Heavy Movies that Change You

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Anonymous wrote:Lion

I just sat there in silence when the movie was over. I couldn't believe it was a true story.

Yep. It’s one I wanted to share with my best friend, naturally, happened to talk with her the day after I watched it. But she has an adoption history in her family, so I can’t imagine from my emotional reaction.. how much it would affect her.

Because it was so good I knew I couldn’t hold back talking about it. Didn’t bring it up.

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I watched ‘my life without me’ when I was so young. It haunts me till this day.

Blue valentine
Requiem
Kids
Revolutionary road
Sophie’s choice

Others mentioned Manchester by the sea. It was sad to a fault. I cried the entire movie but never understood the point.

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Adding to several listed that I agree with, orhers that hit me hard and changed me a bit because of young relationships I had been in:

The Holiday. I could relate to the grieving heartbreak and the back and forth of Winslet/Rufus Sewell storyline. I have seen it often and I knew I was all healed up when I wouldn’t cry buckets and buckets.

PS I Love You. No death in my life, but again, I had a deep grief over a specific relationship. (Really, mourning it, and my first college love. It’s hard to be cut so badly when you’re young. And then you try again and it hurts worse, and it brought back some of the feelings from my younger first love).

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Anonymous wrote:Adding to several listed that I agree with, orhers that hit me hard and changed me a bit because of young relationships I had been in:

The Holiday. I could relate to the grieving heartbreak and the back and forth of Winslet/Rufus Sewell storyline. I have seen it often and I knew I was all healed up when I wouldn’t cry buckets and buckets.

PS I Love You. No death in my life, but again, I had a deep grief over a specific relationship. (Really, mourning it, and my first college love. It’s hard to be cut so badly when you’re young. And then you try again and it hurts worse, and it brought back some of the feelings from my younger first love).

Pit in my stomach for months kind of hurt. And The Holiday captures it. + Jack Black’s storyline goes to the toxic break up, “maybe we get back together, I’m so sorry” thing.

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wow the Holiday must have gone over my head. I look forward to watching it when it comes on but don't know that I've seen it from start to finish. Thought it was just a sweet movie.

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Anonymous wrote:Sophie Scholl: The Last Days

A true story about a teenage girl who fights back against the Nazis. Soul crushing.

I literally gasped at the ending. It was chillling.

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I watched Donnie Darko as an assignment for one of my classes freshman year of college. I happened to be in the midst of a deep depression at the time. I was reeling by the end of that movie.

Also during college, I was deeply affected by Garden State.

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As a kid:

My Girl
Homeward Bound
Hook
Edward Scissorhands (let's be honest, it still gets me)

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Anonymous wrote:wow the Holiday must have gone over my head. I look forward to watching it when it comes on but don't know that I've seen it from start to finish. Thought it was just a sweet movie.

If you are going through a bad breakup at the time of watching, especially with some of the same toxic elements, whew boy. It’s incredibly relatable and moving.

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There are some really great suggestions here! But one I haven’t seen that is one of my favorites is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I think it is brilliant and devastating.

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Network news on a night like tonight in Lewiston, ME.

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Tully
Charlize Theron was amazing and the storyline so haunting

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Anonymous wrote:The Great Beauty
Aftersun
Au Revoir, Les Enfants

Loved Au Revoir, Les Enfants
Also 400 Blows
A Little Romance

Wow. So there are *two* of us out there who know this movie?

3. But I remember it being a cute movie not particularly heavy? I saw it as a kid--was it over my head?

I can’t remember now, but I remember when I watched it, I cried a lot. I think I was just really touched by the sweetness of it. It was very moving, as I recall.

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Anonymous wrote:There are some really great suggestions here! But one I haven’t seen that is one of my favorites is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I think it is brilliant and devastating.

Oh gosh, yes! I never wanted to watch it again; it just seemed like too much to take. I’ve always remembered the scene where she asks if she’s pretty and he says, “You’re pretty, you’re pretty” while kissing her. It’s beautiful, erotic and touching all at once, and felt so much like a real experience.

I don’t remember The Holiday that well. Glad to see all the mentions of it. I think I’ll watch it again. Thanks, all.

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Anonymous wrote:OP Again, I've spent all morning googling your suggestions and trying to find them free on streaming I pay for. I won't watch movies about war, the Holocaust or anything post-apocalypse. Here is my list. It's long.

Philadelphia
Conversations with Friends
Donny Darko
Dear Zachary
Into the Wild
Hotel Rwanda
Precious
The Deer Hunter

I assume it's about a month of movies for me.

OP just a note in case you missed it in your research, Hotel Rwanda and The Deer Hunter are all about war.