7 Essential Films That Will Make You Reflect On Life

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Khuraijam Roger Singh
Nov 28, 2024

3 Idiots (2009)

Rajkumar Hirani's coming-of-age comedy-drama film satirizes the social constraints in the Indian educational system while following the friendship of three students at an engineering college in India.

Life is Beautiful (1997)

Directed by Roberto Benigni follows a Jewish Italian bookshop owner, who employs his imagination to shield his son from the horrors of internment in a Nazi concentration camp.

Good Will Hunting (1997)

A drama film directed by Gus Van Sant, the story centers on janitor Will Hunting, whose mathematical genius is discovered by a professor at MIT.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

McMurphy, a prisoner, pretends to be insane to avoid prison labor and is moved to the special ward for mentally unstable people. He has to confront Ratched, a vicious nurse on this unit.

Dead Poets Society (1989)

Peter Weir’s film follows a group of students who are kept in a conservative boarding school. However, with the help of a new poetry teacher, they learn the deep meaning of life.

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

A biographical drama film about the mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics follows John Nash, a brilliant mathematical genius who encounters pain with cruel disorder and struggles to be trauma-free.

Forrest Gump (1994)

A comedy-drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis follows the life of an Alabama man named Forrest Gump and his experiences in the 20th-century United States.

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