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Most depressing film you have ever seen?

muleyha​ven

over 3 years ago

schindler’s list

saeed

over 3 years ago

talk to her

Jeff

over 3 years ago

I think I just saw my most depressing film a few nights ago and that would be In A Glass Cage.

Relentlessly bleak with some very questionable scenes.

Tom B

over 3 years ago

Over the Edge.

Bilge Serhate​ri

over 3 years ago

certainly dancer in the dark
after the film i cried for hours!

Alex Towers

over 3 years ago

Requiem for a Dream. Needed at least a day to recover.

“Dancer in the dark” and “requiem for a dream”

Jeff

over 3 years ago

If you think Requiem For a Dream, the movie, was depressing, you ought to read the book by Hubert Selby. The film seems downright cheerful compared to the novel.

Christo​pher Kueny

over 3 years ago

Sansho the Bailiff was right up there.

david lincoln brooks

over 3 years ago

I think BOOGIE NIGHTS (1997), which I’ve just re-watched, is quite depressing. Yes, I suppose it’s meant to be a "dark comedy’ of the darkest kind…. but the particulars it observes are so true and accurate, the acting so on-point and uncompromising, it almost makes you squirm, and does not make you leave feeling the world is a swell place.

Jeff

over 3 years ago

I wouldn’t say “the particulars it observes are so true and accurate” in Boogie Nights. Not by a long stretch. It’s Anderson’s fantasy of how he thinks the porn world was back in the 70’s and 80’s. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a decent little film but hardly representative of the world it was attempting to portray.

Dennis Brian

over 3 years ago

Kook’s Tour (1970)

made right when larry had a stroke and moe and curly joe were feeble
depressing because its really people near death.

david lincoln brooks

over 3 years ago

@ JEFF

Someone once said that “Art is the lie that tells the truth.”

Perhaps the particulars of BOOGIE NIGHTS are not literally true, but tonally and spiritually Anderson really captured something true.

P.S. I happen to know just a wee bit about the milieu… ’nuff said.

Mother of God

over 3 years ago

Au Hazard Balthazar and I gotta agree with most people here: Requiem for a Dream.

Sammy Leung

over 3 years ago

Haneke’s The Seventh Continent is more depress for me

Fandori​n-san

over 3 years ago

Haneke is a very cheerful guy in general.

Marcus WP

over 3 years ago

the 7th continent

i imagine this movie would stick with anyone who cant get use to a “daily routine” or living their life according to an alarm clock (like myself)

All Is Grace

over 3 years ago

Salo, hands down. This movie is terribly depressing, dark and scary. You can do nothing after watching it.

Erlend Palm

over 3 years ago

I would’ve said Umberto D. if its charm didn’t lift me up at the same time. I really have no idea.

Ana :)

over 3 years ago

Vukovar
Jude
Sophie’s Choice

But i don’t know if depressing’s the right word – they were devastating & shattering & bleak but very powerful.

It’s the inane stuff that’s depressing like Bridget Jones’ Diary or Hairspray.

Jessica H

over 3 years ago

La Strada
Black Orpheus
Grave of the Fireflies
2001: A Space Odyssey – but probably more unsettling than depressing

(And I’m probably repressing some others.)

pjjrfan

over 3 years ago

Mystic River.

Bret

over 3 years ago

City of God

Adam Hudson

over 3 years ago

Tim Roth’s The War Zone

Raymond Mode

over 3 years ago

Grave of the Fireflies and Memento were both quite depressing, the latter being one I can watch time after time while I don’t know that I’ll ever be able to watch GotF again.

Jeff

over 3 years ago

I just saw In A Glass Cage recently and have to say that just may be the most depressing film I ever saw. The ending couldn’t come soon enough for me.

Larry

over 3 years ago

Dancer in the Dark and Scenes from a Marriage for me.

Santrop​ez

over 3 years ago

Schindler’s list
Karakter
The elephant man

Ana :)

over 3 years ago

oh yes and Pan’s Labyrinth – that really depressed me

kataton​ik

over 3 years ago

synecdoche newyork is one of the most depressing movies i’ve recently seen