*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

Marley and Me 😥

Shadowlands
The Father

I also found Dopesick a really heavy watch.
The ending of Requiem For A Dream is awful, Harry Brown is also quite depressing.

When I was primary age (about 5) I remember crying at Lassie and hiding behind the sofa terrified when the monster came on in The Goonies 🤣

The beginning of Up gets me every time
The ending of Marley and Me

A Monster Calls. It was the truest thing I have ever seen. Me and DH had just lost MIL through cancer and we cried so much our eyes were swollen.

Jacobs Ladder. So awful.

The Red Road
I really wish I'd never watched it. I think about it every time I'm folding my kids clothes. If you've seen it you'll know what I mean.

Tyrannosaur is a film that still makes me wince when I think of it.

Threads and Roots are classics that everyone should watch.

Lately, I find myself regularly welling up at Bluey. The Camping episode kills me. I have a child with ADHD and the episode that introduces little Jack who can't sit still ...oooof...I well up just thinking about it.

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Anthony Hopkins!!

Has anyone seen 21 Grams with Sean Penn? It's an amazing film and the acting is out of this world, but the subject matter and whole plot is so heartbreaking it's unbelievable. It's part of the trilogy that "Babel" was part of (also a genius film and not as horrendously sad)

Scum. It upset me for years afterwards. I refuse to watch anything that might contain cruelty in any form now.

This!!!

I am always recommending people watch it, but would never watch it again myself. In fact I only half-watched it from behind my hands it, but can remember every scene that I did see and all of the narration. Changed my life.

Oh goodness - I'd buried that film to the back of my mind - that traumatised me

Another heart-wrenching but brilliant film (also with Sean Penn) is Mystic River. It's so tragic I still think about it a lot

An odd one this...

I was looking forward to Pixars inside out for years, we had a little girl who was stillborn the week it was released.

The opening depiction of the first moments of consciousness destroy me every time.

"Oh and also it really upset me when Tom Hanks loses Wilson in Cast Away"

• I was going through a very difficult time last December and this film was on tv , this scene allowed me to release some emotion. It's such a sad part of the film.

The passion of the Christ - I didn’t even fancy this movie and went to see it in the cinema, I literally cried like a baby… it was horrific.

Most upsetting - Marley and me. Cried in the cinema and for a good hour home.

Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

Kes - so bloody depressing and awful with a horrible ending.

That's understandable and also tragic Fix xxx

The shoes. Aaargh. 😭

Adam- I think it was called.
I was 10 when the neighbours let me watch It with their kids.
traumatised - i still have nightmares about it 28 years later

Another one for Sophie's Choice. Only Meryl Streep could have carried it off. My DD was only 6 months old when I saw it on TV. I was sitting there breastfeeding her, and I still remember the pain of "the choice" to this day, even though it was 39 years ago. I seriously thought my heart was going to break with the poor mother's agony. I'll never watch it again, and still feel traumatised by the memory when I look at my DD's little DD and DS.

To be clear that is the 1983 Adam Walsh story

There is a film called The Counsellor which despite having an all star cast (Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz) never seemed to be a huge film.

Anyway, Brad Pitt's character gets murdered in it and the way he is killed is just absolutely horrible, every now and then I still think about it, even though generally it was quite a nothingy film.

Same. Especially the last scene...disturbing.

I know its a childrens film but can I add the land before time, the bit when little foots mum dies and he carries that leaf, could not stop crying,
There was also a film with I think Jodie Foster? that showed a gang rape scene in a bar where she was a waitress, that stayed with me for weeks x