I’m surprised Watership Down isn’t listed…
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Oh right! Ugh, I saw that one on tv as a child, hit me right in the tear ducts.
Watership Down has a happy ending though. Surely that’s important in whether it counts as depressing or not? Like, I know movies liked Up and Land before Time have scenes that punched a lot of people right in the chest, but I wouldn’t consider them sad on the whole.
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You mean when Hazel finally feels the sweet embrace of death, and the narrator says “all the world will be your enemy, prince of 1000 enemies, and when they catch you they will kill you…”
Yeah, so uplifting…
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When Hazel finally dies of old age and is welcomed into the afterlife of heroes, and we remember the other half of the promise from the beginning: “be cunning, and your people shall never be destroyed”. It didn’t seem depressing to me, anyway. I have read the book a few times when feeling low for that message – that the world is full of terrible adversity, but it can be overcome.
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My entry up for discussion is American Beauty.
In spite of what we learned later about Kevin Spacey as a person, the acting is amazing. Annette Bening should have won the Oscar that year in my opinion.
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… a whole generation was traumatized 
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Our daughter hit a deer when she was in high school over 20 years ago, totaled her car, she was uninjured. Me and her friends teased her pretty good when it happened.
To this day she occasionally gets a card or note from Bambi looking for her mom.
She has fun friends.
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It does?
I genuinely only recall how horrified I was as a nine year old, when they showed it to us in school.
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It does, but I didn’t make it there the first time I saw it either. If this were instead a list of most traumatizing movies I’m sure it would deserve a place.
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I agree, the two neighbor kids’ fascination with the windbag floating around alone in the alleyway was awfully depressing.
That reminds me of Shame. That was pretty damn sad and depressing all around, such as the scene when the sister and her brother’s “cool” boss end up in the brother’s bed.
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The Neverending Story is depressing because of the overall crap job it did adapting a remarkable book.
I never finished the book
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I have a vague memory of watching the movie sequel and not enjoying it at all. I do think the first movie is charming despite its flaws, but i do wonder what a remake would look like.
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Neverending Story is a flawed, but ambitious and heartfelt attempt. The sequel is just as flawed, if not more, but it lacks the heart.
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