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Snowtown Murders

runner ups:

City of Life and Death

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Event Horizon

Kafka

20,000 Leagues under the sea

-Imp

Dances with Wolves

Also Blade Runner.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 10:31 pm Also Blade Runner.

Yes, that's a good one. There's a new, final cut release of it out on Netflix right now.

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 10:34 pm

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 10:31 pm Also Blade Runner.

Yes, that's a good one. There's a new, final cut release of it out on Netflix right now.

..and it's way more depressing than the original release.

Gary, make sure you lock any ropes and sharp implements, including angle-grinders (my preferred method) in the garden shed and give the key to a friend that you can really trust, but more importantly, a friend that you really really trust actually likes you.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button <- - one of my all time favourite films.

Gets depressing towards the end.

thanks for replies Gentlmen/Ladies.

welcome why so............

to be honest i've not seem most of those offered above - i did see Blade Runner - not sure why a few thought it was depressing.

other movies in the same sci fi vain, like Lathe of Heaven, Solent Green, Silent Running (o that one was depressing ;-(....), Fail Safe, Colossis the Forbin Project, Planet of the Apes ............seemed to me more depressing than Blade Runner.

but thanks for the replies, and welcome more on the matter and eleboration of why they were depressing.

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for me Snowtown is still the most depressing, due to it being based on true events, so realistic. takes 2 weeks off my lifespan with each viewing. BTW i had to buy the Bluray from australia, why this great (though depressing) movie is not available in america is reprehensible.

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thinking of other depressing movies - Silent Running is on the list.

The Apu Trilogy also (indian (bangledeshi actually) 1950's era.

Fail Safe (though the destruction of NYC by american b-58 stopped a "threads" ww3 - so "ended well" - lol.

Osama is pretty depressing.

Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Color of Paradise is dpressing, though also uplifting too in its way, though the kid in it is uplifting, "seeing the world" with his hands (blind) - though sees more than his dad who has eyes, but is blind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_bUnI0MhA8

I never quite understood the ending of that movie - did the kid die or not? - the above link by muslim viewers seem to understand the ending of the movie more than me - the girl is crying, so moved.

it is one of the best movies ever made my men, so only a robot would not be moved by it.