What's your favourite emotionally devastating movie?

[ilandar@lemmy.today]

I would say Grave of the Fireflies, but like a lot of people I've never wanted to watch it again so I'm not sure if I could say it's my favourite.

[mech@feddit.org]

The Road
The only truly realistic post-apocalyptic movie.
There is no hope. There is no humanity pulling together in times of crisis.
Just one man trying to keep his son and himself alive for another day, after losing everything else.

[blacklazor@fedia.io]

Nobody mentioned Requiem For a Dream yet?

I guess I'm getting old

[evil_shrubbery@thelemmy.club]

I'm sure there are others, but in my brainhole this one sure is a headliner for such a question.

[djdarren@piefed.social]

Yeah, I wouldn't recommend it. I mean, it's a beautiful, powerful film, but yeah.

Here's hoping your fortunes improve x

[jpeps@lemmy.world]

One Hour Photo always stuck with me. Sy is an extremely sympathetic villain that my heart just broke for the entire film.

[jpeps@lemmy.world]

Maybe I just didn't give it enough of a chance, but I really just didn't get this film honestly. For me it just felt like a sort of 'depression porn' without really much substance to it.

[circuit23@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Dead Man is incredible, love seeing it occasionally get the recognition it deserves.

[danh2os@piefed.social]

Everything Everywhere All At Once. I watch it every year and I pretend I'm a different character every time. I'm in my Waymond phase now. Watch it from his point of view when you're ready.

[midsizedsedan@lemmy.world]

Prisoners

I almost gave up during the final chase scene.

[lemmyng@piefed.ca]

The first 5 minutes of Up. Cutting onions every time.

[psaldorn@lemmy.world]

What makes it worse for me is there was an old channel 4 advert that kad clips from lots of movies and the names of the movies in the current roster.

I thought the names matched the clips.. and requiem for a dream appeared alongside a film I've not actually identified with a guy shooting over a limo saying something like "death to some thing something and bad cinema"

So a few years later I finally sit down to watch requiem for a dream expecting some weird Hollywood critic (or something)

Kept waiting for that scene until things got really dark and then kind of knew something was amiss.

On the upside: no heroine for me thanks

[cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

君の名は。 (your name.) — the first big twist. When ya boy Taki first sets foot on the school (as himself) and looks at the lake and you realise what the movie's been doing this whole time.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine did it like 15-20 years prior (and I loved that episode) but I never saw it coming. You go back and watch, and the movie kinda slaps you with a fresh fish with the clues, especially the date where he and his coworker are looking at all the photos. Camera stays there a good little while, too. Like damn. Stevie Wonder coulda saw that twist coming. But I was captivated by the beauty of the film. And the music.

[bentigorlich@gehirneimer.de]

Interstellar and Arrival
The scene where cooper watches his kids grow up and get kids of their own in like 5 minutes always gets me.

[keyez@lemmy.world]

Waves is an insane ride of a movie. So many emotions and so many great performances. The directing and editing are really impressive as well.

[hurricaneliz@lemmy.world]

Powder

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[okwithmydecay@leminal.space]

Strangely these are my favourite kind of films, as there is something cathartic about emerging from an emotional roller coaster. These films have stayed me with long after:

• Irreversible
• 21 Grams
• Never Let Me Go
• Burning
• First Reformed
• The Long Walk

[b0nk3rs@lemmy.world]

To this day I've watched it once and I'll never forget.

[b0nk3rs@lemmy.world]

Anything like this with kids/families gets me pretty good nowadays

[b0nk3rs@lemmy.world]

Man on Fire is one of my favourites and it gets me every time.