Thelma and Louise would come the closest for me. Specifically the scene where they are complaining about men and one says to the other "You get what you settle for."
I think about that when deciding things and it has improved my life.
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#42A Beautiful Mind.
And quite recently, That Sugar Film!
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#43Network
Dr Strangelove
Star Wars
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#44May be cliche, but "2001: A Space Odyssey" was huge for me the first time I really watched it through. Kubrick, in his own way, created a timepiece that reflected and captured the revolutionary mood of the late 1960's without ever having to directly bring it up. It is truly a movie about humanity and one which completely describes all my hopes and fears for the future of our kind. Not only that, but the film is really beautifully well done. Every shot feels like it means something. Every line of dialogue either drives the plot forward or serves to add greater meaning and mood to the storytelling. It's just a monumental work that I think everyone should at least try to see at some point in their life.
Also, "Synecdoche, New York" is a very depressing and introspective movie that left me reeling for days. Hard to get through, but very worth.
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#45Das Boot taught me that war is nasty for all inside and that there are humans on all sides, abused into submission and dillusion by the war mongers. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Watch the longest version you can find, I prefer the mini series.
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#46My Dinner with Andre
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#47'Explorers' when I was a kid. It really inspired me to take things apart and put them back together -- preferably in new and useful ways.
It also kick started a life long love of sci-fi.
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#48Trust (2010) because it addressed a common issue with a new angle (at least for me) that I find very interesting, and troubling even though I have no doubt it exists.
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#49The Animatrix. The best reason to watch the live action trilogy is to be sufficiently informed to watch this. It delves far deeper into the philosophy and psychedelia of technology than the live action films. And it's made and voiced by the same people.
Big Fish. How will you live if you know the exact moment you're going to die?
The Wicker Man. Weird. Christopher Lee apparently said it was his best work?
Waking Life.
The Big Lebowski.
A Serious Man
O Brother Where Art Thou.
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#50Baraka - both format and content was one of the first movies that really made me "think" & realize how many different experiences of being human can exist.
I know this is off topic, but one of the fist / only books that ever really changed my view on the world around me was "Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness" - I have never seen things quiet the same way after reading this.