Need some soul crushing movies please.
Can be about people who never find love, but in a broader "life is pointless" kind of way, not silly. People who never find meaning in life. Movie with a general sense of despair, even if the person is successful.
No happy endings please.
>related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6YndFacEnk
>>70035756
Grave of the Fireflies
>>70035756
Lost in Translation? It's actually not a sad film at all, and it mostly makes you feel good, but holy fuck it will depress the shit out of you if you're lonely and have nobody in your life.
>>70035756
prepare for feels
>>70035756
United 93
went in expecting edgy 9/11 patriotism, came out with no soul
>>70036143
I was just about to post this
That whole second act just tore me apart
Paris, Texas is the movie that hit me the hardest
>>70036196
>>70036143
pretty much every Lars Von Trier movie fits this category.
Dogville
Melancholia
Antichrist
Europa
Breaking the Waves
Von Trier truly knows how pointless and frivolous life really is.
Barton Fink
Gone Girl
Gummo
1984 (although the book shits all over the movie)
The Revenant (still kind of fits the description)
>>70035756
>No happy endings
How about seven bad ends? Because say no more if that's what you want.
Spoorloos
Requiem For A Dream
Oldboy
Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance
Sympathy For Lady Vengeance
>>70036273
He made a shortfilm at 14 years old about trying to run from death
Imagine spending nearly half a century just thinking about that for a living
What a man
this to be honest
>>70035756
Synecdoche, New York
Get your Exit Bag ready now, you'll need it.
>>70036384
This is the best answer.
>>70036362
Is this slutkino?
A Necessary Death (2008)
>Want to film a suicide and that person's emotional journey from conception
>Find someone suffering from cancer, who agrees to it
>Your girlfriend ends up falling for him, because he's dying
>Lose your gf
>Your girlfriend goes back to you, because you're not dying
>Cancer sufferer emotionally devastated
>Instead of killing himself, he kills you because he has nothing to lose
>Then he kills himself
Never be friends with anyone: the movie
>>70036133
Yep. Lilya 4-ever wrecked me.
>>70036273
Melancholia is a rainy day favorite, though.
>>70035756
I don't know if I've ever seen a movie where more things went horribly wrong.
>>70036312
Pure Kino, one of three movies made since 2000 which will be considered masterpieces along with No Country for Old Men and TWBB, they are the type of movies that will be talked about 50 years from now.
btw idk if others agree but : TAOJJBTCRF > TWBB > NCFOM how would you guys rate them, I'm curious
>>70036500
I personally would switch The Master for No Country for Old Men but I do not personally agree that there are that few movies that will be remembered.
With that in mind I would place them in this order.
TWBB > TAOJJBTCRF > >TM > NCFOM
>>70036143
>she found the light of life
Sounds like it has a happy ending.
I specifically requested no happy endings.
>>70035756
The Pianist
>>70036624
>Kid reunited with his sister
>Grave of Fireflies has happy ending
>>70035756
>>70036522
>>70036491
>>70036434
>>70036384
Charlie Kaufman is one dark fucker.
>>70036384
>Get your Exit Bag ready now, you'll need it.
OP here. I have been waiting for this day for a long time. I just need the final push, and then I won't have to feel anymore. I won't have to feel.
>>70036624
I wouldn't considerbeing publicly executed in a gallowsto be a very happy ending
Umberto D
City Lights
The Shining
Barry Lyndon
The Elephant Man
Bicycle Thieves
Raging Bull
>>70036494
I love movies that begin when somebody is laid off from their job, especially if they have no money
>>70035756
I will contest anybody on this board that is this in the top 3 greatest movies ever created.
Watch this OP, ignore the rest and watch this first. It's not silly, it's raw psychological horror.
>>70036500
friendly reminder, all 3 of these masterpieces were made in 2007
>>70035931
/thread
>>70035756
drive
>>70036910
was just thinking 2007 was a helluva year for cinema
>>70036828
Whoa hey man let's just talk "out of character" here for a second. Synecdoche, NY is a great film and the only movie that's made me cry and I won't watch it now because I know I'll cry harder knowing that Phillip Seymour Hoffman is no longer with us but it's certainly no reason to kill yourself. Go for a walk, talk to someone if you can, take a nice relaxing bath... it's not worth it, seriously. This is coming from someone who lost everything six months ago, I got myself arrested, lost my job, got divorced, and found out my cat has diabetes. Take it from me, I know, life may seem shitty now but it's 1000000x better than not being alive. Someone somewhere loves you whether you know it or not and I think that's the point of the movie, it justtakes Caden almost his whole life to realize it.
>>70035756
>There Will Be Blood
So by "soul crushing" you mean soul-crushingly bad?
>>70036230
I wouldn't say this is soul crushing, I would say it's very complicated and melancholy, but that feeling adds richness to life, not existential breakdown.
The unaltered version of this movie is probably also in the top 3 or top 5 greatest films of all time. Probably the greatest film ever made by an Italian.
>>70036910
>>70036945
Also from 2007
Eastern Promises
Zodiac
Gone Baby Gone
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
I'm Not There
The Savages
Lust, Caution
The Orphanage
2007 is easily one of the greatest years for cinema.
>>70036953
>found out my cat has diabetes
Subtle ninja troll
>>70036899
Second.
..though I dislike that poster on principle.
>>70036959
explain yourself.
>>70036730
happy ending my ass, dying from starvation when its absolutely unnecessary is NOT a happy ending
>>70036953
No my life and the meaninglessness therein is the reason to kill myself. It needs to happen. Watching a sad movie will put me into the right emotional state to finally do what needs to be done. I appreciate your concern though. I'd say I'll see you in the next life, but we both know the truth.
Darkness now. Only darkness. farewell
>>70036852
all I remember from that flick is some dykes kissing.
>>70037025
No, he really does. He's a big fat 10 year old maine coon and I have to give him insulin shots twice a day. Cherry on top of everything.
Anything Todd Solondz really
>>70036761
fun fact: he's like 5'4"
>>70037161
believe you've mistaken for this thread as "in turns awkward and hilarious"
>>70037178
Of course a manlet would write and direct depressing-ass movies!
>>70037210
The evidence is damning
>>70037103
i will see you soon brother. have a few things to do before the time comes. but it is coming.
shh. no more tears. only dreams now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygr5AHufBN4
>>70036953
>Someone somewhere loves you
no anon. no, they dont.
>>70037103
watch Dancer In The Dark then.
>>70035756
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
>"The movie starts with the suicide of the protagonist and uses reverse chronology to depict some of the key events of the past 20 years of his life that led to his death."
koreans make some right in the feels movies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P-71sIQiFQ
>>70037361
I love you, anon.
This movie made Ian Curtis kill himself.
>>70036312
>that entire last segment
>Depressing movie thread
>No "I Stand Alone"
You all fail
>>70039595
this nigger wins...holy shit this was soul draining. this shit will leave you depressed as fuck
>>70035756
I Saw the Devil
not as gut wrenching as "i stand alone" but depressing as fuck. and a great movie
Martyrs (not the shitty remake)
>>70037161
This is a top 5 depressing as fuck movie. Fuck...
>>70035979
He said no happy endings, this is bittersweet but it definitely counts as happy overall.
>>70035756
I'm starting to feel like life has no purpose, should I watch one of these or something comfy bros?
The Broken Circle Breakdown
This movie broke me
>>70039872
Go read The Stranger.
>>70039872
Start exercising. Cardio works quickest
This has god tier cinematography but damn is it depressing.
>>70035756
I fwel like some Noir films would be what youre looking for.
all movies by Kim Ki-duk
>>70039349
Pretty misleading to say but yes he did kill himself after watching this.
A great movie either way.