The most depressing movies you've seen

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I'll add The Man Who Wasn't There to the list, I don't think it could have been more depressing if it tried...

I know that this thread is old, but...

...I watched Bambi on Youtube today, which was the first time in years that I'd watched it. That movie was a little depressing for me, even with the happy ending and all the cute little woodland animals.

I think that the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas was depressing.

Currently what I have in mind:

--Godzilla 1985
--Milo and Otis
--The Empire Strikes Back
--Dumbo
--Pokemon: The First Movie
--Toy Story 3

Salo: 120 Days of Sodom is the most depressing film in the entire history of cinema. It affects the viewer on a very deep level and stays with you for a long time.

Hands down:

The Last Picture Show

I've got another one to add to the list: Synecdoche, New York. I rented it last summer, and ended up depressed for weeks. It's sort of Eternal Sunshine-esque (which makes sense, because Charlie Kaufman wrote both films): it has its funny quirks here and there, but in the long run, it's a powerful emotional statement. Phillip Seymour Hoffman portrays a theatre director whose personal life is rapidly deteriorating, so he retreats into a large project where he directs a dramatization of his own day-to-day events using an ensemble cast and an impossibly large set built inside a warehouse. As time goes on and his obsession with his project grows, his life becomes so consumed by the play that it reaches the point where the imitation completely eclipses the real thing.

A Boy named Charlie Brown

The most depressing movie I have seen is "The Elephant Man".

I would say the scenes in films that made me depressed were

Monster Inc. (when Sulley left Boo)

Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone ( I think it was either the leaving hogwarts music at the end or when Harry sees his parents in the mirror and photo album)

Toy Story 3 (when Andy was giving his toys away to Bonnie and playing with them the last time and the music so long playing in that scene)

1984
The Fountain
Requiem For A Dream
Black Swan
The Plague Dogs
The Road
The Boy in The Striped Pajamas
Moon
Revenge of The Sith
Children of Men
Taegukgi
Pan's Labyrinth
A.I.
Silent Running

Even though it is one of my favorite movies, I found some parts of "The Lovely Bones" to be depressing/melancholy.

The first movie that always comes to my head when I hear this is Seven Pounds. Most movies just have depressing endings and that's why you remember them, but that movie was just flat out depressing from start to finish.

Click- even though it was a comedy it was also really depressing. I almost felt like crying.

Life is Beautiful- an Italian movie about the Holocaust- nuff said.

Forrest Gump- such a sad and touching ending to an epic movie about the transformation of 1 man's life.

Maman est Folie (English translation: Mommy is Crazy)- A French film about an emotionally sensitive mother who helps out with illegal refugees from Iran and becomes friends with 1.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas- gotta watch out for those Holocaust movies.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King- such a touching ending to an epic trilogy.

Pay It Forward- it was great until the end, but #1: you just don't kill off the main character, #2: you just don't kill off kids, and #3: you just don't kill off the main character if the main character is a kid. Besides, unlike in things such as The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, there's not even a good reason for killing him off. I adore Haley Joel Osment btw, I haven't seen him in much else but I really want to. He's an awesome actor, and he was like the only kid who could actually act.

I Am Legend- those apocalypse movies. Again, you don't kill off the main character, it's just wrong!

Wall-E- pretty sad at the beginning. Great environmental movie, though.

Bridge to Terabithia- you just don't kill off kids!

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix- RIP Sirius Black.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince- RIP Dumbledore.