Well Leaving Las Vegas is pretty hard to top, in my opinion.

And my own personal favourite, the movie with which I discovered that di Caprio is, in fact, a genius - The Basketball Diaries. Have only seen it once, don't have balls to watch it again, i might kill myself.

The Boy In The Striped Pajamas. This was very powerful and heartbreaking. Excellent film.

Never Let Me Go. Heartbreaking from start to finish . Children with no future but death.

@StonerWithaBoner said:

Jack with robin Williams. Spoiler

That one part where the teacher is asking everybody what they want to be when they grow up and jack is like "alive".... or at the end when he graduates high school as a little old man...

Another Robin Williams one: The Fisher King.

I saw that movie (Requiem for a Dream) during my Film Studies course (Along with The Big Lebowski and The Truman Show -- and as m free choices I watched Gone Girl and The Imitation Game). Of all those movies I only loved my own choices, and Truman Show was okay, but The Big Lebowski (a movie that has 100 times "fuck" in it and is just about nothing at all....) and Requiem for a Dream (some heavy shizzle, message received loud and clear: drugs are bad, and don't even think about trying it out.) were just awful.

But The Boy in The Striped Pyamas that made me cry and not because I thought it was awful.

@NZer said:

Never Let Me Go. Heartbreaking from start to finish . Children with no future but death.

I read a book for English literature with that title. I wonder if that's a movie based on that book... If so, I should watch it.

@k_who said:

Well Leaving Las Vegas is pretty hard to top, in my opinion.

And my own personal favourite, the movie with which I discovered that di Caprio is, in fact, a genius - The Basketball Diaries. Have only seen it once, don't have balls to watch it again, i might kill myself.

Ah yeah, I really like LLV (although these days it's quite difficult to find time to watch it with appropriate bottle of alcohol in hand), although I never really considered it that depressing, he is doing what he wants, so not much reason to be very sad about it.

@alltimemarr said:

I saw that movie (Requiem for a Dream) during my Film Studies course (Along with The Big Lebowski and The Truman Show -- and as m free choices I watched Gone Girl and The Imitation Game). Of all those movies I only loved my own choices, and Truman Show was okay, but The Big Lebowski (a movie that has 100 times "fuck" in it and is just about nothing at all....) and Requiem for a Dream (some heavy shizzle, message received loud and clear: drugs are bad, and don't even think about trying it out.) were just awful.

But The Boy in The Striped Pyamas that made me cry and not because I thought it was awful.

@NZer said:

Never Let Me Go. Heartbreaking from start to finish . Children with no future but death.

I read a book for English literature with that title. I wonder if that's a movie based on that book... If so, I should watch it.

I personally think Requiem for a dream was great movie (technically/objectively), but overrated just because of shocking value - sure music and acting is amazing and we can watch downward spiral of doing drugs and get the message, but way too unconventional and trippy for me (plot itself is pretty simple) and regarding drugs it's after all exaggeration, you would really need to have zero self control to end up in their place, Trainspotting was in this regard more realistic. All in all I remember maybe 3 scenes - A2A action, amputated hand and crazy TV shows, which speaks for itself - just shocking, The Fountain was much better if I had to choose something else from Aronofsky.

I was not impressed by Boy in the striped pyjamas, besides the touching ending (which is very short and not surprising, after all the book is pretty popular) it ain't that good and I am kind of sick of this WW2/Jews emotional blackmailing, already grown very thick skin after so many movies trying to (ab)use this topic especially past big success of Schindler's List, because they are too lazy to make something relatable from present time and they know Jews/Holocaust theme still works on critics (which is beyond my understanding).

All in all I remember maybe 3 scenes - A2A action, amputated hand and crazy TV shows, which speaks for itself - just shocking,

I remember that fridge. And all those sequences with pupils and syringes and stuff when they did the drugs.

Grave of the Fireflies (1988) is really touching , Requiem for a Dream is phenomenal.

All of Michael Haneke films are really good, but they are also really bleak, dark and depressing!

@alltimemarr said:

@NZer said:

Never Let Me Go. Heartbreaking from start to finish . Children with no future but death.

I read a book for English literature with that title. I wonder if that's a movie based on that book... If so, I should watch it.

It most probably is. Was the book depressing? It was a depressing read for me and the movie equally so. The book in which the movie is based on is by Kazuo Ishiguro.

@Markoff said:

@k_who said:

Well Leaving Las Vegas is pretty hard to top, in my opinion.

Ah yeah, I really like LLV (although these days it's quite difficult to find time to watch it with appropriate bottle of alcohol in hand), although I never really considered it that depressing, he is doing what he wants, so not much reason to be very sad about it.

I see.......

Sera: So... why are you killing yourself?

Ben: I don't remember. I just know that I want to.

A few movies that broke my heart and a few that left me flabbergasted, some both.

Babel

Dancer in the Dark

Mysterious Skin

Dogville

The Book of Stars

Elephant

In the Bedroom

Festen (The Celebration)

What Dreams May Come

Some will leave you crying your heart out but others like Elephant are more shocking really. Added because it breaks your heart in an entirely different way. I hope you can find a gem or two

The Elephant Man. I weep every time I watch it.

@diadara said:

A few movies that broke my heart and a few that left me flabbergasted, some both.

Babel

Dancer in the Dark

Mysterious Skin

Dogville

The Book of Stars

Elephant

In the Bedroom

Festen (The Celebration)

What Dreams May Come

Some will leave you crying your heart out but others like Elephant are more shocking really. Added because it breaks your heart in an entirely different way. I hope you can find a gem or two

i haven't seen only the book of stars, so added to watchlist, though wasn't really destroyed by any of these, maybe In the bedroom was the strongest for me