*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

Miracle in cell no. 7 had me crying throughout!

Cried all the way through Forest Gump
Also found sad:
Bi Centennial Man
The Curious take of Benjamin Butten
The fly , the fly 2

The Strangers
I normally avoid this genre but was bored on a long haul flight.
I would never live or stay in a remote location.

I cried like a baby on a plane to Coco, the song Remember me was lyrically so perfect, I just lost my dad and it was beautiful

Absolutely destroyed me!

Ring of Bright Water - the road mender and his spade. Still makes me cry 😭

Room. I had a child the same age at that time and I cried the whole way thru

Riceuten that's interesting about the concept album I will have a look on ebay!

HoofWankingSpangleCunt wow that's amazing! What a small world. I think about that film more than any other I've seen. There is so much mystery still attached to that story.

Feel a bit daft for suggesting this one, given others that are mentioned on the thread, but Klaus, the Christmas film 😳 it’s a great film and really beautiful ending, but I’d just lost my lovely Granny and there’s a line from the main character about how, once a year, he gets to see his (deceased) friend again. I was inconsolable. 😢

Yes yes to Inside Out! It really upset me and I cried hard. I was so embarrassed. 😊
I would also add Terms of Endearment. When Shirley MacLean is screaming at the medical staff to give her daughter who is dying of cancer pain relief 😫

Inside out is a fantastic film, I think it gives an incredible insight for both children and adults.

I cried too!

Me too, at Inside Out ... I was with my kids, and at the end of the row, there was a dad with his ... I was sobbing so much that I could see him looking over at me, genuinely concerned.

It was all the bit about how memories are formed; I was finding it so hard as a single parent at the time & kept thinking that my children wouldn't have all those lovely castles & bridges of positive memories.

Inside I’m Dancing

Amazing film both happy and sad.

Snowtown is the first and only film I think I've had to turn off because of the total awfulness of the violence. It was the bathroom torture scene that did it.
I was actually living in Adelaide when these murders were (unknown at the time) taking place, so that probably didn't help!

Agree on so many others here; Dead Men's Shoes (I think Paddy C is one of the finest actors in the world), Requiem for a Dream, The Mist's ending, Schindler's List...

Oh, The Stoning of Soraya M - agree with PPs (it is I believe based on actual events witnessed by the reporter) - I tried to watch it to learn about how such atrocious things might come about. It was just so so so bleak and that terrible sense of injustice, overt treatment of women as possessions/disposable and certain doom. Let alone, how it played out. Just to be put in hole in a dark corner, and murdered in such a public, long-drawn out and unjust way. Awful, heart-breaking - and a sad realisation of what happens in other parts of the world.

Also American Sniper had some terrible scenes. I can live with fiction even when it’s shocking but when you know these things happened in real life it stays with you.

Not a film but a series. When They See Us is extremely harrowing. Just so horrific to see what they went through. Also watching the interview with the RL people with Oprah after is so emotional. I would highly recommend it to people though as I genuinely believe it provides an important insight to what these boys and other black people had to/have to love with.

A Star is Born, I think it's so well written and acted with regards to substance abuse issues. Hopefully goes some way in teaching people that in many cases its not some glamorous lifestyle choice and is in fact an horrific disease. I felt on the edge of full on sobbing throughout the film, even worse on 2nd watch.

I can't remember what it's called but the film where the rich young guy is paralysed and is cared for by a young woman who falls in love with him. I cried uncontrollably throughout.

To be fair I cry at all sad films but the above I found got to me more than most.

A Time to Kill also. Harrowing.

I watched Marley and Me recently and thought it was pretty sad but A Dogs Purpose is much worse. I honestly don't think I could ever watch it again, it is one of the saddest films and it is sad throughout, not just a sad ending.

@WhyCantPeopleBeNice Yes I agree, the central park 5 was 1989 and JD was finally caught in 1991, it doesn't feel that it was that long ago and the racism was still so awful, and still not completely changed, especially in the US. That is what I found so harrowing about both series. It's the injustice, I said to DH if it had been a middle aged, middle class white man reporting JD then they probably would have listened.

I am not sure how much was dramatised as opposed to fact in the JD one but if the calls made by those officers to the victim's family then this was truly awful. I was having to do some work whilst watching it so missed bits but were the officers who ignored the reports the same ones who were given an award?

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The Seasoning House. A horror about trafficked women in a brothel. It was too real, and the ending was too bleak, and I will never rewatch it.

Yes!!! He gets me every time, no matter the film

Titanic - specifically the bit where the woman is reading her kids a bedtime story knowing that they won't survive, the old couple holding each other in bed and then towards the end where one of old boats goes back they find a woman and her tiny baby frozen to death in the water. What those people must have felt in their final hours in real life haunts me.

Also used to get really upset at the Butterfly Effect, his dog getting dragged into the fire and the whole child abuse film in the basement thing.

The Kalief Browder Story

Not a film but a six-parter about a young boy wrongfully accused of something minor and how it changed the whole course of his life. It's gut wrenching and still affects me when I think back about it.

Child of Rage

It's been made into a film but I actually watched the documentary about the real girl on YouTube. It documents the awful effects child abuse has had on her (mainly how she went on to severely abuse her brother) and her rehabilitation. Towards the end a therapist says to her "And what happens when you hurt other people?" and she gives her learned response "I'm really just hurting myself". It just got me bawling with how she had to face up to the fact that the horrible abuse she endured had turned her into a monster and nearly entirely ruined her life.

Both get to me because they are true accounts of real life experiences. So much horror and injustice in this world.