5 Movies That Will Depress You For Sure
There are movies that will make you laugh, movies that will make you think, and there are movies that will tap into your darkest fears… But this list isn’t about those movies.
Nope, this is a list of five movies that will make you cry. Not just cry – but sob. And then leave you wrecked for at least a few hours after you’ve watched them.
So if you’re in the mood to be thoroughly depressed, take a peek at one of these films.
[Warning: There might be spoilers for the movies mentioned.]
While the story of CC and Hillary is one of the best stories of two friends ever written; if you have a heart, you’ll sob pretty much through the entire thing.
Watching the lives of these two very different women from 11 years old to adulthood and seeing the trials and tribulations that they go through is heart wrenching. Beaches has parts that will make you laugh, but also parts that will make you sob. Especially if you’re fortunate enough to have a best friend the like CC and Hillary. While I love this movie it is totally not one that I can watch often. In fact, I don’t think I’ve seen it in literally six or seven years.
Don’t worry guys – this list won’t be all chick flicks, in fact Beaches is the only one that I mention.
Okay for real? Requiem For A Dream left me wrecked for DAYS after I saw it. I don’t know which story line was worse – Jared Leto’s, Ellen Burstyn’s or Jennifer Connelly’s… but in the end it doesn’t really matter, does it?
The movie will leave you with a hollow feeling inside and one that won’t be filled until you can get the disturbing imagery out of your head – which won’t happen for a while. While Requiem For A Dream was a great movie it is one, like Beaches, that needs to have repeat viewings only after several years have passed.
Again, a great movie, but I had to take a break in the middle. In fact I think the exact words while watching District 9 were: “I can’t watch this anymore.” Knowing the subject matter of District 9 is loosely based on actual events in South Africa just makes it so much worse.
It’s a movie that won’t just depress you at the end, but will depress you throughout – and make you feel HORRIBLE to be a human.
And the ending scene when Wikus Van De Merwe is making his fiancee her metal flowers? Forget it. OH! And if the baby alien doesn’t tug at your heart strings, this list will do nothing for you.
I was hesitant to put this in this list, but when I decided to pick this topic, The Passion of the Christ was the first movie that popped into my head. Religious views aside, if you’ve seen this movie and view it as fiction, the premise is one that won’t let you rest for days.
I saw this movie in the theater (actually I was tricked into seeing it under the pretense that I was going to see a Johnny Depp movie, but I digress), and knowing the story already knew that it was going to be a hard one for me to watch.
But I wasn’t prepared for the way that the movie was shot and the absolutely incredible performance by Jim Caviezel. I was ruined, no exaggerating, for days after this one.
I haven’t seen this movie in YEARS, but what ISN’T sad about it?! The entire movie just builds up to the horrible ending that is… well, one of the worst endings to any movie EVER.
I don’t care what people say that there’s a happy message in this story. I couldn’t find it through my tears.
So that’s that! Movies to watch when you don’t want to feel happy; and instead just full out depressed.
I’m sure that there are other movies that could be added to this list, so be sure to tell me what your depressing movies are!!
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Great list!
Since I’ve been seeing the ads for the Blu-ray release for what seems like weeks now and I practically tear up every time, I would have to add Bambi (oh, and don’t get me started on The Fox and the Hound!). Actually, this could end up being a ginormous list for me: Saving Private Ryan, Terms of Endearment, What Dreams May Come (not a great movie, but wow, can it make me cry), Fried Green Tomatoes, For Love of the Game, Philadelphia, Boys Don’t Cry. Oh, yeah, I could go on.
Suddenly I’m in the mood for a serious tearjerker. 🙂
Bambi is one that I won’t even THINK of watching. Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down were two on my list, but once I went there, it opened a FLOODGATE for war films.
Philadelphia is totally one that I should have put on here. That movie is great.
District 9 didn’t do it for me. Too many plot holes and unlikable hero just pissed me off.
Cool list though 🙂
I don’t know what it was about that movie but it really got to me; but I do see why others wouldn’t really think it was that bad. There really wasn’t a “good” guy in the movie to root for at all.
Great choices, especially Requiem. Lest we forget that Mr. Wayans was also met with an unfortunate and equally depressing result.
Very true.
The pursuit of Happyness is a movie I can never watch again. The entire movie was sad, with the exception of 2 1/2 minutes of “happy” near the end.
I’ve never seen it – mainly because I KNOW I’ll sob. Thanks for the addition!!
I just have to say that I could not agree with you more on District 9. I watched that movie and was so depressed that it almost made me mad. I just kept saying to myself “what was the point of that??” and simply could not believe how many people had actually *recommended* it to me.
THANK YOU! The movie was REALLY well done, but OH MY GOODNESS. It was so freaking depressing. Like I said, I had to turn it off about a quarter of the way through because I just couldn’t handle it anymore. I almost didn’t think I’d be able to turn it back on until I figured I owed it to the poor aliens to see what happened.
I was ANGRY at the filmmakers when it was over. It’s one thing to be ashamed to be a human when you’re watching a movie about us ruining the planet, but it is completely different when you’re watching people kill these other beings. And I think it struck me hard because I KNEW it was based on political events and that these things happened. Maybe not to the exact extent as shown in the film, but close.
Ugh.
So nice to hear someone who agrees with me on this one. Yes, very well done but I seriously felt like I’d been beaten after I watched it. And that was with fast-forwarding through pretty much the whole second half. I thought about just turning it off and taking it out of my DVD player, but like you I felt sort of guilted into seeing how it ended. Plus I was really hoping it would redeem itself at some point along the line, you know give me some sort of hope or at least a decent reason for why it should be watched. Nope, nothing.
BTW, been dying to know what thought of the last couple eps of Supernatural…. ;o)
I was so torn when people would ask me what I thought about the film because I wanted to scream at them that it was HORRIBLE, but it wasn’t a BAD movie. So I started telling people that the movie was great, the subject matter was INTENSE, and there will be parts when you want to throw up. No big deal.
I totally have to jump into your reviews on the last two eps! I’ll do that right now.
song for a raggy boy.
it depressed me for years. I’m still depressed about it now. becuase that pervert and the other brother, got off scott free.