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Wed Feb 18, 2015, 04:46 PM

Feb 2015

I heard it was funny, left very depressed

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Name a depressing movie. And I mean one that is depressing from stern to bow. [View all] Baitball Blogger Feb 2015 OP

Sophie's Choice. cwydro Feb 2015 #1

That's a good one. Baitball Blogger Feb 2015 #2

I only remember that one scene. cwydro Feb 2015 #6

The Mist, Clockwork Orange, Sophie's Choice ETA top honors to Grave of the Fireflies uppityperson Feb 2015 #3

I could never even watch Clockwork Orange. cwydro Feb 2015 #7

I can see the artistic value in these movies. Baitball Blogger Feb 2015 #8

Grave of the Fireflies is amazing but NOT a kid's movie and not happy at all uppityperson Feb 2015 #9

I would never be able to get through that one. Baitball Blogger Feb 2015 #11

I have not had a movie depress me so much in a very long time like that one did yellowdogintexas Feb 2015 #134

That one hit me so hard. Xyzse Feb 2015 #148

Grave of The Fireflies - Agreed Xipe Totec Feb 2015 #55

The Pawnbroker. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2015 #4

what dreams may come n/t orleans Feb 2015 #5

Plus 1,000,000. OMG. vanlassie Feb 2015 #56

Platoon is a great war movie. cwydro Feb 2015 #10

In The Company Of Men... lame54 Feb 2015 #12

Brazil hollysmom Feb 2015 #13

Brazil is one of my favorite movies. hunter Feb 2015 #84

This. n/t lumberjack_jeff Feb 2015 #124

Yeah, I was thinking of "The Mist" angel823 Feb 2015 #14

21 Grams Beaverhausen Feb 2015 #15

All Is Lost. The end was a sad ??. misterhighwasted Feb 2015 #16

A streetcar named desire, or, East Of Eden...pretty tied between those 2 tjwash Feb 2015 #17

Midnight Cowboy olddots Feb 2015 #18

Fahrenheit 9/11. KamaAina Feb 2015 #19

Melancholia. Everybody on earth dies mainer Feb 2015 #20

Second, but Melancholia is such a gorgeous looking film. hifiguy Feb 2015 #32

I liked Melancholia. But yeah it was eary. applegrove Feb 2015 #105

For a light hearted movie where Everybody on Earth dies... hunter Feb 2015 #88

As a bird lover, I nominate "The Tale of Teeka" & "Kes"... countryjake Feb 2015 #21

Requiem for a Dream hedgehog Feb 2015 #22

That's my choice too. Definitely the most depressing movie I've ever seen. livetohike Feb 2015 #25

If you can finish that movie without killing yourself, you're going to be fine NightWatcher Feb 2015 #30

Fine praise, indeed. Baitball Blogger Feb 2015 #45

Eraserhead Ahpook Feb 2015 #23

More surreal than depressing to me. hifiguy Feb 2015 #33

Eraserhead was my top most worst ever "date" movie. hunter Feb 2015 #87

I was going to choose this one also.. sendero Feb 2015 #155

Gallipoli shenmue Feb 2015 #24

Dancer in the Dark Newest Reality Feb 2015 #26

And most everything else by Lars von Trier lovemydog Feb 2015 #51

Mystic River mikeargo Feb 2015 #27

The Road, Jenoch Feb 2015 #28

Child of God by Cormac McCarthy graywarrior Feb 2015 #70

ANY movie based on liberalhistorian Feb 2015 #115

As I watched Child of God, I had no idea it was written by McCarthy graywarrior Feb 2015 #123

Isn't Cormac McCarthy a Centaur? FrodosPet Feb 2015 #130

He wishes graywarrior Feb 2015 #132

Barton Fink csziggy Feb 2015 #29

I thought Barton Fink was hilarious. lovemydog Feb 2015 #52

Maybe I should watch it again csziggy Feb 2015 #83

The Pianist RebelOne Feb 2015 #31

my daughter sobbed driving home after this film hopemountain Feb 2015 #126

The Paths of Glory First Speaker Feb 2015 #34

Excellent! Sherman A1 Feb 2015 #35

"In Cold Blood" was terribly depressing ailsagirl Feb 2015 #36

I just watched that again the other day. pamela Feb 2015 #142

Seconded. WinkyDink Feb 2015 #151

Schindlers List Texasgal Feb 2015 #37

To me that movies is the antithesis of depressing mythology Feb 2015 #42

That's how I feel. lovemydog Feb 2015 #54

Leaving Las Vegas Earth Bound Misfit Feb 2015 #38

I actually love that movie. bigwillq Feb 2015 #40

So did I love the movie Earth Bound Misfit Feb 2015 #59

Love Story Tribalceltic Feb 2015 #39

The most depressing movie I've seen recently - Incendies distantearlywarning Feb 2015 #41

I'm definitely going to research some of the titles in this thread Baitball Blogger Feb 2015 #43

True! Lydia Leftcoast Feb 2015 #136

51 replies and not a single mention of Schindler's List? Initech Feb 2015 #44

I think someone mentioned it upthread. Baitball Blogger Feb 2015 #46

"Never Let Me Go" Laffy Kat Feb 2015 #47

that was such an odd book... Phentex Feb 2015 #154

"On The Beach" pipi_k Feb 2015 #48

Threads nt maryellen99 Feb 2015 #58

I remember seeing Threads after the american show The Day After CBGLuthier Feb 2015 #119

"Testament" PassingFair Feb 2015 #137

Yes. Threads qualifies. A realistic depiction of a post-nuclear war UK. roamer65 Feb 2015 #129

Yes. cyberswede Feb 2015 #99

Yes. Gave me nightmares as a kid mainer Feb 2015 #100

Night Mother newcriminal Feb 2015 #49

Big second. LiberalLoner Feb 2015 #66

Black Swan Sancho Feb 2015 #50

The Pledge Adsos Letter Feb 2015 #53

Brokeback Mountain. vanlassie Feb 2015 #57

Barfly Marie Marie Feb 2015 #60

Sid and Nancy, also...Olive Kitteridge IcyPeas Feb 2015 #61

"Factotum" Exhibit A Feb 2015 #62

Now see.. sendero Feb 2015 #156

Happiness cemaphonic Feb 2015 #63

I first saw that in a theater and obseved an interesting audience reaction... Tom Ripley Feb 2015 #72

Two of the current Foreign Film Oscar nominees HeiressofBickworth Feb 2015 #64

Add "Timbuktu" to that list Lydia Leftcoast Feb 2015 #138

Cries and Whispers Lydia Leftcoast Feb 2015 #140

I saw Timbuktu HeiressofBickworth Feb 2015 #141

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas SiobhanClancy Feb 2015 #65

Three movies I have not been able to see twice. Pixote, Ponette and Pele the Conqueror. Monk06 Feb 2015 #67

One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovitch. CanSocDem Feb 2015 #68

The Killing Fields NewJeffCT Feb 2015 #69

Old Yeller Tom Ripley Feb 2015 #71

Hardly depressing from the beginning. WinkyDink Feb 2015 #152

Henry - Poitrait of a Serial Killer Mopar151 Feb 2015 #73

The Minus Man Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2015 #74

Eyes Wide Shut kwassa Feb 2015 #75

August: Osage County Scuba Feb 2015 #76

Depressing? I guess. (So is life, for most people.) Smarmie Doofus Feb 2015 #78

reminded me a lot of my family... Phentex Feb 2015 #153

Agreed, and just too much screaming for me... underahedgerow Feb 2015 #145

The Mist. Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2015 #77

Though it was the right place to end that movie, Baitball Blogger Feb 2015 #79

Night and Fog..32 minutes. It is the most horrific, depressing film ever made Stuart G Feb 2015 #80

We watched that in junior high Adsos Letter Feb 2015 #101

Nature's Grave aka Long Weekend Number9Dream Feb 2015 #81

The Original Stepford Wives. Raine1967 Feb 2015 #82

The Unbearable Lightness of Being hunter Feb 2015 #85

The Descendants El Supremo Feb 2015 #86

The Deer Hunter cyberswede Feb 2015 #89

Agreed on Deer Hunter! truegrit44 Feb 2015 #98

"Testament" (1983) Paladin Feb 2015 #90

Oh, yeah. That was one grim movie. That scene at the sink was traumatizing. Liberal Veteran Feb 2015 #92

That scene where the mother is sewing her dead daughter into a shroud..... Paladin Feb 2015 #94

Ironweed. Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. Liberal Veteran Feb 2015 #91

Grave of the Fireflies sakabatou Feb 2015 #93

Kurosawa's existential masterpiece, Ikiru aint_no_life_nowhere Feb 2015 #95

They Shoot Horses Don't They Grammy23 Feb 2015 #96

The House of Sand and Fog. Equally depressing book. kairos12 Feb 2015 #97

I once watched 'Dallas Buyers Club' and '12 Years a Slave' back to back on HBO LynneSin Feb 2015 #102

The Road. nt ZombieHorde Feb 2015 #103

Last Year at Marienbad DFW Feb 2015 #104

Breaking the Waves petronius Feb 2015 #106

Papillon ohheckyeah Feb 2015 #107

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. a la izquierda Feb 2015 #108

Requiem for a dream. La Lioness Priyanka Feb 2015 #109

All Quiet on the Western Front. nt sarge43 Feb 2015 #110

The Conversation with Gene Hackman mucifer Feb 2015 #111

1984 TrogL Feb 2015 #112

Ulee's Gold. GoCubsGo Feb 2015 #113

Ironweed Lil Missy Feb 2015 #114

In addition to any movie based on liberalhistorian Feb 2015 #116

The Machinist jmowreader Feb 2015 #117

Leolo My Good Babushka Feb 2015 #118

Monster's Ball is the most depressing movie I've seen. Burma Jones Feb 2015 #120

Possibly 'Le Petit Prince a Dit': a 90s French-Swiss film about a child dying of cancer LeftishBrit Feb 2015 #121

Mystic River marmar Feb 2015 #122

The first 30 seconds werent depressing then it goes full bore for 2 hours. Ace Rothstein Feb 2015 #147

Doctor Zhivago. nilesobek Feb 2015 #125

And they're making a musical of it on Broadway. Paladin Feb 2015 #131

the bell jar hopemountain Feb 2015 #127

Just about every movie out from China. RandySF Feb 2015 #128

Looking for Mr Goodbar ailsagirl Feb 2015 #133

I think it was the first book that I read that was dark. Baitball Blogger Feb 2015 #150

OK...I have the winner here: "The Seventh Continent" PassingFair Feb 2015 #135

An American Crime pamela Feb 2015 #139

Shenandoah with Jimmy Stewart avebury Feb 2015 #143

Lorenzo's Oil (nt) LostOne4Ever Feb 2015 #144

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. nt LWolf Feb 2015 #146

I'd forgotten that one but yes, definitely! Lydia Leftcoast Feb 2015 #149