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[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

My vote goes to Grave of the Fireflies.

And you?

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[SuperFly]

Monster

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

[Demophobe]

I found "Magnolia" very depressing.

[Woland]

Buffalo Soldiers - utterly amoral.

[captain kirk]

Failsafe. The U.S. can't call their B-52s back from a bombing strike on Russia. All are shot down except for one which delivers its nuclear bombs destroying Moscow. As reparation the U.S. signals a ready bomber over New York to bombs away. The pilot eats cyanide after the drop.

Or 'The Beach' based on the Nevil Shute novel. The whole world is covered in radioactivity except for the southern latitudes...for now...it's drifting south. An Aussie submarine crew cruises the northern latitudes looking for survivors (none). Back in Oz people react in different ways. Some adventure like mad, or drink like mad, or pop themselves off with pills....

Or 'The Day After'. I think it was Kansas. There's a mix-up and the missles go off, ICBMs to Russia. While Russian missles are incoming. How people cope with the devastation, radioactivity......

There was another, English, movie about the aftermath of Nuclear War. It ends with scenes of people living harshly. Can't speak anymore, gutteral grunts. The difficulty and suffering beating people up so the consciousness is only pain, need....in cold nuclear winter no crops, no hope, cannibalism....

[rocklee]

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

[rocklee]

Yeah that was pretty sad though it did not bring me tears.

[indytrucks]

Dancer in the Dark.

[JongnoGuru]

Mod edit: What the language.

[cubanlord]

A Wondeful Life - I cried like a baby. May God rest their souls....

[jajdude]

A friend of mine had this series of short student films called "Cutting Moments"

2 or 3 of those were disturbingly bizarre and depressing

I think "Bowl of Oatmeal" was one, where a guy is so lonely and isolated, he's talking to oatmeal for apparently days, and steals meat to use the bones to make a skeleton to sleep with.

As for more known and popular Hollywood films, I think "A Beautiful Mind," though ultimately uplifting in a way, had some depressing parts. The one based on Oliver Sacks's work, "Awakenings" (with DeNiro as patient and Robin Williams as doctor) was both depressing and lovely in some ways. One with Richard Gere, "Mr. Jones," a manic-depressive guy who enters the hospital, has its sad parts too. I quite liked all these movies.

"Schindler's List" and some other war movies come to mind as well.
"The Pianist" was a good one.
I think "Black Hawk Down" may be up there. (The book was good, stark.)

[crazylemongirl]

Hotel Rwanda
Once were warriors

Movies to slit your wrists to.

[seoulsista]

About Shmidt. We we'll all be old, alone and depressed someday. Hope Dave's will still be around to lighten things up.