The Green Mile.

I’ve never cried over a big blackman before or since.. 😯

jodorowskys ‘the holy mountain’ continues to knock me sideways.

considered ‘of its time’ or ‘drugged out nonsense’ by many but id always defend the effort and creative originality of the whole thing. the more I’ve researched it and dug around it, it still stands as a true work of art in my opinion.

Requiem for a dream, one of the grimmest films I’ve ever watched.

Life is beautiful

Good call….such an awesome film.

Although I love Spirited Away, if I were to pick an animated film that blew me away it would have to be Waltz with Bashir.

The Green Mile.

I’ve never cried over a big blackman before or since..

Hora, you…I….just….*sigh*

Oh – more up to date ones from me:

Whiplash – just, wow.

Animal Kingdom – *whistles*

Take Shelter – damn traumatic.

Selfish Giant – I cried. Quite a lot.

12 Years A Slave.

It one of those films that’s in the special category of absolutely brilliant but you wouldn’t volunteer to sit through again, see also Schindler’s List and Requiem for a Dream

Although there were only two of us watching at home, I still broke into spontaneous applaud at the end of Man with a Movie Camera; Tarkovsky’s Solaris was pretty memorable; and I’ll add another vote for The Lives of Others. Then there’s It’s a Beautiful Life…

A short film about killing – All a bit disturbing
Mississippi burning – Perfect study into racism and ignorance
The boy in the striped pyjamas – Yeah that was long term depressing

gofasterstripes – Member
Oh – more up to date ones from me:

Whiplash – just, wow.

Animal Kingdom – *whistles*

Take Shelter – damn traumatic.

Selfish Giant – I cried. Quite a lot.

The selfish giant.
The teacher that breaks up the fight was actually my PE teacher from school!! Now he’s one of my drinking buddies.
That got him a listing on IMDB!!

Can’t believe no one has mentioned Million dollar baby.
That really shook me when there was no uplifting happy ending.

Requiem for a Dream and Pi, Trainspotting, Being John Malkovich, can’t think of more recent ones, they all seem a bit well meh.

Just watched Captain Philips…………brilliant. Seriously tense and the final scene. Wow!!

Rust and Bone was good too………..bizarre subject matter but really great film!

So many of the films mentioned are films I would avoid going to see in the first place, knowing they’re likely to be pretty grim watching.

slowoldman – Member
Pans Labyrinth

+1 I’m not sure I could watch it again.
This, though; I had no idea what to expect, and the scene where the officer beats the bloke with the wine bottle just shook me rigid, the casual, cold violence was shocking, and has stayed with me since I saw it the first week of release.
I cannot bring myself to ever watch it again.
Up caught me by surprise, the opening bit had me quietly sobbing in my seat.
Cougar, Spirited Away is a fabulous film, but all of Myazaki’s Studio Ghibli films are really worth watching.
Although Grave Of The Fireflies, as I understand from a mate who’s watched it, is a very upsetting film, there’s not a lot of cheer to be found in it.

If you want something to really upset you, The Act of Killing doesn’t disappoint.

The Killing Fields.

The Railway Man.

It’s a great story but really poorly cast. I had great trouble believing Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman were the ages they were meant to be mainly because they are about 20 years younger than the characters they played.

Solo, Andrew McAuley set out on his quest to become the first person to kayak from Australia …

http://vimeo.com/10150048

Saving private Ryan … one scene still messes with my head to this day

American Sniper ,just getting into that guys head and how messed up he was

And sorry but that feeling of pride The finishing lap on Cars .. “pit stop” always a wet eye , anyways off for my prozac now

Some sensitive little flowers on here it would seem 😆
Do yourself a favour and don’t watch Irreversible.

For light hearted shenanigans take a look at Killer Joe.

A few more, some of which have already been mentioned:

– American History X
– Wolf Creek (such a cold, nasty atmosphere)
– The Descent
– The original Last House on the Left

Re: Irreversible: A friend of mine had a copy of it but refused to show it to anyone; he wouldn’t even lend it out.

Very recently Whiplash took my my breath away. It looks beautiful, is full of these powerfully contrasting sights and sounds and has a truly visceral finale. Quite an inspiring story.

Saw Gone Girl last week…… VERY disappoint.

I am going to have to read the book – it felt like there was waaaaaaay too much crammed into the last 15 minutes of the film (after the bedroom scene), and it just kind-of fizzled out. There were also plot-holes you could drive a truck through 🙁

I think Zodiac was by the same director, and was much better.

Martyrs

I was trying to explain this to someone and they thought I was an absolute lunatic

Just watched an absolute belter, every emotion packed into one brilliant film. What we did on our holiday.

I watch a lot of films, very rare that any really blow me away Waltz With Bashir was probably the last one that did

Frank. I always say the sign of a good film is if you’re thinking about it a week later. I am.

Particularly how it handled mental illness and how laughter is the only thing to do sometimes.

Fassbender at the end broke my heart a bit. A proper good fable in there.

Two films that made me laugh and cry in the same instant;
Brassed Off (when stephen tompkinson wheels past on a hospital trolly dressed as a clown, postlethwaite’s speech at the end), plus Life is Beautiful.
The Lives of Others and Atonement

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