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

Some great films listed here. I would add The Remains of the Day

(In no particular order)

The Burmese Harp
The Message
The Before trilogy
High noon
Lost in translation
Guide
Schindlers list
Memories of Matsuko
True Grit (Coen brothers version)
It's a wonderful life
Catch 22
Bicycle Thieves

Precious

Whistle Down The Wind
Kes - literally can't even look at the poster
Before Sunrise
Lost In Translation
Hurt Locker
Leave No Trace (2018) - amazing film, 100% on Rotten Tomatoes if you missed it and need persuading.

and Gran Torino

Schindler's List
The Lives of Others
Life is Beautiful
Bicycle Thieves
Downfall
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
12 Years A Slave
A Clockwork Orange

Grave of the fireflies

Philomena
Lion
Green Mile

The Nines - which I'd never heard of, so it surprised me even more.

High-Rise
The Lobster
Little Miss Sunshine
The Intouchables (French version)

About time (the bit where he runs along the beach with his dad for the last time... I'm welling up just thinking about it now!)

Lion

Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas

7lb

My Girl

Trial By Fire

Capernaum.

Someone mentioned Sybil with Sally Field, yes, very memorable.
Also the Elephant man was heart breaking.
A field in England haunts me still.
I hadn't realised that the main characters were starving until I read a review afterwards

Cinema Paradiso - such a fantastic film with gorgeous music and says souch about childhood, family, nostalgia and love of the cinema. When Toto returns to his hometown and sees it through his adult eyes it is so poignant.
Also the 1992 Of Mice & Men is excellent and is so profound about friendship, dreams and consequences.

Die Welle (The Wave)
Based on a social experiment. It's dead easy to see how people can be manipulated and turn against others.

Agree with so many previously mentioned.
My contribution would be The Last King of Scotland - that was grim.

City of Joy with Patrick Swayze - brilliant film

On The Beach (2000)

Post nuclear war film where pretty much nothing happens apart from clinging to the last ray of hope, until it dies. We watched it with friends and everyone sat in silence after it finished, then went home and hugged their kids.

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A TV film called Murder in Mississippi (1990) based on the true story of 3 civil rights activists in 1960s America. I watched it when i was a young teen and i can still remember the heartbreaking ending.

Ive just seen it's on YouTube m.youtube.com/watch?v=-k5YTDlh7Wo

Mashed that’s my favourite book. Will watch it

Do people (including OP) actually know what "profound" means?

Aurora what would you add?

Profound is quite strong for a film. Not many around

The eye in the sky
The impossible