Movies To Consider Enrichingly

From MoviesToConsider

Transforming Visions:

• Amadeus - If you've ever felt average in the shadow of the greats
• AtPlayInTheFieldsOfTheLord?
• AnInconvenientTruth
• BlissTheMovie
• BlissTheLanceYoungMovie
• BrazilTheMovie
• CubeMovie
• DancerInTheDark
• HeavenAndEarth
• HaroldAndMaude?
• Ikiru
• KoyAanisQatsi
• SpaceOdyssey
• TheFalls
• The GhostInTheShell (Kokaku kidotai)
• TheThirteenthFloor ("is this real?" -- like TheMatrix)
• TwelveMonkeys -- post holocaust intellectual thriller. (Science fiction; includes time travel.)

Inspirational:

• A Million to Juan - BeliefsCreateReality couched in much more plebian scenarios.
• AmelieMovie - As close to a perfect movie as I've seen in a long while. Manages wit and intelligence and avoids cheese.
  • Any similarity between this skillfully trite apologia (to America for boring mental European movies) and the TeeVee show Ally McBeal? must be just a shocking coincidence...
• AmericanBeauty - like TheGraduate?, this film captures the feel and the conflicts of its time
  • Also like TheGraduate?, it ends without any real answer to the issues of its time. Unlike TheGraduate?, it seems to be in denial about its lack of answer. -- DavidSaff's opinion
• ApolloThirteen? - we 21st century engineers have a hell of an act to follow
• BladeRunner
• ContactMovie - Explores the impact a radio message from space has on earth. the aliens have sent us ... a WebSite!
• DancerInTheDark
• DeadPoetsSociety
• DonnieDarko? - Troubled teenager, time-travel, a six foot bunny-rabbit, 80s music; more serious than it sounds.
• FearAndLoathingInLasVegas A poignant statement on how much the USA has matured over the last 30 years. Not. - But it has JohnnyDepp? as HunterStocktonThompson.
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• FrankAndOllie? - the story of the men responsible for the most touching scenes in Disney animation over its history. A vision of what lifelong friendship and cooperation in work can be.
• LifeOfBrian
• Matilda
• Over the Hedge technology serves nature, folks!
  • and there's an important message about the perils of drug use at the end, kids!
• OctoberSky ( october 5, 1957 sputnik)
• RunLolaRun: Not sure if that movie fits in this category. But this movie does not really fit in any category, except maybe VideoClip?. A fast german movie about Lola running. Unfortunately, the synchronization in the english DVD is awful. Watch with subtitles!
• SecondhandLions?
• TheBigKahuna?: A must see. Graphic language but worth the point and message of the movie!
• TheManWhoPlantedTrees - Totally agree. (This is an animated short.)
• Tootsie - "I think Dorothy's smawter than me" - Dustin Hoffman
• Traffic - marketed as a brainless WarOnSomeDrugs? thriller. Is, instead, a clinical exploration of hypocrisy at all levels

Romance:

• Brief Encounter Boiling with supressed passion.
• CasablancaMovie? -- a romantic movie that guys can understand
• TheLover? -- another romantic movie that guys can understand
  • Sure - if you're the kind of guy who would dump an underage French nymphomaniac hotty just to keep your opium habit hooked to daddy's money supply...
• TheVanishing? (1988)
• Y Tu Mama Tambien and yo mamma too airhead young-adult culture's the backdrop for a very proper psychologically correct love story. Influence: LoveAndRockets