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In reply to the discussion: What is the most depressing film you have ever seen? (Fiction only) [View all]classof56
(5,376 posts)54. On the Beach--both versions
The first with Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner, the second, the Australian version with Armand Assante, Bryan Brown, Rachel Ward and a lot of other actors who realistically and gut-wrenchingly portrayed the destruction of Earth because of politicians' actions. Assante's prayer at the movie's end was sad beyond measure. Same emotions evoked in the original version. The end of mankind--how painful and heartbreaking to contemplate. One can only trust nuclear war can be averted before it is too late for all of us.
Along that line, also found Testament, which someone else mentioned, profoundly sad and disturbing. Glad to see a bunch of movies in this thread that I will make sure to never watch.
Hope and blessings to us all.
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What is the most depressing film you have ever seen? (Fiction only) [View all]
banned from Kos
Feb 2012
OP
Oh, that was a HAUNTINGLY beautiful movie. I can never forget the pool scenes.
PassingFair
Feb 2012
#72
when she is going for the last bit of peanut butter and the way the people were all slowly
WCGreen
Feb 2012
#42
RfaD is the most terrifying and depressing movie I have ever seen. I can never watch it again.
LonePirate
Feb 2012
#10
Black South Africans treating the aliens as they had been treated by whites...
Odin2005
Feb 2012
#37