Heavy Movies that Change You
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I am on a Julia Roberts streak and found The Normal Heart (In 1980s New York, a writer (Mark Ruffalo) and his friends join forces to expose the truth about the emerging AIDs crisis to both the government and the gay community.). I highly recommend it, it brought up a lot of emotions but enhanced my knowledge about the gay community since I'm on the younger side.
What movies have you watched that changed your thinking or hit you really hard? Bonus if they are on streaming for free! |
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A lot of them deal with the Holocaust:
Life is Beautiful Schindler's List But also some WW2 war movies like Saving Private Ryan Going with the gay/HIV theme you might also want to check out Philadelphia and Dallas Buyers Club. Also, Angels in America. |
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Hotel Rwanda
Spotlight Philadelphia |
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Requiem for a Dream and Pi (both Darren Aronofsky films) are very heavy and thought provoking in a way that really stays with you. Requiem for a Dream definitely made me thing differently about drug dependency and addiction generally.
I also have always loved the movie Contact (based on a Carl Sagan book, with Jodie Foster). I think it might not age well, I'm not sure, but it had a very profound impact on the way I think about life and religion when it came out in the 1990s. |
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Some movies just stay with me.
The killing Fields Schindler's list Beloved Sophie's choice Empire of the Sun Hmm I see a theme. |
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The Painted Veil
Sophie's Choice Gloomy Sunday |
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Rocky
Die Hard Jaws Fantasia |
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| American History X |
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| Sophie's Choice. Even before I had kids. |
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Precious
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The Killing Fields
Indochine 3 Colors: Blue |
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| The Florida Project |
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| Chicago 7 |
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| The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
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| Amadeus. |