Word of mouth is one of the most powerful tools films rely on for their success. It can be challenging to win audiences over with a trailer, but once 15 of your friends mention how great a movie was, your interest might finally be piqued. Some great films, however, don’t get audiences talking immediately. Some particularly powerful movies leave audiences stewing in silence, contemplating what they just experienced, for minutes, or even hours, after viewing.
If you’re looking for a shocking or heart wrenching film that might leave you speechless, Reddit users have recently compiled a comprehensive list of the ones that left them “sitting in silence for 10 minutes after watching.” Feel free to take note of the films you haven’t yet experienced, and be sure to upvote the ones that left you at a loss for words as well.
#1
The Green Mile.
Some friends and I went to see this in the theater. We walked out in silence, sat in the car for a good 30 minutes in silence (long drive to the theater), and one of us finally said, 'Wow.'
370points
#2
Saving Private Ryan. As people got up and left it stayed quiet, nobody said a word.
The opening scene, my god. Heard the veterans could smell diesel when they saw that.
271points
#4
Se7en...
My mouth was open after watching this the first time and I felt a heaviness that I haven't felt in a movie before this.
243points
#6
The fox and the hound.
I’m 36 and have refused to watch it again since I was a kid.
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225points
#8
The Pianist, a movie from 2002 about a Jewish pianist during WWII.
Loved this movie with a masochistic passion, because it hurt just as much every time I watched it. But Adrien Brody's acting in it was phenomenal.
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198points
#9
Coco broke my heart, when Miguel sings Recuérdame to Coco that set me off, and when her picture was on the Ofrenda the next year and Hector could finally be with his family I just lost it. Such a beautiful film, I watched it for the first time not long after I lost my grandmother :(
Talk about UGLY-CRYING. Can't make it through that scene without sobbing.
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182points
#11
Marly and me. Didn't say anything for a good while after that.
I wish I could say I was silent. But I was like 7 when I went to see it, and my mom tells me I left the movie theater fucking sobbing uncontrollably, to the point where strangers stopped us to ask if I was okay. LMAO.
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164points
#12
Grave of the fireflies.
This! I got a Studio Ghibli set for my birthday from my husband. We started a movie marathon, watching all the movies from the set. We stopped after this one because both of us were bawling. We both just kinda sat there trying to pull ourselves back together.
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161points
#14
Jojo Rabbit
Holy cow, did that one deliver a gut punch. Such a good film. The silence in the theater, when that one was over, was nothing I'd experienced before.
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146points
#15
Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind.
Oh man. I watched this in the theater with my partner at the time. Looking back, our relationship was in its death throes, and that was a reaaal uncomfortable watch. We had a 30-minute drive home from the theater, and I’m not sure we said a word the entire drive.
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138points
#16
Clockwork Orange, watched it at 15 years old. Word of advice: don't do that. I was shook.
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138points
#19
Parasite.
Parasite made me silent after the movie ended, silent with no radio playing on the drive home, silent when I went to bed, and silent when I woke up. That’s not hyperbole.
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123points