The most miserable films you've ever seen?

[HellKitty]

Where it finishes and you're more depressed than you were to start with.

Mine:
Stalingrado (Stalingrad) About Nazi's during (yup!) the battle of Stalingrad. In Russian. It is over 2 hours of depression.

All is lost.
Robert Redford at sea. Oh dear. For his face and the film.

The Grey.
Liam Neeson mumbles his way though misery.

oh , I meant mine as good films but the stories are miserable and don't have happy ending

The seasoning house, incredibly grim film about trafficked women/forced prostitution .

A British horror called Mum and Dad, Oh My God, it's vile.

Atonement

Scum is short on laughs too,

Mississippi Burning though that also kinda made me angry as well.

Precious. It's brilliant but Christ did the misery stay with me!

The ending of The Mist had me traumatised.

The Passion of the Christ,was unbearably depressing,affected me for days after & I'm an atheist!
The Road,love post apocalyptic stuff but the bleakness of it was horrible.I've got the book but haven't attempted it yet.

I've seen Schindlers List 3 times. Every time Liam Neeson sobs that he could have saved more I weep and weep like a baby.

Didn't find the choice in Sophie's Choice sad but the rest of the film where she struggles to live is very sad to me.

A lot of the ones mentioned I wouldn't watch as there's animals being hurt in them, I can't bear watching animals die or get hurt and avoid all films with it in.

I've no tolerance for the salaciousness of sexual violence either, it just makes me angry.

I watched 'Hostel' and still wish I could bleach my brain. The amount of hate in one film

RJnomore - Dead Mans Shoes,one of my favourite films,adore Paddy Considine & the twist at the end,brilliant film!!

Previously Mum and Dad made me want to throw up!

Bad Boy Bubby about absolute child abuse turning into man-child abuse. How low can you go? That low.

Has anyone mentioned The Wall?

Days of wine and roses is pretty bleak.

Un coeur en hiver. French film about a violinist who falls for a man who cannot love her back.

I also find Happy Go Lucky quite depressing. Especially the scene at the end with the driving instructor.

Horror films with depressing endings: Eden Lake, The Children and My Little Eye. Good films but i always have to watch half an hour of comedy afterwards as a sort of antidote.

Agree with Requiem for a Dream. That was on when i worked at a cinema and one of the few films where loads of people walked out. Haven't seen it but the prize for most abandoned film by cinema goers was Audition. Nasty Japanese horror.

the Shawshank Redemption

oh yes Hostel but I switched it off after less than five minutes.

Up

I just don't get why people don't see it as tragic.

12 Years a Slave and Million Dollar Baby both made me feel shite for days after watching

Grave of the fireflies. First scene is cleaners in the subway kicking a dead body complaining about homeless people coming there to die. Rewind to second world war bombing of japan which orphans a young brother and sister and carries on getting sadder and sadder until the last scene where the body in the station is revealed to be the orphaned boy.
It's a cartoon, but a very serious one!

YY to Tyrannosaurmentioned on the first page.

Haven't RTFT, but Snowtown, an Au film based on real-life events is utterly compelling and horrible. The bad guy, played by Daniel Henshall is a fearful shit and frightening as hell. A very good film but hard to watch. An odd aspect of the film is that at no time does the sun shine. This is quite a feat in Australia, but it does add to the general grimness.

Road to perdition. A grey, miserable film from start to finish.

House of sand and fog unrelenting misery.

Ah shit, happysunr1se.

I'm supposed to watch Grave of the Fireflies for a class I'm taking.

I knew it was depressing based on IMDB.

Just out of curiosity, did you see the dubbed version?

Melancholia by Lars Von Trier

I felt like I'd been abused.

Sin City - the only film to make me walk out of a cinema. Vile.

YY to The Elephant Man - parents put this on when I was a ridiculously emotional teenager. I was HOWLING half way through and they had to switch it off.

I watched Titanic in my early tweenties and it left me sobbing and distraught. All those people in the cold water slipping under. Horrible.