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Netizens Point Out The 37 Biggest Movies They’ll Never Re-Watch Again, Under Any Circumstances
My late grandma only liked to watch family comedies with an invariable happy ending, and in my early youth, when I began to seriously get interested in cinema, I sincerely didn't get this. Of course, she passed by some masterpieces! I sincerely tried to suggest this or that film to her - truly powerful and masterfully shot, and every time I was damn upset when she refused over and over.
Now I understand. Having lived through WWII and the difficult post-war years, a painful divorce and losing relatives, she didn't want to have the same emotional experiences while sitting in a movie theater or in front of the TV. Even if the film was a real masterpiece. And netizens in this viral online thread essentially agree with her, listing really big movies that, nevertheless, you don’t want to watch again.
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#1
Schindler’s List. A masterpiece, but I don’t need my soul shattered twice.
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#2
Grave of the Fireflies.
Surly Scot 6 days ago
Of all the movies that have utterly broke me, this is the top of the list. Watched it once and can't even force myself to watch it again, even though it's utterly phenomenal. The Road comes a close 2nd, but Grave of The Fireflies may be the most heartbreaking movie ever made, not even Schindler's List could make me sob as hard as this movie.
#3
Life is Beautiful with Roberto Benigni makes me ugly cry. It's an absolutely heartbreaking and beautiful movie about love and sacrifice and I just don't know if I can do it again.
The original thread appeared in the AskReddit community just a couple of days ago, but has already racked up over 12K upvotes with around 9.1K various comments. No, there are not that many films listed by netizens, but the discussion itself was vivid and memorable.
Any truly outstanding film is not only emotions while viewing, but also, as they say, an "aftertaste." And this aftertaste can be actually very different.
#5
The green mile.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 5 days ago
It's also an absolutely EXCELLENT book. They did a really good job of translating it to a movie (Shawshank Redemption is the only other Stephen King book-to-movie that is a great translation) but if you enjoy reading, the book is fantastic. It's not one of Stephen King's "scary monster" books; it's written to show humanity, courage, and the willingness to accept life's mysteries and be changed by them.
#6
Requiem for a Dream—brilliantly made but absolutely devastating.
Floeckchen 6 days ago
I remember when pretty much every single at least somewhat serious video on youtube had "Lux Aeterna" as background music
Earlier, at the dawn of cinema, it was perceived exclusively as pure entertainment - well, five-minute "films" with a catchy plot, often absurd and sometimes just cringy, were not perceived any other way.
The theater was a place where serious dramas were played out, where genuine masterpieces were shown, where true connoisseurs used to take their seats. And cinema was just a stupid show for every day, as they wrote then. Who said "looks like TikTok nowadays?.."
And only then, with the development of technical capabilities, did the chance arise to really create large-scale masterpieces, demonstrate outstanding acting, and evoke truly strong emotions in viewers. Cinema has seriously supplanted theater as a real art. And it remains so to this day - you just need to know which films to watch.
#8
Pan's Labyrinth.
Beautiful film in every way and I've never seen a film in theatres either before or since where everyone was dead quiet and remained in their seats for several minutes once it ended. I think it would be impossible to get the same experience on a rewatch.
"In fact, 'powerful' but incredibly difficult-to-watch films exist in any genre, from drama to comedy, from biopics to cartoons," says Dmytro Kosygin, a film director and cameraman from Ukraine, whom Bored Panda asked for a comment here.
"Yes, even in cartoons. Either separate scenes - like in Inside Out, Coco, or many of Don Bluth's late cartoons. Or entire films - like, for example, Grave of the Fireflies by Isao Takahata."
"If the screen shows really difficult life situations, tragic moments, or simply reflects the unsightly reality of the surrounding world, not every person is actually able to bear it. Especially if we do not encounter something similar everyday, or, on the contrary, have experienced it before."
#10
Hotel Rwanda.
Robert Beveridge 3 days ago
The movie that should've made Don Cheadle a space at the top of the A list.
#11
The Elephant Man. I cried at that movie. It was just a very brutal film emotionally.
#12
12 Years a Slave.
"There are many films on this list that are incredibly difficult to watch, after which tears literally well up in your eyes. Some of them people can't even finish watching. Not because they are bad or senseless - it's just that the world they show is too far from perfect. And outstanding directing or acting only emphasizes this."
"And yes - most of this list can indeed be found in the IMDb Top-250, which only means that these are real pieces of art," Dmytro sums up. "It's just that art can be completely different. And the emotions it evokes are also very different."
#13
The 2022 version of All Quiet on the Western Front. It is a fantastic movie but I don't have any desire to see it again.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 5 days ago
I read the book decades ago and loved it, and reluctantly saw the movie when it came out. All I can say is that the movie is NOTHING like the book in spirit and the book is much better. The movie is fine if you've never read the book, and I was able to enjoy the movie well enough. But it really, REALLY misses some of the deeper meanings and subtleties about the hells of war that the book has.
#14
Hachi: a dog's tale, its an incredible story, but seeing that movie broke something inside of me, cried for hours.
#15
The Whale. Great story and acting, but don’t want to experience that again.
Yes, now, many years and hundreds of films later, I do understand my grandma much better, her reluctance to watch "difficult" movies and once again experience those difficult emotions. In any case, the films presented in our selection are truly outstanding, so please feel free to scroll this list to the end, and maybe add your own ideas of similar movies for you in the comments below.
#16
Three Billboards Outside Ebbings, Missouri.
I saw it in theaters and was really invested. So invested. I was really wanting a conclusion.
... House lights go up. I literally said "what the f**k???" very loudly along with some other people. The fact there will never be a conclusion literally makes the movie 10/10, but I can't set myself up like that again.
#17
My wife feels that way about *The Pianist.*
Excellent movie, but she will never ever subject herself to that again.
#18
The Father. Anthony Hopkins' best performance.
My mother's Alzheimer's mirrors his so much that I can't watch it again.
Robert Beveridge 3 days ago
If you liked this and you really want to be retraumatized, see Iris. Judi Dench portraying the last years of Iris Murdoch's life. The greatest movie I will never watch again.
#19
Marley and Me. Great movie but absolutely would not recommend to anyone
Edit: After reading the comments I have to reiterate DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE! Do not even think about this movie.
#20
The Road.
Un rewatchable now that I'm a Dad.
Surly Scot 6 days ago
For the love of god DON'T READ THE BOOK. If the film broke your heart the book will break your soul.
Carly Krumins 21 hours ago
Such an eye opening book. But it's super depressing.
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Alessa Gillespie 6 days ago
I read the book years ago. You couldn't pay me enough to watch the movie.
DennyS (denzoren) 3 days ago
Never saw the movie but damn the book was good....very scary too.
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Michelle Critchet 1 day ago
An extraordinary movie set in a post-apocalyptic hell that makes the harshest demands for every step you want to take.
Graf666Orlok 2 days ago
I made the mistake of reading this while losing the love of my life. Cormac McCarthy is a genius. the brutality and realism of the line "She was gone, and the coldness of it was her final gift.". It broke me.
George D 2 days ago
Slasher films, supernatural horror, etc. do not hold a candle to this film. An unexplained ecological disaster and the collapse of civilization. If we have a volcanic eruption like that in 536 AD then this is what we're looking at. This kept me up nights pondering how fragile we are as a "civil" species.
#21
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Really great movie but severely destroyed me after having a recent tough breakup when I watched it a few years ago. Also Jim Carry really delivers in a more serious role here.
#22
Big Fish.
Amazing movie, great cinematography, good story. But i bawled like a damn baby at the end and now that my dad has passed, I won't watch it again.
#23
Misery.
Once was more than enough for me.
#25
Dear Zachary: A letter to a son
It was absolutely soul crushing. F**k that woman and f**k the judicial system that let that s**t happen.
#26
Dancer in the Dark.
#27
Wind River. It's one of the best movies I've ever seen, and I would prefer never to see it again. At the same time, I will recommend it to anyone who will listen. Sharing the trauma.
#28
I don't know if I would say quite a 10, but Oldboy isn't getting rewatched. .
#29
Prisoners.
Denis Villeneuve thriller about a child being abducted.
Jake Gyllenhall and Terence Howard are at their best. Paul Dano is amazing
Hugh Jackman is a force of Nature, there scene where he is interrogating someone and allegedly goes off script to smash a sink.
Had me on the edge of my seat for the entire run through but could never watch it again, just because of how uncomfortably tense In was
that said, 11 years on, nothing has ever made me as tense as going into the cinema and watching this.
#31
1917. GREAT MOVIE, I just get in my feels when watching it.
#33
I watched Melancholia at exactly the wrong time, and it threw me into an existential crisis.
#34
Uncut Gems. Clearly a very good movie. But I’m never putting myself through that again, no thank you.
#35
Wolf of Wallstreet. Amazing movie, but 0 wolfs seen….
Darius S. (he/him) cis/grey 6 days ago
Yes, no wolves shown and I thought wall would be a stronger supporting role.
#36
Zone of Interest.
#37
I really loved Midsommer, especially the ending. But I don't want to take the gorey, cringey ride to get to that pay off again.
What do you think ?
CP 6 days ago
I am not a good barometer for this list. I will get in a "hard to watch" movie mood and rewatch some on this list. A few personal ones missing from this list that are hard watches, City of God, Sleepers, any Lars von Trier. I like how this list stuck with hard too watch emotional films and not hard to watch gory films. It is good to distinguish between the two.
Clown fish 2 days ago
Angelas ash's can't rewatch it, it killed me off the first time
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MP Deco 5 days ago
how could "Saving Private Ryan" NOT make this list?? devastating....will NEVER watch this heartbreaking movie ever again....
Dorma Hughes 5 days ago
As a mother of military men, never watch this movie.
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Roberta Surprenant 6 days ago
For me it would be What Dreams May Come, excellent film but HEAVY.
Jeanne 6 days ago
I agree. Another one is The Lovely Bones. I highly recommend it, yet it’s a hard subject.
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jeff stone 6 days ago
Sleepers. Watched in the cinema, amazing acting but wow, I've never seen a cinema so quiet after it finished
Queeqec 4 days ago
Same. Not sure if all of them made it to the rest of the world. Outside the USA that is.
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Mad McQueen 2 days ago
Bicentennial man. With Robin Williams. It's a great story. But the end. Oh the end. To strive all existence just to be able to end. It's wonderful. I cried.
Jennifer Howe 3 days ago
Not sure if it's well known in America, but Threads. It's a British film about a nuclear apocalypse. I watched it two months ago and still think about it daily.
liam newton-harding 2 days ago
I watched that when it first came out on TV…and I was way too young…there are scenes I can still recall…and still disturb me…decades later.
Load More Replies... jeff stone 6 days ago
Sleepers, the only film I've ever watched in the cinema and no one spoke after it
Traveling Lady Railfan 2 days ago
I won't watch the Futurama episode entitled "Jurassic Bark" (the story of Fry's dog who after Fry goes missing, wait for him for the rest of his life) as well as the Avatar episode "Appa's lost days" (where after the sky bison gets kidnapped, sold to a circus and abused, tries to find his way back to his original caring owner)
WinterLady 1 day ago
Oh my God!!! That episode of Futurama was devastating. I still tear up just at the mention of it.
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BossyHossy1 3 days ago
"Pay It Forward"...positive, more positive, true joy, and then the utter destruction of your soul (and then they crowned it with "Calling All Angels")!!
Donald 6 days ago
I'm not one to get worked up over a film but Come and See was the most disturbing 140 minutes of film I've ever watched.
CP 6 days ago
That is the one on this list I knew nothing about and want to see!
Load More Replies... LadyManx 2 days ago
Th Killing Fields. Watch that and then say, we should be that cruel to those around us.
BrownEyedPanda 2 days ago (edited)
The ironic part? Dr. Haing Ngor, who portrayed Dith Pran and received an Oscar for his performance, was shot to death at an ATM.
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Lost Panda 2 days ago
I'm surprised there was no mention of "Where the Red Fern Grows" or "Old Yeller"... Those decimated me as a child... I'm grown now, and I still have no urge to watch them again... May "Where the Red Fern Grows" but I'll be damned if I watch "Old Yeller" again...
SkippityBoppityBoo 2 days ago
'Irreversible'...The fire extinguisher. 'The Day After'... I've been trying to find this again on DVD. Scared me as a child!
BrownEyedPanda 2 hours ago
"The Day After" does exist on DVD, unfortunately. It's produced by MGM.
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zovjraar me 3 days ago
the Laramie Project. What happened to Matthew Shepard makes me so mad i want to hurt someone.
Linda Lee 2 days ago
RIP Matthew Shepard. You may never know it, but you changed the world.
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liam newton-harding 2 days ago
I had seen that movie close to a dozen times…and I LOVED it…and on the last viewing, as Dewie picks up the little watering can, and starts to water the last plants anywhere, and Joan Baez starts singing…and I just started bawling…deep, painful sobs. I still love this movie…and I will never watch it again.
Load More Replies... Carl Roberts 3 days ago
I'll add a couple.... Threads & Testament. Both released in 1983. Two VERY different films addressing the aftermath of nuclear war. Both are soul draining emotional gut punches. I've never been able to make it through a second viewing of Threads, and I've only watched Testament twice in the span of 40 years.
BrownEyedPanda 2 days ago (edited)
Just like "The Day After," a TV movie that absolutely no one would sponsor when it was first broadcast. I've seen the aforementioned movies, along with both versions of "On The Beach." All of those movies are on my never-again list.
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The Doom Song 5 days ago
For me it is Marley and me, and red dog. I cried so hard I just can't even think about watching either movie again
Surly Scot 6 days ago
Bone Tomahawk, wasn't prepared for the cave scene. Thought I was watching some boring Western, holy heck did it flip it on its head and take me for a ride.
Lyoness 3 days ago
Absolutely. I still can't get what happens out of my head. Honestly it was the first time I've had to cover my eyes in a movie for 20+ years.
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That_One_Harry_Potter_Nerd 6 days ago
Watched Boy in the Striped Pajamas in junior high, and both Schindler's List and The Green Mile in high school. they were all excellent films, all of them so well made and beautiful, but I would never watch them again.
Heather Murphy 2 days ago
Passion of the Christ. I thought the movie was excellent but the violence was too much for me.
Willem Andries Oosterhof 2 days ago (edited)
It's not a movie although the length is about that long. On YouTube, the funeral of Jim Henson. I om over 50 and still bawl my eyes out seeing big bird singing It's not easy being green, or at the conclusion when all Muppets get on stage singing Just one person. Just thinking about that one brings tears to my eyes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEArJXD8YFY
Spocks's Mom 2 days ago
Oddly enough, A.I. depressed me for days and I will never watch it again. Idk why it affected me like that. I guess because my son was young at the time.
Dread Pirate Roberts 2 days ago
Pay It Forward was too heartbreaking to watch more than once. Surprised it didn't make this list
talliloo 2 days ago
there are very few films that i won't rewatch. if there is any genre that i can honestly say is never rewatched it would be any kind of horror movie. but, one that isn't horror that i won't watch again but do recommend to others to check out is " 'night, mother" with sissy spacek and anne bancroft. that was a kick in the gut to me.
Linda Lee 2 days ago
'Night Mother was heart-stopping, no pun intended. I saw it commercial free on PBS. I was home alone, about 15 years old, I paced the living room floor as I watched it. Then BANG! I shuttered then stood very still. My jaw hit the floor. 'night mother.
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Notme 2 days ago
Grave of the Fireflies should be number 1. I’d also add The Savages, from 2007, with the great Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Lyoness 3 days ago
I'm amazed Capturing the Friedmans isn't on this list. Amazing documentary about a family that involves SA and manages not to influence the audience one way or another. Worth a watch, but it'll be the only time you do it.
Lyoness 3 days ago
I also forgot to mention Slumdog Millionaire. It's positively brilliant but a very hard watch and you'll never forget it.
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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 4 days ago
I just saw a short film called “If Anything Happens, I Love You.” Beautiful, but absolutely heartbreaking, especially since it’s about one of my greatest fears.
StrangeOne 4 days ago
The Butterfly Effect. It was really disturbing in so many ways. Those kids grew up f****d up, for terrible reasons beyond their control. It wasn't an enjoyable film to sit through in the theatre, especially pregnant. It was when the little girl and her mom were blown up from the bomb in the mailbox that sent me out the door ugly crying and screaming. I hear the other part of the movie was more uplifting? and got better.
DennyS (denzoren) 3 days ago
The alternate timelines were different to say the least but I don't think I'll rewatch that movie any time soon, too messed up.
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marianne eliza 5 days ago
Paradise Road, about women prisoners of the Japanese on WWII. And Easy Rider. The ending.
Jeanne 6 days ago
I recently tried to watch the true story, Mommie Dearest, but couldn’t get through it because it reminded me of someone I know! Also, Terms of Endearment was a very excellent, yet very sad movie.
Lyoness 3 days ago
If you couldn't manage the Mommie Dearest movie the book it's based on is very good.
Load More Replies... ginshun 6 days ago
I'll say I've seen most of these, and like most of them. As somebody else said, I am maybe not the best choice to judge, as I've re-watched many of them. They are mostly just a bunch of movies that don't hold back, in multiple ways. Grave of the Fireflies would be the first that comes to mind when somebody asks about a really good movie that you will never watch again. It's not even violence with that movie, it's just soul crushingly depressing. Goes beyond not wanting to watch it again. It's like you can watch it, and acknowledge that it is a great film, but just be like WTF just happened, and really wish you hadn't watched it in the first place.
liam newton-harding 2 days ago
Now streaming…first saw it when the released it in England (on BBC, I think)…and each time I see it now, my fingers hovers over the “play” button…but never hits it.
Load More Replies... WinterLady 1 day ago
If I Stay was a rough watch. I cried so much. My husband says Ladder 49 broke him.
Frances Pitchoune 2 days ago
Life of PI! And Slumdog Millionaire. Two very good films, but I cried so much throughout the films that I refuse to watch them again.
_-DungeonKeeper-_ 2 days ago
If you made it down to this comment, and you want to cry, watch Maboroshi. It's basically a romance that takes place while time is frozen so no one dies, ages, or is born, but if anyone changes it could cause major complications.
liam newton-harding 2 days ago
“Once Were Warriors”, powerful…emotional…and halfway through reaches into your chest, and crushes your heart. I absolutely recommend this movie to everyone, and I will never, ever watch this movie a second time…and they actually toned it down from the brilliant book…and there is even a sequel to the movie…that I will never watch.
Jon Penryn 3 days ago
I am incredibly shallow i have no wish to see any of these or any other "misery porn" films.
Sparkle Bean 3 days ago
I agree and don't think it's shallow. It's just protecting myself from totally unnecessary hurt, especially considering how painful real life can be.
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ReadBannedBooks 3 days ago (edited)
Don't Cry It's Only Thunder - 1982 Vietnam War movie. My Dog Skip. The Trip to Bountiful - watched with my mom when we were having to move her parents off the farm to assisted living. We both ugly-cried.
Seán Baron 3 days ago
The Impossible for me. Never ever seeing that film again. Tried to watch it again last week, but after 10 minutes I couldn’t.
Aerial (Any pronouns/Canadian/Jewish) 4 days ago
I was kind of hoping some of these would be movies that are absolutely garbage, not just ones that gave people string emotions. Oh, well, guess I was wrong!
Jostanquecla 5 days ago
Hostiles, Warrior, Mother!, Blue valentine, There will be blood, pieces of a woman, You were never really here, The passion of the Christ, I care a lot, The crucible.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 5 days ago
Mississippi Burning. Saving Private Ryan. Tears Of The Sun. Casualties Of War. Each brilliant, each disturbing in its own way because of the realism. And a fkn freaky Australian horror movie by the name ''Long Weekend'' (2008 version) Absolutely freaked me out; still can't get some of the images out of my head.
somnomania (she/her, queer) 5 days ago
i feel like a lot of these are people who don't like crying. crying is good! emotions are good! art is designed to make you feel things, so the ones that make you do that are good.
Darius S. (he/him) cis/grey 6 days ago
"Daughter from Danang" 2002 ‧ Documentary. Sometimes what you're looking for is what you get. Sad.
Tucker Cahooter 6 days ago
Many of these I haven't watched, but interestingly I didn't see well known ones where there was a twist at the end (e.g. The Sixth Sense, The Usual Suspects) which might have ruined a rewatch since you know what happens
ginshun 6 days ago
That's not what this list is. It's not movies that have a twist the ruins the second watch through, it's movies that are excessively violent, emotional, raw, gritty, etc, or just all of the above. Like most agree that it's a good movie, but you don't want to put yourself through the trauma of watching it a second time. Not many happy endings to be found on this list.
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Ellinor 6 days ago
Cannibal holocaust. Amazing movie who is the criticism of a world where fame is more important than truth in journalism. But I could never watch it again.
deletemyaccount 3 days ago
Any Disney Star Wars movie also Avatar. I figured out the entire plot of that movie within the first 30 minutes.
Jaya 3 days ago
That sounds like more like a "movies I think were bad" list than a "movies I think were fantastic but don't wanna rewatch" list?
Load More Replies... CP 6 days ago
I am not a good barometer for this list. I will get in a "hard to watch" movie mood and rewatch some on this list. A few personal ones missing from this list that are hard watches, City of God, Sleepers, any Lars von Trier. I like how this list stuck with hard too watch emotional films and not hard to watch gory films. It is good to distinguish between the two.
Clown fish 2 days ago
Angelas ash's can't rewatch it, it killed me off the first time
Load More Replies... MP Deco 5 days ago
how could "Saving Private Ryan" NOT make this list?? devastating....will NEVER watch this heartbreaking movie ever again....
Dorma Hughes 5 days ago
As a mother of military men, never watch this movie.
Load More Replies... Roberta Surprenant 6 days ago
For me it would be What Dreams May Come, excellent film but HEAVY.
Jeanne 6 days ago
I agree. Another one is The Lovely Bones. I highly recommend it, yet it’s a hard subject.
Load More Replies... jeff stone 6 days ago
Sleepers. Watched in the cinema, amazing acting but wow, I've never seen a cinema so quiet after it finished
Queeqec 4 days ago
Same. Not sure if all of them made it to the rest of the world. Outside the USA that is.
Load More Replies... Mad McQueen 2 days ago
Bicentennial man. With Robin Williams. It's a great story. But the end. Oh the end. To strive all existence just to be able to end. It's wonderful. I cried.
Jennifer Howe 3 days ago
Not sure if it's well known in America, but Threads. It's a British film about a nuclear apocalypse. I watched it two months ago and still think about it daily.
liam newton-harding 2 days ago
I watched that when it first came out on TV…and I was way too young…there are scenes I can still recall…and still disturb me…decades later.
Load More Replies... jeff stone 6 days ago
Sleepers, the only film I've ever watched in the cinema and no one spoke after it
Traveling Lady Railfan 2 days ago
I won't watch the Futurama episode entitled "Jurassic Bark" (the story of Fry's dog who after Fry goes missing, wait for him for the rest of his life) as well as the Avatar episode "Appa's lost days" (where after the sky bison gets kidnapped, sold to a circus and abused, tries to find his way back to his original caring owner)
WinterLady 1 day ago
Oh my God!!! That episode of Futurama was devastating. I still tear up just at the mention of it.
Load More Replies... BossyHossy1 3 days ago
"Pay It Forward"...positive, more positive, true joy, and then the utter destruction of your soul (and then they crowned it with "Calling All Angels")!!
Donald 6 days ago
I'm not one to get worked up over a film but Come and See was the most disturbing 140 minutes of film I've ever watched.
CP 6 days ago
That is the one on this list I knew nothing about and want to see!
Load More Replies... LadyManx 2 days ago
Th Killing Fields. Watch that and then say, we should be that cruel to those around us.
BrownEyedPanda 2 days ago (edited)
The ironic part? Dr. Haing Ngor, who portrayed Dith Pran and received an Oscar for his performance, was shot to death at an ATM.
Load More Replies... Lost Panda 2 days ago
I'm surprised there was no mention of "Where the Red Fern Grows" or "Old Yeller"... Those decimated me as a child... I'm grown now, and I still have no urge to watch them again... May "Where the Red Fern Grows" but I'll be damned if I watch "Old Yeller" again...
SkippityBoppityBoo 2 days ago
'Irreversible'...The fire extinguisher. 'The Day After'... I've been trying to find this again on DVD. Scared me as a child!
BrownEyedPanda 2 hours ago
"The Day After" does exist on DVD, unfortunately. It's produced by MGM.
Load More Replies... zovjraar me 3 days ago
the Laramie Project. What happened to Matthew Shepard makes me so mad i want to hurt someone.
Linda Lee 2 days ago
RIP Matthew Shepard. You may never know it, but you changed the world.
Load More Replies... liam newton-harding 2 days ago
I had seen that movie close to a dozen times…and I LOVED it…and on the last viewing, as Dewie picks up the little watering can, and starts to water the last plants anywhere, and Joan Baez starts singing…and I just started bawling…deep, painful sobs. I still love this movie…and I will never watch it again.
Load More Replies... Carl Roberts 3 days ago
I'll add a couple.... Threads & Testament. Both released in 1983. Two VERY different films addressing the aftermath of nuclear war. Both are soul draining emotional gut punches. I've never been able to make it through a second viewing of Threads, and I've only watched Testament twice in the span of 40 years.
BrownEyedPanda 2 days ago (edited)
Just like "The Day After," a TV movie that absolutely no one would sponsor when it was first broadcast. I've seen the aforementioned movies, along with both versions of "On The Beach." All of those movies are on my never-again list.
Load More Replies... The Doom Song 5 days ago
For me it is Marley and me, and red dog. I cried so hard I just can't even think about watching either movie again
Surly Scot 6 days ago
Bone Tomahawk, wasn't prepared for the cave scene. Thought I was watching some boring Western, holy heck did it flip it on its head and take me for a ride.
Lyoness 3 days ago
Absolutely. I still can't get what happens out of my head. Honestly it was the first time I've had to cover my eyes in a movie for 20+ years.
Load More Replies... That_One_Harry_Potter_Nerd 6 days ago
Watched Boy in the Striped Pajamas in junior high, and both Schindler's List and The Green Mile in high school. they were all excellent films, all of them so well made and beautiful, but I would never watch them again.
Heather Murphy 2 days ago
Passion of the Christ. I thought the movie was excellent but the violence was too much for me.
Willem Andries Oosterhof 2 days ago (edited)
It's not a movie although the length is about that long. On YouTube, the funeral of Jim Henson. I om over 50 and still bawl my eyes out seeing big bird singing It's not easy being green, or at the conclusion when all Muppets get on stage singing Just one person. Just thinking about that one brings tears to my eyes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEArJXD8YFY
Spocks's Mom 2 days ago
Oddly enough, A.I. depressed me for days and I will never watch it again. Idk why it affected me like that. I guess because my son was young at the time.
Dread Pirate Roberts 2 days ago
Pay It Forward was too heartbreaking to watch more than once. Surprised it didn't make this list
talliloo 2 days ago
there are very few films that i won't rewatch. if there is any genre that i can honestly say is never rewatched it would be any kind of horror movie. but, one that isn't horror that i won't watch again but do recommend to others to check out is " 'night, mother" with sissy spacek and anne bancroft. that was a kick in the gut to me.
Linda Lee 2 days ago
'Night Mother was heart-stopping, no pun intended. I saw it commercial free on PBS. I was home alone, about 15 years old, I paced the living room floor as I watched it. Then BANG! I shuttered then stood very still. My jaw hit the floor. 'night mother.
Load More Replies... Notme 2 days ago
Grave of the Fireflies should be number 1. I’d also add The Savages, from 2007, with the great Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Lyoness 3 days ago
I'm amazed Capturing the Friedmans isn't on this list. Amazing documentary about a family that involves SA and manages not to influence the audience one way or another. Worth a watch, but it'll be the only time you do it.
Lyoness 3 days ago
I also forgot to mention Slumdog Millionaire. It's positively brilliant but a very hard watch and you'll never forget it.
Load More Replies... and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 4 days ago
I just saw a short film called “If Anything Happens, I Love You.” Beautiful, but absolutely heartbreaking, especially since it’s about one of my greatest fears.
StrangeOne 4 days ago
The Butterfly Effect. It was really disturbing in so many ways. Those kids grew up f****d up, for terrible reasons beyond their control. It wasn't an enjoyable film to sit through in the theatre, especially pregnant. It was when the little girl and her mom were blown up from the bomb in the mailbox that sent me out the door ugly crying and screaming. I hear the other part of the movie was more uplifting? and got better.
DennyS (denzoren) 3 days ago
The alternate timelines were different to say the least but I don't think I'll rewatch that movie any time soon, too messed up.
Load More Replies... marianne eliza 5 days ago
Paradise Road, about women prisoners of the Japanese on WWII. And Easy Rider. The ending.
Jeanne 6 days ago
I recently tried to watch the true story, Mommie Dearest, but couldn’t get through it because it reminded me of someone I know! Also, Terms of Endearment was a very excellent, yet very sad movie.
Lyoness 3 days ago
If you couldn't manage the Mommie Dearest movie the book it's based on is very good.
Load More Replies... ginshun 6 days ago
I'll say I've seen most of these, and like most of them. As somebody else said, I am maybe not the best choice to judge, as I've re-watched many of them. They are mostly just a bunch of movies that don't hold back, in multiple ways. Grave of the Fireflies would be the first that comes to mind when somebody asks about a really good movie that you will never watch again. It's not even violence with that movie, it's just soul crushingly depressing. Goes beyond not wanting to watch it again. It's like you can watch it, and acknowledge that it is a great film, but just be like WTF just happened, and really wish you hadn't watched it in the first place.
liam newton-harding 2 days ago
Now streaming…first saw it when the released it in England (on BBC, I think)…and each time I see it now, my fingers hovers over the “play” button…but never hits it.
Load More Replies... WinterLady 1 day ago
If I Stay was a rough watch. I cried so much. My husband says Ladder 49 broke him.
Frances Pitchoune 2 days ago
Life of PI! And Slumdog Millionaire. Two very good films, but I cried so much throughout the films that I refuse to watch them again.
_-DungeonKeeper-_ 2 days ago
If you made it down to this comment, and you want to cry, watch Maboroshi. It's basically a romance that takes place while time is frozen so no one dies, ages, or is born, but if anyone changes it could cause major complications.
liam newton-harding 2 days ago
“Once Were Warriors”, powerful…emotional…and halfway through reaches into your chest, and crushes your heart. I absolutely recommend this movie to everyone, and I will never, ever watch this movie a second time…and they actually toned it down from the brilliant book…and there is even a sequel to the movie…that I will never watch.
Jon Penryn 3 days ago
I am incredibly shallow i have no wish to see any of these or any other "misery porn" films.
Sparkle Bean 3 days ago
I agree and don't think it's shallow. It's just protecting myself from totally unnecessary hurt, especially considering how painful real life can be.
Load More Replies... ReadBannedBooks 3 days ago (edited)
Don't Cry It's Only Thunder - 1982 Vietnam War movie. My Dog Skip. The Trip to Bountiful - watched with my mom when we were having to move her parents off the farm to assisted living. We both ugly-cried.
Seán Baron 3 days ago
The Impossible for me. Never ever seeing that film again. Tried to watch it again last week, but after 10 minutes I couldn’t.
Aerial (Any pronouns/Canadian/Jewish) 4 days ago
I was kind of hoping some of these would be movies that are absolutely garbage, not just ones that gave people string emotions. Oh, well, guess I was wrong!
Jostanquecla 5 days ago
Hostiles, Warrior, Mother!, Blue valentine, There will be blood, pieces of a woman, You were never really here, The passion of the Christ, I care a lot, The crucible.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 5 days ago
Mississippi Burning. Saving Private Ryan. Tears Of The Sun. Casualties Of War. Each brilliant, each disturbing in its own way because of the realism. And a fkn freaky Australian horror movie by the name ''Long Weekend'' (2008 version) Absolutely freaked me out; still can't get some of the images out of my head.
somnomania (she/her, queer) 5 days ago
i feel like a lot of these are people who don't like crying. crying is good! emotions are good! art is designed to make you feel things, so the ones that make you do that are good.
Darius S. (he/him) cis/grey 6 days ago
"Daughter from Danang" 2002 ‧ Documentary. Sometimes what you're looking for is what you get. Sad.
Tucker Cahooter 6 days ago
Many of these I haven't watched, but interestingly I didn't see well known ones where there was a twist at the end (e.g. The Sixth Sense, The Usual Suspects) which might have ruined a rewatch since you know what happens
ginshun 6 days ago
That's not what this list is. It's not movies that have a twist the ruins the second watch through, it's movies that are excessively violent, emotional, raw, gritty, etc, or just all of the above. Like most agree that it's a good movie, but you don't want to put yourself through the trauma of watching it a second time. Not many happy endings to be found on this list.
Load More Replies... Ellinor 6 days ago
Cannibal holocaust. Amazing movie who is the criticism of a world where fame is more important than truth in journalism. But I could never watch it again.
deletemyaccount 3 days ago
Any Disney Star Wars movie also Avatar. I figured out the entire plot of that movie within the first 30 minutes.
Jaya 3 days ago
That sounds like more like a "movies I think were bad" list than a "movies I think were fantastic but don't wanna rewatch" list?
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