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Most harrowing TV/film you have ever seen?

354 replies

Greensleeves · 30/05/2022 10:28

Mine are:

Song for a Raggy Boy - beautifully made film, but I never, ever want to see it again
Sophie's Choice
Escape from Sobibor
Scum
Touching the Void

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Climbingthelaundrymountain · 30/05/2022 10:33

The Green Mile.
The Lovely Bones.

Afterfire · 30/05/2022 10:34

Le Rafle
Schindlers List
Sarah’s Key

All holocaust films. Just so horrendously sad.

honeybushbunch · 30/05/2022 10:36

Schindler’s List
Cry Freedom
When The Wind Blows
Never Let Me Go

Climbingthelaundrymountain · 30/05/2022 10:38

Water ship Down actually traumatised me for life.

larkstar · 30/05/2022 10:38

Wolf Creek - set in the Australian outback - I couldn't watch it all and had to switch over part way through.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Creek_(film)

Tashface · 30/05/2022 10:39

The Father, with Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Coleman. I don't cry but I cried at this!

Jagsy · 30/05/2022 10:40

Schindlers List
The Green Mile
12 years a slave

Afterfire · 30/05/2022 10:41

Climbingthelaundrymountain · 30/05/2022 10:38

Water ship Down actually traumatised me for life.

Me too.

So much blood! I still remember the blood creeping across the fields and the black rabbit. I must have been about 6/7 when I first saw it.

BracedlnEndIessJanuary · 30/05/2022 10:47

Requiem for a dream
There are others that are infamous - a Serbian film, irreversible etc that I know I would not be able to stomach, so have never sought out.

Greensleeves · 30/05/2022 10:48

Oh God yes, Watership Down. It really upset me as a kid.

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ThatWriterInTheCorner · 30/05/2022 10:49

The movie of "When The Wind Blows" by Raymond Briggs, and the TV series "Chernobyl". Traumatised child of the nuclear 80s here :-)

Sunshine0987 · 30/05/2022 10:50

The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas - even worse than Schindler's List. I don't think I'll ever be able to watch it again.

ExplodingCarrots · 30/05/2022 10:51

The road
The pianist
The lovely bones

Simonjt · 30/05/2022 10:51

Holding the man, I have never actually been able to watch it all the way through.

IllDoItButOnlyForTheAttention · 30/05/2022 10:53

Lilya 4Ever. Oh my God, beyond grim and harrowing.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilya_4-ever

Saw it when it came out and went straight to work after - felt shellshocked all shift.

GlitchStitch · 30/05/2022 10:53

Amistad- love legal films but in order to ever watch this again I would need to skip a big section of the film.
The Pianist- I find anything related to the Holocaust really distressing so not sure why I sat through this.

Pieceofpurplesky · 30/05/2022 10:53

Watership Down - like PPs it traumatised me as a kid.

Threads. Nuclear war and melting milk bottles. Did not sleep for weeks.

A hideous film called Freaks, the 1930s film. So disturbing.

I cry about half way through Shawshank thinking about the ending.

nancy75 · 30/05/2022 10:54

Life is beautiful (the Italian one)
More recently Jojo Rabbit - very ugly crying in the cinema & can’t ever listen to Hero’s by David Bowie again

Yarnasaurus · 30/05/2022 10:55

Cathy Come Home had the greatest impact on me.

CaptSkippy · 30/05/2022 10:56

The Whistleblower (2010)

DismantledKing · 30/05/2022 10:57

Come and See

ElenaSt · 30/05/2022 10:58

I was quite young and baby sitting and after the youngsters were put to bed I felt very grown up in someone else's house and watched Deliverance for the first time and the male rape scene was very disturbing as whilst I was aware of females being raped it hadn't occurred to me at such a young age that men could be raped by other men.

ElenaSt · 30/05/2022 10:59

Slightly older and a group of us watched I spit on your grave and that was awful.

Scoose · 30/05/2022 11:00

Schindlers list
The boy in the striped pyjamas
Cry freedom
When they see us

Pipsickl · 30/05/2022 11:00

For reasons I cannot fully explain, the first series of true detective disturbed and upset me more than anything else I can remember watching

this is England (film) made me really sad too

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