10 Most Thought Provoking Movies Ever Made?

Question

My List would be:
1 Before Sunrise
2 Before Sunset
3 Miracle
4 21 Grams
5 I Am Sam
6 The Sixth Sense
7 Mystic River
8 About Schmidt
9 Good Will Hunting
10 The Exorcist

Answer 1

1. The Crying Game
2. Gandhi
3. The Great White Hope
4. The Pianist
5. Babette's Feast
6. A Beautiful Mind
7. Alfie ( the Michael Caine, original version)
8. What's Eating Gilbert Grape
9. Sid and Nancy
10. Amadeus

Answer 2

1. Stand By Me
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. A River Runs Through It
4. A Beautiful Mind
5. Brokeback Mountain
6. Gaby: A True Story
7. Rebel Without A Cause
8. Full Metal Jacket
9. The Deer Hunter
10. Terms Of Endearment

Answer 3

1. Waking Life [ a Very thought-provoking film about life. Adds onto your 'what if's about life, and the possiblities as well. ]
2. Before Sunset [ haven't seen Before Sunrise, but dying too :) ]
3. Good Will Hunting [ well thought out film/plot/ideas! ]
4. The Village [ Although, the plot in the end sucked, it would've made for a really 'Good' film about People, love... the ending just turned out 'shallow' somehow, and not 'profound' as it had the potential to be and should've been. ]
5. American Beauty [ First movie that captivated me about life ]
6. The Life Of David Gale
7. Capote
8. The Truman Show [ Loved the ending lol, "In case I don't see ya.. Good Afternoon, Good Evening & Good'nite." ]
9. Crash [ (Y) ]
10. The Butterfly Effect

Im sure there's more.... can't think of many right now.

Answer 4

It sounds like you're a big Sean Penn fan.

I noticed you like About Schmidt. I liked it okay - my dad (about Schmidt's age) really enjoyed it - but then I read a review noting that it had been changed a lot from the original novel, lots of aspects were taken out, regarding the man's relationship with his daughter.

Anyway, ten thoughtprovoking films...

The Fog of War
Fail Safe
Bridge on the River Kwai
Das Boot
Rashomon
Twelve O Clock High
All the President's Men
High Noon
Cabaret - and Madchen in Uniform - at first you think they're both just about various relationships, but as you keep watching, you start to realize their world is being changed. Madchen involves a young girl who falls in love with her teacher, but it's as much about rising authoritarianism in Germany. The last shot in "Cabaret" is pretty scary for the same reasons.
Good Night and Good Luck

Some other ones to chew on would be
Matewan and almost anything by John Sayles
Thelma and Louise
The Killing Fields
In the Bedroom
Gattaca
Memento (saw someone else mention it - reminded me how good that was!)

Answer 5

My Top 5

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. The Passion of the Christ
3. The Sixth Sense
4. The Notebook
5. Pee Wee Goes to Camp

Answer 6

Wow, quite a list! Mine would be
All About Eve
The Shawshank Redemption
The Sixth Sense
Passion of the Christ
Good Will Hunting
Clockwork Orange
Deliverance
Pay It Forward
Jurassic Park (could it really happen?!!!)
Blow

Answer 7

Donnie Darko, Sixth Sense, Memento, 21 Grams, Signs, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, The Butterfly effect, The Machinist, The Village, also Truman show

Answer 8

1-Kundun (Scorsese)
2-The Birds (Hitchcock)
3-Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall, Spring (Kim)
4-Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick)
5-Lost Highway (Lynch)
6-Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
7-The Exorcism of Emily Rose (Derrickson)
8-Waterworld (Reynolds)
9-Logan's Run (Anderson)
10-Fahrenheit 541 (Truffaut)

These are but a few in the history of cinema.

Answer 9

"The Time Machine". Toward the end our time-traveling hero goes into the future and takes three books from his personal library. The question is which three?

Answer 10

in no particular order:
citizen kane
fight club
i heart huckabees
garden state
hedwig and the angry inch
eternal sunshine of the spottless mind
clockwork orange
full metal jacket
dogma
an inconvenient truth