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.

A thoroughly grim Japanese films at the Edinburgh Film festival many year ago, can't remember its name. It was based on a true story from the 1920s about a domestic servant who was brutally sexually abused by her master. To cut a very long, pornographically explicit, story short, she cut of his penis, wrapped it up under her kimono and hit the road. At some point, she's getting felt up by some randy old goat who muses that she smells funny, and I should think so.
She gets cornered and shot at the end and we staggered out into the night pretty traumatised by it all. Grim, grim, grim!

I can't remember the title - the one where the man's wife commits suicide (she's an artist I think) and he decends into hell (the painting?) to save her soul/ her. Remorselessly depressing.
The Wall - wanted to jump off the nearest bridge when I came out of the cinema.
The Road
Eraser Head - hideous and depresssing

Never let me go. Bleak!

Cake - Jennifer Aniston. It's supposed to be sort of funny, but is just slow and depressing.

The Road - I read the book as well and really don't know why I watched it.

American Me. A gangster/prison film which opens with a gang-rape and goes downhill from there. My twat of an abusive ex insisted on watching it when I was pregnant and when I started crying ordered me into the bedroom so he could finish it. 25 years ago and I still remember it.

Bird man: Found it so boring and confusing don't understand all the hype

Just saw 'Amy".Incredibly sad and moving*
I came on to add this to the list. I am not an Amy Winehouse fan at all but her story was so bleak. I really felt for her.

I've just finished rereading 'The Road' in preparation for teaching it at A-level and am steeling myself to watch the film adaptation.

Agree about 'La Haine' (which I have to teach in Film A-level, alongside 'City of God', another barrel of laughs). Looking forward to watching 'Biutiful' to compound the misery.
My first thought on seeing the thread title was 'Dancer in the Dark', which I loved. And I went to see 'The Hours' on my own - I sobbed on the tram on the way home and got lots of sympathetic looks from other passengers, who probably thought I'd just been dumped!

Any day now, with Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt. Isaac Leyva is a fantastic actor. Still makes me upset when I think of how it ends

Precious wore me down emotionally!

La Haine - just for the helplessness of the situation.

The wind that shakes the barley.

Darwins Nightmare

Life above all.

I think there is a difference between a sad movie which can be funny and also be uplifting and mivies that are sheer unrelenting misery. Fo me:

The Mist
Kes
Never Let Me Go
Seven
On The Beach
1984
Animal Farm
Atonement
Bitter Moon
Tess of D'Urb

Dogville

Utterly depressing Nicole Kidman film (she's brilliant). Very well done, could never watch it again

Schindlers List

Again, acting amazing but the bit that rendered me senseless with tears and sobs was where he broke down and said he could have saved more. It's a great film.

"Again, acting amazing but the bit that rendered me senseless with tears and sobs was where he broke down and said he could have saved more. It's a great film."

I thought that was a big mistake and turned a great movie into hollywood schmaltz, thought Neeson's acting there was very forced and hollow. I had read the book and it just didn't sound like Schindler.

Pelle the conqueror.... A horrible, cynical, heartless misery fest if ever there was one.

The Pianist, as already mentioned by some PPs. The bit with the little boy caught in the wall still haunts me today. The film has become a standard joke for DH (the bastard) who always suggests it when I ask him what film he wants to watch. We did have it on dvd but it vanished a few years ago. I suspect he secretly binned it for me, but he's still a bastard

All the films mentioned here are like 'Singing In The Rain' compared to Pelle the conqueror.