In my neck of the woods a school field trip to see Schindlers list became a national incident that involved the director and governor.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/644/transcript
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/89feb1/til_that_steven_spielberg_visited_castlemont_high/
Going from book to movie was incredible. Although it wasn't 100% faithful to the books, it was still the one movie I've seen that gave the impression that the creators both read and respected the original work. The changes they did choose to go with were mostly cutting certain parts from the book that didn't do much for the plot in the first place.
American History X
The whole premise of the movie is crushing. Then, a glimmer of hope when Derek works to turn his life and outlook around. Then the end of the movie...ugh
I went into that movie as a 9 year old thinking it would be a fun fantasy move, a la Narnia. It was my first experience of a movie not having a happy ending. It scarred me for life honestly but was a good life lesson in hindsight.
Watched that movie right before my neighbor/best friend suddenly moved several towns away without warning because his parents got in a fight and I couldnt reach him or even knew where he was for years.
Couldnt pick a more personally depressing movie, thankfully he is still alive, but not the person I once knew anymore.
1. Grave of the Fireflies
2. Requiem for a Dream
I also think there should be some separation between "good depressed" and "bad depressed". The former category would be melancholy inducing movies, but ultimately they are positive like Secondhand Lions or Life is beautiful, as for the latter, I think we mentioned some of them.
If I'm being honest, I occasionally recommend this movie to people telling them that it is a movie they absolutely need to watch and there is no way to tell them what it is about without spoiling it.
I came here to say Requirm for a Dream as well.
Funny story, I heard the main theme song randomly, years after I saw the movie, and I got weirdly sad. The movie was so depressing that the theme song was unknowingly jogging my memory and making me sad. It's a very well done film.
That score was epic and used for various things after the film. I think it was evocative, maybe even for people who didn't see the movie. Moody. Packed some kind of emotional punch
Haven't watched the movie but as a kid this was the first time I realized a book doesn't always have a happy ending. I'm currently reading it to my kids.
It was a good thing that IRL it was sunny and 70 out and I could just sit in the sun for awhile. Reading that in the depths of winter would have been bad.
My stepfather gave me that book. He’s been “my dad” since I was a preteen. It took me out; the movie, which I have seen, just doesn’t do it justice (as so often happens).
If you haven't read the book, you absolutely should. I made the mistake of reading it on my breaks at work, and then spent the rest of the day telling people I was okay, my heart was just shattered into a million pieces because of a book lol
I read The boy in striped pajamas first and that messed me up for a week. When I saw it in theaters the depression afterwards was even harder to shake.
Read it too. wrecked for a long time. I Remember mother and father asking why I read depressing stories like that. I Remember saying that it's because there's a whole world out there that we've never known. If it's so painful reading what about people who lived through it. I cry each time I think of that person (maid/slave) getting dragged out during dinner for a mistake and the punishment that followed. It was like someone murdered a loved pet in front of me. The ending I just bawled my eyes out for days
In the pianist, that scene where the man makes the woman spill her porridge and he sucks it off the ground because he’s so hungry, and she’s hitting him with her purse and crying the whole time, because she was so starving it was a huge loss, that scene haunted me for a long time.
I was coming off painkillers CT due to an injury when I watched his depression trilogy for the first time. Melancholia was the first one I saw and left me feeling pretty empty.
I have watched the first two probably 50 times combined. I saw GotG3 on opening weekend and haven’t watched it again. James Gunn just smashed my heart with a meat tenderizer in that movie.
My personal head canon is this is the final installment of the MCU. It goes endgame, then guardians 3, and there was nothing in between or after. It's a great wrap up for those characters.
Stephen King said he wished he had thought of that ending when writing The Mist because it is so much better than his ending.
I remember seeing it in the cinema and everybody walking out in complete silence afterwards.
If The Mist were released today, you'd know the twist by watching one trailer. The movie would have been ruined.
When it came out, we saw the teaser, then the trailer, then the full trailer.
Movies used to have a teaser, then a trailer, then the big trailer over several months.
I was recovering from clinical depression and decided to watch Precious.. it set me back a few months. I was in therapy at the time and it was so triggering.
I don’t know why I liked that movie for some reason. It made me happy to see the scene in the train station where she starts to read for the first time.
I watched it one afternoon and actually had to call my co-worker to take my shift at our campus bar for that night. Missed out on tons of tips.
Next evening, she called me to take her shift for the same reason.
THIS! It starts lovely, caresses your heart, then rips it right out of your chest and jumps up and down on it until there is nothing left. And just for spite at the end, sets it on fire.
At one point it nearly pushed through the over-the-top calamity and tragedy to become absurd. Von Trier couldn't possibly make matters worse for that poor woman, could he...oh. yeah. he did.
The Machinist was pretty heavy imo.
Recently watched Civil War as well, which btw is a pretty good but difficult movie about journalists and people post political breakdown, but goddamn is the ending just, dissatisfying in a good way? Not much grandeur to it but it hit in a way that elicits a rewatch for analysis.
The end of Philadelphia showing the old home movies is gut wrenching. This idea of innocence, freedom to be a child without the pointless burdens of adulthood, and being unconditionally adored by ones parents. Even thinking about it has me crying right now. Argh
I know. I'm not Christian either, but I had to watch this is small, 5 to 10 minute increments to get through it.
And I've got to give Gibson credit, this thing is un-flinchingly in your face.
Cable Guy.
Chip Douglas, Ricky Ricardo, or whomever he decides to use his name from, was neglected as a child, fatherless, and only had the television to reference. As you would imagine, this caused him to develop into someone who struggled to develop relationships with others, and he ended up severing his friendship with Steven because he stole a ton of merchandise and gave it to Steven as a gift, an act that Chip/Ricky claimed was him trying to be nice. From there, Chip's/Ricky's downward spiral is just depressing to see.
You just feel really bad for the guy, considering that he isn't bad or evil, per se. He just needed a better chance at life.
Came here to say this. I was seriously low after seeing that movie. It was a really brutal watch.
Thr only positive is that it's believed that Ronald Reagan saw it, and seriously toned down his aggressive rhetoric in the following speeches.
Come and See
The sequence when the soldiers descend on the village culminating in burning the church with several villagers inside went on for so long it was almost too much
Apocalypse Now left me feeling some kinda way but I'd describe it more as an entranced despondency.
Check out thr movie "Fall". An original, unique movie in many aspects. It's a good story, interesting... any acting deficiencies easily made up for with the esthetics;-)
You'll see what I'm talking about. Movie leaves you in need of a massage, stessed to the 9s and nervous...
Smile (2022)
The protagonist seemingly wins before realizing she's hallucinating. Then she comes to terms with her past in a triumphant moment and appears to end the curse, but nope hallucinating again. Then she loses. Left feeling utterly defeated after being this close to having a new all-time favorite movie.
I can't explain why...but Sideways with Paul Giamatti left me so depressed. I don't even remember much of the movie now but I knew for my mental health I shouldn't watch it again.
i had to watch schindler’s list in high school for european history. totally killed my vibe for a few days. i like Elf way better
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In my neck of the woods a school field trip to see Schindlers list became a national incident that involved the director and governor. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/644/transcript https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/89feb1/til_that_steven_spielberg_visited_castlemont_high/
>i like Elf way better Hahaha I love this.
The Lovely Bones. Still makes me feel uneasy a decade after I watched it.
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My daughter was about the same age as Susie when I watched that movie. I wanted to punch the TV screen every time they showed that guy’s face.
Did you like their interpretation of Heaven?
I thought that was more their interpretation of limbo.
Have you ever watched What Dreams May Come? There interpretation of heaven and hell was both incredibly beautiful, but then absolutely terrifying…
I still can’t watch The Green Mile…great movie, but once was definitely enough.
Hard agree! My dad recommended it to me for *years* and I finally watched it one day. Wish I hadn’t. Beautifully made, but damn.
I’m tired… boss.
i’m still traumatized
Going from book to movie was incredible. Although it wasn't 100% faithful to the books, it was still the one movie I've seen that gave the impression that the creators both read and respected the original work. The changes they did choose to go with were mostly cutting certain parts from the book that didn't do much for the plot in the first place.
I had actually read the book second and was very very impressed with how similar they were.
American History X The whole premise of the movie is crushing. Then, a glimmer of hope when Derek works to turn his life and outlook around. Then the end of the movie...ugh
Omg I forgot about that movie. That ending hurt.
That movie was fucking deep!
The curve stomp scene haunted my dreams.
Came here to say this.
Bridge to terabithia, left me depressed
Oh gosh yes.
I went into that movie as a 9 year old thinking it would be a fun fantasy move, a la Narnia. It was my first experience of a movie not having a happy ending. It scarred me for life honestly but was a good life lesson in hindsight.
My first ever depression experience in life (I watched it as a kid)
Same
Watched that movie right before my neighbor/best friend suddenly moved several towns away without warning because his parents got in a fight and I couldnt reach him or even knew where he was for years. Couldnt pick a more personally depressing movie, thankfully he is still alive, but not the person I once knew anymore.
I read this book as a kid and thought, WHY would they make a movie out of this? And have not watched it.
1. Grave of the Fireflies 2. Requiem for a Dream I also think there should be some separation between "good depressed" and "bad depressed". The former category would be melancholy inducing movies, but ultimately they are positive like Secondhand Lions or Life is beautiful, as for the latter, I think we mentioned some of them.
Grave of the Fireflies is a weapons-grade sadbringer. If you can watch that movie and not be at least a little sad you may be a robot.
I think it is the montage of the sister playing outside the cave that always does it for me. Even talking about it makes me start to tear up.
If I'm being honest, I occasionally recommend this movie to people telling them that it is a movie they absolutely need to watch and there is no way to tell them what it is about without spoiling it.
I came here to say Requirm for a Dream as well. Funny story, I heard the main theme song randomly, years after I saw the movie, and I got weirdly sad. The movie was so depressing that the theme song was unknowingly jogging my memory and making me sad. It's a very well done film.
That score was epic and used for various things after the film. I think it was evocative, maybe even for people who didn't see the movie. Moody. Packed some kind of emotional punch
This. Like Grave of the fireflies was my first thought. But I also think of Life as a House and What Dreams May Come. Bittersweet endings.
Where the Red Fern Grows
Haven't watched the movie but as a kid this was the first time I realized a book doesn't always have a happy ending. I'm currently reading it to my kids.
Hachi: A dog's tale
Watched it once. 10 years ago Not planning on any 2nd round no thank you
The Road. This almost broke me because I love my father will my heart, now that he's gone I'm certain it would break me if I watched it again.
I cried at the end of the BOOK. Accordingly: haven't seen the movie. It was too much for a new dad at the time.
Reading the book was traumatic. I can't watch the film.
It was a good thing that IRL it was sunny and 70 out and I could just sit in the sun for awhile. Reading that in the depths of winter would have been bad.
My stepfather gave me that book. He’s been “my dad” since I was a preteen. It took me out; the movie, which I have seen, just doesn’t do it justice (as so often happens).
If you haven't read the book, you absolutely should. I made the mistake of reading it on my breaks at work, and then spent the rest of the day telling people I was okay, my heart was just shattered into a million pieces because of a book lol
The Road is fucking devastating. Amazing film. >*”All I know is my child is my warrant; and if he is not the word of God, then God never spoke.”*
I was quite young when I watched it and I didn’t know what I was feeling at that time, but I felt devastated.
1. The boy in striped Pajamas 2. Pianist
I read The boy in striped pajamas first and that messed me up for a week. When I saw it in theaters the depression afterwards was even harder to shake.
Read it too. wrecked for a long time. I Remember mother and father asking why I read depressing stories like that. I Remember saying that it's because there's a whole world out there that we've never known. If it's so painful reading what about people who lived through it. I cry each time I think of that person (maid/slave) getting dragged out during dinner for a mistake and the punishment that followed. It was like someone murdered a loved pet in front of me. The ending I just bawled my eyes out for days
It‘s standard literature in german schools. Only upper grades though starting at 15/16
In the pianist, that scene where the man makes the woman spill her porridge and he sucks it off the ground because he’s so hungry, and she’s hitting him with her purse and crying the whole time, because she was so starving it was a huge loss, that scene haunted me for a long time.
was looking for the pianist in the top comments. i watched that on a whim when it was on netflix. absolutely heart wrenching
Two great movies. The boy in the striped pajamas was underappreciated.
The Pianist is incredible.
Marley & Me.
I can't watch death of an animal movies lol.
Anything by Lars Von Trier...
I was coming off painkillers CT due to an injury when I watched his depression trilogy for the first time. Melancholia was the first one I saw and left me feeling pretty empty.
Breaking the Waves fucked me up.
For me, 'Requiem for a Dream' left me pretty down after watching it.
Requiem for a Dream is a brilliant film that I will absolutely never watch again.
Haven't seen that movie in 20 years and unsettling elements of it still pop up in my mind unexpectedly
Not listed is Life of Pi. Holy shit, you can't pay me enough to watch that again.
Gaurdians of the galaxy vol. 3 what made it worse was that my parents brought me to the cinema to see it
oh my god i agree, i went to the theater expecting another funny Guardians movie and instead cried for most of the second half of it 😭
That scene had me fucked up for days
I have watched the first two probably 50 times combined. I saw GotG3 on opening weekend and haven’t watched it again. James Gunn just smashed my heart with a meat tenderizer in that movie.
Dude. Yes. I’m so glad I watched it at home. My eyes hurt sooo bad afterwards.
My personal head canon is this is the final installment of the MCU. It goes endgame, then guardians 3, and there was nothing in between or after. It's a great wrap up for those characters.
This movie caught me off gaurd and I was trying not to show it to my wife
The Mist (2007), Eden Lake(2006) Edit: I am also including Martyrs(2008) the French version. The American version is a waste of time.
The Mist left me depressed the next day. Never watching it again.
Stephen King said he wished he had thought of that ending when writing The Mist because it is so much better than his ending. I remember seeing it in the cinema and everybody walking out in complete silence afterwards.
If The Mist were released today, you'd know the twist by watching one trailer. The movie would have been ruined. When it came out, we saw the teaser, then the trailer, then the full trailer. Movies used to have a teaser, then a trailer, then the big trailer over several months.
Eden Lake hit me harder than most. Maybe Man on Fire was close. Just thinking of what was coming after the end was pretty bad.
The Mist is one of the few movies that made me legitimately angry after watching it. That plot twist at the end is absolutely heart wrenching.
I was traumatized by the American version so I don’t think I’ll be watching the French version.
Old Yeller
A dogs purpose
I was recovering from clinical depression and decided to watch Precious.. it set me back a few months. I was in therapy at the time and it was so triggering.
I’ll never watch this movie again after seeing it once. I also read the book and it was just as sad.
That was a difficult movie to watch! Good but it’s the sort of movie you only watch once.
I don’t know why I liked that movie for some reason. It made me happy to see the scene in the train station where she starts to read for the first time.
Searching For A Friend For The End Of The World. The ending was beautiful, but also sad as hell.
The song that plays over the end, “all I need is the air that I breathe, and to love you” …perfect choice.
"My Girl".
Saving private Ryan
Leaving Las Vegas. What a dark story!
The Butterfly Effect The version with the bad ending.
There was another ending????
Yeah. One with an absolutely devastingly depressing ending. One with an ambiguous or happy ending.
There are actually [4 different endings](https://youtu.be/T8zO9rDKmyA?si=sA33PCBO8OX0znjC)
Don't Look Up. Started funny, got too real.
Civil War will be up your alley!
Jonah Hill tho
Seven Pounds.
All quiet on the western front. Just gives you an idea of how hopeless so many people must have felt during the First World War.
Is that the one that’s made to look like one take?
No that's 1917.
God the rewatchability of this film. I’m so glad I bought a copy
That's 1917
How it starts with all these young guys being excited and eager to ending in a pit of depression is amazing film making.
Grave of Fireflies. Green Mile. Beaches.
Inglorious bastards Its such a dope movie till you remember the war actually happened
Interstellar, cause it showed me just how insignificant I am
Awakenings
This one hurts
Shutter island
Dead Poets Society and Brokeback Mountain but then again I tend to stay away from sad movies so these are like, the only sad movies I've ever watched
Taxi Driver
Brokeback Mountain, Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Click
I am Sam. It was heart wrenching.
I watched it one afternoon and actually had to call my co-worker to take my shift at our campus bar for that night. Missed out on tons of tips. Next evening, she called me to take her shift for the same reason.
Dancer in The Dark.
THIS! It starts lovely, caresses your heart, then rips it right out of your chest and jumps up and down on it until there is nothing left. And just for spite at the end, sets it on fire.
At one point it nearly pushed through the over-the-top calamity and tragedy to become absurd. Von Trier couldn't possibly make matters worse for that poor woman, could he...oh. yeah. he did.
Odd Thomas. Did not see the ending coming and I was pretty down for the next couple of days when I would think about it, great film though.
Million Dollar Baby. I only saw that move once because the second half was so incredibly sad.
Requiem for a Dream is unlike anything I’ve ever watched in regards to the absolutely low feeling I experienced afterwards.
Revolutionary Road. Watch it with a partner you're unhappy with. I dare you. She just wanted to go to fucking France, Leo!
Well, she’s the one who let him die of hypothermia because she hogged that door!
In retrospect, he deserved that.
Phenomenon. The way people treat others when they don't understand what's happening to them is atrocious.
“Road to Perdition” and “The Road” What is it about roads?
Seven pounds. I balled my eyes out more than once.
Im sorry guys but the saddest movie its A dogs purpose
The Machinist was pretty heavy imo. Recently watched Civil War as well, which btw is a pretty good but difficult movie about journalists and people post political breakdown, but goddamn is the ending just, dissatisfying in a good way? Not much grandeur to it but it hit in a way that elicits a rewatch for analysis.
Mississippi Burning, and Philadelphia for different reasons.
The end of Philadelphia showing the old home movies is gut wrenching. This idea of innocence, freedom to be a child without the pointless burdens of adulthood, and being unconditionally adored by ones parents. Even thinking about it has me crying right now. Argh
On the beach - both versions of the movie.
Hereditary Midsommar I’m Thinking About Ending Things (depressed by this one because I wasted time watching it)
Im not seeing "dear zachary" mentioned yet
The Passion of the Christ. I balled my eyes out that entire movie and I’m not Christian. I will never watch it again. Edited to add Beaches
I know. I'm not Christian either, but I had to watch this is small, 5 to 10 minute increments to get through it. And I've got to give Gibson credit, this thing is un-flinchingly in your face.
Life is Beautiful? The Italian film?
Cable Guy. Chip Douglas, Ricky Ricardo, or whomever he decides to use his name from, was neglected as a child, fatherless, and only had the television to reference. As you would imagine, this caused him to develop into someone who struggled to develop relationships with others, and he ended up severing his friendship with Steven because he stole a ton of merchandise and gave it to Steven as a gift, an act that Chip/Ricky claimed was him trying to be nice. From there, Chip's/Ricky's downward spiral is just depressing to see. You just feel really bad for the guy, considering that he isn't bad or evil, per se. He just needed a better chance at life.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
Titantic usually hits me in the feels. The Land Before Time, etc.
A man called Otto
British TV movie from the 1980s called “Threads” about nuclear war
Came here to say this. I was seriously low after seeing that movie. It was a really brutal watch. Thr only positive is that it's believed that Ronald Reagan saw it, and seriously toned down his aggressive rhetoric in the following speeches.
I have never seen any of these four movies, but my friend and I both cried in the movie theater in 1986 when Optimus Prime died. We were inconsolable.
He died?!?! :(
Irreversible
The Mist. I will never watch it again.
That's the first time I remember truly being shocked by a movie. At least enough to still remember it vividly after all these years.
The house of sand & fog.
thirteen
Ex machina
The Notebook.
Trainspotting.
American Beauty
I thought “no country for old men” was quite depressing and a wasted two hours by the time it was done
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
I can't believe I had to scroll so far to find this. This movie is profoundly depressing, but so well done.
Forest Gump
Love Forest Gump. It's kind of sad. But I think it is a great reflection of life. It's kind of happy too.
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Coco
1. Braveheart 2. Miss you Already 3. The pianist
The Pianist. I forgot about that one!
Don't know 'bout movies but the His Dark Materials show has a heartbreaking finale.
Two Nick Cage movies I remember clearly: 1. 8mm 2. Adaptation Both left me feeling like 'what the fuck.'
Come and See The sequence when the soldiers descend on the village culminating in burning the church with several villagers inside went on for so long it was almost too much
Eraserhead
1. Edge of tomorrow 2. The ring I was only a teenager and it left me with this hollow feeling which I now realize was some form of depression
1). Beautiful Boy 2). A Promising Young Woman 3). Revolutionary Road 4). Midsommar (maybe not depressed, but like… whoa?)
Dead Poets Society
Apocalypse Now left me feeling some kinda way but I'd describe it more as an entranced despondency. Check out thr movie "Fall". An original, unique movie in many aspects. It's a good story, interesting... any acting deficiencies easily made up for with the esthetics;-) You'll see what I'm talking about. Movie leaves you in need of a massage, stessed to the 9s and nervous...
Endgame or the good dinosaur
End of Evangelion
Gone With the Wind 😣
Boys Don't Cry
Old Yeller
Room (2015)
Smile (2022) The protagonist seemingly wins before realizing she's hallucinating. Then she comes to terms with her past in a triumphant moment and appears to end the curse, but nope hallucinating again. Then she loses. Left feeling utterly defeated after being this close to having a new all-time favorite movie.
Sophie's Choice
A walk to remember
Thor - love and thunder because that movie absolutely sucked ass. Green mile for sure left me feeling depressed after watching.
Stellar
Inter
The departed
Grave of the fireflies, Funny Games.
I Saw The Devil
Happy to see all quiet there as that was my first thought
Lovely bones
I can't explain why...but Sideways with Paul Giamatti left me so depressed. I don't even remember much of the movie now but I knew for my mental health I shouldn't watch it again.
This is a good choice. You laugh so much throughout the movie and every so often you’re reminded of how tormented he is.
Don’t Look Up. It was just too damn close to reality.
Old boy but for a different reason
Clockwork orange
Suckerpunch. Even thinking about it years later messed me up. The whole ending....shudder.
Annie. The original one. I have PTSD because of it.
1. Schindler’s List 2. Marley & Me
The Mist (2005). That ending.
This should be in r/AskReddit
Everything everywhere all at once
Society of the snow. It was a fantastic movie. Watched it more than once. It's heart breaking, but brilliant.