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Movies about reincarnation?

This site has a few old cartoons — including a couple of Merrie Melodies — in the public domain that you can download or stream.

This page has the ground-breaking and near-feature-length Gulliver's Travels by Max Fleischer.
 
yeah i used to watch tom and jerry (the cat and mouse) so i thought the dvd was just an old version of them, but they are both humans. pretty funny stuff though. well no flash backs yet, it does have a very nostalgic(sp?) feeling. the music mostly. i like the black and white episodes better than the cinacolor(thats what it sais) about half are black and white, and molly the moo cow cartoons are in color. i dont think i even had a tv in my life during that time, but were these cartoons shown like before movies, at a theatre? maybe thats where i seen them or something.
 
I also have a huge interest in classic cartoons.
I saw one that was black & white Betty Boop, that was basically a music video for a Cab Calloway song called Minnie the Moocher. I knew it was the first time I had seen this cartoon, but it didn't feel like it.
I think the music of the cartoons is awesome, and I found an online radio station via someone on this forum.
goto www.live365.com and search for 20's and you will get a few stations that I think are really great. Check out Radio Dismuke and Sweet & Sassy.
I'll have to drop by Dollar Tree sometime.

I don't think anyone had a tv in the 20's. So yeah, they showed them at the movies. They would do a news real, and a cartoon or two, a movie, then a few more cartoons, and possibly more movies. I know you definatly got your moneys worth back then.
 
Ah now... Tom and Jerry. The Hanna-Barbera ones, produced by Fred Quimby, music by the utterly amazing Scott Bradley, made between 1940 and 1957. So many favourite episodes -

Heavenly Puss - Tom gets crushed by piano, witnesses heaven and hell
Zoot Cat - Tom makes himself zoot suit to get the girl
Mouse in Manhatten - Jerry has night out in big city
Solid Serenade - Tom plays 'Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby' to lady cat
Saturday Night Puss - Tom invites alley cats round for a night of jazz
Mouse Cleaning - Mammy Two Shoes cleans house, Tom tries to keep it that way, while Jerry does his utmost to soil it
Fit to be Tied - New law says Spike must be tied to his kennel

... H&B did 117 episodes in total. Best ones, in my mind, are the late '40s, early '50s ones.

Michal
 
There is a book in my house about Walt Disney. It talks about all the Mickey Mouse cartoons and other things his company did in the 20s and 30s. I've never seen the old Mickey Mouse. They won several Academy Awards for them though.
 
:D I think that things that touch our hearts and get in touch with the inner child, creates permanent places in our hearts, that keep following us around. Don't you all agree?
 
"What Dreams May Come"

Has anybody seen this movie? I've seen it a few years ago.
If anyone has seen it i would love to hear your comments on it. :)
It is described as a "fantasy movie"... Do you think it is close to what you believe happens when we die?
For those who haven't seen it yet i found a description while surfing the net:


"What Dreams May Come" is a fantasy movie about the afterlife, love and redemption. It is a visually stunning movie, winning the Academy Award recently for visual effects. Fantasy lovers will enjoy this different movie about life after death.

Robin Williams plays a doctor who meets the love of his life, gets married and has two children. The family lives happily until tragedy strikes and the children die in a car accident. This brings difficulties to the couple. The mother, an artist, suffers from terrible guilt. Some time later, the doctor tragically dies too. This leaves the movie open for the tale of life after death, grief and eternal love.

Portrayal of the after life in this movie is radically wonderful. There is not the usual heaven of fluffy clouds and angels. A departed soul creates their own vision of heaven or hell through their imagination. William's character creates a heaven from one of his wife's paintings. The film makers created glorious, vivid images full of color and beauty. Other scenes are great too, from images of different heavens to the hells.

The plot of the movie is a quest. The doctor deals with acceptance of death and finding his children. William's refuses to accept the loss of his wife to her private hell when she dies. He journeys through the afterlife seeking her soul and determined to redeem her fom an eternity of despair and guilt. The ultimate theme is that love wins through and hope should never be surrendered.
Also, this movie is based on a book of the same title by Richard Matheson."
 
I've seen the movie and I've read the book on which it was based. I liked both (they're a bit different).

I think that maybe for some people, the portrayal of the afterlife is correct. But, just as the wife ended up in her own private hell (because of her beliefs), I think there can be a lot of variations in experience, based on each person's individual beliefs.

Lib
 
I too have seen the movie Fab and I for one thought it was a great film. It was a fantastic role for Robin Williams and I commend him very much for doing it. As far as it being the pattern of what happens in the afterlife, well I am not convinced. I loved the film in much the same way as I loved the films "the seventh sign" & Moses but I did not like them because I felt that was the way it was or is but instead based my feelings on their own merits, which was a great film......

However there is a theory that when we die, we create our own personal heaven. hell, or in-between (or neither lol) and we can share it with like minded people is all. Our perceptions create our reality in a way in the physical plane and perhaps that's the way it works in the afterlife. In either case it is a great film and one I would suggest anyone watching if they can.....

One could do worse after all than watch a Robin Williams film after all.....

Peace.......
 
I liked that one and also, the Five Peole You Meet On The Way To Heaven
is also a great film to make you think about life, death and the perception that we have.
catseye
 
Movies and past life memories

A Walk in the Clouds,
The Six Sense
What Dreams May Come
The Others
Sweet November,
Message in a Bottle,
Hearts in Atlantis,
Meet Joe Black, etc...

So many! All these movies are very special to me... They all give me that feeling that life is not over after death... :rolleyes:
 
Great Movie!

I have seen this movie so many times I can almost recite the dialog. :tongue:

It's a brilliant movie...I absolutely loved the way the movie protrayed the whole concept of heaven, hell and rebirth. On the DVD, the alternative ending was much better, in my opinion. It fit more with the movie's concept of reincarnation and karma.

I liked that one and also, the Five Peole You Meet On The Way To Heaven is also a great film to make you think about life, death and the perception that we have.
catseye
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Another excellent movie! I only saw part of it when I visited Hawaii last year and had to wait almost a year before I was able to download the full movie from the internet onto my computer. It was just awful...not knowing how the story ended and having to wait so long to find out. :confused:

The only thing I didn't understand was why, even in the afterlife, the man's father was never able or willing to acknowledge his son. That practically broke my heart...I was yelling at the computer screen..."Aww...c'mon!!! Say something you old fool....!!!!"

Great topic!
 
Mystical Movie Guide

For information on all the spiritual and mystical movies you will EVER want to see, look up "Mystical Movie Guide" on a web search.

Sorry, I don't know how to include the link here.

I'd be happy to find out .. and try not to be too embarassed about something I maybe should know. :o
 
Alexander -- theatrical baaad, director's cut goooood

It was actually a while back I saw the director's cut, and I meant to post then, but left it till now. Speaking strictly critically, the director's cut is FAR superior as a movie. I know of one person who so couldn't stand the theatrical version that he thought Oliver Stone should be flogged and left by the side of a roadway a la Bessos in that actual time -- but the director's cut brought him to tears, and he is now calling it the greatest sword and sandals epic ever. The difference is that the director's cut is coherent... it flows, so it draws you in emotionally. So -- avoid the theatrical version. See the director's cut. I know it's hard to imagine when the only difference is editing, but the difference is astounding.

That's speaking strictly critically. Personally, I needed 24 hours to recover from seeing it. It left me feeling like a walking wound. Nuff said.

Cinematically again,
Karen
 
Movies as past life triggers

For me it is not the movie, it is the scenery. In a lot of old Chinese movies made in Hong Kong in the 1970's, there are a lot of fighting scenes that are outside on a flat plateau on top of a mountain. All the grass is worn off of this spot, because I suppose that a lot of movies were filmed in that same place. During that time hundreds of movies were filmed in Hong Kong each year. Anyway, Kung ** Martial arts fights are filmed from many angles. From each different camera shot you can see beyond the movie scene to the beautiful scenery behind the action. There are big green tree covered mountains, and blue sky usually with little cotton puffs of clouds. You can see way beyond in the distance blue water and fingers of land reaching out into it. It is the most beautiful place that I have ever been. I say been because I have stood on that place and felt the sun on my face and felt the breeze off of the water. I have looked to the horizion and felt that beauty in my heart. I cry every time I watch one of those movies and my kids make fun of me and tell me that I cry because those movies are so bad. They just can't understand why I watch them over and over. They wouldn't understand if I did tell them. But I knew you would.
 
WOW! I love reading all of these posts!!! It makes me smile knowing that I'm not "crazy" for feeling connected to certain movies. At first I thought that maybe I was a little obsessive about certain movies/actors/eras, but thought surely there has to be a reason for it, and now, reading all of these posts, I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one. :thumbsup:
 
Triggers

Not so much to trigger specific memories, but to open new paths to them:

The Shawshank Redemption
The English Patient
Casablanca
The Bridges of Madison County

I liked the film: What Dreams May Come, though it was not an aid to memory. For me, the theme of that film was reasonably accurate, though dipped in and out of allegory throughout.


-- Enlightenment
 
The film SOMETHING OF VALUE, with (I think) Sidney Poitier, really fascinated me when I was a teenager. The story had to do with someone who was trying to keep African elephants from being slaughtered; funny thing, I cannot remember much about the plot now, even though the scenes of elephants in their native habitat fascinated me. Its setting in the savannah country of Africa seemed to be something oddly familiar. It started me on an Africa craze that lasted for two years. I loved to write stories, and almost everything was set in Africa for almost two years afterwards.

Any movie from the 1920s and early 1930s also does it for me. I just sigh and look at the clothing, cars, and architecture and hear the music and get all nostalgic.
 
For me it started when i went to adult ed. (hostory) and the teacher showed us the movie Braveheart, since then i've been obsessed with that time /era i even got a tatoo of a riding knight on my right forearm, from what i've researched my ancestors used/still owned castles in Ireland/England.... i wonder if i had any PL in that time period, that would explain why i'm so obsessed about it, and it s not like it's a few day obsession it' s been over 2 years now :eek:
 
As far back as I can remember, I have always felt a connection with History, causing me to constantly watch Historical Movies and Documentaries. Well, a few months ago, I was watching the movie Escaflowne (a Japanese movie, a fantasy strongly influenced by Europe warfare.), and they were in a huge battle scene, and the main character was worried that her love was going to be killed, and I found myself thinking how that would fell, then I was suddenly hit with this vision (I wrote exactly what I saw right afterwards, this is what I wrote):

"I saw it as though from a third person, yet, those emotions, and his touch were far to real. I was kneeling in front of an alter; the stone was chilling, even through my skirts. I was praying, praying that my love would return safely, my rosary smooth to the touch. Suddenly, he called out to me, standing halfway down the ails, starting a little, I turned to him, tears welling in my eyes. Running to him, we embraced, strong arms keeping me safe. Though I could not hear the words exchanged, in my heart I could fell the pain, he wiped a tear away from my eye, and swore to return. Pulling away, he left with me a think leather necklace, with a coarsely carved charm hanging from it. It meant protection.

After that, my vision went temporarily black, only to reaper again, yet I wished it hadn't:

Sorrow, it was suffocating, I felt as though my heart would burst. I was kneeling in from of his grave, snow covered the land, so I could not make out his name. I sat there, my lips had gone blue from the cold, though I could not fell it. I only grasped his necklace, clinging to it as though it was life itself. After that however, the vision was gone and I returned to my living room. Yet, tears were streaming down my face, and I couldn't stop feeling as though part of me was lost. However, what scarred me most was that I was clutching my pendant (I have a necklace I never take off, I've always been drawn to it, but never questioned why.), when did I pull that out? As I looked at it, the vision of his necklace flashed before my eyes momentarily, it was the very same: protection."

Till now, every time I try to remember something about it, or something triggers a memory, I always get very cold, and I can't explain it, but, for a moment I just change, my soul just changes.

Another thing that happens a lot, apart from flashes of past lives, I have day ja vu, almost every week, it's very unnerving, I will get visions of things to come, usually simple things, like me playing a games, sometimes it will finally occur over a year later but I never seem to forget them. Anyway, I received one, just a few days after this past life, I can only guess I will be in collage by the time it happens, but he was reincarnated, and looks almost the same, I could tell it was him from the start, but I will know it is him, because he will be drawn to my necklace.

What do you guys time? Is that just some strange thing my brain it doing, or do you think that this could really be true?
 
Another movie about reincarnation

"Defending your Life" is a wonderful movie about reincarnation

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101698/

In it, Albert Brooks is in Heaven, trying NOT to reincarnate.

The Hundred Secret Senses is a wonderful book about reincarnation by Amy Tan.

I also wrote a novel about reincarnation that will come out next year.
 
Has anyone seen Dragonfly, with Kevin Costner?
It is such a beautiful movie! :)
Be prepared to cry though...
 
Did anyone mention Birth, with Nicole Kidman?
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In my opinion,that was the WORST and most convoluted movie I have seen on reincarnation. Kidman's charcter was pretty foolish with her behaviors toward a 12 year old boy who said he was her husband, and to kiss him and treat him as if he's an adult. Jail time. :confused: :butbut: :eek:

Reincarnation is about the here and now-- and I think the movie would have flown if it would have shown her taking steps to let go of the past and not "fall in love" with her past life husband and to help steer the boy toward living his life in the here and now. The past is the past, now is now.

As for Somewhere in Time- that was a cool movie. :D ;)
 
Did anyone catch the movie The Women of Georgia It was about reincarnation and women who remembered being in the South in America; I need to look for it. It intrigued me from the start, but I haven't seen it?? Anyone else?
 
All the movies you want!

I haven't read through this thread but I have a resource suggestion that is invaluable. It is called the Mystical Movie Guide and has hundreds if not a thousand movies that in any way could be deemed mystical or spiritual cross referenced in every way. e.g. drama, comedy. adventure, environment etc..
 
Hi everyone :) ....

I just thought of another two films which are good to watch although they don't so much deal with reincarnation as they do life after death and heaven/hell. These are:

***** Dogma *****

# The great grand niece of Jesus Christ is enlisted to prevent two angels from reentering Heaven and thus undoing the fabric of the universe. Along the way, she is aided by two prophets, Jay and Silent Bob. With the help of Rufus, the 13th Apostle, they must stop those who stand in their way and prevent the angels from entering Heaven. (Summary written by Jerel Parenton at the Internet Movie Database).

# Dogma tells the story of a woman who is picked by two renegade angels to save humanity. (Summary written by Mark Stewart at the Internet Movie Database).

# The movie is about a woman (Fiorentino) who joins the 13th apostle (Rock) in trying to prevent two angels cast out of heaven (Damon & Affleck) from returning -- an event that could bring about the end of the world. (Summary written by Ribcage at Dogma Rumor Control).


THIS film has been extremely contaversial as hard line Christians consider the film itself (so I have read) a "sin" and if you happen to like the film you are going to Hell as it is contrary to what is said in "the good book". Me? I consider it a funny film with a great commentary on standard religion and a interesting view on God, Jesus, and heaven/hell....


***** Heaven can wait (the original 1978 version) *****

# Joe Pendleton, quarterback of the American football team Los Angeles Rams, is looking forward to leading his team to the Super Bowl when he is involved in a terrible collision with a truck. An overanxious guardian angel plucks him out of his body early in the mistaken belief that his death was imminent, and Pendleton arrives in the afterlife. Once there, he is informed by the mysterious Mr. Jordan that his divinely ordained time of death hadn't yet come, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of recently murdered millionaire Leo Farnsworth is chosen. Farnsworth's wife Julia and personal secretary Tony Abbott, who are lovers and the murderers of his new body's former inhabitant, are confused by this development, as Joe/Farnsworth buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again be the star quarterback. In order to succeed, he must first convince, then secure the aid of, long time friend and trainer Max Corkle to get his new body in shape to lead his team into the Super Bowl. Simultaneously, he also falls in love with a environmental protester Betty Logan who wants to confront the billionaire industrialist whose body he now occupies. However, Julia and Abbott are not quite ready to give up on their plans to re-murder the body which Joe has lately appropriated...


This is a great film also though not my favorite. It was fun, funny, and made one think. While it is not a reincarnation film (it's more of a walk in film) it is a great afterlife film worthy of any collection.....

Another couple of film's are these: "Altered States" which delves into the fact/theory of "genetic memory". It is by no means a reincarnation film, but it is a great film none the less as it deals with some very primal subjects; Good/evil, love, "genetic memory" in one's body of the past. The first time I saw it it scared the crap out of me big time but was a great film to see anyways. The book was much better though (and more emotional too).....


The other film I am thinking of I can't remember the name of but it went something like this: Scientist A & B create a virtual reality program which is truly great to see. At one point, scientist B is working in the lab and after burning her arm on a soldering iron, begins to have a heart attack. She knows she is going to die, so she put's this virtual reality device on her head and RECORDS her own death as well as what happens afterwards!

The other scientist proceeds in the rest of the film to try and get a hold of this recording so he can see what happened. Much chaos insures during this time and in the end he finally gets the recording. In a phone booth he starts playing the recording and what is shown is truly fascinating in the extreme. In the end he has to choose between dying and living, and he chooses living due to love. The love of his wife calling him back.....

It is a great film, quite fascinating in scope, and again is a worthy film to add to anyone's collection. I just wish I could remember the name of the film. Anyone seen either of these two films and more importantly, does anyone remember the name of the second film? What did you think of these films if you saw them (as well as "heaven can wait" and "dogma)?

Peace......
 
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