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01 Feb 2011, 10:25 pm

The Road

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02 Feb 2011, 11:39 pm

Tod Browning's "Freaks".
It ruined his career because he cast real circus freaks. The story of a m***et who is seduced by a beautiful woman for his money is sad. But the way the freaks are treated by the other circus people, and the ending where they gang up on the beautiful woman to exact revenge is really depressing.

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05 Feb 2011, 7:25 am

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Requiem for a Dream. I cried through the entire ending, and for quite some time afterwards.

Me too, Requiem is a great film but the ending made me cry for ages & i felt depressed for about 2 days after seeing it. :cry:

despite that, i would watch it again.

and this is coming from someone who rarely cries at films

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05 Feb 2011, 7:33 am

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13 Feb 2011, 2:01 pm

Several years ago I caught a showing of Taxi Driver and it was so incredibly depressing that I simply could not watch it through to its end.

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14 Feb 2011, 9:22 pm

Here's one I forgot: Angela's Ashes- the true story of Frank McCourt during his 10 years growing up in Limerick, Ireland (except for the beginning and the end before and after he moved from and to New York City, respectively), during the Great Depression. Most of his siblings die, his dad's a drunk and can never hold a job and ends up running away eventually, his family's all poor and obsessively Catholic, and you never see the sun except for maybe at the beginning and the end.

The Day After Tomorrow- more scary than depressing really. The portrayal of the global warming apocalypse is pretty exaggurated, but it's kind of scary knowing that something like this might actually happen one day if we keep on living the way we do.

King Kong (2005 remake)- an hour before anything interesting actually happens, and those 90 minutes on that yucky island- it's just so long, drawn out, dark, and creepy that it's kind of depressing.

Inception- exciting movie, but it bugs me the way you're never really sure what (if anything) is actually real.

The Matrix Trilogy- I'd rather keep living in that grey boring Matrix because the real world is even more dull. 1st was awesome, 2nd and 3rd totally sucked.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End- Elizabeth only gets to see her husband every 10 years. Besides, what's gonna happen if Will refuses to get on the damn ship and sail away the souls of the dead?

Fiddler on the Roof- just the ending, really. At least there is some hope for them in America. If they were smart, they'd move to Canada instead though.

Planet of the Apes (original)- a disturbing and somewhat depressing post-apocalyptic movie. Incredibly epic! I love it!

Planet of the Apes (remake)- still disturbing and depressing, but this 1 totally sucks. It's badly done and is changed way too much from the original. Tim Burton, what were you thinking?

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14 Feb 2011, 9:27 pm

tweety_fan wrote:

the movie starring Tom Hanks where he played a gay man with HIV. that was really sad.

they showed us it in school during a religious seminar (i went to a catholic school and they made us spend half days every once in a while talking about god)

Don't you mean Philadelphia?

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20 Feb 2011, 8:41 pm

Million Dollar Baby. I'm not normally very emotional but it was real heart breaking to watch

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21 Feb 2011, 5:03 am

Schindler's List is the only movie that I recall depressing me.

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30 Mar 2011, 6:50 pm

Elephant is a very depressing movie.

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30 Mar 2011, 7:14 pm

Jesus Camp

Million Dollar Baby

There's another one but I don't want to say it because it's such an abrupt depressing ending. I wish we had the code on this board for spoilers so I could just put spoiler tags on it.

Moon was really depressing at points but I'm not sure if you could call the movie itself depressing.

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31 Mar 2011, 4:49 pm

A Life for a Life (The true story of Stefan Kiszko)

Most movies that are supposed to be depressing are too stylized to have that kind of impact. Some of the ones mentioned here, particularly Elephant Man and Life is Beautiful, were truly haunting but I didn't think they were ultimately depressing.

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31 Mar 2011, 9:09 pm

skafather84 wrote:

Jesus Camp is very, very depressing. All those children.

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01 Apr 2011, 4:54 pm

The Green Mile

Brokeback Mountain

Boys Don't Cry

Blue Valentine

Aren't the depressing ones some of the best?

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01 Apr 2011, 5:09 pm

The Boy in the Stripped Pjamas

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01 Apr 2011, 5:13 pm

The pianist
Million dollar baby
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