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Some films have a feeling, a sense of sadness running through them that I've always enjoyed and found fascinating.

A film like Inception, despite its action and complicated story, has that feeling of sadness with the fact that Leo's wife died because he had successfully achieved inception with her and warped her reality. I love that feeling of so much time lost, that feeling of loneliness when he talks about how they had an entire life together in a dream.

Then, there's a film like Synecdoche, New York which is so surreal and at the end when Philip Seymour Hoffman is walking down the empty street as an old man, and he sits on the sofa and speaks to the woman. There's that sense of lost time and loneliness again.

Does anyone know what I mean? Anyways, I'm looking for more films like that if anyone can recommend any :)
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Try the movie "Beyond". It is on Netflix.

Also, maybe Children of Men?
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^Ha, Groundhog Day isn't sad!
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Lost in Translation
Ghost World
The Swimmer
Blowup
The Brown Bunny
Broken Flowers

To name a few.
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Happiness
Dancer in the Dark
Mulholland Drive
Donnie Darko
Dark City
City of Lost Children
Wings of Desire
13 Conversations About One Thing
21 Grams
Vertigo

Those are a few off the top of my head.
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Also, if you like Synecdoche, New York and haven't seen other Charlie Kaufman written films, you should. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, especially.
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Also Five Easy Pieces.
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Oh! And most of Almodovar's films. Check out Broken Embraces, Volver, The Skin I Live In and Talk to Her. :heartbeat: :heartbeat: :heartbeat:
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watch mine first since I was the first to give a serious answer, though.
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turned2black wrote:Upstream Color
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!!!!!!

You know what, make this one your first priority, Dan.
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Port of Shadows
The Grapes of Death (or just about any Jean Rollin)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Radio Days
Monsters
Return to Oz
One from the Heart
Ashes and Diamonds
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durdencommatyler wrote:
turned2black wrote:Upstream Color
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You know what, make this one your first priority, Dan.
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I expect a full report on all of these films by August 16th, Dan.
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LoathedVermin72 wrote: A Prairie Home Companion
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