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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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FridayTheThirteeth · 07/10/2022 22:59

Blue Story

FridayTheThirteeth · 07/10/2022 23:01

Deliverance

Satsumaonaplate · 07/10/2022 23:03

Grave of the fireflies. I was a heartless teenager when I saw this and I cried and cried towards the end.

Smilelesstalkmore · 07/10/2022 23:03

Alos, the film 'Knowing' with Nicholas Cage. Again, bit of a crap film but the ending is just really horrible!

GreyhairedHobbit · 07/10/2022 23:06

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas!
Beaches
@teezletangler Yes that final scene in Philomena was so so sad too.

LoveMyPiano · 07/10/2022 23:07

onwardandupwards · 07/10/2022 22:59

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

The Jodie Foster film was The Accused, and was ground breaking at the time.... As was the fact that charges were brought against those who saw what happened and did not help her.

A well-deserved Academy Award for her as well.

QuiteHappySometimes · 07/10/2022 23:09

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

The term trigger warning, is rather more upsetting than any film. So sick of this now.
a list of film titles 🙄

EveryFlightBeginsWithAFall · 07/10/2022 23:11

Last house on the left, the rape

LoveMyPiano · 07/10/2022 23:11

Smilelesstalkmore · 07/10/2022 23:03

Alos, the film 'Knowing' with Nicholas Cage. Again, bit of a crap film but the ending is just really horrible!

I agree. I quite liked (hmm) the premise, but could not stand the ending and the lead-up to it when they knew the world was ending. But seeing the planet destroyed (and I am a sci-fi super-fan) really really upset me at some deep level.

Also the scenes through the window of the animals trying to flee the fire.

Today I watched Burning (an Aus documentary film about the fires of Christmas 2019-2020), and some of the scenes from the film have become reality.

ZimZamZoom · 07/10/2022 23:15

Haven't RTFT yet, but:

Alpha Dog, not a particularly good film but, my god, the ending is just so bleak.

Blood Diamond, I couldn't speak until about an hour afterwards.

ZimZamZoom · 07/10/2022 23:17

And Snowtown. I genuinely wish I'd never watched it.

Twopandemicpregnancies · 07/10/2022 23:17

Nocturnal Animals. The brutality and pointlessness still haunts me

TheAntiTruss · 07/10/2022 23:19

Brimstone starring Guy Pearce as an abusive, deranged preacher. I beg people to not watch this film. It’s beyond bleak, it’s more like looking into the abyss and the abyss staring back at you. I wish I’d never seen it.

CavaggiosCat · 07/10/2022 23:19

Nineeuros · 07/10/2022 18:48

I can’t handle anything with rape or sexual abuse - even if it’s a ‘choice’ ie the orgy for crack scene in This is England 90s or at the end of Requiem for a dream (obviously it’s not a choice but you get my meaning). I have to look away, I can’t take it. It’s one thing when rape is included and has meaning, but when it’s pointless and gratuitous I hate it. Like the rape scene in The Sinner (I wouldn’t watch the rest of the series it was dead to en then) or the Hills Have Eyes (I turned it off immediately). I hate when sexual abuse is used gratuitously, it’s pathetic.

I'm the same makes sick to the stomach to think of it.

Davethecat2001 · 07/10/2022 23:19

Eden Lake.

Don't watch it.

TheNinny · 07/10/2022 23:23

Lily’s 4 ever and the stoning of Sharoya M (may not be correct spelling). Both based on true stories I believe. The latter was really graphic and triggered me for a long time. Just tears me up women still face injustice of that nature in the world today.

AtomHeartMotherOfGod · 07/10/2022 23:27

theadultsaretalking · 07/10/2022 17:50

'Grave of the Fireflies', a studio Ghibli animation. Absolutely heartbreaking, I will never recover from it.

Yes I totally agree; it's heartbreaking. The films that have really 'haunted' me, apart from this, are:

Dancer in the Dark
Jojo Rabbit
Deerhunter
Amadeus
The Wrestler

But actually, in terms of crying, I think Titanic made me shed most tears! In addition to all the tears during the stupid film, the next day in the toilet at work, I remembered Jack floating away and I started bawling again 😂

highgatemums · 07/10/2022 23:30

Soldier blue
Sophie's choice
The great ecstasy of Robert Carmichael
Requiem for a dream
I, Daniel Blake
Imitation of life

highgatemums · 07/10/2022 23:31

The deerhunter

picklespark · 07/10/2022 23:32

This is bringing back memories! For me it's:

Grave of the Fireflies, when the sister starves to death I bawl
Requiem for a Dream
12 Years a Slave - weirdly, as harrowing as the rest of the film is, the worst bit is when he's out with those guys at the beginning and they drug and dupe him, it makes me feel so sick :'(

Most of all, Bambi! That shit is traumatising, how is that a children's film. I still have flashbacks of Bambi wandering the forest crying out "Mother! Motherrrr!"

The TV movie of Steven King's IT with Tim Curry was also so scary I couldn't watch again.

picklespark · 07/10/2022 23:35

Under the Skin with Scarlett Johansson - forgot that one. Anyone who's seen and got through the lone toddler crying on the beach...ugh.

I also found the new King Kong super upsetting, poor Kong :(( he just wanted a friend

NotReallySure · 07/10/2022 23:35

XelaM · 07/10/2022 22:29

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)

Yes, I saw this years ago, I remember it being full on and quite good. But back then I didn't really get that upset at films. I can't remember exactly what happened in it. I've since become a mum and can hardly watch anything with any substance! I agree Philomena was heartbreaking.

highgatemums · 07/10/2022 23:38

The stoning of soraya m
The Magdalene sisters
Roots (more a TV series than film)

naemates · 07/10/2022 23:38

The very end of Pay It Forward, just as you think things are all wrapped up nicely.

I was a teenager and I sobbed in my dads arms, very embarrassing

AtomHeartMotherOfGod · 07/10/2022 23:39

lemons44 · 07/10/2022 21:06

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

Gosh yes. I was blubbing! I always laugh at Kristen W watching it in Bridesmaids as I can relate so much 😆