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

[anonymous-user]

Watership down.

[dudleybloke]

Earthlings.

[Beati Dogu]

Angela's Ashes

[birdcage]

Cathy Come Home. Truly depressing

[wezo]

Try Soldier Blue for a very depressing Western, probably too old school for you youngsters, but is a very strong film, one of my favorites in a funny way...

[chr15b]

Leaving Las Vegas

[jesusbuiltmycar]

Like the OP, "Requiem for a Dream" I can't think of another film is nearly as bleak.

[bingybongy]

We need to talk about Kevin.

[RobDickinson]

russ_a said:

The Road

First one that popped into my head. Utter depressing garbage, pointless

[essayer]

jesusbuiltmycar said:

Like the OP, "Requiem for a Dream" I can't think of another film is nearly as bleak.

+1

[Terzo123]

The Deer Hunter has to be up there. Certainly didn't fill me with the joys of spring

[P-Jay]

Watership down is child abuse in celluloid form - I remember going to the cinema as a kid to watch it and whole place echoing with the sounds of young kids blubbing - even decades later a few line of "briiiiiiiight eyes, burning like fire" can break adults of my generation.

I generally avoid depressing films, but Watership Down, The Mist and When the Wind Blows have ruined my day in years gone by.

[marcosgt]

davepoth said:

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

I don't remember the film, but the book's certainly bleak.

"The Road" is right up there, even with the positive ending - I often wonder if they made two endings and decided that the one used worked better with an audience

M.

[joema]

For me it was The Road.

[stormnick]

Following the recent thread on here, I watched the original version of Funny Games yesterday - there weren't many laughs in that!

I remember the Champ being a very sad film too - watched it as a boy and was very upset afterwards.

[Rick_1138]

Threads is number 1 for feeling awful and needing a dose of disney after.

The remake\TV movie of On the Beach with Armande Assante is also awful, mainly the cyanide pill for the family bit

I have Grave of the fireflies still in its wrapper, cant bring myself to watch it yet as it so close to Christmas

[wisbech]

Grave of the Fireflies.

[BuzzBravado]

Drive Blind said:

Watership Down @ 5 years old.

Or the start of Bambi.

[Swervin_Mervin]

13 Tzameti

That was grim

[DocJock]

The Road for me too.