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.

The one about the last executioner in Britain. Can't remember the name of it though

GwenStacy Requiem For a Dream and Threads in one sitting? Bloody hell! Did you need counseling afterwards?

I didn't mention Threads myself because it's beyond depressing, it's just straight-out fucking horrific on every level.

Pierpoint, Meena.

:) well I'm the 10th to vote for Requiem for a Dream, depressing film. I used to work as an usher in an art house cinema and I had to see it 12 times. I ended up reading terry pratchett by the light of my torch to save me from the horror of it.

Open Water is one of them. I wanted a Hollywood-style 11th hour rescue.

The Reader. Nobody wins, everybody loses, humans are awfully flawed, at least we have books but even that can't save you. Think that was the message.

See also, The Hours.

The books are beautiful. The films are so relentlessly bleak.

Yes thank you it was dead mans shoes.

I do love Shane meadows, this is Britain is brilliant (film and tv series) but this felt relentlessly bleak and then the end..although there was a reception of sorts I suppose.

The boy in the striped pyjamas - now that I didn't expect, and found rather traumatic.

Filth. I had to gear myself up to watch it till the end. Like you would at the school exam

Oh no, the Hours was sad but not miserable!

Oh gosh, yes, The Lovely Bones i was so tense when she was trying to ran away.

Oh I LOVED Filth! Have seen it twice now and would love to see it again. Its very grim but James McAvoy is so brilliant in it

Nobody has mentioned the Michael Haneke films yet. Funny Games was truly unremittingly bleak.

To me Requiem for a Dream was miserable but also had a kind of
grimy glamour around the New York setting & the period/ setting/costumes that saved it from being utterly miserable..

And filth had a dark humour that again saved it from wrist splitting misery unlike some of the other films mentioned up thread..

Michael Haneke's film The White Ribbon - oh yes. Unremittingly bleak is exactly on the money!

DP loves Funny Games. I did make him watch American History X though.

Seven Pounds .

DH still likes to randomly berate me about Million Dollar Baby. Im not sure why he thinks I had anything to do with it.
Watched Schindler's List once, never again.
The Imitation of Life has me sobbing everytime.
I find The Sixth Sense depressing, such a sad boy.

Oh yes Gallipoli, wont watch that again either.

I just looked up the plot for Breaking The Waves, WTF?

The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Never Let Me Go
Atonement
Schindler's List
Hotel Rwanda
All Quiet on the Western Front
Gallipoli

Imitation of Life is an amazing film!

Bambi

DH is a big fan of Mike Leigh, when we first started going out he showed me several of his favourites, things like Life is Sweet and High Hopes, mentioned above. The one that really stuck with me (and have flat out refused to watch again) is Naked. My god I think that's one of the grimmest films I've ever seen. Unpleasant people making each other's lives hell. Lucky for him we were still in that early phase where you make a huge effort to please the other person . I have no hesitation these days in telling him I want to stop watching something half way through!

Another one for Requiem For A Dream. That awful 'ass to ass' part (shudder).