The most depressing film..

[DaveyG]

Mulholland drive was genius viewing the first time, but find it too dark/depressing when I've tried to view it since

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

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.

That was hard viewing the first time I watched it. The black and white grimness of the whole film didn’t help.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Manchester by the sea

Not so much depressing, more “when is anything going to happen?”
Watched it as I’d been there but had no idea about the plot.
I guess the director had no idea either…..

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Now that was bleak, especially when the woman had bloke after bloke after bloke lined up to…….
Incidentally, in the book, one chapter is called The Queen Is Dead which was the inspiration for a particular Manchester 80’s 4 piece beat combo naming their 3rd album.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

'Cathy Come Home' is as desperate and depressing a film as I've ever seen.

Wasn’t it a documentary rather than a film?

 

[Kinkybyname]

Now that was bleak, especially when the woman had bloke after bloke after bloke lined up to…….
Incidentally, in the book, one chapter is called The Queen Is Dead which was the inspiration for a particular Manchester 80’s 4 piece beat combo naming their 3rd album.

at last... some cultural recognition ;)

 

[Skr1975]

Pink Floyd’s ‘the wall’

Always been a fan of it since school, took some rather potent lsd in my late teens and decided to watch it again.
Head was frazzled and took me a few years to be able to watch it again.
Still would highly recommend it to anyone who hasn’t seen it

 

[stan bowles]

Wasn’t it a documentary rather than a film?

Neither. It was actually a television play. So I was definitely wrong in posting it.

 

[M23 Citizen]

A film that could be added to the list - The Whistleblower.

True story about the trafficking of girls for prostitution in Eastern Europe.

Really brings forth the grim reality for a lot of young girls’ lives out there in the real world: kidknapped, forced to become addicted to hard drugs, forced into prostitution in grim and dirty places, treated like shit, many die, probably better to die than live that horrible existence because even those who manage to escape it are scarred for life.

 

[Bill Walker]

Not so much depressing, more “when is anything going to happen?”
Watched it as I’d been there but had no idea about the plot.
I guess the director had no idea either…..

I thought it was a great film.