The most depressing film..

[Brightwell’s left peg]

threads is quite grim

Was going to post Threads. It’s the film that makes you want to make sure you’re incinerated within the initial fireball when the bombs go off.

 

[NorCalBlue]

I’ll nominate “The Platform” with the caveat that it might have had a wonderful, uplifting ending as I couldn’t stomach more than half an hour of it. Actually, “most disturbing” might be a better description… (shudders)

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Was going to post Threads. It’s the film that makes you want to make sure you’re incinerated within the initial fireball when the bombs go off.

Also came here to say Threads.

I think most films that are depressing are either melancholy or they have some kind of underlying emotional message.

Threads is just utterly fucking bleak. It really is the only word for it.

It starts off in 1980s Sheffield and somehow that is the fucking high point.

 

[Double R]

One flew over the cuckoo's nest, fuck that film!!

What? It has one of the most shout out loud upbeat endings ever.

 

[Double R]

Grave of the Fireflies, Requiem for a Dream or Irreversible.

Was going to say Requiem and Irreversible.

 

[Double R]

Always found Forrest Gump a bit depressing. Spoiler just on the off chance that somebodys not seen it, Bubba dies, his mum dies, Jenny dies, Lt Dan looses his legs, and he ends up bringing his son up alone.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Eraserhead. My god depressing.. I saw it like 30 years ago and it's still stuck in my head.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

The Road

Yes, this was achingly depressing.

 

[Two Gun Bob]

Always found Forrest Gump a bit depressing. Spoiler just on the off chance that somebodys not seen it, Bubba dies, his mum dies, Jenny dies, Lt Dan looses his legs, and he ends up bringing his son up alone.

 

[PinkFinal]

Surprised no one's mentioned Raining Stones

Or Nil By Mouth

 

[Winchester]

Man Utd
Beyond the promised land

 

[bluebaja]

Eraserhead depressed and horrified me first time watching when I was about 13. I've seen it since and it still has the same effect. Good though.

My recollection is that Eraserhead is really weird, I remember the bit with the chicken moving on the plate.

 

[bakerdave76]

Bad lieutenant was a bit grim as was woolf creek.

 

[Northerndave]

threads is quite grim

Quite grim???

I saw it when I was 17 at a CND sponsored Cinema event (as it was only shown once on the Beeb if I remember) and didn't sleep for a week. I once heard them test the Nuclear Alert Siren on the top of Piccadilly Station when I worked next to it and almost pissed my pants.

In my twenties the threat of death by nuclear weapon felt a very strong possibility

 

[johnny crossan]

I found The English Patient rather depressing.

 

[Barcon]

I don’t find many films depressing but every time I make the wife watch an English film she ends up crying.
Tyrannosaur, I Daniel Blake, Sorry we missed you etc.
She always asks. “Why is it so depressing”?
And I always answer. “It’s grim up north “.

 

[A57 the snake]

Of mice and men always got me .

 

[The Black Shed]

Human Centipede 3

 

[bluethrunthru]

I, Daniel Blake - even more depressing it documents peoples lives up to 2016 and nothing has changed 8 years later and the current rhetoric looks like it will extend it - makes Kes look like a fun musical

 

[WestGorton]

Gary Neville s Soccer Box. Life before digital film.