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41. The most depressing movie I've seen recently - Incendies

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Wed Feb 18, 2015, 10:03 PM

Feb 2015

Trailer here:

It looked interesting and had good reviews, so we loaded it up on the big screen and popped some popcorn, thinking we were about to see an interesting, enjoyable drama. Yeah...not so much. Can't say much about it without spoiling some plot twists, but man, was it a downer. I watched it with my husband and we both sort of sat there deflated and horrified after it ended. It was not a fun movie night.

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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