Reel Bummers: Movies that Depressed the Hell Out of You?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

[Faux pas]

1. Cold Mountain

[Floyd R. Turbo]

3. Oh man! 😢

[Cracklin Charlie]

34. Dont read the book.

Just a warning.

[shenmue]

148. Gallipoli

[Faux pas]

165. Thank you

the movie was plenty!

[pdxflyboy]

2. Magnolia (1999)

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. Yep! 😢

[longship]

94. Plus, it was a horrible movie anyway.

Raining frogs? Really?????

It's a terrible movie. Absolutely terrible!

[RobinA]

217. Thank You!

God awful. And loud. I was wishing I had some of the morphine or whatever Julianne Moore was looking for so I could put myself out of my misery.

[Girard442]

5. Missing.

Jack Lemon & Sissy Spacek.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. Good flick! 😢

[catbyte]

7. 'night, Mother

Sissy Spacek & Anne Bancroft, 1986. From imdb:

Summaries

What would you do if someone you loved sat down with you one night and calmly told you that they were going to end their life before morning? This is Thelma Cates' dilemma. Her daughter, Jessie, has had it. A middle-aged epileptic unable to hold a job or drive with a failed marriage and a drug-addicted runaway son on the wrong side of the law, Jessie can find no reason to go on living. Adapted from the play by Marsha Norman, "'night, Mother" is the story of a parent's worst nightmare. How can Thelma convince her daughter that life is worth living if she can't feel her pain? How can she end her daughter's embrace of death before morning?
—Mark Fleetwood /Reid Taylor

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090556/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl
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I was depressed for a week after watching this. Awful, wrenching.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

10. Wow! 😢

[samnsara]

76. very disturbing movie

[catbyte]

83. I remember somebody interviewing Sissy Spacek & she was saying how awful & draining

that shoot was. She said her she jumped at the offer to act in "Crimes of the Heart" because it was a 180 departure from the grim "'night, Mother" script.

[LiberalLoner]

230. One of my all time favorite movies.

For the first time I felt a movie really understood suicidal ideation.

It’s not about being “crazy” per se and it’s not about trying to get attention - sometimes you just get soul weary and want to get the hell off the bus.

[samnsara]

8. death wish

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. On so many levels! 😢

[lunasun]

9. Pixote

[Floyd R. Turbo]

14. Just the description bums me out! 😢

[lunasun]

20. You asked! Saw it over 30 yrs ago still bummed & not made in Hollywood . Real on the streets

It was up for a lot of awards including oscar best actress but more explained here
http://www.altfg.com/film/marilia-pera/

In real, real life the star was killed by police @19
He was reported to have been resisting arrest following an assault when shot.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

21. Thanks! Im going to try to find it!

[lunasun]

32. Well there are a couple of scenes at the bottom of that link . Watch and decide if you want to go on

Not recd for everyone...

[Floyd R. Turbo]

48. Thanks!

[Canoe52]

74. Just reading the plot synopsis is as far as I want to go, thanks for the warning!

[lunasun]

78. It's a bummer but got a lot of critical acclaim its not like a cheap horror flick but horrors abound

Wiki
Film critic Roger Ebert, who wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times, considers the film a classic, and wrote, "Pixote stands alone in Babenco's work, a rough, unblinking look at lives no human being should be required to lead. And the eyes of Fernando Ramos da Silva, his doomed young actor, regard us from the screen not in hurt, not in accusation, not in regret -- but simply in acceptance of a desolate daily reality."[2]

Critic Pauline Kael was impressed by its raw, documentary-like quality, and a certain poetic realism. She wrote, "Babenco's imagery is realistic, but his point of view is shockingly lyrical. South American writers, such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, seem to be in perfect, poetic control of madness, and Babenco has some of this gift, too. South American artists have to have it, in order to express the texture of everyday insanity."[3]

The New York Times film critic, Vincent Canby, liked the neo-realist acting and direction of the drama, and wrote, "[Pixote], the third feature film by the Argentine-born Brazilian director Hector Babenco, is a finely made, uncompromisingly grim movie about the street boys of São Paulo, in particular about Pixote - which, according to the program, translates roughly as Peewee...The performances are almost too good to be true, but Mr. Da Silva and Miss Pera are splendid. Pixote is not for the weak of stomach. A lot of the details are tough to take, but it is neither exploitative nor pretentious. Mr. Babenco shows us rock-bottom, and because he is an artist, he makes us believe it as well all of the possibilities that have been lost."[4]

The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 100% of critics gave the film a positive review, based on nine reviews, none of which include the reviews of the previously mentioned three critics.[5]

Filmmakers Spike Lee, Samuel van der Lande, Daisuke Lieberman, and Harmony Korine have cited it as being among their favorite films.[6]

[unc70]

12. On the Beach

Waltzing Mathilda haunts me to this day.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

15. Indeed! 😢

[Paladin]

19. Well done, but it is a serious downer movie. (nt)

[mainer]

222. It ruined my childhood.

I was depressed for years, thinking that the world would actually end that way. And yes, Waltzing Matilda still makes me want to cry.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. The Pawnbroker.

It's an old movie (1965), starring Rod Steiger and directed by Sidney Lumet. I saw it when I was in college and was bummed out for days. It's a very good film, but very, very heavy. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_pawnbroker/

[Floyd R. Turbo]

16. Great movie! 😢 Steiger shouldve gotten the Oscar!

[lunasun]

22. Agree & great actor . He got one for Heat of the Night few years later

[Floyd R. Turbo]

23. Yep! Great talent. He was brilliant in The Loved One.

[MFM008]

42. My dad loved this movie

Mine is Cyrano de Bergerac.
And the Ghost and Mrs. Muir.

[dhol82]

203. Great movie!

Had to leave about half way through. Could not deal with emotions.
My parents had been in a slave labor camp in Germany and I was born in a DP camp.
It was just too much at that time. I could deal with it better now.

[sharp_stick]

17. Dancer In The Dark

I think you could generalize and say pretty much anything by Lars Von Trier but this one had me shaken for days.



I agree with They Shoot Horses Don't They as well. I saw that on TV when I was a teenager and I didn't expect it to be anywhere near as hard hitting as it was.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

18. Yes!😢

[Trailrider1951]

24. Sophie's Choice

Meryl Streep's performance was superlative, but I could only watch it once...

[Floyd R. Turbo]

25. Same here! 😢

[CatMor]

33. I agree with you...

I couldn't imagine being in that situation. The movie haunted me for a long time.

[Guilded Lilly]

153. It still haunts me. I read the book, so I was prepared. But the visuals wounded me for life.

[CTyankee]

132. Yeah, that last scene with quoting Emily Dickinson's poem "Ample make this bed" just made

me horribly sad. Great acting. But it broke my heart...

[OregonBlue]

179. Mee too. Read it and saw the movie and it was one of the saddest things I ever read. Left a huge

impression on me. I still use it when someone is in a total lose/lose position as having a "Sophie's Choice".

[zipplewrath]

26. Schindler's List

I've actually watched it twice because I missed stuff the first time I was so horrified.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

28. Absolutely! 😢

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

157. Well here's another downer

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1994-02-06/news/9402060244_1_emilie-schindler-oskar-schindler-film-schindler-list

From a 1994 article:

"Yet to Emilie Schindler, living alone in Argentina where Oskar Schindler left her after 29 years of marriage, such behavior yields to less flattering interpretations.

''He was a hero to the Jews,'' Emilie Schindler says. ''Not to me.''

A stooped, slight woman with fine white hair and sharp blue eyes, Emilie Schindler first disclosed her bitterness last summer to the Buenos Aires newspaper Pagina/12."

[zipplewrath]

161. He was no saint

The movie makes that pretty clear. To some extent he seems to be an "instrument" of some larger force, barely aware of what he's doing or why.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

158. I took a "first date" to that movie years ago.

Probably a bad movie idea for a first date, I admit.

The movie was depressing (but well done), but the more depressing aspect was that we walked out of the theater and she wondered why anyone wrote such a terrible story. It soon became clear that she thought it was totally fictional, so I told her that it was based on REAL events that happened in Germany during WW2.

She knew NOTHING about the Nazis or the Holocaust.

At least she was basically a decent person, crying actual tears about anything of that nature ever happening. I later discovered that she was mostly home-schooled by Christian evangelical parents.

She declined a second date.

[zipplewrath]

160. George Washington

Went to a Washington exhibit once. Went with some friends, one of whom had a new boyfriend. We get about 2/3 rds of the way through the exhibit when the new boyfriend says; "Was Washington a General or something?". Apparently Washington was "that guy on the dollar bill" to this guy. The relationship didn't last long.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

162. Amazing, isn't it?

I used to work in a factory where a Turkish immigrant was studying for her citizenship test. I looked through the booklet and expressed my surprise that the test questions were so easy. (I didn't know how many representatives were in Congress, though, so that's a question that I could've answered wrong.)

A Vietnamese-American (who took the test years earlier) said that many USA-born people couldn't answer most of the questions, and he pointed out a group of three women in the factory who he knew couldn't answer even the easiest questions.

I was skeptical of his assessment, but he was proven correct. I asked them (during lunch break) some of the easier questions, such as the number of stars on the flag. They didn't know. So I eventually "dumbed it down" even more with questions not listed. I asked who was the first President of the USA. They didn't know that either. I then provided a clue that his portrait is on the one-dollar bill, and his surname is under it. They still didn't know. One of them then said with an annoyed voice, "We're not in school anymore!"

I assume (and HOPE) that experience was highly unusual! It's not like it was a place that required a highly educated workforce, but it still shocked me.

[zipplewrath]

163. Unfortunately no

History, and government in general, is a subject that most folks willfully forget as soon as they leave school.
If you want to depress yourself go look at the Mindset List from Benoit College. There is so much they don't know, and will never know.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

164. Yeah, that's sad too.

The women who didn't know that George Washington was the first President of the USA were all baby-boomers, though. (All older than me, and I'm one of the earliest "members" of Generation X.)

[ailsagirl]

224. I once had an office mate who thought...

the Holocaust took place in WWI
Schindler's List was an exploitative (and FICTIONAL) movie
we've already had WWIII

I tried to enlighten her but I don't think she was convinced. She was intelligent enough but woefully unaware of world history, to say the least

[mucifer]

216. Yeah that movie made me physically ill. I got a really bad headache.

[TheDebbieDee]

27. Open Water...

[Floyd R. Turbo]

29. Can you imagine? 😢

[Nay]

208. OMG, yes. Such an unbelievable downer.

[TheDebbieDee]

209. It's a movie you'll only watch ONCE!

It was based on a true story of a couple not discovered to have been abandoned/stranded until a week or 10 days after they were left...

[Nay]

219. Yes, it was a true story. The boat captain who left them behind was never punished

in any way, IIRC.

Absolutely frightening.

[MuseRider]

30. The Road

I read the book too, a real sucker for punishment. The movie was well done I thought but depressing as hell. The book worse. *sigh*

[Cracklin Charlie]

37. The worst.

I didn’t see the movie, but that book made me want to lie down under a tree and give up.

Yuck

[MuseRider]

41. Yup.

The movie personalized it even more. I saw the movie first so when I read the book I already had the characters in my head. There was something about it that made me finish it. It did make giving up seem like a good idea.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

49. Saw it! 😢

[MuseRider]

58. :-) :-(

[KY_EnviroGuy]

31. Town Without Pity.

In the 60s at the drive-in.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

51. Yep! 😢

[Cracklin Charlie]

35. The Deer Hunter.

I had to leave the theatre.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

53. Great flick! 😢

[LonePirate]

36. Requiem for a Dream

[mr_lebowski]

43. JINX!

That movie is f***ing devastating, man ...

[livetohike]

52. Yes. I will never watch it again. Most devastating movie

of my 65 years

[LonePirate]

111. I only watched it once and I will never watch it again. It is simply life crushing.

Devastating is too kind of a description for it. It is well-made but the emotional, mental and visual toll it takes on the viewer is overwhelming to say the least.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

56. One of the best/worst! 😢

[mr_lebowski]

38. Requiem for a Dream ... also, Leaving Las Vegas (n/t)

[Floyd R. Turbo]

57. Yes! LLV was harsh! 😢

[revmclaren]

39. Seven.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

61. Brutal! 😢

[Proud Liberal Dem]

137. OMFG Yes!

I thought it was more or less going to be a standard police detective/buddy cop murder mystery and that they would eventually catch the bad guy committing the grisly crimes. I had *no idea* that it was going to end the way it ended. Absolutely shocking and depressing. Never want to see it ever again, either.

Cape Fear (Remake) was kind of depressing too with the absolute wringer that Cady (played by a seriously disturbed Robert DeNiro) puts the Bowden family through but it's still one of my favorite horror/psychological thrillers. Since that movie, I have struggled to picture DeNiro as anybody but "Max Cady".

[alittlelark]

40. Million Dollar Baby

[Floyd R. Turbo]

63. Man o man! 😢

[Bayard]

95. Yes

Totally

[lunasun]

145. The person I went with asked me " why did you want to ruin my day? " although we both agreed

it was a good movie

[50 Shades Of Blue]

44. Atonement

[Floyd R. Turbo]

69. Indeed! 😢

[CTyankee]

200. that movie killed me. It was beautifully done but a sad tale indeed.

Actually a funny story: I was watching it with a friend, and when the love scene in the library was going on, she whispered to me "Those Brits will do it anywhere!"

But I was so moved that the film that I got book it was based on and read it. Sad tale all around. Vanessa Redgrave was fabulous and the scene of the hero of the movie dying at Dunkirk just killed me...

[50 Shades Of Blue]

211. Yes, just a tragedy all around. Few movies have made me sob uncontrollably afterward

but that one did. I literally had to run out of the theater.

[The_Casual_Observer]

45. Seconds, Rosemary's Baby

[Floyd R. Turbo]

70. 😢On both counts!

[Va Lefty]

46. "The World According to Garp"

Underrated movie with some very funny parts, but second half very dark

[Floyd R. Turbo]

71. Agree! 😢

[cannabis_flower]

81. Oh Man

It was billed as a comedy and I was depressed and my husband and I went to cheer me up.

[jalan48]

47. 21 Grams was gritty.

[Beaverhausen]

54. That nearly did me in

[jalan48]

93. It was the first time I'd seen Naomi Watts-she was great.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

73. Really was! 😢

[Doc_Technical]

50. Grave of the Fireflies

Ace in the Hole

Our Town

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Shoah

[Floyd R. Turbo]

77. 😢On all!

[bettyellen]

55. Into the Wild.... loved it but yeah, that was some heavy shit.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

89. True! 😢

[bettyellen]

99. Really good adaptation of the book, I thought.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

100. Didnt read the book!

[bettyellen]

104. Its Jon Krakhauer (sp?) the guy who wrote about that awfulEverest

expedition- which he has deep regrets about to this day. Also a great book about the polygamous Mormon sects intertwined w a murder trial. I think he also did one about Pat Tillman. He’s a compelling writer. He also appeared in an HBO doc about the polygamous Mormon community. Fascinating stuff.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

106. Thanks!

[bettyellen]

107. Youre very welcome Floyd!

[FSogol]

169. He got his start writing articles for Climbing Magazine and Outside. Great writer. n/t

[bettyellen]

171. Yeah. He feels awful he had any part in the whole commercialization of Everest because of what it

led to. Said it’s his biggest regret and the source of a lot of pain.

[lapfog_1]

59. Looking for Mr. Goodbar

I had to leave during the last scene.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

91. I think a lot of people did! 😢

[lunasun]

146. I worked near the bar in Chicago it was filmed at . Inspired by a true story

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseann_Quinn

[ailsagirl]

184. What was the point of that movie???

Don't pick up people in bars and bring them home??

[TexasBushwhacker]

225. I think it was a cautionary tale

that the sexual revolution had some casualties.

[ailsagirl]

234. I suppose so

I recall my sister saying she went home and threw up after seeing it-- stayed vivid in my memory!

[DBoon]

60. went to an Icelandic film festival

saw this:

ANGELS OF THE UNIVERSE (ENGLAR ALHEIMSINS), 1999, 97 min. Dir. Fridrik Thor Fridriksson. Based on the award-winning novel by Einar Már Gudmundsson (who wrote CHILDREN OF NATURE), Fridriksson’s newest film is a luminous, unearthly portrait of a talented schizophrenic (brilliantly played by Ingvar Sigurdsson) who has been institutionalized his entire life. Together with his inmates Oli the missing Beatle (Baltasar Kormákur) and Viktor the sometimes Hitler (Björn Jörundur), the outcasts try to come to grips with a world that neither knows nor wants them.

Incredibly depressing.

When we see a real downer of a movie now, we say "The only thing that would make that movie more depressing would be dubbing it in Icelandic"

[Floyd R. Turbo]

98. Wow! 😢

[Starseer]

62. Threads.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

101. Yes! 😢

[rsdsharp]

64. What Dreams May Come

My wife and I saw it after we had to put our dog down. We knew nothing about it, but thought a Robins Williams movie would cheer us up. We left the theater just short of suicidal.

[mahina]

67. I thought it was excellent at the time and watched it again recently.

It’s much darker than I had recalled. Brilliant, though. Don’t think I’ll ever watch it again.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

102. Know what you mean! 😢

[Proud Liberal Dem]

65. Got a few

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1. Transformers The Movie (1986)- Deaths of so many major characters
2. The Neverending Story (1984)- Fantasia was almost completely destroyed, though it had a tacked on "happy ending"
3. Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (2017)- Great movie but had quite the bittersweet ending (esp. with the real-life loss of Carrie Fisher). I'm still sort of processing through it all.
4. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)- Destruction of the Jedi Order, Anakin's fall

Probably can think of a few more but this is all I can think of off the top of my head.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

105. Agree on all! 😢

[mahina]

66. Incendies

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1255953/

Damn.

It is a great film though.

[Upthevibe]

68. Here's my list of movies that scarred me and that I would NEVER watch again:

The House of Sand and Fog (I just saw this in the past few months and had NO idea what I was getting myself into - I was at a friend's and it just came on cable), Sophie's Choice (of course), Manchester by the Sea, Requiem for a Dream, The Deerhunter, The Pianist, Precious, and I'm sure there are more but these are what immediately come to mind....

[Floyd R. Turbo]

108. Now Im intrigued!

[hurl]

72. Brazil

Odd combination of funny and depressing

[Floyd R. Turbo]

109. Yes it is! 🎭

[hunter]

196. One of my favorite movies.

The world we live in now is more like Brazil than Orwell's 1984.

I first saw Brazil in an old fashioned Art Deco theater.

The crowd was sparse and included many senior citizens, maybe from an assisted living place.

One old guy was so upset at the end of the movie he climbed up on the stage and gave it a standing double middle finger salute.

I saw 1984 in the same theater. People were walking out. By the end of the movie I was the only one left. That was a depressing movie.

[hurl]

198. Awesome!

I love Art Deco buildings. Yeah, the studio refused to release the movie for a while because Terry Gilliam wouldn't change the ending.

[JDC]

75. Blue Jasmine

[Floyd R. Turbo]

113. Oh man! 😢

[catbyte]

80. Leaving Las Vegas, The Road, Sophie's Choice

Ugh, I think I'll go watch Pee Wee's Big Adventure as an antidote to this thread!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

114. Yes! Yes! Yes! 😢

Good idea!

[LiberalLoner]

231. Leaving Las Vegas....loved that one. Grew up around alcoholism, felt it was so accurate.

[Wwcd]

82. "All is Lost" / Robert Redford

Great writing & acting but with Redford as the sole cast, I wanted a better more hopeful ending.

This really left me wishing I hadn't watched it at all.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

115. Know what you mean! 😢

[Wwcd]

121. A movie that amplified the emotions of hope to hopelessness, & despair

And then it ended. That's it.

[lpbk2713]

84. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

The entire film is rather depressing but I still watch it often.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

116. Havent seen it in years! 😢

[Canoe52]

85. The Virgin Spring by Ingmar Bergman

Friends decided to cheer me up right after my girlfriend had dumped me and took me to see this.

I’d had never heard of it before, twice as bummed, as I was before, after seeing it.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

118. Yikes! 😢

[skylucy]

218. I posted my answer (The Virgin Spring) further down, and then read the list

of answers and saw yours was the same. Such a disturbing film...I actually wish I hadn't watched it.

[3catwoman3]

86. I tend to eschew "downer" movies.

I work in health care - nurse practitioner in a pediatric office. Overall, it is a pretty happy place, as most of our patients are generally healthy. Nonetheless, it can be a stressful place because parents bring their kids to us because they are worried/anxious about something - what if that lymph node is cancer/ what if that headache is a brain tumor/ what if that sore neck is meningitis/ what if that rash is Lyme disease? All the parents reading this will understand what our parental imaginations can do to us, with little to no provocation sometimes.

Anyway, I spend all day doing whatever I can to make people fell better. The last thing I want to do when I am not working is watch something that makes me feel crappy.

Accordingly, I've not seen most of the movies listed above. Saw and detested The Deer Hunter. Also couldn't stand Terms of Endearment.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

120. Understandable!

[Bradshaw3]

87. Meet Joe Black

I know it was about death but it was relentless and manipulative in its method and a waste of talent like Anthony Hopkins. Just went on and on. Can't believe they still show it on cable.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

122. Yep! 😢

[cannabis_flower]

88. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

[Binkie The Clown]

92. That would be my answer too. nt

[Floyd R. Turbo]

125. Brutal! 😢

[smirkymonkey]

212. That was a hard one to watch.

So tragic. Every holocaust film is difficult and heartbreaking.

[First Speaker]

90. Requiem for a Heavyweight

[Floyd R. Turbo]

126. Yes, but still a favorite. Brilliant writing, casting, directing, and acting!

[catbyte]

96. One last one: "Farewell, My Concubine" I saw it in 1996 & the thought of it still depresses me.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

127. Yes! 😢

[IADEMO2004]

97. Saving Private Ryan

[Floyd R. Turbo]

129. It is! 😢

[Runningdawg]

103. The Wrestler - Mickey Rourke

[Floyd R. Turbo]

130. God yes! 😢

[Proud Liberal Dem]

110. It wasn't a bad movie/documentary or anything

but I couldn't watch Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 after the 2004 election, knowing that, despite everything documented/discussed in the film, W won (re-)election.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

131. I gave my copy to the library!

[LonePirate]

112. Brokeback Mountain

I saw it in a packed theater and there were numerous loud sobs during those final minutes. That movie might even make Mike Pence cry.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

133. Pence would cry for a reason other than the rest!

[Canoe52]

220. Pence would cry because he was secretly jealous!

[Adsos Letter]

117. Bless the Beasts and the Children

[Floyd R. Turbo]

168. Havent seen it in forty plus years! 😢

[dlwickham]

119. The Last Picture Show

I saw it in college and me and my friends walked home in the rain. I don't think we noticed that it was raining.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

170. Yes! 😢

[NewJeffCT]

123. DU is slipping - Fahrenheit 9/11

Nobody has said that one yet.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

134. I did

at 4:26 pm

[NewJeffCT]

140. You did

but, until a few years ago, F9/11 would have been posted as a response in the first 10-15 minutes.

[Bucky]

124. China Syndrome: my 1st unhappy ending movie

I remember as a kid staring at the end credits thinking, "What the hell? They didn't even arrest the bad guys!"

[Floyd R. Turbo]

172. A welcome to reality! 😢

[Onyrleft]

128. The movie "My Girl" lopes along like light family fare;

then ugghh.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

135. That reminds me:

Bridge to Terabithia. I had never read the book or knew about the brutal twist at the end. *ugh*

[Floyd R. Turbo]

173. Yep! 😢

[Proud Liberal Dem]

136. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

and I don't think that I have any desire to watch it ever again.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

176. Welcome to the club! 😢

[hurl]

138. Eraserhead

Depressing if you can get past the total confusion.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

142. It was so weird that I got creeped out before I could become depressed.

[hurl]

144. Good point.

The creep factor dominates this one.

[IcyPeas]

139. Angela's Ashes and Breaking the Waves

both star Emily Watson.

[NewJeffCT]

141. The Killing Fields

Really left me drained after I saw it. Great movie, but I haven't been able to watch it since I saw it in the theater. (Come to think of it, I never really see it on those non premium cable movie channels TNT, TBS, AMC, etc.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

143. That's another one. It's a terrific film but really horrifying.

[MaryMagdaline]

147. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Never actually finished watching it

[MsBeckee75]

215. Never saw the movie...

However, my mother bought the book for me when I was probably 10-12 years old. It was the only book she ever specifically picked out and said, "Here, you have to read this." I remember it being quite sad! I've thought of looking for it to read as adult and see if my impressions are different.

[Aristus]

149. "Idiocracy".

It was billed as a comedy. But I was depressed for days after watching it.

It left me utterly hopeless, especially because it seemed (in 2006, and even more today) that it was happening now, not five hundred years in the future.

I may give it another look someday. I really admire Terry Crews. And fans of the film point out the hopefulness of the film to me. The idea that as stupid as everyone was in the future, they knew, deep down, that this wasn't how things were supposed to be, and wanted someone with intelligence to fix it.

[lunatica]

174. It came out way before Bush was selected

It was funny then. Now? Not so much.

[Aristus]

175. It was released (if you could call it that. Something like 16 theaters for a week or so) in 2006.

Still two years of GWB to go, and Barack Obama hadn't announced by that point.

[lunatica]

177. Wow! I remember it so differently!

And I watched Bush and was a DUer too!

Thanks for the correction.

[Texasgal]

150. Shindlers list.

I don't think I have ever cried as much with any movie.

[nmgaucho]

151. Raise the Red Lantern

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[milestogo]

152. The Onion Field

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True story of a police officer who was killed and the effect it had on his partner's life. Very sobering and sad.

[ailsagirl]

188. Couldn't bring myself to watch/read it

Very sad

[milestogo]

190. A young Ted Danson plays the cop

and an evil James Woods plays the killer.

There's something about a true story that gives it more impact.

[ailsagirl]

191. Definitely. And James Woods is the perfect stereotypical killer

[milestogo]

195. Yeah, he was great in that role.

Turns out he's really an asshole.

[Chipper Chat]

154. Imitation of Life

Overly melodramatic. But the heartbreaking rejection of her mother by Sarah Jane was gut wrenching. The sexist treatment of aspiring actresses by their agents smacks of present day Harvey weinsteins. The ending with the brass band and horse drawn carriage - so hard to sit thru. Outstanding performance by Lana turner.

[pnwest]

155. Titanic. I was haunted by the 3rd class passengers

locked behind the gate for weeks afterward.

[Skittles]

156. It Comes at Night

great acting, but it seemed to be about people taking drastic measures to live in a world that really doesn't seem to be worth living in

[Buckeye_Democrat]

159. Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

It was actually a TV mini-series, but it depressed me immensely as a kid.

Mystical thinking has always made me sad, and there's far worse results from it throughout history, but that "movie" was one of my earliest exposures to it.

[Steerpike]

166. Pan's Labyrinth

I cried a couple of times...

[Alpeduez21]

167. The Hunger Games - the first one

I mean, what the hell!? Everyone just accepted that situation as normal!!!???

When I was in third grade we read John Henry Had a Hammer. I cried and cried that night in bed.

[redstateblues]

178. Ironweed

[smirkymonkey]

210. Yes, that was a tough one to watch.

I watched it when I was very young, but it really stayed with me. I feel like I should watch it again as an adult, but I don't know if I could handle it.

[BarbaRosa]

180. Frozen (2010)

Trapped after hours on a chairlift.

[Hav]

181. Moon (2009 with Sam Rockwell)

I'd still recommend this very good Sci-Fi movie, but witnessing the decline of the protagonist's health over the duration of the movie, the beautiful and haunting music, the robot's empathy and the realization of the truth just add to a very sad movie. The one scene where the robot, who uses smilies to show feelings, explains the truth to him and changes from displaying a sad smilie to a crying smilie always gets me. Especially the ending made it one of the most depressing movies for me that affected me for many days.

[kairos12]

182. The House of Sand and Fog. Also the book.

[ailsagirl]

183. Easy Rider!!

The ending was most unexpected

[ailsagirl]

185. Ring of Bright Water

Perfectly engaging movie-- until the end. I was so angry after watching it-- I had no idea of what was to come. Definitely felt manipulated.

And it was G-rated, no less. If it upset me, how would a child react??



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Bright_Water_(film)

[mikeargo]

186. Mystic River (2003)

Based on the best seller by Dennis Lehane and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Kevin Bacon. Wish I had read the book first as I was not ready for such a downer.

[Tikki]

187. "Miracle Mile" (1988) and "Melancholia" (2011)

Actually are stories of love found or rediscovered; just too late.

Q: Is love ever too late?


Tikki

[IrishEyes]

189. Watership Down and The Little Mermaid (Not the Disney film)

All I remember is crying during that film. I was a little kid and my mom put in front of the TV to watch what she thought was a simple cartoon while she was working at her desk in the other room. It was awful.

I also had the same thing happen with the Little Mermaid. It was a film made before the Disney version. It was so depressing. My mom was more careful after that when she picked up films at the video store for me.

[ailsagirl]

192. In Cold Blood

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so dismal and depressing I actually threw up afterwards

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061809/

[JonLP24]

193. Make Way for Tomorrow

It is the best old movie I ever saw. Way better than Citizen Kane.

Orson Welles said of Make Way for Tomorrow, "It would make a stone cry,"[2] and rhapsodized about his enthusiasm for the film in his booklength series of interviews with Peter Bogdanovich, This Is Orson Welles. In Newsweek magazine, famed documentary filmmaker Errol Morris named it his #1 film, stating "The most depressing movie ever made, providing reassurance that everything will definitely end badly."[3]

Make Way for Tomorrow also earned good reviews when originally released in Japan, where it was seen by screenwriter Kogo Noda. Years later, it provided an inspiration for the script of Tokyo Story (1953), written by Noda and director Yasujirō Ozu.

Roger Ebert added this film to his "Great Movies" list on February 11, 2010, writing:

"Make Way for Tomorrow" (1937) is a nearly-forgotten American film made in the Depression...The great final arc of "Make Way for Tomorrow" is beautiful and heartbreaking. It's easy to imagine it being sentimentalized by a studio executive, being made more upbeat for the audience. That's not McCarey. What happens is wonderful and very sad. Everything depends on the performances.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Way_for_Tomorrow

[Homer Wells]

194. Melancholia. NP

[smirkymonkey]

213. Ugh! That was so depressing!

I kind of wish I had never seen it.

[MissB]

239. Yes that one.

Loved and hated it

[hunter]

197. Nobody has mentioned "The Unbearable Lightness of Being."

Director Philip Kaufman and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière portray the effect on Czechoslovak artistic and intellectual life during the 1968 Prague Spring of socialist liberalization preceding the invasion by the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact that ushered in a period of communist repression. It portrays the moral, political, and psycho-sexual consequences for three bohemian friends: a surgeon, and two female artists with whom he has a sexual relationship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being_%28film%29

[jpak]

199. Dead Birds - an anthropology documentary

Believe me - you will regret it.

[no_hypocrisy]

201. Lord of the Flies

[dhol82]

202. Mudbound

Good movie with a phenomenal turn by Mary J. Blige.
But depressing as hell.

[DUgosh]

204. Pay it Forward

[lkinwi]

205. Seven Pounds

[skylucy]

206. The Virgin Spring (1960 Ingmar Bergman film)

[IcyPeas]

207. I had to bookmark this thread.

I want to see some of these movies. thanks Floyd.

[smirkymonkey]

214. The Lovely Bones

w/ Saoirse Ronan. Very depressing.

[Tikki]

221. Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf ....(1966)

Tikki

[LWolf]

223. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. nt

[Stuart G]

226. "One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest",& "Night and Fog' - (documentary)

I saw Cukoos Nest 43 Years ago..still Depresses me when I think about it

"Night and Fog," about Nazi concentration camps, and what happened there. Most horrific movie ever made, and all true..32 minutes of hell. Gets worse and worse as the film progresses.

read the reviews at this link. First 10 reviews also say it is most horrific and depressing movie ever. Warning: If you see this movie, you will never forget it. Yes, it is available for viewing on the internet, for free, somewhere.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048434/

[El Supremo]

227. The Descendants and Manchester By The Sea.

Couldn't even make it through Manchester it was such a downer.

[fierywoman]

228. Clockwork Orange

[muntrv]

229. American Beauty.

[LiberalLoner]

232. Johnny got His Gun

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun_(film)

[LiberalLoner]

233. Soylent Green

[maryellen99]

235. Threads

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads

[catbyte]

236. I just saw another one: "We Need to Talk About Kevin"

I had to immediately watch "Caddyshack" as an antidote.

[PassingFair]

238. The book is amazing.

Really rough...

[JonLP24]

237. My second choice is Blow Out