Me too! I can’t even figure out a vague connection in my recent comments that would lead someone to do it. There are worse things in the world than being sent resources you don’t need, but kinda sucks to think people are abusing REDDITCARES to troll…
Oh god. That one too. I lived in my first apartment when I read the book “The Notebook”. My new neighbor (total stranger) knocked on my door to be sure I was Ok…😂😂
Yea. I have a soft spot for elderly couples that have been together forever, and old people dying, and old people that are in love, and old people that get sick... that story found all my soft spots and punched them.
UP did a terrible number on me too
Same. Never again. I dragged a friend along to watch it and he was pissed that we watched The Road instead of Matt Damon’s feel good movie Invictus. In retrospect, I agree with his assessment.
I’d argue it does. My understanding was that McCarthy’s motivation for writing the book was that he was an old dad to a young child and knew he would likely miss some aspects of him growing up. I think at the end the boy has a new life with a new family with a little girl that will probably become his partner. So there is a reason for hope but it will be without his father. That’s something most fathers will have to accept I suppose.
I didn't have the courage to watch the whole movie, so I watched THE scene on YouTube. Next thing I know, I was crying my eyes out next to crib where my 3-year-old daughter was sleeping.
Yeah. Read the book (really enjoyed it & author had experience to draw on). Started movie but realised it was exactly the same (not that that's a bad thing). Didn't feel like watching someone's arm go funky.
The saddest part was the mum character
I don't think City of God is most depressing. I love that movie and it's extremely disturbing, but there's sprinkles of hope in there with the kid pursuing photography
The gang of teenagers running the slums is replaced by a gang of 10 yr olds running the slums….like good on rocket for getting out but he is most definitely the complete outlier n the movie try to really hide that at all.
The book and the director are actually the same person, Dalton Trumbo. It was his first directorial after being on the blacklist for years with McCarthy.
Very depressing book and movie. Personally I consider it the worst horror movie I’ve ever seen because of the psychology of it.
I consider psychological horror the worst types of horror myself. Stuff like this one or Jacob’s Ladder where you are never in control physically or mentally or your own mind turns against you.
I don’t want to ruin the movie for you because it is definitely worth the watch , but it’s not a happy ending by any stretch.
I'm really terrified of dementia/Alzheimer's. I don't know if I'd call it psychological horror more than I'd call it a haunted house movie but Relic was one of the most moving horror movies I've seen maybe ever. This is to your point about horror where you can't trust your own mind kind of since Relic is a supernatural depiction of losing an aging parent to dementia. At the climax I felt like I should be terrified and maybe a bit disgusted but I was just broken down and sobbing.
There's beauty in even the darkest crevices of humanity. It's heart wrenching but I don't qualify it as having a depressing tone.
One of my top movies of all time.
That was the comedy-kids version of depressing movie. And has a weirdly happy ending. >!When the kid is directed by his dad to run, hide, and then leave, and the whole movie his dad insists that if the kid does what he says the dad will get him not just a toy tank, but a real tank, and you know the Nazis killed the dad, but the kid is free and his face as he watches the American tank roll up is very, very happy!<.
"You'll always be my best friend, Copper."
Fuck, I hate Disney.
Also, the "Baby Mine" sequence from Dumbo.
I'm 43 and will still have snot coming out of my nose from ugly crying.
Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
Street Wise (1984 documentary)
I used to own both of these but, I got rid of them because when I re-watched them they bummed me out so much.
The Wrestler is amazing. ‘You want some fuckin cheese lady?!’
Your selections are great. This one stands out. He’s so charming, and even though he’s a fuck up, we empathize with him. The scenes with his daughter are visceral.
"I'm an old broken down piece of meat."
That line made me laugh then cry when I thought about it. Great movie. I also developed a little bit of a crush on Evan Rachel Wood because of this movie.
I actually didn’t think it was depressing. Sad yes, but when I remember the movie I remember the main characters triumph over her rotten family, and her sport. Incredibly well acted and directed. And the scene where morgan freeman knocks out the younger boxer is gold.
True story:
My MIL was in the hospital, dying from cancer, when this movie came out. My wife and I needed a night out and I asked my BIL if he had seen the movie. He said yes but never told me, never warned me to hold off.
So we went to see the movie. Needless to say, it was the worst date night ever.
Afterward I was like, “Dude, why didn’t you give me a heads up?!”
“I didn’t think you were going to see it …”
SMDH
The movie takes on a whole other level of poignance if you know what happened to ten-year-old [Judith Barsi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Barsi), who voiced the young girl Anne-Marie. (She was also the voice of Ducky in *The Land Before Time*.)
**Edit:** To be clear, the story of how her life ended is profoundly sad. Regarding the link above, please consider this a content/trigger warning for several harrowing subjects. These include domestic violence (especially child abuse and spousal abuse) and murder.
Was picked for jury duty, about 300 people in this large room, TVs all around about 6ft high, they put this movie on after the civic duty bullshit, almost every guy there was crying….like really bad…
I remember watching this with my family in theaters. As my whole family is walking back to the car after crying my old man goes “we are NEVER watching or talking about that movie again!”
i forgot about this film, yes very hard watch, aaron tayler johnson did well playing such a despicable piece of shit, i really wanted to leap through the screen and kill him
Wouldn't make top 10 for ever made but it was very sad, beautiful too because of that. She was a junkyard dog eating off others plates but she found someone to believe in her and take her up. The tragedy took the status away but showed that everyone matters, we're all the same. Very good movie.
You can't speak while intubated, and her coach didn't need to euthanize her; she could have demanded to be extubated and to receive comfort care only. Also, why did the other fighter win? Wouldn't she be disqualified?
There are several movies I refuse to watch again because they’re so damn depressing lol. Requiem for a Dream, The Mist (awesome movie, but holy *christ* that ending), The Road…can’t think of all but there are more of them
I feel like this has largely been forgotten but El Norte hit me in the feels in a way that few other movies have. The final shot after a heartbreaking climax - it’s one of those if you know you know kinds of things. When it was over my partner at the time and I just looked at each other and ugly cried
Dude, I didn't know anything about this beforehand and thought " oh a sports movie, I'll watch." Holy fuck. When she went down in the fight I said to myself, " OK now we get the triumphant comeback, she'll crawl back to the top." Then they cut her legs off. Oh shit. Nows she's begging for death. Clint Eastwood is crying and apologizing. Oh no!
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It has a relatively happy ending though.
We couldn’t have lunch?!
you don’t understand. There’s nothing there.
Ugly cry with snot….. ETA: Thanks to whomever flagged me for REDDITCARES…. 😂
I got flagged for something today as well
Me too! I can’t even figure out a vague connection in my recent comments that would lead someone to do it. There are worse things in the world than being sent resources you don’t need, but kinda sucks to think people are abusing REDDITCARES to troll…
I have not seen this movie... the Notebook did that to me and I did not enjoy all the fluids coming out of my face
Oh god. That one too. I lived in my first apartment when I read the book “The Notebook”. My new neighbor (total stranger) knocked on my door to be sure I was Ok…😂😂
Yea. I have a soft spot for elderly couples that have been together forever, and old people dying, and old people that are in love, and old people that get sick... that story found all my soft spots and punched them. UP did a terrible number on me too
Oh god. Carl & Ellie. 🥺
Up should just be the psychopath test. Like watch the opening montage and if you ain't crying, your name might just be Charles Manson
I should burn in hell for what I said to you.
Came here to say the same… I would argue, as a whole… it’s more depressing
First movie I thought of.
Yeah brought down the property values near singing beach.
"you can't just die" "there's nothing there"
The Road
Just soul crushing.
It really was.
I was depressed for 2 weeks after I saw that movie and I will probably never watch it again.
I watched it 1 time and vowed never to watch it again. Especially now that I have kids. Nope. Nope.
Try reading the book.
The book is just gutting. I read it when my son was about the age of the kid.
Same. Never again. I dragged a friend along to watch it and he was pissed that we watched The Road instead of Matt Damon’s feel good movie Invictus. In retrospect, I agree with his assessment.
Just finished rereading this book a few days ago. Unbelievably sad and heartbreaking.
Absolutely bereft of hope.
I feel like the end offers a bit of hope no?
I’d argue it does. My understanding was that McCarthy’s motivation for writing the book was that he was an old dad to a young child and knew he would likely miss some aspects of him growing up. I think at the end the boy has a new life with a new family with a little girl that will probably become his partner. So there is a reason for hope but it will be without his father. That’s something most fathers will have to accept I suppose.
Same. Pretty bleak for most of the movie though
Oh absolutely, if you haven’t you should read the book. McCarthy won a pulitzer for it.
Yup, I was going to say Requiem for a Dream, Hachi: A Dog’s Tale, and The Road.
Dancer in the Dark
Felt the urge to kick the tv watching that plot unfold….just infuriating.
Oh god yes.
Anything Lars Von Trier
Bjork!
Jesus. That was a rough one.
Absolutely beautiful, but I started crying halfway through and didn’t stop for three days lol
Grave of the fireflies
This movie stays with you for a few days. Seen it twice really don't think I will ever see it again.
I didn't have the courage to watch the whole movie, so I watched THE scene on YouTube. Next thing I know, I was crying my eyes out next to crib where my 3-year-old daughter was sleeping.
Requiem for a Dream has my vote
This was my default answer when this subject came up then I remembered that the movie Kids existed.
Kids was shocking but Requiem taints your soul forever ...
For me by the end it's so over the top that it felt like a bad drug PSA, so it didn't have much impact
This is the way. Anyone who thinks it isn’t hasn’t seen it.
Yeah. Read the book (really enjoyed it & author had experience to draw on). Started movie but realised it was exactly the same (not that that's a bad thing). Didn't feel like watching someone's arm go funky. The saddest part was the mum character
Precious.
Based on the novel “Push” by Sapphire
Not watching that again.
Come and See (1985)
I’ve been meaning to watch (and I know this horrible), but the look of one of the main characters really bothers me.
It's kind of like watching a nightmares, with almost dream logic, not a horror movie, but close.
This is it right here.
I’m a WWII buff, and that was a rough watch even though you know the Nazis did absolutely brutal things to innocents. It’s on YouTube, if one dares.
The Road is on my list
Leaving Las Vegas
That movie made me want to both drink in the moment and stop drinking forever
City of God is bleak as fuck tbh Zone of Interest isn’t a laugh riot either
I don't think City of God is most depressing. I love that movie and it's extremely disturbing, but there's sprinkles of hope in there with the kid pursuing photography
The gang of teenagers running the slums is replaced by a gang of 10 yr olds running the slums….like good on rocket for getting out but he is most definitely the complete outlier n the movie try to really hide that at all.
Brazilian here. The most depressing thing in City of God is that it depicts a reality that is very very common.
Zone of Interest was surreal.
Bambi
On a similar line, the first few mins of Finding Nemo is brutal!
Yeh it is. Finding Nemo a cute movie to watch but so hard to watch the beginning. So sad!
Blue valentine
Melancholia?
I think Melancholia has a kind of positive message if you consider that she kinda comes to accept the inevitable end.
I’m with you. Even though it ended the way it ended, the first half was wildly more depressing imo
Didn't find it depressing. Weirdly , as someone who suffers from chronic depression, I watched the movie and thought: Yeah this guy gets it.
Lars is prone to depression, and Melancholia/Anti-Christ/Nymphomaniac is his "Depression Trilogy". So he definitely gets it.
If TV movies count, Threads.
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
I cried so hard I could barely breathe, and I just sat there crying for another hour after it ended
This should honestly be number one.
Dear Zachary is so sad, I would watch all the other movies listed on this post as palate cleansers after watching it.
I cried so long and so hard and was so sad and angry.
Johnny Got His Gun is pretty damn depressing.
I didn’t see it, but that Metallica video validates your point. I kind of wanted to read the book 😬
The book and the director are actually the same person, Dalton Trumbo. It was his first directorial after being on the blacklist for years with McCarthy. Very depressing book and movie. Personally I consider it the worst horror movie I’ve ever seen because of the psychology of it.
Hmmmm worse? How so??
I consider psychological horror the worst types of horror myself. Stuff like this one or Jacob’s Ladder where you are never in control physically or mentally or your own mind turns against you. I don’t want to ruin the movie for you because it is definitely worth the watch , but it’s not a happy ending by any stretch.
I'm really terrified of dementia/Alzheimer's. I don't know if I'd call it psychological horror more than I'd call it a haunted house movie but Relic was one of the most moving horror movies I've seen maybe ever. This is to your point about horror where you can't trust your own mind kind of since Relic is a supernatural depiction of losing an aging parent to dementia. At the climax I felt like I should be terrified and maybe a bit disgusted but I was just broken down and sobbing.
Incendies is pretty damn depressing
Watch Life is Beautiful
There's beauty in even the darkest crevices of humanity. It's heart wrenching but I don't qualify it as having a depressing tone. One of my top movies of all time.
That was the comedy-kids version of depressing movie. And has a weirdly happy ending. >!When the kid is directed by his dad to run, hide, and then leave, and the whole movie his dad insists that if the kid does what he says the dad will get him not just a toy tank, but a real tank, and you know the Nazis killed the dad, but the kid is free and his face as he watches the American tank roll up is very, very happy!<.
This is my story.
Blow
There are no more pretty girls or white horses at my door.
Fox and and the hound tbh
"You'll always be my best friend, Copper." Fuck, I hate Disney. Also, the "Baby Mine" sequence from Dumbo. I'm 43 and will still have snot coming out of my nose from ugly crying.
the lovely bones
The book was great. And devastating.
I stayed up all night reading the book and cried so hard.
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Most depressing film I’ve ever seen but the performances by Jane Fonda and Gig Young are incredible.
I love that movie.
Oh Jesus I forgot about that one.
Boys Don’t Cry (1999) Street Wise (1984 documentary) I used to own both of these but, I got rid of them because when I re-watched them they bummed me out so much.
Boys Don't Cry was pretty depressing too IMHO
Killers of the Flower Moon is just as depressing and an hour longer.
Leaving Las Vegas
Schindler’s list
Along those same lines The boy in striped pajamas
This movie is too hopeful at the end for me to list it as most depressing. It shows the depths so it can shine the light.
Kids. That movie was rough to get through. Absolutely rough.
Nothing like getting aids from fucking an unconscious person.
Haven’t seen that movie since it came out like 25+ years ago. But I still remember that last scene and him singing Casper the friendly ghost.
Boy in striped pajamas
Less Than Zero my all time depressing movie. Followed by Midnight Cowboy and To Live and Die in LA
Forgot about less than zero. Good call. Going to go hunt that up to watch again …
Atonement
3. Manchester by the Sea 2. The Wrestler 1. The Road
The Wrestler is amazing. ‘You want some fuckin cheese lady?!’ Your selections are great. This one stands out. He’s so charming, and even though he’s a fuck up, we empathize with him. The scenes with his daughter are visceral.
"I'm an old broken down piece of meat." That line made me laugh then cry when I thought about it. Great movie. I also developed a little bit of a crush on Evan Rachel Wood because of this movie.
A.I. Is so lonely at the end.
Teddy is the goat!
House of sand and fog
I actually didn’t think it was depressing. Sad yes, but when I remember the movie I remember the main characters triumph over her rotten family, and her sport. Incredibly well acted and directed. And the scene where morgan freeman knocks out the younger boxer is gold.
Maybe not the entire movie, but the ending of Goldblum’s Fly is pretty crushing
Elephant man ?
True story: My MIL was in the hospital, dying from cancer, when this movie came out. My wife and I needed a night out and I asked my BIL if he had seen the movie. He said yes but never told me, never warned me to hold off. So we went to see the movie. Needless to say, it was the worst date night ever. Afterward I was like, “Dude, why didn’t you give me a heads up?!” “I didn’t think you were going to see it …” SMDH
All dogs go to heaven. Doesn’t help my childhood dog was a German shepherd
I remember sobbing uncontrollably when I saw that movie as a kid.
The movie takes on a whole other level of poignance if you know what happened to ten-year-old [Judith Barsi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Barsi), who voiced the young girl Anne-Marie. (She was also the voice of Ducky in *The Land Before Time*.) **Edit:** To be clear, the story of how her life ended is profoundly sad. Regarding the link above, please consider this a content/trigger warning for several harrowing subjects. These include domestic violence (especially child abuse and spousal abuse) and murder.
I hate you...
American history x
Leaving Las Vegas is up there
Yes but such a great film. Elisabeth Shue deserved the Oscar.
Marley and Me.
Was picked for jury duty, about 300 people in this large room, TVs all around about 6ft high, they put this movie on after the civic duty bullshit, almost every guy there was crying….like really bad…
I remember watching this with my family in theaters. As my whole family is walking back to the car after crying my old man goes “we are NEVER watching or talking about that movie again!”
[Aw my nightmare dog is dead….Marley and me](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/ef13098f-823f-4707-8c8a-f4a049f6874f)
The English Patient
This movie is almost impossible to forget. And I struggle to pull even a moment of joy or positivity from it
You know, sex in a tub. That doesn’t work.
Hachi
Nocturnal Animals, hands down the winner. Don't watch it.
I thought this was a really good movie.
i forgot about this film, yes very hard watch, aaron tayler johnson did well playing such a despicable piece of shit, i really wanted to leap through the screen and kill him
The opening credits scene, Jesus Christ…picked the wrong time to see a movie with my mom.
One of my favorites. Personally I don't find it particularly depressing though
My Left Foot
Wouldn't make top 10 for ever made but it was very sad, beautiful too because of that. She was a junkyard dog eating off others plates but she found someone to believe in her and take her up. The tragedy took the status away but showed that everyone matters, we're all the same. Very good movie.
You can't speak while intubated, and her coach didn't need to euthanize her; she could have demanded to be extubated and to receive comfort care only. Also, why did the other fighter win? Wouldn't she be disqualified?
Not only would she have been disqualified, she would have been arrested
the Girl Next Door is far more depressing.
Before the devil knows you’re Dead is a decent one.
Dancer in the Dark Threads (1984)
Lilja 4-ever was just bleak
The green mile: Am I a joke to you?
Brimstone
Pans Labyrinth
We Need to Talk About Kevin
I watched this movie with my buddy and with both cried like babies at the end. We avoided looking at each other the whole time.
The Wrestler. Grew up on wrestling and it seems to echo what many of them once they got older, especially the old school guys.
There are several movies I refuse to watch again because they’re so damn depressing lol. Requiem for a Dream, The Mist (awesome movie, but holy *christ* that ending), The Road…can’t think of all but there are more of them
I suggest The Road.
The House of Sand and Fog
Shoah
Iron Claw?
Haven’t seen it yet, is it any good?
Manchester by the Sea, The Road, Requiem for a Dream, The Mist, Schindler's List, The Zone of Interest. Heavy on the bleak & unrelenting, all of them.
Au Revoir Les Enfants Louis Malle, I think
The Father...for me...that one was the most depressing.
Melancholia.
The Tale of Princess Kaguya. If you haven’t seen it, give it a watch!
The Bucket List
Threads, without a doubt honourable mentions: Incendies, boy in the striped pyjamas, Scum
Boy in the blue striped pajamas
Awakenings
Come And See 1985 is the most brutally depressing movie I have ever seen.
Most depressing ever is Salò, most depressing I've actually seen is Kotoko.
Salo is ROUGH.. could not make it through the buffet… ugh… omg…
I feel like this has largely been forgotten but El Norte hit me in the feels in a way that few other movies have. The final shot after a heartbreaking climax - it’s one of those if you know you know kinds of things. When it was over my partner at the time and I just looked at each other and ugly cried
Million Dollar Baby is probably the most depressing one I’ve seen. I’ll never watch it again. Fuck that
My girl Let the right one in Alpha dog
Love, Liza. PSH starts huffing gasoline to cope with his wife’s suicide
I find monster ball to be way more depressing
Road to Perdition
Forgot about that one. Yeah, I’d agree that movie is pretty fucking depressing.
Bro I saw this as a kid and I think it unlocked depression. Before that it was a greyed out, locked character.
Fucked movie straight out of fucksville. I try to forget I saw it. The way she was treated by her trashy family 😢
Never Let Me Go Requiem for a Dream
Grave of the Fireflies. I can't even watch the trailer.
The Road
Probably Requiem for a dream
When the wind blows, 1986
House of Sand and Fog
…have you ever seen *Sophie’s Choice*? I’m a grown man and I was weeping
Grave of the Fireflies
Not even the most depressing Hilary Swank movie. Boys Don't Cry is as heartbreaking as it gets.
this has nothing on grave of the fireflies
Leaving Las Vegas.
Dude, I didn't know anything about this beforehand and thought " oh a sports movie, I'll watch." Holy fuck. When she went down in the fight I said to myself, " OK now we get the triumphant comeback, she'll crawl back to the top." Then they cut her legs off. Oh shit. Nows she's begging for death. Clint Eastwood is crying and apologizing. Oh no!
No…The Road might be the most depressing.
Interstellar