The bleakest film you have seen. NO LISTING

Naikon · 08-07-2011 4:18pm #1

To say Michael Haneke's "The Seventh Continent" is pretty grim would be quite an understatement. DO NOT watch this if you are presently depressed. Next poster.

Mode note: no listing please. Discuss your choice or your post will be deleted.

Emiko · 08-07-2011 4:19pm

'Requiem for a Dream' is up there.

It should be compulsory viewing in schools. 'This is what smack does to you, kids.'

08-07-2011 4:20pm

The Garage is pretty damn bleak. Yeesh

cesc77 · 08-07-2011 4:21pm

"The Road"

Jaysus.

Good film though,but bleak as fook.

Edit:FFS 2 in before me in less than a minute.

Must be bleak.

Duggy747 · 08-07-2011 4:22pm

Come & See (1985)

Russian film about a Belorussian boy during WWII, his transformation into a complete shell of his former self while surrounded by the horror of the Nazis actions is pretty harrowing.

Highly recommended and highly overlooked war film in terms of the more popular American ones.

Plus, Ernest Goes To Auschwitz wasn't as humourous as I expected it to be. :pac:

landsleaving · 08-07-2011 4:22pm

Good Luck Chuck.

The film wasn't that bleak, but I heard people enjoyed it, which made me lose all faith in humanity. Doesn't get much bleaker than that.

Badgermonkey · 08-07-2011 4:25pm

The Black Swan was unsettling but nicely put together.

Alter-Ego · 08-07-2011 4:25pm

As others have said, it's a toss up between The Road and Requiem for a Dream.

WealthyB · 08-07-2011 4:26pm

Requiem for a Dream, every time.

Watched it in the IFI on a patron's night. Looked around me in the dying scenes and the amount of people with their hands over their mouths and a look of sheer revulsion/horror. That movie even gave me a panic attack trying to get out of the cinema at the end.

Gotta hand it to Aronofsky, no other movie has ever made me feel so bad.

Uriel. · 08-07-2011 4:29pm

Schindler's List and the black and White production adds infinitely to the mood

Buceph · 08-07-2011 4:32pm

Threads.

A made for TV film that scared the bejeebus about of people in the 80's. About what would happen to society if a nuclear war happened. Was made to be realistic and was absolutely horrific to watch.

Biggins · 08-07-2011 4:35pm

The Road - Jeaus, so grey and full of hopelessness...
Winter Light (1962) - Christ, that was depressing!
La Strada (1954) Heart-breaking and depressing!
Requiem For A Dream - Mother of Jeasus!
Lilyla 4 Ever (2002) - Shocking and certainly an eye opener (A very adult film)
When the wind blows - The ending in particular! Bloody hell!
Nineteen-Eighty Four (1984) - If we are heading that way for sure, shoot me now!

Ghost Buster · 08-07-2011 4:37pm

The two bleakest I can think of are two of my favourite which perhaps requires a little time on the shrinks couch for me but hey ho........:D
The Road
30 days of night...

Grim grim grim!!!!!!!!

kellso81 · 08-07-2011 4:41pm

Emiko wrote: »

'Requiem for a Dream' is up there.

+1
I saw it when I was about 15 and never mind all the drugs, the double prostitution scene has always stayed with me as one of the most depressing things I've ever seen

Stained Class · 08-07-2011 4:42pm

Buceph wrote: »

Threads.

A made for TV film that scared the bejeebus about of people in the 80's. About what would happen to society if a nuclear war happened. Was made to be realistic and was absolutely horrific to watch.

Think that was called 'The Day After'.

They showed it to us in school at the time.

orourkeda · 08-07-2011 4:43pm

magma69 wrote: »

Irreversible *shudders*

Synecdoche, New York

Dancer In The Dark

The fire extinguisher off your mans face was quite something.

BASHIR · 08-07-2011 4:44pm

Amores perros is a pretty bleak and gritty movie, but it really is a fantastic watch.

Dudess · 08-07-2011 4:47pm

Agree with tons here - also City of God, had to turn it off. The Constant Gardener, Blood Diamond, The Killing Fields. And Christiane F, about teen junkies in Berlin. Good god... :eek:

Buceph · 08-07-2011 4:47pm

Stained Class wrote: »

Think that was called 'The Day After'.

They showed it to us in school at the time.

Nope. The Day After was an American show, Threads was made for English TV. The media said that The Day After was a show for toddlers compared to Threads.

Biggins · 08-07-2011 4:48pm

Buceph wrote: »

Threads.

A made for TV film that scared the bejeebus about of people in the 80's. About what would happen to society if a nuclear war happened. Was made to be realistic and was absolutely horrific to watch.

Its was bad - but you should try looking up an earlier BBC version of something similar.
The War Game. (Semi film/documentary)
Black and white - it was so bleak and depressing, the BBC (who made it) actually then banned it from their own screens for decades! :pac:

Note: The Day After FILM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After
(Loved the music at the start with the train rolling along the tracks - but the film itself, dark and dank.)

magma69 · 08-07-2011 4:49pm

orourkeda wrote: »

The fire extinguisher off your mans face was quite something.

Scarier than the "other" scene we won't mention imo.

Cork boy 55 · 08-07-2011 4:50pm

Come and see
Russian Film about the partizan war in ww2 in Belorussia.

mikemac · 08-07-2011 4:50pm

The Road

The Magdalene Sisters, what a bleak film. Some films are forgettable but you won't forget this one.

BASHIR · 08-07-2011 4:51pm

Forgot Apocalypse Now, apart from it's shear awesomeness, it's a pretty bleak and sickening movie.

RichieC · 08-07-2011 4:52pm

Children of men paints an awful tale too...

cml387 · 08-07-2011 4:58pm

Threads is bleak,but a useful reminder of where we might have finished up had things turned out differently.Plus I love good apaocalypse films.The Day After was just too...sunny.You can't have a good bleak film with all that midwestern sunshine.

The bleakest film I ever saw was "Looking For Mr Goodbar",where a nice schoolteacher visits the dark side for kicks and inevitably gets murdered.No redeeming feature whatsoever plus it starred Diane Keaton,my least favourite actress of all time.

chopperbyrne · 08-07-2011 5:00pm

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Normally when a film ends people start chatting and are talking on their way out.

For that film there was complete silence. Even the bunch of teenage girls who talked most of the way through the film were quiet.

JimiWonderDoor 92 · 08-07-2011 5:01pm

Im sure Angela's Ashes is already mentioned but that apart...

Breaking The Waves is one the greatest and most bleak films Ive seen.

Also, the ending to Million Dollar Baby was pretty depressing

Biggins · 08-07-2011 5:03pm

Bleak?

Sophies Choice.

NEVER watch that if your soft-hearted. It will haunt you for the rest of your life - I swear.
I saw it and by the time it was over till now, I still wish I had never seen it (even though it was well acted, etc).
Bleak and haunting at times - my god, I'm still trying to forget it, especially at one scene that concerns a character called Sophie and a shocking choice she has to make.
(If I had to make the same choice - I'd genuinely rather a bullet in the head)

strobe · 08-07-2011 5:03pm

The Panic In Needle Park. A far better movie (if a little dated now) than Requiem For A Dream along the same lines.

ejmaztec · 08-07-2011 5:08pm

The Human Centipede:o, and pretty much every movie on the SyFy Channel

Freddie59 · 08-07-2011 5:09pm

ejmaztec wrote: »

The Human Centipede:o, and pretty much every movie on the SyFy Channel

That's one of the worst pieces of disgusting trash that I ever came across.:mad: But back to bleak: Artificial Intelligence.

pragmatic1 · 08-07-2011 5:09pm

Requiem for a dream. So depressing on so many levels.

beano345 · 08-07-2011 5:10pm

blade runner just depresses me,raining non-stop in it,and midnight express especially the bad machines scene

http://youtu.be/rW9DxqYtvmU

Biggins · 08-07-2011 5:11pm

Forgot about "On the Beach"
A film about the end of the world.

SERIOUS

Literally NO ONE survives and kids are injected to kill them off to spare them suffering as well as a father for example, driving his whole family off a cliff to spare them suffering too! As the kids are going over the cliff in the car, you get to see them waving and smiling thru the back car window...

*shudders*

Zebra3 · 08-07-2011 5:11pm

The White Ribbon.

Grim, bleak, and depressing.

KnifeWRENCH · 08-07-2011 5:13pm

Probably The Road. The film was better than the book, I thought. Surprised Viggo Mortensen didn't get an Oscar nomination for it.

My sister gave me Dancer In The Dark on DVD but I haven't got around to watching it yet. That's meant to be horribly bleak too.

Biggins · 08-07-2011 5:13pm

Zebra3 wrote: »

The White Ribbon.

Grim, bleak, and depressing.

True, especially when what was to come later as history has now shown.

biko · 08-07-2011 5:18pm

AH->Film

Mickeroo · 08-07-2011 5:19pm

Haha this is so going to get locked now. List threads are grand in AH and all :pac:

Morlar · 08-07-2011 5:20pm

Skyline.

It would have been better if they just looped the trailer for an hour and a half.

ejmaztec · 08-07-2011 5:20pm

AlmostQuick wrote: »

Eraserhead.

One of those crap movies that someone decided to refer to as "cult" just because it was a David Lynch effort.

LenaClaire · 08-07-2011 5:20pm

Sophie's Choice, Au Revoir les Enfants and The Clockwork Orange for me.

All three left me shaky and sick.

fontanalis · 08-07-2011 5:24pm

krudler wrote: »

Once Were Warriors

Yeah, is the sequel any good?

Scarydoll · 08-07-2011 5:27pm

Just thought of another one called The Chaser. South Korean film and man is it ever bleak. Could not get it out of my head for days after watching it.