[NWcub77]

As another poster has already mentioned Eden Lake takes the biscuit for me.

I remember sitting in complete silence as the credits rolled then as the minutes passed became more and more angry.

It took me a fair few days to get that film out of my system!

[Fear of Fours]

Ratcatcher

[Benry_Gale]

A russian film (i think) about two guys working on an oil rig (...i think) who slowly go insane. Fantastic film, but unfortunately I can't remember the name.

[galaxy99]

Depressing rating out of 5 ♦

Tyrannosaur ♦♦♦♦♦
Monster's Ball ♦♦♦
Nil by Mouth ♦♦♦♦
Precious ♦♦♦
Shame ♦♦♦♦

[BastardBeaver]

Inland Empire - God that film depressed me.

[chris1978]

The Road - Very intense, emotional and bleak. Very much like the book. Affected me for quite a while after watching it.

Threads - Watched it first in 2005, and thought how depressing it was. I imagine watching it at the time of the cold war when it was broadcast would be very frightening.

Children of Men - Very grim, found nothing in it that gave me any hope for humanity. But a very well made film and well acted. Quite a bit different from the book this one.

Never Let Me Go - A very moving and deep film. Superbly acted and directed. Left me feeling very emotional. Keira Knightley was outstanding. I though the character of Tommy and the whole "completion" storyline gave a feeling of hopelessness that these people were not in control of their own destiny and just accepted they were alive for donation. My Mum went to see this at the cinema as a lot of the filming was done where she lives. Said it was the bleakest film she had seen.

The Lovely Bones - I found this to be very upsetting and in some ways also very beautiful. It was grim but compelling. Added to by the Brian Eno soundtrack. Always find these things are more depressing when centred around children.

[a_c_g_t]

War Zone
The Road

Both suberbly depressing and emotionally exercising work.

Sometimes it's refershing to have your other emotional sense challenged with a movie rather the the usual sugary diabetic highs they are always trying to get you to.

I will definatly have a look at many others stated here.

[galaxy99]

Originally Posted by Johnny Clay

You want bleak? Why not treat yourself to a Michael Haneke season?

Benny's Video, The Piano Teacher, Funny Games, Hidden, The White Ribbon.

Afterwards you'll be whistling merrily down the road, clicking your heels, singing 'what a wonderful world'.

Then you'll walk into the traffic.

agreed Benny's Video was on film four the other night late and it was so depressing and grim

[Sniffle774]

Originally Posted by soundstory

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

Ouch.

[eblovesdb]

Jude is pretty depressing. The ending is just

[maurice45]

Donnie Darko. And yes, Alien 3! WTF were they thinking?!

[Ænima]

The Batman reboots.

[Eddie Badger]

Get Carter, a very bleak crime movie (original version - the remake is depressing for other reasons!)

[MsWilder11]

Another vote for Eden Lake! Never have I watched a film and felt so low afterwards. The misery is just relentless, and the ending....argh

[emma555]

I can't believe how many people are saying 'The Mist'. I just thought it was rubbish.

Agree that 'Requiem for a Dream' left me completely drained. And I expected to be emotionally wiped out by 'Melancholia', but it was such a beautiful movie.

[maurice45]

Originally Posted by emma555

I can't believe how many people are saying 'The Mist'. I just thought it was rubbish.

Agree that 'Requiem for a Dream' left me completely drained. And I expected to be emotionally wiped out by 'Melancholia', but it was such a beautiful movie.

I agree with all of this.

[pete137]

Killer Joe.

[essexpete]

keira knightley film Pure

[maurice45]

Good bleak films:

A Clockwork Orange
Green Street
28 Days Later
Solaris

[vacumtoobs]

Agreed "The Road" & "Grave of the Fireflies",but going back decades and dont think Ive seen it in recent years,what about the remake of "Invasion of the Body snatchers.".........when right at the end, Donald Sutherland "screams" at Brooke Adams and we realise hes turned into a walking Tomatoe plant too.......................one of the first films Id seen in which the Aliens won !

[wildhollie]

The Mist was pretty depressing to say the least, I finally got round to watching Eden Lake a couple of weeks ago.....a horrible film with a horrible ending, and yes both are bleak and very downbeat

[JCR]

Originally Posted by pete137

Killer Joe.

You do know it's supposed to be a comedy?

Finger lickin' good.

[maurice45]

300 is very bleak.

[JT Effect]

Originally Posted by sillybillybunto

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is pretty depressing through out. I actually felt unhappy for a few hours after watching it.

I wept at the end for ages, when he's a small child, but I think this had more to do with the fact that

Spoiler

my mother was dying from Alzheimer's at the time

I don't as a rule watch bleak depressing films if I can at all help it, but I watched Snowtow at the weekend not realising just how grim it was going to be.

I don't feel I'm going to be able to get certain scenes out of my head for a long time.

[FrankJaeger]

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.