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
In NO particular order.
1. Moon - Duncan Jones
2. Solyaris and Solaris - Tarkovsky and Soderberg
3. Che - Soderberg
4. Barry Lyndon
5. Legends of the Fall
6. Eternal sunshine of the Spotless mind
7. Close-up (Abbas Kiarostami)
8. What's eating Gilbert Grape
9. Once upon a time in the west.
10. Butterfly Effect.
11. Requiem for a Dream.
12. 12 Monkeys.
13. Born on the fourth of July.
14. Ghost Dog - The way of Samurai.
15. The Gospel According to St. Mathew.
16. The Passenger - Antonioni.
17. Teorema - Passolini.
18. Deer Hunter
19. Dog Day Afternoon.
20. Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire.
Celia - 1989
On the Beach (1959 and 2000 versions)
Flowers in the Attic - 1987
Five - 1951
Wake in Fright - 1971
Walkabout - 1971
Ladybug, Ladybug - 1962
The Baby - 1973
A Boy and His Dog - 1975
All of these are very haunting, powerful and surreal.
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Girl, Interrupted. I find the Virgin Suicides and Girl, Interrupted always leave me with that haunting feeling in the pit of my stomach. Some of the above-mentioned films are similar as well, such as:
-Lost and Delirious
-Heavenly Creatures
-American Beauty
-Into the Wild
-The Basketball Diaries
-White Oleander
I think the reason why these films are so "emotionally haunting", as the op put, is the innocence of the main character (almost all of them "virginal" in some way). It's their innocence that we connect with.
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A movie that was mention before is definitely the most emotional movie i have seen which is 'Night Mother, all through out the movie is tension and haha watching it at 2am it really pulls u in.
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Don't think I've seen these mentioned already:
The Mist (the very end only)
Atonement
Had to look at the subject of this thread again, "emotionally haunting". These 2 fit the bill, IMO.
Another good pick. This one definitely tops my list of haunting films. I love this movie (as much as you can love a movie about the subject matter). The performances are amazing. Wish I could have seen it performed on-stage.
shareAmerican Beauty
Asylum
Black Swan
Dogville
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Girl, Interrupted
La Belle et La Bete
Persona
Repulsion
Requiem for a Dream
The Hunger
The Virgin Spring
The Virgin Suicides
Trainspotting
Transamerica
Trois couleurs: Bleu
I agree with the guy who said his list will go on forever because they're all he watches. Similarly, this is my main criteria for a great film so I will try to limit my list to my favourites and some newer films:
- Anything by Terrence Malick (though I haven't watched 'The Tree of Life' yet due to its very gradual release schedule)
- Anything by Paul Thomas Anderson
- 'Solaris' (1972) - Andrei Tarkovsky
- 'Capote' (2005) - Bennett Miller
- 'Grave of the Fireflies' (1988) - Isao Takahata
- 'Ikiru' (1952) - Akira Kurosawa
- '8 1/2' (1963) - Federico Fellini
- 'Jules et Jim' (1960) - François Truffaut
- 'Boy A' (2007) - John Crowley
- 'Never Let Me Go' (2009) - Mark Romanek
"We played with life and lost." - Jules et Jim, François Truffaut.