Rarely watch much but do enjoy a good film that moves or inspires me .one that comes to mind from way back was the elephant man . just wondered if you had any suggestions .
thanks in advance
Bill

17 again with Zac Efron. It made me cry.

Forrest Gump.

I’ve watched it 3 times, all after finishing a long set of night shifts, and it makes me weep like a baby.

Precious

The diving bell and the butterfly. Bout a French man who suffers a stroke and dictates a book by blinking. Really amazing film.

It’s a Wonderful Life.

😥 and then 😀

ET

The way

Any Given Sunday.

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the lives of others

I watched Shine for the first time a few months ago. Well worth a watch.

Films I find moving or inspirational in no particular order –

Up

Dead Poet Society

The Shawshank Redemption

Stand by Me

Fight Club

“You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you’re satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you’ve got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you’re trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you”

The Champ

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I watched The Light Thief the other night – moving but not the most uplifting film.

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Seven Pounds

Up.

Life is sweet

Hear my song.

A matter of life and death.

The red shoes.

Whale Rider

The Iron Giant

Champ

four lions..

The diving bell and the butterfly.
Paris.
Jean de florette.
All french 😯

Life is beautiful
Stuart – A life backwards
What’s eating Gilbert grape?

Friday Night Lights

Another vote for Up, weirdly good film.

If you want moving, try Requiem For A Dream, The Wrestler, Pi, Black Swan. They will all move you to somewhere you don’t want to be mind.

Also Lost In Translation. Another oddly good film.

Garden State isn’t too bad, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is interesting, World’s Greatest Dad, Shawshank Redemption (obviously).

For me touching the void and the beckoning silence

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Well most of my suggestions are gone!

Seven Pounds deserves to be more well known that it is, great film. +1 for Forrest Gump, Eternal Sunshine and Shawshank.

The Pursuit of Happyness is worth a watch. Pay it Forward is good.

Into the wild -end of thread

Wow,
life is sweet, dead poets, iron giant,
films i haven’t seen in years but are wonderful.
Read the diving bell and the butterfly, very moving book.

Atonement, Dr Zhivago

another vote here for up, surprisingly adult theme (not that way) but also genuinely funny in bits too.

Dead Poets and Shawshank as already mentioned but one for me – Grapes of Wrath.

Toy Story 2

the crow (made poignant by the fact that brandon lee was killed during the making of the film) R.I.P brandon 🙁

trickydisco; The beckoning silence just made my xmas list. Read the book and The White Spider but didn’t even know a film had been made.

another vote here for up, surprisingly adult theme (not that way) but also genuinely funny in bits too.

Squirrel?!

John Lewis christmas advert.. everything else is suddenly redundant

Zeitgeist 🙂

Seven pounds is good. Didn’t think Will Smith had the range.

+1 for “Life Is Beautiful”. No other film made me both laugh and cry in the same (large) measure.

Birthright, great short.
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