Can you recommend a film for me?

Question

I have just recently watched the Shawshank Redemption. I was utterly blown away. Cried, I loved it s much! Other films of my taste include The Green Mile, Awake, Fight Club, Shaun of the Dead, The Girl Next Door, Mr. Brooks, Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump, White Oleander, We Were Soldiers, American Psycho and Pear Harbor.

I don't subject myself to certain genres, but I like films with depth, character and meaning. I love to unravel complex issues and tearjerkers really hit the spot.

So, any suggestions?!

Answer 1

If you like Shawshank Redemption you'd like 'The Mist' it's a book turned into a movie, made by the same director. A great movie (:

Answer 2

Hey, try Red Dawn, it's about a russian invasion of Western U.S. and the high school kids that get caught up in it.

Answer 3

Check out The Ultimate Gift great actors and great story.

Answer 4

'Snow Falling on Cedars' would fall very much in to the style of American drama that you're fond of in your list. As would 'Hart's War'.

Answer 5

"In America" for tear jerking

"Stand by me" seeing as you like the stephen king stuff

"Hot Fuzz" cuz you said "Shaun of the Dead"

Answer 6

Films with depth, character and meaning:

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) with Gregory Peck, Mary Badham and Robert Duvall.  Peck's protrayal of Atticus Finch was voted the #1 hero in movie history.

The Searchers (1956) John Wayne at his dark, ugly, best.

Das Boot (1981) Get the 3+ hour version for which the original German actors dubbed their own voices in English.  Great one about the insanity and futility of war.  At the beginning of the film, there's a graphic stating that of 40,000 German seamen, 30,000 did not return.  In LA audiences cheered when they saw that.  But they walked out at the end of the movie somber.

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) with Peter O'Toole.  One man with an ego big enough to stand up to the entire British military also has a grand commitment of a free Arabian peninsula.  His leadership and his loyalty to his men is palpably inspiring.

Schindler's List (1993) with Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes. One of the greatest spiritual transformations ever recorded on film, as Shindler, a war profiteer with motives as good as they are evil at first, sees from a distance the horror and the destruction of innocent people in Kracow.  So he works until he is emotionally and spiritually spent to try to save as many of his many Jewish employees as he can from the n***s.

Finding Forrester (2000) A young man and aspiring writer tries to coax an old master (Sean Connery) out of reclusion.  An unlikely, but rich bond forms between the two.

Answer 7

Lost Highway

Mulholland Dr

Really any David Lynch Movie

Blue Velvet

Dark City

The Savages

American Beauty

Magnolia

Being John Malkovich

A Simple Plan

Sling Blade

Adaptation

Answer 8

"I love to unravel complex issues and tearjerkers really hit the spot."

City of God (portugese)

Man Bites Dog (french)

Henry:Portrait of a Serial Killer

those should do ya.

Answer 9

tears of the sun, Catch me if you can, Sleepers, The italian job, Pride, the great debaters are all excellent movies!! I hope this helped:)

Answer 10

I just recommended some of these on another question:

Requiem for a Dream

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

25th Hour

Memento

Pi

8MM

The Truman Show

What Dreams May Come

The Notebook

Answer 11

Well, how about a film that brings up the unclear boundaries of good and evil? If that sounds interesting, then you should rent Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and see what I mean.

Also, if you liked Shaun of the Dead, get Hot Fuzz