Heavy Movies that Change You

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Life is Beautiful
12 Years a Slave
The Hate You Give Till
Saving Private Ryan
Trainspotting
No Country for Old Men

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Paris is Burning

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Boyz n da Hood

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Anonymous wrote: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.

OMG. Contact is definitely one of those movies for me. I'm not sure why - the big underlying message in that movie was about religion/faith, and i am still very much an agnostic. But the themes - and Jodie Foster's performance - have always stuck with me.

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Spotlight

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not super heavy but... The Breakfast Club. I was 18 when it came out and recognized every one of those kids in my HS.

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

It has always stayed with me, and I've watched it several times. It is such a beautiful and heartbreaking love story.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve got to agree that Aftersun hits hard. The imagery and the symbolism. The preciousness of a raising a child and the idea of depression as a parent. I just really felt this movie.

Aftersun was fantastic. The last film I saw that made me weep. And I never cry at movies...

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Once were warriors

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A River Runs Through It

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There have been movies I've had to walk out of for fear of passing out. And then sat in the bathroom recovering for a while after.

The Piano Teacher
Kill Bill

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Omg empire of the Sun wrecked me. I think all the time about the lady that just gave up on the forced march when they found the stadium with all the old British furniture that had been abandoned. I would totally be her. Just leave me here with my divan to die. I think I read that was a real moment from the author’s life. I was expecting those other movies to be rough but didn’t really go into empire of the sun knowing what it was about. Incredibly good acting in it.

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Anonymous wrote:Boyz n da Hood

Agree this is one.

And these movies are not heavy but I think all the time about Elysium and minority report and the themes they raise for our time.

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Crash

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Atonement