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.

Agree with Breaking the waves but enb76 about once were warriors. It's a brilliant film but tragic and unremittingly bleak. They apparently did a follow up to it but I decided not to watch it as the first was so sad (but amazing) that I couldn't face more misery or being disappointed in the second one.

I remember watching Pan's Labyrinth in the cinema, sitting on sofas (arty cinema). My friend and I were cuddled up to one another, sobbing uncontrollably from about half an hour in. It's brilliant, but I've yet to feel strong enough to re-watch.

Precious.

12 years a slave

What dreams may come

Passion of Christ

Tyrannosaur was a great movie but it was a hard watch. I love a bit of gritty realism.

The Piano. It was so depressing. The first two lines of he Wikipedia entry tell the whole story.

"The Piano is a 1993 romantic drama film about a mute female piano player and her daughter. Set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier backwater on the west coast of New Zealand, it revolves around the piano player's passion for playing the piano and her efforts to regain her piano after it is sold."

I mainly remember the ran and the mud. A lot of rain and mud. As the lead character is mute there is not a lot of talking.

Oh yes! Precious. I'd totally blocked that from my brain. Seriously depressing and it just gets worse.

Cant remember what it's called but it's about 2 people who get left behind by a dive boat and they just bob around in the sea and then die.

Also The Road and There Will Be Blood.

One memorable valentines day dh and I watched a double bill of 'Antichrist' (Lars von trier) filled followed by Up. I was ready to fling myself out the window after that, and they say romance is dead

The other film that springs to mind is an anime called Grave of the Fireflies. I once watched a self professed, cynical tough guy sob his tiny heard out watching this. Is is crushing.

The Road

(and I am told the book is more depressing...)

Some of the others on the thread - enjoyed them as thrillers / horror films. Others described here to go on my watch list.

Must be warped...

We did five minutes of 'Antichrist'. DP proclaimed it 'a load of old shite' so we gave up.

Downfall.
A Night To Remember. At least with Titanic you can cheer yourself up laughing at the ridiculous stuff but Night To Remember is just sad...

Oh I really enjoyed Downfall!

There's no way I'm going to watch The Road. I've read the book....

I read The Road. Its very cheery, give it a go

Grave of the Fireflies! My children tried to discourage me from watching that as they know what I'm like. So, so sad. I got through a lot of tissues. Didn't affect me for long, though. The ones that are a real downer are those that leave you thinking it would really have been better if homo sapiens had never evolved.

More votes for Antichrist, Precious, Tyrannosaur, Les Amants du Pont-Neuf and Melancholia but no one has mentioned My Girl (weep) or Steel Magnolias?!

Grave of the fireflies is amazing! Devastating but also beautiful in the portrayal of the sibling relationship.

Aaaaah my girl!

Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark (why do I keep watching Lars Von Trier films? I weirdly like them but sooo depressing!).

When the Wind Blows. Upset me for weeks as a kid.

I'd forgotten Nil By Mouth - grim. And yes, Tyrannosaur.

YY to 12 years a slave, precious & Tyrannasour

If you like films where you know the ending..

Amour - Elderly couple she has a stroke...

The sea inside- paraplegic wants to die...

The diving bell & the butterfly - paraplegic..

My Aunt went to see Beaches at the cinema and dragged my uncle along only for him to need helped out the cinema by my aunt and an usher because he was bawling his eyes out! Big wracking sobs!

I was watching Beaches once, I'd seen it before and howled. DS1 came in and asked what it was about so I told him. Ten minutes later -
'Is she dead yet?......How about now?'

Kind of ruined the moment.

The counselor. Saw it last year because I really fancy like Javier Bardem as an actor. Was like this through most of it and the end was bleak and unfulfilling and depressing.

The Wrestler
12 Years a Slave
Blue (the French trilogy)
This other horrible French one with Kristin Scott Thomas where she had murdered her son and was released from prison
The Dream Life of Angels
Sophie's Choice
Indochine
Sweet 16