Saddest / Most Depressing Movies of All Time

HA depressing but turn cheesy romantic - it still makes me sad...as it has been said in the long long romantic thread its SAD because that crap doesn't happen...

You can't just jump on planes and change things that way - thats why it is sad to me <shrug> maybe not to others

All rom-coms are fantasy. To hope for otherwise lets you in for alot of disappointment.  Especially in an LDR, which is not reality either.You only need to read the romantic thread to see that... 

All rom-coms are fantasy. To hope for otherwise lets you in for alot of disappointment.  Especially in an LDR, which is not reality either.You only need to read the romantic thread to see that... 

Just to be a tiny bit of a devil's advocate:  Of course they never bother with the visa process, expense of hopping on planes, etc, but I think little bits and pieces of them are real.  When I first met my now hubby, yes it was the first flush of romance, but it was my reality at the time and it did feel like a romantic comedy film.  (And I was lucky as the long-distance part of our relationship didn't last very long.)

Anyway, I kinda liked The Holiday, though I thought it could have been better.

But I do agree with the PP who mentioned The House of Sand and Fog.... ugh - this one takes the cake!

Yes! This one. De-PRESS-ing.

Also, American History X, The Professional/Leon and 300.

Also, American History X

Oh yes... such a powerful film!  This one is on my list of "Amazing, powerful films... that I can never sit through again." - because they're just too gut-wrenching.

Has anyone mentioned KES? Never saw it til I moved here. Will never watch that one again......This is England is another in that line of.......life is shite so get used to it and welcome to the UK!

How is The Holiday the most depressing film of all time? Because it's such a crap film? 

I certainly bawled my eyes out for those 2 hours I wasted on that that I can never get back.

I found The Orphanage unbelievably depressing.

Now, when I'm watching a film and it starts getting depressing, I usually turn it off.

I'm depressed enough without watching downer movies.

I haven't read through this thread, but I just watched The Kite Runner and I now I think I'm going to be depressed for days! The saddest movie I've seen in an awfully long time.   

I completely forgot about Come and See (Иди и смотри).  Had to see it for a film class in college, and wound up sitting in the theatre speechless and numb for eons after it was over.  Amazing and disturbing flim.

Another sad foreign film is Ikiru ("To live") by Kurosawa. It's about an old man slowly dying of stomach cancer who wants to do something with his remaining months. He does manage to make a children's playground but still very depressing.

Rabbit Proof Fence.

The scene where they take the children away was so upsetting I actually worried a little for the child actors having to perform in it.

Sophie's Choice, Schindler's List, yes. 

For movies I don't think have been mentioned yet - I shed a few tears at the end of Philadelphia.  Also A River Runs Through It - when they tell the mother that her son is dead and she just turns and walks up the stairs...to the end.  That one was a bit too close to home for me.

Just watched one called Gone Baby Gone. OH MY GOD!!  How grim was that??? Makes poor ol Boston look like such a shithole..... GRIM! Parents avoid.... (great acting though..)

All rom-coms are fantasy. To hope for otherwise lets you in for alot of disappointment.  Especially in an LDR, which is not reality either.You only need to read the romantic thread to see that... 

I can't stand most romantic comedies anymore - because real life is so much better!

Just watched one called Gone Baby Gone. OH MY GOD!!  How grim was that??? Makes poor ol Boston look like such a shithole..... GRIM! Parents avoid.... (great acting though..)

I saw that.  It was really good but depressing.  The book was written by Lehane, who also wrote Mystic River another depressing, but good, film.

I saw that.  It was really good but depressing.  The book was written by Lehane, who also wrote Mystic River another depressing, but good, film.

Mystic River makes me cry like a baby. I love Clint Eastwood films.

Agree about American History X, in the same way I feel about Monster, both amazing films, but too painful to watch again. 

Mystic River was  too  sad  to watch again  as was Sleepers..