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

Once We're Warriors
Tyrannosaur
I, Daniel Blake
So many others

Once Were Warriors...auto correct

Just seen someone mention The Human Centipede up thread 😬 I’m a big horror fan, and I didn’t think the first one was all that bad. The second one is a whole other kettle of fish 🤯😳 Sickening violence. Unfortunately I watched the uncut version. There are images from that film that are forever bleached into my brain.

Most violently misogynist film ever made.

The Seasoning House. So many women around the world are/were in that situation, so I couldn't see it as just a horror story. Way too real.

On a lighter note I find the villian in Wolf Creek really unsettling, but I don't forget that he's a character.

Thought of one more:

Wild with Reese Witherspoon.

Oh yes! This made me nearly faint too!

Uh huh. Hands down winner.

Green mile
Schindler's list
Lovely bones (though the book affected me more)
Sweeney Todd (watched it last night, it got me in the feels. I didn't know it was basically a musical and I didn't see the end coming)
Watership down - it should be illegal to show it to kids, I'm 40 and I couldn't watch it now
Clockwork Orange

Philadelphia
and
Schindler's List

Manchester by the Sea. Haunted me for weeks.

A lot of them on here I found hard to watch and would never watch again.

But my 1st experience of being truly upset by movies was the land before time. They always got me as a kid!

The Magdalene Sisters - a film about Magdalene laundries in Ireland.

The Pawnbroker, 1960s film with Rod Steiger. Never watched a Holocaust film since.
Freaks, 1930s film
I now avoid any film likely to upset me. Couldn’t watch 12 Years a Slave but read the book instead - I would recommend the book.

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas..
This Little Life.. About a premature baby...
The Bucket List... 😢 😢 😢 😢

Although with Clockwork Orange I couldn’t even finish the first chapter.

On netflix. The trial of Gabriel fernandez

@BracedlnEndIessJanuary - do visit Hack Green if you get the chance. It's the best nuclear bunker that I've ever visited and and the DC loved it. It's absolutely massive and has a lot of the original equipment in it. We visited about ten years ago when we were on holiday in the area (it's in the middle of nowhere) - so fascinating.

Never let me go. Hands down the most harrowing and haunting film ever. Not just because of the actual secret, but about how the reveal is done.

Agree with many above. I watched that Sally Field one with the multiple personalities, dark.

For me, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest was really upsetting.

A lot of dreadful things, but Three Girls (BBC, now on Netflix) left me upset for weeks. So real and so bleak.

I can’t believe Changeling (with Angelina Jolie) has only had 1 mention on here! I had nightmares about the children’s screams for months afterwards.

Also agree with Life is Beautiful and The Boy in The Striped Pjamas, although I found the book even more harrowing as it’s written in the first person from both of the boys perspectives.

A more recent one that I can never watch again now that I have children is The Cry. Jenna Coleman’s acting when her character finds that her baby has died is just utterly heartbreaking.

Angela's Ashes when her babies die one by one. The misery of having to prostitute herself to keep a roof over the head of what was left of her family. The total waster of a husband who left her in the sh*te time after time.

Threads. Very powerful piece of filmmaking.

Dead Man’s Shoes was so awful. And Dancer in the Dark was too. And I remember one with Kathy Burke about domestic abuse that was terrible too. Can’t remember its name now.