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.

Norfolk, that's Million Dollar Baby - horrendous, isn't it? Hilary Swank and Clinton Eastwood. Good acting 'n' all but sooo depressing.

Has anyone said The Deerhunter yet? I was depressed for days after watching that.

La Haine

Eden Lake was filmed around Burnham Beeches in Bucks and also for two days in our little lane! We were invited to watch the filming from behind some barriers and it was really interesting. Our lane has no street lighting, there were only a handful of people to invite so we had a fantastic view of everything.

I would never recommend the following

Resurrection with Christopher Lambert (horrible and the stuff of nightmares)

Traffic with Benicio Del Torro (boring as dust, just sooooo boring)

About Schmidt with Jack Nicholson (boring as shit and a massive disappointment)

I saw Vera Drake on the pictures when it came out. I felt like passing Imelda Staunton a hankie for about three quarters of it.

Dead Man Walking. I was emotionally scarred after watching.

Old Yeller followed by Bambi that's actionable

Topsy Turvy and Mr Turner are pretty cheerful, I'll stick to historical Mike Leigh from now on

Sarah's Key

The War Zone

Tess.
Atonement.
Les Miserables
Schindler's List
Revolutionary Road
Gallipoli

I would include the Road but I daren't watch it - I cried for at least an hour after reading the book. Never in my life have I been so affected by a book. I had to switch the telly on to try and look for some crap like celeb BB to take my mind off it.

Turtles can fly about orphans in Iraq was a bit low on the feel good factor. Agree about lars von try-hard. Dancer in the dark was traumatic, although I loved the dancing in the supermarket scene.

Yep, The Road was pretty miserable.

Oh yes, how could I forget Angela's Ashes.

DSD and I love anime, so we were excited to get a new much-praised film called 5 centimeters per second. It was really miserable though. Astounding animation so we did enjoy it, but boy did we feel depressed and just rather WTF by the end

Haha, cross posted curlyhaired re the road.

I did the opposite, saw the film and because there was something ambiguous at the end which might have been hopeful, had to read the book to see if it was mentioned. It wasn't.

Babel - felt dread throughout at what the next awful thing would be to happen. Great film though.
Same with 21G and Drive.

The Stalingrad film both myself and Arch saw is the 1993 one. She said she walked out halfway through - I sat until the last miserable end. She made the right decision!

Breaking the Waves.

I'm still avoiding anything highly prized by Cannes thanks to this film (I'm not sure if that is still the case but at some time, everything with a Palme D'Or seemed to be dark and depressive. Breaking the Waves was both but to make it worse was unbearingly long.

Another nomination for Breaking the Waves.

I rang DH after having watched it (we weren't married at that point and lived in different cities) and he thought someone had died I was in such a state.

My name is Joe comes a close second. Both powerful films, with fantastic performances, but too much for me.

As I read through the thread I realise that my three have all been mentioned - Dancer in the Dark, Requiem for a Dream and Breaking the Waves. All watched years ago but these are definitely the ones that stick in my mind. Great films though. I was thoroughly affected by Dancer in the Dark for about a week after and haven't been able to watch it again for fear of feeling the same again! And I'm not usually like that ..

Another vote for 'The Road'. Jeesus, that was a really bad choice to make.

I am a lightweight so a lot of the ones mentioned on here I haven't even watched my list is:
Bambi
Dumbo
Charlottes web
Lassie
The break up (not a comedy at all)

Once were warriors - drinking, domestic violence and child abuse in New Zealand Maori culture. I was made to watch it by my Aussie boyfriend before I went to Auckland. It's a brilliant film but heart-wrenchingly sad.

Dreamcometrue, in that vein may o humbly add Watership Down?

I watched it when I was 6 and it gave me nightmares for ages. Chilling...

The rabbit proof fence I sobbed for hours after watching it

I completely agree about Revolutionary Road. Just two pathetically self-absorbed, selfish people making one another (and me) completely miserable for no reason whatsoever. I came out f the cinema feeling really cross with them both for ruining my afternoon!