What's the bleakest movie you've ever seen

What's the bleakest movie you've ever seen

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The Road. I got filtered hard. I barely got halfway through the film and I wanted to neck myself because it was all so miserable, then I realised that it wasn't exactly going to become more enjoyable as it went on.
Best film I never watched.

At least it had a good ending. Satisfying.

The goodfellas

Ending of Kid Detective made me so sad I still think about sometimes.
That scene in Hereditary where the boy just parks the car with his decapitated sister and goes to bed, such a memorable scene

It's got to be Tokyo Story
It's the most soulless atheistic horrible film I've ever seen
Seeing Tokyo Story is like contemplating one's own mortality and the sheer meaningless of one's life compared to that black void of nonexistence
I don't think any film has given me as much existential dread as Tokyo Story
I hate Ozu, he is a disgusting worm

Dear Zachary.

Quiz Show (1994)

Problem Child 2

Avengers Infinity War.

Without a doubt the bleakest film I’ve ever seen. The ending in particular left me stunned - it wasn’t just unexpected, it was devastating. As the heroes failed to stop Thanos and half the universe turned to dust, a chilling silence fell over the theater. It wasn’t a triumphant cliffhanger or a hopeful twist; it was pure loss. Watching beloved characters crumble into nothingness, helpless and afraid, sent shivers down my spine. The weight of their failure, the hopelessness of it all, lingered long after the credits rolled. It was a rare moment in a blockbuster film where evil truly won, and that bleakness hit harder than any villain’s punch. I cried that day.

Lilya 4 Ever
Breaking the Waves
Requiem for a Dream
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

one of those

Birdman
Wtf thats dumb

Why is RobE so sad?

Nothing beats bleak like the Russians

I also recommend Leviathan which is even bleaker

fuck this movie

i know youre joking but there really is zero weight because you just know they'll all come back

The absolute bleakest movies of all time

100% SUICIDE FUEL

I never saw it

cargo 200

Battle of Algiers

Ivan's Childhood is certainly up there
the kiss scene was very memorable, as he holds her limp body above a trench that resembles a grave
the whole child spy thing was completely fucked as well

Eden Lake was fairly soulcrushing

The audition...holy fucking shit the ending is savage as fuuck

I Saw the TV Glow. Watching someone struggle with hallucination and delusion is extremely sad. You can never escape your own mind.

a serbian film. the ending is extremely cynical

go on. start with the little one.

Combat Shock (1986)

One weird one is the incredible melting man 1977. It was supposed to be sort of a parody of comic book horror but producers really messed it up and the whole idea wasn’t really that good. It’s mostly too sad to be funny and the ending is the worst

Carcinoma. German movie about a man dying from bowel cancer, mentally dissociating and fetishising it.

I don't know if "bleak" is the right word to describe that movie, the ending especially. The fate of most of the main characters is bleak I suppose, but I found the final shot to be amusing.

Maybe Satantango or Der Todesking.

Bloodsport

Oh, yeah. Noe films are always bleak, but that one is unwatchable. Very bad stuff.

The book felt very bleak but also the dads will to live is great

Conspiracy of silence documentary

Salo or the 120 days of Sodom. If that director dude didn't get killed shortly after shooting that, he prob would have killed himself with such bleak views.

Marley and me

I was pretty unimpressed by that I have to say. I thought it was going to be way worse.

There’s a British movie originally aired on tv, based on an true story about a girl who gets pimped out by her dad and sexually abused by her mom too, then she ends up in care and gets abused there too. Needless to say her life just goes into a downward spiral and she ends up as a whore etc. I can’t remember the name but I saw it recently.
Very upsetting.

goodfellas they are actually not very good fellows, so far as to even call them "badfellas"

fucking hate dishonest movie titles

I pick this one because

A: it actually happened

B: the movie actually slightly whitewashed it, it's an incredibly bleak and sadistic story and then you look it up and the filmmakers were fucking cushioning it, what happened to Sylvia Likens irl was WORSE

A documentary on tundra wolves a saw a few years ago.
It followed a mother wolf giving birth to two cubs but the winter was so harsh and food so scarce that one of the cubs died, the mother then had to eat and regurgitate it for the other cub.
After that she went out to look for food and didnt come back so the cub went looking for her and eventually found a puddle of broken bones and fur that used to be the mother which got trampled by bison or whatever (the film crew theorised she tried to take down something way out of her league in a last desperate bid) but the cub still recognised the scent and sat down next to it, waiting to slowly starve to death.

There's a webm that goes around about a pregnant deer that gets crushed to death by a falling tree and then shits out what looks like a very alive and mobile baby that's immediately eaten by a komodo dragon

Nature is fun

I enjoyed wildlife more when I knew less about how brutal their lives are. Damn nature docs...

Once were warriors

Insanely bleak, underrated Jack Nicholson kino.

very bleak but kinda a shit film

Occult (2009) by Kōji Shiraishi. Ending is scarier for the concept than the execution