Naturally, I chose this one, but what do you think is on this list?
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Here are some movies that fit into this category for me. Some are depressing because of the ending, while others are not necessarily depressing, but haunted me for days after I first watched them:
Heaven
Savage Grace
Leon The Professional
It's All About Love
The Mist
Things We Lost In The Fire
Year Of The Dog
Some of the mentions are sad with an uplifting message, so without a doubt the MOST DEPRESSING I've ever seen is "The House of Sand and Fog" with Jennifer Connelly and F. Murray Abraham. GREAT movie and performances but, man, what a downer.
shareI would have to say that Forrest Gump is perhaps the most depressing, as well as one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Aside from the movie itself being depressing, I was depressed after seeing it. Forrest Gump was supposed to be this really great movie, the movie Forrest Gump was coming on with flying colors back in 1994, it was being promoted to the excess, and when I saw it it was just so terrible! Yes, the events that happen in the movie themselves are depressing, and the overall theme of the movie is a theme of depression, but aside from all that, I was depressed that a movie that was supposed to be so great, that was supposed to be "the movie" of 1994, was so terribly bad and was perhaps the worst movie I ever saw.
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shareI 100% agree with the "Requiem for a Dream" nomination. That movie was one of the most depressing movies I have ever seen. I also nominate "And Then There Was One", which is about a couple who have tried hard to conceive for years and when they finally have a daughter, they find out she has AIDS and the kicker is that both the parents do too. It's based off of a true story, which makes it 10x worse. It's hard to get through that movie without crying!
shareLegend of the falls...i agree, i cry so much in that film. The same with My Girl.
I think i would have to say requiem for a dream....that old lady. I cant even think about her i start to get depressed. Everything else else i can deal with but the old lady......frick.
In my 1st year psych class i was told by the prof who did tests the most depressing film that when people take a test before, and are normal then watch this film and then take the test they are highly depressed. This movie is called The Day After. Personally i watched it an was never so pissed off because they added an extra sense to the film. It should have ended with the second last sense to represent a cycle of life. BUT WHATEVER.
None mentioned come even close to Grave of the Fireflies.
I would watch it again and again. - blinkmaneast90, IMDb
'House of Sand and Fog' with Jennifer Connelly. Great movie but a major downer.
shareOh wow totally. I remember renting it, thinking that since it was anime it was going to be fantasy themed, uh no. :(
sharejacob have i loved,her sister caroline took everything that she wanted away from her, a boy named call,a scholarship to this school that she wanted to go to so badley,and just to piss louise off she also messed up louise's plan to pair her grandmother up with this old single captin.if you don't know who call is , call is louise's male friend that she liked in another way but he did not know it,and she secretly had hoped that when they grew up , that he would asked her to marry her but instead he ends up marring , stuck up, selfish , caroline. after i watched this, i wanted to kill the charactor caroline. i felt so sorry for louise.
shareAgree with Remains of the Day, for unrequieted love, maybe the best. I might have missed someone posting Affliction above, but the "emotional" flailing has it's physical parallel in The Passion of the Christ. Unrelenting. The Dutch movie Character, speaks for men still dealing with Father/Son issues, and is quite dark, literally and emotionally.
Funny games comes to mind....
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This one is defintely on the list but "My Boy Jack" starring Daniel Radcliffe oh god, I cried for weeks after I watched that movie.
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