The most depressing movie you ever saw (filmed, Burt Reynolds, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

[Slithytoves]

What was it?

For me it's a tie between AI and an older Sissy Spacek film called 'Night Mother

[Delahanty]

I know I'll think of more, but two that I can remember which fit the bill:

1. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

2. Charly

[oeccscclhjhn]

leaving las vegas (1995).

[convextech]

Deliverance.

At 45 years old, I just saw it for the first time, and I was appalled. I always thought it was a fun rafting movie that was filmed near where I live.

It also completely destroyed my image of Burt Reynolds, although it was neat to see where all those lines come from, i.e., "Squeal like a pig".

[Cida]

Fires on the Plain.

[drunkwithwords]

Dear Zachary

[skel1977]

old yeller
million dollar baby
requiem for a dream
the wrestler
schindlers list
seven pounds

[rogead]

Umberto D
Bicycle Thieves
The Sweet Hereafter
The Elephant Man
Sophie's Choice
Old Yeller

[Grandstander]

Probably a six way tie among a half dozen of Ingmar Bergman's films. They are always about unfulfilled women and angst plagued men caught up in intolerable worlds of pretense and loathing.

[averysgore]

Requiem for a Dream
Grave of the Fireflies
Food, inc.