Emotionally affecting films

[Andy008]

Has anyone ever seen a film that left them genuinely breathless/shaken/stunned after? if so which?

[lodekka]

Boys Don't Cry. I was really shaken up for the last few minutes.

[acw]

I cried for a couple of hours after Edward Scissorhands.

I have been amazed by the brilliance of "Night on Earth" for years.

I'm still in shock at how much I hated "People vs Larry Flint" - or more how much the main character made my skin crawl.  Only saw it last week mind you. 

[cherrybomb]

My favourite actor is Ray Winstone and I think I have watched everything he is in, Two of his films spring to mind

Nil by Mouth, and the War Zone.

Oh! and I was upset for days after seeing The Incredible Journey   

[Rystan]

"Saving Private Ryan" both starts and ends with emotionally exhausting footage. I think I slept for a week after I first saw it.

"The Fisher King" is similarly effective, but is more of a roller-coaster ride.

"Amadeus" is a real tearjerker.

I also cried after I saw "Angel Heart," because I lost seven bucks and 2 hours of my life.

[spangle111]

A.I. - Artificial Intelligence is probably the most depressing film I have ever seen - Everyone in the cinema filed out in silence afterwards - it was more like leaving a funeral than a cinema.

[Dom Tuk]

Agree about A.I. I also found 'Harrisons Flowers' to be draining..(not released in UK for its balkans ethnic cleansing) .and was shocked by the ending of the film 'Silent Waters' set in partitioned pakistan. Left me stunned for a few minutes that ending did.

[kev100]

I'm not a weepy type of man but watching Saving Private Ryan brought tears to my eyes, my grandad was killed in the Normandy landings.

It's one thing knowing where your grandad was killed it's another thing to see so graphically just how it happened.

[Artful]

An Iranian film made in 2000 directed by Bahman Ghobadi. The Iranian title is "Zamani baraye masti asbha". The French title is "Un temps pour l'ivresse des chevaux". I am sorry but I don't know what the tile is in English Ah found it A time for drunken horses.This link will take you to Amazon where you will find the synopsis.

[Dom Tuk]

Thanks fon that artful...i will now get the DVD....its films like thses that i love to watch.

The 'apu trilogy' by satyajit ray should thus qualify for this thread with out a shadow of a doubt.

[LeMarchand]

Most recently, "Hotel Rwanda" - set during Rwanda's recent upheaval and based on a true story. Highly recommended.

I remember coming out of the cinema after "Salvador" (also based on a true story) and feeling physically stunned.

[Englishbird]

Amistad .

And although probably not what you ment, but the documentary 'the boy whose skin fell off' had a profound effect on me, to the point where i actually think it changed my life. 

[cymruambyth1]

I found "City Of Angels" quite upsetting, It's always the films where you think its going to be the classical happy ending and then that doesnt actually happen!! "Braveheart" also left me feeling quite emotional and patriotic even though im not scottish. "the vigin suicides" is a strange one aswell.

[lee_lee]

Saving private ryan and the green mile.  The green ile made me cry so much it ws unbelievable

[spudqueen]

'The Search', which is a black and white film set in Europe just after the end of World War II, and filmed there aswell. It stars Montgomery Clift and is the story of a traumatised little boy who has been separated from his mother. I've only seen it once and I couldn't stop crying and thinking about it for ages afterwards.

[BigDogsWang]

I was breathless after watching 'Battlefield Earth'.

From shouting so many obscenities.

[Dom Tuk]

Englishbird, you are right about 'the boy who's skin fell off'. I was really moved by it and will never forget that young chappie and his outlook on life. Superb documentary but very sad indeed.

[Sooper]

Im not sure that this qualifies as emotional but after watching Donnie Darko when it came out i couldnt stop thinking about it for at least a week and kept going over and over it in my head and was trying to figure it out . In the end i went out and bought it and have watched it many times and i think it is a Superb film. I agree with the Green Mile as well, very emotional.

[Artful]

Do tell me what you think after you have seen it, Dom Tuk.
My reaction to it was to donate immediately to Handicap International (already this is an association to which I donate regularly on a monthly basis).

I have seen much of Satyajit Ray's work and have never left the cinema feeling blas�.

What about the Russian director's Tarkovski (Solaris, Stalker...) and Paradjanov?

[electricpr]

Dancer in the Dark.