| Gross: Kelly Adams, Director: Lukas Moodysson | Stars: Oksana Akinshina, Artyom Bogucharskiy, Pavel Ponomaryov, Lyubov Agapova Lilya is a poverty-stricken teenager who lives in the humiliations of her aunt after her mother abandons her to go to the US. $0.40M, R Do you have a favorite depressing film? Biography, Drama, History. Set against the backdrop of World War 2, the film begins with the death of a boy starved to death, only to be united with the spirit of his younger sister, who then revisit the last few months of the war. 138 min Robert De Niro, © | | Karen Meagher, Based on actual events, Boys Don’t Cry tells the story of Brandon Teena, the new popular guy in a small Nebraskan town.
The movie becomes increasingly difficult to watch as Trevor destroys anything good in his life, haunted by his guilty conscious. Why wouldn’t you watch an awarded movie like this one more than once?
The film reveals the bare bones of the human condition when presented with life’s most difficult moments, moments that might be too excruciating to watch on a second go around. Yoshiko Shinohara, Not Rated
$107.51M, R | Gross: Frankie Pain, In case you're a perennially happy person, your fundamentals will be challenged by the most brutal rape scene in cinema history. When you think about it, there's a lot of films that end up getting a bit bleak. Tobin Bell, After being separated from his family during Operation Reinhard, Sladyslaw goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee, struggling to survive the death and destruction that ensues at the Warsaw Ghetto. The Green Mile is a 1999 American fantasy drama film directed by Frank Darabont and adapted... 'Old' Movies Every Young Person Needs To Watch In Their Lifetime. Philippe Nahon, Buddy Giovinazzo |
I even tried to avoid happy endings if I could. Kiefer Sutherland, | | | Peter Brabeck, Extraction 2: Sequel is coming as Netflix confirms a second installment for... Baby-Sitters Club cast: Who’s who on the Netflix show? Leonardo DiCaprio, Marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderer who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane.
The effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas. | $0.10M, R 142 min A harrowing tale of Precious Jones, a 16-year-old obese teenager who is regularly raped by her father and physically and mentally abused by her mother. Irreversible is unlike any other movie on this list. Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire received nothing but positive feedback when it was released in 2009, racking up six Academy Award nominations including a nom for actress Gabourey Sidibe and a win for actress Mo’Nique. Ben Kingsley, Why you should watch it: The writer of the book the movie is based on, John O’Brien, committed suicide two days into the production of the film. The movie powerfully depicts the horrors of belonging to a 'different skin' while simultaneously challenging your perspective of ownership: material or immaterial. | 183 min Requiem For A Dream shadows the tragic dissent of hopeful Brooklyn residents into psychosis, drug-addiction and prostitution. Watched Greyhound with Tom Hanks and thought it was pretty good. The Deer Hunter is a 1978 American epic drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino... Unbelievable Stories From Behind The Scenes Of 'The Deer Hunter', Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire.
Set in the Great Depression, the film journeys through the desperate lives of the impoverished. Swank’s performance is so raw that it is like watching the embodiment of Brandon’s soul on screen, making it that much harder to bear on a second or third time viewing after the heartbreaking finale. When it was released, Mel Gibson’s Christian epic grossed over $600 million during its impressive box office run. Directed by Roman Polanski, The Pianist is such a sad tale that it’s hard to believe it was based on a true story. Mick Jackson
Director: Mike Figgis | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis But sometimes, it's those movies that can actually be the most compelling. | Gross: Drama. She’s a bit obsessed with all things Aliens and Terminator. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Allen Joseph, Jean Ziegler, | TOP 35 MOST DEPRESSING MOVIES OF ALL TIME. Selma’s downward spiral results in a brutal finale that most likely won’t have you reaching for the repeat button on your television when the credits start rolling. Wladyslaw Szpilman is a Jewish radio station pianist, one of the most accomplished players in all of Poland, who is forced into the Warsaw Ghetto during the early days of WWII. In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned. | Gross: $2.04M, Not Rated | William Sadler, Votes: A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse. $11.00M, PG Katy Barker, Votes:
Alexander Skarsgård, Votes: 162 min Despite Jigsaw's death, and in order to save the lives of two of his colleagues, Lieutenant Rigg is forced to take part in a new game, which promises to test him to the limit. There is something about them that paradoxically appeals to me. Before you come to terms with any of this, Precious is pregnant for the second time by her father, which leads to her expulsion from school. His dissent from loneliness into annihilation is extremely relatable and that's what makes it all the more depressing. Stars: Most miserable moment: The realisation that Considine's younger brother hanged himself years earlier, and the weight of guilt attached, form a devastating one-two punch at the close. $48.98M, R Natja Brunckhorst, | Fred Astaire, Horror. Veronica Stork, While she finds solace in her singing, her solace is threatened as she finds herself to be the subject of immigrant persecution. | Though Todd Solondz’s film is labeled as a satirical comedy, its humor is at times borderline unsettling. Nicholas Meyer Take that Hollywood! Jared Leto, Action, Drama, Mystery. Schindler’s List and The Pianist show the atrocities of WWII concentration camps, while 12 Years a Slave deals with the inhumane conditions of slavery. 352,292
| While the movie conveys the resourcefulness of the human spirit, Spielberg’s realistic portrayals of WWII concentration camps are anything but uplifting. | Artyom Bogucharskiy,
An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact. Milos Forman Steve Guttenberg, Though the ending provides a somewhat happy conclusion as Precious obtains her GED, the road getting there is so grueling and bleak the viewer may have a hard time sitting through it twice. With that forming the basis of our daily decisions, it's no surprise we embrace the most unexplored, unforgiving and unquenchable genres of movies. Quite the opposite, as they make you feel emotions so powerful, so raw, that you may never want to revisit them.