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Movies about reincarnation?

My distributor has just obtain United States rights for it. If there is enough interest I can ask if there is a source for individual copies. The VHS screening copy I had, had technical problems. So I don't mean to be a "tease," but I don't know if there's an easy way to obtain a copy (especially an NTSC copy that will play well in the States and Canada). If it's truly meant to be, perhaps it will end up in the theatres at some point.
Steve S.
 
I'd truly be interested in seeing this movie...he was a Wonderful actor...hopefully it will soon be available here!!! Please keep us posted !!!:)
 
Movies as Past Life triggers

What movies trigger the most intense past life memories for you?

In my case it's "O Brother Where Art Thou?' by Joel and Ethan Coen. The beautiful portrayal of the American South in the 1930s was pure flashback heaven for me. It climaxed as the Soggy Bottom Boys launched into their rendition of "In the Jailhouse Now" - a song I'd never heard, but which I once dreamt, though with the words "In the Town of Nimm" . My daughter feels it too. Monika, who is 12, was off school ill one day, I came home and found her all weepy; she said she'd watched it back-to-back twice and was moved by a profound past life sensation. I always felt, since the moment I held her in my arms when she was minutes old, that she'd lived before; the older she gets, the more we talk, the more I feel like I knew her in a past life.

I spent the weekend with my aunt in Wroclaw. Looking out of her seventh-floor balcony onto the distant western horizon, the smell of early May in the air, I felt an immediate flashback. Last night, the place came to me in a dream - OHIO. This, I discovered this morning on a map, is the state just north of Kentucky, where I feel I spent the 1930s.

The other great PL Movie for me is "New York, New York" (with Robert DeNiro and Liza Minelli). The opening sequence, set on VJ-Day, was very potent in terms of releasing PL memories; the music, the clothes, the dancing, the sense of having survived the War. Other sequences, the Road, small-town America dance halls, all very powerful in Bringing It Back.

Michal
 
With me, it's anything about civilian Germany in the '30's and '40's. I can't watch Leni Riefenstahl documentaries without almost bouncing out of my seat.

Gladiator is another good one, although I'm sure I was never one. It's just the atmosphere, especially the wheatfield.

The chariot race in Ben Hur is good, too, but something tells me they didn't get it quite right.

And I'm fascinated watching documentaries about ancient Rome that bore other people to tears.
 
For me, as sad as it may indeed seem "Superman". I have had dreams of flying like that all the 15 years of this life I've had...

Maybe I existed on another world or reality where it happened. Or I'm just crazy. ;)


dark rosaleen - Another Roman perhaps? I was a male called Lyceus from Pompeii who travelled to Greece and Egypt, and when I returned home to my family, which was 79AD, I was killed in the Vesuvian eruption.

I can relate to watching documentaries and movies about Rome also. There's just something there ;)
 
I'd also add Stanley Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon" for its exquisite portrayal of 18th Century Europe... though the palace scenes were beyond my experience then, the rest resonated clearly...

Michal
 
PBS' Masterpiece Theater "hit home" to me when I was a teenager with The Six Wives of Henry the Eighth and Jenny (set in the 1870's-1880's) also the film Anne of the Thousand Days (also about Anne Boelyn)

I rememebr thinking how "real" it all was and how I SO wanted to step into teh screen and be there.

Most recently (last year) The Sea is Watching (set in a Japanese brothel at the end of the 19th century) Struck a strong chord with me.

I "knew" that place and the two lead women said things and had the same "mind set" (at various stages of their lives)as me it seemed.

And the one scene where flood waters are rising and the heroine and her friend are sitting at the top watching the water rise really hit me and made me remember a similar feeling I had when I was five or six and the basement of our apartment building was flooded. I remember being at the top of the stairs afraid that the water would rise and rise "like last time".
 
I just saw one, for me:

"Stage Beauty" with Billy Crudup and Claire Danes brought to the screen something that rang very true for me as Shakespeare, though the film was about the English theater in the 1660's. Acting was very stylized in those times, and it was the first film I ever saw that showed the gestures used to express emotion. Though it didn't get it as right as I would have liked, it made an effort that I really loved, and showed, for the first time in ages, London Bridge much as I remember it. The film was set in a period just before the Great Fire, so a lot of London still looked much as it had when I was alive.

Both "Shakespeare in Love" and this one are now favorites of mine, though I am not claiming they were true to life: each took liberties to make the films appealing to contemporary audiences, but I loved the way they both expressed actors' love for the theatre...

There are many films about late Victorian and Edwardian England that have struck me as true, enough to make me homesick. It's easier to do realistic films about that time, because we have so many records of the period. I feel the same way about "Room With a View," and truly love a film called "Carrington" with Emma Thompson, about the Bloomsbury Group.

Sandra
 
"Somewhere in Time" was my favorite movie from the day it was released. I've had copies of it in VHS forever, and just finally got around to purchasing the DVD. My friends in college always made fun of me watching it in the dorms :(

I laughed hard when I realized that I had a past life connection at the turn of the century- fallen in love only to be separated prematurely by death. BIG DUH for me many years later.

I still adore that movie and cry from scene 1. It's kind of embarrassing actually since I'm not a cryer.:D
 
A few months ago, I watched the movie "The Postman Always Rings Twice", and I thought that it was the first time I'd ever seen it. It seemed a logical assumption. I had no idea who was in it or what genre the film was. I knew nothing about the plot. And yet, as I watched, the visuals seemed very familiar, as if I had seen it before.

I racked my brains trying to remember when and where I'd seen it. Try as I might, I still cannot remember watching it previously in this lifetime. And it seems odd to me that I could have seen such an excellent movie and then totally forget everything about it, including the surprise ending.

So now I wonder if I saw it at the movies when it was a new release . . . 29 years before I was born . . . .
 
Originally posted by Denomar
For me, as sad as it may indeed seem "Superman". I have had dreams of flying like that all the 15 years of this life I've had...

Maybe I existed on another world or reality where it happened. Or I'm just crazy. ;)
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That's not crazy. Our souls can fly! ;)

For me, it's seeing big homes like on that movie The Others.
 
Originally posted by niamh
A few months ago, I watched the movie "The Postman Always Rings Twice", and I thought that it was the first time I'd ever seen it. It seemed a logical assumption. I had no idea who was in it or what genre the film was. I knew nothing about the plot. And yet, as I watched, the visuals seemed very familiar, as if I had seen it before.

I racked my brains trying to remember when and where I'd seen it. Try as I might, I still cannot remember watching it previously in this lifetime. And it seems odd to me that I could have seen such an excellent movie and then totally forget everything about it, including the surprise ending.

So now I wonder if I saw it at the movies when it was a new release . . . 29 years before I was born . . . .
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Yup, Film Noir does it for me too - Sterling Hayden in John Huston's "The Asphalt Jungle" - the cars, the suits, the hats, the dames (Marilyn Monroe makes an early appearance)... Dick Powell as The Thin Man, Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade... sets me adrift on a memory bliss...

Michal from Warsaw
 
When I first saw the movie Metropolis in the 80s, something about it seemed familiar. After seeing the restored version a few years ago, I think I saw the original in my last life.
 
Giving new meaning to "cinema verite"

There was a thread somewhere around here on this forum on Oliver Stone's Alexander, which everyone in North America seems to agree sucked. I couldn't tell you whether it sucked as a movie, because I was far too triggered by it. Of course the story was off left, right and centre, and Stone was trying to express something that the history hints at, but he didn't understand well enough -- the story of Alexander is a tragedy, but if you don't understand why, you can't communicate it to the audience, and so it won't seem tragic, just pathetic -- and the script did indeed contain some serious, whanging, cringing clangers. All sorts of little things were unavoidably wrong, of course... but the movie did this for me: it showed me something about that life that I had been unable/unwilling to admit to myself previously, that has paved the way for some serious healing in the past couple of months.

The other, of course, is A Man For All Seasons, which suffers some of the same faults... but had Robert Shaw as Henry, getting him so right that it was truly creepy and haunting, every time he was on screen. Sadly, there was no one in Alexander like that, not even Angelina Jolie... she looked far too wrong to really remind me of Olympias. Though Val Kilmer as Philip wasn't too bad. For the beheading of More at the end of A Man For All Seasons, they cut away and you just hear the "thunk," which triggered me like heck... just like the viewer, I didn't see the axe fall.

Mary Montano, who wrote a book about her past life as a protege of Mozart (Loving Mozart) had her first memories, I know, as a result of seeing the movie Amadeus.

The accounts by those of you who were triggered by seeing movies in this life to remember that you saw the same movies in past lives are more than cool. What a time we live in!

Cinematically,
Karen
 
Movies as past life triggers

'Picnic at Hanging Rock' is a movie that I have to watch over and over again and that I always find very comforting despite its theme. I could never figure this out as it had nothing to do with my PL. During my regression however I saw the place I died and it was very like such a scene with the scrub and the Rock in the background, although not in Australia.

On the other hand it was a movie that triggered my knowledge of my past life and I still cannot watch this movie, so intense was the feeling I got from it. I had similar feelings twice before from two books I read as a child and teenager and although seemingly unconnected I can now as a result of the Regression see the obvious link. In all three cases I was unable to go into a bookstore or switch on the TV for months afterwards.

So I dont know why I find a movie that recalls my death as comforting but a movie that recalls my awakening to my Past Life as extremely disturbing? Anyone any thoughts on this , or feel the same?
 
lagrima said:
"Somewhere in Time" was my favorite movie from the day it was released. I've had copies of it in VHS forever, and just finally got around to purchasing the DVD. My friends in college always made fun of me watching it in the dorms :(

I laughed hard when I realized that I had a past life connection at the turn of the century- fallen in love only to be separated prematurely by death. BIG DUH for me many years later.

I still adore that movie and cry from scene 1. It's kind of embarrassing actually since I'm not a cryer.:D
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Was that the one with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymore, the one where he goes back in time to visit her?
That film sends a tingle down my spine and I fill up with tears every single time... I watched it when I was a kid and spent my whole summer holiday in a darkened room trying to send myself back in time!!
 
the movie The 60s, and also Forest Gump really bring me back lol.

not a movie but those flonase(sp) comercials, in black and white, looks like the 1920s or 30s, anyone know what im talking about? that is really soothing, i like how it looks, and it also brings me back.

also when i was younger, like elementary school, i loved the Disney movies the hunch back of notre dame, and pocohontas. actually after seeing The Hunch Back of NB i kinda became obsessed, i drew it, i got books on france, i begin to learn the language, i became crazy about france. anything i could learn about it i would. i love cobblestone, french food, everything about france i loved. but it wasnt until seeing that movie that i became obssesed with it.

also for a while i was on a kick with indians, mainly northern woodland indians. i felt like i was one maybe. i would walk outside with no shoes and just love how it felt, i also have a memory of swimming in a river as an indian.

also when i was even younger the video game, street fighter, one character i would always chose was the chinese girl, chun li. this was 1st grade. i became obessed with china, the food, everything. i would get books on it also, i remember my mom taking me to the library and instead of getting picture books id get books on china, travel books etc. even flag books on world flags lol.

i never really thought about all that, i wonder if we go through these "kicks" in the order we lived. cuase i went through, china,france,american indians,1920s america,1960s america, and japan. hmm. interesting thread.
 
Dawn o the Shed said:
Was that the one with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymore, the one where he goes back in time to visit her?
That film sends a tingle down my spine and I fill up with tears every single time... I watched it when I was a kid and spent my whole summer holiday in a darkened room trying to send myself back in time!!
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YES! That's it!! :thumbsup:
 
lagrima said:
YES! That's it!! :thumbsup:
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You know that's probably the film which got me seriously thinking about past lives, although that isn't really the subject of the film.. I felt that pull from the past and the sense of a deep love lost, and it sucked me right in from the start, nobody I know even remembers it...joy!! I have goosebumps just thinking about it!
 
oh geez i forgot the name of the movie... darn, well i had never heard of it, ever. the first thing that showed on the screen that i watched was the title of the movie, the title i cant remember! anyway, the words 'jane wyman is in this film' shot out of my mouth. being 20 n notr the brightest crayon in the box, i dont know who jane wyman is and i had never heard of such a name. so all the actors' names appear after the title. of course i screamed when i saw the name Jane Wyman show on the screen. so i had probably watched this film in a past life before, ahahaha :laugh:
 
Hippy16 said:
I never really thought about all that, I wonder if we go through these "kicks" in the order we lived, 'cause I went through, China, France, American Indians, 1920s America, 1960s America, and Japan. Hmm. interesting thread.
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Interesting indeed. Do we go through phases of interest in a period that relates to one particular past life in the order we lived them?

In my case, my childhood memories related to my immediate past life childhood - Ireland. In adolescence, my dreams, flashbacks and preferences settled in 1930s - 1940s USA. In early adulthood, it was 1940s-1950s USA. Today, it's still that period, with an added element of 1950s Scandinavia/north west Europe. Rarely, though, I get PL falshbacks from earlier lives; the English midlands, 16th Century, Germany's Black Forest, 18th Century, western Russia (Prypyat' Marshes, early 19th C.); France, mid-19th C. to early 20th C. Life you, Hippy 16, I went through phases of interest in things like Tudor England, the Napoleonic Era and WWI, though these phases have long passed...

Michal
 
I totally loved the clothing and hairstyles from the movies Evita and The Notebook, which would be 30'sish???
Another strange one would be Legends of the Fall.......whenever I watch that movie I long to grab my shotgun and horse and go galloping through the mountains and wilderness. For days after I see it again I catch myself daydreaming of doing this. It's not a kind of fantasy in my mind but a real deep longing in my heart.
 
Well, for me, Movie triggers include those of pioneer days ( some wild west, but mostly little house on the prairie stuff), egyptian movies, Musicals (especially ones involving orphans like Oliver! and Annie...). Movies with Clark Gable (mostly because i knew him in my past...and actually know who he is in this life as well!) and some select stars are big triggers.
 
Well crap... The one movie that really hits home with me more than any other is "Jacob's Ladder."

I don't even want to know what that might mean... :eek:

But now that I think about it, a few others strike a cord with me as well, such as:

-Cold Mountain
-Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will) ... : angel
 
The new series "Into the West" is a great one... some of the scenes regarding the Native Americans, especially. Cold Mountain for me,too...and of course Gone With The Wind !!
 
Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time In America

The first time I saw it I couldn't stop crying. I was completely overwhelmed with emotion and past life memories. Now I watch it religiously once a year and I still cry the whole way through. :o
 
I like some rather odd ones too, but I feel so attached -

Timeline
Van Heilsing
Robin Hood [with Kevin Costner]
all pirate movies
The Gangs of New York
Underworld, Interview with a Vampire, Queen of the Dammed (I'm really into vampire movies ;)

and then there are reincarnation movies

Dead again
and some others I can't remember off the top of my head.
 
1920s-1940s classic cartoons

I was at the dollar store today and found some classic cartoon dvds, only $1 of course. they have some from the 20s, 30s and 40s. i bought a few. they are really funny, well crazy. somewhat adult themed, and sometimes racist. in one "tom and jerry" they are humans though , are in spain and some old civil war guy comes and gives them a telagram and it sais the 18th amemdment has been overturned and they go back to america to drink. in another they crash their plane in africa and paint their faces black (and act very stereotypical) such as talking inproper english, and stuff. its crazy.

but its interesting to watch, im hoping it will trigger some flash backs. i love the music. i just thought id let you guys know, since im sure all Dollar Trees carry the same items, you might want to check them out if your interested in those eras, or lived during that time.Plus only a buck for a dvd, and they are classics. they are very entertaining to watch, if you can appreciate the simplicity of the story lines.
 
Hippy! :thumbsup: That would be interesting to see, if anyone has anything come up because of the cartoons. I happen to love old cartoons myself. I have a Tom and Jerry DVD set, from Target :tongue:
 
I grew up watching Tom & Jerry :thumbsup:
I also remember watching the original disney stuff that was still in B&W even though I was born in 1980, in particular the episodes with Mickey and the steamboat

It would be interesting to see more of those videos...I think what triggers alot for me are those old silent movies, I feel like I know what it was like to watch those in the tiny theatres with the projector in the aisle...I wonder if cartoons from that era will also trigger some more memories? Thanks for the suggestion!
 
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