THE MOST Depressing Film - Ever

Dorothy, I recently watched "The Wicker Man" with Nicolas Cage, and it was really a downer.

"Iphegenia."

http://www.amazon.com/Iphigenia-Michael-Cacoyannis/dp/6300134318

I saw it when I was maybe... 11? 12? Totally wrecked me emotionally for a good chunk of time.

I don't think this is what you are looking for, but, still, probably the most depressing film I've seen - Shoah.

http://www.amazon.com/Shoah/dp/B00005JM8V/sr=1-1/qid=1167425772/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-5764354-5721259?ie=UTF8&s=dvd

A 134.00 DVD ??

Is that a misprint?

The Wall is pretty depressing. Cool though.

Sophie's Choice had one of the most depressing scenes in cinematic history.

That's right, gus, I had forgotten that.

Another was The Pledge with Jack Nicholson, and Open Water.

Girl Guides and Naturism.

The bloody spool thing broke before the good bit.

Quai des brumes.(1938)
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That masterpiece of French cinema is so powerful, it wrapped my heart in a black cloth when I was young.
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hauntingly sad French masterpiece
Author: ingemann2000:

I've just seen Port of Shadows for the first time in my life, and I must say I really liked it. I'm already a great admirer of old black & white pictures, and I enjoyed The Great Illusion as well. This one is rather different from Illusion, though from the same era and also with Jean Gabin as the quintessential Frenchman. It's hauntingly sad, quietly emotional, and even if it's a bit dated in some places (the pathetic hood played by Brasseur) it still manages to creep up on you and leaves you absorbed with the motifs of human loneliness and the not unreasonable, but ultimately impossible human dream of happiness. So it's not a laugh-riot, and you don't leave the cinema with a happy feeling, but you do feel good about having seen it. It's a masterpiece in French cinema history, Jean Gabin is ideal as the tough-as-butter soldier with a doomed soft spot for Michéle Morgan's beautiful waif, and in the end all you remember is the quiet mists of Le Havre harbor, and the sense of ill-fate and lost chances. Not to mention the beautiful eyes of a very young Morgan! .
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030643/

Love Story was a bit of a downer. Though it had some inspiration on there as well.

Yeah ... definitely a cool movie.


I find "Cool Hand Luke" to be depressing --- but a great film. And I just recently heard a description of the movie as a modern-day retelling of Christ's story. Now I have to re-watch it to see the parallels.

Dead Poet's Society was depressing as hell.

It's a four disk set.

28 Days with Sandra Bullock. You hadda be in rehab to feel it.


NARNIA-I got depressed because it was such a ****in waste of time.

You right about Narmia, famer.

American Beauty was depressing.

I found "Awakening" brilliant and depressing at the same time,
the same goes for "Life is beautiful".

Jane, you are right. I had forgotten that movie

If that's the criteria, add "Yentl" to the list. I thought that movie would never end.

Yentl as the cinematic equivalent of sitting through "Das Ring Des Niebelungen"