Heavy Movies that Change You

[Anonymous]

So many that have been named but Dancer in the Dark hit me hard. I sat in the theater well beyond the end of the movie sobbing.

[Anonymous]

The wind that shakes the barley

[Anonymous]

Waves

21 Grams

[Anonymous]

remind me to never watch these movies lol

we need an uplifting movies that makes your heart swell thread s/o

[Anonymous]

Schindlers list, as so many have said.

The pianist
Not a movie, but band of brothers.
Girl, interrupted

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schindlers list, as so many have said.

The pianist
Not a movie, but band of brothers.
Girl, interrupted

yes. can only see once.

[Anonymous]

Some already named, like the Holocaust movies
Salaam Bombay
Monsoon Wedding

[Anonymous]

Precious
Schindlers List
Spotlight
Hotel Rwanda

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schindlers list, as so many have said.

The pianist
Not a movie, but band of brothers.
Girl, interrupted

Also, extremely loud and incredibly close. As a New Yorker who was 12 years old when 9/11 happened that hit me hard

[Anonymous]

“Siddharth” (2013)
“Osama” (2003)

These two have stuck with me for a long time. Both are very disturbing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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...

I just watched it based on this thread. Phenomenal and I felt it in every cell of my body. I’ve been that child, and that parent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.

+1

Still can’t bring this one up to watch w my kids (22 & 18).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grave of the Fireflies. The most emotionally devastating movie I’ve ever seen. I cannot watch this movie again, it is just too sad.

Nobody Knows. Another Japanese film.

I could not even make it through Grave of the Fireflies. Seriously sobbed and turned it off a quarter of the way through. To make matters worse, there’s a version of Sufjan Steven’s music video featuring this film to his song “Fourth of
July” and…I just can’t even.

Even worse is when you learn it's based on true events.

[Anonymous]

If you are at all interested in religious themes, Silence, the 2016 Martin Scorsese film based on the book by Shusaku Endo about Jesuit missionaries in Japan. The questions raised in that book/movie stayed with me for a long time.

[Anonymous]

City of God