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

Tokyo Story is so heartbreaking.

Bicycle Thieves, Citizen Kane, Forrest Gump, Schindler’s List, The Shawshank Redemption, The Lion King, Up, Mary Poppins in parts.

I, Daniel Blake
Cathy Come Home

A Dry White Summer

The boy In The Striped Pyjamas
Schindler's List is a close second

The pianist
Black book
The counterfeiters

.... bit of a 2nd world war theme ....

Sleepers

Whistle Down The Wind-
The Shawshank Redemption - came to my mind immediately

Monster (with Charlize Theron)

And The Book Thief. Definitely a theme emerging here. I wouldn't think of Forrest Gump as deep but I suppose it had lots of good messages.

The Pianist

The green book.
Hidden figures

My Left Foot

La Vita es Bella

Hotel Rwanda

It’s one of those films where you think about nothing else for days afterwards.

Roma
I, Daniel Blake
Wall-E

Waltz With Bashir

I love Shawshank. I rewatched with two teen girls last week, they were really reluctant at first (and we had to warn them to perhaps turn away at certain very upsetting scenes plus ignore the swearing), but seeing their tear-filled faces at the end, both proclaiming it was the best film they’d ever seen - that was really life-affirming for me.

The Green Mile

Common

A film made for TV, exploring the doctrine of common purpose or joint enterprise.

So many on here , nice to see Koyaanisqatsi get a mention, PsychoSyd.

Loads of the above so I'll add A Fault in our Stars and Beaches. Both about friendship and loss.

Silence - Starring Andrew Garfield. Found it really disturbing and left with more questions than answers.

Great idea for a thread

Mine are

Silkwood
Good will hunting
American history x
The color purple
Erin brockovich
Dogville
In the name of the father
Blackboard jungle
To sir with love
The butler
Ghandi
The green mile
Born on the 4th of July
One flew over the cuckoos nest
The Truman show - way ahead of its time!
Girl, interrupted
Silver linings playbook
All about eve
The apartment
Casablanca
In a lonely place
The Maltese Falcon (yes I love bogey)

Just to get you started...

I want to see I, Daniel Blake but it just feels way too close to home for me right now

Gandhi

@wonderrotunda Yes! I found it so moving.

I recently watched an Indian film calls '96 and it destroyed me! Two teenagers fall in love but don't end up together due to series of misundersandings. 20 years later they meet at a school reunion and have one night to be with each other only. Then they go back to their usual lives. It's heartbreaking! I actually shouted 'What? No!' when it ended with them leaving each other at the airport.