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Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are dead
These are not feel good movies at all but I think really send important messages. Not for kids, but at 16+ would be good. There's very important takeaway messages in both.
Grave of the Fireflies
Requiem for a Dream
Requiem for A dream is a very good film. Its quite similar to the much older German film "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" (We children from the station zoo). The original version has a quite weird style in terms of how it tells the story but its still a very good film. Can only recommend it to everybody. Heroin one hell of A drug that can quite easily ruin everything.
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No one's said Network (1976) yet. It's so prescient it's kind of scary.
They Live. I stumbled across it on TV while exhausted at 2 am one night and it had me locked in the whole time.
Zardoz
Oh one more. Contagion. Made years and years before covid - pretty spot on tho.
Evil Dead 2
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension - The quintessential 80s movie. Everything you need to know about the 80s is contained in this film.
Also Mr. Krabs is in it.
Arrival
Some great ones were already mentioned. I'll add Life Is Beautiful (1997).
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Cloud Atlas
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Tora Tora Tora!
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Gone with the Wind
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Gladiator extended edition. No other movie matters now. Tis a masterpiece
Some you need to see to get the references:
- Soylent green
- 1984 (or read the book of course)
- Inception
- Everything by Stanley Kubrick and Tarantino
Food for thought:
- Free Rainer
For something (more) crazy:
- The Holy Mountain
Full Metal Jacket.
The Shawshank Redemption
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
The Pianist
Army of Darkness
Alien
Aliens
Because fuck you: Watcher in the Woods
- The Blues Brothers (1980)
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
- The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) <- The best film version of "A Christmas Carol". I will die on this hill.
- Blazing Saddles (1974)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
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Enemy Mine (1985)
If you like horror and you haven't seen Repo! The Genetic Opera, nows the time.
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The Man Who Knew Too Little
To Kill A Mockingbird
And read the book.
The Dark Knight
There Will Be Blood
The Prestige
Memento
The Shining
Gangs of New York
Aliens
The Machinist
Full Metal Jacket
Lawrence of Arabia