“It was so different from everything I’d seen before.”

Some films can truly have a lasting impact on us.

Andu/ScholarNervous8705recently askedr/MovieSuggestionsfor “the movies that changed your life FOREVER.”

Close-up of Zendaya smiling slightly with text overlay: "I CHANGED MY MIND."

Two characters from "Office Space", one in shirt and suspenders (John C. McGinley), the other in a suit and tie (Paul Wilson), sit at a conference table

Carrie-Anne Moss and Keanu Reeves in The Matrix, wearing black leather outfits and sunglasses, walking through a building with weapons

Robin Williams, smiling, holds a book in a classroom setting, engaging with students in the front row

Jim Carrey wearing a suit points and laughs on the left; Kate Winslet, with vibrant hair, eats while looking out on the right

Alan Ruck in a hockey jersey and Matthew Broderick in a suit stand outdoors with trees and flowers in the background

Brad Pitt, wearing a white shirt with suspenders, looks urgently over his shoulder in a scene from the movie "Se7en"

A scene from "The Bridge on the River Kwai" with two men in military attire standing in shallow water with a wooden bridge in the background

Chihiro and No-Face sit on a red bench in a train from the animated film "Spirited Away". A small creature is perched by Chihiro. An unknown silhouetted figure is seated to the right

Emile Hirsch sits on a worn-out couch in a desert, hitchhiking with his thumb up, surrounded by camping gear

Man and child embrace in the ocean with smiles, enjoying the water and each other's company

Chloe Zhao and Frances McDormand share a light moment; Zhao touches McDormand's head as they stand next to a vehicle in a desert landscape

John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson in a scene from Pulp Fiction, both pointing guns in suits with ties, in a dimly lit room

Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford as Star Wars characters Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Han Solo, standing together and looking off-screen

Illustration of two stick figures, one with a hat and the other with a bow, holding hands in a serene, sunlit forest

An astronaut in a spacesuit walks through a futuristic, hexagonal passage with geometric patterns from "2001: A Space Odyssey."