Have you seen something sadder? I haven't, well maybe Cannibal Holocaust, but that is a very exploitative film.. Okay those two are the most depressing films that made me feel sad after and while watching them.
How about you guys/gals?
Mavis, I'm a married man!
-Testament
-Threads
-Opal Dreams
-Silkwood
-Mask
-Pay It Forward
-The Plague Dogs
-Sinister
-My Girl
-The Ice Storm
-The Lovely Bones
-Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
-The Pact (2002)
-Audrey Rose
I think it all depends on how you associate films with your emotions and your personal experiences. Never Let Me Go, at least in my opinion, was more scary than sad, because a society like the one in that film could become a reality at some point. The saddest films I find involve completely ordinary people getting caught up with darkness, or films featuring the nostalgia of the 20th century. But that's just my opinion, some people might even laugh at the films I've listed.
"The 21st century is all flash but no substance." ~ Smog City
Depressing because I watched a movie with 3 actors I like, thinking they go to an English boarding school and grow up together. Imagine my surprise when the real story unfolds!
shareI never see any point in talking about superlatives with the arts - it's all so highly subjective. But I would definitely agree this film belongs in the category of HIGHLY depressing films.
shareIt's not that depressing because it isn't the reality. A movie which has similarly sad story but also entirely realistic is more depressing, like Requiem for a Dream.
shareI just watched this movie yesterday, however as moving and sad as it was - The Virgin Suicides by Sofia Coppola tops the list of depressing movies for me. In fact it made me so psychologically ill and depressed, that I haven't been able to get it out of my mind for quite a while after watching it.
I just saw this movie for the first time, and it was heartbreaking. Definitely one of the saddest movies I've seen, along with Awakenings, Calvary, Schindler's List, Glory, Bridge to Terabithia, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Mystic River, 12 Years a Slave, Donnie Darko, Valkyrie, The Passion of the Christ, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (but that one had a hopeful ending). Not sure which of those I find the most depressing, but this movie is up there.
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"Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter."
- Yoda, "The Empire Strikes Back"
Atonement maybe...
Remains of the day also from the author of Never let me go. Not so dark,but there is no fulfillment, it makes me more depressed.