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Posted: 2/23/2006 8:27:00 PM EDT

[#1]

Quoted:
The Constant Gardener is my latest most depressing. When we left the theater my wife and I were speechless.

WARNING! SPOILER!

I just saw that tonight and it was pretty messed up. Stupid libtard "i don't want to live anymore so let them shoot me" ending.

Posted: 2/23/2006 8:41:19 PM EDT

[#2]

Seven

Posted: 2/23/2006 8:58:44 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
Brazil

Wow, I never thought anyone else was going to say this. This was the movie that came to mind after reading the thread title.

Posted: 2/24/2006 7:47:41 AM EDT

[#4]

Mystic River

This movie really have me and my wife pulled in and then the ending came and we were left with a big question mark. Not as in what happened, but as in "why was the movie even made?"

Posted: 2/24/2006 8:17:26 AM EDT

[#5]

I forgot to add "The House of Sand and Fog"...

www.imdb.com/title/tt0315983/

Definitely not a feel good movie...

Posted: 2/24/2006 11:32:19 AM EDT

[#6]

Old Yeller.

Posted: 2/24/2006 2:50:31 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Brazil

Wow, I never thought anyone else was going to say this. This was the movie that came to mind after reading the thread title.

A friend of mine got it and told me "You have to see this movie, it is done by Terry Gilliam, one of Monty Python". That only seemed to add to the deflated balloon feeling I had at the end of it.

Posted: 2/24/2006 4:21:42 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Old Yeller.

Gets me every time.

Also, The Notebook was kind of depressing, but in a love story kind of way........if that makes sence.

Posted: 2/24/2006 8:08:19 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
AI
kinda disturbed and depressed me
about the only movie i have ever watched that had any sort of effect on me and im not 100% sure why
I was just kinda uncomfortable after watching it

Big +1 that movie was just creepy.

Posted: 2/24/2006 8:10:48 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Million Dollar Baby.......... Should have been cut when she hit the top!

+1

Posted: 2/25/2006 12:51:25 PM EDT

[#11]

The Green Mile.

Posted: 2/25/2006 1:04:03 PM EDT

[#12]

Sling Blade. mmmmmm hmmmmmm.

I'm not what you'd call an attractive man............ The good lord did not bless me with a purdy face.

Oh yeah, and Mystic River. F*!$ Shaun Penn! That liberal son of a bitch, and F*!$ Susan Seranden also, they should hook up and infect eachother with HPV/AIDS.

Posted: 2/25/2006 1:16:54 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
I just recently watched Million Dollar Baby, .

No kidding! That was like a snuff film!

edit I saw Requim for a Dream, sucks to be a drug addict, but that's a far different fate than that poor girl in Million Dollar Baby. I was waiting for an Eagle to start fly in every day and eat her liver.

Posted: 2/25/2006 5:09:26 PM EDT

[#14]

Leaving Las Vegas

Bringing out the dead

Where the red Fern grows

Posted: 2/25/2006 5:49:10 PM EDT

[#15]

I forgot about 8mm

Posted: 2/26/2006 6:00:27 PM EDT

[#16]

"Brazil" - yes
"Requiem for a Dream" - yes

And also, another Aaronofsky film, "Pi".

Posted: 2/26/2006 6:11:31 PM EDT

[#17]

Miracle Mile

Rented it when my wife and I were dating. She was really pissed at me for a while.

Posted: 2/26/2006 6:35:12 PM EDT

[#18]

Born on the 4th of July

Posted: 2/26/2006 6:39:15 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
Requeim for a Dream.

ASS to ASS !

Posted: 2/26/2006 6:40:30 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Road To Perdition

Forgot about that one +1

Posted: 2/26/2006 6:46:05 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Requeim for a Dream.

+1
I saw it with my girlfriend at the time at her recommendation. I still don't know why she liked it.

Posted: 2/28/2006 8:41:27 AM EDT

[#22]

The final scene in "The Sand Pebbles" was a real downer, too.

Also, another clinically depressing movie is "The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb".

Oh, one more..."Grave of the Fireflies".

Posted: 3/1/2006 7:20:42 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
Son of the Mask

I don't even need to explain it.

rotfl -- I think I watched about 5 seconds of that movie where the baby starts dancing and I was like yeahhh click I think I got dumber watching it haha

Posted: 3/1/2006 7:24:21 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Old Yeller.

Gets me every time. he

Agree with you. I wasn't sure what I was going to say but I think The Notebook was depressing in that it made me cry wayy to much cause its so beautiful but you're like does that happen? It's kind of sappy. Depressing in a way.

Also I'd have to say I am Sam. Don't give me crap about it, everyone says horrible acting by Sean Penn but I would get so depressed I couldn't watch more than 15 - 20 min of it at a time. Had to shut it off and then revisit it the next day or so.

Posted: 3/1/2006 7:26:31 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
Sling Blade. mmmmmm hmmmmmm.

I'm not what you'd call an attractive man............ The good lord did not bless me with a purdy face.

Oh yeah, and Mystic River. F*!$ Shaun Penn! That liberal son of a bitch, and F*!$ Susan Seranden also, they should hook up and infect eachother with HPV/AIDS.

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Posted: 3/1/2006 8:13:55 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
The Green Mile.

Agreed.

Bridges of Madison County
In Love and War

What can I say, I'm a sucker for love.

Posted: 3/2/2006 2:09:19 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
The Green Mile.

Ditto

Posted: 3/4/2006 8:20:54 PM EDT

[#28]

Ironweed
Leaving Las Vegas
Paris, Texas
Bang the Drum Slowly
Days of Heaven
Forrest Gump
Tender Mercies
Man on Fire
Savior
Road to Perdition

Posted: 3/4/2006 8:29:30 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
Requeim for a Dream.

Definatly,

Mabey Add.
Broken Flowers Just cause it is BRUTAL
Bill Murray needs to stick to scripts like
Rushmore
now that is Funny

Posted: 3/4/2006 9:18:48 PM EDT

[#30]

I cannot believe nobody's said this one yet:

Gallipoli

If you haven't seen it, rent it ASAP. Very good movie about WW1 by a very talented director, although it has just about the most depressing ending I've ever seen.

Posted: 3/6/2006 1:58:03 PM EDT

[#31]

Empire of the Sun
Syriana

and yep, Gallipoli was damn depressing.

Posted: 3/6/2006 2:18:29 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
Quoted:
The Green Mile.

Agreed.

Bridges of Madison County
In Love and War

What can I say, I'm a sucker for love.

I agree with TGM and Bridges (although with Bridges, I was pissed Clint was cast to play a role Robert Redford should have played)...the book was worse: had me wailing in my jammies when I finished it.
Never saw that last one on SP1's list, so I'll instead +1 The Road to Perdition.

And yes...although depressing, I liked these films.

Posted: 3/6/2006 7:46:37 PM EDT

[#33]

I can't believe no one has mentioned "On the Beach"

I've only seen the remake with Brian Brown and Armand Assante, so I can't comment on the original, but everyone on the planet dying a slow horrible death or commiting suicide?

Easily the most depressing movie ever made.

Posted: 3/8/2006 3:54:33 PM EDT

[#34]

Schindler's List

Posted: 3/13/2006 12:50:30 PM EDT

[#35]

Miracle Mile
Last Night

Both left me with a proofound sense of futile helplessness

Posted: 3/16/2006 11:02:09 PM EDT

[#36]

Doom. I waited 10 years for a Doom movie, and it sucked so bad I was speechless. And it would have been so easy to make it good.....

Posted: 3/16/2006 11:14:13 PM EDT

[#37]

1984

Posted: 3/16/2006 11:19:32 PM EDT

[#38]

Lotsa fine nominees but I gotta go with Requiem For a Dream for pure unrelenting hopelessness.

Posted: 3/17/2006 2:18:52 AM EDT

[#39]

Dumb and Dumberer

No Carrey, no Daniels, no Farelly Bros.

Posted: 3/17/2006 2:30:19 AM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:
I cannot believe nobody's said this one yet:

Gallipoli

If you haven't seen it, rent it ASAP. Very good movie about WW1 by a very talented director, although it has just about the most depressing ending I've ever seen.

good call

Posted: 3/19/2006 2:44:32 PM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:
The Sweet Hereafter with Ian Holm and Sarah Polley. It was such torture to watch, because I figured-out what was going to happen long before it happened.z

+1 great film

Posted: 3/19/2006 2:57:16 PM EDT

[#42]

Movies that you have seen: Terms of Endearment.

Movies that most people have not: Tree's Lounge.
Trees lounge is BRUTAL. Steve Buscemi at the top of his game depicting someone at the bottom of his game.

Posted: 3/19/2006 8:35:26 PM EDT

[#43]

Don't forget The Day After and Testament, both about the aftermath of nuclear attacks in the USA. The former deals pretty much with the immediate effects at Ground Zero and surrounding areas; the latter with a more distant community suffering a slower but no less agonizingly horrible breakdown of life as they knew it.

The Day After has the all-star cast (including Steve Gutenberg!) and spectacular Special Effects while Testament is a more thoughtful portrayal of the day-to-day agony of those "lucky" enough to survive.

Enjoy!

Posted: 3/19/2006 8:52:14 PM EDT

[#44]

UNFAITHFUL!!!

Posted: 3/19/2006 9:41:44 PM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:
Requeim for a Dream.

Oh God + a fricking million!!!!!!!! That movie has depressed me to this day.

Posted: 3/20/2006 10:34:05 AM EDT

[#46]

50 First Dates.

Posted: 3/20/2006 2:04:41 PM EDT

[#47]

Quoted:
50 First Dates.

anyway...

I saw The Snow Walker last night.

Anyone here seen this one?

It was a great movie till the very end. I wish the ending would have been done some other way.