MoviesToConsiderEnrichingly
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Transforming Visions:
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