What are the most cynical/depressing movies ever?

I just watched Brokeback Mountain ... not a moment of joy in that movie ... and not a glimmer of hope.

I must be a cynical and depressing person tho

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- This is two recent watch and it's two highly depressing movies

American History X is horrible in this sense. You have maybe 10 minutes max combining the Derek and "sympathetic black man" scenes and the his bro realizes these guys are awful racists, moments. The rest seems like a montage of "badass" moments with no point, the meal scene with Elliot Gould is particularly unnerving, there is nothing to actually get there. Just seems like an awkward build up to the he's not racist anymore moment.

One of the last and most depressing film I've seen was The Best Offer by Giuseppe Tornatore. And it's a great movie!

What Dreams May Come might be the most depressing movie I've ever seen.

That or Battlefield Earth. Those poor actors. So horrible.

Is that Norton watching himself in that mess?

I think The Road is as down as it gets. After nuclear war, there is nothing left and well, there isn't going to be any reason for man to keep going on for the most part. It's hard to feel hopeful when the ashen sky, barren lands and cannibalistic goons are all you ever see. This one is well worth watching but I can't say I'd watch it very often. I'd probably crawl into a cave and hope for death.

I've been curious about that one, but never bothered to see it yet - I know it was about Scientology

I can't even watch Mrs. Doubtfire anymore.

The treatment of suicide in WDMC was sort of offensive.

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Pranks.
Scum.
Quadrophenia.
The War Zone.
Citizen X.
Spider.
Naked.
Sweet Sixteen.
Brubaker.
American History X.
Nil By Mouth.
Irreversible.
Baise Moi.

Grave of the Fireflies stayed with me for days after seeing it.

The Plague Dogs

The Plague Dogs is a wonderful corrective for kids who know that movies are lying to them.


I remember feeling almost invigorated by finally having an animated film level with me. That knew I could take feeling bad about the world I was growing up into. Maybe even required it.


Yes, depressing, but only in the most positive of ways

Beneath the Planet of the Apes,

Cynical:

Edmond (2005)
American Psycho (2000)

Depressing:

Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

Thanks for the suggestions.

The Road is the first film that sprung to mind when I saw this thread. I Saw the Devil is pretty consistently bad feels all around (but an amazing film).

No film is 'depressing'. Art isn't depressing. It won't lull you into an illness that you need to seek medical intervention to assist with. There are plenty of other things in the world for that.

There are however films that tackle very bleak subjects:

The Seventh Continent
The War Zone
Submarino