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

Lion
the curious incident of Benjamin Button
the prestige
the girl with the dragon tattoo

Marley and Me - the PTS scene towards the end finished me off.

Feeling like a little light viewing? 😂

Same. I thought I’d be ok cos its a kids film. Is it heck as like! I sobbed and sobbed and sobbed.

also Toy Story 3. Most of the cinema was in tears at that one.

We Need To Talk About Kevin, by a long shot.

Irreversible followed closely by The Accused. Never been able to get those rape scenes out of my head.

I, Daniel Blake. Some of the moments of loneliness and desperation in the bleak lives of the main characters were utterly harrowing. Largely because it was almost certainly depicting true life for many people. I couldn’t stop crying. I was pregnant when I watched it so that didn’t help the crying.

An incredible Swedish series Caliphate which ended with a teen girl being persuaded to detonate a bomb vest at a concert

It just goes quiet on the friend’s phone rather than showing it but I felt silent after

Surprised that I, Daniel Craig hasn't been mentioned more.
I found Gorillas in the Mist and Million Dollar Baby both very traumatic to watch.

Cleary I meant I, Daniel Blake not Craig. Doh!

Cathy come home.
When they were removing the kids from the mother who was screaming and trying to hold onto them.
I sobbed like the heartbreak was mine.

When I was a child I saw The Incredible Shrinking Man (an old black and white film from the 1950s) and had nightmares for weeks. I can barely remember it now, just the awful feeling it gave me knowing that the main character would eventually disappear and he knew there was nothing he could do.

Bipbopbee-FINALLY someone else who remembers the Plague Dogs-I too was left upset by this.
I didn't like that scene in The Walking Dead when Negan smashed some of the main characters heads in with Lucille either(trying not to spoil)

Under the Skin is a brilliant film but to this day I wish I had never watched it.

I must be really desensitized as seeing most of these films’ titles failed to shock me, however the following I could never watch again:-

• IT (original version) as hate clowns
• The Passion of the Christ- grisly, cruel, graphic, distressing
• Hostel- agree with PPs that it feasibly goes on in the world
• Anything depicting animal cruelty
• Cannibal Holocaust- v unpleasant
• The Last House on the Left- horrific and I feel has contributed to my mental health issues

Dopesick just the greed and what happened as a result made me so angry and sad I was bawling.

I found the Good Place quite distressing at the end , don’t know why.

this is us - William and Randall’s story in particular

Brokeback Mountain absolutely killed me. I sobbed and sobbed for a good half an hour and then felt sad for the next day. Same with Titanic.

I did the same! Cried for an hour after it finished! Really amazing film and I didn't guess the twist but it was really upsetting!

12 years a slave 😭

Omg Lion. I had to pause it after the first 15 minutes as it was too upsetting to watch. Went back to it when I was feeling stronger!

Caliphate was excellent.

And another one... Haachi.... I sobbed and sobbed at the end and haven't been able to watch it again since.. 😔 😢 😢

The Killing Fields was and still is the most upsetting film I have seen

So many mentioned already.
Nil by Mouth - Kathy Burke and Ray Winstone.

I didn’t find Dopesick harrowing really but I was totally aghast and still am

I’m listening to Empire of Pain re the Sacklers on R4 and I’m just astounded at what was allowed to happen