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

Suffragette
Made in Dagenham
The Book Thief
The Pianist
The Last King of Scotland
12 Years a Slave
The Secret Life of Bees

Beloved

@ BluntAndToThePoint. I’ve just googled that film and it had me in tears just reading. I don’t think I’m brave enough to watch, poor girl

The Pianist too

Oh yes, incredible film (despite the shady director). Adrien Brody will never beat that performance.

A lot of profundity comes from extremes of human experience and tragedy, I think, surveying the best suggestions on the thread.

The boy in the striped pyjamas omg awful film so sad

Lion
A monster calls

What dreams may come is the first film that came to mind.
The book is just as amazing and shockingly, the film doesn't suffer by comparison.
They're slightly different but both incredibly profound and poignant in their own ways. (More so for me since Robin Williams incredibly sad death).

Beloved

I know a lot of people really rate it, but I couldn’t get past the first fifteen minutes. It was far too harrowing.

So just a warning. I know that sounds strange, given that I suggested one film about a concentration camp, one about Nazi oppression and one about the Stasi surveillance state.

An Imitation of Life.
Wag The Dog.
Slumdog Millionaire.
Inside Out.

A Dogs Purpose. Bloody hell I bowled my eyes out throughout. It really hit home for me as DDog came along at the right time and literally saw me through the most horrific lows.

*bawled. My phone is an illiterate arsehole.

Schindler's List
12 years a salve
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Wadjda
Festen

Snowcake.

Life is Beautiful- an Italian film about a man in a concentration camp who makes survival into a fun game for his son to shield him from the horrors of where they are.

Love this thread!

Never Let Me Go destroyed me - such a haunting reflection on the transience of existence.

Marriage Story was also quite profound, had me thinking for days afterwards. Also Arrival, Lion, Hunger and Son of Saul. The Toy Story films too, they always make me think of childhood and how you never regain the innocence of those years.

Has anyone seen melancholia?
I came away feeling very 😮
My all time best film.

Lost in Translation

2001: A Space Odyssey [mic drop emoji]

Surely that must qualify as profound, rather than extremely harrowing, which is what a lot of PPs seem to be going for.

The Deer Hunter
Schindler's List

I love Lost in Translation.

But most profound, maybe Martin Scorsese's Silence

It's A Wonderful Life. My all time favourite film. Absolutely beautiful.

Hook. My childhood right there 😭 and RW. Still cry when I watch it.

@redwinelove Yes! That film nearly bloody killed me! Lars von Trier is brilliant but he certainly knows how to mess with your head

Requiem for a dream and nil by mouth

Philadelphia.

Changeling
The Omen - watched as a child and suffered severe anxiety afterwards.
Dances with wolves
Sybil
The Boys of St Vincent
The Aberfan disaster
Silence