What's the most disturbing/sad movie you've ever seen?

>>81919752 (OP)
years ago i met a girl on r9k and we watched nekromantik, serbian movie and other stuff on voicecall (she wanted to watch that shit)

an elephant sitting still, the nursing home scene was brutal

>>81919854
>the nursing home scene was brutal
How brutal?

>>81920212
Not that anon, but it's not a brutal film. It's a very bleak and depressing film about perseverance. The director committed suicide.

>>81919752 (OP)
This is incredibly subjective. What topics disturb or make you sad and I will suggest a film.

>>81920229
The nursing home scene and the Butcher's monologue in I Stand Alone is more brutal tbqh. Wang Jin is the best of the four protagonists and the one I feel the worst for though.

>>81920229
thanks another anon. I will try to convince my sister to watch it with me lol
>>81920249
I've been watching a couple of those "disturbing" movies you'd see on reddit (mysterious skin, snowtown, requiem for a dream etc) and i found them good but i never actually care for the characters and nothing makes me pause and think. Maybe i'm just too retarded for understanding cinema. The only things that make me sad or disturb me/make me contemplate are situations where i had a similiar experience to the one in the movie and then ioverthink about my life rather than focus on the movie

>>81920364
>I will try to convince my sister to watch it with me lol
It has no graphic content, and it won many awards. It's a normal critically acclaimed dramatic film, but it's just bleak and sad. The only people who'd have trouble watching it are people who don't have the attention span to pay attention to slow moving four hour movies.

salo or the 120 days of sodom 1975

>>81919752 (OP)
Idk but I cry watching thor and Hancock for no reason. I'm an adult male

>>81920364
>The only things that make me sad or disturb me/make me contemplate are situations where i had a similiar experience to the one in the movie and then ioverthink
This is what I mean, that is why some films resonate so much with some people. Not all films are extreme in the sense of graphic content, some are just very sad or deal with themes in a brutal way that hurt. The elephant example is a film about finding resolve and persevering in the face of hopelessness.

Melancholia, I Stand Alone, The Seventh Continent, Lilya 4-Ever, Requiem for a Dream are some generic examples of good films without super extreme content but are very depressing.

If you want films with extreme content but not feels, my generic answers would be stuff like the Slaughter Vomit Doll series (trash), A Serbian Film, Black Metal Veins, or August Underground Mordium (trash), Salo, or Martyrs (2008)

But again recommendations should be tailored with films, like "No Child of Mine" would really hurt someone who was sexually abused by a parent and put in foster care. But it might be generic to others.

>>81919752 (OP)
Picrel was the most uncomfortably suspenseful movies I had ever seen. I disliked every single character by the end of it except for the flute-playing son whose saving grace was that he wanted no part of the family or its drama and left to be successful on his own (I forgot the specifics at this point). Someone who enjoys romantic drama, gossip, and revenge stories might find this movie thrilling but it just left me feeling depressed.

>>81920727
Not OP, but that is a good film. Since you like Asian films why not try out Lee Sang-Woo's bad family film series? These are, "Mother Is a Whore," "Father Is a Dog," and "I Am Trash." God I miss watching movies with the people I care about.

>>81919752 (OP)
Blue Valentine was really sad. Also Room with Brie Larson had a really ambiguous and unsatisfying ending after a very long and bleak sequence of events.
>i want a different story :(
>NO. THIS IS THE STORY THAT YOU GET.

Many of Lars von Trier's works are highly disturbing. Antichrist, The House that Jack Built, etc. Melancholia was very sad.
The House That Jack Built was mostly pretentious though. Still worth a watch.

Gaspar Noe's Irreversible and Climax are also very grim.

>>81921031
I find Noe's I Stand Alone and Vortex to be the most sad. Irreversible I feel is more shocking.

>>81919752 (OP)
Gummo or Bad Boy Bubby maybe. Idk I don't watch a lot of movies. Although I guess the ending to Bad Boy Bubby was happy

"Cuck", I lost all self respect I had when the credits rolled.

At least I discovered Tracey Ullman thanks to it but fuck me, it wasn't worth it.

>>81919752 (OP)
Trainspotting.
Not because of anything graphic or shocking, not because of the baby, not because of Tommy.
But because it felt a bit too real, sat a bit too heavy on my chest.
Choose life... But why would I want to go and do a thing like that?

>>81919752 (OP)
Threads (1984). Mockumentary about the fallout of a nuclear bomb dropping on Sheffield. Extremely extremely bleak. They made my parents generation watch this in school and my mum said she was scared of the sound of planes for a solid 6 months after viewing.

>>81921347
The best part of threads is it is the most scientifically accurate film about the bomb. Carl Sagan is one of the advisors who worked on it. Another good sad British nuke film is "When the Wind Blows" it is a miserable book by that person who made that Snowman children's book that scarred kids.

>>81921144
Yeah with Noe I meant "grim" as in dark, not necessarily sad. Just horrific.

>>81920826
Despite how uncomfortable I found it, Raise the Red Lantern is still my favorite movie soundtrack to this day, however. I forgot to mention that.

>Since you like Asian films why not try out Lee Sang-Woo's bad family film series? These are, "Mother Is a Whore," "Father Is a Dog," and "I Am Trash."
I'm assuming those are Korean films? The only thing I've seen close enough to a Korean film so far has been kpop demon hunters. Unironically worth watching.
>God I miss watching movies with the people I care about.
Does /tv/ suck or something? I rarely watch anything so I never was interested in visiting the board.

>>81921690
Yes they are Korean films. They fit the OPs ask. They aren't outstanding like the violence trilogy (Lady Vengeance, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy), or like Parasite but they meet the ask of OP. There are quite a few JP films that do as well, but I assumed someone whose seen what you mentioned would be well aware of many of those.
>Does /tv/ suck or something?
Nah, I was lamenting losing someone I care about who I used to watch films with. Don't mind me, the last films we watched together were all Chinese.

>>81922042
I see. I was going to suggest screensharing a movie over an internet call but there's no replacing the actual person involved. The only movie watch-party I attended from /r9k/ was for "Brotherhood of the Wolf," which was a silly historical fantasy featuring guys in the bloodborne costume fighting vampires and a native american kung-fu master.

>Anon's Chinese gf was deported by ICE
Brutal

>>81922340
Nah they were American, also not really a girl. I myself am not American though. Brotherhood of the Wolf is a silly film but fun.

Cure, 1997.
Definitely not the most disturbing or sad movie out there, but it's the first that came to mind.

this movie made me cry a lot back when I was like 6, basically the first movie I recall making me cry, i've prob watch one sadder but idk