most depressing movie you have seen

[bumblefish]

The most depressing movie for me is The cure and its even more depressing since the main star just died from a heroin overdose. I dont know his name but it was the kid off of The client

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

I hit this on the Bad Movies Board, but I'll add it here... Das Boot.  They go through so much and then its all pointless.
-Ed

Ever notive how many ultra depressing films are German?

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

All dogs go to heaven.

[HappyGilmore]

Eraserhead-- 

All dogs go to heaven.

Pretty depressing flick. 

[Rev. Powell]

Anyways, A.I., Artificial Intelligence, Spielberg's work on a fairy tale should have ended sooner, but I don't want to spoil it.

I agree, A.I. would have been the most depressing movie ever if Spielberg had the courage to end it where he should have.

[SkullBat308]

This is a really depressing movie, Life is Hot In Cracktown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iDjswFhicw

And I thought this was gonna be funny but it was also depressing...Defendor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnK6ZR78TC0

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

The HBO movie Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee. 

Just about every part of that was depressing. Hats off to Adam Beach as the Lakota man who became a doctor thru a White scholarship, who saw the "best" and the worst of the times before and after Wounded Knee.

Hats off to Adam Beach again for his portrayal of Ira Hayes in Flags Of Our Fathers. He put in a VERY powerful performance that has to be seen to be appreciated.

Dances With Wolves where Wind-In-His-Hair stands on the cliff mounted on his horse, shouting Kevin Costner's name over and over again as he leaves the camp, his voice trembling with sadness as he shouts the name over and over.

[major jay]

Schramm. It's a potrait of a serial killer. Very depressing.

[Trekkie313]

Haven't seen all of these movies, but here is my list.

Memento
The Tenant
In The Mouth Of Madness
Mulholland Dr.
Men Behind The Sun
The Naked Lunch
Jacob's Ladder
The Prince Of Darkness
Event Horizon
Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

A Midnight Clear which was an account of the short lived truce between German and Allied soldiers one Christmas eve during WW1.  Remade as Joyeux Noel not long ago, but that one wasn't as powerful as A Midnight Clear.

[Fausto]

All dogs go to heaven.

Pretty depressing flick. 

A million times more depressing when you learn what happened to Judith Barsi. I can't bring myself to watch it again.

[Doggett]

All dogs go to heaven.

Pretty depressing flick. 

A million times more depressing when you learn what happened to Judith Barsi. I can't bring myself to watch it again.

I just found this on the imdb:

Shot to death along with her mother at a tender age of 10 by her father, who then shot himself to death.

That's bleak. I had no idea. 
I'll still watch the film but it will always have a sad under-current.

[InformationGeek]

Both verisons of Animal Farm hit me hard.  While the animated one ends on a trimputant note and the live acted one ended on more a 'time will tell' note, they are pretty sad and depressing, especially when Boxer is sent to his death.

Thinking about it, Bicentennial Man is pretty depressing overall and I saw it when it when I was still young.  Not extactly an upbeat movie for a kid to say the least.

Oh, for all of you who have said Grave of the Fireflies, how about we set that movie to a certian song and force you all to cry right about now?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR_HaHLnboA

[Fausto]

I just found this on the imdb:

Shot to death along with her mother at a tender age of 10 by her father, who then shot himself to death.

That's bleak. I had no idea.  
I'll still watch the film but it will always have a sad under-current.

Apparently, the father was an out of work alcoholic, jealous of Barsi's success, and paranoid that she and her mother were going to leave. Thankfully, they were asleep at the time, and did not suffer.

She was also Ducky in "A Land Before Time." Ducky was Judith's favorite character, and her catchphrase, "yup yup yup," was added to Barsi's headstone (originally, she and her mother's graves were unmarked, but her fans raised money to have headstones put down).

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

I just found this on the imdb:

Shot to death along with her mother at a tender age of 10 by her father, who then shot himself to death.

That's bleak. I had no idea.  
I'll still watch the film but it will always have a sad under-current.

Apparently, the father was an out of work alcoholic, jealous of Barsi's success, and paranoid that she and her mother were going to leave. Thankfully, they were asleep at the time, and did not suffer.

She was also Ducky in "A Land Before Time." Ducky was Judith's favorite character, and her catchphrase, "yup yup yup," was added to Barsi's headstone (originally, she and her mother's graves were unmarked, but her fans raised money to have headstones put down).

I swear, it's like the movies always take a backseat to the REAL horrors.  Naturally that's the way of it, and I realize it, but when something like happens to someone at such a tender age, it really hits home.  God knows where this little girl might have been by now, had she lived to see more success.