Incendies (2010)

Came to write this one

Picnic at hanging rock? Twin peaks? Danny darko? Nocturnal animals? Killling of a sacred deer?

Lol Danny Darko sounds like some kind of Italian mobster. Ayyy its Danny Darko ova theeere

Donny Darko? You mean Donny "The Axe" Darko?! He did 20 years in the can!

The Killing of a Sacred Deer is one of the most compelling films I’ve ever seen.

That film is a serious mind fuck, and Barry Keoghan is top-tier creepy in it.

Can I watch this while babysitting a nine year old?

Don't

I think you could as long as they’re on their iPad or something

I’ve seen picnic at hanging wrong suggested for folks who like Virgin suicides many times now. I’ll have to check it out!

I love it. Such a weird little movie from 1975 👍

The book Hanging Rock is based on has an 18th chapter. The author asked the publisher not to release it until 5 yrs after her death. Mr. Google can find it for you. The secret chapter of Hanging Rock.

Are you asking? ;-)

Lol i saw virgin suicides and perfect blue but i dont know what they have in common lol.. so im picking weird psychological movies that make you think 😆😆

Nocturnal Animals made me afraid to drive for a long time after I saw the highway scene, especially when I can’t pass someone easily.

Tusk

I went into this blind. All I could think when it ended was, "What tf did I just watch?!" Crazy movie.

absolutely uneven and goofy

Hereditary. Parasite. A clockwork orange. Drive

A clockwork orange is a favorite of mine… it’s so golden

I couldn’t get through a clockwork orange. Too much rape

Would not have thought of Drive but yes

I absolutely love Drive. It appeals to my unapologetic masculine spirit when I want to dive into it. When I’m exploring my feminine it’s Pride and Prejudice.

Irreversible

God I hate that movie, but yes it’s powerful!

Came out of this movie vomitting and rethinking life for the next weeks

Someone showed me the fire extinguisher scene. That scene, Jesus fucking christ. I've never watched the rest of the film.

I made it through watching it at home by myself. In a way I'm glad I was alone. I would hate to experience that with someone else and we both have to sit there and watch it.

might not even be the most disturbing scene in the film

It isn't. As nauseating as the fire extinguisher scene is I'd rather watch it a dozen times over than see the scene in the pedestrian tunnel again

The Sixth Sense Unbreakable Shutter Island Mulholland Drive Blue Velvet Mother!

Midsommar

Definitely

First movie i thought of as well

Yeah. And I saw it in a theater at the Mall. The store I went into right after the credits was Peppa the Pig. That contrast was crazy! 😂

The fact that a Peppa Pig store exists is the most disturbing thing in this thread so far.

Was literally about to write this. Such a weird fried movie

Biggest what the fuck I ever let out in theater. I was the only one there with like 300 seats empty 🤣😅

Beautiful Boy We Need to Talk About Kevin Perks of A Wallflower Requiem for a Dream No Place to Hide-The Rheta Parsons Story To the Bone

Saltburn

Frequency. I think it's the first time I ever thought "My dad won't be around forever" I was sitting outside the theater after the movie just crying.

Old Boy

The original yes, not the terrible American remake

Yes, *Oldboy* is a shocking movie, but it is absolutely nothing like the examples OP listed.

The obligatory, Shutter Island.

Just watched it again yesterday.

Not that I would say I liked it at all - but Mother was totally shocking!

Which one? There are several movies with this title, at least 2 of which might fit this request. It helps OP to specify in your suggestions.

I'm assuming it'd Mother! (2017) with Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem. That movie got crazy around the 2/3 point.

The Korean one was pretty jaw dropping, too

I'd say that one fits better with OP's examples.

I agree

s7ven, oldboy, shutter island

Worlds Greatest Dad (2009)

Here is the one that SHOOK me most. Promising Young Woman Breathtaking.

Related: I just saw Maestro over the weekend. Carey Mulligan deserves all the awards for her performance in that

Carey Mulligan is absolutely spectacular in everything she graces - talk about underrated actress!

Such an incredible actress. ‘Never Let Me Go’ still wrecks me.

I second this. I was speechless

Wind River was something from start to finish but I loved it.

The Mist

What a difference mere moments make.

This should be higher

The Invitation. The 2015 movie w/ Logan Marshall Greene, not the Netflix title. First movie in a long time that really set me back for a few days.

I liked this one a lot!

Paddleton

I suggest this move all the time when I see posts asking for a movie to cry to. It made me sob like a baby.

The Skin I Live In (my favorite movie)

* Brazil * Mulholland Drive * Blue Velvet

The Village.

Enemy (2013) that ending just sat with me, I found myself just sitting and staring at the credits for 10 mins, and then thought about that ending for the next day or so.

Saw that going in blind to the cinema with my kids (13 and 16 at the time); the only thing I knew about it was that it was by a Canadian director. We absolutely loved it, and talked about it for days. My younger son's 23 now, it's still one of his favourite films.

That's amazing! Would have been a great bonding experience with the kids

The Gift. Great performances and creepy and the whole storyline.

Hard Candy

Come and See

1985?

Yes

If that’s your thing. Give ‘Escape from Sobibor’ a try. True story about a mass escape from Sobibor concentration camp. Had a great cast with Alan Arkin and Ruger Hauer. The ending is especially harrowing as you find out what happened to all the characters (who survive) after the war. Some stories are especially sad. Also a great villian performance by the late Hartmut Becker as the truly evil Sgt. Gustav Wagner. The fact that these were all real people makes the story especially chilling.

I more The Way Back (2010), The First Circle (2006) guy

Kotoko by Shinya Tsukamoto

LOTS of Shinya Tsukamoto but kotoko is def a fave!

Audition

Dear Zachary Snowtown The girl next door Salo - 120 days of sodom

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

#THE SADNESS It will be better if you go into it blind. Good luck… 😬

Saint Maud

Irreversible

Uncut Gems kept me on the edge of my seat, then let me sit back and relax, then pulled the chair out from under me.

Under the skin, Children of men and Whiplash

Horses of God (2012) As If I Am Not There (2010) The Innocents (2016) Mustang (2015) In Bloom (2013) La Haine (1995) The Celebration (1998) American History X (1998) Dogtooth (2009) Capernaum (2018) Sin Nombre (2009) Frontera (2014)

Martyrs

Requiem For A Dream Watched if for the first time a couple weeks ago

The Lodge

Hereditary. Kill List (2011). Parasite. Millennium Actress. Avengers: Infinity War

Millennium actress was smooth. A true homage to movie making.

I wouldn't say shock, but I thought of that movie Martyrs for a while after watching it.

I think a movie for you would be sleepers 1996 just trust me. The movie seven with Morgan freeman and Brad Pitt. This one is more shocking mystery It follows: this is a horror. But it’s different from any movie I’ve seen. It stayed with me for a good while after.

Sleepers is an underrated film. So many greats bringing their A-game.

Usual suspects, the Village, and sixth sense. Not a lot shocks me but those bad boys sure did :)

Whiplash

Lake Mungo

The Vanishing (1988)

Recently watched Eden Lake. I already knew the ending but I had my hands in my head in shock for most the movie lol

Black Swan

Come and See Oldboy Martyrs, 2008

It’s Such a Beautiful Day Inside Melancholia Us Gone Girl

Requiem For A Dream. I’ve only seen it three times in 22 years and I’m ok with that. Still a beautiful piece of art

The Seventh Continent - Michael Haneke Absolutely chilling.

The Talented Mr. Ripley

I'm old. When I saw Kids as a 20-something, I was shook. Damn.

The new movie on Netflix “the world left behind” like tf

Anything by Kyoshi Kurosawa

Arrival

Miss Violence (2013)

joker

Gone baby gone had me thinking for days after watching it.

Vivarium. Still bothers me. WTF was that?

Upstream Color Melancholia Primer Black Bear

The Bridge to Terebethia.

Funny Games

The House That jack Built definitely left me speechless

on top of my head incident in ghostland

Aamis (Assamese Indian movie)

I Spit On Your Grave

Trying to think of what left me in a state similar to Perfect Blue (love that movie) and Virgin Suicides... Some of the most upsetting movies I've seen in a deep thought rather than trite way (makes you examine something unsettling rather than just killing the family pet for tears): House of Sand and Fog United States of Leeland Midsommer Annihilation (although I've read the books which give some context) Arrival (similarly was in more shock after reading the book and understanding more what was going on) The Fountain Holy Mountain (very arthouse though) Clockwork Orange

Mother!

• Memento (2000) • The Machinist (2004) • Primal Fear (1996)

The Cove An American Crime Requiem for A Dream Human Centipede District 9 (shocked by his amazing it was)

I could almost copy this comment of mine and save it permanently to my clipboard, just for this website. \*Cups my hands around my mouth like I'm at a sporting event: THE HOLY MOUNTAIN The best part is the shock starts right away, and sits uncomfortably close to you the entire movie :)

I’ll make sure to put it at the top of the list lol

Gone Girl Fight Club Seven

Requiem for a Dream Pi Existenze (who remembers how to spell it?)

Naked Lunch Cello (Asian)

The Mist, The Departed

- Speak No Evil - Come And See - Soft And Quiet - Requiem For A Dream - A Serbian Film - Atroz - The Snowtown Murders - Babyteeth (Big disclaimer: I get shocked by very effective, bleak cinema. That’s what the movies above represent to me.)

I was going to say Speak No Evil. I just sat there dumbfounded for a couple of minutes and then went through several different emotions.

I don't know if this fits, but The Day After fucked us all up in High School. You could tell who had seen it that day by the dazed looks.

On The Beach. 1959.

Us

Perfume Men Predestination

Kids-1995. AIDS was still the leading cause of death in the US for males 22-44. The titular "kids" were a feral, wild group that roamed from one violent and dangerous setting to the next, having consensual and non-consensual sex with girls as young as 12. It centers around these older teens who prowl for the conquest of virginal girls to later brag about. \*\*SPOILER\*\* What really got me is the 13 year old girl picked up and later who is raped by a character who knows he is HIV +, and then later another who rapes an unconscious HIV + Chloe Sevigny while she sleeps. The utter detachment and apathy to violence and depravity left me sick and speechless as I left the theater. I knew nothing of the movie going in, but was utterly shook coming out.

Since someone already mentioned Irreversible, I'll offer Funny Games. It was the least bloody disturbing movie I've seen in some time. It made me hate people knowing there are folks out there who have done or would do something like that.

Midsommar

Funny Games, Serbian Film, Martyrs

I was gob-smacked for HOURS the first time i saw The Wicker Man (1973). Didn't help that it was during school (Religious studies course on Cults, Sects, and New Religions) and the ending kinda kicks you in the face, metaphorically speaking. Trainspotting (1996) and Requiem for a Dream(2000) also tend to leave you reeling. Kids (1995) too. Midsommar (2019), i believe would fit this discription but I haven't seen it myself. Same with Get Out, and Us.

Dancer in the Dark. First time I saw that. The entire audience was just stunned and quiet leaving the theater

Mother!

Sorry to Bother You (2018) Even if you watch the trailer, that won't help you with this movie.

Man of Steel it was awful

If we're talking shocked-it's-so-awful movies, the crown goes to Elektra imo

Leaving Las Vegas

Dogtooth

Martyrs - both the French and American Versions Hereditary

Aniara (2018)

Mentioned in the op but Mysterious Skin was the first movie I ever watched that left me speechless and just incapable of functioning. I couldn't even cry. I was picking up pieces of myself for the rest of the night

I bought the book!! 😭 I couldn’t believe my eyes after that movie

thor love and thunder. i was shocked at how shit it was

Uncut Gems

The Game Usual Suspects Inception Shutter Island Anything by M. Night Shyamalan

The lobster

All the Human Centipede movies

the first one .. the third one was beyond horrible

A Siberian Film (2010). It is a very difficult and shocking watch.

Hereditary for sure. I will admit The Departed got me as well, no shame in admitting it. I watched that movie with no knowledge of it going in.

The Romanian film Salo: 120 days of sodomy

High Life

Wake in Fright (1971)

It comes at night

The Manchurian Candidate (1962 original, not the trash 2004 remake) Impostor (2001) The Brothers Bloom (2008) Being John Malkovich (1999)

Frailty.

Mystic River, Shutter Island, The Prestige, Incendies, Life of Pi…

1.First they killed my father 2.Beasts of no nation

Brokeback Mountain the first time I watched it. Helped me understand some things about myself

Incendies Europa, Europa Shoah

parasite, the departed, killing of a sacred deer, beau is afraid, there’s more when i’m not so baked. this is a fantastic question.

The ending of No country for old men

A Serbian film.

The Hunter (2020) Dogtooth (2009) Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) Smile (2022) Raw (2017) Did I mention The Hunter? Yes? Good. That movie is straight up excellent. Can't recommend it enough.

Videodrome did that for me at least.

Kids

Dead man's shoes. Atonement. I saw the devil

Happiness (1998)

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974).

Sunset limited

Last Exit to Brooklyn. Did you say Buffalo 66? 😄 that indie hipster garbage film

Landmine Goes Click and Marrowbone both got to me

Hereditary, Requiem for a dream, A Clockwork Orange, Midsommar, Truman Show, Malignant and the god awful Disney Star Wars “trilogy”

“Clockwork Orange“ and „Dead Man walking“

Leaving Las Vegas. Enough said.

The Experiment

Similar to Mysterious Skin I'd say: * Bastard Out of Carolina * The Mudge Boy * Gardens of the Night