Without reservation, I recommend the movie The Sunset Limited starring Tommy Lee Jones (dir.), Samuel L. Jackson, and written by Cormac McCarthy (No Country For Old Men, The Road, All the Pretty Horses). It's a two-man play adapted with minimal changes to the screen. Jones plays White, a burnt-out history/philosophy professor who is suicidal, Jackson plays Black, a convicted murderer who found Jesus in prison and is now living a quiet life in a low-rent New York City apartment. Black prevents White from stepping in front of the commuter train The Sunset Limited, brings him home, and they talk together for ninety minutes about life, death, and find some human connection and mutual understanding. White presents a personalized version of Existentialist-Nihilism, and Black presents a personalized version of pietistic Christianity. The movie is not a comedy in either the popular sense or the classical sense. My own awe at the movie is with Cormac McCarthy's ability to capture the inner perspective of a born-again ex-con who has drunk deeply from the Waters of Life and a career academic who has drunk deeply from Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.
The Sunset Limited - Behind the Scenes Featurette
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM9esxT4GRs
