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

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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

Changeling - it's unbelievably heartbreaking and it's a true story!

Me before you

The light between oceans is really sad and hard to watch if you have experienced pregnancy or baby loss.

I, Daniel Blake. A bit close to the bone but important.

The Elephant Man broke me when I was about 13 and I’ve never been so traumatised by a film since.

I love this film, some fantastic actors in it

I'd second this - that film haunted me, and every time something reminds me about it it makes me ill for weeks. It was terrible.

It was based on a Hubert Selby Jr novel. The book is even more disquieting, and so is one of his other books, Last Exit to Brooklyn (they made a film of that, too, but the book was considerably better).

A couple of his other books were so disturbing that TBH I couldn't finish them. An excellent writer, but very bleak and violent.

My sisters keeper .

I was SO hoping someone else had watched this and mentioned it. I was so traumatised by Eden Lake and no-one I know has watched it! You should have seen the end …or maybe not!

That was terrifying!

The real possibility of it was chilling.

Yes, that was the one that sprang to mind for me too. Because it is so many people's reality, and things are only getting worse.

Don't think I can even read these posts too upsetting 😔

Threads I felt physically unsettled for days after leaves you feeling hollow just awful

Kids watched it as a teen horrible horrible film

Stroszek, a road movie by Werner Herzog. It redefines bleak for me and I'll never forget the chickens in the game arcade at the end. It's hard to pin down what exactly is so harrowing about it, it just exudes dread. I read somewhere that this was the last fim Ian Curtis watched before ending his own life. Only watch during a sunny afternoon.

I felt the same about another book by that author - Blood Meridian. Brutal.

Oh yes - Eden Lake was pretty much relentless, and so shocking even now.

Of course, both leads have gone on to much better things (I love Michael Fassbender in just about anything - but Hunger was a very very hard watch).

Watership Down I can still see the rabbits suffocating when I hear Bright Eyes.

Heavenly Creatures - true story about a murder. Kate Winslet was amazing in it.

Watership Down, obvs

I thought this was everyone’s most upsetting film??

Australia really disturbing and martyrs

Grave of the Fireflies.

It's aJapanese cartoon about an orphaned young boy and his little sister trying to survive after Japan's surrender following WWII.

It's bliddy heartbreaking.

I watched it on youtube, but it doesn't seem to be available any more, but is on Amazon Prime

Mysterious skin

I watched The Impossible 5 days after I gave birth. That was a very stupid decision. I cried for days. I won't mention the particular scene here, it may be too sensitive. I've never been able to watch again.
The green Mile, every time it gets me, at the end when they're about to cover his face.
The shawshank redemption, absolute master piece. But the parts where brooks kills himself and the young lad was going to testify is shot are heartbreaking.
Dumbo, when he goes to his mother's cage and she cradles him and they play the song.
Bambi, made me hate humans from a young age.
Marley and me, obviously.
Harry potter, when you think about it, he's an orphan living in a cupboard under the stairs. He's bullied at school and abused at home.

I have forgotten Heavenly creatures.

I just watched 'No child of mine' as the whole film is on YouTube and I feel physically sick.

Not sure why I just did that to myself on a Friday night!

I really cried at that bit in 'I Am Legend' where the dog is turning into a zombie 😥

"Frances" with Jessica Lange portraying the real life of American actress Frances Farmer

The Snowman - I start at the first notes of the music

The Virgin Suicides.

The Others.

Kinda glad so many pp have said requiem for a dream. It’s been a long time since I watched that film and it genuinely scarred me. So many of the end scenes are horrific.

This is England 86 is also unwatchable for me.