The most depressing movies you've seen

Post Reply New Topic

Okay, let’s get it off your chest. Which are the most depressing movies you’ve seen? For me, they were:

Babette’s Feast
Batman Returns
Brazil
Caligula
Constantine
The Dead Zone
Dr. Strangelove
Der Erfinder (Swiss movie from 1981)
The Fly (1986)
Germania anno zero
Paperhouse
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Rope
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Schindler’s List
When the Wind Blows

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

(what? I walked out of that cinema feeling the weight of crushed childhood dreams. I think that's depressing, don't you? )

Titanic. I didn't cry during the movie, but it was really depressing.

Wow. Salo was unreal. I saw it in Sweden where it wasn't banned. In some freaky, perverted way, I want to try to find it. I've seen it for sale. But it DID show what COULD happen when that type of circumstance had happened.I thought I was the only one to have seen it.

Aliens 3, and 4. It went from fascinating sci-fi concept horror of the first movie, to entertaining suspense and drama in the second to the elements of what I hate about most horror films, on the third and fourth.

"The little mermaid" I know it wasn't intended to be depressing, but the end where Ariel leaves her entire childhood behind her to live on land really touched me deeply. I suppose some part of it is caused by me being quite young when I first watched it though.

There's a 'good' depressed, I tried to keep those off this list.

Being John Malcovich
Punch Drunk Love
Chicago
Twelve Monkeys
Fight Club
Cider House Rules

How could you not like Being John Malcovich?
That's one of my favs.

I have to say

Requiem for a Dream
Dancer in the Dark
that one movie the director of PI did with Jared Leto and Jennifer Connelly-
that movie was a depressant in the form of a suppository.

Easy Rider.

Heh, not saying I disliked it, just that it was depressing and not in a good way. Fight Club's kind of similar in that respect. Cider House and Chicago though, of that list, I can sincerely say that I couldn't stand the characters.

Requiem for a Dream. I cried through the entire ending, and for quite some time afterwards.

You ever seen Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Human Nature? Written by Charlie Kauffman, I think he is the bomb at writing screenplays. If you like dark comedies anyway.

The funniest part of Being John Malcovich is when Cameron Diaz's character first visits the port into John's brain, and she plops out next to the New Jersey turnpike (I was like-what the f**k?) and she's adament on being a man from that point on. I almost died and knew at that point I was in love with Kauffman's work. Did you know that she wasn't wearing any make-up in that movie? That is her real complexion!! No wonder her and JT couldn't last, she couldn't keep up the charade.

Yeah, I've seen Eternal Sunshine; that was pretty good actually, may have to check the other two when I have the chance.

I'll give you warning in advance: Human Nature is a musical.
He he, you might vomit at some point too.
Adaptation won some awards for being one of the best movies of that year (2002?).
If you can stand Nicholas Cage, the movie has a really good message, but it might leave you in the same place as Being John Malcovich.

2 words

battle royale

Hilary and Jackie. Incredibly depressing and based on a true story.