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Name a movie that affected you deeply

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For me it's Elephant Man. I haven't been so emotionally wrenched by any other movie. I was weepy eyed or outright crying through most of the movie. My youngest son from a very young age wasn't emotional about movies and horror movies didn't phase him. It's the only movie I saw draw a deep emotional response. At the end when he looked at the picture of the boy asleep in bed and set his bed to lie down to sleep we both sat there with tears streaming down our cheeks.

We watched it on an RCA Selectavision. They had a surprisingly good picture.
 
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"And The Band Played On" (1993 HBO original movie/documentary)--based on the 1987 book by Randy Shilts~"And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic". I wouldn't know what to think of you if this movie did not affect or educate you in some way.
 
Billy Budd.

Impressed from the Rights of Man to the Avenger where he ends up swinging on a rope. Good story with a sad ending.
 
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trinhsman said:
Field of Dreams
Really don’t know why, but am guessing it was because the guy did whatever possible to get to his dream. I’ve lived that, and maybe that was it. But the movie always gets to me.
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This is another movie where I spend quite a bit of time wiping my eyes. Love it.
 
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My wife's first husband died of leukemia when her three children were all under 9 years of age, two of them boys. She does not cry in movies, but she DID cry when the boy in "Christmas Chronicals" hung his present from Santa.

For me, it was Cars. My father was an electronics contractor that worked on nuclear missile silos, nuclear submarines and the analog computers on B-52 tail guns. We travelled all over the western US in the late 1950's through the 1960's.

I cried during most of that movie. I lived exactly what they were talking about. And for our honeymoon 21 years ago my wife and I even took Route 66 through Arizona and had burgers (which they gave us free) at the Snowcap in Seligman - one of the towns the movie was based on.
 
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Nuit et brouillard (Night & Fog)
(Renais, 1956)

* This one, by leaps and bounds, is the most moving, deeply affecting (pour moi) film, documentary or otherwise, I've ever seen. On a 10-point scale,this is "10", and the next closest film on my list would rate about a "5".
 
For me it's Pay it Forward.

When I was a kid, a total stranger replaced a stolen bicycle for me. When I asked how I could repay her, she gave me the whole pay it forward talk. I've tried to live my life that way, and when the movie came out it really got to me. I wouldn't be surprised if the inspiration for the movie was somehow related to her in some way.

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Das Boot. Jesus, what a film.

That introduction that described how 45,000 german boys (mostly) were in the Kriegsmarine, and 39,000 didn't make it home?
That is harrowing stuff, considering that these young men were likely NOT nazis, just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
 
RobRoy said:
I moved to rural KY and like to tell people that I live in that part of the commonwealth where, if you hear banjo music, paddle faster.
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If I am not mistaken, that was filmed in Georgia, and supposed to be set in Georgia.

Here in Kentucky, we're too busy making moonshine and flammable horticulture to stop what we're doing for a nice, soothing afternoon of Ned Beatty's butt.

:eek::eek::eek::eek::rflmao:
 
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If I am not mistaken, that was filmed in Georgia, and supposed to be set in Georgia.

Here in Kentucky, we're too busy making moonshine and flammable horticulture to stop what we're doing for a nice, soothing afternoon of Ned Beatty's butt.

:eek::eek::eek::eek::rflmao:
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I (re)watched Deliverance a couple of weeks ago, probably hadn't seen it since the 70s. Story -- still disturbing -- aside, I was struck by the striking cinematography -- just a beautifully "shot" film. Another pleasant "surprise" that managed to elude me some 40+ years ago was that the author, James Dickey, played the role of the sheriff.
 
What a question!:dunno:

Without much thought, "Schindler's List" floats to the top. For a long time, this Holocaust depiction went through my mind. I think it was a young girl in the movie that looked so much like my daughter at a young age that made it so much more personal for me. I can only imagine in my worst nightmares the hell that these people went through at that horrific time in history.

This movie has left a lasting impression with me.

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Schindler's List is a great movie that I just can't watch again. Too visceral. Same with breaking bad I started to watch again and before I finished the 1st episode I stopped because there were things I just didn't want to see again.


Mystic said:
Nuit et brouillard (Night & Fog)
(Renais, 1956)

* This one, by leaps and bounds, is the most moving, deeply affecting (pour moi) film, documentary or otherwise, I've ever seen. On a 10-point scale,this is "10", and the next closest film on my list would rate about a "5".
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La Belle et la Bête 1946. My Favorite version of Beauty and the Beast

Some very good movies here.
 
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