*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

The Hours.

I cried so much in the cinema! It took me several days to shake off the sadnes!n

I have never forgotten this one either, absolutely horrific. What the mother made her do to her still haunts me.

Precious
Stephen King's The Mist and The green Mile. The ending in The Mist gets me every time and John Coffey ("like the drink but not spelt the same"), in The Green mile just breaks my heart.

Sophie’s Choice - by a country mile. I watched it when I was quite young and for the first time realised the meaning of it being better if they had all been shot, straight away.

Not a film, but the 80s adaptation of A Town Like Alice stayed with me a long while

The Hate U Give. Shocking and is gone to the cinema alone and had to stop myself sobbing.

Blackfish was the most upsetting thing I’ve watched. Mostly because it’s real, tragic and should never have been happening.
Million dollar baby on the fictional film side. Cried like a loon.u

When the wind blows. I just can't watch it.

The Plague Dogs, based on the Richard Adams book. My dad got it out for me as a kid because I loved Watership Down. It's about animal testing and incredibly dark. I cried for days!

I’ve Loved You So Long. Kristin Scott Thomas should have won an Oscar for that role. So sad. But I would recommend it - it’s also amazing.

OMG - I saw this in the mid 80s when I was about 10. It still makes me sad now.

Oh god yes. The book actually has,a happy ending! So why they felt the need to DO that is beyond me.

Watership Down. I would have been about 8 or 9 when I watched it, and I can still remember the feelings of fear and panic it engendered in me. I genuinely don't think I could bring myself to watch it again, and I'm nearly 50 now.

Eden Lake. Had to turn it off, very disturbing. Also Dumbo, watched bits of it as a child and that was enough!

12 years a slave, so harrowing

Eden Lake. Had to turn it off, very disturbing. Also Dumbo, watched bits of it as a child and that was enough!

The Deerhunter

Theres a scene in x+y that really made me cry.

For me it's Philomena. It's the scene when she watches the home movie of her dead son visiting the convent. I can't take it.

The Hours is the most fundamentally depressing movie I've ever seen. I felt genuinely hopeless and depressed for days afterwards!

I have never been able to watch Sophie's Choice and never will.

I find Life is Beautiful sad but also uplifting. The ending with the mother and son finding each other sort of rescues it.

Ring of bright water

As if I am not there
The Whistleblower

I was properly traumatised by them (could not sleep for weeks and cried myself to sleep)

@JesusInTheCabbageVan I know right? It's a snuff movie full of tortured animals and the saddest thing ever!

Schindlers List, I only watched it once. I'm Jewish and it was too much.
12 Years a Slave, again I could only watch it once.
Leaving Las Vegas, Last of the Mohicans and Million Dollar Baby all make me cry.

"Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind". It was so sad 😫

Fluke, stepmom and The magdelene sisters

I can't remember the name of it, is it dead man's shoes or something.... Where paddy considine had a disabled brother who was bullied to death... Way too upsetting for me though a brilliant film I'm sure.