Movies That Changed Your Life

Ladder 49, and (500) Days of Summer.

Little MIss Sunshine, The Shawshank Redemption (amazing film) My Sister's Keeper and City of Angels. The last two make me cry to even think of, and city of angels I just think is one of the cruelest films i've ever watched but really made me appreciate life and love and all of that. It's stuck with me ever since I watched it.

Two Brothers - it's about two tiger cubs (They're brothers) who grow up in completely different situations and are separated by humans, but in the end still find each other. I think it has a lot of meaning towards family and all, it's an a amazing story.

The Royal Tenenbaums. For sure. It changed the way I viewed film almost to the point where I'm considering film studies in college. The way (director) Wes Anderson uses beautiful cinamatography and simple dialouge to create a world which is both real and surreal is sublime. This movie takes a bird's eye view of what it truly means to be a family from the viewpoints of the most original characters I've seen in any piece of media to date. Life. Changing.

Closer.
It changed everything for me. Writing, relationships, beauty. It's one of my favorite films, but I can't watch it more than 2/3 times a year because it hurts too much.

Pursuit of Happiness was a big one, also Seven Pounds, The Lovely Bones, Bridge To Terabithia, All I Wanna Do, and A Walk To Remember :P

Lots of movies have changed my life in little ways, but I can think of three big ones.

The Lion King. My favorite film of all time, my childhood go-to movie for any feeling or occasion, and it still has a special and dear place in my heart. Nothing can replace it.

Requiem for a Dream. The most intense, brutal, and downright horrifying film I have ever seen. It reveals so much about addiction and power and loss and pain and just everything. I couldn't sleep for days after seeing it. It's the first movie that's ever just punched me in the gut to watch. I saw it once, maybe twice years ago, and I still can recall it vividly, and I do not generally have a good memory for movies. It sticks with you, whether you can personally relate to drug use and addiction or not. The book is pretty raw, too.

RENT. It just tore my heart open in the best way. It struck something so deep in me, and I'll never understand why. It's not so much that I related so directly to it or that it changed my outlook on life or anything, it just... I just fell in love. It inspired me, sure, but it just won my heart and I was head over heels for it from day one. It's the movie equivalent, for me, of a person you meet once and then just suddenly cannot imagine your life without them. It means the world to me. I feel like I'm getting so rambly and emotional because since I saw the movie for the first time in middle school, it's been my dream to see the stage version. I've tried and tried and missed countless opportunities to see it live and been so crushed and disheartened every time. And now, finally, after around six years of waiting, hoping, trying, and wishing, I'm going to get to see it this saturday. I have a feeling I'm going to be bawling before the house lights even go down.

I can't believe nobody else said this one, Matrix.
I love it, actually I've lost count of how many times I've watched this movie and each time I find out more meaningful things that I did not see before, it's simply amazing. Well, the first one, of course. I don't care much about the others.

And

Le Fabuleux Destin D'Amélie Poulain
Sometimes I'm a lot like Amélie I mean, she's lovely but not exactly functional. And this movie showed me a LOT of things I needed to change in myself.

Mona Lisa Smile
I always had the wrong idea about feminism, till this movie

Dead Poets Society
Carpe Diem, man!

There are a lot of other amazing movies I've watched but none of them really changed my life, so I'll leave it at it, for now.

Hachi: A Dog's Tale. I'm usually not into animal movies that much--usually because they end up with sad endings--but this seemed like it would be happy.
I was sobbing the rest of the night.
It was just so...inspirational. It was based off a true story, and it shows a dog's compassion for its owner, no matter what happens and what separates them. It's terribly sad. I'm on the verge of tears just talking about it now. :(

The Sound of Music

Mary Poppins

White Christmas

Wings

Sophie's Choice

Band of Brothers/The Pacific (if mini-series' count)

@ gleek
Have to agree with you. Requiem for a Dream changed my life. To be honest, it saved me from heroin, and it just stuck with me. It seriously portrays the intensity of an addiction.

Trainspotting and SLC Punk also changed me. Both movies were like a punch to the face, making me realize things I had to change about myself.

Like Crazy.

It's about the love between an American boy and an English girl. After overstaying her student visa, she gets banned from going to America, forcing the two into a long distance relationship.

It doesn't give me inspiration, but the film gave me an insight of the harshness of reality and love.

Noi Albinoi.

It's an Icelandic film about an albino genius bored with his life and he tries to escape through various failed ways.

I was fourteen when I saw it and it really was unlike anything I had been exposed to up until that point. It was the catalyst for me deciding to get into film. I knew I wanted to be involved with that, whatever that was.

I remember watching Se7en and having my mind blown. There are a few directors and actors that I follow and will watch ANYTHING they make, and David Fincher is one of them. He and Edward Norton are the only reason I will watch Fight Club.

Also, another couple of movies that really speak to me are Puncture and Thanks for Sharing.

The Deep Blue Sea, Rachael Weisz and Tom Hiddleston. It's an adaptation of the Terence Rattigan play where the wife of a judge has an affair with an RAF pilot, and takes place after her failed suicide attempt.

It's a heavy drama, but it illustrated a complexity in the hearts of people, how something (a life) can go so wrong without a villian to blame.
How people make poor decisions, knowingly, and yet go for it anyway, how sometimes there is no one to blame, and people are just different, have different needs, want different things...
Course I watched this at a weird time in my life where I think the idea of blameless doomed situations was paradigm shifting and really really terrifying.

It's a great film though.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Background? Haven't we all wished at one time or another that we could erase our memories of a person from our lives before?

Les Mis
Background? Seeing that musical as a movie just made it come even more alive for me and yes that's life changing.

Listen To Your Heart
Background? Hmm...not sure actually, other than, after I watched it, I can't believe I put off watching it on Netflix for so long because now it's one of my favorites....