More like... lost in translation, melancholia, leaving Las Vegas, ???

Hi everyone,

This is my first post. Thanks for the wonderful website, and in advance for any answers provided!

I am looking for movies that explore the emotions of the main character(s). Of course, all (good) movies are about emotions, but I don't really now how to describe it any other way.

What I am really looking for, is more of this:
- Lost in translation
- Before sunset / sunrise
- Melancholia
- Magnolia
- Up
- Leaving Las Vegas
- Turn me on dammit
- Ghost world
- Silver linings playbook
- Dinner with André
- ???

I don't mind crying, but not just because it is sad. I don't mind explosions, but really don't care for them either. I really, really hated fast & furious 6.
I like to feel like the personas - their happiness, rage, sadness, disgust, whatever - is palpable, even my own.

Any help? Greatly appreciated!
MM

Edit: I think 'drama' comes closest to what I am looking for, genre-wise. However, many drama movies I watch come across as 'American emotion-porn' to me... No one has to die to make me feel sad, no one has to scream to make me feel angry. It is only relate-able if it is real. Maybe 'psychological drama' or 'psychological romance' or 'psychological whatever' are the right terms.

Edit 2: Since this is a question, I think it has to go in this sub-forum. If a mod deems it more of a discussion though, feel free to move it.

You might like What's Eating Gilbert Grape?. Just the first one that came to mind.

Loved it! Thanks for the great suggestion. Saw it last week.

Try Blade Runner.

Initially was outright dismissed by the critics, but a film with actual substance will irrevocably float to the surface at some point for the appreciation it deserves, and Blade Runner is a great example of such.

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What Scott’s movie shares with the Philip K. Dick source novel is an inkling of humanity as not blood and sinew but memory and pathos, and for all the ways that Blade Runner is supposed to be so cerebral and sensory, there are few moments in modern film more moving than the final “tears in the rain” reverie of Rutger Hauer’s dying android.

Listening to it, his own death having just flashed before his eyes, Harrison Ford’s private eye—bastard descendent of Kiss Me Deadly’s Ralph Meeker—returns to the Bogart where he began. The most influential American film of the last 40 years.

http://www.lamag.com/laculture/cultu...de-runner-1982

You also might like As Good as it Gets. It's one of my favorites.

Blade runner is a great movie. Fantastic even.
I would not put it in the same list of movies I provided in the first post though. To me, it seems like a different animal entirely.

As good as it gets... I have that somewhere. One of those 'should watch some day'-movies. Will watch soon! Thanks.

Watched 25th Hour recently. Was an interesting look at a guy who has 24 hours before he goes to jail. I liked it a lot.

Confessions (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1590089/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) is a personal favourite of mine. Japanese movie about a teacher who loses her daughter and seeks revenge on students responsible. Very stylized and maybe not what you are after but delves into the characters (teacher and two students) involved really well.

WALL-E
The Green Mile
The Passion Of The Christ

3 movies that work emotion really well.

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A few I can think of off the top of my head:

Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and Dogville - all directed by Lars von Trier (director of Melancholia)
The Wrestler
Up in the Air
Thirteen
Happiness

And if you don't mind foreign films:
The Kid with a Bike
Nights of Cabiria
Wild Strawberries
Fanny and Alexander

Wonderful, thanks for all suggestions (esp. Mingusings). Some I know, most I do not. I will look those I don't know up.

Suggestions are still welcome.
My favorite movie - period - is Lost in translation. Is there anything out there that is in the same ballpark?

I haven't seen it yet, but I want to see the movie Broken Flowers, starring Bill Murray. It sounds to me like it would be in the same league as Lost in Translation, but I could be completely wrong.

This one looks like something I am looking for. Thanks a lot, added to my list.

The Truman Show

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?

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YES.
This is EXACTLY what I mean!

I already watched it, but given that I didn't name it in the first post I think it is wonderful you thought of it. Bravo sir!

I hope something like that is in the movies others have named, and I haven't seen yet.

I think I see what you're looking for although it's definitely hard to put into words. I do know that they are some of my favourite films, though. Try some of these on for size:

The Station Agent
The Savages
Into the Wild
The Graduate
Once
Capote
American Beauty
Punch-Drunk Love
There Will Be Blood
The Master
Magnolia
Harold and Maude
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Winter's Bone
The Squid and the Whale
Sideways
Adaptation.
You Can Count On Me
Shame
A Single Man
The Visitor

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Big Fish was a good emotional film, in my opinion.

One super fantastic movie I saw recently is called The Fall. Punched me in the emotional gut real nicely.

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Hmm, a few that come to mind


My Week with Marilyn


Everything Must Go


The Puffy Chair

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