Movies for the Aspie community

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The world has 40 million Aspies.

Any good movies for the Aspie community? With Aspie characters and themes Aspies can relate to? Of course, it is good if NTs also like the movies.

When you say "aspie characters and themes" etc, do you mean explicitly labelled as aspie?

I love many films which have no explicitly aspie characters or themes, but which I think feature characters who are as aspie as it's possible to get and/or themes which I totally identify with;

"Brazil"
"The Wall"
"Safe" ( Todd Haynes )
"The Hours"
"Adaptation" ( and probably "Synecdoche New York" too, by Kaufmann, just haven't seen it yet )
"Master and Commander"
"American Beauty"
"Breaking the Waves" ( Lars von Trier )
"Dancer in the Dark" ( ditto )
"The Blues Brothers"
"Bagdad Cafe"
"The Piano"
"House of Games" ( Mamet )
"Alien"
"The Fly" ( Cronenberg )
"Dead Ringers" ( ditto )
"Betty Blue"
"Jean de Florette"
"Slumdog Millionaire"
"Dark City"
"Avalon" ( Mamoru Oshii )
"Excalibur"
"The Music of Chance"
"Desperately Seeking Susan"
"The Remains of the Day"
"The Truman Show"
"Big"
"Batman Returns"
"Don't Look Now"
"Stargate"
"Wallace and Gromit" ( esp. "The Wrong Trousers" )
"Addams Family Values" ( the second film )
"Sixth Sense"
"Withnail and I"
"The Mask"
"The Bridge on the River Kwai"
"The Man in the White Suit"
"The Nightmare Before Christmas"
"Groundhog Day"
"Ghostbusters"
"The Rocky Horror Show"
"Mulholland Drive"
"The Silence of the Lambs"
"Clockwise"
"Dumb and Dumber"
"The Court Jester"
Some Laurel and Hardy, and several Bette Davis, films ...
aswell as "Rainman";)

Perhaps you can write one on a guy looking for shellfish, people call him selfish because he keeps them all but no one knows how lonely he is for keeping them and making lots and lots of shellfish handicrafts for the world...

DUMB AND DUMBER IS A CLASSIC

They dont make comedies like that anymore!

I don't know about what's good for the Aspie Community but I really get a charge out of What About Bob?

But isn't this degrading?

What about that other one?

WAYNES WORLD, WAYNES WORLD!! !!

And that other spinoff of those 2 which was also a Cartoon on Channel 4 called Bill & Ted.

Ouinon, The Wall may rock in more than one sense of the word, but I'm not sure Pink's an Aspie, just isolated and slowly losing it. However, it's a good movie for Aspies with face-blindness (such as myself) - it only has one character! (Talking of which - if Pink was Aspie, I'd be looking for more meanings in the multiple scenes where extras are wearing those faceless masks.)

I've heard the following mentioned a few times, but I haven't seen them and don't know what they're like. Thought I'd add them, though - just in case:
-Adam
-Mozart and the Whale
-If You Could Say It In Words
-Rain Man

And for TV series', you can't go past Monk!

snowcake was a very good movie.

Love your taste in movies, ouinon!

I'd add to the list Oscar and Lucinda (Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett). Both characters seemed pretty aspie to me (Oscar more than Lucinda though).

Benny & Joon
A League of Their Own

Blade Runner
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Let the Right One In
Donnie Darko
Paradise Now
Half-Nelson
The Fischer King
12 Monkey's
The Wrestler
Paradise Now
Gattaca
To Kill a Mockingbird
Stroszeck
Twin Peaks (TV)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Vampire Hunter D, Ninja Scroll, Wicked City, and Demon City Shinjuku, Spirited Away (insert your favorite anime here)
Jan Svankmajer is always awesome


I also agree with a lot of Ouinon's picks.

Happy Feet

The Jurassic Park series

Movies I can identify with regard to being aspie, maybe:
Bicentennial Man
Small Soldiers
Pitch Black / Chronicles of Ridick
Carrie
Dracula

Little Man Tate