Film Most Depressing Movies?

[razorexic]

lilya 4-ever

 

[FungousSneeze]

Elephant
Gummo
Paranoid Park
L.I.E.
Julien Donkey Boy
One Hour Photo

 

[Hannah Capps]

Requiem for a dream and spun

 

[NullVoidXIII]

The Fountain (2006).
It's simultaneously the most beautiful and the most depressing movie I've ever seen.

 

[TenFiftySix]

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)

Both movies had me holding back tears. They are also both incredible films. I think 'Dancer' is the saddest movie I've ever seen and it's also one of my favourite movies ever.

 

[paranoid android]

The mist. That ending is brutal

 

[thujone]

12 monkeys
25th hour
se7en

 

[paranoid android]

7 is fuckin up there to for sure

 

[ions]

the nut job had me tearing up.

 

[Robi]

Boy in the stripped pajamas

 

[arrall]

Grave of the Fireflies

Requiem for a dream

Both of those are on my list.
As well as:

Shutter Island
Butterfly Effect

 

[Cream Gravy?]

Shutter Island

Shutter Island is mad decent. Really reminds me of work to be honest. Mental patients are something else.

Can’t speak for the other film.

 

[chippermonk]

"Match Point". Who knew Woody Allen could try and succeed so well at making such a horribly depressing film where the bad guy completely wins in the end? Well made though.
"No Country For Old Men" was sure dark, but it did have the redeeming qualities of a great cast, great script, great direction. ¡Javier Bardem!

 

[NullVoidXIII]

Christine (2016).
About the life and passing of 1970's news reporter Christine Chubbuck, the first person who ever killed themselves on live television. It's incredibly depressing.

 

[Deleted member 578389]

'shame' (2011) is pretty dark

 

[Robi]

Art of racing in the rain

 

[bvc]

Art of racing in the rain

Did you like the movie?

 

[SeekingOblivion]

lilya 4-ever

This was really sad, I think if it sometimes. It resonated with me very much.

 

[Chaurus]

Blow makes me cry without fail at the end because I can relate to being separated from your child.


What really depresses me though is bad movies you think will be good. Mad Max Fury Road was one of the biggest disappointments of my life. I was going to go to the cinema to see that and I'm so glad I didn't.

Yes. It completely lacks the freshness and social commentary the first movie has.

I like Alex van Warmerdam movies, especially Grimm. It's completely based on the fairy tales of Grimm but set in (then) contemporary The Netherlands and Spain.

It's not that depressing, but Alex van Warmerdam chops people and our pretentions about our noble motives completely to firewood.

And that can be bleak indeed.

 

[Robi]

Art of racing in the rain

Loved the book ,liked the movie