[rosco2010]

Grave of the Fireflies was beyond bleak. I just sat there in tears as the credits rolled.

The Strangers is also one seriously miserable film.

[Pinkpaper]

Jude as someone has already mentioned. I had no idea what it was about and thought it was going to be some nice costume drama. Boy was I in for a shock.

Also Requiem For A Dream. Loved it though and lent it to my sister who only managed to watch about 40 minutes

[welwynrose]

Marley & Me - they could have finished it long before the dog died

[Hugh Jboobs]

It's a Wonderful Life.

I was depressed after it because it was so bloody disappointing! I started watching it ready to be amazed by this all-time feelgood classic and instead I was almost bored to tears.

[Eddie Badger]

Mystic River

Monster's Ball

[soundstory]

Originally Posted by Sniffle774

Highlander 2. Makes me sad.....it was made.

What's worse I actually went to the cinema to watch it !

[soundstory]

Originally Posted by WhisperingGhost

The Mist. The ending

Goodness me, in my house that ending polarised us.

Apparently Stephen King (who wrote the original story) thought it was bleak & wished that he had thought of it !

[Conall Cearnach]

Hunger starring the great Irish/German Michael Fassbender and directed by Steve McQueen (not that one). It tells the mostly true (some scenes are invented but based on real events) story of the death of Bobby Sands on hunger strike in 1981. It deservedly won the Palm D'Or in Cannes. Fassbender goes from a fit, attractive young man to a fitting, skeletal wreck by the end.

[PaulM1983]

Originally Posted by Sophie ~Oohie~

The Mist doesn't have that ending in the book.

No, but I love that Stephen King said that he preferred the movie ending. He said:

"Frank wrote a new ending that I loved. It is the most shocking ending ever and there should be a law passed stating that anybody who reveals the last 5 minutes of this film should be hung from their neck until dead."

It was pretty grim. I couldn't quite believe it.

[Ginger Nut]

Bleak was a word I kept thinking of watching Stake Land the other week. It really was quite relentless.

[StrmChaserSteve]

Perfect Sense

end of society, people across the world lose their senses, one by one

taste goes first, then smell... everyone goes very mad, before they go deaf, and finally
the black curtain comes down... blind

but people feel very good and full of love, just before the end

bloody bleak, but good movie

[hobbleit]

Originally Posted by Conall Cearnach

Hunger starring the great Irish/German Michael Fassbender and directed by Steve McQueen (not that one). It tells the mostly true (some scenes are invented but based on real events) story of the death of Bobby Sands on hunger strike in 1981. It deservedly won the Palm D'Or in Cannes. Fassbender goes from a fit, attractive young man to a fitting, skeletal wreck by the end.

I watched about 10 minutes of that and then had to turn it off. It made me feel physically sick to watch.

[November_Rain]

Seconded on The Strangers and Eden Lake.

Also, The Butterfly Effect. All truly uneasy films.

[Meilie]

Gerry

[speedy_gonzales]

the war zone starring ray winstone

this is from the trivia on IMDB

At a public screening of this movie during the 1999 Toronto International Film Festival, one viewer was so upset and devastated that he rose to his feet and shouted that he couldn't take any more, then headed for the exit, intending to pull the fire alarm. 'Tim Roth', who was in attendance, intercepted him at the door, and it took 20 minutes of intense conversation to calm the man down.

[Eddie Badger]

The Machinist

[dee123]

The Mist.

[RayRidley]

Von Trier's Breaking The Waves - Mark Kermode hates it, which is a good enough reason to take a look.

Magnolia - a 3-hour hymn to depression - one of my all-time favourites ! (the soundtrack music is sublime)

[kirbyreed]

Mean Creek. I'm on the verge of tears all the way through, everytime I watch it. The very end kills me.

[Ted Cunterblast]

Originally Posted by Hugh Jboobs

It's a Wonderful Life.

I was depressed after it because it was so bloody disappointing! I started watching it ready to be amazed by this all-time feelgood classic and instead I was almost bored to tears.

As John Cheese once said...'Always one, isn't there?'.

Not quite getting the concept of this thread, are we?

It's not about films you don't like...I have no problem with people not liking this film, as universally loved as it is.

But to claim you were depressed BECAUSE you did not like it...that's just plain idiotic.

[Ted Cunterblast]

Originally Posted by RayRidley

Von Trier's Breaking The Waves - Mark Kermode hates it, which is a good enough reason to take a look.

Magnolia - a 3-hour hymn to depression - one of my all-time favourites ! (the soundtrack music is sublime)

Magnolia...hmmm...I know the subject matter can be bleak, various characters going through various personal crises etc, but it's so well made, moves so fast, has so much incident, great performances and great music that the last thing it ever leaves me feeling is depressed.

[RayRidley]

Originally Posted by Ted Cunterblast

Magnolia...hmmm...I know the subject matter can be bleak, various characters going through various personal crises etc, but it's so well made, moves so fast, has so much incident, great performances and great music that the last thing it ever leaves me feeling is depressed.

I agree...it doesn't leave me depressed either, but there's a lot of angst and self-loathing going on ! I normally can't stand Tom Cruise, but he gave a great performance in this.

[Ted Cunterblast]

Originally Posted by RayRidley

I agree...it doesn't leave me depressed either, but there's a lot of angst and self-loathing going on ! I normally can't stand Tom Cruise, but he gave a great performance in this.

I know Cruise gets a lot of stick for his acting and other aspects of his personality...but this was a terrific performance from him.

It;s not just the celebrated 'respect the cock' scene, which at the time was quite a departure for him, but the gradual revealing of his narcissistic persona, and what lay behind it.

The interview scene directly after his 'performance' is a great scene, but the one where he really nails it for me is when he meets Jason Robards character (won't spoil it), which is heartbreaking.

[soran]

Revolutionary Road - Probably the most depressing film I have ever seen.

[Peachy Keen]

Snowtown.

When l visited Australia for a holiday, my relatives took me to Snowtown (on the hottest day while l was there ironically!) at the time of the murders! I had no idea of what had happened there until the film was released in the UK earlier this year!