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.

Was just about to say 'Breaking the Waves'. Bleak.

The boy in the striped pajamas.

GreyGardens, I think even Richard Curtis depresses me: I saw the truly dreadful The Boat That Rocked and despaired for humanity...

Dogville, features relentless misery throughout, also Dancer in the Dark, horrific

Another shout for Jude the obscure. Utterly devastating. Good though.

Actually Bofster you're probably right, that one looked so unbelievably dull I couldn't even bring myself to watch.
Really strange Greek film called Dogtooth. Oh my. Bleak doesn't even come close.

La Haine. It starts off depressing and keeps on going down. It never recovers.

Open Water - 90-odd minutes of the sound of lapping water and utter despair, topped off with a hopelessly depressing ending.

Also another vote for Requiem for a Dream, Lilja 4Ever and 21Grams; all about as much fun as watching a baby panda choke to death on a bamboo stick.

Million Dollar Baby was pretty depressing as I recall. Every time you thought things were about to get better, they just got worse and worse. I was a sobbing dribbling mess by the end.

Plus that one about the back street abortionist set in the 50s - I forget the name. Think the title was her name... Anyway, it was about as fun as you'd expect a film about illegal abortions to be.

Yy to Eden Lake. Typical British horror film, in that the ending is fucking miserable!

I'm another who avoids depressing films - I work a lot of the time with people at the end of life, I'd rather a nice thriller or a comedy in the evening.

So it's doubly annoying when I'm caught out by films which are allegedly feel-good or warm. Though I should know better having watched stuff like Dead Poet's Society (uplifting my arse) in the past.

Another Year by Mike Leigh is one to avoid in this field.

Oh, jeez, yes: Breaking the Waves. Still haunts me years on. Fantastic, but so utterly sad.

Sixth Sense, poor little boy.

Schindler's List knocked me for six.

I have successfully avoided Bambi for the last 39 years but have had the misfortune, as many others, to have seen Watership Down. I can't hear the opening bars of Bright Eyes without turning into a complete gibbering wreck. Fucking cartoon bunnies!

Bofster - I agree about Slumdog Millionaire. I stuck it for 30 mins then left.

Black swan. Awful!

mummybare Vera Drake? Yeah, not much fun that one.

Perfume was depressing. Even Alan Rickman couldn't save it, and that's saying something!

I literally cannot bring myself to watch Schindler's List, or Life is Beautiful.
I had Schindler's List out on video from Blockbusters (showing age) a while back, I think I racked up like £40 in fines before I finally took it back unwatched!

yy to requiem for a dream and I'll add There will Be Blood.

what's that one where a meteor is getting closer and closer to earth and they are all sitting around waiting to die?

and I agree about black swan as well - dire

that film about the female boxer. that's a grim film..
Hillary swank I think...

I completely forgot about life is beautiful oh my god I watched it when pregnant had to turn it off my sons father recommended it what was he thinking lol

Plague dogs, traumatised my children with that one!

Life is Sweet. I was persuaded to see this under the argument that it was a comedy. Nearly slit my wrists by the end of it - bloody unrelenting awful people and their shitty lives.

I caught the end of a film on C4 a while ago, I have no idea what it was called but it was just horrible, some teenage girls involved in a diamond theft by mistake and everything awful that could happen to them, you name it, it happened to them. Brutally realistic and upsetting.

Just googled, as it had Noel Clarke in it. It was called 4.3.2.1. and he wrote it too. Blee.

The Field with Richard Harris, John Hurt and Sean Bean.

DH once suggested we watch it. He said it was really good. (It was, but sooooo depressing.)

Now, if I ever choose a film that is less than jolly, and he complains, I say, "Two words - The Field."

Some of you are real lightweights. Breaking the Waves and Sophies Choice were light comedy by comparison with Stalingrad.

Archfarchnad, I personally CHALLENGE you to watch Detachment. Go on, I dare you.