Movies are amazing. They can change how we see the world over the course of 2 hours.
To do so, it has to be a movie that takes us out of our comfort zone. If your comfort zone is a circle with radius r=0, this is not difficult to achieve.
However, if the movie is in a whole different orbit than your heliocentric comfort zone it may miss the mark.
So the art is in picking a movie that is far enough out there to influence you in a meaningful way, but not too far to be obtuse.
Below is my selection of great movies on scale of 1 (mainstream psychological) to 5 (psychedelic):
Mainstream Psychological:
The Matrix (Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski)
Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
Fight Club (David Fincher)
Psychological Mystery:
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)
Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Iconoclastic:
Contempt (Jean Luc Godard)
Mother! (Darren Aronofsky)
The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Existentialist:
Pierrot le Fou (Jean Luc Godard)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)
Psychedelic:
Enter the Void (Gaspar Noé)
The Tree of Life (Terrence Mallick)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
