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Well it depends on how you define profundity in film, which syncs up with what does occupy your mind on a daily basis. A neurotic pomo kind of guy who's obsessed with what images even mean might get a lot out of late Godard (late 80s onwards), whereas someone else could equate it to horseshit. You could also get a lot of mileage out of a dry Documentary film, which some (wrongfully desu) may deem to be ultimately inartistic. They're exercises in style and rhetoric more so than they are potent diatribes on truth or poignant critiques. That's part of why I find Bunuel to be loathsome, but then again someone like Debord managed to squeeze some decent food for critical thought out of his little films. Think about how much you can get out of an image vs how many thoughts could be packed into it. Interpretations, readings, sensibilities, yadda yadda. Poetry and aphorisms. I could and would like to keep going on and on about this crap, but I'll save you the trouble and recommend you a few things that I find to be notable. They're not the greatest, they've just been lingering around my mind for a while. To each one I'll add a blurb that will either entice or repulse you.
>O Ultimo Mergulho (The Last Dive) by Joao César Monteiro
It can get quite pretentious, and I may not like its somewhat tired glorification of ''men and their whores'', but i'll be damned if some of its imagery doesn't haunt me to this day. As far as life-affirming celebrations of life go, it's pretty strong.
>Voci nel Tempo, and Nostos: Il Ritorno, by Franco Piavoli
The splendor of life
>The Black Stallion, by Carroll Ballard
Love and Kindness don't have to be maudlin.
>Finis Terrae, by Jean Epstein
Men working.
>Routine Pleasures, by Jean-Pierre Gorin
Men and their hobbies.
>Yearning, by Mikio Naruse
Determination.
>The Shiranui Sea, by Noriaki Tsuchimoto
People dying, slowly and quietly.
>The Hourglass Sanatorium, by Wojciech Has
As kaleidoscopic as films can be.
>Quick Billy, by Bruce Baillie
Finding myths within your mundane memories.

There's so much more out there to discover and witness. If you like A Clockwork Orange's satire, you could check out Lindsay Anderson's Mick Travis trilogy.
Plenty of other names are worth a look: Ritwik Ghatak, Yoji Yamada, Mitsuo Yanagimachi, Theo Angelopoulos, Raoul Walsh, Herzog, Larisa Shepitko, Mario Bava, Alain Cavalier, Craig Baldwin, Hal Ashby, Yuri Illineko...It's a vast, vast world out there. It's unbelievable.

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