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

There's quite a few films I could mention that have taught me or touched me in some way but the two that I thought of while reading this thread are

Still Alice
Wit

Both were a laser point into the private experiences of the profound and life changing situations that they were in and they were issues that many of us could or have experience of.

Book Theif
Sorry I Missed you
I Daniel Blake
Rosie (it’s about homelessness)

Another vote for La Vita E Bella.
East Of Eden

Schindlers List
The Pianist
The Book Thief
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Café
Steel Magnolias
Mask
War Horse
Angelas Ashes

In the name of the father.

La vita è bella

It makes you laugh and cry in equal measure.

War Horse.

Hidden figures
The Mission
Cry Freedom

Milk - brilliant film

The film Threads in the 80,have me nightmares for weeks.

Tokyo Story

Pather Panchali

The Bicycle Thieves

I don’t usually cry in films but these three make me bawl like a baby.

Pay it forward

A beautiful mind

Solaris, the 70s version (I haven't seen the more recent one).

I saw it with a few friends and we were so stunned by it none of us could speak for a while.

Glad to see I, Daniel Blake on so many lists. I haven't seen it because, as a benefits adviser, it'd be a bit like a day at work.

😂 @foggybits

Yes! Excellent thread!

The Eichman Show.

Another vote here for the boy in the striped pyjamas, haunted me for days.
Also boys don't cry

Mulholland Drive, Aguirre Wrath of God, Memories of Murder, The Godfather.

Cry Freedom battered my head as a mid teen.
Don't laugh but I've never been able to watch Dumbo since about 1975, th injustice of it all, having her baby taken away, she was only defending him!

I came on to say Requiem for a Dream.
But also
Tyrannosaur
Dead Men's Shoes
The Machinist
Life is Beautiful
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

loads more - I LOVE film.

What dreams may come, first saw it when I was a teen. It was completely different to what I was expecting.

Lion - best watched if you don't know the ending first (it's a true story). The only film when I've sobbed in a cinema.

One I found really moving was Hacksaw Ridge. My DH recommended it, we don't always see eye to eye on films but I watched it and I was amazed by the bravery shown. I don't often cry at films but this did make me teary

Land of Mine (about young German POW teens removing landmines from the Danish coastline- a very difficult watch, beautiful, heart-wrenching.)

Poetry (a Korean film about an elderly woman dealing with her recent diagnosis of Alzheimer's AND the emotional toll and consequences of the gang-rape her grandson, whom she's raised, took part in. It's one of the best films I have ever seen in my life. The ending! The ending is a quiet storm. It has stayed with me.)

The Killing Fields and also First They Killed My Father: both about the Khmer Rouge terror regime (makes Covid and lockdown a total breeze to deal with).

Two Chinese films I adore are Raise the Red Lantern and also In the Mood for Love (absolutely lush and heartbreaking).

Amelie- Of course!

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind- Love is not a strong enough word for how I feel about this film.

A Serious Man- The Coen brothers can do no wrong really.

Land and Freedom