This strikes me as being one of the more haunting films I have seen in quite some time. I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions besides the list provided below. I am sure there are many more, so recommendations are welcome. Cheers
1. Interiors
2. The Virgin Suicides
3. We Don't Live Here Anymore
4. Picnic at Hanging Rock
5. Lantana
6. Rebecca
7. Gates of Heaven
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my emotional movies, so far,in order....
1) Boys dont cry & Atonement takes the honors ( damn, noone mentioned this one,-i couldnt get over the soundtrack and the love between the both of them)
2) American Beauty & I AM SAM (takes the 2nd spot** no one mentioned this one too)
3) Requeim for a dream
4) Mulholland Dr.
5) Reservation Road (noone said this one too)
6) 21 Grams
7) Old Boy
8) Million Dollar Baby
9) Candy
10)The Machinist
11)Never Let me go
12)Hours
13)Seven pounds
---- Among the few mentioned above, the oscar goes to ofcourse above all these...
INCENDIES!!!!!----just emotional still haunted by the end..
list can be updated though!!
1. The Virgin Suicides
2. The Ice Storm
3. Heavenly Creatures
4. The Sheltering Sky
5. Life is Beautiful
6. The English Patient
Sorry if i repeat any that has been said already but i cba to read thru 4 pages ha ha.
Kids (by the end of this film you wont know what emotion is haunting you)
Candy
Requiem for a dream (shocking and depressing)
Oldboy (fantastic film but defintly stays with you after viewing)
Battle Royal (could u kill your best friend?)
Schindlers List
Changeling (close to three hours long intence & depressing but good film)
Brokeback Mountain (I cried so much at the end)
Into the wild
Lost and delirious
Flight 93
American History X
Alpha Dog (sad ending plus its based on real story)
The Mist
Donnie Darko
Eden Lake
American Crime (extremly hard to sit thru, esp cos its ellen page and shes so adorable lol)
The pianist
The Basketball Diaries
Boyz in the hood (depressing last half hour of film)
Menace II Society
Philidelphia
One flew over the cuckoos nest
What ever happend to baby jane (disturbing as hell)
Girl Interupted
Milk
Mystic River
Monster
Passion of the christ
Shutter Island
Heavenly Creatures
Buried
Sister my sister (so disturbing two sisters start a phisical relationship and drive themselves crazy)
The virgin suicides
Thats a few that spring to mind :-)
Kazuo Kiriyama
Mitsuko Souma
SAFE with Juliane Moore. Walkabout, by Nicolas Roeg.
shareHAPPINESS RUNS has to be mentioned in this thread.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1079964/?ref_=sr_1
Requiem for a dream. It still haunts me after 3 years and I'm never seeing it again. Also, Sideways kinda left me this numb feeling and I'm surprised that no one mentioned this!
shareMillion Dollar Baby
The Wrestler
nothing else
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned A Tale of Two Sisters. None of my friends understood the ending, but once I made sense of it- it along with the beautiful soundtrack at the end of the film still haunts me. Wonderful film.
And Tokyo Sonata. It doesn't really have a *bad* end but it definitely stuck with me enough to track down a copy.
Requiem For A Dream, The Virgin Suicides, Kids, and American Beauty have all left me in thinking in a what I could call "depressing but in a good way" the movies and the endings are all extremely downer, but the movies themselves are so well written and true and makes you think.
I'm Tom Hanks and I want you in my bed.
I am surprised no one has said trainspotting, although not quite as extreme as requiem for a dream still pretty emotionally haunting e.g the baby trip
shareSadayam -- Its a 1992 movie from India (Malayalam). It is one of the saddest movies I've ever watched.
[Spoiler].. It tells the story of a poor orphan painter who kills 2 teen age girls as a way to save them from being sold into prostitution. He is however arrested and sentenced to be hung. It describes in excruciating detail the harrowing time that awaits one on death row and the influence of such an experience on every one connected with it; portrayed brilliantly by Mohan Lal. It was available on YouTube and if you get a chance do check it out.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0237682/