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

@CatsArePeople - I was unaware of the existence of The War Game until I visited Hack Green nuclear bunker and they had an exhibition about it with bits of the film showing so I tracked it down when I got home. I can see exactly why the government of the time (and subsequent ones) suppressed it and actually wouldn't allow it's release. It was originally meant to be a public information film but was so realistic that it frightened civil servants half to death at it's accuracy of the effects of nuclear war. Worry about how the public would react if it ever saw the light of day meant that only those who needed to know ever saw it which is why it wasn't destroyed as it was used as an education tool for those selected to run shelters etc.

Earthlings 😔

Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte; my mum had sat me in front of the Tv one evening so I could keep an eye on the house while she popped to a neighbour. I don't think she knew what she'd put on. We were decorating the living room so my chair was really close to the tv. One second i was watching a scene with a young man wistfully smelling a flower, the next he was waving the stump of his arm around while his other hand was chopped off. When my mum got back shortly after, the tv was off and I'd buried myself under the chair cushions.

I was too upset to tell her what was wrong, thought I'd get into trouble for watching it and didn'twant to make my mum feel guilty. Probably scarred me for life. I've never seen the whole film, I think Bette Davis is in it.

Life is Beautiful - I couldn’t even think about it for weeks without crying
Kes - never, ever, ever again
Breaking the Waves - just relentlessly harrowing from start to finish
Tyrannosaur - A film that starts with a man kicking his dog to death then gets bleaker and bleaker until it ends.
The Road - although the book broke me much more than the film
Sybil - not a film, the tv series from the 80s, utterly traumatised me as a child
Up - should be banned.

Eden Lake was pretty horrible harrowing

The Lovely Bones almost unbearable harrowing

This is England, the film, but more so the TV series. Incredible acting. I tried to rewatch it as it is so good but I couldn't go through it a second time.

Same with It's a Sin.

Pan's Labyrinth. Two of the most violent scenes I've ever seen.

The last house on the left.

Old boy.

Sleepers.

American History X.

Sybil as in the series with Sybil Shepherd?

Funny Games - absolutely horrific and the most misleading film title I've ever come across. Literally couldn't believe what I was watching.

The Road
The Lovely Bones ( the book more so)
Boys don't cry.
Seven Pounds.
The Boy in the striped pyjamas.
Certain episodes of 13 reasons why.

Seven Pounds (Will Smith)
It's a running joke amongst my friends that I don't cry during any films...yet when I watched this I was actually sobbing.

I watched a film called Where the Red Fern Grows when I was little and absolutely sobbed for days.

Audrey Rose stayed with me for a very very long time. As did La Vita e Bella (Life is Beautiful). I'll die before I watch that again. Absolutely heartbreaking (but deserving of its Oscar)

Dead Man's Shoes. I could never watch that again. Ditto Monster.

I'm not sure traumatised is the word, but I could not stop crying at the end of The Notebook. It made me think a lot about getting old.

Oh god no. It was a mini series with Sally Field, she played a woman with multiple personalities recalling horrific abuse as a child with very graphic scenes.

Cape Fear. There is a scene in it that I found terrifying, I'm sure someone will copy it. I warned my daughter it is very disturbing.

Ladybird Ladybird. Left me absolutely shell-shocked.

A Serbian Film was horrific. Martyrs was pretty bad and I had to get DH to turn off August Underground a couple of weeks ago because it was so awful

They're all brutal though. Other non-brutal things that get me every time are Dumbo and The Notebook and Remember Me left me absolutely shellshocked by the twist at the end

The Lovely Bones (read the book first, that is awfully harrowing).

The Mist film, based on the Stephen King novel. The end...oh my god.

A male rape in Hollyoaks around 20-22 years ago? I can still remember it.

The film 'Seeking a friend for the end of the world'. At the end I was imagining having to hold my son while that happened and just felt so unimaginably awful for a while afterwards.

Totally agree with Sophies Choice - the book version though......even more harrowing

Chernobyl. Horrific and it actually happened. I thought it was amazingly well made.

I do get affected by fictional tv/film but can usually reassure myself that it's not real; Chernobyl was deeply distressing to watch.

So many already mentioned...

I'll add Land of Mine