Most Depressing Movies (1 Viewer)

[Klimtology]

1. The Deer Hunter

2. The World According to Garp

3.

 

[TripItUp]

My Life

The Road

 

[fruity pebbles]

Leaving Las Vegas
The Wrestler

 

[FarFromHome]

An obvious inclusion is Schindler's List.

A less obvious choice is The Notebook. Stupid movie. I don't cry. Like very rarely. My adult children still bring up that one time dad had water in his eyes watching The Notebook. Stupid movie. Ha ha

 

[Skipdog77]

I haven't seen it in a couple decades, but I remember Kevin Costner's "A Perfect World" as being pretty sad and depressing.

(That may have been because Costner was in it though. )

 

[Ilov80s]

Requiem for a Dream

Come and See

The Father

Manchester by the Sea

 

[Nick Vermeil]

Dancer in the Dark

/thread

 

[Dan Lambskin]

The Mist

 

[playin4beer]

Karate Kid..

Johnny got screwed!

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Barbie

 

[TripItUp]

Manchester by the Sea

Oh Jesus, tried to block this one out...probably the winner here.

 

[pecorino]

The Road. I just could not finish it.

 

[ShamrockPride]

More recently, The Iron Claw.

"I used to have 4 brothers, now I'm not a brother."

 

[Zow]

Schindler's List

My Girl

Eraserhead

Threads

Kids

 

[matttyl]

Old yeller

 

[whoknew]

Hostiles - I don't think many people saw it, but it's a brutal and depressing western. Very good movie.

 

[SWC]

whats eating gilbert grape for me and it isnt that close take that to the bank brohans

 

[SWC]

when a man loves a woman about the impact of alcoholism on a marriage is also very sad and a hard watch take that to the bank brochachos

 

[FarFromHome]

Hostiles - I don't think many people saw it, but it's a brutal and depressing western. Very good movie.

Solid movie

 

[bigbottom]

The Elephant Man

 

[Major]

Requiem for a Dream

This was the first movie that instantly came to mind but if you're looking for depression you're sure to find many in his filmography i.e. The Wrestler, The Whale, etc

 

[Andy Dufresne]

House of Sand and Fog
The Lost Weekend

 

[HellToupee]

The Road. I just could not finish it.

As a father the book really hit me hard

 

[El Floppo]

Requiem for a Dream

This was the first movie that instantly came to mind but if you're looking for depression you're sure to find many in his filmography i.e. The Wrestler, The Whale, etc

Same, re Requiem.

Killing Fields
Leaving Las Vegas
Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Sophie's Choice

Lars Von Trier makes some gut punching (breaking the ways, dancer in the dark) depressing movies, but they always strike me as too manipulative for me to allow myself to get emotionally involved...im usually frustrated more than depressed.

 

[Mister CIA]

Have not seen since the 90's, but I recall The Basketball Diaries as being quite depressing.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Howard The Duck

It was depressing seeing a duck getting more action than me.

 

[Mookie]

Up. Aside from the ending, I thought the entire movie was depressing as Hell.

 

[Dr_Zaius]

The Whale was a pretty uncomfortable watch, although probably not quite as bleak as some of the others already mentioned.

 

[BlackCrowes]

Melancholia

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Million Dollar Baby

How Green Was My Valley

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Melancholia

It's a movie about depression and boy did they nail it.

I wasn't depressed before I watched it but I sure was after.

 

[Ridgeback]

Requiem for a dream. Full stop. One of my favorites, but I can't watch it again.

Aronofsky is a brilliant film maker and this might have been his opus.

 

[KarmaPolice]

A few listed were the ones that pooped in my head too - Requiem, Kids, The Road, etc..

One that I didn't see and is a rare movie I won't try again was the documentary Dear Zachary: A Letter to His Son About His Father. I am not sure I've ever cried so hard watching something.

 

[Kanil]

Here's my list... I'm sure this isn't everything but these movies all made me tear up...

• Any of those stupid movies where the dog dies. OLD YELLER, MARLEY AND ME, etc...
• MY GIRL had me deep in my feelings as a kid
• BAMBI was the first movie I cried at. Mom tells me I was crying and asked, "His mom died?" in the theater
• Stupid IRON GIANT
• THE FOX AND THE HOUND
• UP got me. The beginning of it where they find out they can't have kids. My wife was 4 months pregnant after we tried for years.
• I couldn't make it through SCHINDLER'S LIST
• On that note, THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS was brutal

That's all I can think of, and a surprising number of them are cartoons, lol.

 

[ChicoCat]

Seconded for Kids. Just a crappy tale.

One that I'd have to see again to see if it was depressing as I remember; but Threads. I remember watching it in high school (near the end of the Cold War) and just being like....nuclear war would REALLY suck.

 

[Gally]

Hardball.....it was a kids movie. They didn't have to do what they did.

 

[Zow]

Hardball.....it was a kids movie. They didn't have to do what they did.

Yeah but it gave us the "we're going to the 'ship!" line which I pretty much use in every instance some team of mine goes to the championship for something.

 

[Gally]

Hardball.....it was a kids movie. They didn't have to do what they did.

Yeah but it gave us the "we're going to the 'ship!" line which I pretty much use in every instance some team of mine goes to the championship for something.

I am the opposite on this phrase. I would rather it go away and just stay with the movie.

 

[NewlyRetired]

For those anime fans out there, very little can touch Grave of the Fireflies for a depressing 90 minutes.

 

[BroncoFreak_2K3]

Leaving Las Vegas
Ordinary People

 

[Murph]

Inside Llewyn Davis

 

[Sand]

Definitely Requiem and Leaving Las Vegas.

I'll add Less than Zero. The movie and the parallel to Downey's life a the time.

And D.O.A. Dennis Quaid was quite good in this one.

 

[kupcho1]

Requiem for a Dream

This. I don't think anything else comes close.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

For those anime fans out there, very little can touch Grave of the Fireflies for a depressing 90 minutes.

Have not seen this one but always pops up on these type of lists

 

[Dan Lambskin]

The Whale was a pretty uncomfortable watch, although probably not quite as bleak as some of the others already mentioned.

I found it more boring than depressing

 

[zamboni]

The Ice Storm

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Have not seen since the 90's, but I recall The Basketball Diaries as being quite depressing.

Yeah when he’s at the door begging his mom for money, great picture of addiction and how torn the mom is between wanting to help and knowing she shouldn’t

 

[Gally]

shocked nobody has put up Se7en especially since it was higlighted in another thread.

 

[zamboni]

1. The Deer Hunter

Maybe it’s a Christopher Walken dynamic, but I’d also add At Close Range.

Great movie, but also a tough watch.

 

[Zow]

shocked nobody has put up Se7en especially since it was higlighted in another thread.

Eh, that was probably more shocking. I get that the overall film was shot in a depressing fashion (it never seemed to be sunny, some of the deaths were depressing) but I don't view Se7en on the same plane of depression like I would many already listed in this thread.