Your Favourite "Downers"

[arto_j]

I've seen a few pretty damn good, but sort of depressing movies lately and I was wondering what I'm missing in this area. All of the ones I could think of were pretty new films too so I must be missing a lot of older movies...

So what are some the schmoes favourite sad, bleak, dark, miserable, depressing downer flicks?

Some of my selections :

21 Grams
The Seventh Continent
Irreversible
Lilya 4-ever
Happiness
Pure Fiction
The Weather Man
The Sweet Hereafter

[Cronos]

Requiem For A Dream
I Stand Alone

[Hannibal21]

Leaving Las Vegas
The Silence
Grave of the Fireflies
Cries and Whispers
Brokeback Mountain
Dead Man Walking
Midnight Cowboy
Mysterious Skin
To Live (Zhang Yimou)
Days of Wine and Roses
The Ice Storm

...and many, many more.

[zeppelin]

Midnight Cowboy
Cries and Whispers
Leaving Las Vegas
The Deer Hunter
Au Revoir, Les Enfants
Grave of the Fireflies

Those are all movies in my top 100 that I love despite being almost unbearably depressing.

[Gian-Sergio]

Once Upon A Time In America
Ikiru
Last Tango In Paris
Amores Perros
Requiem for a Dream
The Battle Of Algiers

[cerealkiller182]

the movie that made me feel real depressed was Ginger Snaps. I dont know what it was, although when I saw it, I was having the worst hangover that I ever experienced

[chinton]

Magnolia
American Beauty
Life is Beautiful

[JayB18]

21 Grams
Requiem for a Dream
Wolf Creek
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Joint Security Area

The movie that left me most depressed was Joint Security Area.

[dennisv]

Mystic River
American Beauty
The Green Mile is kind of a downer.

[powersauce]

American Beauty
Life Is Beautiful
Ordinary People

[Mr-Blonde]

City of God

[ComeNightfall]

The Silence of the Lambs
Philadelphia
Brokeback Mountain
Se7en

[MickeyKnox]

Irreversible
Requiem For A Dream
21 Grams
Dead Man's Shoes
Leaving Las Vegas

[PSU80]

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Vanilla Sky
The Green Mile
Of Mice and Men

[Ayz]

Vengeance Trilogy by Chan-wook Park.
The Yards.
The Princess and The Warrior.

[RandalGraves]

The Weather Man
Ladder 49

[PSU80]

I had to add another one: The Butterfly Effect. Without question one of the most depressing movies I have ever seen.

[deadguy76]

The Deer Hunter
Manon of Spring
Autumn Sonata
Tigerland (Cantwell's story made me weep)

and of course Schindler's List

[outsyder]

I find Fargo incredibly depressing.

[damien22]

That I've seen: (I am yet to see Requiem, which is probably the movie that I want to see the most.)

Mystic River
Butterfly Effect
American Beauty (I've never heard anyone else discribe it like that, but I think the end is absolutely depressing)
Life is Beautiful
Vanilla Sky


***KIND OF A SPOILER FOR MAGNOLIA****
Also, I wouldn't really call Magnolia a "downer", because at the end everyone's problems are pretty much solved.

[Lady Stardust]

twin peaks:fire walk with me
battle royale
pink floyd the wall

[mutesaint]

My favorite downer movie has to be oldboy.(alas its also one of my favorites in general)

On the Magnolia front, absolutly love that movie six ways from sunday, I wouldnt say that all of the storylines sere resolved. The gameshow hosts storyline was woefully unresolved. Everytime I watch the movie I keep hopeing I just missed an entire scene or something, but no.

[DareDevil]

Shawshank Redemption
Magnolia
In America

[Tayzlor]

No matter the so seriouness of a topic or the handling of, all good movies are never downers, for me. Maybe a remark that the state of that is irreversible or already gone, but there's always that mixture of pleasantness that you watched a good movie.

This never applies to documentaries.

Shawshank selection? That's the one where the two embrace on the beach innit?