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

[DaveGoddard]

stephen300o said:

Any hangover or 'drunk lad' movie.

Seconded. So overly predictable at every turn they make me think "if this is how modern humour works, shoot me now". American Pie did it originally, and every other similar film has just jumped on their bandwagon.

[Europa1]

I think some people are misunderstanding this thread.

[stephen300o]

Europa1 said:

I think some people are misunderstanding this thread.

There are differing points of view as to what depresses folks about a movie,
There are glum movies, and there are 'why was this even made?' Movies.

[toon10]

I found the Pianist utterly depressing yet brilliantly made. A great movie that you're not in a hurry to watch again.

[anonymous-user]

Marley and Me, bloody hell that's a sad film.

[DaveGoddard]

Trexthedinosaur said:

Marley and Me, bloody hell that's a sad film.

Whenever that's on TV my Facefk feed always goes mad with everyone saying how much they're crying over it, yet when I tell them I react the same way when the Porsche 917 gets destroyed in Le Mans, they just think I'm weird...

[Marvindodgers]

Sorry, I've not read all of the other 10 pages so apologies if it has been mentioned already. The most depressing film I have ever watched is Jude, the Kate Winslet/Christopher Eccleston movie of the Thomas Hardy novel Jude The Obscure. God, I was close to rigging up a noose it was so depressing!!

[Rogue86]

Human centipede. The only film where I got to the end and thought that nothing good had come of watching it, other than the South Park episode it spawned. Thoroughly depressing way to spend an hour and a half.

[FredClogs]

I watched Fury at the weekend, Brad Pitt, it's not a barrel of laughs.

[toasty]

Rogue86 said:

Human centipede. The only film where I got to the end and thought that nothing good had come of watching it, other than the South Park episode it spawned. Thoroughly depressing way to spend an hour and a half.

It was a comedy, no? I thought it was funny. Feeeeeeed heeeerrrrr!!!!

[Zod]

Robbo 27 said:

The English Patient, fantastic photography but thats all.

Kristin Scott-Thomas naked?

[The Don of Croy]

Marvindodgers said:

Sorry, I've not read all of the other 10 pages so apologies if it has been mentioned already. The most depressing film I have ever watched is Jude, the Kate Winslet/Christopher Eccleston movie of the Thomas Hardy novel Jude The Obscure. God, I was close to rigging up a noose it was so depressing!!

"...because we are too many..." - v. bleak.

Has anyone watched 'Mum & Dad'? I've read the IMDB entry and it does sound depressingly gross. Not sure if I need to waste my money on it yet...

[Moominator]

Zod said:

Robbo 27 said:

The English Patient, fantastic photography but thats all.

Kristin Scott-Thomas naked?

I'll be honest here- we went to see this at the cinema and when he was carrying her body out I cried like a baby.

Really liked that film.

[Rogue86]

toasty said:

It was a comedy, no? I thought it was funny. Feeeeeeed heeeerrrrr!!!!

I thought it was supposed to be too, but I can still remember the camera panning out at the end and thinking "wow, now thats a depressing ending!"

[Centurion07]

DaveGoddard said:

American Pie did it originally, and every other similar film has just jumped on their bandwagon.

I'm going to take a guess and say you're under or around the age of 30, right?

[Poisson96]

Being a Sheffield lad and Grandson of someone who's family had the wonderful shower visit of Auschwitz, Threads and Boy In Striped Pyjamas are depressing. Not strong enough to watch Pianist or Schindler's List.

In regards for depressingly bad, Danish Girl is a very butchered true storyish dull film of boringness. Daddy's Home was even worse and stuff like Are We There Yet? Are horrors upon horrors...

[Mattygooner]

toon10 said:

I found the Pianist utterly depressing yet brilliantly made. A great movie that you're not in a hurry to watch again.

Very depressing, but a fabulous film and a great sound track.

Another vote for Shindlers List, just watched it again on Sky movies, and it is brilliant but incredibly depressing, even more so when you consider it only a tiny part of the horror it portrayed.

I think I have seen a Serbian film, if it is what I am thinking of then yes, it's pretty bleak.

[anonymous-user]

E Lollipop / Forever Young, Forever Free.

Saw it 32 years ago on BBC2 round my mates house aged 7 or 8. Both of us were in tears at the end. I'd love to watch to watch it again but I know I'd be an inconsolable mess again. Beautiful film though.

[belleair302]

The Constant Gardener, Leaving Las Vegas and oddly Mad Max the new one.....just so depressingly bad.

[Beati Dogu]

toon10 said:

I found the Pianist utterly depressing yet brilliantly made. A great movie that you're not in a hurry to watch again.

It's a good film and very powerful. Adrien Brody lost a lot of weight for the role and he said the whole experience kinda messed him up for a good year and a half afterwards. The director, Roman Polanski, was a survivor of the Krakow ghetto and managed to escape and hide with a sympathetic Catholic family. His father was taken off to a labour camp for the rest of the war and his mother was murdered at Auschwitz. So obviously a lot of the background detail comes from bitter experience.