What are the SADDEST/MOST DEPRESSING movies of all time?

[battleknight24]

Since its on TV right now... I'll go with "Lost and Delirious."

Be warned guys: its about lesbians alright, but it is a very hard movie to get through...


Peace,

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

1. Less than Zero really sucked

The book was even more depressing

[battleknight24]

6. Ah shit... I saw that movie when I was a little kid...

... needless to say, I grew up drug-free...

[tedoll78]

2. I have an odd one:

"About Schmidt"

I watched that movie and actually laughed a bit, but at the end, I felt really, really empty. That, and I felt an incredibly strong urge to call my parents and tell them that I love them. The movie was soooo depressing, and in some cases, so true..

[7th_Sephiroth]

31. Gall Force Eternal story

a movie with 8 different people sacirficeing thier lives for a fucked up cause

[Heyo]

72. dear Ndugu...

.... hehe.. I thought that was a neat movie actually...

youre right though, kind of sad...

Heyo

[alittlelark]

3. White Oleander

just saw it today - damn, what a downer.

[TexasBushwhacker]

4. The Deer Hunter n/t

[UpsideDownFlag]

10. oh my god...i watched that movie with my dad when i was like 11 years old.

it was his answer to my question of "why was the vietnam war bad".

[pacalo]

17. I was blown away when I saw "The Deer Hunter"

& you're right, it was depressing.

The way I saw it, three of the guys who were avid deer hunters learned what it was like being the target for sport when they were held captive by the VietCong & were forced to play Russian Roulette.

It was very thought-provoking for me.

[ofrfxsk]

24. Deer Hunter, Platoon and Sophie's Choice

are the worst gut wrenchers but well made movies.

I always have to remember "Naked Gun" though when they come out of the theatre showing "Platoon" on the marquee laughing hysterically. It kills me everytime 'cause I'm such a crying wimp. Life is horrible but there is so much we can laugh about.

I'm horrible.

[newsguyatl]

5. "it's my party"

saddest, most depressing movie i've ever seen.

but i loved it.

[Blue_Tires]

7. there was a thread about

AI earlier this week; that was a real downer to me...

also add Arlington Road and Traffic

[mairceridwen]

8. Dancer in the Dark

Breaking the Waves...pretty much anything by Lars Von Trier. Most of his are also pretty mysogynistic too.

The Butcher Boy

Ordinary People

Dead Man Walking

Bastard Out of Carolina

I love depressing movies.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

18. "Somewhere In Time."

[Davis_X_Machina]

9. "Gallipoli" n/t

[Atlas Mugged]

44. You beat me to it.

The freeze frame at the end of that film left the entire audience frozen in time.

[UpsideDownFlag]

11. i found artificial intelligence to be a real downer...

but then, it also just all around sucked.

[The Great Escape]

12. American History X.....

it was so disturbing to me that I could only watch the movie one time even though I loved it. Typically, when I enjoy a movie I'll watch it many times. "Requiem For a Dream" was a very depressing movie as well but I have been able to watch it many times. It is a sad movie, still, it is fascinating to me.

[newsguyatl]

14. american history x was just disturbing

that curb scene still gets to me when i think about it.

[Tripper11]

59. I just finished watching it a few minutes ago....

what an incredible movie.

[Philostopher]

13. Sid and Nancy.

With Gary Oldman. Not that I didn't know how it ended, but still -- it was really a downer.

Mr. Nownow has assured me Trainspotting also is a downer, or at least a very dark movie. I haven't seen it, so please, nobody flame me for mentioning it -- I don't actually know.

[tedoll78]

22. I love Trainspotting!

Such a good movie! It has its down moments, but it also has some great humorous moments as well. I'd consider it neither especially uplifting or depressing, although the ending does leave you with a distinct feeling in one direction.

Heavily recommended.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

29. Trainspotting is not a downer at all, at least I don't think so. It's a

vibrant movie about downer subject matter, if there could be such a thing. Go see it.

[fishwax]

32. Agree!

not a downer ...

[Philostopher]

33. We were talking about it at dinner tonight,

it's why it came to mind when I saw the subject of the original post. We'll probably rent it eventually -- we seldom go to see movies, I can't sit still in a cinema worth a damn anymore. Mr. Nownow liked it, he just thought it was dark. He probably would think 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead' was dark, too, though -- his assessment of a 'dark' movie isn't necessarily mine!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

35. For a movie about junkies living a life of dissolution and degeneracy, it

is oddly full of life and energy, color and music. When you figure out the protagonist/narrator's take on drug use, it makes more sense. I have the DVD and love watching this movie.

People think it's all about misery and desperation and death and all that shite, which is not to be ignored, but what they forget - is the pleasure of it. Otherwise we wouldn't do it.

[Soft Georgia]

15. "Sophie's Choice."

# 1 on my list.

And getting my vote for being simultaneously depressing and a shitty movie: "High Art."

[pacalo]

20. "Sophie's Choice" is definitely on my list, too.

If it weren't for the part where she was forced to choose between her two children to go to the death house, I might have been able to watch it again. Too disturbing for me.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

23. I can't watch that movie

for that very reason. The very thought turns my stomach into knots.

[MissMillie]

43. Good choice. I'll also add

In the Bedroom

and

House of Sand and Fog

[Kenneth ken]

51. I'll second

House of Sand and Fog.

Partly just because it the most unredemptive movie I've seen lately.
Just bleak . . .

[Quahog]

82. Agree

Not the most depressing movie I've ever seen, but exhausting to watch. The whole story is a dead end, it's a lose-lose scenario from the start and it just keeps getting worse.

The fact that it is so well acted by both Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly just makes it even more harrowing.

[kestrel91316]

16. On The Beach, and The Day After........both postnuclear tales

[TexasBushwhacker]

25. Testament also

It's a post-nuclear story as well. Pretty difficult to not be a downer.

[derrald]

19. Raging Bull

I hate it when Italians go into the spiral of destruction.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

21. For Whom the Bell Tolls

:cry:
Ingrid Bergman/Gary Cooper
:cry:

[Lindsey]

26. Sophie's Choice, The Deer Hunter, The Pianist...

also too disturbing for me to see more than once. How interesting that they all involved wars.

[enigmatic]

27. "Sophie's Choice" and "Testament"

double dose of depressing..

[MidwestMomma]

61. I second the "Testament"

No happy endings in that movie....

[cmf]

97. I agree to both of those

In "Sophie's Choice", I bawled the entire time. In "Testament", I was just numb, it was so depressing.

[newdealer]

28. Any Ronald Reagan movie

Other than those. Kubrick's "Paths of Glory" and "Breaker Morant" Two films with the same theme.

[Pale Blue Dot]

30. Cinema Paradiso: The Director's Cut

Talk about two different movies: the "original" was a deeply sentimental tale of love and the healing power of movies; I cried continuously for the last half hour. The director's cut, with about an hour of additional footage, is a deeply cynical film that turns all of the original's sentimentality in on itself. I love them both, but I will never again feel the same way about the original, and I will miss that.

[CanuckAmok]

34. Johnny Got His Gun, Cradle Will Rock, The Thin Red Line, Sling Blade.

[NNadir]

65. I didn't see the other three, but "Thin Red Line" was right up there.

[Heyo]

73. Johny Got His Gun... 1971..

.. Never saw that.. but that's the movie Metallica used clips of for their "One" video..

What is the movie about? Similar to the song?

Heyo

[LWolf]

79. I never saw the movie, but I read the book by Dalton Trumbo

An injured soldier, reduced to spending his life in bed as a faceless torso, trapped with nothing but his thoughts for a lifetime.

I guess this one could qualify, huh?

[Skittles]

36. Hilary and Jackie

I defy you not to blubber at the end of that movie

[BlackVelvetElvis]

62. I did. What a great loss to the music world. n/t

[maveric]

37. Southie, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Taxi Driver

[MissAnnThrope]

38. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

That and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest have always depressed me.

[HEyHEY]

39. "Goin' down the road"

For the Canadian circle

[mitchum]

40. Happiness, Raging Bull, Fox And His Friends, La Strada, Breathless

all great ones, though

[democracyindanger]

41. Dr. Zhivago

Maybe it's just Omar Sharif's gigantic eyes, but to see somebody get sooo close to happiness in an unhappy world...

[FlyByNight]

42. Requiem For A Dream

Seen it once. Only once. Utterly depressing. Complete downer.

[LifeDuringWartime]

63. you should read the book

it's a lot better, and is written in a very interesting style.

[rockymountaindem]

45. Paths to Glory

[Blue_Tires]

46. just remembered:

"Seven" ended on a major down note, too

[Chovexani]

47. Requiem for a Dream

Mindblowingly good movie, but don't watch it alone without the number of your local suicide hotline handy.

[Burma Jones]

48. Apocalypse Now, Brazil, and the winner - MONSTER'S BALL

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

92. Agree with Monster's Ball...that was my first choice.

MKJ

[LWolf]

49. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

1968.

[RobinA]

74. Oh My God!

You are right and I had forgotten about this movie. I watched it on TV sometime during my college years. If you don't want to commit suicide after seeing this movie you aren't human.

[LWolf]

77. Yep.

I saw it as a kid, and then saw it later as a young adult. I figured I probably didn't understand it well enough as a kid, that it couldn't have been as depressing as I remembered.

It was. Possibly more so.

[Zomby Woof]

50. Harry & Tonto

The poor kitty. :cry:

[acmavm]

52. Old Yeller. I was tramatized for a long time.

.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

53. Terms of Endearment, Sophie's Choice, Au Revoir Les Enfants

I defy ANYONE not to cry at the end of those movies.

[skygazer]

54. Cold Mountain

Just watched it last week. No sooner get to know a character - BOOM - gone.

Why can't they ever make a cheerful movie about the Civil War? <sarcasm>

[barb162]

66. I didn't understand that movie

it was as if she said hello and offered tea to him 2 times and the next thing is they kiss once before he leaves and the next thing she's waiting for him for about 3 years. Like zero development of any relationship.

[barb162]

67. Tess of the Durbervilles

especially when the baby dies

[Endangered Specie]

55. "Life is Beautiful"

beautiful and sad at the same time. That one is a tear jerker all the way through, tears of happiness AND sadness.

[Meshuga]

57. Yep. That's a winner.

They make the character so likable and kill him. Damn it!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

56. Cries and Whispers, one of Ingmar Bergman's darkest works

It's about a woman dying painfully of cancer and her nasty, screwed-up sisters.

Also, Paths of Glory (soldiers randomly executed to satisfy their commanding officer's pride), Grave of the Fireflies (Japanese orphans in WWII), Day of Wrath (1940s Danish film about witch trials), The Thief (a sociopath in Stalinist Russia takes up with a war widow and her young son), Violet Perfume (a young girl from the slums of Mexico City). That's just off the top of my head. :-)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

96. I've read about Grave of the Fireflies.

I'll NEVER EVER EVER watch that movie.

[Radius]

58. Leaving LasVegas(NT)

[MidwestMomma]

60. Trip to Bountiful

When I re-watch it, I start crying when the opening music/credits start.

A beautiful but emotional movie.

[NNadir]

64. Chinatown.

[Kire]

68. My Girl, Garden State

[Beware the Beast Man]

69. Schindler's List-saddest

Fight Club- most depressing.
There's definitely a difference between sad and depressing. Fight Club, while an awesome movie, is just too nihilistic. I can't watch it withput getting seriously bummed out.

[Lukymom]

70. Fahrenheit 9/11 - I was devastated after seeing it...

And I couldn't stand to the end. So much shit going on... I rather not to be reminded sometimes.

[Heyo]

71. Return to Paradise....

I got dragged into the theatre to see that.. I was literally MAD when they came out that they would do that to people..

House of Sand and Fog, too.. I'm not into paying money for a huge bummer.

Heyo

[slack]

75. Some European Ones

- "Salò o le centoventi Giornate della Città di Sodoma", Pier Paolo Pasolini, ITA 1975

- "Triumph des Willens", Leni Riefenstahl, GER 1934

- "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover", Peter Greenaway, GB 1989

- "1984", Michael Radford, GB1984

- "Dogville", Lars von Trier, DK 2003

- "C'est arrivé près de chez vous", Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoit Poelvoorde, BEL 1992

[VOX]

76. "Breaker Morant" and "Paths of Glory"...

Very similar stories, with "Breaker" being a bit more political. Both depict how class standing can result in the ultimate punishment by a heartless system.

As sad as these two films are, I will watch them whenever I run across them on cable.

[SmileyBoy]

78. 28 Days Later

Only a dozen or so people in the movie who were survivors (most of them killed in the end), and the main character gets killed off in the alternate ending.

[ze_dscherman]

80. Soldier Blue

Also:
The Deer Hunter
The Great Silence
Breaking the Waves
Dancer in the Dark

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

81. We had to take a break and tell jokes halfway through Dancer in the Dark

:cry:

[terrya]

83. "The Pianist"

Roman Polanski's very powerful film. Just magnificent...but relentlessly depressing.

[Quahog]

84. Seven, Leaving Las Vegas, Eraserhead

I don't think I could watch any of these movies again.

[truthspeaker]

85. "Boys Don't Cry"

Took away my sex drive for almost a week.

[Englander]

86. The Pianist is pretty grim;

The Piano Teacher (French film) is disturbing

[Magrittes Pipe]

87. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo

I sat through the whole thing last night, and that made me VERY depressed. :cry:

[terrya]

88. Well, any of Rob Schneider's films will do that.

[Magrittes Pipe]

89. I actually found myself hoping for a Pauly Shore cameo.

It would have improved the movie. :scared:

[terrya]

91. I would lapsed into a bottomless pit of depression if that happened.

And did you know there are plans for a "Deuce Bigalow II"

Seriously. :-)

[Magrittes Pipe]

93. Yes -- "European Gigolo."

:scared:

[daddybear]

90. Imitation of Life

a warm, wonderful but HEART-RENDING movie -- the one with Lana Turner.

[SarahB]

94. The Color Purple

[jayfish]

95. "Once Were Warriors", "Eye Of God" And "In The Bedroom" -NT-

Jay