Not ever has a movie wrecked me so hard, on so many levels, over a long period of time. It really is hard to recommend, but it is such a once in a lifetime movie.
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Most Depressing Movies You’ve Ever Seen? (Spoilers Allowed)
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Most of the bleakest movies have already been mentioned.
Something like the limited series 'Chernobyl' might apply. It's harrowing and incredibly bleak, but excellent filmmaking all the same.
The most recent film that hit me on an emotional level was 'Supernova' with Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci. It's a beautiful film, and the friendship between the two leads lends such earnestness to the affection they share for one another that it is incredibly affecting. Not quite as bleak as some of the titles mentioned already, but one that hit me for sure.
Something like the limited series 'Chernobyl' might apply. It's harrowing and incredibly bleak, but excellent filmmaking all the same.
The most recent film that hit me on an emotional level was 'Supernova' with Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci. It's a beautiful film, and the friendship between the two leads lends such earnestness to the affection they share for one another that it is incredibly affecting. Not quite as bleak as some of the titles mentioned already, but one that hit me for sure.
This was my vote as well. One of the few films I wish I could go back and unwatch. Remember reading review with a good rating and then watched all the way to the end for the justification and nope.
Side story, a blockbuster (remember them) was raided by police here in the UK after someone reported this film as child abuse.
That Beach scene is the most disturbing scene I've ever seen in a movie to this day. Still fucks me up thinking about it.
Do documentaries count? Watched Life of Crime: 1984-2020 the other week and it's brutal.
Also Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer. Just incredibly bleak and disturbing.
Good pick, watched this a few weeks ago and it definitely made me freak out more about the Russia situation.
Also Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer. Just incredibly bleak and disturbing.
Good pick, watched this a few weeks ago and it definitely made me freak out more about the Russia situation.
Have you watched Threads? It's more or less a British response to The Day After.
This was my choice. Watching that was the deepest, hardest sucker punch a movie has ever given me. I was fucking angry watching it lol, think I literally yelled out loud at that reveal.
Off the top of my head:
Grave of the Fireflies
The Elephant Man
Parasite
Capernaum
Grave of the Fireflies
The Elephant Man
Parasite
Capernaum
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The Horseman.
An extremely raw and violent revenge film steeped in pure misery with a great performance by the lead.
An extremely raw and violent revenge film steeped in pure misery with a great performance by the lead.
The Vanishing (1988)
Surprised no one's mentioned it. The definition of a one-and-done for me. You couldn't pay me to watch it again.
Surprised no one's mentioned it. The definition of a one-and-done for me. You couldn't pay me to watch it again.
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The Pianist (2002) is probably one of the toughest movies to sit through, but it's unflinching brutality makes the ending pretty triumphant. But then there's the added depression of it being a Polanski film.
Dear Zachary still sits atop my list of movies that I can't rewatch.
I can watch Grave of the Fireflies again, but I wouldn't want to.
I can watch Grave of the Fireflies again, but I wouldn't want to.
The Rise of Skywalker
Real answer...anything that has a dog dying. Especially Marley and Me. Fuck. That. Movie.
Close 2nd...Fox and the Hound
Close 2nd...Fox and the Hound
It's been so long since I've seen it but City of God made me depressed after watching it. Been awhile though so I don't remember specifics.
Edit: Looked up some clips and now I fully remember why that movie made me sad. Jeeeez...
Edit: Looked up some clips and now I fully remember why that movie made me sad. Jeeeez...
American Me
Just absolutely brutal from beginning to end. I've only seen it once and never want to watch it ever again lol
Just absolutely brutal from beginning to end. I've only seen it once and never want to watch it ever again lol
Synecdoche, New York.
Just presented such a bleak view of life and art and accomplishment. I know there's beauty in it, but the sad parts really stuck with me.
Just presented such a bleak view of life and art and accomplishment. I know there's beauty in it, but the sad parts really stuck with me.
I sorta giggled at this. Everything about this movie is misery and depressing and it completely drains you. Definitely watch it!
I get what you're saying just the wording of it kinda made me smile. Whole thread is kinda like that. "Oh god don't remind me of the horrific experience that was that movie. If you haven't seen it yet definitely plan to do so!"
Came to post this. Absolutely beautiful. Will never watch again because it destroyed me.
Finally got around to Michael Haneke's Benny's Video and that certainly qualifies. A bleak af look at society's lack of humanity.
my choice as well.
You know exactly what's going to happen and it happens.
still suprise i had to stomach to finish this. But i don't recommend it to anyone, the ending doesn't worth it at all, very disturbing stuff.
I find that depressing and sad stories are so much more rare than happy ones, so I gravitate towards those by a lot. So this thread is GREAT for me haha
If you find Requiem for a Dream too hard to take, don't watch Christiane F:
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Also another shout out to repo men with Jude Law
The concept is neat not done great but the ending revels half way through the movie the main character has a confrontation with his best friend and dies. the second half is him on a life support dreaming he was able to make his life better and able to take down a corrupt organization
The concept is neat not done great but the ending revels half way through the movie the main character has a confrontation with his best friend and dies. the second half is him on a life support dreaming he was able to make his life better and able to take down a corrupt organization
Pay it Forward was pretty sad although it tries to drag out some hopefulness from the depression - it's yet another movie where a child dies.
On the Beach is probably the worst I experienced, not just because of the end-of-the-world subject matter, but because the early-years of tv channels doing their own tv guide style synopses made it sound like a fun romp while I was channel surfing one day…..and that's NOT what I got.
On the Beach is probably the worst I experienced, not just because of the end-of-the-world subject matter, but because the early-years of tv channels doing their own tv guide style synopses made it sound like a fun romp while I was channel surfing one day…..and that's NOT what I got.
Came to say this. Never want to experience that kind of story again. Just misery.
This fucking movie, I swear to god. Just repeatedly breaking my heart.
Mystic River.
Really makes you want harm to come to Sean Penn's character (and his wife). Great film though.
Really makes you want harm to come to Sean Penn's character (and his wife). Great film though.
Lilya-4-Ever and Melancholia are definitely just suffocating in their misery.
Requiem was a game changer for me when I was like 17.
But the worst will always be Martyrs.
Requiem was a game changer for me when I was like 17.
But the worst will always be Martyrs.