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In this thread let's post your best movies that are depressing as gently caress. A lot of these were mentioned in the PYF scary or unnerving article or Wikipedia thread but I thought it might be able to stand on it's own. Here's a few to get started. This one is a very different perspective on WWII. It's from a child's perspective just as the war ends and they discover that everything they were raised to believe were lies. Lore  Wanna know what it would have been like in America if we really did have WWIII? The Day After  Here's an animated one about an elderly couple dealing with the fallout if a nuclear war in Britain. When The Wind Blows  This is another British film about World War III, and the horrors of the post-apocalyptic society that follows. Threads  And the most upsetting and sad film I've ever seen. It's a Russian film about what the Nazis did and holy poo poo, is it depressing.  Come And See
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Can't agree enough about When The Wind Blows, I can't even watch it/read it any more. Fairly well known French film... I watched it knowing nothing about it other than the fact that it's a harrowing watch, it's equal parts depressing and shocking, I'd say.
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Apr 19, 2015 18:06
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The Piano Teacher
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Apr 19, 2015 18:24
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Shake Hands With The Devil, the true story of the UN General who was ordered not to intervene during the Rwandan genocide.
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Apr 19, 2015 18:35
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Polisse, a based-on-reality film about the Child Protection Unit of the Paris Police. Do I really need to say more? This is incidentally the only movie besides Come and see that I almost couldn't watch till the end. With Polisse I lasted 30 minutes before I had to take a ten minute break just to gather my thoughts. Anyone who has seen Come and see can pretty easily guess where I had to take a break in that film... The Magdalene Sisters. Based on real events (see the pattern here?) in the Irish Magdalene "asylums" for "fallen" girls. A former inmate told that reality was actually worse than depicted in the film. After seeing these films, "fantasy-based" horror like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Excorsist just don't do it for me. They're pretty frightening for sure, but films based on real events just touch me in places I never thought a movie could reach. Just the thought that this kind of stuff really happened or is still going on is crushing. Also seconding Threads. It starts a little slow for a reason, so give it time. The film has one the best endings I've ever seen.
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Apr 19, 2015 19:03
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Croatoan posted:
This movie is excellent. My short list is currently:  I'm not even sure how to describe Noi And my all time "oh poo poo that's sad" is 
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Apr 19, 2015 19:44
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Phineus posted:This movie is excellent. Well, don't tell us about them or anything, we might actually get interested in the films if you gave us more than 'the name' and 'a poster.'
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Apr 19, 2015 19:54
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'Open Water' is one of the best feel-bad films I've seen (again, it's based on real events).  The rather similar-sounding 'Deep Water' is a film-length documentary about Donald Crowhurst, a British amateur yachtsman who entered a round-the-world race in his prototype catamaran, Teignmouth Electron:  If you've never heard of Crowhurst, just get this and watch it, without doing any online research...if you're prepared to be haunted forever. Colin Firth is set to star in a movie version of this, but I can't see how it can outdo the impact of the original tale, which unfolds like something Joseph Conrad might have written in an especially pitiless mood.
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Apr 19, 2015 20:05
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 Just finished watching this and it's not the most brutal horror film of all time or anything but it felt so god drat plausible, it's kind of like British Deliverance meets Lord of the Flies. Every Guardian reader's secret nightmare.
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Apr 19, 2015 21:19
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 Nothing more depressing than watching 2 Japanese children struggle and eventually die after their home town is firebombed during WWII.
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Apr 19, 2015 21:34
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 This is a film for purging tears from your body.
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Apr 19, 2015 21:44
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Waltz With Bashir is about a traumatized Israeli Lebanon war vet who slowly remembers his involvement in the Sabra and Shatila massacre. Most of the characters are real people and the interviews with them did happen so in a way, it's a documentary that happens to be animated. The ending was so intense that by the time the credits rolled, I could barely breathe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOzWlCKqgeI
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Apr 19, 2015 22:49
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Almost all of the 5th Generation Chinese Movies are depressing as gently caress. Basically gently caress the cultural revolution / Chinese mid 20th century history. Farewell my Concubine Never want to hear that loving shrieking instrument again. Nauseating movie. The Blue Kite. Just leaves you feeling numb. To Live. Weird because of it's relentless optimistic tone in light of supremely hosed up poo poo.
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Apr 20, 2015 00:09
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Das Boot. That ending is just a god-drat sucker punch of depression. Also, The Boy In The Striped Pajamas is precision made to remove tears from you. Gyro Zeppeli has a new favorite as of 00:51 on Apr 20, 2015 |
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Apr 20, 2015 00:49
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Dogville is I think the most depressing of Lars Von Trier's movies, basically about a woman who is held hostage in a small town where everyone is complicit in her captivity and the abuse she suffers.
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Apr 20, 2015 01:39
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 Which is super obvious and  Which might not be the scariest horror movie, but it's certainly the most depressing
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Apr 20, 2015 01:46
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Probably not as bad as some of the ones posted here, but my mother is convinced that Benny and Joon is funny and not incredibly depressing. I dunno, maybe it's just me.
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Apr 20, 2015 02:03
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 This movie just bums the hell out of me.  Too trippy to be taken very seriously but still enough of a drain to make the list.
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Apr 20, 2015 02:08
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GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:Dogville is I think the most depressing of Lars Von Trier's movies, basically about a woman who is held hostage in a small town where everyone is complicit in her captivity and the abuse she suffers. This and the sort-of-sequel Manderlay, holy poo poo. Just a parade of awful in incredibly well done movies.
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Apr 20, 2015 03:35
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Happiness. A film where a 12 year old boy masturbating on the balcony of a hotel room over a sunbathing woman and coming in to tell his mother and aunts that he came is the 'uplifting' ending. BrigadierSensible has a new favorite as of 03:43 on Apr 20, 2015 |
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Apr 20, 2015 03:41
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Edward Scissorhands is just sad.
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Apr 20, 2015 03:43
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BrigadierSensible posted:Happiness. You could say it was a happy ending.
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Apr 20, 2015 03:49
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Frostwerks posted:You could say it was a happy ending. Happier than the one his father gave his friend on a 'playdate'.
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Apr 20, 2015 03:56
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After reading the wikipedia articles for just a few of these movies, I think I'm going to get drunk and watch The Yellow Submarine.
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Apr 20, 2015 05:42
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 wikipedia posted:Frozen Land (Finnish: Paha maa) is a 2005 Finnish drama film (...) When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in turn, buys a CD player from a pawnshop with counterfeit money. This starts a chain reaction of misery as every victim projects his problems on to another person. Literally nothing good happens to any of the characters in this movie. I made the mistake of getting drunk and watching this film after getting dumped by my gf and it hosed me up for weeks.
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Apr 20, 2015 05:53
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Irréversible Roger Ebert posted:"Irréversible" is a movie so violent and cruel that most people will find it unwatchable. https://web.archive.org/web/20100329102315/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030314/REVIEWS/303140303/1023 Cuntellectual has a new favorite as of 06:45 on Apr 20, 2015 |
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Apr 20, 2015 06:41
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Aside from most of the OP these are my favorite depressing movies quote:Amoral teen Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick) has made it his goal to sleep with as many virgin girls as possible -- but he doesn't tell them that he's HIV positive. While on the hunt for his latest conquest, Telly and his best friend, Casper (Justin Pierce), smoke pot and steal from shops around New York.  quote:The film outlines the daily lives of two punks in Salt Lake City, Utah in the fall of 1985: Stevo and his best friend, "Heroin" Bob; Stevo narrates the film. The nickname "Heroin" is ironic, as Bob is afraid of needles and actually believes that any drug (with the notable exception of alcohol and cigarettes) is inherently dangerous.
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Apr 20, 2015 06:42
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Anatharon posted:Irréversible This movie hosed me up for awhile and I'll probably not watch it again. The 12 minute rape scene and the fire extinguisher, christ.
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Apr 20, 2015 06:51
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Anatharon posted:Irréversible I found Irreversible unwatchable, but not because of the content. The constantly moving camera gave me motion sickness (and supposedly the first half hour or so plays a subaudible sound intended to induce nausea).
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Apr 20, 2015 07:02
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seven pounds was pretty depressing in its manipulative way
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Apr 20, 2015 07:16
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I think The Road would be on the top of my list. After that, I'd probably pick some war movies like Fury or Black Hawk Down - they do have somewhat happy endings but the events before that are always pretty depressing.
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Apr 20, 2015 07:41
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Lilya 4-Ever is about an Estonian girl that becomes a victim of the sex trade and is probably the most depressing movie I've seen that hasn't already been mentioned, really bleak and realistic but also very well-executed. Although I haven't seen a lot of the movies on this list, it seems to be pretty appropriate for this thread and I use this website quite often when looking for movies that fit some specific category: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2014/20-great-soul-crushing-films-that-are-worth-your-time/ e: Just thought of a pretty recent example, "Prisoners" with Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal, about the disappearance of two young girls and the extremes their fathers go to to get them back. Not quite as soul-crushing as most of the movies already mentioned and iirc it has a somewhat happy ending but there are some pretty heavy and disturbing moments throughout the movie. Chthon has a new favorite as of 09:00 on Apr 20, 2015 |
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Apr 20, 2015 08:51
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I just remembered 'A Certain Kind of Death' – a documentary film about what happens when someone dies without any next of kin, which may well have already cropped up on 'scary/unnerving' threads, so apologies if it's been done to -- erm, death. It's still one of the best documentaries I've seen and it turns out it's now on Youtube. Fairly obvious warning: it contains images of the decomposing bodies of real people, starting about 40 seconds in, when the camera flips straight from a man's 3-weeks-dead foot to show his whole body, slumped on the toilet. Less obvious warning: those images are not the thing that will stick most in your mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErooOhzE268
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Apr 20, 2015 11:07
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 A great movie I never want to watch again
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Apr 20, 2015 12:07
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I always thought Countdown to Looking Glass was a harrowing and humbling movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knSSUEdLcvg The intro explains the premise of the film far better than I could. Essentially, a nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. What makes this movie so brilliant (if you can suspend some of your belief of the White House forcing banks to stop all transactions) is the slow, eventual tension and escalation of conflict until... 
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Apr 20, 2015 12:13
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If you want to feel bummed Brazil always does it for me. Not only is it a movie where the "happy" ending is the main character going insane due to torture, it was frighteningly correct about what SWAT teams would look like today, 30 years after it was made. Just make sure you watch the real version. There's a version out there where they cut out important parts at the end to make the ending nonsensically happy, completely subverting the intended message.
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Apr 20, 2015 13:55
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Never Let Me Go is pretty bleak about mortality.
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Apr 20, 2015 14:09
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me is exhausting. It shows you that the town of Twin Peaks isn't actually charming or funny, its rotten to the core. I hate the world and everyone in it after I watch this movie. I Saw the Devil will also make you lose faith in humanity. Don't watch it thinking youre going to get any "gently caress yea!", typical revenge flick moments. It builds up those expectations and then shits all over them. Basebf555 has a new favorite as of 16:42 on Apr 20, 2015 |
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Apr 20, 2015 16:39
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Stroszek, one of my all time favourite films. Watch this scene to get an idea - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmOZrAazd5c
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 It took me a few tries to finish Crazy Heart. Really profoundly sad story about alcoholism and what it does to people. Depressing as gently caress movie
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