What's the most disturbing film you've seen?

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I know there are some films well-known for disturbing people like A Clockwork Orange so what's the most disturbing film you've seen?

I always found CO fascinating, but never disturbing - perhaps because by the time I saw it I'd already read the book.

I did find The Exorcist disturbing even after having read the book. The film version of Stephen King's The Mist has a great horror shocker ending that stays with you long after the credits end. I found that quite disturbing, but I loved it because so many horror films end either happily-ever-after, or with a cliffhanger sequel setup - instead this director (Frank Darabont) just punches you in the gut and walks away. Good dog!

"The Cell." Not for the plot or anything, just the creepy artwork.

Requiem for a Dream is probably the most disturbing film I've seen. I could list a lot of horror movies which are quite disturbing but I find a film like Requiem for a Dream (which is not a horror film) much more disturbing than any horror film I've ever seen.

Probably 'The Thing' and 'Robocop'. But then I saw scenes from 'The Thing' (the 80s version with Kurt Russell) again on Youtube... and it just made me laugh how fake some of those gory scenes looked.

And then there's 'Class Of 1999', about a bunch of ruthless cyborg teachers on a school in a dystopian future ruled by juvenile gangs. Kids getting chopped in half, people getting punched through the stomach with bionic fists, and a cyborg ripping into a young gangster's skull saying "I do enjoy molding young kids' minds". That movie disturbed me so much, when I saw it was announced to air in the TV-magazine, in a series of sci-fi movies my mother and I had been enjoying, I told my mother "I really do not want to see this movie".

And if it counts, 'End of Evangelion'. Just saw it, still gets me everytime. But it's really a part of the TV-series, instead of a stand alone film, but still.

Sex and the City: The Movie

*shudder*

Well disturbing is the least you can say about Oldboy

Jacob's Ladder

Silence of the Lambs...that's pretty disturbing...I don't mind the grotesque nature but the behavior of Hannibal Lecture and Buffalo Bill are f'ed up

"Tropa de Elite" ("Elite Squad" in UK, USA). It is a Brazilian movie about the elite squad of Rio de Janeiro´s military police. It shows the war between police and the drug dealers when the police enters the slums on Rio de Janeiro´s "hills" that are controlled by the dealers. There is plenty of torture by the police and well I´m not going to tell the rest! I recommend this movie!

At IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0861739/

The German language film M, Seven (urgh... that film makes me shudder just thinking of it... particularly the horrible deaths of the prostitute and the obese man) and Trainspotting.

"Sweet Movie" *vomit* *shudder* It was Hungarian, I think.

Man Bites Dog

Cannibal Holocaust
Murdum

Red to Kill
Cannibal Holocaust
Irreversible
I Spit On Your Grave (original)
The Last House on the Left (original)
not really a film but I've seen parts of Terrorists, Killers and Other Middle-East Wackos and really wish I hadn't

Haven't seen any of the August Underground series but to be honest I really don't want to.