whats the most depressin film u have ever seen?

[Double-U B!!]

i guess mine has 2 be the green mile. that nearly made me cry. aww, shit. thinkin bout it got me all teary again! gotta go!

[Cyclonus]

Alien 3
Se7en
Saving Private Ryan
Schlinder's List
Goodfellas
Casino
Taxi Driver
AI
Bringing Out the Dead
Carrie
Hellraiser/HR2
The Devil's Own
The Empire Strikes Back
Clockers
Blade Runner
Alien
The Terminator
American History X
Blue Velvet
Enemy at the Gates
JFK
Requiem For a Dream

[idealdiscountdude]

"O"
--the film was so depressing, it left me in shock and even....gulp....made me shed a few tears!!!!

E.T
--moved the heck out of me when I was little....i balled my eyes out!!!!!!

The Green Mile
--Michael Clarke Duncan.....nuff said

Deep Impact
--the scene where Tea Leoni and her father are on the beach with the tidal wave hovering over them tore me to pieces

Pay It Forward
--my God....I love this movie even though many don't....the ending really got to me

Bastard Out Of Carolina
--really really sad and depressing

Higher Learning
--the campus shootings really got to me and left me shocked

Rosewood/Roots/The Color Purple
--they were just too sad!!

[James Logan]

I'd have to say BRAVEHEART...for some personal reasons touching me the first time I saw that movie.

For those of you asking themselves...Yeah, it involved a woman. http://www.joblo.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[Fergus]

Recently,

The Dresser
Don't Look Now

[Lindsey]

Requiem for a Dream

[Cyclonus]

I saw that movie at least 3 times already. What does that say about me?

[ParileseMonster]

Most recently was a movie I saw a few weekends ago called Silent Running. It came out in 1971 and stars Bruce Dern. It's about these four guys up in space and they have these domes connected to their ship and these domes contain all that was left of earth. They had animals and crops, fruits, vegetables. Water, desert, forests etc. Bruce Dern is the guy taking care of all of these things. He eats the vegetables also instead of the other stuff the other guys eat. Something happens where they are given orders to disconnect the domes and blow them up in space. This would mean getting rid of everything that was once on earth. Bruce Dern's character doea what he can to save the domes. I have to stop here because I do not want to give away to much of the movie. He fights for what he loves and in the end of the movie there is hope that still lives on but it is depressing and ends on a sad note. There are three droid robots in this film and they are played by amputees which is rather interesting.

[takayamaRyuji]

Jacob's Ladder

[dr-movielove]

streetwise
cries and whispers
a place in the sun
(these didn't make me cry, they were just extremely depressing)

[TJ McFunky]

The Deer Hunter
Requiem for a Dream
Amores Perros

[Amirdarab]

My Dog Skip
The Green Mile
Blow
The Deer Hunter

[rupert_pupkin]

Dancer in the Dark

[Dark_ph0enix]

Requiem for a Dream is one of the most depressing films I've seen. Pay it Forward is pretty depressing as well - for more than one reason http://www.joblo.com/ubb/wink.gif

[A Canadian ThereWolf]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by idealdiscountdude:

Pay It Forward
--my God....I love this movie even though many don't....the ending really got to me
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Dude, take heart, you're not the only one!
Sniffle... http://www.joblo.com/ubb/frown.gif

[A Canadian ThereWolf]

And "Saving Private Ryan", no matter how many times ThereWolf sees it that "Tell me I'm a good man!" scene always gets to him!

[ColinM]

Boys Don't Cry (and I didn't even like the movie very much)

[whitemat]

River Red
- Starring Tom Everett Scott


God This movie is so depressing. If you can find it watch it.

[Stubbyneez]

I think that Fort Apache: The Bronx is the most depressing movie I have ever seen.

[Danny L]

End of Days.
Fight Club.
The Piano.

[Filmaker]

Amores Perros

[urbanlegend23]

pay it forward
requiem for a dream
the green mile
titanic
ghost
nicholas' gift
dancer in the dark
the horse whisperer
stepmom
watership down
sliding doors

[EBastard]

Requiem For A Dream.

[Dr Martin Luther Loomis]

SCHINDLER'S LIST
REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
BOYS DON'T CRY
HIGHER LEARNING
ULEE'S GOLD

[dicaprio_travolta_man]

i'm nothin but a little wimp i cry at the end of alot of movies but the ones that made me cry the most would be:

Titanic- the heartbreak is unbelivable.

Pearl Harbor- very touching story.

Armageddon- very sad

and many more.......

[Elektra]

Requiem For A Dream - Need I say more?
Carrie - The smile fading from Carrie's face as the pig's blood was dumped on her just tore me up.
Stepmom - It was really touching what Jackie said to her kids at the end, about seeing them in their dreams after she died http://www.joblo.com/ubb/frown.gif

[Zero]

I'll agree with Jacob's Ladder getting me all down and out, as well as Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan. Damn, I love Giovanni Ribisi. I will add one I didn't see, The English Patient. Dude, when Ralph Fiennes is carrying Kristen Scott Thomas out of that cave, he's really MEANING that shit. Broke my heart.

[Lazycouch]

Grave of the Fireflies
Schindler's List

[EBastard]

You know what? I got 2 more.

1.Requiem For A Dream
2.Menace 2 Society
3.Dead Presidents

[meccajay]

Terms Of Endearment

Deer Hunter

Green Mile

Blow(just the ending)

Pay it Forward

Once Were Warriors(oh my god!)

[Cyclonus]

The last part of "Boogie Nights."

[Alexis]

Leaving Las Vegas
Happiness
Boys Don't Cry
Damn these are depressing movies. All brilliant though.

[jackson13]

It's not the top of my list but I was very depressed and dissapointed when Karen Sisco shot Jack Foley and sent him back to Glades in Out of Sight. I wanted to see him stay free.
The top of my list would have to go to American Beauty. Lester was finally feeling good about his life and that sonofabitch blew his brains out. The film cheers me up when he tells how happy he had become and everything but everytime I watch that scene (especially the 1st time and screaming out "What the fuck?") I get very depressed. It just shows how unexpectedly things can happen in life though.

[This message has been edited by jackson13 (edited 11-07-2001).]

[beachblanketmomma]

Depressing movies (bummers):
Magnolia
Boys Don't Cry
Barfly
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
(??Ohh...I'm having a brain burp...what is that one about the school bus wreck...Heaven something?? Sweet something?? Anyway, a real bummer)

Then, movies that made me cry, no doubt, everytime I've seen them:
terms of endearment
Steel Magnolias (when Sally Fields is at the graveyard)
Love Story
The Way We Were
Runaway Bride (I was the only one crying because she didn't know which eggs she liked)
Dr. Zhivago
Legends of the Fall

[meccajay]

&lt;&lt;Steel Magnolias (when Sally Fields is at the graveyard&gt;&gt;

One of the most incredible acting performances in a scene ever filmed by any actor!!

[be very afraid]

Many films have sad endings, or are generally sad thoughout. But I have to say, Requiem for a Dream was VERY depressing. Great movie nonetheless.

[Current Resident]

Jude
Angela's Ashes

[Eelco]

I believe I don't see anywhere the movie:

Dead Man Walking (with Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Ermey(?, the sarge from Full Metal Jacket))

My God, this movie really is the most depressing one I've ever seen. As far as I know, only Leaving Las Vegas comes close to being the most depressing film ever made.

[herculeez]

Requiem For A Dream
Green Mile, put me on the brink of tears, I was seriously welling up during that movie, but I didn't find it depressing.

It's just the really awful movies, the ones I can't stand that become the depressing ones in my opinion.

[Hannibal21]

There are so many, but the most depressing for me is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The first film to ever move me and make me break out in tears. :(

[SykkBoy]

Requiem For A Dream - had me crying like a bitch with a skinned knee
"I'm going to be on television..."

The Green Mile - Was watching this with a group of "tough guys" and at the end we were all crying like babies

Welcome To The Dollhouse - damn, I loved this movie and while it wasn't tear-inducing, it overall was depressing but also kept me laughing all the way through.

[Succubus]

Boys Don't Cry - I watched this with some fairly hardened film-loving friends of mine, and we were left in total silence at the end.

La Haine - see above. Saw it for the first time in a Film Studies class, and the silence and atmosphere following that ending was palpable.

Schindler's List - it may have highlighted the power of the human spirit, but Schindler's breakdown (I'd be so bold as to say it is probably one of the best-acted scenes I've ever seen) always gets me going.

Dancer In The Dark - felt like I'd literally been kicked in the stomach. A totally, utterly, heartbreaking film.

Jude - a love story, so sensitively portrayed with such insight by Winslet and Ecclestone, who make their characters so human that their downfall is all the more tragic.

Requiem For A Dream - from the last half hour on, you feel as though your emotions have been ripped out of you - certainly the most harrowing, unrelenting film I have ever seen.

[MickeyKnox]

1.)Requiem For A Dream
2.)The Elephant Man
3.)The Deer Hunter

[BadCoverVersion]

You want it, you got it...

~Dancer In The Dark
~Meantime
~Let Him Have It
~Boy's Don't Cry
~Scum
~Jude
~The War Zone
~La Haine
~Dead Man Walking
~The Elephant Man

All depressing purely because you're left reeling. SCUM played on my mind for a few days last time I saw it.

[The 8 Ball]

Requiem For A Dream

Grave of The Fireflies

Ashes of Time

Magnolia

A.I

Red Sorghum

Shanghai Triad

Raise The Red Lantern

Farewell My Concubine

Ju Dou

[The Lolo]

The Green Mile was ridiculously depressing and I have a feeing that when I get around to watching Requiem for a Dream it'll get the tears flowing as well.

[freakandgeek]

what dreams may come

luckily i saw that at a friends house. i went into the bathroom cause i was crying so hard. i couldn't even imagine seeing that in the theatre.

[Grim H.]

I'd say Schindler's List and Requiem for a Dream take the cake...

[ColinM]

The Elephant Man

[ANavissi500]

What's Eating Gilbert Grape tops my list.

[Ripper1888]

Requiem For A Dream
Schindler's List

the part of the Band Of Brothers series when they stumple across that concentration camp.



note* beachblanketmomma the movie your having a brain burp on would be "The Sweet Hereafter" a very good film

[one_crow_sorrow]

Taxi Driver

[Hucksta G]

Schindlers List
American History X
Saving private Ryan
Raging Bull
Pink Floyd The Wall
Taxi Driver
One Hour Photo
The Virgin Suicides
The Good Girl

[martyds761]

AI
The Others (which I loved)

[EoghainFOKeeffe]

Most people here seem to define a depressing movie as a movie that made them cry. I don't agree. There are several movies that made me cry - but none of them made me feel depressed. A depressing movie is a movie that leaves a weight in my chest that doesn't shift for days. Two movies that fit this description are:

REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
TAXI DRIVER

[Moviefan1234]

The Virgin Suicides immediately comes to my mind. I don't think any film has depressed me quite as much as that one.

[Haddonfield]

Magnolia
The Elephant Man (what a great movie)
The Story of Us (very very underrated masterpiece)
Leaving Las Vegas
I Am Sam

[Raoul Duke]

Requiem For A Dream

Taxi Driver

Schindler's List

Saving Private Ryan

[ToRontoRon]

Originally posted by ANavissi500
What's Eating Gilbert Grape tops my list.

Ditto.

[arby19]

Requiem For a Dream(10/10) - Everything about it....
Bravehart(10/10) - The ending....Mel Gibson was amazing in this movie.
American History X(9/10) - The ending.

[Shakamaker]

These excellent films all made me feel depressed...

La Haine
The Elephant Man
Narc
Requiem For A Dream
The Good Girl

Films like One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List were saddening, but not depressing for me.

[piglet5]

Shindlers list
West side story
La Bamba
Mask

[Lynn Minmei]

Manon Des Sources and Gallipolli were the two films that probably made me the saddest.

[MinimalistCouch]

Gummo

[LiquidSalt]

The Hours *tear*

[Madhatter]

Schindler's list
Elephant Man
Amores Perros (the one about the dogs right?)

Requiem for a Dream has to takes it because i was so depressing that i didn't like it. i don't think there was even one moment of an uplifting part, thats not to say all movies need to be happy and up lifting.

[Xandrew88]

Boys don't cry. I had nightmares when I saw this one. It's so freakin'....wow. So real and makes you shreik. I'm twitching just thinking about it.

[Standoobie]

Like every one else i've got to say Requiem for a Dream, it's such a downer but a damn good movie.

I don't know about any one else but I also find Full Metal Jacket really sad. The fact that it was a real story (a book called "The Short Timers" by some Vietnam vet.) is also really depressing.