Thread: Movie Recommendations

Primer.

Across the Universe
Celestine Prophecy
District9
What the bleep do we know
The Book of Eli
Princess Monanoke
Spirited Away
Ponyo on the Cliff
Karas1&2
Casshern
-Look up the movies Mel Gibson has done, you'll enjoy most all of them-
The Road


I'll post more, but we have other threads that have these answers and more in them, a simple search will reveal them.

The Darjeeling limited. Nice one.

Waking life. Nice one.

The Darjeeling Limited is great.

If you want something more obscure than you've ever seen, look for Eraserhead.

The most bizarre and metaphorically artistic movie I've seen.

Originally Posted by Catbus

The Darjeeling Limited is great.

Haaaa, totally

And have a first "thanks" for that

Avatar is great, so is Sherlock Holmes I hear. Also The Lovely Bones.

Originally Posted by Spenner

If you want something more obscure than you've ever seen, look for Eraserhead.

The most bizarre and metaphorically artistic movie I've seen.

Saw it in a cinema.

Was good. Rewatching at home nowhere near as atmospherically claustrophobic and paranoia-inducing.

It was for me because I watched it in a dark basement with nobody home except the friend I watched it with at one in the morning. Still, I would have loved to have seen it in theatres.

Another extremely... err, "curious movie" would be Visitor Q. You just sort of have to watch it to understand how incredibly weird it is. Almost comically weird.

thank you all for your contributions, i will be watching these movies over the next few days, and if anyone has requests for a specific genre you can ask and i or someone else will contribute.

Also dreamy ( a bit ) are "The Restless" and "The Forbidden Kingdom"

Originally Posted by MementoMori

What the bleep do we know
.

Badd answer. Alot of the stuff in this movie is fabricated, and alot of the scientists portrayed in it were cut out of context and stuff. There's been a shitton of complaints and controversy about how this movie pushes it's own cult agenda at the expense of the actual truth. it's baddd.


As far as my recommendations for philosophical or psychological movies go:

Lost Highway
Mulholland Drive
Fargo
The Big Lebowski
Primer
INLAND EMPIRE
The Thin Red Line
Burn After Reading
Being John Malkovich
Adaptation
Synecdoche, New York
Pi
Requiem For A Dream
Blade Runner
The Truman Show
Kids
Memento
Wild Strawberries
Any of "The faith trilogy" by Ingmar Bergman
Apocalypse Now
The Seventh Seal
Groundhog Day
Run, Lola, Run
A Man for all Seasons
La Strada
American History X
2001: A Space Odyssey
12 Monkeys
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Brazil
Amelie
Solaris
STALKER
Trainspotting
Jacob's Ladder
Session 9
American Beauty
Taxi Driver
A Clockwork Orange
Donnie Darko
The New World
Days Of Heaven
Oldboy
A Bittersweet Life
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Faust[Oldest version you can find]
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Hamlet [all versions are decent]
Jean De Florette
Manon De Sources
Annie Hall
The Unforgiven
High Noon
Blue Velvet [real hard going]
Three Colors: Red White and Blue [this is three seperate movies]
Grave of the Fireflies [I NEARLY WEEPED AT THIS]
Lawrence of Arabia
Lost in Translation
Inherit the Wind
Rambo: First Blood [This is a highly existentialist movie, believe it or not]
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest


I can't think of too many more off the top of my head, but this list should keep you going for a good while.

I can guarantee all of these movies are really very good, in my humble opinion.

If you want some more, ask.

Oh my god, don't we dare forget THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT ! First one though, nr 2 sucked.

Originally Posted by Carôusoul

Badd answer. Alot of the stuff in this movie is fabricated, and alot of the scientists portrayed in it were cut out of context and stuff. There's been a shitton of complaints and controversy about how this movie pushes it's own cult agenda at the expense of the actual truth. it's baddd.

Yeah, most of it is very misleading i agree, but there are a few bits and pieces one can find intriguing if you can keep a knowledgeable mind whilst watching it. Mostly it's the physics that's effed in it, they make radical unproven claims, and some truly shitty references to other philosophies... you know what, just avoid it overall deathxel, lol that's the better suggestion that or take the movie with a teaspoon of salt.

Originally Posted by MementoMori

Yeah, most of it is very misleading i agree, but there are a few bits and pieces one can find intriguing if you can keep a knowledgeable mind whilst watching it. Mostly it's the physics that's effed in it, they make radical unproven claims, and some truly shitty references to other philosophies... you know what, just avoid it overall deathxel, lol that's the better suggestion that or take the movie with a teaspoon of salt.

Yes. When it's that hard to sift the shit from actual fact it's probably not worth the time.

Originally Posted by LostKiddo

Oh my god, don't we dare forget THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT ! First one though, nr 2 sucked.

Oh my GOD that was was so amazing! I was like, "Phtththtp!" I want that! It was pretty amazing. I wish number 2 was carrying off from the same guy though.

nice list carousoul you have a lot of good movies there, some i havent seen though

Originally Posted by deathxel

nice list carousoul you have a lot of good movies there, some i havent seen though

Check em out bro. you won't regret it.

yesh. Kutcher is ftw in that one

Originally Posted by Muggler

Oh my GOD that was was so amazing! I was like, "Phtththtp!" I want that! It was pretty amazing. I wish number 2 was carrying off from the same guy though.

That list is incredible Carou.

Jean De Florette
Manon De Sources

These two slightly surprise me. I liked them, though they were generally very sad movies.

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Those that haven't already been mentioned.
Garden State, 12 Angry Men, Let The Right One In.

Originally Posted by Xox

That list is incredible Carou.



These two slightly surprise me. I liked them, though they were generally very sad movies.

They're sad but they have some pretty strong philosophical themes, which the OP asked for.

Also:

The Machinist.

Good movie.

Pretty Psychological.

Carôusoul, we have quite similar tastes, I'd say.

I just saw 'Everything is illumniated', off of the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
and liked it.

A few days ago I saw Anthony Hopkin's 'Slipstream'. Somewhere I read
the comment 'like Mullholland drive on pcp', which fits quite well, I'd say.

For the artistic ones I'd recommend Akira Kurosawa's 'Dreams'.

And if you want to feel good in the end of the day, watch 'Amelie'.

This off the top of my head.

Well, most of the movies I was going to recommend have already been recommended!

David Lynch is an imperative; I'll just add Phone Booth, Lucky Number Slevin, A Beautiful Mind.