Powerful Movies?

[Cevolution]

Once Were Warriors:

[Show spoiler]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFisojtHBaY

If you haven't seen it, don't watch the video in the spoiler tag above, as it's a major spoiler.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by Cevolution

Once Were Warriors:

[Show spoiler]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFisojtHBaY

If you haven't seen it, don't watch the video in the spoiler tag above, as it's a major spoiler.

Fantastic choice. Rena Owen is phenomenal in it.

[SkyAntoine]

My favorite is The Great Dictator. Chaplin made the film in 1939 prior to our entry into WWII and the world knowing everything that was occurring.

Chaplin's speech at the end of the film is one of my favorite scenes and the most powerful in film.

[imsounoriginal]

The last movie that I found really "powerful" was 12 Years A Slave. Was a brutal experience, as it should've been.

[ZeTi]

Natural Enemies
- Guy has a four-way with some hookers before killing his family

Bicycle Thieves
- Some guys bike gets stolen, has to get it back because otherwise his family will starve to death

The Road
- World's gone ... Boy and his Father have to move south through gangs, cannibals and worse.

Threads
- World gets Atomic Bombed ... and it is not a nice site. Death, decay and deformed babies.

Come and See
- WW2 partisan flick with real bombs and real bullets ... really really depressing.

The Rapture
- Immensely depressing flick (the less you know about it, the more impact it will have, trust me)

Women in the Dunes
- You will, in part, question your existence

[wonkavision]

Originally Posted by ZeTi

The Rapture
- Immensely depressing flick (the less you know about it, the more impact it will have, trust me)

I hardly hear this film mentioned. Bleak sure is right.

[Coenskubrick]

I didn't like it but Synecdoche New York is powerfully existentialist and fatalistic. It will make you question everything you value and hold dear in the world, and the very meaning of your existence at all.

[Moviefan2k4]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

The same could be said for some horror films.

Not many of them; most include way too much blood and gore than could ever be contained in the human body.

[theater dreamer]

The Deer Hunter
Requiem For a Dream
A Clockwork Orange
The Pianist
Million Dollar Baby
Munich

[jabbercash]

Originally Posted by toddly6666

I can recommend some really powerful foreign films - not artsy fartsy, totally entertaining yet leaving a huge emotional impact that will carry on in your mind for years:

Nowhere in Africa
Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring
Amelie
Tampopo
Underground (Kusturica)

City of God is a good one to add.

[jabbercash]

Originally Posted by theater dreamer

The Deer Hunter

I'm surprised this wasn't mentioned. Thinking about it, that's probably the most impactful film I've ever seen.

[theater dreamer]

Originally Posted by jabbercash

I'm surprised this wasn't mentioned. Thinkibg about it, that's probably the most impactful film I've ever seeb.

The Deer Hunter is one of those movies that rips at your insides for so many different reasons. I mean, not only are the goings on in the film itself intense (I won't spoil any of the details), but there's the realization that John Cazale is about to lose his fight with cancer, too. And, to top it off, if you watch Meryl closely in the scenes she's in, every so often, there's an underlying sadness to her performance that's just barely perceptible. She loved John, and fought like hell to keep him in the movie. As far as I know, that was one of the first times she really asserted herself in Hollywood, and she's been an absolute powerhouse since. But De Niro, Streep, and especially Christopher Walken gave clinics on acting. The Deer Hunter should be in every film collection. It's absolutely essential.

[tezster]

United 93

[Engage]

Thanks guys.

The only issue I have now is that I don't know where to start!

[Punishment1o1]

Seven Pounds
Gran Torino

[TheWalkingDead]

The Snow Walker
Good Will Hunting
Cadence
Sleepers
Men of Honor
21 Grams
American Me
Death Sentence
Born on the Fourth of July
In America
Blow
Stand By Me

[Engage]

Originally Posted by imsounoriginal

The last movie that I found really "powerful" was 12 Years A Slave. Was a brutal experience, as it should've been.

Do you mean brutal experience for the movie watcher or for a particular character?

I'd love to watch something that was a brutal experience for the movie watcher

[Engage]

Thanks guys. I'd much prefer something made after 1980.

Higher Learning was great by the way.

[P-Rock]

A Serbian Film
Boys Don't Cry
The War Zone
The Messenger
Rampage
Elephant
Shame
Babel
Dolls

[Engage]

Platoon was brilliant, too. Something similar would be appreciated!