movies that stuck with you all these years

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I'd like to know who here has seen a movie a while ago or recently, that stuck in their heart and mind, that haunted them? my most recent movie to do that to me was "a perfect world," Kevin Costner's master class in acting and subtle pathos. I don't think I was as affected so much by a movie (via emotional resonance from my childhood) since I saw "crying game" back in '93 which is when "a perfect world" also came out.

The Day the Earth Stood Still [1951]

The greatest Science Fiction movie of the 1950s...
the greatthe greatest era of Science Fiction movies...
the great the greatthe greatest genre of movies.

I love "The Day The Earth Stood Still" and love the soundtrack also!

Dead Poets Society
What Dreams May Come
Edward Scissorhands
Amélie

I forgot to comment above but Collateral (2004) with Tom Cruise is one that stayed with me. The movie has a film style, story, soundtrack and cinematography that is just mind blowing to me. The camera they used to film it gave it a special look. I think it's underrated and the movie stays with you after. I think it's one of Tom Cruise's best. Jamie Foxx also was fantastic.

This question was asked a few years ago and many people answered with the Nicholas Sparks movie “The Notebook.”

As of today, I have 6 or more films that often replay in my mind.

Goodwill Hunting - the social worker (Robin Williams) is the very best. He gets it.

Sixth Sense - explains what it’s like to speak with the dead on a daily basis.

Passengers - A fantasy to be them, but without the responsibility of saving an entire spaceship from destruction.

Amadeus - There won’t ever be another Mozart.

Bohemian Rhapsody - I can relate to Freddy Mercury in many ways…being a misfit and a quirky neurodivergent.

Interstellar - Binary code gives proof of the Many Worlds Theory.

There are probably many more heartfelt films.

I think there should be movies about people being interconnected with nature and animals too. Maybe someday.

I absolutely agree! Tom Cruise gave a great against-type performance!

Anyway...

The Machinist

Vice

The Big Short

Fight Club

Forrest Gump

Identity

The Jason Bourne Films (Including The Bourne Legacy)

The Planet Of The Apes Reboot Trilogy

The Lighthouse

Get Out

Pitch Perfect

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Weirdly, A Perfect World had a kind of haunting effect on me too. I can't remember when I would have seen it, back in the 90s at some point. I'd have been in my teens. But I remember it and have thought about it often. I'd like to see it again. Two parts stood out for me. I was in my teens so the scene where the kid walks in on Kevin Costner performing a sex act on a waitress was of interest - I was just learning about such things! The other part, and the part that 'haunted' me was the bit near the end when I think they've taken refuge in a black family's house and they play and dance to, iirc , an old gramophone record. I can't even remember the tune now, but at the time that tune burned itself into my brain and I had it playing in my head for a long time. The end of the movie has a sort of sad, desperate, inevitability to it and that tune just nailed that emotion for me. For some reason it really meant something to me. I remember the emotion and the music more than the movie.

But it's funny how some movies do that sort of thing to you. I suspect its more to do with your own emotional state at the time of watching, rather than much to do with the movie itself. Something in the movie resonates with you in a way it might not have done if you'd seen it at a different time in your life. Or even on a different day.

Maybe I don't want to see it again. I'd be disappointed if it meant nothing to me on a re-watch.

Midnight Express and Papillon (the original version)

Saw them both when I was a kid and for some reason they have stuck with me all these years. I own them in dvd nowadays

Pulp Fiction is fantastic as well

The Thing (John Carpenter remake).
Naked Lunch.
Blue Velvet.
JFK.
The Hitcher (original).
Re-Animator.
Night Of The Generals.
The Wild Bunch.
Cross Of Iron.

I'm sure there are plenty more.

The Red Balloon

The Adding Machine

Altered States

Jacob's Ladder

The Shining

The Wall

Roughly fifty years ago, when I was a teenager, one of the local TV stations occasionally broadcast:

<=+==+=>The Terrornauts [1967]

This would've been back when I could only see a movie in a theater or on a TV broadcast, and there was no way The Terrornauts, a made-for-TV, low-budget, so-so British science fiction movie was going to be in the theaters. If I was lucky enough to discover an over-the-air broadcast of the movie then I could watch it.

But that was back when TV didn't broadcast many Science Fiction movies, certainly not good ones. (At the time the two big Science Fiction series on TV were Lost in Space and Star Trek—with that kind of limited competition it is little wonder the Star Trek universe has done so well!)

Recently I was able to buy a new BD disk copy of The Terrornauts and did so.

I remembered only a few details about the movie but it had gotten stuck in my memory.

And it is not a particularly good movie but I enjoyed it and am glad I bought a copy.

Excellent choices.

Philosopher's Stone.

The indie shark film titled Open Water. It's "sort-of" based on real events about a couple in 1998 who were accidentally left behind while on a vacation and their remains were never found.

IMO, this film in a way is like The Blair Witch Project but for the ocean.
It's an excellent low-budget film that has a runtime of a little under 90 minutes and was a surprise hit
when it was released back in the mid-2000s.