The most depressing movies you've seen

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I some of my favorite depressing movies
Big Fish
Pan's Labyrinth
Elephant Man
The Mist. This is one of the newest depressing movies in my list
Donnie Darko
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Midnight Cowboy
Bringing out the Dead
Kids
The Deer Hunter
Brazil
1984
Mask
On The Beach
What Dreams May Come
Glen and Randa
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978)
A.I. - Artificial Intelligence
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Wasn't as depressing as some of these other movies, sort of a happy, or hopful ending.
Twelve Monkeys

The Mist was good.
Ironically depressing.

A Korean movie called "Breathe"

American Beauty

Suicide Club

What Dreams May Come

I mean, seriously . . . the mother commits suicide and he has to go to hell to find her.

The most depressing movie I think I've ever seen was probably a documentary, "Harvest of Despair," about the 1932-33 terror famine in the Ukraine. I had a strong interest in that part of the world in the 1980s and the things that happened there made me sad.

"The Phantom Menace" was dull. The noise level in the cinema just about crushed my skull.

I thought "Prefontaine" was probably the most depressing sports movie I've seen. It was about as much the opposite of "Four Minutes" as it is possible to be.

Juno.

I wanna be a dad! *sulk*

Depressing movies seem to blend together in my mind to create a melancholic melange. Right now three stick out for some reason:

Leaving Las Vegas

2046

Away From Her

The most depressing thing I've ever seen is Threads, but that's not really a film per se. Took me a long time to recover after seeing the ending.

Notes on a Scandal

Life is Beautiful (a romantic comedy set partially in Auschwitz. I kid you not)

Animal Farm

All Dogs go to Heaven

most depressing: Taxi Driver
Deer Hunter
Saving Private Ryan
depressing because of disappointment
Independence Day
Matrix movies after the first

Earthings (Documentary)
Requiem for a Dream
City of God

Forrest Gump and City of Angels.

I almost want to say Soylent Green. The scene where Sol has euthanasia is fairly depressing.

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the most depressing movie I've seen recently is Willard. This guy gets totally put down and crapped on by everybody. has people controlling every aspect of his life and he finally goes nuts and snaps. and uses his only friends, rats as his way to get revenge. but due to his deeply flawed character he manages to alienate himself even from his rat friends and goes to a war that he looses with them. in the end he looses everything and will spend the rest of his life locked up in a mental hospital.

I really think the movie could have ended better than that and I felt so bad for poor willard because I have felt like him my entire life and some of the crap that he goes through in the movie has happened to me in one way or the other.

If you mean depressing as in "bad film" then - Highlander II and Universal Soldier II.
I didn't have high expectations for either but they managed to dig themselves even lower.

Alien 3 was pretty depressing the first 3 times I saw it. Of course, since DVD (and particularly since the reinstated cut) I feel much better about it.

I don't know why people are complaining about Phantom Menace... I liked it. I think a lot of people just naturally expected Revenge of the Sith to be the first movie with two follow-ups between then and ANH.

As far as intentionally depressing....

Christiane F
Trainspotting
Life is Beautiful
Twin Sisters
The Passion
My Life as a Dog