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Old 07-07-08, 09:25 AM
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Most Depressing Movies of all-time!

There is nothing wrong with a great depressing film, even if you can't watch them all the time. What's your favorite depressing films?

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Seven
Requiem for a Dream
Donnie Darko
Raging Bull
Irriversible
Olivier Olivier

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Dancer in the Dark
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uhhh...weepiest doesn't equal depressed???

weepiest of all-time
top tragic
watch when depressed
movies that made you cry

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Midnight Express
8MM
Leaving Las Vegas

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The Girl Next Door (not the Elisha Cuthbert movie)

I really, really wish I could unwatch that.
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Leaving Las Vegas
oh hell yes

i love that movie but it's very depressing

Originally Posted by scott1598
uhhh...weepiest doesn't equal depressed???
being depressed and feeling 'weepy' are different, imo
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Kids (1995)

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Kids (1995)
oh crap

good one
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Testament (1983)
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Once Were Warriors (1994)
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Cries and Whispers - nuff said
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Eye of God

I only just discovered this movie over the last year.
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Originally Posted by An4h0ny
being depressed and feeling 'weepy' are different, imo
how bout tragic, ones that make you cry?
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Originally Posted by scott1598
how bout tragic, ones that make you cry?
i don't think i've ever cried at a movie...

but 'weepy' to me could mean crying at something good

like at the end of a movie if a guy and girl get back together despite seemingly insurmountable odds... or if the cute little puppy you thought got killed in the first act comes ambling down a back alley and leaps into the protagonist's arms... or even just a regular old happy ending has made several of my ex gf's cry.

then again some of my exes would cry during commercials

so to me 'weepy' is something that makes you cry, good or bad
depressing is just something that bums you out or makes you feel sad..

i suppose they overlap quite a bit
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Leaving Las Vegas came to mind when I first read the thread title.

Kids is another good mention. I have this DVD but haven't watched it in years as I remember really how sad it was.
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No film has ever depressed me more after watching it than Requiem for a Dream.
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requiem for a dream
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