Depressing movies

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Would anyone care to name a movie more depressing than Requiem for a Dream?

And I don't mean any kind of depressing, I'm looking for something that gives you that intense feeling like you've just been punched in the solar plexus that Requiem for a Dream gives.

Ha! I saw the title and was going to suggest Requiem For a Dream. There are probably more depressing films but I can't think of more intense ones.

Boys dont Cry is pretty depressing

I thought that Chinatown and West Side Story were depressing.

Lilja 4-Ever
La Strada
The Fountain

Scrapbook? Probably something like The Bunny Game? Christiane F.? Come and See? Interrogation?

I watched Oldboy, maybe five years ago, I don't really remember what it was about, but I remember thinking it was depressing.

Candyman is sort of disturbing and depressing

It's not a film, but the "Jurassic Bark" episode of Futurama bummed the s**t out of me. The ending is beyond sad.

Gods lonely man

Battlefield Earth
Gigli
Apollo 18
127 Hours
Knowing (good film, but sad)
Paranormal Activity 2 and 3

You have to be joking with those. OK, Gigli was a crap film but it wasn't intentionally a depressing one. Go and watch something like Scrapbook (which was cut by 15½ minutes - i.e. whole scenes were removed - for an '18' certificate by the BBFC in 2003) and we'll talk more.

Knowing was a good disaster film, but the end was to depressing. Battlefield Earth was WAY depressing. 127 Hours, sad film but never liked it, and Green Mile, very good film but was VERY depressing in the last parts.

Thankyou for your suggestions.

Haha, Requiem For a Dream was what sprung immediately to mind when I read the thread title too.

I found The Pianist quite depressing, in the way I often find war films to be. There's so much waste and blind hate in the issues they address...The Boy in the Striped Pajamas hit me in the same way. The historical aspect means you have some idea of the background to the film, which adds this sense of inevitability. RfaD was like a bludgeon that came out of nowhere. Not that it was a badly-made or poorly-acted film - the visuals and performances were excellent, I thought - but I couldn't bring myself to watch it again.

I've amassed quite a collection of Eastern films, and for some reason they do the downbeat angst thing very well (is it a cultural thing maybe? The way different societies view misfortune and loss?). Oldboy is a good example, as are Battle Royale and All About Lily Chou-chou. The most hard-hitting of all is probably the animated movie Grave of the Fireflies...I heard that it was shown on the same billing in the cinema as the decidedly cheery and comforting My Neighbour Totoro, presumably so the audience wouldn't feel too dejected afterwards!