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Little Miss Sunshine.
The dancing at the end made me proud to be a human
Touching the void .. Joe Simpson
+1 for Finding Nemo.
Also Dancer in the dark 😐
The boy in the striped pyjamas
I just watched it. Great.
Into the wild. Great film, amazing scenes and sad ending. The book is good too.
Senna. As mentioned earlier Pan's Labyrinth. Good film. Disturbing, don't know if I would watch it twice. Similarly, The Fly by David Cronenberg.
Pans had a couple of 'moments'
most surprisingly, recently watched Django Unchained - **** fight scene really got me
I saw Locke a wee while ago. Fantastic, a simple story, brilliantly told.
Yep, you're so damn right...Little Miss Sunshine.The dancing at the end made me proud to be a human
Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki (studio ghibli) is a masterpiece of story telling, one of my (if not "the") best films ever
On a more recent note I found "under the skin" to get under my skin and stay with me for days afterwards ( no pun intended btw), I ended up buying it so that's 6 films I now own , I thought it was the best film I've watched since "moon", I don't watch that many films and haven't been to the cinema since " into the void - joe simpson" came out years ago.
Not so many, which is quite a sad fact as I've watched thousands of films. The few that immediately come to mind:
Sin Nombre
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Walkabout
L'Enfer
+1 for 'Tyrannasaur'
Schindler's List
The Thin Red Line
Somers Town (Honourable mention just because it was really touching and redolent of youth in working class Britain)
Once were Warriors "make the man some *ing eggs".
Must be 20 years since I've seen that film. As splorer alludes to up there there were no happy smily faces leaving the cinema.
Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki (studio ghibli) is a masterpiece of story telling, one of my (if not "the") best films ever
Just come out on (remastered?) Blu-ray too, I believe. Never actually seen it, I should remedy that.
Departures is a great movie too
I absolutely love paris Texas, every time I watch it I will it to end differently.
I also love the English patient and american graffiti for personal reasons.
The film that made me laugh hardest and longest was the first time I saw something about Mary, I literally could not catch a breathe and my sides were killing me.
Denzel makes a cracking film, training day and man on fire.
But can't think of anything recently.
The Lives of Others
American History X
They're both reasonably old now, but nothing's come close to them IMO.
Grave of the Fireflies
Oh my goodness, yes.
Also, in a less suplex-you-right-in-the-feels fashion, "Voices of a Distant Star".
For me though, it's "Threads". Saw it as a teenager, and I doubt I'll ever watch it again, but 20 years on it still finds its way into my daydreams and nightmares.
A couple of documentary films that would be on my list are Searching for Sugarman and King of Kong. Both stunned me to silence afterwards in awe but for very different reasons.
If it was a film that completely shook me then I would have to say Hotel Rwanda....i doubt I could watch it again as it left me feeling nothing but despair but it is an amazing film.
The fault in our stars
As the gf had recommended it I thought it would be your generic happy ending chick flick. Not in the slightest. Whether it was because we're a similar age to the characters I don't know but it really got me.
Warrior as well. Every time. Not even sure why?!
Purely Belter
The scene where after stealing Alan Shearers [s]fanny magnet[/s] [i]car[/i], they go for a swim in Kielder forest, and then sit round the campfire speaking about what it is to be a father, and how they won't make the mistakes their father's made....
Some good shouts.
Once were warriors
Boy in striped pyjamas
Cant see if anyone has mentioned The Road and I also find the first 4 rocky films never let me down 🙂
[url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119873/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3 ]Warriors[/url] Made for the BBC, covering a group of British troops engaged in peacekeeping in Bosnia. Very moving in places, I bought it on DVD and can't bring myself to sit down and watch it.
Sophie Scholl. The ending should not be a surprise, but the final scene is incredibly powerful.
Watched The Wind Rises last night ,beautiful.
(Studio Ghibli ,final film directed by Miyazaki)
[url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1675434/ ]The Intouchables[/url] was very good. Had quite an impact.
"Starred Up"
Any fans of leftfield films seen "Under the Skin"? Bizarre stuff!
^^See Soma's post above Dez 🙂
Edit>>> Bought it as I missed it at the cinema .
After the trailer and all the promotion it got ,I was really looking forward to it.
I didn't really get it at all,which surprised me .
Maybe it needs a second viewing ? <<<edit
I wondered how long it'd take for someone to mention America History-X, yup that's a film that follows you about for about a week afterwards.
Dead Man's Shoes is another, watched it almost by mistake in a hotel, was channel surfing and came across it just as it was just starting, then couldn't really stop.
John Q.
[i]City of God[/i]
Ah haha my wife forgot how that ended right up to, well you know.
Completely agree with hatter
Once Were Warriors is proper grim but Tyrannosaur stays in your head for weeks
Plus
Winter's Bone
Bad Education (the Spanish one)
La Lingua de Mariposa
[i]See Soma's post above Dez
I didn't really get it at all,which surprised me .
Maybe it needs a second viewing ? [/i]
Ah yes!
Maybe you just don't like Scarlett Johansson's bottom enough 😆
Watched "Marvellous" recently and it was, well, Marvellous!
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The Lives of Others
I can't think of another film I've found more profoundly moving.
+1 The Lives Of Others, and American History X
And I just remembered 'Blue Is The Warmest Colour'. Smacked me about the head with memories of my own hormone-ridden youth, how 'love' at that age can be so obsessive, all-encompassing, possessive and heartbreaking. Fantastic film.
Surely the daddy of them all has to be Eraserhead !
+1
Without doubt the most disturbing film I've watched.
2 films from the Bosnian war:
No mans land.
Savior. starring Dennis Quaid who does a great performance.
The fault in our stars
This is a brilliant film, others I have seen recently are;
Fury
Gone Girl (twisted as)
I Origins (beautiful film)
John Wick
Nightcrawler
Predestination (also very twisted)
The Equalizer (not much story but the ending.... Oh my)
Driller Killer 
Actually it's a bit rubbish and very low budget. Once was banned, but it's on the one hand disturbing and on the other just comical (if you find killing people with power tools funny 😀 )
I watched Short Film About Killing on a film making summer school when I was about 16. It still sticks with me now.
there's a lot of good films listed here but not many that truly knocked me sideways. In fact there's only a couple that come to mind that really just blew me away, the first is:
[url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1255953/ ]Incendies[/url]
Then also Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs both stayed with me for ages after seeing them. But Incendies was more just OMG.
Fury
Gone Girl (twisted as)
I Origins (beautiful film)
John Wick
Nightcrawler
Predestination (also very twisted)
The Equalizer (not much story but the ending.... Oh my)
Agree with Gone Girl and Nightcrawler but especially Predestination, best film I've seen in ages.
Life is beautiful
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 ...
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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