What's a really good, heavy, dark, historically based film?
What are some really good films about horrible things that really happened? Maybe something like Hotel Rwanda or The Magdalene Sisters?
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guh…I’ll pick historical fiction apart if I know the history well enough so I don’t ingest much historical fiction, but I flipped my shit when the army opened fire on civilians during Gangs of New York. I don’t now how close the movie is to history but I never expected to see that bit of history in a major motion picture.
Mississippi Burning
Schindler’s List
Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, and awesome.
That 275,049,274 hour long civil war movie. Geezus that movie was long.
Arg, I hate it when that happens! It should read “Amistad” not Amastad.
Yeah, Gettysburg. I haven’t seen Glory, but I think I got my civil war fill for this lifetime. :/
The Haunting in Conneticut was real.
A Tale Of Two Cities in any form.
‘Tis a far, far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before.
i can only hope to achieve that level of commitment in my life.
It’s not historical but it was very creepy: Pans Labyrinth
Funny, yet a bit dark: I Love You To Death
Not too dark: Tucker, A Man and His Dream
Plenty dark: Amistad
Abundantly Dark: Apocalypse Now
(Apocalypse Now was based on true events, and sculpted on the stories The Odyssey by Homer and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.)
Herzog’s “Aguirre, The Wrath of God”.
Hawaii has some dark in it.
@judochop Are your referring to the campfire scene or the sheriff?
How about dark, horrible things that are happening now? Be warned, these are hard to watch.
The Dark Side of Chocolate – a journalistic documentary revealing the slave labor behind the manufacturing of chocolate.
Albino Killings in Africa – Tanzanian albinos are being hunted because witchdoctors are spreading the belief that albinos possess a magical power. They believe that body parts from albinos can make you rich, so they make potions and charms from albinos’ legs, hair, hands, and blood.
The Dying Rooms – Filmmakers study systematic neglect of abandoned babies in Chinese state-run orphanages where the weakest and least-liked children are deliberately left to die in “dark rooms”.
“The Battle of Algiers”
“Hurt Locker”
“The Killing Fields”
“Platoon”
I need to see Apocalypse Now. I was in the Phillipines when they were filming it (plenty peculiar canoeing down a river with rounds going off)! I have waited many years and have never watched the movie, but @filmfann you have reminded me that it is on my list!
Paper Clips is an EXCELLENT movie!
There’s the movie about Hypatia. But I haven’t seen it yet. And there’s Waltz With Bashir which I have seen and can’t recommend enough.
@fundevogel That Hypatia movie is Agora. It’s pretty good.
@Kayak8 So you have something in common with Charlie Sheen then. He was with his Dad, Martin Sheen in the Philippines while filming Apocalpyse. So you were coming back from Pagsanjan Falls then while they shot some scenes?
To answer the question…THE MISSION with Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons might fit. And MUNICH as well.
@fundevogel Waltz with Bashir was one of the best movies I have ever seen about war.
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