What movie has made your jaw drop that I probably haven't seen?

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Anonymous wrote:I Am Love starring Tilda Swinton. In Italian and English. Great ending! Love love that movie.

....for Tilda's wardrobe if nothing else...

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Anonymous wrote:I am always looking for movies that stay with you. That at the end of the movie you are like OMFG!! Wow. A movie that sticks with you.

Children of Men

Wow, first movie that came to my mind too!

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Pumpkin

It was a romance/comedy between a mentally disabled young man and a normal young woman. The comedy part makes fun of sorority types.

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Bad Words with Jason Bateman

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Natural Born Killers
Das Boot
The Innocents (w. deborah Kerr)

Shame (the australian version about a town where everyone covers up rapes)

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The Act of Killing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQhIRBxbchU
Absolutely amazing. Looking forward to the sequel, The Look of Silence.

Act of Killing is one of those rare movies that I get kind of militant about with family and friends. I really want everyone to see that movie.

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The Life of David Gale

A Star is Born.

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Pleasantville

Dean Spanley (with Sam Neill and Peter O Toole). It starts slowly like some kind of Masterpiece theatre piece, then after 20 minutes turns into a riotous story of reincarnation. Great for anyone who has ever loved a dog.

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Anonymous wrote:Oldboy
Midnight Express

+1.

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The Game with Michael Douglas -- Very unknown but it effects you in a way no other movie has since.

Radio Flyer -- You will be thinking about the ending long after you watch it. Very sad movie.

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Anonymous wrote:Blood Diamond
Requiem for a Dream

Requiem for a Dream is a mind trip, a very good movie.

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I loved Joy Luck Club - awesome!

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Anonymous wrote:Snowpiercer

+1

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Fortress, a little-known Australian movie shown on HBO in the 80s. Loosely based on true life events. A bit of horror, a bit of Lord of the Flies.

This thread prompted me to go back and look up the title, and when I found it, I read a lot of reviews. Apparently I wasn't the only child of the 80s haunted by this movie.

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Anonymous wrote:OK, she said movies she likely hasn't seen, so I'm not sure why people are recommending these huge blockbusters?

Well, Gladiator was big, but I don't remember it staying with me. I want to see it again now because I think I was distracted the first time, and I had a hard time with his family/kid/whatever happened to them... Gladiator poster, what was it about the movie? Haunting?

As a parent, I found it haunting because he held his family close in his heart, as did his fellow gladiator friend, despite all the violence and tragedy they experienced. I don't think I would have felt that way were I not a parent at the time. I also found Russell Crowe's "A Brilliant Mind" even more haunting. He should have won the Oscar for that one. I do have a sibling with schizophrenia and found it to be an eye-opener, even with its "creative" differences from the real story. [/quote]

+1. Agree completely. I also have a sibling with schizophrenia and it was absolutely eye-opening and a jaw-dropper for someone unfamiliar with the real-life story upon which it was based.