What's the most depressing film you've ever watched?

[jogger1976]

Probably not the most cheerful of topics, but just wondered if it's just me that watches these types of film.

For me, in no particular order; Requiem for a Dream. I can vividly recall when it finished I sat staring at the TV screen for what seemed like hours, as though I was in a state of shock. Incredibly bleak and nihilistic

Kes; Just when you think things might be looking up for Billy, everything he holds dear is taken from him and all he has to look forward to is a life down the pit. Even the comedy of the football match scene doesn't take away the bleakness.

When the Wind Blows; I know this is a cartoon, but it's an incredibly sad, bleak and depressing one. Especially when you realise that none is coming to save James and Hilda and they're going to die a slow, horrible death.

Come and see; A film about the Nazi campaign in Belarus. Probably the most depressing war film I've ever seen. Unremittingly brutal, bleak and hopeless .

Any others?

Edited by jogger1976 on Sunday 6th December 22:09

[marksx]

Threads

[Billyray911]

The Cove

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

Boys from the Black Stuff?

'I'm Yosser Hughes...I could do that....gissa job...'

[Terzo123]

marksx said:

Threads

Was just about to post that. Very unnerving.

[UnluckyTimmeh]

Finding neverland always struck me as being a bit rough.

That and I've always struggled with the green mile. Just a very powerful film that can really make you think... And subsequently can get you down....

[Getragdogleg]

The first bit of Pixars UP!

I almost turned it off as it reduced me to a snotty blubbering wreck, I did stick with it but I have never watched it again because the beginning fills me with dread.

[oddball1973]

The Phantom Menace

[Wacky Racer]

[rubystone]

Similar thread before...add Tyrannosaurus to the list. But requiem for a dream is the number 1.

[russ_a]

The Road

[BrownBottle]

Leviathan is the first one that sprang to mind.

The Wrestler was also pretty depressing in a too much like watching how st real life is kind of way.

[GCH]

Requiem For A Dream
A Clockwork Orange
The Day After
Threads
Freaks

[Drive Blind]

Watership Down @ 5 years old.

[rich85uk]

The hunt, cracking film but bleak

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2106476/?ref_=nv_sr_6

[Pickled]

Boy in the striped pyjamas.

[Drive Blind]

oddball1973 said:

The Phantom Menace

this also

got totally wrapped up in the hype. Was like a kid on christmas morning as we filed into the packed picture house.
And then..... well you know the rest.

[HD Adam]

Dead Mans Shoes

Utterly depressing and brilliant at the same time.

[davepoth]

On The Beach. Probably bleaker than Threads in the grand scheme of things.

[otolith]

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