Most depressing movies you've ever sen?

[ChaosTheory]

A Serious Man and Dead Ringers: both made me feel low for days.

[Renee Wood]

A simple plan and the ruins..

both based on books by Scott Smith..

Its like watching  a train wreck and halfway through you know nothing good will come of it...

[ChaosTheory]

A simple plan and the ruins..

both based on books by Scott Smith..

Its like watching  a train wreck and halfway through you know nothing good will come of it...

Good call, especially A Simple Plan (the book is really good too; haven't read The Ruins though)
And welcome to the boards!


The Pledge - Jack Nicholson as a detective who beomes obsessed with finding a child killer, and it slowly drives him mad. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFu8Yz3YgRw

And it goes dowhill from there.

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

Not sure how many of you were around for the 70's era TV movie like me, but there was a TV movie called The Death Of Richie that I remember very well. It starred Robbie Benson as a drug addicted teenager, and parents who were at their wits end as he becomes increasingly violent.    Like many films of that time, it centered on troubled youths and made many uncomfortable with the growing issue of the reality of drugs and kids. See it if you can.

This is available on DVD in a Mill Creek 50 Movie Pack.  I haven't watched it yet, but you've increased my interest.

Always glad to help, Burgomaster. This was a very sad movie with a nasty ending. I remember my mom crying back in the day too.  Aside from some good old common sense, this movie was the main reason I steered clear of drugs and still do to this day.

Mill Creek, huh? I'll have to look it up, thanks!   

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

Let me add another one here: has anyone seen an L.A. hood  movie called Before I Self Destruct?  I watched this last night and just about every part of this movie screamed "no way out" for the main characters, in a crime filled neighborhood.

As we speak, God only knows it's a reality for someone, somewhere in L.A.