Anonymous
Post 10/24/2023 17:37     Subject: Heavy Movies that Change You

Amadeus.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2023 17:33     Subject: Heavy Movies that Change You

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2023 17:09     Subject: Heavy Movies that Change You

Chicago 7
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2023 16:51     Subject: Re:Heavy Movies that Change You

The Florida Project
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2023 14:38     Subject: Heavy Movies that Change You

The Killing Fields
Indochine
3 Colors: Blue
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2023 14:27     Subject: Heavy Movies that Change You

Precious
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2023 14:26     Subject: Re:Heavy Movies that Change You

Sophie's Choice. Even before I had kids.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2023 14:26     Subject: Heavy Movies that Change You

American History X
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2023 14:24     Subject: Re:Heavy Movies that Change You

Rocky
Die Hard
Jaws
Fantasia
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2023 14:23     Subject: Heavy Movies that Change You

The Painted Veil
Sophie's Choice
Gloomy Sunday
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2023 14:19     Subject: Re:Heavy Movies that Change You

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.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2023 14:12     Subject: Re:Heavy Movies that Change You

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.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2023 14:04     Subject: Heavy Movies that Change You

Hotel Rwanda
Spotlight
Philadelphia
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2023 14:00     Subject: Heavy Movies that Change You

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.

Anonymous
Post 10/24/2023 13:53     Subject: Heavy Movies that Change You

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!