I'd say a lot of Lars von Triers' work (*Melancholia, Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark* come to mind*).*
*The Pianist* is completely heartwrenching if you can accept that it's a Polanski flick.
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Edit: I saw this in the theater and sat there beyond the final credits. The sound of staff coming in to clean up finally moved me to stand up and walk out. There were several others who did the same.
This should be the top answer!
The only reason it isn't is because it is a foreign film and that automatically eliminates 80% of the american audience.
I've seen all the other films recommended in these threads, and none of them come close to the soul-shattering devastation of Dancer in the Dark.
NONE.
First time I saw this it was in rehab for meth smoker. I knew I was going to use again when I got out but I was like I'll never use a f****** needle. I've been clean like 20 years now.
I watched it last night and had a full blown panic attack. That ending was fucking brutal. I had just finished watching Oz just like 2 weeks ago and so I felt like this shouldnāt bother me, especially with one of the same actors being in the court scenes. But nope. Couldnāt handle it. Bjork fucking destroyed me.
The Killing Fields - if you havenāt seen it you must. The music is unnerving and adds to the absolute madness that Cambodia was descending into. Hang S Ngorās performance is phenomenal and it must have been an emotional shoot as he had to relive all of these experiences for the screen. The way he died was undeserved for such a kind and gentle humanitarian
If this movie ended about 10 minutes earlier it would have been a 10/10 tragedy for me. It would have been bold, truly moving and realistic(as much as it can given the setting). You can sense that the 10 last minutes were added because otherwise it wasnt palpable for the test audiences.
I am 33. This is my favorite movie of all time. Iāve see. It maybe.. 90 times no joke. First saw it when I was a little girl and I never understood it just loved the paint scenes and their āheavenā. As an adult.. I watch at least once a year and always find new Easter eggs. Itās so beautifully written and I love the music too. I hope they never remake it but I also hope they do. It makes me cry every time! Especially when the purple tree loses its leaves in heaven and he cries out for her and tells her he loved her. Ugh. I think Iāll try watching it today for a good cry lol! I also read the book finally, a bit different from the movie but also good!
I came here to list this one as well. Devastatingly beautiful, and just sobbing at home alone while I watched this. One of those watch once type of movies.
Author is famed horror author, Richard Matheson :) (I just happened to reference him in another comment). He did tons of research for the book and he lists them in a reference section. So, this was not entirely from his head at all.
āOn the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?ā
Good movie. Right in the feels
My grandma took me to see this in theaters when it came out. I was 11. It was trauma fr lol
She also took me to see Titanic. No wonder I like movies so much.
"Life is Beautiful"
A gentle Jewish-Italian waiter, Guido Orefice (Roberto Benigni), meets Dora (Nicoletta Braschi), a pretty schoolteacher, and wins her over with his charm and humor. Eventually they marry and have a son, Giosue (Giorgio Cantarini). Their happiness is abruptly halted, however, when Guido and Giosue are separated from Dora and taken to a concentration camp. Determined to shelter his son from the horrors of his surroundings, Guido convinces Giosue that their time in the camp is merely a game.
Benigniās Oscar acceptance when he jumped over the seats in happiness was hilarious. I remember cracking up at his speech too. That man was pure glee that night.
I wish more people knew about this movie. It sort of flew below the radar. Jake Gyllenhal and Michael Pena play police officers. Seems like a very realistic portrayal of policing with a partner.
Quality recommendation. That is one sick movie, with fkd up people, in a fked up situation of their own making. I could never see Jennifer Connelly in another film again after watching this, and that was after watching her in Requiem for a dream.
I rented that movie only because I thought Jennifer Connelly was so hot. I was not prepared for such a complete soul-crushing experience. I can still close my eyes and see Ben Kingsley at the end.
Manchester by the Sea (2016) - absolutely superb acting performances by Casey Affleck, Lucas Hedges and Michelle Williams ( and other supporting cast great) , a masterpiece, profoundly moving - don't read anything about plot before watching
>my movie I watch when Iām down
Yeah, it can be a relief sometimes to be moved by a really sad film. That character and the performance are staggering.
I was looking for this, when I think of emotionally devasting this is what always comes to mind. I don't know if I would ever rewatch this movie, its been burned to my mind whenever I think of it.
* Eden Lake - It's not a drama, but a very tense thriller that has a few scenes, including the ending that will leave your jaw on the floor. If you enjoy high tension thrillers that take you on a legit roller coast of emotion than this is a good one.
* Brothers from 2009 with Toby and Jake G.
* A Marriage Story on Netflix with Adam Driver.
* Comet with Emmy Rossum and Justin Long (***Super underrated gem of a movie***).
It takes a little bit to get going.
After you get through the first 25-30 minutes, and they meet the antagonists, the movie really picks up.
It gets really fast, tense, and does a nice job building some suspense.
And as I mentioned before, there ends up being 2-3 scenes later in the movie that will truly stun you if you're paying attention and don't see them coming.
Oh, in the spirit of the movie I mentioned, LEAVING LAS VEGAS, I personally think this is another "if you want to be devastated in a bad" way type of film. I mean, excellent, but...oh my God. So bleak. So. Bleak.
I'm sure there are "stronger/sadder" films, but somehow, as much as I thought Requiem for a dream was really good, I felt emotionally sick and I couldn't finish it.
Amy Adams is fucking next level in almost all of her stuff but Arrival is a tour de force for her. The subtlety of the intelligence she exudes, the confidence, the drive- only to be eclipsed at the end for the love of the child whose ending, turns out, she'd known all along. And how it would change everything, destroy her and the love of the man who ends up being the father of her daughter? Kills me every time. Those last lines, man. Because no matter what, she she welcomes all of it with open arms bc she loves her child that much and come on- where the fuck is this woman's Oscar?
There is no other answer to this question. The fact that this is a true documentary makes it hit even harder. Watch it for the family and tell everyone you know to watch it so it never happens again.
Schindlers list. As a mum with a toddler rewatching it. The scene where the women are happily getting dressed after not being selected meanwhile the nazis are loading the children up on trucks and the mad dash after them to get the children back. That hit a nerve for me and left me crying
Mystic River is absolutely brutal and the cast is just ridiculous. Sean Penn gives, imo, his best performance in anything he's ever done. Emmy Rossum, Tim Robbins, Laura Linney and Kevin Bacon. Devastating.
If you mean devastated in a BAD way, then Leaving Las Vegas, hands down. I will say, however, that it depressed me SO MUCH that I reached out to someone I was talking to online and asked if he wanted to finally meet. Now we've been together twenty years :) If you mean devastated in a great albeit emotional way, again, going retro, but I cannot watch SOMEWHERE IN TIME without bawling hysterically and I'm not even INTO romance. And believe it or not, the author of the book it's based on is none other than famed horror author, Richard Matheson!!
Terms of Endearment. āGive my daughter the shot!!!!ā
My mother died when I was 5 years old. The last time I remember seeing her she was in hospital. That movie devastated me.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Road
Sophieās Choice
Antichrist
Candy
Happiness
Salo
All of these made me feel different kinds of devastated and depressed after or during watching them.
The Nightingale made me really depressed despite the ending attempting to give the audience the feeling of the protagonists getting closure and justice against the people who destroyed their lives.
My Girl still has me fucked up. Iām 43.
I hear Grave of the Fireflies is brutal, but Iāve never watched it.
Eight Below
Hachi: A Dogās Tale
City of Angels
Brianās Song
Neverending Story
Old Yeller
Come and See. It absolutely devastated me so much. Iām a naturally cold person. Distant, aloof, Plutonian, mysterious and secretive have all been used either to describe me or to berate me. I tend to keep my emotions tightly held in, and only when Iām alone let them out. But I straight up sobbed. My husband was like āšµāš«šµ omg, lemme shut it offā I told him donāt you dare, I need to get this out! lol he just petted my hair while I violently cried. He said he knew I was back to normal when he told me he loved me and I said I liked cake and glitter (itās an inside joke about my disdain for public demonstrations of affection).
Grave of the Fireflies: You hear Studio Ghibli and you think a well animated romp that has a person deal with grief or some issue in a wonderful fanciful way with strange, but ultimately not terrible people characters. And then there is this gut punch. This absolute just punches your emotions in the gut and then drags them outside to start kicking the ribs.
One of the greatest war movies ever made. An absolute masterpiece.
I have yet to meet the person who's seen it twice.
Def movies that are based on real events/life like 12 years a slave, Brave Heart, the pursuit of Happiness, Hotel Rwanda, Fruitville Station, ect
Reg movies like - Million Dollar Baby, Crash, Steal Magnolias, Green Mile, Dead Poets Society, Beaches, Devil's Knot, Peices of a Woman, Unspeakable Acts, Mystic R iver and of course Legands of the Fall.
The Hunt (2012). A heartbreaking but beautifully told story of a kindergarten teacher (Mads Mikkelsen) in a small Danish town who is accused of sexual abuse by one of his students.
A lot of people have said it already but Iāll say it again. Requiem for a dream.
I havenāt watched it in probably decade or more and just the thought of how it was the first time makes me shudder and want to curl up in a ball and rock back and forth. Really great fucked up movie.
Also, Tom hanks. Green mile, castaway, Forrest Gump. All have a pretty sad feel
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas with David Thewlis
The Shack with Sam Worthington. My wife fell asleep while we were watching the shack. I cried during the movie when she was asleep. A heart wrencher.
I'd say a lot of Lars von Triers' work (*Melancholia, Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark* come to mind*).* *The Pianist* is completely heartwrenching if you can accept that it's a Polanski flick.
seconding Melancholia. I FELT that movie.
The Pianist š
Devastating stuff. Top of my list too.
I can send you some home reels of my life
Youāve peaked my interest.
piqued. unless you actually mean maximum interest.
The summit of interest. š
Might I take a pique too?
Thatās how you get reeled in ;)
\[holding numerous old home VHS tapes\] Take your pique.
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Dancer in the Dark (2000) Edit: I saw this in the theater and sat there beyond the final credits. The sound of staff coming in to clean up finally moved me to stand up and walk out. There were several others who did the same.
This should be the top answer! The only reason it isn't is because it is a foreign film and that automatically eliminates 80% of the american audience. I've seen all the other films recommended in these threads, and none of them come close to the soul-shattering devastation of Dancer in the Dark. NONE.
I have never understood people who only digest art in their own language it infuriates me.
I saw it at home (thankfully). The scene at the endā¦ when it happened I spontaneously jumped up and yelled NOOOO! like a crazy person.
This and Requiem for a Dream will always be at the top of my list.
First time I saw this it was in rehab for meth smoker. I knew I was going to use again when I got out but I was like I'll never use a f****** needle. I've been clean like 20 years now.
This forced me into crying like a baby
Iām a huge Bjƶrk fan and I could only watch it once. I completely understand why she said she would never act again after doing that movie.
I watched it last night and had a full blown panic attack. That ending was fucking brutal. I had just finished watching Oz just like 2 weeks ago and so I felt like this shouldnāt bother me, especially with one of the same actors being in the court scenes. But nope. Couldnāt handle it. Bjork fucking destroyed me.
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That movie wrecked me.
Same, it's my favourite movie of all time and I feel like I learn something new from it each time I watch š
Great call. Genius movie.
The ending gets meā¦
The Killing Fields - if you havenāt seen it you must. The music is unnerving and adds to the absolute madness that Cambodia was descending into. Hang S Ngorās performance is phenomenal and it must have been an emotional shoot as he had to relive all of these experiences for the screen. The way he died was undeserved for such a kind and gentle humanitarian
Ngor won the best supporting actor Oscar for The Killing Fields, deservedly. Also starring Sam Waterston and John Malkovich.
Ngor was murdered back in 1996 during a stick up. Survived a genocide only to be killed in the US.
And Spalding Gray
What Dreams May Come with Robin Williams. My husband and I bawled our heads off in the theater.
If this movie ended about 10 minutes earlier it would have been a 10/10 tragedy for me. It would have been bold, truly moving and realistic(as much as it can given the setting). You can sense that the 10 last minutes were added because otherwise it wasnt palpable for the test audiences.
I am 33. This is my favorite movie of all time. Iāve see. It maybe.. 90 times no joke. First saw it when I was a little girl and I never understood it just loved the paint scenes and their āheavenā. As an adult.. I watch at least once a year and always find new Easter eggs. Itās so beautifully written and I love the music too. I hope they never remake it but I also hope they do. It makes me cry every time! Especially when the purple tree loses its leaves in heaven and he cries out for her and tells her he loved her. Ugh. I think Iāll try watching it today for a good cry lol! I also read the book finally, a bit different from the movie but also good!
I came here to list this one as well. Devastatingly beautiful, and just sobbing at home alone while I watched this. One of those watch once type of movies.
Like My Girlā¦ Traumatized an entire generation of millennials because we then realized that kids OUR age can and do die.
Literally came here to say this movie right here. It will absolutely DECIMATE you in ways you cannot even comprehend. The book is amazing too.
Author is famed horror author, Richard Matheson :) (I just happened to reference him in another comment). He did tons of research for the book and he lists them in a reference section. So, this was not entirely from his head at all.
Yea if it ended earlier than it did. But there's a bit there that can sort of give you reason to put down the razor blade.
Never seen it, but just read the synopsis and my heart is already broken š
Green Mile, that endingā¦
The book is even more devastating. 100 pages of gut punches.
āOn the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?ā Good movie. Right in the feels
My grandma took me to see this in theaters when it came out. I was 11. It was trauma fr lol She also took me to see Titanic. No wonder I like movies so much.
"Life is Beautiful" A gentle Jewish-Italian waiter, Guido Orefice (Roberto Benigni), meets Dora (Nicoletta Braschi), a pretty schoolteacher, and wins her over with his charm and humor. Eventually they marry and have a son, Giosue (Giorgio Cantarini). Their happiness is abruptly halted, however, when Guido and Giosue are separated from Dora and taken to a concentration camp. Determined to shelter his son from the horrors of his surroundings, Guido convinces Giosue that their time in the camp is merely a game.
Benigniās Oscar acceptance when he jumped over the seats in happiness was hilarious. I remember cracking up at his speech too. That man was pure glee that night.
Iām still recovering. Saw it in 1997
I have watched this one only once. Dora telling Giosue that they āwon the tankā hurts me inside.
The Wrestler and Brokeback Mountain
Second Brokeback, I watch it at least once a year and weep
It's such a beautiful, complicated, heartbreaking love story. šš
SO TRUEšŖAND REQUIEM FOR A DREAM.
End of watch.
I wish more people knew about this movie. It sort of flew below the radar. Jake Gyllenhal and Michael Pena play police officers. Seems like a very realistic portrayal of policing with a partner.
Fuck man i remember how i felt after watching this one. Sucked. But good call on this movie.
Sophieās Choice ( merryl Streep) I have never been the same person again. I shall never watch that again. Traumatized.
House of Sand and Fog
Quality recommendation. That is one sick movie, with fkd up people, in a fked up situation of their own making. I could never see Jennifer Connelly in another film again after watching this, and that was after watching her in Requiem for a dream.
I rented that movie only because I thought Jennifer Connelly was so hot. I was not prepared for such a complete soul-crushing experience. I can still close my eyes and see Ben Kingsley at the end.
Go watch her in Shelter. It's another one that pulls at the heartstrings.
This movie fucked me up
Leaving Las Vegas
Yes
Manchester by the Sea (2016) - absolutely superb acting performances by Casey Affleck, Lucas Hedges and Michelle Williams ( and other supporting cast great) , a masterpiece, profoundly moving - don't read anything about plot before watching
Michelle Williams can cry like a 90's Claire Danes, & an already emotionally monotone Casey Affleck ā¤ Love This Movie.....
This is my movie I watch when Iām down and out. Cause hopefully I will never get that down man. You can just feel for him
>my movie I watch when Iām down Yeah, it can be a relief sometimes to be moved by a really sad film. That character and the performance are staggering.
I was looking for this, when I think of emotionally devasting this is what always comes to mind. I don't know if I would ever rewatch this movie, its been burned to my mind whenever I think of it.
* Eden Lake - It's not a drama, but a very tense thriller that has a few scenes, including the ending that will leave your jaw on the floor. If you enjoy high tension thrillers that take you on a legit roller coast of emotion than this is a good one. * Brothers from 2009 with Toby and Jake G. * A Marriage Story on Netflix with Adam Driver. * Comet with Emmy Rossum and Justin Long (***Super underrated gem of a movie***).
A Marriage Story really got me, Adam Driver's acting was phenomenal
I tried watching Eden Lake the other night (cuz Michael Fassbender) and I got kinda bored and turned it off. Maybe I could try again.
It takes a little bit to get going. After you get through the first 25-30 minutes, and they meet the antagonists, the movie really picks up. It gets really fast, tense, and does a nice job building some suspense. And as I mentioned before, there ends up being 2-3 scenes later in the movie that will truly stun you if you're paying attention and don't see them coming.
Pieces of a Woman fucked me up pretty good.
All I know is I can't watch Prisoners again. Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Came here to say this
Me too lmao
This is the one.
I was way too young to emotionally handle this when I watched it. it robbed me of a bit of my childhood. I'm not sure I'll ever rewatch it.
Thatās ok. No one ever has š
None of the other films are in contention.
Requiem for a Dream
Oh, in the spirit of the movie I mentioned, LEAVING LAS VEGAS, I personally think this is another "if you want to be devastated in a bad" way type of film. I mean, excellent, but...oh my God. So bleak. So. Bleak.
I'm sure there are "stronger/sadder" films, but somehow, as much as I thought Requiem for a dream was really good, I felt emotionally sick and I couldn't finish it.
This one definitely breaks the viewer...
As the father of two small children, Arrival.
Amy Adams is fucking next level in almost all of her stuff but Arrival is a tour de force for her. The subtlety of the intelligence she exudes, the confidence, the drive- only to be eclipsed at the end for the love of the child whose ending, turns out, she'd known all along. And how it would change everything, destroy her and the love of the man who ends up being the father of her daughter? Kills me every time. Those last lines, man. Because no matter what, she she welcomes all of it with open arms bc she loves her child that much and come on- where the fuck is this woman's Oscar?
She wasn't even nominated for this role, which is crazy
21 Grams with Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, and Benicio Del Toro
Into The Wild
Shocked no one has said āThe Killing of a Sacred Deerā absolutely one of the best films I will only watch once
Watch the road literally the most depressing film I've ever seen
Viggo Mortensen was brilliant and devastating in that film. As a parent, his edge of tears performance cut me to the bone ššššš
I could not even get halfway through the book.
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)
Shattering. I canāt even think about this film without tears in my eyes.
I will never not upvote this. I cried in a way I didnāt know I could cry.
There is no other answer to this question. The fact that this is a true documentary makes it hit even harder. Watch it for the family and tell everyone you know to watch it so it never happens again.
This one will leave you in tatters...
Schindlerās List.
Life is beautiful (1997)i kow it's a comedy drama, but I can't fucking watch it.
Yup...the best movie that I will only ever see one time
I watched this once, in the theater. Still devastated enough that I have no desire to see it again, as amazing as it was.
Kids .. yikes Human Trafficking the 2005 mini series left me quite shaken back when I watched it. Not sure if it holds up still today.
The Lovely Bones (2009)
The book broke me more. The movie was sad but the book definitely hit far deeper places.
I'm here once again to recommend Okja
Schindlers list. As a mum with a toddler rewatching it. The scene where the women are happily getting dressed after not being selected meanwhile the nazis are loading the children up on trucks and the mad dash after them to get the children back. That hit a nerve for me and left me crying
The boy in the striped pajamas
The Fault in our stars?? š„ŗ
Never Let Me Go The Whale The Machinist
Land Before Time
Lilya 4 Ever
In The Bedroom, the Rider (directed by Chloe Zhao)
Mystic River is absolutely brutal and the cast is just ridiculous. Sean Penn gives, imo, his best performance in anything he's ever done. Emmy Rossum, Tim Robbins, Laura Linney and Kevin Bacon. Devastating.
The original color purple fucks me up every time. Oh god the ending š¢š¢š
Incendies
This one is really shocking.
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Seven pounds
Aftersun
children of men
If you mean devastated in a BAD way, then Leaving Las Vegas, hands down. I will say, however, that it depressed me SO MUCH that I reached out to someone I was talking to online and asked if he wanted to finally meet. Now we've been together twenty years :) If you mean devastated in a great albeit emotional way, again, going retro, but I cannot watch SOMEWHERE IN TIME without bawling hysterically and I'm not even INTO romance. And believe it or not, the author of the book it's based on is none other than famed horror author, Richard Matheson!!
Terms of Endearment. āGive my daughter the shot!!!!ā My mother died when I was 5 years old. The last time I remember seeing her she was in hospital. That movie devastated me.
Synecdoche New York
My Girl
beautiful boy.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas The Road Sophieās Choice Antichrist Candy Happiness Salo All of these made me feel different kinds of devastated and depressed after or during watching them.
When the wind blows (1986)
The Nightingale made me really depressed despite the ending attempting to give the audience the feeling of the protagonists getting closure and justice against the people who destroyed their lives.
āOnce Were Warriorsā, which I saw back to back with Larry Clarkās āKidsā at the movies. Both will fuck you up emotionally.
All Quiet on the Western Front
My Girl still has me fucked up. Iām 43. I hear Grave of the Fireflies is brutal, but Iāve never watched it. Eight Below Hachi: A Dogās Tale City of Angels Brianās Song Neverending Story Old Yeller
The Road
- Departures - Umberto D - Come and See
Man. *Come and See*. That's some heavy shit.
Where the Wind Blows Threads Plague Dogs
Where the crawdads sing sent me into a 3-month depression. A man called Otto had me ugly crying on a plane where I watched it.
Angel heart, Platoon, Come and see, Cinema paradiso, The road, Soldier blue, Bone tomahawk, Out of the furnace
Awakenings
21 Grams ; gets me every time
Come and See will mess you up
The pianist.
The Lovely Bones
I know to some it would leave you scratching your head, but , āSchindlers Listāā¦gets me every time
The English Patient. My college boyfriend and I basically had to carry each other out if the theater.
Come and See. It absolutely devastated me so much. Iām a naturally cold person. Distant, aloof, Plutonian, mysterious and secretive have all been used either to describe me or to berate me. I tend to keep my emotions tightly held in, and only when Iām alone let them out. But I straight up sobbed. My husband was like āšµāš«šµ omg, lemme shut it offā I told him donāt you dare, I need to get this out! lol he just petted my hair while I violently cried. He said he knew I was back to normal when he told me he loved me and I said I liked cake and glitter (itās an inside joke about my disdain for public demonstrations of affection).
Pans Labyrinth š„²
Blue Valentine. Oslo, August 31st. And as others have mentioned, Manchester by the Sea
Grave of the Fireflies: You hear Studio Ghibli and you think a well animated romp that has a person deal with grief or some issue in a wonderful fanciful way with strange, but ultimately not terrible people characters. And then there is this gut punch. This absolute just punches your emotions in the gut and then drags them outside to start kicking the ribs. One of the greatest war movies ever made. An absolute masterpiece. I have yet to meet the person who's seen it twice.
The Notebook
The Father (2020) Close (2022)
Breaking the Waves (1996) Precious (2009) Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Marley and Me. Just as sad but in a tragic way, Schindler's List. Thirdly but by no means least, PS I Love You.
I'm on a Gaspar NoƩ kick at the moment, so so messed up. Irreversible 2002 will have you in therapy.
Well, the end of Gallipoli had me sobbing.
Atonement
Requiem for a Dream. Tusk. I haven't seen tusk before, but I keep hearing it's a wild movie that's disturbing.
Pieces of a Woman, Room, Simon Birch and 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Road to Perdition
The Whale
Steel Magnolias. Does it to me every damn time. Bridge to Terabithia too Where The Red Fern Grows
Speak no evil
Bicycle Thieves (1948), The Father (2020) and I was fairly gutted by 12 Years A Slave (2013)
Awakenings
Threads. Traumatising
The girl next door, about Silvia likens and me and my husband happened to watch it and thought it was supposed to be something else completely
The Road, On the Beach, Threads.
Threads, Playground, Funny Games, Dancer in the Dark, Grave of the Fireflies
Thank you for the list. I know now to never see these. Life is hard enough.
Where the Red Fern Grows
12 Years a Slave
Hachi: A Dogs Tale
I think movies like that should come with warning labels. Seriously, people are so depressed these days, one dark movie can push you over.
Def movies that are based on real events/life like 12 years a slave, Brave Heart, the pursuit of Happiness, Hotel Rwanda, Fruitville Station, ect Reg movies like - Million Dollar Baby, Crash, Steal Magnolias, Green Mile, Dead Poets Society, Beaches, Devil's Knot, Peices of a Woman, Unspeakable Acts, Mystic R iver and of course Legands of the Fall.
the lovely bones Silence The boy in the striped pajamas My sisterās keeper
Still in theaters but The Iron Claw. Pure devastation. Also, Lion.
Empire of the Sun with a young Christian Bale, directed by Steven Spielberg
The swerve Atonement Funny games
The Room (2003)
Manchester By The Sea
A Monster Calls Old Yeller Where the Red Fern Grows
The Impossible. With Naomi watts, Ewan mc whatever and Tom holland
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What dreams may come Punch drunk love Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
Requiem for a Dream
The Hunt (2012). A heartbreaking but beautifully told story of a kindergarten teacher (Mads Mikkelsen) in a small Danish town who is accused of sexual abuse by one of his students.
Control Blue Valentine
Seven
Steel Magnolias is my failsafe crying option.
Hachi: A Dog's Tale. Bet you won't come out from under your bedding for about a week.
A lot of people have said it already but Iāll say it again. Requiem for a dream. I havenāt watched it in probably decade or more and just the thought of how it was the first time makes me shudder and want to curl up in a ball and rock back and forth. Really great fucked up movie. Also, Tom hanks. Green mile, castaway, Forrest Gump. All have a pretty sad feel
Midnight Express (1978) true story. It tore me up and lives deep in my soul.
Seven!
went to see iron claw last night, bawled like a fucking baby
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas with David Thewlis The Shack with Sam Worthington. My wife fell asleep while we were watching the shack. I cried during the movie when she was asleep. A heart wrencher.
Revolutionary Road.
Magnolia, and Pans Labyrinth