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I can watch Awakenings often and it gets me every time. Another one would be Midnight Express. Interesting how
several films listed are based on true stories or events.
OMG Sophie's Choice made me nearly have to take to my bed for a day. Great movie though.
Also:
The Great Gatsby (original)
Angela's Ashes
There Will Be Blood (words cannot describe how much I detest that movie)
The Kitchen Toto (just rip my heart out and throw it on the floor and stomp on it, how 'bout it?)
Some Time In April
The Last King of Scotland
Schindler's List
The Killing Fields
Hotel Rwanda
Most of those are great movies, by the way, but sad as heck.
I guess I'm not the only one! I agree:
Deliverance
Cries and Whispers (Bergman)
Requiem for a Dream
Million Dollar Baby
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
And I'd add Terms of Endearment; what a downer, when you think you're going to watch a comedy!
But here's the ultimate depressing recent movie: The Road (2009). Oh my goodness, can it get any sadder than that?
But wait, perhaps this one is worse: Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011) (I mean, what do you expect with a title like that? It's one of the most senselessly depressing movies I've ever seen...)
I agree with your list, but I wanted to add another note about The Road.
The BOOK was so depressing that I didn't dare watch the movie! OMG I kept reading that book just thinking, "Something redeeming is going to happen - there's going to be some sort of great moral twist or lesson at the end..."
I should have just saved some time and slit my wrists instead.
Leaving Las Vegas is a blast to watch with friends while drinking and goof on it. It's a damn downer watching it alone, though.
Yeah, but it's a great downer. Wow, what understated acting.
Hey, here's another movie along the same lines - Trainspotting. That one will quietly distress you as well. Oh, and while we're discussing British movies, I'll just throw in Sid and Nancy.
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".
Heh, yeah, not the funnest rafting movie...
But I found Deliverance more scary than depressing--it's just a strange thriller, almost a horror film, but just a dark film for it's times.
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