m using it as a movie recommendation list. Think I’m going to watch Good Will Hunting first!

Also I think I need it rewatch shawshank because I never made it to the end, I found it boring and gave up. Thinking I need to try again - or maybe I’m just an uncultured swine!

Don’t think I have anything new to recommend but that’s hasn’t been already but love the Pursuit of Happyness - really tugged at the heartstrings!

Recent one which I don't think got enough attention 'A Monster Calls' - would be a fabulous watch for 12s up.

And YES @wizzbangfizz, that opening? A gentleman was passing by... shivers

Grave of the Fireflies - I swore to never watch after the first time as it affected me so much, rewatched recently after having children and will never definitely never watch it again, it is heart breaking on another level. No other film has ever affected me like this one did!

Lion
Blackfish
The curious life of Benjamin Button

Seven pounds with Will Smith

Soldier Blue

Donnie Darko
Vertigo
Wizard of Oz

These left a strong impression but I don't know if I'd call them profound.

Evening all - we've added a spoilers warning to the title of the thread because there are, ahem, one or two.

Saving Private Ryan

Sophie’s Choice

Killing fields amazing film!
Also love one flew over the cuckoos nest
Colour purple
Shawshank redemption
Mississippi burning
Oh I could go on ...

The Green Mile

@Frazzledstar1 Also I think I need it rewatch shawshank because I never made it to the end, I found it boring and gave up. Thinking I need to try again - or maybe I’m just an uncultured swine!

Actually the end is the worst bit of a rubbish film.

[ahem... SPOILER ahead!]

That final scene on the beach is totally unnecessary.

For Sama

Trainspotting 2 was like a punch to the guts for me. I think it’s the way it conveys the feeling of wasted years. I saw it and then went again with a different friend, she was left speechless afterwards.
I know it wasn’t a very well-received film and although I thought the first one was good I wasn’t a massive fan or anything. But all the parallels between the two and the sense that so much yet so little has changed... ugh... amazing film!!

And...

Last of the Mohicans

Daniel Day Lewis — swoon

Up ( the cartoon)
In the Mood for Love
La Haine
Strictly Ballroom

I had a quick look through and I may have missed it, but has anyone see Paradise Road? It's about a group of women in a Japanese camp in Sumatra during WW2. I can't forget it, and first saw it about 1998 or so.

American Beauty.

YABVU for mentioning the pretentious wank-stain that is Mulholland Drive as in any way “profound” 🤢

Interstellar.

Jojo Rabbit
This Beautiful Fantastic
Moonstruck
The Changeling (the ghosty one with George C Scott)

Cry Freedom
Schindler’s List
First they killed my father
Dead Poet’s Society
A time to kill
Fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe
Shawshank redemption
When Harry Met Sally
Dances with wolves
The last of the mohicans
Memento
Wonder
United 93
The Killing Fields
Indochine
Les Miserables

Schindler’s List

I had a quick look through and I may have missed it, but has anyone see Paradise Road? It's about a group of women in a Japanese camp in Sumatra during WW2. I can't forget it, and first saw it about 1998 or so.

Yes! Like Tenko but better. I hope not have it on VHS (one of only a handful I kept), but no player now.

It must be nearly 20 years since I’ve seen that. I’m off to hunt for a DVD version now, thanks.