Films that have impacted you the most

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I’ll go first. 1917. I came out of the cinema shell shocked and so much pent up emotion I had to let out. My husband tried to talk to me to ask how I enjoyed it and I told him I couldn’t talk for fear of bursting into tears in the cinema lobby.

Touching the void. I was unable to get up to leave the cinema at the end. Just say there mesmerised.

Boy in the striped pyjamas
Angela's Ashes
Schindler's list

An animated film - It's Such A Beautiful Day.

I'm not sure how well known it is, but it melted my head to the point that I've watched it three times and I still have no idea what really happens at the end. I didn't know it was possible to cry so much at a film, and this isn't even really a recommendation (or it might be; I'm not sure 😳).

AI Artificial Intelligence

Overly long and boring in parts but I still think about that little boy robot who was programmed to love his mum for ever, he waited and waited for her long after she (and the rest of humanity) had died. Sounds far fetched but I cried buckets.

Deliverence?

Eden Lake -horror film absolutely terrified me, too ‘real’ I suppose.

American History X - just blew me away.

Schindler's List, saw it at the cinema. Nobody moved, ate, talked etc and at the end spontaneous standing ovation. Never experienced that before or since.

Idiocracy - terrible film but the premise is really scary, about the dumbing down of society and where it leads. Supposedly a comedy but makes you think.

Oh yeah! And Pleasantville, Steel Magnolias, The Lovely Bones and The Truman Show, Shawshank. So many great films…

I absolutely loved My Left Foot when it came out but I’ve never watched it since.

@dolphinsarentcommon . me too . The scene where she doesn’t get out the car. Resonates with a moment in my life where I made the same decision. It not a movie that comes on very often but when I see it I want to scream at her to get out of the bloody car ! 😪

The Cook the Thief his Wife and her Lover.

So many moments of Nope, just nope.

Schindlers List obviously. Could never watch that again.

Weirdly LaLa Land. Sobbing at the end just really got to me - much to the mortification of my young teens! The coukd have been montage blue me away.

Totally agree. The coins!

The Pianist. I'm glad I watched it but I don't think I could again. Same with Schindler's List and The Boy With The striped Pyjamas.

The opening 20 mins of Up made me cry. So beautiful animated

One that stayed with me for years, which I can't remember the name of, was of a woman who was kidnapped and buried underground somewhere and she had a tiny tube to allow air into the space, well, coffin. It terrified me for years and gave me nightmares.

I too struggled with the book but found the film explained things much better. I couldn't tell you what it was about now as it was a few years ago that I watched it, but the pieces came together more coherently. That said, I didn't finish the book so I might have found the same thing had I done so

@longtompot for me it was the choirboy, the book pages and the wooden spoon that did me in.
Just fucking no

One from the 80's.

"Threads"..

Never seen it since but it's never left me. The aftermath of nuclear war and what happened to the UK (based in Sheffield so not far from where I grew up).

Oh I'd forgotten about that bit😶

One that stayed with me for years, which I can't remember the name of, was of a woman who was kidnapped and buried underground somewhere and she had a tiny tube to allow air into the space, well, coffin. It terrified me for years and gave me nightmares

that’s the film that’s stuck with me as well. It was terrifying and you’re the only other person I’ve come across who’s also seen it.

I’ll never forget and if it’s true that the new movie, Last Seen Alive, is a remake then I can only assume the people who made it had never seen the original.

Ring of Bright Water. I was taken to see it at the cinema when it first came out.

It upset me so much that I’ve never been able to bring myself to watch it since.

Yes, this was unexpectedly traumatic! Watership down when I was a child although not in a hurry to watch it now.

As an adult - Dark Water (Mark Ruffalo film about the Teflon poisoning scandal) had me sobbing, I was pregnant mind you, but my DH had to go and buy all new pans after. The worst thing for me is that you just know that this sort of thing is happening all the time and covered up, we won't know until it is too late.
There was also a clip at the end of the BlacKKKlansman dvd of real footage of a car running into crowds of people and it was horrific, I was in floods of tears.

Gattaca - it could happen

Threads

I watched it recently and it took me a few days to get past

A lot of the lead up to the devastation sounded familiar in tone

The Magdalene Sisters
Angela's Ashes
My Sisters Keeper

Yes the first 20 minutes of Up also got me, it hit close to home.

The Elephant Man
Bridges Of Madison County
The Impossible

@Loyaultemelie The Magdalene Sisters, truly awful reality for so many. I can’t believe I forgot that one. My mum was only taught by nuns, and can’t watch it because some of them were so cruel and she doesn’t want to be reminded.

@etulosba > I know what you mean. As children we were taken to the cinema when were on holiday in Cornwall when it was pouring. The film was 'Ring of Bright Water' and that has tainted my memory of that holiday ever since. Watching it again years later I realised I'd remembered the otter as being deliberately killed, when it was actually an accident. Still won't watch it a third time tho'.