Top 20 Movies Way Too Upsetting to Watch Twice
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- We're not traumatized, you're traumatized! For this list, we’ll be looking at the most intense, devastating films out there. We’ll only be including scripted movies, so you won’t find any documentaries here. Our countdown includes "American History X", "Blue Valentine", "Hard Candy" and much more! Have you managed to watch any of these movies more than once? Let us know in the comments below!
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American History X is one movie I've watched more than once. Joker, however, should have been on this list as it has so many similarities to my own personal life that I can't bring myself to watch it a second time.
American history x, even though the racist slurs are disgusting and vulgar. It's still a great movie and Edward Norton gives his greatest performance of his career. Leaving las Vegas is a terrific movie, with some unsettling and emotional scenes. Nicholas Cage is phenomenal and Elizabeth Shue is outstanding.
All of them
My man Patrick Wilson deserves so much more credit than he gets. I feel like he’s that actor that 90% of people know as “oh that guy from that other movie!” But he’s GREAT in every role he plays
Schindler’s list is one of the best films of all time. Truly. I would say you need to add another film to this list. Katyn. A Polish film on the 20,000 officers the Soviets murdered in WW2. I’ve seen many films and this was truly difficult to watch, especially cause it is true.
I remember reading that while Spielberg was working on Schindler's List, Robin Williams frequently called him to make him laugh; because he knew how much the subject matter was depressing him.
That’s actually nice to hear. 🥲
So cool.
And also, every night after work, Spielberg would watch Seinfeld to light up his mood.
I wish he could have gotten help he is missed so much
I heard about it, Robin was such a good guy!
I saw Requiem for a Dream in the theaters without any knowledge of what the movie was about - I just went along with some friends. That ending hit me incredibly hard. Ellen Burstyn got absolutely robbed of the Oscar.
The feel good movie of the summer.
Insanely robbed. It was the best acting I have ever seen.
@@markalexander3659 Even worse was that Julia Robert's won instead for Erin Brockovich. Talk about rigged.
That's awesome I wish I got to see it in theater.
@@ViperXXXXXXX a very odd experience. I've never been in a theater (nearly full) where the entire crowd was just dead silent with dazed/shocked looks on their faces at the end of the movie.
“Precious” should’ve made this list. Monique’s Oscar winning performance was equally brilliant & sickening
Precious never had a chance to have a decent life. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
I agree. It took me at least ten years to watch it because I didn't want to see that girl being abused. It is such a horrible experience for a child.
I couldn’t agree with u more. For me, Watching that film affected me so bad. I think I actually lost sleep about it. I’ve only watched it once and that was enough for me. But it is a brilliant film with an absolutely stellar cast!
I've called "Precious" either the happiest sad ending or saddest happy ending I've ever seen.
@@WrenFaithBridger A very good definition. I am so thankful for every child who survived this kind of nightmare. So sad for the ones who didn't or who still are hurting themselves trying to forget. Just please find someone good you can lean on in hard times. Sending all of you love and kindness.
The Deerhunter was terribly upsetting to watch. Probably because I was a young person during the Vietnam War and it broke my heart to see how the characters were broken by their war experience.
When my love for the war started closing in, i had to make the toughest decisions yet to be with either the war or Woody. When i joined the War’s side, Woody knew I would get controlled by it but the war hasn’t done a thing but show love and affection towards me. 7 years later and the war is still with me now
The Deerhunter is always on my list of movies that traumatized me.:-(
This was an amazing movie, showing some of the truths of what happened over there. No one who went over there came back whole, either in body or mind.
Totally agree
The fact that most of these were based on/inspired by real life events just goes to show that reality is more cruel and excruciating than human imagination will ever be.
That sounds poetic. I mean it's wrong, But it SOUNDS like something deep. Everything that happened in the movies you are talking about was still in someone's imagination first. But they were the awful things that were actually possible. One movie called The Endless has a guy caught in a time loop where he dies every 3 seconds and been stuck like that for nearly a century. That is worse than anything in these movies. And it can get worse. Thank God physics stop what the worst of human imagination can make up.
The perpetrators literally imagined doing the things they did, so I agree; poetic and wrong.
Axumam7: came here to point exactly this out. None of these stories is about natural disasters and the vast majority are about what people have done, either to themselves or to other people. And there are so many things people have done that can’t really be addressed head on in movies- things involving sadists, children, etc. Even when someone makes a gritty, clear eyed film about the Holocaust, American slavery or the Rwandan genocide or something massively evil, much of the sadism and depravity is actually much worse than what is ever shown on screen. For one thing, we are limited in that we only learn the experiwnces of those who survive to tell them. Also, necessarily, the vast scale and massive distribution of suffering involved in something like a genocide or human enslavement or even war is something that humans can never fully grasp, no matter how unflinchingly it is depicted on screen; our imagination is limited by our ability to envision the vastness of suffering, much like we are unable to fully imagine the vastness of space or time.
Your example of the time loop is especially intriguing, because if it were possible to inflict such a horrific fate upon a person, there is no question that at least one human exists who would choose to truly subject his enemy to such a curse, if it was possible in the physical world.
Nothing is more horrifying than what humans will do to one another and to themselves. The human imagination for evil is unmatched and pretty much unlimited. The human capacity for evil is only limited by the rules of the physical world.
Still, that only makes it more important to always remember the truth that the human imagination and capacity for goodness and kindness is just as unlimited and the courage to do good in the face of evil is awe-inspiring and much greater than the courage to do evil. The courage to do good is surprisingly more common, than the will to inflict horror on one another.
Wow it's almost like people share their trauma and experiences through art and that's why it can be so visceral. DURRRRRR
It is said that if you can dream it up, no matter how horrible, you can be assured it's already been done before in the world. 😢
Schindler’s List is one of my favorite films of all time. Even if it’s sad, it is a great example of how the human spirit cannot be broken
Have you seen the movie Jojo Rabbit? I think it’s also a masterpiece
That was interesting to watch. Riveting. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
I've watched it many times. Mt children have watched it, my grandchildren will watch it when they are old enough. We must never forget.😊
Yes, EVERYONE should watch "Schindler's List."
I would like to add:
1) Casualties of War
2) Sophie’s Choice
3) Precious
4) The Tin Drum
OMG yes, Precious. Underrated.
Casualties of War 😮❤❤
I can't believe that my German teacher in high school had us watch The Tin Drum in class! That movie scarred me. Also... Deliverence.
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I have been traumatised by every war movie since watching Come and see recently and I’ve never watched one again
How is Sophie's Choice not on here! I DON'T GET IR
I'm surprised you didn't mention Sophie's Choice, which was horrific, with a woman in a concentration camp having to choose which of her two children will live.
Same thought.
Spoiler alert 🚨 lol
True. That one brief scene made it an excellent movie that I just can’t watch again.
You might also like Out of the Ashes, about a Jewish female ob/gyn forced to work for Mengele and accused of participating when she was just another victim
My grandmother used to watch this movie and it was the only Vhs she had besides Annie for me and Little Shop of Horrors
The City of God, a Brazilian movie about three kids trying to survive the fafellas in Rio de Janeiro in different ways is absolutely both sickening and underrated
Great selection.
City of God is an awesome movie that I have seen many times. But I wouldn't put this movie in the same category as Salo & A Serbian Film
Never heard anyone not loving this movie. Maybe I’m just old but City of God is about the opposite of underrated - it’s hella good
Edit:8.6 on iMDB. Not sure how much more highly rated it can get
City of God-brilliant movie!
One of the most critically acclaimed movies of the 2000s is now “uNdErRaTeD”
Myself, I could never re-watch Gorillas In The Mist. Broke my heart.
Her assistants were my TAs in a zoology class in college. That made it hit a little harder because I knew how it would end.
Omg I couldn’t finish it one time. It broke my heart!
Same!!!!!!!
The Lovely Bones, especially the book, was absolutely devastating 😔
Book was way better than the movie, and I've managed to read it twice. First time I read it in a day...
Haven't read the book. The movie was so heartbreaking by itself. I do not fault how it was put together. I feel it achieved the writers goal of trying to teach young people, families of at least one of the lures child abusers use to victimize children. Why our legal system needs to stop failing to treat crimes against children as seriously as we do murderers Their behaviors tear apart families and leave life long scars. We have the power. It is past the time for us to exercise it.
I couldn't read it after the first chapter because it was hard for me to read about her getting raped and murdered by her neighbor!
I'm glad the movie skipped the really awful part.
Agreed!
Surprised “Martyrs” and “Come & See” weren’t on here. Still two of the most upsetting and depressing movies I’ve ever seen
Martyrs damaged me far more than A Serbian Film.
@@tenofivelips I wish I had never heard of A Serbian Film. Damaged is the right word. I lost a little piece of my soul after watching it. I truly wish I had never seen it.
Come and See is worth a watch for certain as it is inspired by real events in a historical setting. If the film maker had put in more details he would not be able to see it himself. After this movie he stated that he would never make another as this one said it all.
@@tenofivelips Really? Humm...I refuse to watch Seberian Movie. Martyrs was gut wrenching because of the concept but thankfully not over the top graphic.
There is another movie about two teen girls taken and brutally assaulted that I feel falls better under the don't watch list unless you can fast forward.
Still kids are answering online predators. I just don't understand it?🙄
Man, if you want haunting cinema, you watch those two
I read " The Road " twice in anticipation of the movie release. When they were doing location scouting for a post apocalyptic setting they chose Greene County Pennsylvania. I live about 5 miles from Greene County and the headlines in the local paper read something like " Major Movie Set To Film In Greene County."
So proud to be chosen the place in America most closely resembling a post apocalyptic landscape.
Go team !
Lol that'd be pretty depressing
😂😂😂
Dawn of the Dead (1978) also filmed in Pennsylvania. The post-apocalyptic capital of the world.
I read it shortly after it was published here in Germany and I cried so much.
I can't believe you read it twice. I read it once and I'm good for this lifetime. It is a truly relentlessly dour and horrific novel.
As a Jew, Schindler’s List is hard to watch but seeing the very end of the movie when survivors visit his real grave was what made me cry the hardest.
The opening minutes of Saving Private Ryan had me in tears. Deliverance was pretty traumatic.
I’ve not watched that movie in 4 months because I’m recovering from my Come and See (1985) trauma. I prefer come and see more
I will most definitely never watch Deliverance again. Way too much trauma.
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I thought I’d never watch Come and See (1985) again but Floyra loves to see me every day and he even wakes me from my nightmares so I didn’t have anymore bless him. I think we’ve found some connection very quickly
Well at least Deliverance had a kick-ass soundtrack.
I actually heard many WWII vets couldn't watch Saving Private Ryan because of the opening scene at Normandy
Precious is tough for me to watch even once.
As heartbreaking as it is, I absolutely love American History X. I own it and have watched it many times, and I still tear up at the end.
Yep, it's one of my favourite movies!!!
Yes, it needs to be shown in schools or at least read. Never in my history have we seen how this kind of racism has gotten so out of control. Not counting of course Nutzie movement in Europe.
The dumbing down of America isn't just an African American movement. The target is on the majority of Americans now.
I say look at South America. That is their game plan for Americans. To make us so poor, so desperate, we will turn on each other. While certain people sit with their popcorn, enjoying our suffering for show.
Me too... That one is a movie I've watched multiple times, but it is one you might need some time between viewings...and yes, the ending gets me every single time, so gut-wrenching and horrifically sad!
Me, too.... how can you NOT love Edward Norton- yummy even with that God-Awful beard & Swastika on his chest
@@kristinschermann6581 Edward Norton is an amazing actor. I don't think there's a movie he's in that I didn't enjoy his acting.
They forgot “Midnight Express”, “Elephant Man”, “Mother”, “Precious”, “Kids” & “Boys Don’t Cry”
"Precious" is a personal favorite of mine; I've seen it several times. I've seen "Boys Don't Cry" at least 3 times.
@@WrenFaithBridger I’ve seen them many times as well. Great movies but still upsetting. Guess that’s why they’re so great
My mom likes "Mother" I don't like it though, it's too scary for my liking
I can't watch Kids again... To ugly and hopeless...
And Sophie's Choice & Trainspotting
The girl next door. True story about neighbors who tortured a girl to death. I barely made it through the first time. I want to watch it again but don't think I can.
If you appreciated The Girl Next Door I recommend An American Crime... the same story with better writing & acting. Although the lead actress in TGND was amazing. Hugs
That one really got to me.
And the movie was actually pretty true to the real incident.
@@PapaB78unfortunately, the true story was even worse than what was depicted.
I clicked on the thumbnail to find out whether or not "The Girl Next Door" was on the list. Whoever compiled this list obviously never saw it. I saw it once. Once!
Uggg I watched that version of the girl next door and have no intention of seeing it again. I know it's totally different but I can rewatch the comedy version the girl next door
My man Patrick Wilson deserves so much more credit than he gets. I feel like he’s that actor that 90% of people know as “oh that guy from that other movie!” But he’s GREAT in every roll he plays
I like Patrick Wilson, which is why I have hard time pulling the trigger and watch Hard Candy as I don’t want to see him as a despicable pedophile that gets his comeuppance. He’s too likable.
@@AntonXul It is more the child abuse that has lured me away from that movie. I agree Patrick is an amazing actor. His acting in Phantom of the Opera, will always be golden to me. I think he is doing okay. I see his taking this role to expand his resume. He's been working steady. Not everyone wants to live in the tabloids.
Schindler's list is a masterpiece that deserve all the attention , once it was a too tragic part of history of humanity
Things are still tragic. You don’t even exist.
I was disappointed by it - slow, not much happens; it's in black & white.
Yes it is a sad story but love the movie
It's truly hard to believe there are still Holocaust Deniers isn't it?
I''ve seen it more than 10 times. It never fails to make me cry. It also contains 3 of the best acting performances ever put on film. Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley and of course Liam Neeson who was robbed at the oscars.
As a recovering alcoholic, seeing Leaving Las Vegas for the first time in the midst of my misery was pretty damn depressing. Still love that movie though! Nick Cage deserved an Oscar for that one.
My mother did something similar, and as a result I feel drawn to watch this movie every once in a while... that never goes well.
I remember when I told my friends I'd seen it more than once, and they were like, "wtf is wrong with you?" 🤷
This was the movie that made me love Nic Cage.
But you're still in recovery, right? I'm a recovering addict so I understand your struggle. Keep up the excellent work! 👍
Leaving Las Vegas traumatized me too (I'm also a recovering alcoholic)......
I'm a recovering alcoholic too! 2 years on June 8
The Boy In The Striped Pajamas was one movie that got to me. I know it was fictional but it still conveyed the horrors of WW2.
Our kids had to read the book in High School. I read it when it first came out so I was able to warn them. They were to watch the movie in class after finishing the book. The weekend before, my husband and I watched the movie with them. They were so thankful we did that for them but we thought it was normal parenting. 10+ yrs on now we realise it’s sad that many parents don’t prepare their children for things they will be watching and/or reading in school.
@@Sorchia56 That's awesome parenting 😃👍🏾 You did right by your kids
A PG-13 movie got to you week
@@gary1248 No one asked for your opinion
@@gary1248 *weak
Ellen Burstyn totally broke my heart in Requiem For A Dream.
This is a movie that I have seen twice. But it was like 15 years apart. She did a helluva job. Disturbing. Now I work in healthcare and see what meth and fentanyl do to people on a daily basis. Don't do drugs kids. Not even pot.
Changeling was such a sad but good movie. It makes me sad that Christine Collins died never knowing what really happened to her son.
Yes, like Clints other movie Mystic River, he really pulled at our hearts as hard as he could.
Just like 12 years a Slave, we need to learn from history so that we will never become or aid these monsters among us.
Changeling is an amazing movie but christine collins did not die wondering what happened to her son. She just couldn't accept what happened. Its a well known fact that walter was amongst the chicken coop victims.
@@pennyc11Mystic River was hard. Sean Penn's performance along with Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harding, and Laura Linney was stunning!
@@Irish_Georgia_Girl I felt Sean was really being a girl-dad here. It is what we wish more dads would be. Though not all dads to go through.
Eastwood has made some great family movies, highlighting issues many shied away from.
No doubt, he inspired Angelina Jolie to make her movies, also highlighting human suffering. Trying to teach us something important and why we need to pay attention to our world.
@@Irish_Georgia_Girl when Sean Penn learned while his character learned that it was his daughter that was murdered, the emotions were so raw. It makes me cry every time I see it.
Also The Pianist(2003) starring Adrien Brody it's another classic that i only watch one time, and since then it's been 13 years.
I consider this movie as the minor brother of the Shindler's List(1993)
I was looking for this comment ! This movie (the pianist) was very touching to me. I seen it at a very young age . A very hard watch as well as the boy in the striped pajamas.
Love The Pianist. Definitely very sad. It’s one of my favorite movies, though, and I’ve watched it numerous times.
I too have only watched this film once. Amazingly well put-together.
My church showed “The Passion of The Christ” for a lot of the older kids and I was genuinely upset and shocked for hours after watching the film. Every actor played their part beautifully and it got the whole room crying
The Truth of how our Lord endured the cross for you and for me.
That movie is something EVERYONE should watch at least once to truly appreciate what Jesus went through for us!
@@Irish_Georgia_Girl You realize not everybody believes in Jesus? And even according to Christianity, he died and then came right back to life a few days later, so he basically just gave up a weekend.
Catholic torture porn. I remember how salaciously the priests and nuns described every nanosecond of Christ's agony on the cross every Good Friday. I don't need to see a movie about it.
@tekbarrier a stupid comment
I feel like A Clockwork Orange should be on the list or at least an honorable mention. That movie was so disturbing, I could barely get through it once. I definitely don’t wanna watch it again haha
Same! I had to watch it twice because I couldn't believe it was really that disturbing.
How did "Precious" not make this list? That movie was rough.
I've seen Schindler's List and American history X more than once
You forgot "Come and See", a Soviet film of 1985 about the eastern front and the atrocities of war there. By far the most terrifying movie I've ever seen, the sheer amount of terror on-screen is something I've never seen in my life. One of my favorite films ever, but since I've seen it 12 years ago I've only rewatched twice again!
I was going to add that one. A Serbian Movie is just discuting and harder to see but "Come and See" depicts realistic events and that alone makes it top 3
I have not managed to watch it again, too terrifying…
That's an amazing movie
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I was very hesitant about watching United 93 but I just can’t, I’m able to get through the last 7 minutes knowing what’s going to happen. A day after watching it, I got so haunted thinking the heroes will come back to haunt me and they actually did come back telling me I didn’t need to be stressed over the bravery of what they did; I just missed them that much
Agreed... check out "Germany, Year Zero"... if you can find it.
The Last King of Scotland was also difficult to rewatch.
FRANCES (1982) Jessica Lange delivers her best performance (in my opinion) as doomed 1930s actress Frances Farmer and her descent into deprivation caused by merciless Hollywood moguls and her comfortless contemptible mother. And SOPHIE'S CHOICE from the same year DEFINITELY belongs on this list.
The Boy In The Striped Pajamas was the movie the broke me. I have seen numerous moves on this list but the one I can not watch again is The Boy In The Striped Pajamas. This one hit me in a way that I have not been able to get past. It is heartbreaking on soo many levels and it does not give your heart back.
I never got past seeing how much Bruno's mother broke down at the fence despite being a part of exactly the same thing happening to so many other children... I was so angry and had such little sympathy for the Germans in that situation. Bruno's death was equally as tragic as everyone else's, and just as unnecessary.
@@athena712 Agreed.
When a monster calls !!😢
I didn’t think I’d could get past United 93 but I reminded strong and got through especially the ending. I cried during the hijacking of the plane knowing what’s about to happen but still hoped the heroes would make it, I screamed like Elsa from The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and all could my sister do was hopelessly stand there as I screamed. I was just very shaken and traumatised but, I keep watching it knowing the ending
I didnt even try to watch the movie i read the book and i was like nope.... i knew watch it ng those kids would break me. But to be honest i thought the ending was just. Perhaps if every hate filled nazi would have lost someone innoncent...
Hotel Rwanda actually gave very vivid and terrifying nightmares, ones like I never had before or after
You should watch Sometimes in April. Its also based on true events. Most of the crew who worked on the movie are survivors of the civil war.
I watched flight 666 the other night and it gave me vivid memories of me saving the plane from Woody on Monday 6th may 2024. My PTSD of this heroic event is not over yet and on the 2 weeks anniversary of the tragic incident, I’m reuniting with all 170 survivors of the tragic events and Woody will apologising in front of them. I believed that Woody never wanted to get me hurt like this but he was forced too. I literally flew the plane in very heavy winds with a lot of rain but I landed it successfully saving so many lives even my sister and Mummy.
The Christine Collins case is so desperately sad. What they did to that woman should have been called out as criminal, even at the time. I
Wish I knew more about her life afterwards. I know she continued to see the killer until the day before he died, which him constantly dangling the details of Walter's death out to lure her in, only to claim he'd forgotten when she arrived - and what's sad is that he may well have forgotten in the dozens of children he killed. Other than continuing to obsess over Northcott, I know little of what became of her.
I hope she eventually was happy.
"Mysterious Skin" deserves an honorable mention!
The bathroom attack was way too raw and unsettling for me to watch ever again! Joseph Gordon-Levitt did that role well, even though the story was very hard to tell.
Grave of the Fireflies is animated and destroyed me more than any of the other films on this list
Then check out the anime movie Midori. Let’s see if Grave Of The Fireflies can beat that! 🫣
From Up On Poppy Hill is another devastating anime
It severly traumatized me
Yes, how could they miss that! I've recommended it to several people, and they literally got mad at me.
I hated that movie. It was sad, yes, but it was incredibly boring and everything they went through was because the boy was too stubborn and prideful to apologize to his aunt.
Mother starring Jennifer Lawrence was anxiety inducing. I couldn't do that again.
Also Melancholia for the accuracy in fear of an apocalypse.
Mother is the worst film ever made. Dare I also say Stupid.
I loved Melancholia, found it to be a beautiful work of art
The Human Centipede movies were quite upsetting, especially the second movie (subtitled “Full Sequence”).
I can think of a lot of movies I should have never seen the light of day, and that one sticks in my mind the most
What about A Clockwork Orange? As for Shindler's list, it's worth seeing more than once.
right that and Devils. directed by Ken Russell. 1971
I couldn’t get through “A Clockwork Orange”. It actually nauseated me.
Schindler’s list deserves more than one watch, but is so devastating. Human evil and the triumph of the spirt.
That is one of the best films of all time
@@erinmalone2669 I have never been able to watch it a second time. I don't have the strength.
Eden lake should have been included as the film has a lot of disturbing scenes and an even more disturbing ending
Couldn't agree more, saw it same time I saw 'Ravenous' similar British horror where the antagonists are too real for comfortable escapism (Brutal convicts that could have been picked off the street) Haven't been able to watch the films again since
I am a grown woman who has watched a lot but I needed a break to find a stuffed toy and blanket to grip onto
@@Narniaru
After watching United 93, I gripped it and told United 93 “I love you!” Woody just stares at me with complete anger thinking I’ve lost my mind but it was a way of keeping my grief at bay
The one movie I could never re-watch and never ever date to re-watch is "A Serbian movie".... Especially the ending still haunts me to this day when they are unmasked and faces are revealed... A grotesque ending... Heartbreaking really
i was working during the bbfc rating viewing so got the full unabridged version. Never again. not even without the parts they cut.
I watched "Boy in the Striped Pajamas" twice. Very sad, but excellent movie.
So sad at the end. Maybe the father in the movie would have his eyes more aware of the evil of Holocaust
One of best films but also most heartbreaking things ever made.
I've only watched "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" once, the ending of the movie disturbed and shocked me to my Soul, even tho I knew about the Holocaust, and the Horrific Tragedies that were committed there. I cried. It's been many years since I watched it, and the ending still haunts me.
I remember a friend of mine who is Jewish (I am too) and he said it was one of the worst films he's seen and called it a "gentile savior" film.
I have not seen it but if it is yet another one of those 90s and 2000s Holocaust dramas to make gentiles feel better about themselves and feel cultured and enlightened than nah, I'm gonna stick with Inglorious Basterds.
@@ashkitt7719 Trust me, I don't know HOW that movie could make ANYONE feel Better, about anything!! It was Horrific.
Schindler's List I watched this in High School History, haven't seen it since. But the image of the little girl in red being dragged away on a cart of dead bodies about to be burned still stays with me.
The Lady in Red. 🥺🙏🌹
I'll never forget that scene... they showed the whole school back in middle school....7th and 8th grade... we had a choice of whether we wanted to see it or not. The little girl in the red coat still makes me sad over 35 years later.
Actually, it wasn't until my class in World History & I finished it in high school after the class was dismissed was when I started bawling.
I was 15 when that movie came out. I only seen parts of it, I have no intention on seeing that movie in its entirety.
The part of Schindler's List that broke me into little pieces was the end when the children and grandchildren of the people that Oskar Schindler saved placed little rocks on his grave in Israel. I was a blubbering mess after that scene.
The Killing Fields was a difficult watch for me, but a very powerful testimony about how one man survives the descent of his country into tyranny and depravity.
I own a copy of Schindler's list and watch it every couple of years around Passover time. Probably seen it ten or twelve times. As horrific and gut wrenching as it is, to me it's a testament of hope and the ending credits where the cast pair with the people they portray to leave pebbles on Schindler's grave is just...there are no words.
That scene was one of the most emotional for me, because it shows the real life people he saved
That scene broke me into little pieces too.
Requiem For A Dream was very scary for me to watch. I still don't understand how Ellen Burstyn didn't win the Oscar for that role. She really sold it to me that she was playing an addict.
Props to Callum he really narrated this list with the gravitas it deserves. 🙇🏿♂️
He’s such a great narrator, tying for first with Ryan for my favorite male narrator; Tom isn’t far behind.
Callum is outstanding and so are the others at watch mojo. 😃❤
Mike from That Capter is amazing, Lazy from Lazy Masquerade. Andrew at Scary Mysteries. As well as everyone list above. All these creators are really captivating. Oh yea Dire Trip and Coffeehouse Crime. With any of the creatorsnlisted in this comment you can't go wrong. Callum deserves the award for putting feeling behind each of the picks.
I always referred to Callum sarcastically as, "The over enunciator." Not on this. His narration made me spill tears. So Callum I apologize.
But the list is way too simple and it looks biased, because there's way more movie's that are more sickening than all of these movies .
No Human Centipede? I've never seen it, but I always assumed I would regret it if I did...
I have been able to watch American History X and Threads more than once but honestly, one movie that I have an extremely difficult time watching is an independent film called An American Crime which is based on a true story about a horrific torture and murder that happened in 1965 Indianapolis, Indiana where a little girl named Sylvia Likens (played by Elliott Page) is left in the care by a suburban housewife named Gertrude Baniszewski (played by Catherine Keener) while Sylvia's parents leave to work the carnival circuit. While Sylvia was in Gertrude Baniszewski's care, she was horrifically tortured and beaten by Baniszewski, her children, and the neighborhood children. Sylvia sadly eventually succumbs to her injuries and ends up dying. It's absolutely horrific and disturbing to watch the movie and the fact it's a true story makes it more so extremely difficult to watch.
Requiem for a Dream was such a gut punch! I watched it once, in 2003, and I still remember some of the scenes quite vividly.
Hard Candy was brilliant. I would totally watch it again.
I'm surprised Sophie's Choice isn't on here. I know it's an old movie, but what a horrible thing to be asked to do!
For anyone who hasn't watched johnny got his gun, that should truly be on his list
Oh gods, yes! That is an excellent, but absolutely devastating movie.
@Rich Perez One of my favourites. 🤟
I had to read the play in college. Very strange.
I'm not sure many people even realize there is a movie based off the book.
Read the book first, then watch the movie
Amazing! I need to explore some of these movies I was not aware of.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is hard for some people to get through.
Many hate the ending, but I love it.
Can’t really change something that’s true. I own it and have seen it several times.
That is one I'd like to see. It was written by a man with Locked In Syndrome wasn't it?
I saw Threads on TV when it first aired. I was 15. I haven't been able to watch it since but I've never forgotten it.
It’s intense
I’m only almost 22 and my bonding with Come and See (1985) is something else. Woody absolutely hates it but his plan in separating me and Floyra won’t work anyway because Woody knows how close we are. I hate being separated from the war because it’s been part of my life for 12 years and I want to keep our relationship going
NBC's "Special Bulletin" , a simular film about a nuclear bomb crisis, is also tough to watch.
Se7en. Brilliant and you only need to see it once. It leaves a lead blanket on your soul
Stanley Kubrik's A Clockwork Orange should have been on this list... Saw it in college in 1994 at a Cinematic Appreciation class, and have never been able to watch it again ever since.
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) and Munich (2005)
I watched Requiem For a Dream only ONCE. No point in me watching it again, honestly. Too much. But, still, kudos to Callum bring so much depth to the narration.
20. Changeling (2008)
19. Gummo (1997)
18. The Road (2009)
17. American History X (1998)
16. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
15. Threads (1984)
14. Blue Valentine (2010)
13. Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
12. Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
11. Hard Candy (2005)
10. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
9. The Passion of the Christ (2004)
8. Dancer in the Dark (2000)
7. Irreversible (2002)
6. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
5. A Serbian Film (2010)
4. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
3. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
2. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
1. Schindler's List (1993)
I've already seen Cannibal Holocaust and Requiem for a Dream. And I'm gonna watch them again someday.
I'm a horror aficionado, but I do not have the guts for most of these films.
Is this a list of the films in the link? I'm about to leave the house and don't have the time to watch right now.
Surprised “Martyrs” and “Come & See” weren’t on here. Those two were way more upsetting to watch than like 90% on the movies on here aha.
Thank you
An honorable mention for Gaspar Noe, Enter the Void, is beyond heart-wrenching. Another unsung picture is Sophie’s Choice
"Angel Heart" and " Blue Velvet" were both hard to watch for me. Honorable Mentions for both.
I would add Glory, civil war drama that my mother signed a release for me to watch in my fourth grade classroom. I was too young😭😓 I watched Braveheart as a young adult and told myself never again.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas made me cry so much, I was still crying 10 mins after.... And that was before I even had kids. It was so good though, worth the watch.
I’ve never cried so hard over a movie in my life. I had to blow my nose. So incredibly sad.
That movie started my bond with the Holocaust in 2018 but it went downhill in 2019. I don’t miss our bond whatsoever
I remember walking out of the movie theater after watching Schinlers List in 1993 thinking "that was the best movie I've ever seen" that was the last time I saw that movie.
Agreed. Watched it at the dollar theatre in February 1994. It was devastating.
Me too. It’s burned into my mind and the human evil is sickening
I would say the movie Kids should be on this list - what is so upsetting about it is how cavalier the film is about the loss of hope for so many young people, just not seeing value in a future and even further - taking it away from those who do show any hope for getting out of it all.
Pretty sure your channel covered the film on a similar list but "The Girl Next Door" from 2007 by Jack Ketchum was one tough watch. To learn the events really took place makes it so much more depressing. Some individuals are true soulless barbarians.
This is the movie I think of first NEVER to see again. What those poor girls went through was heartbreaking. Of every movie I've seen, this one got to me the most.
When I was in highschool I was in a school for troubled kids and we watched American history X one day. We had to write a small report on the movie. It was an interesting experience to say the least.
sry but you’re lying. the movie opens with a sex scene ffs
@@misseselise3864 not lying. Believe what you want, we watched it in school lol. I was in alternative school. It's a school for kids that got expelled from the highschool.
Why would I lie about something as trivial as watching it in school?
@@misseselise3864 I also watched in highschool and wrote a essay about several things in the movie. I was shoked about many scenes and the first sex one was not one of them.
The Fly was both disturbing and depressing. Great film.
Changeling gave me nightmares for several nights. Angelina Jolie was just perfect in that role. But the story…oh my God, it still gives me chills
I’m still having nightmares about United 93 and the hijacking scene I could not watch it and I hated seeing Zaid go mental because in my nightmares, he was supposed to go after the other terrorists but, he ends up stabbing me by accident and it was heart wrenching to see how desperate he was in keeping me alive until the end and I survived everything
@@nicolelawless9942,I was a flight attendant for United when that happened. I have zero interest in reliving or imagining myself in that situation.
I still have nightmares.
@@sarahalbers5555
I don’t blame you, good thing you weren’t on United 93. Those nightmares were horrible after watching that movie but I somehow managed to survive that intense nosedive and when the plane hit, I woke up very shaken and still shocked about Ziad’s redemption scene in wanting to save everyone’s lives including mine. I’ll never look at the movie that same way again
I think this is one of the most important watchmojo videos, I have learned so much new, I have to thank the researchers!
To all you who watched Morbius for one second and survived... I salute you.
Morbius is not worth rewatching a second time.
😂
What time is it? MORBIN TIME! 😂
I can’t believe Grave of the Fireflies is not on this list. I still haven’t managed to watch it even once.
I've always thought "Barefoot Gen" was way worse, but I totally agree.
I know how it ends, and I can't. I just cannot watch Grave of the Fireflies
Ever since watching traumatising war films, I’ve really struggled controlling my emotions and they’re moments in my working day where I would break down in tears suddenly and I’ve almost ran off the premises once to calm down and my friends would allow it if they knew an outburst was coming because i told them about Come and See the other day when I nearly ran off because I was so severely traumatised. I love how caring my work friends are and I would tell them if I felt that traumatised, they will tell me not to overwork myself because it triggers trauma of the movie
2 months later and it’s still going on, I’ve left early many times since then but my friends still understand the trauma I’m going through and the amount of support I’ve had lately is insane. I’m back to doing my full hours now but I still have moments of my Come and See ptsd being triggered every time and then
- Precious
- Life is Beautiful
- The Pianist
Three other films that were hard to watch. I was devastated by Life is Beautiful for days.
I hated "Life is Beautiful", thought it was over-hyped rubbish.
I cried for days after Life Is Beautiful. There was no way I could sit through it again. I agree The Pianist was another tear jerker but for some reason I can and have watched it multiple times.
Life is Beautiful stayed on my mind for a long time. Don't know why.....
@@theresahoffman7444 it was amazing, how he kept his spirits up for his son and how he behaved, which made it even more devastating about what they did to him, but also, just how close they were to being liberated and how if he could have held on just a teeny tiny bit longer…I cried and cried and cried.
My sister's keeper
I think Mojo should create a list of the most upsetting movies including Documentaries. One film you MUST watch is the movie Blackfish.... it is one of the most (if not THE most) emotional & important movies of all time. This film literally changed my life. As it is very disturbing to watch, I have seen it many times, and I get choked up every time. It is a MUST-see
Agreed- went to see it in theater and when it was over my friend and I just went into the ladies room and cried- it was so horribly sad.
I’m a little shocked Martyrs didn’t make this list. Absolutely brutal film.
I'd have put it above several on this list. It's relentless.
Truly an unrelenting film, I couldn't agree more that it should gave been here on this list, and pretty high up, around where Cannibal Holocaust (1980) is, at number 12.
@@tHeHorroraddress exactly right!
Isn't that new? It's one of Chris Stuckmann's recent reviews.
@@fromthehaven94 Martyrs is from 2008.
I've watched Schindlers list 4 times. In my opinion, one of the greatest films ever made, the theme brings chills every single time I hear it. The story of Oscar Schindler is one that tells of a real legend of a man. One that chose to preserve the life of a people forsaken by his countries society, love the movie to bits and hope other people do as well.
Definitely agree. It's one of my favourite films of all-time.
I've only watched it once, but I still would watch it again. I especially love movies when they have a great score.
You took the words right out of my mouth.... this is Spielberg's masterpiece! And Fun Fact- as it states in the closing credits, there is a carob tree in his honor planted in the Avenue of Righteous & grows still to this day- AWESOME!!
@@kristinschermann6581 I was honored to be able to visit Israel back in 1998, and before we viewed the Holocaust Museum, we drove down the Avenue of the Righteous, which honors Gentiles who helped save Jewish lives. Corrie Ten Boom is also among the righteous for the role she took to save Jewish lives in WW2. I am Christian who staunchly supports and honors our Jewish Family. I believe the Jewish people are set apart by God and are continually blessed by God with many talents and strengthens.
The Stoning of Soraya M was horrifying. Gave me nightmares for days!
Shindler's List was hard for me to watch when it came out and I was younger! BUT as an adult and mother - The Boy in the Stripped Pyjama's ending with the mother realizing what has happened to her child - Just hit me HARD. We only saw the last of it in film class and trust me it was enough!
Honestly haven't seen most of these, and several I never heard of. Amazed to see that neither Sophie's Choice or United 93 didn't make the list.
After watching The Road, I was seriously depressed for hours. I sat on the couch and couldn't move. It drained all hope for humanity out of me. Never again.
I read the book first and honestly felt I had to read just to keep them alive
I was severely depressed after watching come and see that when I come home from work, I’d just go straight to my room, I wasn’t eating or anything that day afterwards because I feared of being sick since I was very I’ll back in February 2023 which caused my eating to become bad and nothing would go down so I feared of having the SPA infection illness all over again but it was triggering my PTSD over Come and see. I was eating normally 24 hours later and I didn’t feel sick anymore
“A mighty heart” with Angelina Jolie was also very upsetting to me. The big scene at the end, where you find out what happened, had me bawling. Her performance was unforgettable.
American History X is amazing and SHOULD be watched multiple times.
the thing about Schindler's List is that unlike many other movies on the list, it has a happy ending. Of course, the final shot of the Jews putting flowers on Schindler's grave will leave you a blubbering mess.
I watched Requiem For a Dream several times because of its outstanding performances and production design and I found it riveting but on my last viewing I told myself, no more. I watched both Leaving Las Vegas and The Boy In The Striped Pajamas twice, but that was one time too much for each. I avoided Schindler’s List altogether. Strong list
Schindlers List is an incredible movie. You really should watch it. It’s obviously devastating but it’s a true story about a man that fought back in any way that he could. Absolutely brilliant movie.
@@bleachbum339 as a non observing Jew I have seen too many movies about the Holocaust already. I have no need or desire to see yet another. I have purposely avoided watching it for all these years
@@batgurrl you could watch it and just appreciate it as an outstanding piece of art though
Potential light spoiler warning: I watched SL twice and would again. Is it horrifying? Sure. Was I shocked on first watch? Of course. But it was so good that I wanted to take a second run and the character redemption is something to behold.
I have too, but there's scenes that I have to fast forward through
I say for one as an honorable mention the Film & Novel of "The Lord of The Flies" should have been included.
"Hard Candy" is one of the greatest thrillers there is. It was very difficult to film - just a few weeks - and Patrick Wilson fainted in one scene. It introduced me to Elliott Page and I'll now watch anything with either actor in it.
A movie that depressed me for several days was House of Sand and Fog.
oh me too. I had been pushed into selling my house by a real estate agent and 2 people and was mouring the loss of my home. so now I cannot watch it again I go into hysterical crying for hours cause something similar happened to me
Oh man oh man yes
Come and See left me traumatised and depressed for days but my relationship with the war has come back thanks to the movie
Anything about injustice is tough to watch - but when it is based on a true story & done well - it's vital those stories are told to shed light on issues that need to be acknowledged, addressed, or changed.
Fictional stories that are artistic or thought provoking are also very relevant but may not be for everyone.
Personally, shows or movies that merely glorify or sensationalizes graphic, crude, or really sick & twisted themes are not worth watching ONCE.
How in the hell was A Clockwork Orange not on this list?! I saw it once and I don't think I'll ever watch it again.
Requiem for a Dream left me super depressed for several days after watching it on a Saturday night when I was in college.
So true!!! People warned me. Still, I watched It. Cried like a baby for hours.
I felt really bad and it hit me hard after watching it. It really affected me.
@@stefinite25 For me, the impact on the mother got to me to another level. I couldn't believe a movie, that is fiction is some form of way, could have such a profound effect on me. I saw it, I remember when I felt after. Never want to feel that again.
@@dariamorgendorffer7813 I have a soft spot for older people especially ones that are lonely like her. I felt so bad for her character.
I could never, ever watch that movie again. Years later, I can still remember certain scenes that were highly disturbing.
For me, Irréversible is insane, but also amazing. Requiem for a dream, Boys don’t cry, Shooting dogs (also about Rwanda), Schindler's List, etc. are all movies I can't rewatch! I will never watch A Serbian Film. I believe that once you watch a movie, you can't unwatch it.
Like you I have not seen A Serbian Film and probably never will. That being said I sort of feel A Seribian Film should not be on this list. Not because it isn't awful to watch but because based on what I have heard it does not have much else going for it. I could be wrong of course.
Like I get that the movie can be seen as a socio-political critisism of the Serbian government and censorchip but since it goes so far I feel all the messages get lost under the shock value. In 2015 watchmojo made a similar list with only 10 spots and a few honorable mentions. In that list they explicitly stated that they excluded productions that were unwatchable because they were bad movies or offered only gross shock value. The example they gave was the human centipede. I feel like if they can iclude a Serbian Film why not include Hostel and Saw movies or The Last House on the Left.
@@justtocomment5848Totally agreed. I can understand that a filmmaker has his vision. But the rendering needs to be good. And over-the-top gore\ nonsensical horror gymnastics doesn't interest me. It will sound cliché, but I need to connect with the material. I felt like that at the beginning of Irréversible. Watching the first 30 minutes of that movie felt like being hammered by Mike Tyson. That is if I had the great misfortune to find myself in the ring with him! But the rest of the movie brings something so sad and profound that, as much as it was horrible, it was oh so tragic.
I sadly made the mistake of watching A Serbian Film and you're right, once you see it, you can't unsee it.... awful, disgusting film...
@@kharma7755 It took a piece of my soul away. I wish I had never seen it.
You haven't felt utter despair from a movie until you see the scene of the mom holding her dead, charred baby in Threads. It eclipses The Day After for me.
I own Hard Candy & American History X. The toughest one for me on this list was The Boy In the Striped Pajamas. A few of these I've never heard of, but have probably seen half of the ones you listed. There are many things in this cruel world that will break your heart, and this list seems to cover all of them. Not on your list was "Still Alice," and it's a film that gets me every time, and as such, would get an honorable mention spot from me. Oh, and "An American Crime," too.
Grave of the Fireflies.
As somebody who lost 2 uncles to WW2 Japanese Army atrocities - my sympathies for the Japanese people of the time were rather blasé.
It was shown here in Australia on late night TV, and at the end - I was blubbering like an infant. Really made me confront my beliefs.
I bought it on DVD knowing full well that I could never watch it again...I just thought that those who made it deserved my money.
On the topic of "Threads"...that movie should be required viewing for every human being.
Every single one of us.
That was a very good list.
"(B)ased on the 1967 semi-autobiographical short story of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka," written as an apology to his sister. Beautiful and heartbreaking film.
Many people say it is the best anti war movie ever made. City of Life and Death is the exact opposite of Grave of the Fireflies.
I have watched Schindler’s List and American History X many times. Schindler’s List is a sad but beautiful movie about transformation. American History X is also about transformation, and it gives some understanding of how this happens to us, even without our realizing it.
Testament, Death Be Not Proud, A Might Heart, Dead Man Walking, Funny Games, Wolf Creek and Lassie go home are too heart wrenching.
You need to add the House that Jack Built and The Train to Busan. Gut wrenching.
i’ve seen american history x a million times and the ending still makes me cry like a baby
Perhaps I am strange, but I have seen American History X many times and I think it is a great film. Yes, it is tough to watch, but it is still one of my favorites.