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Depressing Films

I seen Christine F mentioned here a bloody marvellous movie but very sad and gritty can't recommend it enough.

Eraserhead I never saw so many walk out of a cinema during a show. I hadn't a clue what it was about but I left feeling 'dirty' and drained.

Lamb A young Liam Neeson rescues a lad from a boys home the end is fucking wrist slitting stuff. A great movie but things don't turn out well.

Cal Can't say anything without spoiling other than it has a fantastic soundtrack by Mark Knopfler and it is depressing as hell although you get to see a naked young Helen Mirren.

Without a doubt these movies are well worth a watch but put all tablets and razor blades out of reach!
 
nuube said:
I seen Christine F mentioned here a bloody marvellous movie but very sad and gritty can't recommend it enough.

Eraserhead I never saw so many walk out of a cinema during a show. I hadn't a clue what it was about but I left feeling 'dirty' and drained.

Lamb A young Liam Neeson rescues a lad from a boys home the end is fucking wrist slitting stuff. A great movie but things don't turn out well.

Cal Can't say anything without spoiling other than it has a fantastic soundtrack by Mark Knopfler and it is depressing as hell although you get to see a naked young Helen Mirren.

Without a doubt these movies are well worth a watch but put all tablets and razor blades out of reach!
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Isn't eraserhead a deep web film? Or am thinking of a remake that was REAL? I saw some of the 'real' film where a man with some pagan tattoo on his heart area of his chest going insane with fucking saws and other tools nailed to his fridge while he downed some form of drug? Which were pills while he grabbed his head acting if he was having voices in his head. In his 'under croft' he hide and chopped up random peoples bodies, & went into necrophilia. GROSS I KNOW! But like said I saw parts and couldn't watch the rest. So I asked around and I got told the full in depth story of this 'real' serial killer in some European country. Idk if it's legit but if it is then this man was FUCKED. Gross shit he did and some ritualistic ways as well, like the old pagan rituals dating back before medieval times. Now I didn't personally go to the deep web but I did see a you-tuber posting real or 'real' deep web horror films in which 50% were in fact, VERY REAL! I stay away from all that deep web shit after 2009 looking at market places and simple sites that were just odd [no gore & no CP/ANY PORN FOR THAT MATTER] type sites for the fuck of it.
 
The Road is a pretty depressing movie.
This is one of the few times I've ever cried from watching a movie. The book is even more depressing.
 
^ Eraserhead is a film by David Lynch, a fairly well known Academy award-nominated director...it's not a porn film lol
 
Melancholia is pretty damn depressing, it's an apocalypse kinda film but the most sort of understated holy shit this is awful and depressing kinda apocalypse film. Genuinely made me feel pretty hopeless and a bit freaked out but it's good.
 
I'm sure it's been mentioned already, but Requiem for a Dream left a pit in my stomach for like 3 days. The Basketball Diaries is also one I'm sure almost every Bluelighter has seen. Come to think of it, most of the classic drug movies that are must-sees have sad endings. Blow, Spun, etc.

Sophia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides leaves you with a pretty depressing/empty feeling.

The Mist, which I think is an adaption of a Stephen King book, ha a surprisingly sad/impactful ending for a sci-fi/horror film.

Hotel Rowanda was just fucked up/sad. Even worse since it's based on true events.

Glory, which is an AWESOME civil war movie about the first all-black regiment to fight for the Union, had a really sad ending.

12 Monkeys, aside from being an awesome unconventional sci-fi flick, definitely had a "OMG WTF REALLY??" ending.

American History X's ending = much cry

SLC Punk ending = much more cry

And one of my favorite independents(starring a young Joseph Gordon Levitt) is Manic. It doesn't have one of those typical sad endings but the whole movie kind of makes you feel shitty.

Oh and if you're even a little bit of a WWII history buff, Downfall and Valkyrie are pretty tragic.
 
snolly said:
Melancholia is pretty damn depressing, it's an apocalypse kinda film but the most sort of understated holy shit this is awful and depressing kinda apocalypse film. Genuinely made me feel pretty hopeless and a bit freaked out but it's good.
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Definitely this one! Although I think it's kind of misleading to call it an apocalypse film... more like a film about depression which uses an apocalypse scenario as background.

Others:
A Hole In My Heart
Enter The Void
I Stand Alone
Oldboy
 
The Disney film UP. the first ten minutes of the film, it sums up his whole life, and his women dies. WTF?
 
I don't get why Up won best animated picture and got nominated for best picture, but Inside Out only got nominated for best animated picture. I think it could have been nominated for best picture as well. I thought it was better than a few other nominees.
 
I agree. Aside from Bambi(saw as younger person) UP, blew my mind as far as 0 to depressing in like 5 minutes. That was my point there. Award wise, I don't get it either.
 
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The green mile.

The only movie i know of where the film adaption is just as good as the book.
 
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I think that is the only movie that has ever given me nightmares

Edit: Were posts deleted? I should have quoted instead of using the " ^ ". The movie I was talking about that gave me nightmares was Still Alice. Alzheimer's looks terrifying. Terrifying for the person with it and for the family of the person with it.


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zirbeldude2 said:
The green mile.

The only movie i know of where the film adaption is just as good as the book.
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With films based on books there usually are a lot of differences between the book and the film. This is one of the few times where the movie was exactly like the book. Maybe there were some slight differences that I didn't pick up on, but the film was very true to the book. Good book and movie.
 
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I haven't seen it before, i just looked it up on imdb and i'll have to give it a watch very soon!
 
Overall, I've enjoyedj most of the movies on this list, but sometiems somethign is missing. IMDB doesnt always help either. it would be helpful if there was a sentence or two about why it was depressign. For example, I just wasted 3 evenings trying to watch Dancer in the DArk. I fell asleep each time and I'm depressed because I could have been watching somethign a little more entertaining yet depressing in a way other than the fact that I wasted my time. Even though I eventually got through it, I found it to be completely forgetable and dont remember a thing about it 2 weeks later. 21 Grams is another drepressing mess of a movie taht I found to be unwathcable. 3 actors, 3 parallel plots. pffffffft. Too much like watching a soap opera. I just now slogged through the first 30 minutes of it and I'm super annoyed. On the genre of "films with parallel plots that magically tie together at the end are awesome", if somebody mentions somethign like Crash, be sure to mention that it comes across as a 2 hour public service announcement on the topic of 'racism is bad.' Major factual errors need to be pointed out too. The dilating pupils problem on Requiem 4 a Dream absolutely ruined the movie for me. Any director who can't be bothered to research his topic enough to know that pupils constrict on opiates misses the mark.

Midnight Cowboy, Paths of Glory, Still Alice, Brasil, Deer Hunter, Grave of the Fireflies, Lord of the flies, the green mile, I haert Hucklebees, and Donny Darko were genuinely depressing because of their disturbed world veiws, sad stories, twisted characters, etc.
 
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