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.

Another vote for Breaking The Waves. Actually it's my favourite film of all time, I just love the kind of film that chews you up and spits you out.
Rom-coms, on the other hand make me want to chew my own hand off

Gone with the Wind. The last 30 minutes are particularly harrowing with little Bonnie dying, followed rapidly by Melanie's death bed scene and Rett leaving Scarlett weeping on the stairs. I cry every time.

Antichrist and Breaking the Waves, just bleak, absolutely bleak.

Archfarchnad you sound like you might be able to give some decent recommendations...
Anyone else using this thread as a To Watch list?

I cry appallingly easily. I can't deny being a lightweight. The first 10 minutes of Up reduced me to jelly. I came out of the cinema after seeing Toy Story 3 a quivering wreck. For some reason just the sound of the opening bars of The Sound of Music get the old tear ducts firing up.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, God it was depressing. The end was just empty

Wow it's bizarre that this thread is running because I was thinking about this driving home! My winner is..

They Shoot Horses Don't They? A Jane Fonda film set during the depression era. It is so brutal and desperate and tragic, I couldn't sleep after it and it took we a while to get over it. I will never watch it again.

Ok Bof, what's so miserable about it though? General depression I can take. Violent depression not good. I'm always prepared to forgive a film that's been beautifully shot. Give me some gorgeous lighting and a nice bit of the old mise en scene, that's not at all miserable.

Right which Stalingrad film is being referenced here? There seem to be a few

Message in a bottle with Kevin Costner. I watched it on my honeymoon. DH got the real flu so I holed up in bed by him with films. It was a dreadful choice!!!

I vote for the collective works of. Mike Leigh and Lars Von Trier.
However , what about the beautifully captured discomfort of Festen? Or the Idiots?

Kes. I had to watch a comedy afterwards. I just couldn't keep thinking about it.

Topsy Turvy is a Mike Leigh film and it isn't miserable!

Kes is indeed a real downer.

actually any Ken Loach

Much of the cinematography and lighting is beautiful and moody- the night scenes remind me of Taxi Driver - but the cold blues of the daylight hours just add to the alienation and despair of the urban school scenes. The central character is a good man who is lonely and isolated, and the hundred little daily assaults on his dignity break your heart. There is violence and profound social decay, tempered by occasional and fleeting moments of humanity, which only serve to intensify the general air of desperation and hopelessness. And then there is a scene with a cat that made me switch off.

If you can stand it (and it was critically-acclaimed), I will eat my hat. And quite possibly send you something in the post to cheer you up.

House of Sand and Fog -brilliant but bleak. I couldn't watch it again.

Dancer in the Dark. Made worse by the fact that Bjork's speaking voice is exactly like her singing voice i.e. painful

The Plague Dogs. Watership Down is like In The Night Garden in comparison.

A Russian film called Vostok-Zapad. It's about a family who return to the USSR after having lived in France. Literally NOTHING good happens to this family; they have affairs, evil neighbours, get beaten up by the police...

The Road to Perdition, Sophie's Choice, The Bridges of Maddison County, Kolya (Czech film, winner of Best Foreign movie Oscar 1996 - I cried from start to finish) the Green Mile, Schindler's List, even Cinema Paradiso - couldn't watch any of them ever again

Grey, with Liam Neeson. Don't watch it, it's just so....miserable. You want there to be some point to the suffering, but the end is appalling. The name of the film is how it makes you feel.

Cafe -- Kolya is wonderful! But yes, heartbreaking...especially when the little boy is on the 'phone' in the bath.

Oh, and I saw Old Yeller followed by Bambi in a double bill at the cinema when I was 7 - almost had to go into therapy

Hotel Rwanda

The Magadelene Sisters ..... awful, depressing, accurate.

elQuinto Yes, Vera Drake, that's the one. Miserable!

Les Amants de Pont-Neuf. Agh.

I saw Never Let Me Go on a plane when the entertainment system wasn't working properly and only about five films were available. When the first set of films finished you could tell who had been watching Never Let Me Go from all the aghast traumatised faces around the cabin