dandv's "Movies you'll think about"

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Some movies make you smile. Some make you think. Some do both. Some you’ll remember, some you won’t.

Yet some movies will change the way you think. I aim to collect those in this list. "Princess Bride" won’t make it. "Runaway Jury" will.

Most of these movies are not "mindfuck" movies (a movie where misdirection is used to lead to an ending that is completely unexpected, but is coherent with the rest of the movie, and even consistent with clues subtly presented during the course of the movie). Mindfuck movies (e.g. Usual Suspects) make you think then and there, while you watch the movie, but they don’t necessarily carry on a message, or teach you something. The list below is of movies that do. Movies that can shift your paradigm, change your way of thinking, increase your awareness, even a little.

The movies are vaguely arranged in the increasing order of the impact magnitude on one’s thinking, during and after the movie.

See also my list of paradigm-shifting books,

http://www.listsofbests.com/list/61132

  1. 1.
    The Notebook

  2. 2.
    Misery

  3. 3.
    Groundhog Day (Special Edition)
    by Harold Ramis

  4. 4.
    The Shawshank Redemption
    by Frank Darabont

  5. 6.
    Lord of War (Widescreen)

  6. 7.
    Anna and the King
    by Andy Tennant

  7. 8.
    Who Killed the Electric Car?
    by Chris Paine

  8. 9.
    John Q
    by Nick Cassavetes

  9. 10.
    Sicko (Special Edition)
    by Michael Moore

  10. 11.
    Waking Life
    by Bob Sabiston

  11. 12.
    Vanilla Sky
    by Cameron Crowe

  12. 13.
    The Bridges of Madison County (Full Screen Edition)
    by Clint Eastwood

  13. 14.
    Before Sunrise

  14. 15.
    Before Sunset
    by Richard Linklater

  15. 16.
    The Island

  16. 17.
    Hotel Rwanda
    by Terry George

  17. 18.
    Bowling for Columbine

  18. 19.
    Lorenzo's Oil
    by George Miller

  19. 20.
    Runaway Jury (Widescreen Edition)

  20. 21.
    Total Recall
    by Paul Verhoeven

  21. 22.
    Memento
    by Christopher Nolan

  22. 23.
    Fahrenheit 9/11

  23. 24.
    The Truman Show
    by Peter Weir

  24. 25.
    Dark City

  25. 26.
    The Matrix

  26. 27.
    The God Who Wasn't There
    by Brian Flemming

  27. 28.
    The Invention of Lying
    by Ricky Gervais

  28. 30.
    Monty Python's Life Of Brian
    by Terry Jones

  29. 31.
    The Constant Gardener (Widescreen Edition)
    by Fernando Meirelles

  30. 32.
    Beyond Borders (Widescreen Edition)
    by Martin Campbell

  31. 33.
    The Sixth Sense (Collector's Edition Series)
    by M. Night Shyamalan

  32. 34.
    The Machinist 1
    by Brad Anderson

  33. 35.
    Dot the I

  34. 36.
    The Butterfly Effect (Infinifilm Edition)
    by Eric Bress

  35. 38.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four [Region 2]

  36. 39.
    Gattaca
    by Andrew Niccol

  37. 40.
    Surrogates
    by Jonathan Mostow

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Created by dandv on Nov 23, 2007.
 

Comments

The Last Temptation of Christ — 3 years ago

Thie thought-provoking part of this movie starts 2 hours and 20 minutes into it – it’s the dialog between Apostle Paul and Jesus. You can safely skip the rest.


Paradigm-shifting books — 3 years ago




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