Un Prophète (2009 by J. Audiard). A weird gangster movie that makes you realize that even in the worst situation, even if you reached the bottom, there is a path to get out...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235166/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Re: Ghost Dog, I was also obsessed with that beautifully shot driving scene (with Killah Priest in the background). I was listening to a lot of hiphop at that time. Usually a burned CD playing on a glowing car stereo.
Yeah life is beautiful is such a good film. I seen someone saying Schindler list as a film that brings home the brutality of the Holocaust. But life is beautiful is better as it shows actually things don't work out and it's brutal. Where as Schindler's you know it's going to be ok.
The boy in striped pyjamas too has a brutal ending