Okay, nothing will dislodge "ghostbusters" or "midnight run" from my favorites. I'm not saying that. Still, there are movies, a specific category of them, that leave you with more than the joy of two entertaining hours. Movies that have a discourse, or shed a light on a specific aspect of history or society. And, right now, I'm in the mood for that. In the mood for stuff like Bertolucci's "the conformist", Loach's "land and freedom", Kubrick's "paths of glory", Jaoui & Bacri's "kitchen with apartment", Costa-Gavras' "Z" or even Coppola's "the conversation". I intend to watch "the lives of others", and will probably inflict myself "the wave" at some point. But I realise there are quite few of these in my current backlog, and I have to expand it.

So, what do you suggest for movies that convey an actual discourse or that help us see life through an unusual angle, adding a perspective to our understanding of our surrounding ? Or, generally speaking, some depth, as in René Clair humanist movies or Verneuil political movies, or anything more recent ? Thinking of watching "grapes of wrath", good candidate ?

I mean, I love myself some Buckaroo Banzai, but at this time I'm in mood for more substantial content than "well, there's a watermelon in it".

(Also, I'm looking for stuff a bit more relevant than "liek meybe its all a matrisx omg" or "fear leads to little red horned midichlorians [fig.3]".)