*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

Changeling (horrific) and also Sleepers

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

Clockwork orange- brilliant film but just makes me so angry and upset

I cried through a lot of Dallas Buyers Club.

Dream of a Life about a lady who was found dead in her flat in London. She had been dead for a couple of years and no one had noticed. Her TV was still on.

Such a sad film but the interviews with those who loved her showed that people did / had cared.

The colour purple. I was sobbing by the end.

Casualties of War

Appalling behaviour of American soldiers in the Vietnam War (TW rape).

Has always haunted me. Unbearable.

Irreversible.

It’s a French film - my boyfriend ended up hiding under his cinema seat whimpering. I still feel traumatised thinking about it.

requiem for a dream is also a total nightmare!!

Sorry it was called Dreams of a Life.

@ladygindiva Dead Man's Shoes, yes .. just awful, a harrowing watch.

I watched No child of Mine off the back of a similar thread, I wish I hadn't because of how awfully sad it was. It's a true story and it thankfully ends well. Just heartbreaking when she ends up in the childrens home and is assaulted there too. I think a lot of this sort of thing went on back in the 70's / 80's.

Similar to No child of Mine, Lilya 4 ever - the saddest film I've ever seen. I cried throughout and couldn't stop. I would like to watch it again and pay more attention to the characters as it is a fantastic film, however don't think I'll be able to. I think about Lilya now and then as if she were a real person., then again it is a true story! Can't remember the name of the actual girl. God rest her soul. ❤️

I've set myself off now. 😢

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things. If that doesn't fuck you up, I don't know what will.

Wind River

Monster and Dead Man's Shoes. I could never watch either of them again.

Why the need for a trigger warning? It's pretty obvious there might be upsetting content on a thread about upsetting films.

I cry an awful lot at films so try to avoid subject matter that I know will upset me (Holocaust, death of children, etc). A film that sticks out as being utterly depressing, and left me sobbing, was The Constant Gardener. When he goes back to the spot where his wife was killed to wait for someone to kill him broke me.

Though that might be more distressing and disturbing than upsetting as such.

Others include Schindler's List, The Pianist, Sometimes In April, Shooting Dogs and any other movie about the Rwandan Massacre. Also Graveyard of The Fireflies.

Dead man's shoes. Stuck with me for weeks. Such a powerful film

It is Dead Man's Shoes - and I have seen it as well. Fabulously acted by Paddy C and the disabled brother. So very very bleak.

I know the area where the final showdown takes place, and will have visited those very animal pens. That overhead ending shot above the Castle is beautiful, but gives me he creeps.

(I was up that way last weekend, and still find the Castle very unsettling, even though we went many times when it was a little zoo.)

Sarah's key

Warhorse

Agree with others on Threads, the road and requiem for a dream. I will add watership down

Manchester by the Sea. Having lost a child, it deeply resonated.

Oooh The Magdelene Sisters. When she rips off her hood at the end to reveal a beautiful mane of glossy hair. The biggest Fuck You ever

Threads
The War Game (Peter Watkins I think).
When The Wind Blows

Utterly terrifying.

Studied them at college (cinema verité if my memory’s not on the wobble) in the early 90s, led me to being passionate about CND, nuclear disarmament, Cold War strategic planning & paradoxically, a passion for clean energy via nuclear. Plowshare stuff.

I’ve watched them dozens of times now, they still have the same impact today as they did on 18 year old me.