I love movies that make you ponder about life, or see it from a different perspective, or with characters actually caring or conscious about the lives they're living..

Three of my favorite movies in this genre are Revolutionary Road (2008), The Hours (2002), and Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003)

Recommend please. Any language will do.

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TotesObviThrwawy t1_iuece2c wrote on October 30, 2022 at 6:08 PM

#351,105

The House that Jack Built

For something that will go a bit against most of your other recommendations.

askanamerican2022 t1_iuecifa wrote on October 30, 2022 at 6:09 PM

#351,131

Mindwalk (1990)

[deleted] t1_iuedgrq wrote on October 30, 2022 at 6:15 PM

#351,300

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LauraPalmersMom430 t1_iuedidk wrote on October 30, 2022 at 6:15 PM

#351,308

Aniara
Melancholia
The Darjeeling Limited
After Yang

Themercyunanswered t1_iueeckz wrote on October 30, 2022 at 6:20 PM

#351,467

Into the wild

The thin red line

A hidden life (this one is very long and not for everyone)

In Bruges

djkhan23 t1_iueeoya wrote on October 30, 2022 at 6:23 PM

#351,530

Primer+YouTube video describing what Primer is actually about is always a great combo

The_Wrong_Band t1_iuegk1x wrote on October 30, 2022 at 6:35 PM

#351,893

Ikiru

OldStarEpica t1_iuejvfr wrote on October 30, 2022 at 6:57 PM

#352,578

The Station Agent

Nerdbuster69 t1_iuentjb wrote on October 30, 2022 at 7:23 PM

#353,402

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

[deleted] t1_iuettt2 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 8:02 PM

#354,608

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BEE_REAL_ t1_iueumyc wrote on October 30, 2022 at 8:08 PM

#354,778

Badlands (and also Days of Heaven and every other Malick movie)

The House is Black (short film)

La Jetee (also a short)

Bergman movies (particularly Persona and Wild Strawberries)

Literally every Tarkovsky movie (Mirror is my favorite that I've seen)

Most Coen Brothers movies (especially Barton Fink, Fargo, A Serious Man, and The Man Who Wasn't There)

Hard to be a God

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

Adaptation

First Reformed

Being John Malkovich

chaintokerkid OP t1_iuevyco wrote on October 30, 2022 at 8:16 PM

#355,033

Replying to OldStarEpica (#352,578)

Love this movie

v1akvark t1_iuf0dal wrote on October 30, 2022 at 8:46 PM

#356,000

Wings of Desire

Doubly_Curious t1_iuf2y6g wrote on October 30, 2022 at 9:03 PM

#356,580

Replying to Nerdbuster69 (#353,402)

I’d say that both of these movie adaptations dropped a lot of the interesting philosophical aspects from the books.

If you want to engage with the more philosophical themes, you might want to both read and watch them.

Doubly_Curious t1_iuf3j3d wrote on October 30, 2022 at 9:07 PM

#356,701

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
Dead Man (1995)

Chemical-Passage-715 t1_iuf6wxi wrote on October 30, 2022 at 9:30 PM

#357,411

The girl next door

Stand by me

500 days of summer

Reign over me

Shallow Hal

Just a few random good movies that make you feel a certain way

Intelligent_jacuzzi t1_iuf6z5m wrote on October 30, 2022 at 9:31 PM

#357,424

I'm thinking of ending things

europorn t1_iufdhlb wrote on October 30, 2022 at 10:15 PM

#358,937

The Fountain by Darren Aronofsky.

randallflagg47 t1_iufh6wj wrote on October 30, 2022 at 10:42 PM

#359,825

The Fountain

grjjr91 t1_iufuhp0 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 12:21 AM

#363,035

Im thinking of ending things

Parking_Mall_1384 t1_iufzxfk wrote on October 31, 2022 at 1:03 AM

#364,408

Melancholia

Interview with the Vampire

Happiness (sort of)

American Beauty

Frances

Zeratul111 t1_iug6o59 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 1:56 AM

#366,239

Never Let Me Go (2010)

Stranger than Fiction (2006)

Into the wild (2007) - mentioned here already.

American Beauty (1999) - mentioned here already.

thealwaysopenmouth81 t1_iuhj52k wrote on October 31, 2022 at 11:44 AM

#378,601

I Heart Huckabees

silent__farter t1_iuhjcpf wrote on October 31, 2022 at 11:46 AM

#378,663

The Unbearable Lightness of Being