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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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ItIsMyName · 07/10/2022 18:55

Stella Does Tricks - depressing & disturbing.

whynotwhatknot · 07/10/2022 18:55

The green mile i always sob expecially now mcd has gone

its a sin is the one that still gets me though i ofen think about it

EleanorRavenclaw · 07/10/2022 18:56

City of God, brilliant film but some shocking scenes.

Shortkiwi · 07/10/2022 18:56

Lots of those already mentioned but most recently at the cinema, NT live - Prima Facie with Jodie Comer. God, what a performance and so hard hitting, stayed with me for a while.

JessesMum777888 · 07/10/2022 18:59

Trigger warning ⚠️ We bunked off school when we’re about 10 and watched a film we found called my name is Stephen. It was horrendous and we are 42 now and we still talk about it and how it disturbed us. CSA kidnapp and worse still it was a true story.

kateandme · 07/10/2022 19:00

Lovely bones
life is beautiful
schindlers list
man on fire
the pianist
green mile
steel magnolias
beautiful minds

nestofvipers · 07/10/2022 19:01

LaurieFairyCake · 07/10/2022 17:24

I've googled Nobody's Child channel 4 and got nothing

Apart from some frocks Grin

I think the poster meant no child of mine.

It’s horrible and so upsetting. It’s probably even more awful because it’s a true story. I watched it about 25 years ago and it’s never left me.

dirtyasadustpanlid · 07/10/2022 19:02

AllTheWatersTurnedToClouds · 07/10/2022 18:36

Tarka the Otter

I remember sobbing at the end of that as a child

I remember that. The words stuck in my head at the end…

WonderingWanda · 07/10/2022 19:02

A Beast of No Nation. Took me a while to find what it was called. Harrowing story of child soldiers in a brutal civil war in an African country.

LoveMyPiano · 07/10/2022 19:03

Bananalanacake · 07/10/2022 18:12

A Black Mirror film, Metalhead, very depressing. I found it all very frustrating as it is not explained what caused the apocalypse.

Was that the one with the RobotDog things? That was horrible - and understandable why it was in black and white. All for a teddy.

I love Black Mirror.

MolkosTeenageAngst · 07/10/2022 19:04

Grave of the fireflies
Life is Beautiful

Batiqueattic · 07/10/2022 19:07

Kes

DowntonCrabby · 07/10/2022 19:07

American history X, an ex BF showed me it when I was probably 17, 20+ years ago. I’ve never found the courage to watch it again as an actual adult.

This is outing but my older sister let me watch Braveheart when babysitting me when I was about 10. My DP’s arrived home and I had locked myself in the cupboard under the stairs absolutely distraught. It’s a favourite of mine now though.

Awoooga · 07/10/2022 19:10

JessesMum777888 · 07/10/2022 18:59

Trigger warning ⚠️ We bunked off school when we’re about 10 and watched a film we found called my name is Stephen. It was horrendous and we are 42 now and we still talk about it and how it disturbed us. CSA kidnapp and worse still it was a true story.

I remember listening to a Casefile (true crime podcast) episode about this in the car and crying, so so sad :(

SudocremOnEverything · 07/10/2022 19:10

I’m in grave of the fireflies camp. It’s an incredibly effective film. Just devastating. It’s absolutely appropriate that it’s devastating. But that doesn’t make it any easier to watch.

WeepingSomnambulist · 07/10/2022 19:10

QuestionableMouse · 07/10/2022 17:20

Into the Wild. Saw it with a friend and just found it bleak and it left me feeling a bit grubby, in an odd way. Wouldn't watch it again.

Schindler's List is an obvious one but I saw it at school at 16 and have never watched it again! I'm 38 next year for context!

Into the Wild just annoyed me. They made him out like a tragic accident from an adventurer and free spirit.

He was actually just a pointless, stupid death. He couldn't cross the river because it was higher and rough waters, so he was stranded and died. In reality, there was a crossing a mile along for use when the river was high. If he had bought any sort of book about the area he was exploring then he would have lived.

Noellu · 07/10/2022 19:10

Anything with animals dying (Marley and me, A dog’s purpose, even Bambi!)

Neverendingmindfuck · 07/10/2022 19:11

Nil By Mouth, Kathy Burke and Ray Winstone amongst others. Fabulous film.
Also Tyranasaur. Dark but brilliant.

Hoppinggreen · 07/10/2022 19:12

Ice age - I was heavily pregnant!

DesignerRecliner · 07/10/2022 19:15

Up (first 7 minutes)
My girl
Schindler's List
the boy in the striped pyjamas
The pursuit of happyness
Blood diamond

Series, Dopesick. Heartbreaking and astounding all at the same time. The book is also jaw-dropping

YenneferOfVengabus · 07/10/2022 19:17

I, Daniel Blake.

I live about 10 mins away from where it's set and it hits very hard. I don't think I could ever watch it again.

Winterscomingagain · 07/10/2022 19:18

The Lovely bones, the bit where the child is being murdered by a paedophilie and she and her father are supposedly running but missing each other haunts me

Jellywobblescobbles · 07/10/2022 19:18

Upnorthen · 07/10/2022 17:18

Not a film but the series Dopesick, I will never shake off

That series was brilliant but it will stay with me too.

kateandme · 07/10/2022 19:19

Tbh some of the studio ghibli ones get me too. The music,emotions,lessons.gosh.

kateandme · 07/10/2022 19:21

The Jeffrey dahmer series has just done me in. And true. No no no