I don't enjoy watching it, but
Schindler's List.

I find it always makes me cry buckets, despite the fact that I rarely cry at films. The acting is top notch, Ralph Fiennes is superb, chills you to the core. The cinematography is honed down to the finest detail with the use of colour so effective. The script is flawless, something Spielberg doesn't always manage.

But it is the subject matter that breaks me the most. The simplicity of the fact that all these people were dying for no reason other than they were Jews, and this happened in our grandparents' lifetime. This wasn't some relic from the Middle Ages. This was here and now for many people still alive today. The fact that this film tackles such a sensitive subject in such an effective way is its greatest strength.

How anyone can watch this film and not be moved is beyond me. Simply stunning.
(pacman_40 Pocket Kleenex: for the wanker on the go, Thu 17 Jul 2008, 22:49, 2 replies)

Go to Cambodia
and see some of the horrors of Pol Pot's "Year Zero" ethnic cleansing campaign. Way after the holocaust and possibly even more brutal. Also, as this is a movie question watch 'The Killing Fields.' Its a crazy powerful film and also Puttnam's finest movie to date.
(grazer is sick of looking at houses, Thu 17 Jul 2008, 23:05, closed)

I didn't like the film
I'm Jewish, but didn't lose any family in the war - mine all fled Russia at the end of the 19th century.

I thought this film too 'Spielbergerised' for my liking. On the other hand, a film that I really enjoyed, but wept buckets each time I see it is: 'Life is Beautiful' - I know lots of people didn't like it for making light of the concentration camps, but it does it for me. Self-sacrifice, laughs, great acting.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Fri 18 Jul 2008, 16:19, closed)