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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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cooolio · 07/10/2022 17:26

I, Daniel Blake

ExplodingCarrots · 07/10/2022 17:27

The pianist or The Road . Both drains me after watching .

the80sweregreat · 07/10/2022 17:27

Dumbo, Bambi etc
All too sad

YellowRedBlueGreen · 07/10/2022 17:27

pixienewbie · 07/10/2022 17:18

Midnight by the sea. Watched it on a plane and it broke me 😢

Do you mean Manchester By The Sea?

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Limesarebitter · 07/10/2022 17:27

And then there was one. I found this utterly devastating, most I have ever cried at a film.

the80sweregreat · 07/10/2022 17:29

The hitcher, the ending is pretty bad

AuntieJoyce · 07/10/2022 17:29

I really loved Life is Beautiful

My vote is for Pet Semetary. Never a good idea to reanimate your dead toddler people

byvirtue · 07/10/2022 17:29

Precious was awful, based on a true story. I can’t shake off how horrendous that poor girls life was.

HailAdrian · 07/10/2022 17:29

The Lion King when mufasa dies, I hate it and I hate Disney for making it.

VenusClapTrap · 07/10/2022 17:29

grayhairdontcare · 07/10/2022 17:20

Who will love my children
It's bloody harrowing

Oh Christ. I can remember sitting on the sofa with my mother watching that when I was a child. Never cried so much. The pair of us were wrecks.

skyeisthelimit · 07/10/2022 17:29

The Mist. I just felt sick after watching the ending. Having read the book, I was not at all expecting what happens in the film.

Idyllicidealist · 07/10/2022 17:29

Sophie's choice.
Dumbo when his mum is in a cage and all the other babies are with their mums.
The Green Mile.

MrsTimRiggins · 07/10/2022 17:30

Schindlers list. I feel like it’s one of those films everyone ought to watch at least once but my god, it’s heartbreaking.

whoruntheworldgirls · 07/10/2022 17:30

I don't watch films normally that would upset me but i found The Lovely Bones really sad

YellowRedBlueGreen · 07/10/2022 17:31

Grotbag81 · 07/10/2022 17:20

Tw

Nobody's Child channel 4.

About a girl who is first sold to her dad's mates when he's lost playing cards with his mates.

Then mum & dad split up, girl is happy as he seems nice and buys her a new dress. She gets excited as mum and new boyfriend her to put the dress on for a party. All going well at the party until she loses at a party game, they've set her up to lose. The loser (girl) has to perform sexual acts on all their friends. They're all her friends parents and neighbors.

No Child Of Mine? Was it with Brooke Kinsella? I've not watched it but heard about it years ago

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MikeWozniaksMohawk · 07/10/2022 17:31

Probably a tie between La Vita E Bella and United 97. Absolutely bawled at both.

bevelino · 07/10/2022 17:32

Schindlers List
The boy in the blue pyjamas

Tuilpmouse · 07/10/2022 17:32

Minions: The Rise of Gru

Avidreader69 · 07/10/2022 17:33

Schindler's List.

HollyJollyXmas57 · 07/10/2022 17:33

Godzilla 😂 as a kid.

I cried my eyes out at the end when all the babie godzillas died. I still remember being really upset now 😂

Coastalcreeksider · 07/10/2022 17:34

70s film, also very violent.

Soldier Blue

Highfivemum · 07/10/2022 17:35

Les miserables. Sobbed the whole way through. Love it though.

PoshHorseyBird · 07/10/2022 17:35

The Belstone Fox. When I was in primary school (about 100 years ago) we got to watch this film in our assembly hall, think it was a Christmas treat. It was traumatic! I always remember one scene where the hounds followed the fox over a railway line and most of them got run over. The huntsman had to shoot one of the hounds (not that you saw anything) Most of us kids were in tears watching it, no idea why the school thought this was a nice film to watch!

Halstead · 07/10/2022 17:35

Elephant Man

Would never watch it again - absolute wracking sobs for hours.

JohnsShirt · 07/10/2022 17:36

I've seen all of these
I'll add

Dancer in the Dark
Capernaum
Balibo
Pans Labyrinth.