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. What is your level? See also my list of paradigm-shifting books,
http://www.listsofbests.com/list/61132
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The Notebook (New Line Platinum Series)
by Nick Cassavetes
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Misery
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The Shawshank Redemption
by Frank Darabont
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Thank You for Smoking (Widescreen Edition)
by Jason Reitman
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Lord of War (Widescreen)
by Andrew Niccol
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Groundhog Day (Special Edition)
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Who Killed the Electric Car?
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Bowling for Columbine
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John Q
by Nick Cassavetes
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Sicko (Special Edition)
by Michael Moore
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Waking Life
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Vanilla Sky
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The Bridges of Madison County
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The Island
by Michael Bay
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Hotel Rwanda
by Terry George
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Lorenzo's Oil
by George Miller (II)
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Runaway Jury (Widescreen Edition)
by Gary Fleder
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Total Recall
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Fahrenheit 9/11
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The Truman Show
by Peter Weir
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Dark City (New Line Platinum Series)
by Alex Proyas
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The Matrix
by Larry Wachowski
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The God Who Wasn't There
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Life of Brian
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The Constant Gardener (Widescreen Edition)
by Fernando Meirelles
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
by Michael Radford
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Beyond Borders (Widescreen Edition)
by Martin Campbell
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Anna and the King
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The Machinist 1
by Brad Anderson
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Minority Report (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
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Memento
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Before Sunrise
by Richard Linklater
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Before Sunset
by Richard Linklater
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Gattaca
by Andrew Niccol
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The Sixth Sense (Collector's Edition Series)
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The Butterfly Effect (Infinifilm Edition)
by J. Mackye Gruber
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The Last Temptation of Christ - Criterion Collection
by Martin Scorsese
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Dot the I
by Matthew Parkhill
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