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*trigger warning - upsetting content* The most upsetting film you've ever seen...

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YellowRedBlueGreen · 07/10/2022 17:13

Harry Brown - I absolutely hated it and felt depressed for days, probably because those kinds of gangs are real and only 100 miles down the road. I was especially hurt watching the two beginning scenes, where they shoot a Mum walking her baby in a park just for a laugh and when they beat to death an innocent man trying to stop his car being vandalised. It reminded me of a particularly well known case 15 odd years ago (GN) 💔

Midnight Express - when they hung the cat purely out of spite because they knew the prisoner loved it. I can't watch it

Dumbo - when the Mean Elephants reject him and he's crying by his bucket of water. Fucking kills me

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MrsMigginsCat · 07/10/2022 19:49

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. The ending is horrific. And Sophie's Choice.

thissucks12 · 07/10/2022 19:49

Harry Brown is truly haunting. I watched it about 10 years ago and it's stuck with me

My sisters keeper. Honestly so sad

Frezia · 07/10/2022 19:50

CuppaAndABiccie · 07/10/2022 19:33

I don’t think “A.I. Artificial Intelligence“ has been mentioned yet……
Heartbreaking! The artificial boy who doesn’t realise realise he’s not real - or why his mummy stops loving him. I’ve watched it once - never again - it broke me 😭😭😭😭😭😭

Also “Sophie’s Choice” - horrific dilemma.

“The Colour Purple” (although at least that has a happy ending!)

Just saw this before I wrote mine. I felt broken by that film for a long long time.

Speedweed · 07/10/2022 19:50

Still Alice - desperately sad and one of those where the audience sat in silence at the end.

Murdered by my boyfriend - I think it was a channel 4 film. Builds up slowly, and then the screen fades and tells you how many hours she was left to die, with her baby calling for her in the next room. Absolutely chilling.

Jackiebrambles · 07/10/2022 19:51

A time to kill, I saw that at the cinema and it just haunts me to this day.

Doowop1919 · 07/10/2022 19:52

The boy in the striped pyjamas. I could never watch that again.

Dumbo as well. Seeing children being taken away from their mums was something that made me really upset as a child. I still remember an episode of knight rider on the telly when I was maybe 3/4 and the baddies were trying to take the girl out the car and I remember crying and my mum telling me it was just a show, it wasn't real. So Dumbo was a big one too, and I think I watched it once or twice.

Intersmellar · 07/10/2022 19:54

We need to talk about Kevin…amazing acting and brilliant movie but left me feeling wretched for days!

catandcoffee · 07/10/2022 19:55

Roots. 😔

FuckingHateRats · 07/10/2022 19:55

Can't believe Titanic hasn't been mentioned.

The last hour is so traumatic. The sequence where the mum tucks her children into bed knowing they'll drown... I can't even think about it without tearing up. We watched it with our child last month and I had to walk out sobbing.

Ameanstreakamilewide · 07/10/2022 19:55

Cheerybigbottom · 07/10/2022 17:25

But I haven't been able to watch Dumbo since I had a child over a decade ago now, even that song, baby mine, heart breaking.

I have the blackest, most cynical heart ever, but Baby Mine, is just...😭

mathanxiety · 07/10/2022 19:56

Goodfellas - I left the cinema. Couldn't stand another minute of it.

Au Revoir Les Enfants - long time ago but still remember it in detail.

ozymandiusking · 07/10/2022 19:57

Soldier Blue which was shown in the late 70s was very bad in parts. And we had no information before hand about it.

Elderflower14 · 07/10/2022 19:58

Also a TV film starring David Morrisey, Kate Ashfield and Peter Mullin... This Little Life..
Its about a couple who's son is born prematurely and their experiences in the hospital with him.... It was so similar to my experience that I sobbed for ages afterwards.... 😢 😢 😢 😢 😢

NettleTea · 07/10/2022 19:59

Glitterspy · 07/10/2022 17:24

Wolf Creek.

yes this. horrific

Uberstar · 07/10/2022 20:00

The colour purple.
sobbed.

HikingforScenery · 07/10/2022 20:02

Green Mile is the most harrowing films. It fills me with a combination of strong anger and sadness when I think of it.

theremustonlybeone · 07/10/2022 20:03

wolf creek... nothing more to say

Iamuhtredsonofuhtred · 07/10/2022 20:04

Irreversible

theremustonlybeone · 07/10/2022 20:05

Glitterspy i have just said wolf creek having not scanned the thread....most disturbing film i have ever watched

Manicmondaze · 07/10/2022 20:08

Gitfeatures · 07/10/2022 18:32

The War Zone (Ray WInstone,Tilda Swinton) is utterly brutal. I really wish I hadn't seen it.

I came on to say this! Images from that film were hard to shake off and kept coming back to me for months. Can’t watch anything with Ray Winstone in since.

Also This is England 86, Trev’s rape.

PinkPupZ · 07/10/2022 20:10

Hannibal
Pans labyrinth
Se7en

Nimblesandbimbles · 07/10/2022 20:11

Another vote for Wolf Creek- absolutely horrific- I had to leave to leave the cinema at points.
Casino- I remember something to do with a vice & someone being microwaved or something horrendous.
There was a horrible execution scene in that series Gunpowder that made me feel quite ill.

PurpleBirch · 07/10/2022 20:13

delightfuldaisy19 · 07/10/2022 17:40

OMG - I saw this in the mid 80s when I was about 10. It still makes me sad now.

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Who will love my children. Me too. So very sad.

Wishfulthinking1977 · 07/10/2022 20:15

I can watch most things, but some just leave an unsettling feeling in my mind! Like waking up after a bad dream? If anyone gets that?? Mine are - What dreams may come and AI, I'm sure I will think of more but those are the two that spring firstly to mind! X

Cailleachian · 07/10/2022 20:16

Come and See (Russian war film from the 80s set in WW2)

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