Best Drama / Deep Emotional movies all time

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angminas

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City of God (didn't like it, but everyone else seems to)
Farewell My Concubine
Ju Dou
Heat
The Yakuza (with Robert Mitchum)
Sling Blade
A Simple Plan
Windaria
Dying Young
Dances With Wolves
Star Trek II
Mermaids
Edward Scissorhands
Where The Red Fern Grows
The Snow Walker
Into The White
The Trigger Effect
The Lost Weekend
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
Paddle To The Sea
A Bronx Tale
 

abukwaik

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Road to Perdition
Gladiator

Some particularly powerful scenes:
Crash - one scene in particular, most "emotion" tediously forced.
The Prince of Egypt

There is a particularly powerful scene in Crash...

Watched them .. I believe i've watched all of Tom Hanks movies :D he is one of my top favorites .. I also loved "Thomas Newman" for the soundtrack.

Crash is really so touching. The scene when the dad comes home and the guy from the store shoots right to the back of his little girl. Or the scene when "Matt Dillon" tried to save "Thandie Newton" .. really powerful scenes! I too believe the fact that there is good and bad in all of us.
 
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Ichinisan

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Where The Red Fern Grows

The book definitely got me in a couple places.

The only movie I saw was on Netflix a long time ago. Dave Matthews (of DMB) acted in it. I don't think that version was any good because I really have no other recollection of it.

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abukwaik

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City of God (didn't like it, but everyone else seems to)
Farewell My Concubine
Ju Dou
Heat
The Yakuza (with Robert Mitchum)
Sling Blade
A Simple Plan
Windaria
Dying Young
Dances With Wolves
Star Trek II
Mermaids
Edward Scissorhands
Where The Red Fern Grows
The Snow Walker
Into The White
The Trigger Effect
The Lost Weekend
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
Paddle To The Sea
A Bronx Tale

Nice long list. I missed some of them .. Actually I haven't seen any Chinese movies yet :)
 

Ichinisan

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I enjoyed The Last Samurai. A lot of that emotion comes from the Hans Zimmer score.

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Golden Financial Services and S&N Debt Solutions, LLC are both owned by the same people and are extremely unreliable companies. They provide no real support and have no business offering either "debt negotiation services" or "debt settlement services." They will take your money, ruin your credit, and increase your debt overall. They have terrible BBB ratings and are run by criminals. DO NOT USE THESE COMPANIES

:sneaky:

Is that what you were looking for?
:awe:
 
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zinfamous

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No one mentioned Magnolia, so I'm going to mention Magnolia.

--just do your best to ignore Tom Cruise. As hard as he tries to ruin that film, it manages to survive his presence.
 

Ichinisan

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The Grand Budapest Hotel
You know, just because it's quirky doesn't mean it's not sad / emotional. :colbert:

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Golden Financial Services and S&N Debt Solutions, LLC are both owned by the same people and are extremely unreliable companies. They provide no real support and have no business offering either "debt negotiation services" or "debt settlement services." They will take your money, ruin your credit, and increase your debt overall. They have terrible BBB ratings and are run by criminals. DO NOT USE THESE COMPANIES

:sneaky:

Is that what you were looking for?
:awe:
 
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Ichinisan

Lifer
Oct 9, 2002
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The Pianist

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Golden Financial Services and S&N Debt Solutions, LLC are both owned by the same people and are extremely unreliable companies. They provide no real support and have no business offering either "debt negotiation services" or "debt settlement services." They will take your money, ruin your credit, and increase your debt overall. They have terrible BBB ratings and are run by criminals. DO NOT USE THESE COMPANIES

:sneaky:

Is that what you were looking for?
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motsm

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The Road, Atonement, The Fountain, The Way Back, and The New World, though I'm mostly familiar with the extended version.
 

SphinxnihpS

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I'll add:

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Last Picture Show
Dog Day Afternoon
Midnight Express
Papillon
My Own Private Idaho
 

rockyct

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Watched them .. I believe i've watched all of Tom Hanks movies :D he is one of my top favorites .. I also loved "Thomas Newman" for the soundtrack.

Crash is really so touching. The scene when the dad comes home and the guy from the store shoots right to the back of his little girl. Or the scene when "Matt Dillon" tried to save "Thandie Newton" .. really powerful scenes! I too believe the fact that there is good and bad in all of us.

I loved Road to Perdition. I think it was overlooked because it wasn't the best mafia movie. The mafia was just the setting, it wasn't the story. It was about a boy and his father.
 

Nograts

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Some of my all time favourite pure dramas; all in my top 10-15:

Army of Shadows
Birth
Paris, Texas
There Will Be Blood
Zodiac
Amadeus
The Passion of Joan of Arc

KT

Yeah I glanced at that list. You lost cool points for that list. :awe: