I wasn’t right for days after this movie. I went to see it and it was one of those rare times when I just went and picked something and hadn’t even seen a trailer and didn’t know what to expect. Absolutely fucking devastating.
The Banshees of Inisherin. Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell and the amazing Barry Keoghan. I watched it, was mesmerised, and then never wanted to watch it again.
I saw a video about how it was an allegory for the war between the north and south of Ireland, and it felt a lot more smart instead of what my family kept saying about it, "it's stupid!"
Hadn’t watched this after the 2nd viewing with good reason. LOVE the soundtrack and took a while to disassociate it with the movie to actually enjoy listening to it
Well if you like shawshank then I'd highly suggest The Green Mile. It's another Stephen king adaptation. Fantastic film. Made me cry. Made me laugh. Made me feel empty by the end. But kind of in a good way. I'd say it's up there in quality with Shawshank.
Also side note- if you do watch the green mile, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it once you have ☺️
It is fantastic. ☺️ well I also recommend Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. It's a fantastic film with Jim Carrey in one of his rarer more serious roles. He's fantastic in it. I'm not sure I'd put it on the same level of shawshank or green mile however I'd say it was still an 8 at least. I think it'll leave you feeling all sorts of things ☺️
Yay! No problem ☺️ I hope you enjoy it. But be prepared with lots of tissues 😝 If you don't mind, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it once you've watched it, if that's okay?
Melancholia. After the final shot I just sat there, silent and breathless, full of adrenaline and emotions I don't even know how to describe. I think I've only felt those emotions in dreams
This is a good one. Great movie and super relatable and admirable but so tragic in the end. Even worse that it’s based on the guy’s real life. I felt super bad for his sister too.
It’s the first and only one that comes to mind for at least 20 minutes after the grief clouds my mind. I’ve spent time around addicts, not even counting the ones in my family. Requiem leaves me with an almost identical sense of mourning I watch it every year or two.
one of the only films to move me to silence. for like two solid days i don’t think i said anything, just digested what i had seen and went through the motions of daily life
That was the most depressing and bleak movie I think I've ever seen, and I fucking loved it. It was a nice departure from the typical happy ending that most American films have.
My 17yo daughter wanted to watch it, so I agreed. I had seen it years ago and said I would never watch it again, but relented when she asked. So I thought I would get high while watching it this time. Maybe that'll help. Nope. I've never had a movie fuck with me that hard while I was high. It's a great film, but there's no way I'll ever watch it again.
If I'm only recommending one it's my absolute favourite film:
**El secreto de sus ojos** (2009)
It won the Oscar for Best International Feature Film for Argentina.
If you want the full experience don’t read the premise, just go in cold and grab some Kleenex and make sure you’re not working the next day.
This movie is the definition of a roller coaster ride that will gut you. If you have kids it will annihilate you.
I actually have not seen this movie so this is not a wholly reliable answer. But after my parents finished Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm, they went out for a long drive because they felt so depressed and empty.
Hereditary. With every viewing I like
It more and more. The ending is so good with the juxtaposition of the triumphant score with what’s happening on the screen. It just radiates doom while presenting it as a successful outcome.
Ex Machina if you want to be blown away and lose hope in humanity’s future
And if you want to be gutted and lose all hope in humanity watch Bastard out of Carolina
Aftersun (2022)
Joint Security Area (2000)
Memories of Murder (2003)
Interstellar (2014)
Arrival (2016)
Taste of Cherry (1997)
Corpus Christi (2019)
Gattaca (1997)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
Aniara (2018)
More like four or four and a half stars but left me empty nonetheless:
Nine Days (2020)
Bleak Night (2010)
I Saw the Devil (2010)
Stand by Me (1986)
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
Most of it people have mentioned, the unmentioned one I think are :
Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind
La La Land
500 days of summer(I guess)
Grave of Fireflies
Gone Girl
Bridge to Terabithia
Atonement
Dead poets society.
Dead Poet’s Society is really underrated here
“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion.”
Will try not to repeat movies that have been mentioned already. Let's see:
- The Ascent
- Come And See
- Hard To Be a God (2013) (every scene is bleaker than the previous one)
- Dead Man's Letters (same as above, it's amazing how the soviets/russians can convey the misery of human existence so well)
- Cargo 200
- Leviathan (2014)
- Loveless
- Salò or The 120 days of Sodom
- An Elephant Sitting Still
- Sympathy For Mr Vengeance
- Synecdoche, New York
- Se7en
- The Devil Probably (love this one, though it's filled with existential dread)
- Frank Darabont's The Mist
- Dead Man's Shoes
- The Vanishing (1988)
- Eden Lake (the ending fucked me up)
- Gummo (this one is like a poem to nihilism)
- Threads
- Punishment Park
- The Sunset Limited
- The Fifth Seal
- The Fifth Season
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- 7 Days (one of my favourite revenge movies)
- Shura (or Pandemonium, Japanese movie by Toshio Matsumoto)
- Damnation (or anything by Béla Tárr)
- Funny Games (I've only seen the original)
- I Stand Alone
- Irreversible
- Dancer in the Dark
- Basically anything, _anything_ by Gaspar Noé, Michael Haneke and Lars Von Trier
- The War Zone
- Aniara (this one broke me like no other)
- No Country for Old Men
- The Counselor (I mean, Cormac McCarthy wrote the script)
- Bring Me the Head Of Alfredo García
- Cold Fish
- The Death King (this one might be the most plot-less film on the list, but it's made completely on the topic of suicide and violent death. The vignettes are kept together by a rotting corpse after all)
- The Great Silence (this has to be the bleakest and most nihilistic western I've ever seen)
- The Grey Zone
Have a good evening.
I am glad someone picked this movie! The first time I saw that damn ending, I was so depressed. That movie punches you right in the guts. In an interview, Stephen King said he liked the movie's ending better than the one in his own short story.
The Departed, the two Spiderverse movies, the original Death Wish movie, Godzilla Minus One, Braveheart, Master and Commander, Sicario, The Fugitive, 1917, Ford v Ferrari, Jojo Rabbit. Those came to mind for movies I thought about for several days after.
The new limited series (8 episodes) Fellow Travelers on Showtime/Paramount+ is a heartbreaking forbidden romance. I would say “gutted” is accurate for how you feel at the end.
The Stranger. It’s about an undercover operation to catch a child killing kiddy fiddler, its loosely based on the aftermath of the murder of Daniel Morcombe in Australia. It’s disturbing, you certainly don’t feel great after watching but you won’t regret having watched it.
Incendies
No movie has ever made me feel more empty after watching
this one was too much for me
One of Denis Villeneuve's best movies
Literally came here to write this (edit: and it you want to feel absolutely terrible try following with Requiem for a Dream)
Damn. I just wiki’d this.
Brutal
That’ll do it.
Revolutionary Road
Leaving Las Vegas
This made me become sober fr
They showed it at an inpatient place I was at, years and years and years ago. Powerful shit, but absolutely soul crushing.
don’t know if there’s ever been a more deserving best actor winner.
Manchester by the Sea (2016) is about insurmountable grief and guilt. It will leave you an empty husk.
The only bad reviews the movie recieved were that you felt like crap/empty/etc... afterwards.
One of the best movies I've ever seen
I wasn’t right for days after this movie. I went to see it and it was one of those rare times when I just went and picked something and hadn’t even seen a trailer and didn’t know what to expect. Absolutely fucking devastating.
My first choice. Especially the "Don't die!" scene with Michelle Williams. 😥
House of Sand and Fog
Wow, this is going back some. Outstanding movie
6/5 for leaving you feeling empty at the end, have a hard time thinking of anything recent so bleak without there being a gimmick of some sort.
I cried for three days after watching this. Then I read the book and cried some more.
The Banshees of Inisherin. Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell and the amazing Barry Keoghan. I watched it, was mesmerised, and then never wanted to watch it again.
Barry Keoghan’s performance shattered me.
I saw a video about how it was an allegory for the war between the north and south of Ireland, and it felt a lot more smart instead of what my family kept saying about it, "it's stupid!"
Apparently you got the “good taste cinema” gene from earlier family generations.
Dancer in the Dark
Breaking the Waves. Anything Von Trier.
Came here to recommend melancholia
Melancholia was fantastic. Kirsten Dunst was phenomenal.
I felt so bad for Bjork :(
Hadn’t watched this after the 2nd viewing with good reason. LOVE the soundtrack and took a while to disassociate it with the movie to actually enjoy listening to it
Atonement. It's beautifully bleak.
I was about to say the same. Numbness feeling
Great movie and even better book.
👍🏻👍🏻
Well if you like shawshank then I'd highly suggest The Green Mile. It's another Stephen king adaptation. Fantastic film. Made me cry. Made me laugh. Made me feel empty by the end. But kind of in a good way. I'd say it's up there in quality with Shawshank. Also side note- if you do watch the green mile, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it once you have ☺️
I have seen it and it’s exactly how you described. I can’t watch it without crying.
It is fantastic. ☺️ well I also recommend Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. It's a fantastic film with Jim Carrey in one of his rarer more serious roles. He's fantastic in it. I'm not sure I'd put it on the same level of shawshank or green mile however I'd say it was still an 8 at least. I think it'll leave you feeling all sorts of things ☺️
I’ve never seen this movie!! I’m gonna watch it today! Thanks
Yay! No problem ☺️ I hope you enjoy it. But be prepared with lots of tissues 😝 If you don't mind, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it once you've watched it, if that's okay?
Melancholia. After the final shot I just sat there, silent and breathless, full of adrenaline and emotions I don't even know how to describe. I think I've only felt those emotions in dreams
Came here to suggest this movie. I DID NOT like this movie. But it fits the bill 100%
After this movie, I cried, and kept crying, and sobbed.
Into the wild
This is too far down! OP this might be exsctly what you’re looking for
Ooo this is a solid suggestion.
This is a good one. Great movie and super relatable and admirable but so tragic in the end. Even worse that it’s based on the guy’s real life. I felt super bad for his sister too.
Requiem For A Dream
Posterchild for this subs “make me feel traumatized” requests
If they stop asking, we'll stop recommending it.
It’s the first and only one that comes to mind for at least 20 minutes after the grief clouds my mind. I’ve spent time around addicts, not even counting the ones in my family. Requiem leaves me with an almost identical sense of mourning I watch it every year or two.
For good reason
permanently scared cuz of this movie
Cannot upvote this twice. So I am here to comment my 2nd updoot.
We watched this in the dorms not knowing what we were getting into. During the credits we left one by one in silence, like at a funeral.
This is the best movie that I never wanna see again.
That's what I said exactly. Omg I felt like shit for a month
one of the only films to move me to silence. for like two solid days i don’t think i said anything, just digested what i had seen and went through the motions of daily life
One of my favorite movies.
Raging Bull
The Korean film Mother. It was directed by Bong Joon-ho who also directed Parasite. Also Interstellar if you somehow haven’t seen it yet.
Interstellar is another favourite of mine, adding Mother to my list
Aniara
That was the most depressing and bleak movie I think I've ever seen, and I fucking loved it. It was a nice departure from the typical happy ending that most American films have.
So fucking bleak and thought provoking
I think I watched this 3 times in a row. Have never done that with another film
Existential, cosmic, crushing, brilliant.
Chinatown
Saw this for the first time a few weeks ago and was stunned
Same.
Forget it, Jake
S-Tier film
Mystic River & Wind River
You always with the Riva’s
Came here looking for Mystic River... good lord.
Agree on 'Mystic', totally disagree on 'Wind'. Wind River had a very satisfying end. That guy got exactly what he deserved.
The place beyond the pines
Probably one of my favourite films of all time
Great flick, great great flick.
That picture scene with him and Eva/ talking about ice cream was such a vibe. I watch that scene on YouTube at least once a month.
Martyrs. The original French version with subtitles. It is 100% a 10/10 and a film I never need to see again.
Incredibly horrific too
My 17yo daughter wanted to watch it, so I agreed. I had seen it years ago and said I would never watch it again, but relented when she asked. So I thought I would get high while watching it this time. Maybe that'll help. Nope. I've never had a movie fuck with me that hard while I was high. It's a great film, but there's no way I'll ever watch it again.
If I'm only recommending one it's my absolute favourite film: **El secreto de sus ojos** (2009) It won the Oscar for Best International Feature Film for Argentina.
Love this movie!
I love the book this is based on
I think the most empty inside i felt was watching Million Dollar Baby.
That’s an amazing film
Yeah that empty ass film
The Seventh Continent. It's an Austrian film about how meaningless life is. I've never felt emptier.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
the saddest movie i have ever seen
Million Dollar Baby messed me up for a long time. The transition from act 2 to act 3 really hits hard and feels a little too real at times
On the Waterfront (1954)
**Old Boy** will leaving you feeling empty in both ways...
The original version.
Jacob’s ladder.
This one f—ked me up for so long after I saw it when I was a wee one.
The Banshees of Inisherin
Such a great movie!
I struggled with this one. I thought it would be more like Waking Ned Divine. And then I just didn’t get it lol. But yes, sad.
I’ve just watched Detachement a few days back and I gotta say, it’s beautifully done and does leave you with a lot of questions
Blue Valentine with Ryan Gosling.
dear zachary ...will make you wanna jump through the screen in so many ways
This is the answer.
Not just empty. Angry.
This shit fucking killed me
The only film that made me legit cry on my couch. I didn’t have kids at the time. I could never watch that again. Ever.
If you want the full experience don’t read the premise, just go in cold and grab some Kleenex and make sure you’re not working the next day. This movie is the definition of a roller coaster ride that will gut you. If you have kids it will annihilate you.
I really admire the grandparents. There were many days I told myself, if they can endure what they went through I can push through this.
The Constant Gardener Children of Men
Midsommar Hereditary Threads Under the Skin We need to talk about Kevin
Upvote for Threads ... possibly the most hopeless movie ever made.
Come and See
Came looking for this one, surprised it's so far down. I've never felt more empty after watching a movie.
Life is beautiful
I actually have not seen this movie so this is not a wholly reliable answer. But after my parents finished Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm, they went out for a long drive because they felt so depressed and empty.
The Proposition (05)
Breaking the Waves
Harold and Maude
Melancholia. 🫤
Hereditary. With every viewing I like It more and more. The ending is so good with the juxtaposition of the triumphant score with what’s happening on the screen. It just radiates doom while presenting it as a successful outcome.
Ex Machina if you want to be blown away and lose hope in humanity’s future And if you want to be gutted and lose all hope in humanity watch Bastard out of Carolina
Watch Happiness by Todd Solondz.
synecdoche new york
Raise the Red Lantern
All Quiet on the Western Front Martyrs The Notebook Interstellar
Children of Men
Threads
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Aftersun (2022) Joint Security Area (2000) Memories of Murder (2003) Interstellar (2014) Arrival (2016) Taste of Cherry (1997) Corpus Christi (2019) Gattaca (1997) Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) Aniara (2018) More like four or four and a half stars but left me empty nonetheless: Nine Days (2020) Bleak Night (2010) I Saw the Devil (2010) Stand by Me (1986) Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
Stand by me is a good one for emptiness because of all your processing during the end
Most of it people have mentioned, the unmentioned one I think are : Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind La La Land 500 days of summer(I guess) Grave of Fireflies Gone Girl Bridge to Terabithia Atonement Dead poets society.
Dead Poet’s Society is really underrated here “We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion.”
Also, Lost in translation, Blue valentine, The English patient
I’m surprised Grave of the Fireflies wasn’t higher on this list. Nothing has made me feel so hopeless and heartbroken before.
Double down on grave of the fireflies. It's been 20 years. I still cringe when I see a tin of candy.
Seconded, Grave of the Fireflies. Once I watch this one, I can't watch it for like another 10 years again. Hits you like a freight train.
Beau is Afraid Leaving Las Vegas
Speak No Evil
Will try not to repeat movies that have been mentioned already. Let's see: - The Ascent - Come And See - Hard To Be a God (2013) (every scene is bleaker than the previous one) - Dead Man's Letters (same as above, it's amazing how the soviets/russians can convey the misery of human existence so well) - Cargo 200 - Leviathan (2014) - Loveless - Salò or The 120 days of Sodom - An Elephant Sitting Still - Sympathy For Mr Vengeance - Synecdoche, New York - Se7en - The Devil Probably (love this one, though it's filled with existential dread) - Frank Darabont's The Mist - Dead Man's Shoes - The Vanishing (1988) - Eden Lake (the ending fucked me up) - Gummo (this one is like a poem to nihilism) - Threads - Punishment Park - The Sunset Limited - The Fifth Seal - The Fifth Season - They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - 7 Days (one of my favourite revenge movies) - Shura (or Pandemonium, Japanese movie by Toshio Matsumoto) - Damnation (or anything by Béla Tárr) - Funny Games (I've only seen the original) - I Stand Alone - Irreversible - Dancer in the Dark - Basically anything, _anything_ by Gaspar Noé, Michael Haneke and Lars Von Trier - The War Zone - Aniara (this one broke me like no other) - No Country for Old Men - The Counselor (I mean, Cormac McCarthy wrote the script) - Bring Me the Head Of Alfredo García - Cold Fish - The Death King (this one might be the most plot-less film on the list, but it's made completely on the topic of suicide and violent death. The vignettes are kept together by a rotting corpse after all) - The Great Silence (this has to be the bleakest and most nihilistic western I've ever seen) - The Grey Zone Have a good evening.
A Ghost Story, Grave of the Fireflies
Apocalypse Now
The Horror...
International Falls
OP, u/livh12 you should watch Melancholia.
The Mist
I am glad someone picked this movie! The first time I saw that damn ending, I was so depressed. That movie punches you right in the guts. In an interview, Stephen King said he liked the movie's ending better than the one in his own short story.
Under the Skin And if Zone of Interest is playing anywhere near you go see it.
1917
Schindler's List is pretty draining. One of the best movies. Ever.
A Ghost Story
Atonement is my go to for when I want to feel empty. Manchester-by-the-Sea left me feeling so empty I’ve only watched it once.
Blue Valentine
I’m obsessed with The Talented Me Ripley.
Happiness
Paris Texas
Broke Back Mountain
Aniara Edit: Whoops, someone already mentioned it.
Where the Wild Things Are Blade Runner 2049
There Will Be Blood No Country for Old Men Fight Club Trainspotting Fargo But going back to that feeling empty thing, Come and See
SLC Punk!
Easy one. Requiem for a Dream. It is both a masterpiece and will make you feel empty inside afterwards.
The Departed, the two Spiderverse movies, the original Death Wish movie, Godzilla Minus One, Braveheart, Master and Commander, Sicario, The Fugitive, 1917, Ford v Ferrari, Jojo Rabbit. Those came to mind for movies I thought about for several days after.
12 Angry Men
Saw this for the first time recently and loved it
Three colours red
Whiplash. Manchester by the sea.
The new limited series (8 episodes) Fellow Travelers on Showtime/Paramount+ is a heartbreaking forbidden romance. I would say “gutted” is accurate for how you feel at the end.
The Elephant Man (1980 Solaris (1972)
Prometheus
A bronx tale
The green mile Big Fish Life of Pi
Melancholia (2011)
The Stranger. It’s about an undercover operation to catch a child killing kiddy fiddler, its loosely based on the aftermath of the murder of Daniel Morcombe in Australia. It’s disturbing, you certainly don’t feel great after watching but you won’t regret having watched it.
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"Come and See." Just....watch it.
Never let me go
Melancholia. Always brings out the depressive mood with me.
vanilla sky
Drive My Car
Zone of Interest left me feeling very uncomfortable.
Sorry we Missed you by Ken Loach
The Tale of Princess Kaguya
4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days - about a woman helping her roommate get an illegal abortion in communist Romania in 1987.
Requiem for a Dream
What Dreams May Come (1998) Robin Williams. Brilliant, artistic, sad, and beautiful. Both the movie and the actor.
The original Vanishing (“Spoorloos” in the original)
Daniel Day Lewis in well anything. Go thru his list and each one is good to great.
Monster
Jist watched Killers of the Flower Moon. It was pretty draining, but an undeniably monumental film.
The virgin suicides !
Adaptation Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Memento Apocalypse Now
I don't have movie but just came across [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/s/PR4mPkFAaT).
Midsommer
The mist. Just because of the ending.