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.

Hopefulpuffin, I watched subbed.

Slumdog Millionaire

YY to The Grey. WTF! I was when it got to the end. I wish i hadn't bothered watching it

Is The Beach the one about those crazed folks living on the island, and they left the friend to die alone away from them in a tent? If so, yes that one too...........

12 years a slave, I just had to switch it off.

All these films mentioned above are like "Singing In The Rain" compared to the Swedish film "Pele The Conqueror". I defy anyone to watch that and not want to throw themselves under a bus at the end. It's bitter, misanthropic, utterly hopeless and depressing beyond words.

'Remember Me' was one of the most depressing film I ever watched. I had know idea what I was about to watch as I was at a friends. It started sad didn't lift at all through the film and left me feeling utterly empty and depressed by the end. It was the sort of feeling that hung around for a few days after too.

Abre Los Ojos (or Vanilla Sky is the English version). Nobody gets a happy ending - I'd have been just as miserable (and less confused!) if I'd turned off after the big car crash at the beginning

Grave of the fireflies.

Watched it while pregnant with DD2, really wish I hadn't.

Am not sure I can ever watch Downfall again. (It was on the other night & I was tempted!) brilliant film but so grim and unrelenting, even though you know what's coming.

Have never seen 12 Year a Slave & realty want to, though I know it will be tough going. Same goes for Das Boot- wanted to see it for years, can't quite bring myself to.

I am never ever going to watch The Road though - I've read the book. Never never ever ever. Too much.

Changeling wish I hadn't seen it to be honest :( Was so sad :(

Sunshine.

Oh and yy to Bridge to Terabithia. I'd bought it as a Christmas present so obviously we watched it on Christmas morning in my bed. The accusations from the kids as to why I would do that to them...

Jean de Florette was so depressing I stopped the DVD and asked DH (who had raved about it) if there was a happy ending. We didn't finish watching the DVD.

I agree about expectations, if someone tells you 'this film is depressing but beautiful' then it's fine (I had no problem with Schindler's List, I knew it was going to be hearert rending before I went in) but if someone tells you a film is really good and then it's unrelentingly depressing that makes it even worse.

Million Dollar Baby ??

I've seen Stuart, A Life Backwards. I think it's particularly upsetting because it's a true story and, it seems even more real to me because I remember the two people who ran the hostel for homeless people being arrested and the campaign to free them, so probably saw Stuart on the news at some point. I always feel that when I see homeless people there is probably a story of terrible suffering going back years that has brought them to that point.

Although depressing I think that it is a film worth watching / book worth reading as it encourages you to see past the first impression a homeless or mentally ill person might give.

Lost in Translation. I was gutted at how much I'd spent to watch such crap and the fact I'd never get back the 2 hours wasted watching it

Another vote for Revolutionary Road. Just a miserable story of two miserable people making one another miserable. It made me quite cross actually. I wanted to slap them both by the end of it.

Also had to switch off 12 Years a Slave. Just horrible.

Atonement makes me cry every time.

Taegukgi - Korean film about 2 brothers in the war. They are very close but the war destroys their relationship in various awful ways. I cried from about an hour in and didn't stop crying for an hour afterwards.

Cavalry - watched recently. Unremittingly grim I thought.

Winters Bone. Ditto.

Unbroken directed by Angelina Jolie, great film and eventually very uplifting but the POW camp parts are unbelievably harrowing, prolonged scenes of torture filmed was an unrelenting gaze. Again a true story which makes it harder to watch.It is interesting to watch a very male film directed by a woman though.

Legends of the Fall. Angela's Ashes.

Romper Stomper- an early Russell Crowe film about skinheads in Australia
Once were warriors- New Zealand film about a violent Maori family
Precious- Really hard to watch
I just found them all so bleak

Haven't read half the thread but;
They could hardly make a feel good romp about Stalingrad (or the Holocaust). Interesting "fact" ie may be apocryphal, Jerry Lewis made a film called "the day the clown cried" about a clown whose role it was to lure the children into a false sense of security about going into the gas chambers. The studio pulled it for being too grim.
Anyhoo, many of these films, but my personal bleak fest would include A-fucking-tonement. That was a fun birthday treat. My mate went fir a fag came back and loudly asked "is he not dead yet?" Imagine it was the only time that film got a giggle.
Precious is redeemed by its Oprah ending.
DH is fond of an old French film called Au Hazar Balthazar abiut the grim life of a donkey. (Known as the donkey film in our house)

Oh x post-didnt realise others suffered the Donkey film too.