The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975)

The movie’s tagline sums up the premise pretty well:

Suppose you knew who you had been in your previous life. Where you had lived...whom you had loved and how you had died. What then?

In this instance, the protagonist, a professor who becomes aware of aspects of his immediately previous life, decides to find out what happened.

The movie is based on a best-selling novel of the same name.  But unlike the novel which found a balance between thought provoking concepts and the elements of mystery and intrigue, the movie tilts towards the latter.  Nonetheless, it retains plot points with unmissable psychosexual connotations that some may find creepy or unsettling.

It’s a well shot movie with a haunting score.  But it is slow paced, particularly in the second half.  The real draw, though, is the plot.  That is, if you find it intriguing enough.

Here’s a link to the trailer.