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.

I agree about Leaving Las Vegas. A man basically drinks himself to death. Bleak.

The Road. I nearly slit my wrists. Had to drink a lot of

I found 'Calvary' pretty depressing. Other than the Priest and his daughter, all the characters were vile. Definitely went to bed afterwards feeling a little deflated.

Jude the Obscure with Kate Winslet. Depressing story and apparently shot somewhere the sun never shines and everywhere is grey.

Oh dear god I was wailing by the end of Requiem for a Dream, and I am no stranger to depressing films. I felt like I'd taken a day trip to hell

I loved Tyrannosaur but agree, it is very tough viewing

I rewatched Slumdog Millionaire recently and god yes, it is very depressing apart from the last 10 minutes. Nothing 'feel good' about torture and slavery and grinding poverty

Never let me go with keira Knightley at the end dh and i were just ohhh so that was that then!
8mm

sure there is another but its been pushed to the back of my head by feel good Disney!!

Oh remembered - east is east. Same as someone mentioned earlier with slumdog millionaire - billed as fun feel good comedy and it was domestic violence etc more the miselling that made it depressing

Never Let Me Go was just awful, I just sobbed through it. One Day was pretty bad when they FINALLY get together and then she gets run over
:(

French film Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi). Bleak and unbelievably depressing.

Have to agree with SteppingonLego - the film Jude was relentless misery. Hated the book too.

Archfa!!!!
That is exactly the same Stalingrad film I meant! It might have been German or Russian, the subtitles were English

dylsmimi re. Never Let Me Go, I sobbed all through the last few chapters of the book and thankfully knew never to watch the film!

Like a poster upthread, I mostly avoid hard to watch/emotionally bruising films. I can't spare the recovery time. Even kids' films make me well up these days ffs.

The persuit of happyness. How much bloody misery could they pack into one film? Left me utterly depressed.

Schindlers list oh my god complete cinema silence at the end. I cried so much and cdnt speak after it I don't think I cd ever watch Sophie's choice.

God yes- more like The Pursuit Of Misery.

Instantly thought Requiem For A Dream too and see someone has beaten me

Murial's wedding devastates me. I can never stop thinking about the mum afterwards!

Yy The Road. Just awfully emotionally draining. No possibility of redemption.

Melancholia by Lars Von Trier, the name should have tipped me off.

to it, bloody tablet. Thought I could handle those sort of druggie movies after watching Trainspotting many years ago but it bets it hands down for grimness

I'll third The Road. Anyone want the DVD (if we haven't binned it already)?

La Vita E Bella (Life is Beautiful). It's a brilliant film but I was so, so upset after I saw it. I couldn't get it out of my head for days. (Father and gorgeous little son are taken together to a concentration camp and father does his best to keep the little lad from realising what is really happening by making it into a great adventure.) God, welling up here just thinking about it. I don't think I will ever be able to watch it again.

Requiem for a dream - best advert to not take drugs, ever.
Warhorse, yes, schmaltz, bu I sobbed for 2 hours straight.
Kes. I'm not very good with Northern misery-grit.
For unknown reasons I read the book The Road. No way am I watching the film.
I think most Brit films are pretty depressing on the whole, except Richard Curtis and his ilk.

Another Thomas Hardy adaptation: Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
Dire. But that was a crap movie. Jude the Obscure was good.. god I cried buckets.

breaking the waves

Yup, another Lars Von Dreary one, tricot39. Bleak as fuck.