Most emotionally upsetting movie you ever watched!

I think it was the mini-series "Centennial" which aired in the late 70's... in one of the episodes (set during the dust bowl) a poor mother--unable to cope with the situation anymore--killed her young daughter first, then herself. I had hysterics
 
"Slumdog Millionaire." After the children were purposely blinded I was so upset, I wanted to leave, but had to stay along with others.
 

Old Salt said:
1) A River Wild (1996) Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon! My wife and I had to take off half way through, accompanied by the scornful sneers of her 90 year old aunt who lived with us.
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This movie was filmed about 8 miles downstream from my house on the Kootenai River in Montana. Very small town so Hollywood showing up for a months long filming was probably the biggest thing that ever happened there. I personally didn't find the film disturbing. I was more focused on recognizing familiar parts of the river. Incidentally, for such a supposedly long river trip, most of the scenes were filmed on about a two mile stretch of the actual river, probably less than that.
 
I think the most disturbing movie for me has been the Exorcist. I read the book first, which wrecked my sleep for at least six months. Then as I was recovering from that, the movie came out, and I went through the after affects all over again. Today, if I re-watch the Exorcist, which I did about a month ago, I have no emotional reaction to it at all.
 
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debodun said:
I'm surprised no one mentioned "The Passion of the Christ".
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There are many, many movies I can't watch. "The Passion Of The Christ" is one of them. The "Killing Fields" mentioned below is another. So is any movie associated with Nazi era Concentration Camps! I cannot cope emotionally with seeing others suffer because of the cruelty and sadism of others.
 
horseless carriage said:
"My Left Foot."
Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot. The true-life story of Christy Brown who was born paralysed with a severe form of cerebral palsy; his left foot the only appendage over which he had complete control.
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Couldn't watch it. Same with "The Theory Of Everything" about Stephen Hawking! I co-suffer too much, even though both men learned to overcome in a most admirable way!
 
Old Salt said:
There are many, many movies I can't watch. "The Passion Of The Christ" is one of them. The "Killing Fields" mentioned below is another. So is any movie associated with Nazi era Concentration Camps! I cannot cope emotionally with seeing others suffer because of the cruelty and sadism of others.
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Oh I couldn't watch those either. Far too upsetting.
Life is grim enough.
 
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