I simply got finished giving Legends of the Fall a re-watch. It used to be mainly simply nearly hours of perpetual sorrow. I am now on heroin to manage.

On a extra serious be aware, what are a few of the most depressing movies you might have ever seen that were still well-produced, directed, and with astounding performances?

Side notice: Anthony Hopkins is the very embodiment of theatrical ability. It's no longer easy to believably pull off the function of any person whose had a stroke. Right right down to the lip curl his performance in LOTF was superb.

Come and See. A Russian film about World War II. I’d submit a link to the trailer however OP would then want extra drugs. It’s been known as the most accurate film depiction of war.

Maybe you should read this thread as an alternative, OP.

Grave of the Fireflies. Fifteen-years later, I’m still fucked-up from having watched it.

Also: La Pianiste/The Piano Teacher. Traumatising!

r5 That thread hasn't been spoke back to in over 6 months. I'm restarting the discussion as a substitute of bumping since numerous other people in finding bumping previous threads anxious.

Schindler’s List wins the thread.

Lol, OP. He was stunning in that film. I appreciated Aiden Quinn, too. You're right its a sad movie though. The whale was once exhausting to get thru ,too.

I discovered Brokeback Mountain rather depressing

Hours of Perpetual Sorrow

My subsequent drag persona

The Boy In The Striped Pajamas

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

I could handiest watch it once. The finishing scene is traumatising. The ancient background in the back of the movie is intense, we all heard how bad the nice depression was, so to see it laid in any such manner where the particpants seemingly had no manner out and the audience loved seeing other people essentially kill themselves is unquestionably emblematic of this entire theme.

That being stated, the most terrifying scene to me is when a specific character must be carried via their partner. I would possibly not destroy it, but the tune, the cheering crowds, the cinematography + enhancing and the sheer physicality of the actors' performances are all the reason why I won't watch this movie once more.

When the Wind Blows. That movie made the similary-themed The Testament with Jane Alexander and DL-fav Lukas Haas look like an ABC Weekend Special.

House of Sand and Fog. Great acting, but very bleak movie.

Another vote for House of Sand and Fog.

Momma Mia. Was by no means the identical after gazing it.

R31 Was it worse than Mamma Mia?

They Shoot Horses Don’t They

R26 Agreed. I saw it on TV when I was only a kid, and it really caught with me. I remember the cruelty and inhumanity of all of it.

Sauvage depressed the hell out of me.

Shame.

Despite Michael Fassbender's pendulous, flopping cock, the film was incredibly unhappy and stark.

Deer Hunter. I watched it once and can never watch it once more. It traumatized me. Every solid member was once at the most sensible in their game.

Can't consider no person has mentioned THE most depressing movie of all:

Boys Don't Cry

R26 They Shoot Horses...The book is just as depressing.

"Breaking The Waves," Lars Von Trier's debut buzzkill. It was once a complete bummer

The Sweet Hereafter.

That opening scene with the school bus is terrifying and tragic.

I cried for days after seeing The Joker in the theater

It's absurd to be scolded via datalounges self appointed hall displays for a developing a duplicate thread of one created two years in the past.

Children of Men is on my depressing checklist, would possibly not watch it once more.

Brasil, intended to be an outrageous parody however our modern lives are too similar to the fable. Specifically the terrorist attacks and the ugly cosmetic surgery depicted, too depressing to watch

What Dreams May Come depressed me

R5 You embarrassed your self right here.

Yet every other Vote for House of Sand and Fog. As my pal recommended it to me: “man, that may be a MESSED up movie. You have to look it!” And yeah, it’s beautiful haunting. It sticks with you.

That’s my criteria for movies like this - that and so gorgeous/fascinating you would love to observe once more but it surely’s too brutal to even believe.

City of God

Requiem for a Dream. It is solely painful

Enter the Void

Oh through Christ that documentary do not watch it

“Dear Zachary”

'night, Mother

I watch it a number of occasions a 12 months.

Bambi messed me up lovely good when I was a child. When I was very younger I began gazing the old Turner Classic Movies with my mother, it was once one thing we did together. We watched Imitation of Life with Lana Turner and the ending was heartbreaking.

R59 - I by no means saw the film, but when the play was revived on Broadway a variety of years ago (with Edie Falco), the guy in front of me used to be awash in tears right through the remaining 10 mins.

I felt like I was at a wake.

[quote] Momma Mia. Was never the similar after looking at it.

I couldn’t get thru greater than a half hour. Maybe if I’d been inebriated I’d have managed. I realised I will be able to’t deal with musicals where everyone sings deliriously satisfied, upbeat songs. Im no longer certain I love what that says about me.

R60 yes, Bambi! I rewatched it the other year for the first time since I was 5 years old and it was just as tense. Beautifully animated and painted, however, guy, when it’s grim it’s GRIM.

Grave of the Fireflies has proven up on so many of these kind of lists: Most Depressing Movies, Movies I Would Never Watch Again, Movies I Can't Get Out of My Head, etc. I do know I can by no means, ever watch this movie.

The Vanishing. It all revolves around a hideous secret. Believe me, you do not want to know the resolution to the secret.

Mileage varies, but those three are the most depressing motion pictures I’ve ever noticed (and I’ve noticed reasonably a couple of, including the often-listed _They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?_, which traumatized an excessively young me and became me into a Marxist for lifestyles):

1. Bergman’s _The VIrgin Spring_ (1960)

2. Aki Kaurismäki’s _The Match Factory Girl_ (1990)

3. Lars Von Trier’s _Dogville_ (2003)

Trailer for _The Virgin Spring_:

Trailer for _The Match Factory Girl_:

I fucking LOVE the Match Factory Girl. People got what they deserved. And I want that bachelor's red sofa.

You and me both, r72. The wonders of DL—finding the best different particular person in the international who “fucken loves” The Match Factory Girl.

The film Glory used to be the most effective film that made me depressed. Other movies have made me unhappy, but the tragic ending of Glory used to be a different stage.

The Opposite of Sex is through a ways the movie I have hated the most. I don’t mean hate as simply dislike. I actually wanted to bash in the head of the Christina Ricci persona. It used to be an intense hatred.

Requiem for a Dream, with Ellen Burstyn.

Just fucking shoot me already.

I have in mind Green Mile being very depressing

Most European homosexual romance films are relatively depressing.

-Floating Skyscrapers (Poland)

.Land of Storms (Hungary)

-Free Fall (Germany)

.Mario (Switzerland)

Huge Diane Lane fan, I noticed this as a 10yr previous gayling & used to be completely devastated, I bawled inconsolably at the end. My dad walked out of the room, disgusted via my blubbering, & my mother walked in & asked me what used to be mistaken. I was crying so arduous I couldn’t speak. She requested me if my dad had hit me, & I still couldn’t answer. He got here again in the room to shield himself, & I in the end regained the power of speech & said it was the movie. I think my folks each said “Bah” & disregarded me, disgusted through my histrionics.

Martha--directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Breaking The Waves, I watched it as soon as and never again. Melancholia, I watched it a few times however it used to be up there with BTW as extremely depressing. Lars Von Trier actually is aware of his despair.

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