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.

Well, I'm an idiot. Just realised it was me who mentioned Au Hazard and the atonement story. Doh.

Dear Zachary - do not watch if you are in a custody battle over a child

Lilya4ever -first person account of a child trafficked for sex slavery.

the orphanage - del torro film that had my crying buckets.

Not rtft but Snowtown. Relentless in its' grimness, but a true story, which made it all the more sad.

I love Meloncholia! It's depressing, but beautiful, with some quite funny bits (in a sad sort of way)

Capote now that one really pissed me off. I sat there, terrified, while I thought DH was engrossed, so didn't turn it off. Turned out that DH had fallen asleep. I had nightmares for ages.

Precious. The most depressing movie ever IMO..

Oh and another vote for Biutiful. So so utterly sad ??

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. A Romanian film about illegal abortion under Ceauscescu (sp?). So bloody depressing! It is one of only 2 films I've ever walked out on. I will usually stay to the bitter end with any movie, even The Road (which was insanely bleak) but this one tipped me over the edge and I had to leave.

And yes, agree with previous posters on Lilya 4 Ever - that film is hard going!

Marvin's Room.
The Pianist

I've since refused to watch Schindler's List, the Boy in Striped Pyjamas and anything similar. Only so much sad I can deal with.

Will now add Precious to the List To Avoid.

Definitely Jude. Says a lot about how much I still loved the name despite the movie to call DS2 Jude!

Another vote for The Road - DH and I couldn't speak afterwards - we just went to bed and lay there staring at the ceiling. I need at least a small grain of hope. I refuse to watch Schindler's List.

Is it wrong that I 'enjoy' watching depressing films when I'm feeling shit about stuff. Always puts my life into perspective and makes me feel better

This thread is on my watch list.

I'll add Sybil to the list. A joyous tale of hideous child abuse and multiple personalities

Cold mountain felt ill afterwards

Sybil was very interesting to watch though, Tilly - I didn't find that completely soul-sucking.

'When the lights go out'. They all died in the end. Very depressing.

johnny got his gun
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun_%28film%29

What masie knew.

open water- so obvious they were going to die.

open water 2- ridiculous it took them so long to come up with the nuding up idea I'd thought of that In seconds. You kinda cheered at the first death but after that it was just depressing.

Blue car - you so wanted the teacher to be the hero but he was just a sleaze.

fish tank. really depressing.

has anyone mentioned the human centipede movies yet. Both depressing and disgusting

Actually one that really bothered me and I couldn't watch again was Duel. Especially as I almost had a RL episode of that - once I was driving down the M4 in my old mk 2 cortina, and a lorry kept tailgating me, then overtaking me, getting in front of me and slamming on the brakes - it was the worst half hour of my driving life! I tried all sorts, but the problem the car had was that it overheated if driven over 70 for any length of time, so even if I accelerated away to get away from it, I had to slow down and go back in the slow lane, and the bastard would chase me down and find me! I'm sure he thought it was oh-so-fucking-hilarious, but I bloody didn't. I ended up coming off at the services to get away from the prick.

Mannon de source is miserable but brilliant.

Happiness. That is pretty fucking bleak.

The passion of the Christ
We need to talk about Kevin
Precious
The Road
12 years a slave
The stoning of Sariora sp?

Oh god forgot Happiness, what a laff riot that was.
Precious though, as bleak as her life, did get all Oprahed, and she got her happy ending.
When going into hospital to have ds1, I grabbed a few books. First one-Sophie's choice. 'Kin 'ell, I was weeping buckets at yogurt adverts, so you can imagine what that did to me. Never been able to see the film.
at Uggs. That is what this thread should be called.

Threads
Train spotting
Angela's ashes (the dead baby in the bed it haunts me still)
Precious
Won't be watching any of them again!
Films of the road and the lovely bones are lightweight compared to the books but wouldn't read/watch them again either.

I agree Thumbwitch. It's one of my favourite films. I still found it depressing/upsetting though