From MoviesToConsider

'''Transforming Visions:'''

	* '''Amadeus''' - If you've ever felt average in the shadow of the greats
	* '''AtPlayInTheFieldsOfTheLord'''
	* '''AnInconvenientTruth'''
	* '''BlissTheMovie'''
	* '''BlissTheLanceYoungMovie'''
	* '''BrazilTheMovie'''
	* '''CubeMovie'''
	* '''DancerInTheDark'''
	* '''HeavenAndEarth'''
	* '''HaroldAndMaude'''
	* '''Ikiru'''
	* '''KoyAanisQatsi'''
	* '''SpaceOdyssey'''
	* '''TheFalls'''
	* '''The GhostInTheShell''' (''Kokaku kidotai'')
	* '''TheThirteenthFloor''' ''("is this real?" -- like TheMatrix)''
	* '''TwelveMonkeys''' -- post holocaust intellectual thriller.  (Science fiction; includes time travel.)

'''Inspirational:'''
	* '''A Million to Juan''' - BeliefsCreateReality couched in much more plebian scenarios.
	* '''AmelieMovie''' - As close to a perfect movie as I've seen in a long while. Manages wit and intelligence and avoids cheese.
		* ''Any similarity between this skillfully trite apologia (to America for boring mental European movies) and the TeeVee show Ally McBeal must be just a shocking coincidence...''
	* '''AmericanBeauty''' - like TheGraduate, this film captures the feel and the conflicts of its time
		* Also like TheGraduate, it ends without any real answer to the issues of its time.  Unlike TheGraduate, it seems to be in denial about its lack of answer.  -- DavidSaff's opinion
	* '''ApolloThirteen''' - we 21st century engineers have a hell of an act to follow
	* '''BladeRunner'''
	* '''ContactMovie''' - Explores the impact a radio message from space has on earth. ''the aliens have sent us ... a WebSite!''
	* '''DancerInTheDark'''
	* '''DeadPoetsSociety'''
	* '''DonnieDarko''' - Troubled teenager, time-travel, a six foot bunny-rabbit, 80s music; more serious than it sounds.
	* '''FearAndLoathingInLasVegas''' ''A poignant statement on how much the USA has matured over the last 30 years. Not.'' - But it has JohnnyDepp as HunterStocktonThompson.
	* '''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'''
	* '''FrankAndOllie''' - the story of the men responsible for the most touching scenes in Disney animation over its history.  A vision of what lifelong friendship and cooperation in work can be.
	* '''LifeOfBrian'''
	* '''Matilda'''
	* '''Over the Hedge''' technology serves nature, folks!
		* ''and there's an important message about the perils of drug use at the end, kids!''
	* '''OctoberSky''' ( october 5, 1957 sputnik)
	* '''RunLolaRun''':  Not sure if that movie fits in this category.  But this movie does not really fit in any category, except maybe VideoClip.  A fast german movie about Lola running.  Unfortunately, the synchronization in the english DVD is awful.  Watch with subtitles!
	* '''SecondhandLions'''
	* '''TheBigKahuna''': A must see.  Graphic language but worth the point and message of the movie!
	* '''TheManWhoPlantedTrees''' - ''Totally agree. (This is an animated short.)''
	* '''Tootsie''' - "I think Dorothy's smawter than me" - Dustin Hoffman
	* '''Traffic''' - marketed as a brainless WarOnSomeDrugs thriller. Is, instead, a clinical exploration of hypocrisy at all levels

'''Romance:'''
	* '''Brief Encounter ''' Boiling with supressed passion.
	* '''CasablancaMovie''' -- a romantic movie that guys can understand
	* '''TheLover''' -- another romantic movie that guys can understand
		* ''Sure - if you're the kind of guy who would dump an underage French nymphomaniac hotty just to keep your opium habit hooked to daddy's money supply...''
	* '''TheVanishing''' (1988)
	* '''Y Tu Mama Tambien''' ''and yo mamma too'' airhead young-adult culture's the backdrop for a very proper psychologically correct love story. Influence: LoveAndRockets