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.

My Name Is Joe
Tyrannosaur
Cathy Came Home
(Ken Loach is a great film maker but he is a misery guts)

The Kristen ST one is I've Loved You So Long. It's terribly sad but I loved it

Trying to watch Fargo a second time was just too much for me... And there's a french film called Jeux Interdit (Forbidden Games) which is excellent but so sad...

Yeah, that's the one, Lotta. It was very good, but it was sad as all hell.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

Open Water, I thought they would be rescued.

Perfect Storm, ditto.

Lamb, with, I think Liam Neeson again.

Totally disagree about Life is Beautiful though, I though it was ultimately rather uplifting.

DH just cited Ring of Bright Water. That shovel scene traumatised him for years.

No one has listed my saddest film, i honestly think it triggered a depressive episode.

"On the Beach", from a nevil shute novel. it has Gregory Peck and anthony perkins in it. The story is set in Australia in the aftermath of a nuclear war in the northern hemisphere. Everyone in australia is basically waiting for the cloud of radioactive fallout to drift south and kill them, the worst bit is a young couple feeding their little baby an overdose and then taking one themselves, it's horrific.

The Kite Runner

Fucking Atonement. My mate went for a fag wee and loudly asked "Has he not fucking died yet?" Whole cinema cracked up.
Au Hazard Balthazar. (Known as the donkey film in chez fuckery) oh dear god, French, black and white about the unremittingly grim life of a donkey.

DH made me sit through this British film about an ex soldier and his brother with learning difficulties who were living rough while he went about killing a group of people one by one who had been abusing and torturing the brother while the soldier was in the army.

Can't remember what it was called, it must have been ten years old or so, but it was the most bleak and depressing thing I'd seen in ages. and the ending - misery upon misery.

I must love that man.

Oh god atonement.

And whoever said Marley and me - billed as an uplifting family comedy - an hour and a half of luring you in and getting you emotionally invested and then the dog dies.

Fuckers.

Old boy, a Korean film. It's shot beautifully and is a brilliant story, but ffs the ending is full on, it's one of a trilogy and I saw 1 of the others called Lady Vengeance while pregnant, that was a laugh.

We Need to Talk about Kevin. The misery stayed with me for ages afterwards but it was beautifully acted and I think Tilda. Swinton is fabulous anyway.

Noah on the other hand made me fast forward the second half not one character smiled throughout the whole movie !

I show the last twenty minutes of Cathy Come Home to my students every year. Then I put the lights up and look at their traumatised little faces and I can't speak because I am so choked up. One year a girl ran out of the class. I am waiting for the official complaint one year.

Another vote for Lilya 4 Ever.

Brilliant, but so sad, I cried.

The Lovely Bones

It played on my mind for ages afterwards and occasionally it still comes back to haunt me. It wasn't the idea of her as a ghost, but the things the horrid paedophile did - far too real. Didn't watch it to the end but made DH turn it off. Still comes back to me now and I just try to put the images out of my mind. I really believe it polluted my mind.

The Road: It's only a matter of time before life imitates art...if not in our lifetime then almost certainly in our childrens'...

There's a Japanese film called No One Knows, about 4 little children who are abandoned by their mother in a city apartment with depressing consequences. Made even worse by the fact that it was based on a true story.

I bought DH the DVD of Graveyard of the Fireflies as a present. I hadn't done my research and assumed it would contain Sprirted Away-style whimsy and wonder... We watched it once and neither of us spoke for the next few hours.

Precious- it was so heart reaching and difficult to watch.

I threw the DVD straight in the bin as I didn't want to inflict it on anyone else.

RJnomore was the film Dead Man's Shoes?

Oh God, I was just telling my husband about this thread, and he reminded me that we watched Requiem for a Dream in a double bill with Threads. Why on earth did we think that was a good idea?!

We all cried buckets over grave of the fireflies. It's a great film, but unbelievably sad.

Bridge to terabithia was a horrible shock when I too, DS1 to see it. The trailer promised some kind of fairly ordinary kids fantasy adventure. Instead I sobbed my way through it. They should at least guide you fair warning so you can take tissues.

Dead mans Shoes is a terrific film. I love all of the director Shane Meadows films.

American history x
Brilliant film that I never want to see again