This strikes me as being one of the more haunting films I have seen in quite some time. I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions besides the list provided below. I am sure there are many more, so recommendations are welcome. Cheers
1. Interiors
2. The Virgin Suicides
3. We Don't Live Here Anymore
4. Picnic at Hanging Rock
5. Lantana
6. Rebecca
7. Gates of Heaven
Watch Irreversible and tell me you don't feel anything.
Probably the most powerful film I've seen.
Took a while get through that one...
Many good ones listed...some that weren't:
House of Sand and Fog was rather gut-wrenching.
The Fly (yes, the one with Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis) was emotionally moving
Mysterious Skin,
L.I.E,
Boy A,
Savage Grace,
The Reader,
Not a film but the three part series of "Red Riding" I found incredibly haunting
Old Boy. you won't be disappointed.
shareHere's an emotionally haunting film preceding disco.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnD9l6Ky_Fs
This film seems rife with parallels to The Virgin Suicides, yet it isn't on the list of movie connections (which must be films alluded to or were inspiration for The Virgin Suicides). The servant girls' envy fed animosity towards the maiden recurrs centuries later, documented by Ceel's diary entry that marks Diane Porter as a "rich bitch."
It's a stretch, but could the frog be Peter Sissen's retainer?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v132/ronaldlisbon/ehbhte.jpg
This is an enigmatic image from the bonus feature slide show at the end of the dvd. Maybe she's trying to show that she's old enough to drive. The maiden in the film boasts to the poor brothers that a servant carries the huge key to her family's household on a pillow.
Picnic At Hanging Rock and The Virgin Suicides are both equally haunting. They are both very dream'like and beautifully put together. Has anyone seen the front cover for the Picnic At Hanging Rock special edition dvd? The girl on the front looks at lot like Cecilia.
share(An addendum to my last post on this thread.)
If she meant this as a pronunciation guide for her nickname, then she should've held two sets of keys up.
The link is for the film Virgin Springs. Because it's a Swedish film released in the late 50's or early 60's, and takes place during medieval times, the character's may lose a little bit of their humanity for some viewers.
An emotionally haunting film doesn't have to be depressing, as this one happens to be.
1. 'Night Mother
2. The Virgin Suicides
3. Born Innocent
4. Carrie (a horror film, but soooo emotionally haunting!)
5. Lost and Delirious
6. Till Human Voices Wake Us
7. The Hours
8. Seven Pounds (more plot holes than I've ever seen in a film, but you'll be shaken!)
"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."
Mulholland Dr.
The Hours
Carrie
The Virgin Suicides
No particular order.
3. The Lovely Bones
2. The Virgin Suicies
1. Requiem for a Dream
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Eyes Wide Shut
sharei find this differs for everyone.the movies i feel most connected to are,off the top of my head:
Life is Beautiful
Empire of the sun
Born on the Fourth of July
Once upon a time in America
Revolutionary Road
i'm sure there are many others ive forgotten.
Dead Poets Society
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Gattaca
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Great Expectations
Cinema Paradiso
Into the Wild
Billy Elliot
The Cure
Angela's Ashes
Rope
Strangers on a Train
To Sir, with Love
Papillon
Rebecca
Empire of the Sun
The 400 Blows
The Champ
Cool Hand Luke
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Midnight Cowboy
Chinatown
In the Name of the Father
Good Will Hunting
Vertigo
Rain Man
Kramer V Kramer
I will never end this list, so I'll end it here. It's because all I watch is this genre, emotionally haunting films.
Oh yes, Rebecca was the very definition of haunting, in my opinion. So was Chinatown. I'm a big fan of haunting movies, depressing dramas,, and anything that creates an emotional reaction and sticks with you for a while after it's over.
I'd like to add:
The Red Shoes
Blade Runner
Atonement
Notorious (Hitchcock)
Repulsion
Million Dollar Baby
Gone, Baby, Gone
The Others
Bridge to Terabithia
A Serious Man
Little Children
28 Weeks Later
Dog Day Afternoon
There Will Be Blood
The Wrestler
King of California
The Descent
Revolutionary Road
House of Sand and Fog
Spirited Away
Darkon (documentary)
Magnolia
...and many more!
Movies I've seen in 2011: http://www.flixster.com/movie-list/2011-movies-5