Some influences:

When in the existential crisis, meet some gems in this space:

Films

Take it easy first and start with these:

  • Special mention: Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting and Dead Poets Society is pertinent to college or high-school students.
  • Richard Linklater- Boyhood, Before Trilogy
  • Dennis Villeneuve Arrival, Enemy, Prisoners, Incendies, Sicario, any non-popular movie by him
  • Alejandro González Iñárritu Birdman, Babel, 21 Grams, Amores Perros, The Revenant, Biutiful
  • Jim Carrey: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind, Truman Show, The Bad Batch
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman in Synecdoche New York
  • Damien Chazelle: Whiplash, La La Land

Slowly move to the Legends:

  • Her by Spike Jonze (since we are in technological institute)
  • Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky or any of his other films (Mirror, Solaris, Andrei Rublev, Nostalghia)
  • Winter’s Night, Persona (bonus identity crisis), Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman (any other)
  • Taste of Cherry by Abbas Kiarostami
  • A Ghost Story by David Lowry
  • Manchester by the Sea by Kenneth Lonergan
  • The Master by Paul Thomas Anderson (or There will be blood, Phantom Thread, Punch Drunk Love, Magnolia)

Once you know your way, use the linked page to optimize A good movie to watch

  • Series
  • Rick and Morty
  • True Detective season 1
  • Twin peaks by David Lynch
  • Death Note

Music

Books

  • I am that by Nisargadatta
  • Freedom from the Known by Jiddu Krishnamurthy
  • Advaita Vedanta by Shankaracharya
  • I am by Ramana Maharishi
  • Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda
  • Upanishads - Katha Upanishad
  • Dao De Ching -Laozi
  • Analects by Confucius
  • Being and Nothingness- Jean Paul Sartre