Most harrowing TV/film you have ever seen?

[Greensleeves]

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

Tyrannosaur. Olivia Coleman was outstanding, but I will never watch it again.
Also second vote for Touching The Void.
Horror movie called Sinister I watched about 20 years ago, absolutely horrific

Another vote for watership down. Never again.
Boys don't cry and broke back mountain. Had to be carried out of the cinema wailing

"Threads". Didn't sleep properly for two weeks after watching that. Kept waking up thinking I could hear nuclear sirens. Have watched it since and, while it seems like another era (well it is), it hasn't lost its power to shock. I often wonder if it could be re-made well for the 21st Century ... or would it just end up like an American-style movie ... too many special effects and over-acting? Nah ... maybe just keep the original.

Come and See

The Glass House (1972) I watched this film over 40 years ago at the age of 15 and the rape scene still upsets me (young male prisoner was taken to prison gym and gang raped) I’d never heard of male rape before and was shocked to the core. Actually the whole film was truly barbaric.

Le Haine. I couldn’t get through it. Boyfriend at the time had picked it, it was insane watching such a story from a sofa, I just couldn’t do it. Insisted it was switched off, couldn’t articulate they why but bf got it and took it off.

The Passion of the Christ
Donnie Darko

Paranormal activity - scarred me for life

TiredbutAlive watched Threads too…. that was another I kept thinking about

(Donnie Darko, weird not harrowing)

If anything happens I love you

its a 6 min animation on Netflix and absolutely devastating, especially in light of recent events

Song for a raggy boy
The magdelene sisters
La vita é Bella

All got me in different ways.

Certain scenes of:

mother!
The Orphanage
Hostel
Doctor Sleep

Hostel because you know it goes on in real life. I don't watch anything like that now. It's disturbing. It's marred my life knowing about that stuff.

Also human centipede had a huge effect on me, not in a good way.

Are any of these currently available on the usual streaming channels please ?

I just read that plot synopsis. I can’t imagine a less cheerful series of events

This.
I watched it whilst pregnant and hormonal and was so hysterical when exDH got home that he genuinely thought someone had died.

Blackfish.
Once upon a time in Iraq, BBC documentary. So utterly sad, and what a mess for everyone.

I've not watched the others mentioned as I know I'd be in a state.

A Clockwork Orange. Had to switch it off

This one is harrowing beyond words 😭

21 grams....

Miss violence

Oh yeah, that film! Traumatic

Bookmarking to look up all the ones I haven't seen, I love gritty films.

Threads - horrific watching as a teen in the 1980's and realising that there was no surviving a cold war strike and that Protect and Survive was a lie

The War Game (1965) - even more horrific watching when I watched it about 10 years ago. Completely harrowing as this was how the British public was and how things would have panned out

Downfall - the scenes where the Goebbel's discuss suicide and then kill their children is actually one of the most disturbing things I have ever watched

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - I was speechless at the end with shock

Hostel - harrowing and actually quite plausible

Saw - never got past the first one

28 Days Later - the only film where I wanted to leave the cinema in the middle but made myself sit it out

any of the 1980's zombie films - I couldn't watch any of them without feeling fearful. About 10 years ago I made myself watch lots of zombie films until I lost my fear in preparation for the impending zombie apocalypse which I was convinced was coming (thank you TWD!)

I would just like to add that I found that the book The Lovely Bones is more harrowing than the film which I thought didn't capture the essence of it.