“The Whole Theater Emptied Without A Word”: 50 Powerful Films That Left Viewers In Shock

Word of mouth is one of the most powerful tools films rely on for their success. It can be challenging to win audiences over with a trailer, but once 15 of your friends mention how great a movie was, your interest might finally be piqued. Some great films, however, don’t get audiences talking immediately. Some particularly powerful movies leave audiences stewing in silence, contemplating what they just experienced, for minutes, or even hours, after viewing.

If you’re looking for a shocking or heart wrenching film that might leave you speechless, Reddit users have recently compiled a comprehensive list of the ones that left them “sitting in silence for 10 minutes after watching.” Feel free to take note of the films you haven’t yet experienced, and be sure to upvote the ones that left you at a loss for words as well.

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“The Whole Theater Emptied Without A Word”: 50 Powerful Films That Left Viewers In Shock The Green Mile.

Some friends and I went to see this in the theater. We walked out in silence, sat in the car for a good 30 minutes in silence (long drive to the theater), and one of us finally said, 'Wow.'

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“The Whole Theater Emptied Without A Word”: 50 Powerful Films That Left Viewers In Shock Saving Private Ryan. As people got up and left it stayed quiet, nobody said a word.

The opening scene, my god. Heard the veterans could smell diesel when they saw that.

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271points

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Schindlers List.

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248points

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“The Whole Theater Emptied Without A Word”: 50 Powerful Films That Left Viewers In Shock Se7en...

My mouth was open after watching this the first time and I felt a heaviness that I haven't felt in a movie before this.

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243points

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Up, 3 mins in

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The fox and the hound.

I’m 36 and have refused to watch it again since I was a kid.

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225points

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“The Whole Theater Emptied Without A Word”: 50 Powerful Films That Left Viewers In Shock The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

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Final score:

223points

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MoMcB 1 year ago

I've visited Belsen, and watched this. There's a pile of shoes in the museum that belonged to the dead, and the amount of little children's shoes is heartbreaking . We must never forget.

146points

Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 1 year ago

I cannot understand that some people believe it never happened

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Mark Howell 1 year ago

My wife and I visited Auschwitz and it is the same there. When we walked through the gas chamber at Auschwitz 'A' it lead to the crematorium, 6 orthodox jews were stood round the furnace and started singing the prayer for the dead. I, a 58yr old cynic, cried unashamadly at that.

42points

Betsy Ray 1 year ago

Thank you for writing that.

3points

Josh Gilland 1 year ago

Sadly people are and even more sad and scary is you're seeing similar behaviors from multiple groups around the world.

1point

Cathy Roberts 1 year ago

Never. <3

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Hagebumi 1 year ago

After the movie i sat there alone and i just didn't know how i was supposed to feel. Brilliant, But i never wanna see this Film again.

17points

Philippa Davies 1 year ago

I was exactly the same. I don’t think I could watch it a second time either.

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Lyop 1 year ago

Wailing. It ended in wailing for me.

15points

Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago

I have never been able to watch the movie in full. It's just too heartbreaking, as I've seen concentration camp museums/memorial sites in person. It was a sobering , horrifyingly experience. Everything was ripped from these poor people, the children especially, they lost their names, their dignity, their futures... we must never forget and we must NEVER repeat.

11points

Binky Melnik 1 year ago

I’m terrified that it WILL repeat, as sooo many people seem as if they hate SO much and feel SO entitled that this country or that country might organize enough to try something like that again. Sooo many stupid and cruel people running around these days and killing people they hate simply for EXISTING. It’s just disgusting that people can’t go about their business and keep their noses it Of others’ lives. 😞😞😞

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Ziggyc 1 year ago

Brilliant movie,left a real impact on me

11points

Amber The bear 1 year ago

The little boy (not the one in the camp) looks slightly like my brother and acts astoundingly like him so, obviously, he’s going to remind me of him, and every time I watch the movie I break down in sobs because it’s like watching my brother die

8points

Angieeee 1 year ago

Big hugs.

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Hydro Keychain 1 year ago

NEVER FORGET

5points

Bouche, Audi, and Shyla, oh my! 1 year ago

I will not watch this one. I just don't think I can do it.

5points

Libstak 1 year ago

Same, just hearing about it turned my stomach

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Witchy Mawmaw 1 year ago

This movie destroyed me. Can't bring myself to watch it again.

4points

scteach87161921 1 year ago

I am so glad I watched this at home by myself. I'm pretty sure I screamed out loud and sobbed at the end. :(

4points

MadOrca99 1 year ago

Read the book, never watched the movie

4points

Julie S 1 year ago

Same

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The Doom Song 1 year ago

The book and the movie are just so heart breaking.

3points

Tams21 1 year ago

I only read the book but I remember feeling horrified at the end. Having a story in which a big part of the story revolves around the innocence of childhood end like that is really devastating.

3points

Dustin Miller 1 year ago

My English teacher made us watch this in grade 11, don't ask what it has to do with English because she didn't even know

2points

Elizabeth Basinger 1 year ago

I was devastated by this movie. It still makes me cry.

2points

missbutterflyjh89 1 year ago

Such a good film but I can't watch it again

2points

Anikulapo 1 year ago

I don’t watch films about the Holocaust. I don’t need to know any more than what I already know, and the topic has 0 entertainment value for me. I’m not looking to get upset for no reason.

2points

Angieeee 1 year ago

Totally fair

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James Howell 1 year ago

A Must see!! I went to Auschwitz and was changed forever!! All need to see this... so no one can ever say it didn't happen. It did and could still happen here in the USA. Is going on in other parts of the world, whether we hear about it or not!!

1point

kumoricat 1 year ago

the book was heartbreaking I cried for an hour

1point

TrippyBanana 1 year ago

This movie messed me up! I was not expecting the ending to be what it was. It was a beautiful movie either way, but it took me a moment to realize what we were witnessing.

1point

Juniper 1 year ago

It is a really good book and film, but remember that it isn't historically accurate at all! I recommend reading this article to know why the inaccuracies are harmful. https://hcn.org.uk/blog/the-problem-with-the-boy-in-the-striped-pyjamas/

1point

Ruby White 1 year ago

THAT FILM IS THE SADDEST FILM EVER

0points

Curry on... 1 year ago

That one was heartbreaking.

0points

Melissa Powell 1 year ago

Visited Bergen Belsen. It was so depressing. My husband asked do you want to see the ovens. I said no. We left. Stationed in Germany. He was a fighter pilot.such a beautiful country and they created ugliness that no one can forget.

0points

Fool of a Took 1 year ago

I absolutely had no idea what I was getting into with this movie and it tore my heart out. I watched it at home with my best friend and we just sat in complete silence with tears running down our faces for a good long while after the movie ended. It was so well made and beautifully cast. I don't think I'll ever watch it again though.

0points

Betsy Ray 1 year ago

If I were to get a tattoo, this is what I would do. https://www.dw.com/en/passing-on-holocaust-tattoos/a-16397305

0points

Ogidi Girl 1 year ago

So heartbreaking

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Sharon Vaughn 1 year ago

Anything about the holocaust is disturbing, which is why some people don't want it taught in public schools.

0points

Betsy Ray 1 year ago

Some people, like Mel Gibson and his father, declare the Holocaust never happened. Those people don't want it taught in schools.

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Timbob 1 year ago

I thought that was The Woman in the Striped Top.

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“The Whole Theater Emptied Without A Word”: 50 Powerful Films That Left Viewers In Shock The Pianist, a movie from 2002 about a Jewish pianist during WWII.

Loved this movie with a masochistic passion, because it hurt just as much every time I watched it. But Adrien Brody's acting in it was phenomenal.

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“The Whole Theater Emptied Without A Word”: 50 Powerful Films That Left Viewers In Shock Coco broke my heart, when Miguel sings Recuérdame to Coco that set me off, and when her picture was on the Ofrenda the next year and Hector could finally be with his family I just lost it. Such a beautiful film, I watched it for the first time not long after I lost my grandmother :(

Talk about UGLY-CRYING. Can't make it through that scene without sobbing.

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Final score:

182points

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#10

Dead Poets Society.

I was just shocked how much it touched me.

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“The Whole Theater Emptied Without A Word”: 50 Powerful Films That Left Viewers In Shock Marly and me. Didn't say anything for a good while after that.

I wish I could say I was silent. But I was like 7 when I went to see it, and my mom tells me I left the movie theater fucking sobbing uncontrollably, to the point where strangers stopped us to ask if I was okay. LMAO.

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“The Whole Theater Emptied Without A Word”: 50 Powerful Films That Left Viewers In Shock Grave of the fireflies.

This! I got a Studio Ghibli set for my birthday from my husband. We started a movie marathon, watching all the movies from the set. We stopped after this one because both of us were bawling. We both just kinda sat there trying to pull ourselves back together.

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“The Whole Theater Emptied Without A Word”: 50 Powerful Films That Left Viewers In Shock Requiem For A Dream

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#14

“The Whole Theater Emptied Without A Word”: 50 Powerful Films That Left Viewers In Shock Jojo Rabbit

Holy cow, did that one deliver a gut punch. Such a good film. The silence in the theater, when that one was over, was nothing I'd experienced before.

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Final score:

146points

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#15

“The Whole Theater Emptied Without A Word”: 50 Powerful Films That Left Viewers In Shock Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind.

Oh man. I watched this in the theater with my partner at the time. Looking back, our relationship was in its death throes, and that was a reaaal uncomfortable watch. We had a 30-minute drive home from the theater, and I’m not sure we said a word the entire drive.

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Final score:

138points

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#16

Clockwork Orange, watched it at 15 years old. Word of advice: don't do that. I was shook.

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#17

American history X

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#18

First time I ever watched Shutter Island. Leo got me good. Real good.

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#19

“The Whole Theater Emptied Without A Word”: 50 Powerful Films That Left Viewers In Shock Parasite.

Parasite made me silent after the movie ended, silent with no radio playing on the drive home, silent when I went to bed, and silent when I woke up. That’s not hyperbole.

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123points

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#20

It's not a movie, but the last episode of The Good Place.

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#21

The Mist. The whole theatre slumped out in silence. What a gut punch

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#22

“The Whole Theater Emptied Without A Word”: 50 Powerful Films That Left Viewers In Shock Children of men.

I had no idea what to expect from the movie and was only looking for something to fill the time while out of town on a business trip. I saw a movie theater within walking distance from my hotel and went there. I was stunned. I recommended the movie to anyone who was willing to hear me talk about it.

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111points

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#23

We Need to Talk About Kevin.

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109points

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#24

“The Whole Theater Emptied Without A Word”: 50 Powerful Films That Left Viewers In Shock City of God.

This also broke my heart and just did a number on me well after the film ended. It was one of those movies I was glad to have seen but wished I hadn’t. My son was very little at the time, and I just cried and held him for a very long time after I turned the TV off.

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108points

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#25

Full Metal Jacket when I saw it in the theater in 1987

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#26

The Prestige.

I thought it was pretty amazing that the movie blatantly reveals what’s happening but it’s not till the very last *second* you understand the scope of what Robert was doing.

That alone left me saying “…holy s**t”

Then I learned that the entire movie was intentionally setup with the three step structure of a magic trick and I said “Hooooooly s**t!”

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#27

“The Whole Theater Emptied Without A Word”: 50 Powerful Films That Left Viewers In Shock *No Country for Old Men* (2007)

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104points

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#28

Everything Everywhere, All At Once.

This movie had me crying and laughing at the same time (not even crying from laughing too hard, but actually crying) — so good.

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Final score:

102points

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#29

Not a movie but The Haunting of Hill House. After every episode I sat in silence for a bit to take it all in.

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Final score:

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#30

Inception. I’m still impressed how good and tricky it was.

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Final score:

97points

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#31

“The Whole Theater Emptied Without A Word”: 50 Powerful Films That Left Viewers In Shock Midsommar. Saw it in theaters and I had to take a shower when I got home. Now it’s one of my favorite films though!

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#32

“The Whole Theater Emptied Without A Word”: 50 Powerful Films That Left Viewers In Shock Oldboy (the original from Park Chan Wook, not the remake).

This was the first movie I've watched where the twist came out of nowhere. I was enjoying the fight scenes and I'm thinking, Yeaaah, kick some ass and get your revenge.

Then the plot twist happened and my jaw dropped.

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Final score:

95points

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#33

Memento

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#34

Promising Young Woman. I was so filled with rage and despair and realized I really needed to talk to someone about the film but at the same time couldn’t recommend it to just anyone to watch it.

I watched the entire movie while on an airplane and I didn’t have headphones, so I could only read the subtitles. Even with subtitles, I was absolutely drawn in.

I had to rewatch it (with sound!) when I got back home.

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Final score:

90points

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“The Whole Theater Emptied Without A Word”: 50 Powerful Films That Left Viewers In Shock Infinity War. I'd avoided all spoilers and the snap had everyone just silent.

Yeah, the audience was in shock. It reminded me of watching The Empire Strikes Back as a kid. Someone said as the credits rolled something like, 'Did…did the good guys just..LOSE?' It was unexpected, since Star Wars was such a triumphant ending. I remember we all liked Empire but were shocked at what happened.

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Final score:

89points

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#36

Disney's Soul. Put me through a good ol existential crisis.

Criminally underrated movie.

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Final score:

87points

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#37

Arrival

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#38

Not a movie, but Game of thrones season 3 episode 9. The Red Wedding...

The lack of music during the credits was just right

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Final score:

84points

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#39

12 Years A Slave

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Final score:

83points

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#40

Once Were Warriors.

I sat staring at the screen for ages. WTF? I had to watch it again immediately because I was very confused as to whether I enjoyed it or not. It was just as moving the second time.

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Final score:

81points

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#41

The Menu.

That movie was wild.

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Final score:

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#42

“The Whole Theater Emptied Without A Word”: 50 Powerful Films That Left Viewers In Shock wasnt at the end but that scene in hereditary... i had to pause it on my tv and stare at the wall for a bit

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78points

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“The Whole Theater Emptied Without A Word”: 50 Powerful Films That Left Viewers In Shock The original *Saw*.

Those last few minutes were wild.

I watched it by myself when it came out; I was 14. Few endings have made me feel as upset and fucking EMPTY as that one.

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Final score:

78points

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#44

Amadeus

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74points

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#45

Interstellar in IMAX, opening day. Drove all the way home in broad daylight in complete silence

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#46

All quiet on the western front

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#47

Mulholland Drive. I was like “what the hell did I just watch?… total mindfuck of a movie.

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Final score:

64points

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#48

Blair Witch Project. I was young at the time and believed all the marketing hype that it was “found footage”. My friend and I just sat there in silence afterwards…

Later I learned it wasn’t a documentary…

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Final score:

62points

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Dancer in the Dark. It was Bjork’s only movie and the end scenes are haunting. The whole theater sat in stunned silence. It took over an hour for me to fully snap out of it.

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Final score:

59points

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#50

Der Untergang (Downfall)

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#51

Black Swan

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30points

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#52

BlacKkKlansman - Good movie, but after it ended Spike Lee takes real footage and swings one final time for the gut.

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23points

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#53

Pursuit of happiness.

This!!! I can never watch it again. HEAVY.

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22points

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#54

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, went into it blind and it was quite something.

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#55

Her

Just because it took me a second to move beyond Theodore's sadness and understand what exactly happened by the end.

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Final score:

21points

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#56

Logan. When the screen faded to black and you saw Logan. The whole theater was quiet except for a few people sobbing.

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#57

Sausage Party.

Whole theatre was quiet after that s**t show.

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#58

Banshees of inisheerin

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#59

Spotlight took a bit of time to digest. Great movie though

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Moonlight. It was one of the single most original and unexpected movies I watched in a long time. I watched it knowing nothing about it (had never even heard of it until a few weeks before).

Yes, it was the last movie to really hit me like that emotionally.

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Under The Skin - little known movie with Scarlett Johansson in it. The director used common people to act in the movie that they met while filming in Scotland(?), not just actors.

Won't spoil it and suggest watching without reading a synopsis. It was something else...

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#62

Come and See

Truly a nightmare

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#63

Martyrs (French movie), i was silent and depressed for far more than 10 minutes.

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#64

Ex Machina. God I love that movie.

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#65

Not a movie…but the Sopranos finale. I went through all kinds of emotions that day.

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Not a movie but a series . Ending scene of “Mind hunter season 1 “ . I have seen every kind of horror movies , i have seen things but that damn last scene send me into full panic attack .

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#67

Prisoners.

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#68

The Whale

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#69

Well, a show. Season 6, Episode 7 of Better Call Saul. Good lord.

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Panda-sized Potato 1 year ago

Watership Down. Saw it when I was younger. Mistake.

33points

Elita One 1 year ago

That movie traumatised me as a kid, still can't watch it.

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Moosy Girl 1 year ago

We watched it on TV every Easter when I was little… and then mom would make rabbit for dinner… and then they act surprised when you become a vegetarian. :p

3points

Lilsomms 1 year ago

Plague Dogs (another animated adaptation of Richards Adams' lesser known work) is so much more gut wrenching. The book ends on a high note, but the movie is so vague and they play a goddamn sad as hell folk song. Just leaves you sobbing like a baby.

1point

Greta Kolding 1 year ago

It's shown on TV for children because it's a cartoon with bunnies. Yeah, right!

1point

Willow Scammell 1 year ago

I literally just came here to comment this. I didn't watch it until grade 12 for an assignment and it messed me up badly 🥲

1point

Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago

That and the animals of farthing wood scarred me. :(

1point

HARRY KOPPERS 1 year ago

NOT for preteens

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TotallyNOTaFox 1 year ago (edited)

"I am Legend" would be mine because Sam dies. Millions of people bit the dust - no problem, but killing the dog was too much for the audience

25points

talliloo 1 year ago

with you on this. i don't care who dies in the film as long as the dog lives.

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Trish Christoffersen 1 year ago

Agreed! When the dog started to get sick...I left the theatre.

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Bex 1 year ago

There is another ending. Try to find that version and rewatch

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Tarryn Ball 1 year ago

Think I cried myself void of tears for 10 years after that. Then my own dog died.

0points

Alexandra Hughes 1 year ago

The Deer Hunter. Saw it when it first came out. We all got in the car and just sat there. And then I cried all the way home.

18points

ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago

I was too young to understand it when I saw it as a young child, but it floored me as a teen.

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Phred 1 year ago

Nobody's mentioned Pan's Labyrinth? I left the theater feeling like I had been run over by a bus. The box office had a sign warning people that it was rated R for extreme violence--some parents had been bringing their children thinking it was a charming fantasy.

17points

Silre 1 year ago

First time I watched it, I was okay. Second time? Blubbering mess.

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Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago

Amazing, beautiful, disturbing, and heartbreaking. Great movie 💙

3points

Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago (edited)

It's a beautiful film, but also... yikes. And the pale man still freaks me out

2points

norabest321 1 year ago

The end...when she sees her father with her mother and she and they are each others royalty....tears even now.

1point

Jacky Newman 1 year ago

What dreams may come. I cried so much while watching it as a teen. Sad, but wholesome Movie in the end.

13points

MakeupMama68 1 year ago

Same!!!

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Amy Broderick 1 year ago

One of my favorite movies and I never fail to ugly sob most of the way through

2points

Selena McGowan 1 year ago

This is mine as well. A friend lent me the DVD and said I needed to watch it. So I popped it in one night, with no context. OMG I was shook. It still remains one of the most powerful moments in my life.

2points

Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago

YES. This was the first one I thought of. Sooo saaadd >_< I ugly cried through the entire movie the last time I watched it. And the ending was so beautiful.

2points

Erin King 1 year ago

Hotel Rwanda. I watched it in school and my teacher looked at me like 👀

12points

Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 1 year ago

That one tore into me when I watched it.

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VonBlade 1 year ago

About Time. Sat quietly for ten minutes. Rang my Dad.

10points

Goose of the Ahonkalypse 1 year ago

I love that movie. Loved Bill Nighy's character. Especially since at the time everything I'd seen him in prior he was either playing a jerk or like some kind of vampire overlord type. Everything in the movie goes against tropes and there's so much warmth in the story and relationships.

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Auntriarch 1 year ago

Thank you all for the heads up on films that I need to never watch

10points

Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago

most of these are more sad than disturbing, and are still well worth the watch, but again, completely understandable for someone to decide not to watch them xP

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Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago

surprised "My Girl" isn't on the list. That movie tackled some insanely heavy stuff for a childrens movie to tackle. The scene with the glasses still makes me cry thinking about it.

9points

Panda-sized Potato 1 year ago

I had forgotten about that one. Thanks for returning my feelings for the movie. I didn't need them.

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Lousha 1 year ago

Brokeback Mountain. Had the pause it halfway through to go outside and get some air. The despair was suffocating me.

9points

Melissa Powell 1 year ago

That is the only movie in this that I saw. So sad. I have not been in a movie theater in 20 years.

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Bart 1 year ago

Hotel Rwanda didn't make it but should have...

8points

Masha Zlotkina 1 year ago

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Hands down. Watched with a friend at the cinema. Lived every bloody second with them. Still think it's been the strongest film in my lifetime.

8points

Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago

Love this one. So powerful, emotional, and thought provoking; and it put Frances McDormand on my top favorites list.

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Laughing otter 1 year ago

Das Boot has such an unexpected and shocking ending that I was stunned. I actually couldn't move after the movie was over.

8points

HARRY KOPPERS 1 year ago

It was raw. Also kinda depressing. The valor shown was simple and hard. Loved the subtitled version. Can you say, Stupid war for stupid things?

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Shannon Mallory 1 year ago

Tusk. It's a Kevin Smith movie, so the whole way through we kept waiting for the ironic humor, but joke was on us, because this movie just keeps getting stranger and more disturbing until at the end you're silent and weeping

8points

Cat Chat 1 year ago

That one tear coming out of his eye.

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SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago

City of Angels. Had me low key depressed for two weeks afterwards. About Time has haunted me for a few years now.

8points

Cat Chat 1 year ago

Passion of the Christ. Watched it in the theater when suddenly the emergency lights start flashing but nobody stopped the movie, so nobody got up and left. Just stood up, minute pause, get to the aisle, minute pause, ssllooowly take a few steps, minute pause.... The lights stopped after 10 minutes and it ended up being a fake bomb scare. The part in the movie was really intense and with only about 15 people, with the emergency exit door that opened to outside (so if signs of fire were visible we could get out in time), no actual signs of a fire, and nobody who worked there coming to ensure an empty room, it was like nope, I will die before I miss the end (figuratively and literally). I popped my head out another door to ask an employee what was happening. He said it was looking like a prank. I stayed and watched from there, ready to leave if need be. That door was out of sight from the seats, so as far as everyone else knew, it was an emergency, but still didn't move. It was surreal.

7points

Selena McGowan 1 year ago

I watched this one without the emergency. The entire theater sat in silence for about 10 minutes after it ended.

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Amo Mazzuchelli 1 year ago

Rabbit Proof Fence - directed by Phillip Noyce. Adapted from the book Follow the Rabbit a proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara. True story my mum and me cried from about 5 minutes in till the end.

7points

Lyone Fein 1 year ago

Incredible film

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Hotrodmom 1 year ago

The Killing Field...So much silence leaving the theater...

7points

Sergio Bicerra 1 year ago

I read the actor was a prisoner of war himself, he was a dentist and had some resemblance to de real Dirh Pran, they met at a ceremony and huged and Dirh said to him 'I am you, and you are me' The actor Haing Gnor was later killed in a robbery. Really sad story for both of them.

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Maren Gärtner 1 year ago

Melancholia. It is getting more and more disturbing.

7points

tuzdayschild 1 year ago

One and done for both of these. The Color Purple. Far too much pain to get to the bittersweet ending. Most of all, Pan’s Labyrinth. I don’t even have words to describe how sad, angry, or disgusted I was at the end of this movie.

6points

Melissa Peck 1 year ago

Million Dollar Baby. When it was over there was total silence, could hear a pin drop and remained that way as we all went to our cars. My friend and I barely spoke on the way home.

6points

Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago (edited)

Yep, the whole time I was hoping some miracle would happen and she would somehow get better....nope. :

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David Paterson 1 year ago

Thank you for the list of movies never to watch. I solumnly swear never to watch any of these movies.

6points

Ample Aardvark 1 year ago

I think you need to watch at least some of them. I watched most in this list and apart from one or two it didn't stir any strong and/or lasting feelings. The ones based in real facts make me think a bit more but very very rarely I'm shocked speechless. Some are really good movies well worth a watch

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Spellflinger 1 year ago

The Crying Game.

5points

missbutterflyjh89 1 year ago

One flew over the cuckoo's nest and changeling

5points

Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 1 year ago

I didn't watch the movie, but the book was so disturbing. Especially because I'm mentally ill.

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Frances Pitchounetta 1 year ago

Never Cry Wolf. The true story of a biologist who is asked to investigate wolves in the Far North, because they are believed to be the reason for the extinction of caribou. Then he discovers the truth...

5points

Blarrg 1 year ago

Ordinary People. 6 Oscar nominations with 4 wins (1981) including Best Picture. Powerful movie.

4points

Kalon Suszko 1 year ago (edited)

One Flew Over The Cookoo's Nest. Chief at the end. Chokes me up every time. Jacob's Ladder Saw that in the theater with 3 friends and that was a silent drive home as everyone was trying to grasp the ending. After a second watch of the movie you get it though. Vanishing Point (1971) Ending leaves everyone speechless.

4points

ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago (edited)

La Jetée (the short film 12 Monkeys was based on) & Sans Soleil, for a Chris Marker double feature. Part of my Creative Studies degree was Film Theory, so I was being exposed to many benchmark, esoteric, auteur films. After sitting through both of these, I think wandered around silently & aimlessly for the weekend, trapped in my head. They definitely had a lasting affect on me.

4points

Q B F T 1 year ago

San Soleil also by Chris Marker knocked the audience I was with for six - particularly the footage of the giraffe being killed.

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Frances Pitchounetta 1 year ago

This movie inspired Twelve Monkeys

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Laughing otter 1 year ago

I first saw La Jetée when I was about 10 years old. I can still see the images in my head.

0points

Annik Perrot 1 year ago

"Des Hommes et des Dieux" ( Men and Gods) a French film about monks that were abducted and killed by muslim fanatics in Algeria. The whole audience remained seated and silent throughout the end credits. Also "Un long dimanche de fiançailles", I think the English title is "A very long engagement, in which à disabled girl, played by Audrey Tautou ( Amelie) refuses to believe her fiancé died in WW1 and starts à long, obstinate investigation to find out what happened, just before the armistice, in the trench where he had been sent. There, too, people remained silent till the screen went dark.

4points

XenoMurph 1 year ago

Movies have been dominated by marvel for over a decade. There was one instance in this whole list. Let's hope better movies can get some support and focus now that the juggernaut has slowed its blanket domination

4points

Rostit . 1 year ago

im looking forward to movie's with substance again.

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BoredMomster 1 year ago

Shoah. Saw it at the Ogden Theater in Denver over two nights. It's something like 8 hours of interviews. The theater emptied silent, both nights.

4points

ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago

I watched this entire film on a trunk load of VHS tapes. More horrific than Schindler’s List, imo

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Caroline Nagel 1 year ago

Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer definitely had some scenes that haunt me to this day. Saw it just once and that was more than enough. Around the same time Henry came out C'est arrivé près de chez vous (Man Bites Dog) was released. Also about a serial killer. Starts out funny and ends in a nightmare. I can recommend.

4points

MakeupMama68 1 year ago

I worked with the actor (Michael Rooker) who played Henry after and told him how much it disturbed me. He said he had a hard time after those scenes too.

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HARRY KOPPERS 1 year ago

Who can forget Life of Brian? Perfect comedic storm. Laughed so hard that I was literally slipping out of the theater seat (I'm that old.)

3points

DBear 1 year ago (edited)

Not in a theater but on tv. Von Ryan's Express. Colonel Ryan was brilliantly played by Frank Sinatra. The ending took me completely by surprise. Then I found out that was the ending Frank had insisted on and I was stunned again. For anyone who has never seen the movie I highly recommend it.

3points

Martine 1 year ago

The piano. (Probably because I play piano myself ...)

3points

CrunChewy McSandybutt 1 year ago

"The Lobster." I watched it before bed and then lay there for a couple of hours thinking about that strange film.

3points

Mariele Scherzinger 1 year ago (edited)

Lilya 4--Ever. Sophie Scholl - The Final Days. Nocturnal Animals. Platoon. Smoke Signals. Black 47.

3points

Laughing otter 1 year ago

The scene in Platoon in which the Lt. is running for the helicopter reduced me to sobs. Using Barber's Serenade for Strings as part of the soundtrack in that section just made it more heartbreaking.

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Panda-sized Potato 1 year ago

I haven't see Sophie Scholl - The Final Days, but I did see Die Weiß Rose (The White Rose). It's what Sophie Scholl - The Final Days was remade from. The actress, Lena Stolze, also did another movie as Sophie Scholl called Fünf letzte Tage (Five Last Days). Both movies came out in the same year.

2points

Theoretical Empiricist 1 year ago

At the end of Platoon, I was surprised I was still breathing.

1point

Nadine Debard 1 year ago

Martin Scorsese 's Silence, with Liam Neeson and Adam Driver. Left me speechless.

3points

Ian Webling 1 year ago

I'm amazed no one mentioned Shine. I was in a bad way mentally when I saw it. I didn't speak for two days.

3points

GFSTaylor 1 year ago

I saw the original Dutch version of 'The Vanishing' at a fairly full cinema. When it got to the end, you could feel a chill of horror washing through the auditorium as we took in what had happened. (The Hollywood remake chickened out of the original ending)

2points

Cecilia 7603 1 year ago

The Lovely Bones would be my pick, it devastates me every time.

2points

Trish 1 year ago

Buried. The phone calls he was making put me into a whirlwind of emotions.

2points

Skye Ragsdale 1 year ago

I made the mistake of getting hella baked with my friend before we went to see that 😅

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Nizumi 1 year ago

The Stoning of Soraya M. I did NOT want to watch that scene. And even though I knew it was "just" a film, it was based on actual events. So I forced myself to watch it, as witness to the constant crimes against women in the name of so-called religion.

2points

InfamousBerry34 1 year ago

Bridge to Teribithia. Watched it as a kid, I was fine. Watched it years later, I don't cry because of movies, but I cried at the end.

2points

Jonathan Labelle 1 year ago

Encanto when we discover what happer to abuela

2points

LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago

That entire scene was heartbreaking especially with the song “Dos Oruguitas” playing in the background. The film was totally about generational trauma and breaking the cycle of the pressure caused by it.

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Tarryn Ball 1 year ago

May top 5 fav movies on order, RUSH (Niki Lauder, James Hunt) Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile, Men of Honour, Fried Green Tomatoes.

2points

the_harbinger_of_doom s/t/h 1 year ago

Homeward bound really messed me up, havent seen it again

2points

Lyric 1 year ago

There is an anime called belle, it’s slightly based off of beauty and the beast, I was sobbing by the end. I also listen to just the music a lot still and I saw it months ago

2points

Panda-sized Potato 1 year ago

I love Belle. And it is amazing they found an English voice actor for Suzu who sings very similar to the Japanese VA.

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JonandLynn Venable 1 year ago

Field of Dreams. I remember the adults leaving crying. For anyone who has lost a parent…

2points

Philly Bobcat 1 year ago

Hair, The Rose and Steel Magnolias all got to me at the end.

1point

Quinn McKinlay 1 year ago

One I didn't see mentioned was "bridge to terabithia". Great book and good movie. Even though I knew what was gonna happen the movie blew my thoughts out of the water and still was devastated.

1point

Keks 1 year ago

Plague Dogs. It's just depressing.

1point

Marc 1 year ago

Where were Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and The Usual Suspects?

1point

norabest321 1 year ago

The Whale. The whole theater was crying and no one spoke or wanted to make eye contact.

1point

Lara Verne 1 year ago

Not a movie, but K-drama, Beyond Evil. Its detective thriller drama.

1point

Ivona 1 year ago

I've seen many wonderful, touching movies, none of them are mentioned here. What I still remember is that everyone in the salon laughed when Thelma and Louise floored their car and flew into the abyss. People here (the U.S.) tend to laugh at movie scenes which aren't funny.

1point

PazDores 1 year ago

Recently watched one: "Sound of Freedom." It follows a man helping free kids from child trafficking. Hard to watch and was super quiet afterwards. Everyone I saw in the theater was crying.

1point

PazDores 1 year ago

It's still in theaters and people have been getting refunds from the theaters bc theaters don't want it to be #1 in the box office. Check it out.

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A perfect Nightmare 1 year ago

Brokeback Mountain. That movie broke me. After it finished I cried for at least 25 minutes and felt like I was never going to be happy again

1point

Bex 1 year ago

Brokeback Mountain. Saw it in the theater, and sobbed uncontrollably for the entire hour ride home on the subway. I bought it the day it came out on DVD because I wanted to support it, but I've never opened it or watched it again. It's probably one of the top 3 best movies I've ever seen in my life, but it completely destroyed me.

1point

Willow Scammell 1 year ago

Watership Down & Shawshank Redemption for me. Didn't watch either until my teens but they had me bawling/in shock at times.

1point

KLo 1 year ago

The Curious story of Benjamin Button

1point

Sara Wilson 1 year ago

Predestination with Ethan Hawke! Easily one of my favorite movies and a TOTAL mind f*ck

1point

Otis B Driftwood 1 year ago

I bought the movie Men without seeing it first. I was confused when I watched it. Then I looked up an explanation and it made a lot of sense.

1point

The Doom Song 1 year ago

"The power of one" excellent book and excellent movie. I thought about both for ages afterwards

1point

Rose the Cook 1 year ago

Great book buy damn awful film.

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Anni 1 year ago

The Father. Brilliantly done but boy did I bawl in the theatre. Almost got to loud sobs.

1point

Heather W 1 year ago

A Time to Kill was that way for me. Glad I watched it once, but will never be able to watch it again.

1point

Trish Christoffersen 1 year ago

Wow - I've only seen 2 of these movies. LOL! I cry way too easily, so I don't dare watch some of these. They stay in my head and haunt me for years. One I did watch, which I knew the ending to, but still affects me to this day...The Passion of the Christ.

0points

Amy Broderick 1 year ago

For me it would be The Crow. Saw it in the theater when it first came out and it just broke me for a while.

0points

B Jones 1 year ago

Sanctum. I bought it partly because I have a 3d TV. Didn't really know what to expect but definitely played on some deep dark fears.

0points

Shannon Mallory 1 year ago

The marble game episode of Squid Game. Tears for the old man (and i want them back, he didn't deserve them!) and for the 2 girls, who deserved them and more.

0points

Cathy Roberts 1 year ago

Apocalypse Now - as the child of a Vietnam vet who saw contact and was still very messed up when I was little....I couldn't make it past the opening scene. The other I don't see here is the dead baby scene in Trainspotting. Ugh.

0points

Cassandra Redmond 1 year ago

Sound of Freedom. Just came out on 7/4

0points

Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 1 year ago

Decent list! Good job! I'd add Silence of the Lambs.

0points

Amanda Beveridge 1 year ago

Bastard Out of Carolina. This movie broke me.

0points

Nattie Rice 1 year ago

"Dance With the White Dog" the idea of loving someone that much, loving them enough that even God will send you back to wait for them, and protect them until they join you is enough to leave anyone ugly crying.

0points

COCO puff 1 year ago

90% American movies and still a lot of movies are greater than the list.

0points

Donkey boi 1 year ago

'Shooting dogs' & 'Hotel Rwanda' are 2 films covering the same subject that left my wife in pieces. Even I was a little taken aback. Up until those films I didn't know really know anything about the genocide, it really opened my eyes (and filled the wife's eyes). Such impactful films.

0points

FunOldGuy 1 year ago

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Grouchy Bear 1 year ago

Watched The Day After in my 9th grade science class. We all left class in complete stunned silence.

0points

AngelWingsYT 1 year ago

1. Puss in Boot 2. When he has that panic attack the whole theater went DEAD silent. 2. Infinity War whole theater shreaked "NO" When Spiderman died. 3. The utter roar oh cheers in both spider man 3 when all 3 spidermen came on screen and end of End Game when the portals opened.

0points

MasterJoseph 1 year ago

Not a movie, but the official music video for Tally Hall's Hidden in the Sand.

0points

Spring Ortis 1 year ago

The Japanese version of The Dog Of Flanders. Got a VHS and a soundtrack CD from a Goodwill. Listened to the soundtrack on a school trip. Absolutely stunning music and all of it is perfect for an 8 hour bus ride. Got home and watched the movie. I can no longer listen to the final track without fighting tears.

0points

Greta Kolding 1 year ago

Not without my daughter. Left me speechless.

0points

Greta Kolding 1 year ago

Sophie's Choice. Saw the movie and read the book. Hated Germans for years after that.

0points

Lisa H 1 year ago

Irreversible and All Over Me. Both VERY powerful and intense movies in their own ways, especially Irreversible

0points

Carla Olavarría 1 year ago

The Dyatlov Pass Incident

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LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago

I’m going to add Guillermo Del Toro’s “El Labertino del Fauno” (Pan’s Labyrinth). I think so many people went in expecting a darker yet fun fantasy movie a’la Tim Burton and we’re caught off guard when they were met with a disturbing, haunting, and just plain sad allegory for the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. The Pale Man still has to be one of the creepiest horror movie characters. I’ll also add another Guillermo Del Toro movie—let’s not forget about that very….ummm…how do I put it…”just plain wrong” twist in Crimson Peak.

0points

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

Annihilation. F*****g disturbing. That bear thing. I cannot watch it again.

0points

Rick 1 year ago

Didn't see The Exorcist on the list. Thought about that movie for days after I saw it.

0points

Griffy 1 year ago

Das Boot. Saw the end and went "wow". The actors literally lived in something like the sub during the making of the movie, so when you see them at the end, it's not all makeup.

0points

Lyone Fein 1 year ago

One Day In September. A documentary about the 1972 summer Olympics in Munich when Palestinian terrorists kidnapped and murdered part of the Israeli Olympic athletic team. It is a chilling film, and remarkable that this episode in history is largely forgotten.

0points

Juliana Blewett 1 year ago

Amistad is breathtaking.

0points

Ken Beattie 1 year ago

I'll add a couple, as a kid Blade Runner was a stunner. Went with my parents and expected a kinda sci-fi romp like Star Wars. The ending where the villain accepts the inevitability of death and understands the value of life and saves the hero was pretty mindblowing at the time. I also saw Basic Instinct in the theatre on a date. I for one just thought it was going to be a kinda action, police thriller. The icepick scene though... jesus. That really killed the whole date vibe.

0points

JustinTime 1 year ago

Sicario

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Der Kommissar 1 year ago

Paris By Night (Une Nuit) (France, 2012). Now THAT was shocking.

0points

DaBoizMaccasRun 1 year ago

Wonder, show's what the world is really like for people. Cried my eyes out

0points

K- THULU 1 year ago

Japanese art house film " Tetsuo: iron man" by Shinya Tsukamoto.... The ultimate WTF? movie.... Starts weird and just escalates into total insanity by the end..... And the sequel "Tetsuo: Body hammer" starts insane and ends insane x100.... Weirdest sh!t I have ever seen....

0points

Quantum Zyzyx 1 year ago

Under the Skin.

0points

Beff Jezos 1 year ago

I have tons of movies that traumatized me such as Piggy, Martyr, Skins, (and this isn’t a movie but it shook me up)Salad fingers

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MakeupMama68 1 year ago

This one is random but the Larry Clark film “Ken Park” was one of those films you just feel like you need to take a shower after. What an absolutely disturbing movie. I don’t shock easily and this one made me ill.

0points

Q B F T 1 year ago

A screening of Punishment Park just after the Iraq war started left the audience in palpable silence filing out the auditorium

0points

cerinamroth 1 year ago

Son of Saul

0points

marianne eliza 1 year ago

Easy Rider and Paradise Road.

0points

jasper 1 year ago

For me, a highly underrated movie called "A Love Song for Bobby Long." John Travolta, Scarlett Jo, Gabriel Macht. Heartbreaking and lovely. Amazing performance by Travolta.

0points

Mrs. Dearly Regret 1 year ago

Beyond the horizon - it shattered my world

0points

kansasmagic 1 year ago

The Fellowship of the Ring, after Gandalf dies. Packed theater, total silence.

0points

talliloo 1 year ago

"Night Mother" with anne bancroft and sissy spacek. it is an emotional rollercoaster throughout the movie and by the end you think things may be okay. then it takes you to this pinnacle of hope and drops you.

0points

Vermonta 1 year ago

Flipping channels and I watched Women Talking. I would never watch it on purpose but I was glued to my seat. If it was a book I would call it a page turner

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C K Sharpe 1 year ago

It is a book! Good one, too.

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~MushroomFrog~ 1 year ago

Hunger games for me. When rue dieeeeeess

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ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 1 year ago

The Hunger Games for me, before I even watched it, when people went apesh*t over the black characters being played by actual black actors. Devastating.

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Michelle W 1 year ago

I'm so surprised no one said Uncut Gems. I was shook to my core.

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kansasmagic 1 year ago

Didn't see that one, but Good Time is stunning, visceral and heartbreaking.

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Arrow 1 year ago

All The Bright Places. The first time I watched it I absolutely bawled my eyes out. Now I've got the book because the film was so hauntingly sad and sorrowful, but equally beautiful and hopeful in some way.

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Rostit . 1 year ago

Serbian film, drugstore cowboys, and Stalker

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ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 1 year ago

How did you watch a Serbian Flim? I was scarred just by reading a paragraph about it.

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Ebony 1 year ago

The last 10 minutes of Blackkansman. The entire theater was silent. The amount of hate that people have towards others because of the color of their skin is still mind blowing.

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Monsen 1 year ago

My sister's keeper

0points

Must Be Bored Again 1 year ago

Ode to Billy Joe.

0points

ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago (edited)

Billy Joe McAlester jumped off the Tallahassee Bridge. Saw it at the drive-in as a wee little gaylet & it was my first (ominous; horrifying) self-awareness of my sexual identity. I related so much with him and bawled my eyes out. My mother says she knew before then, but seeing this at age 5 confirmed it for her.

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Agfox 1 year ago

The original Austrian film "Ich seh, Ich seh" but released in English as Goodnight Mummy/Mommy. Very unexpected twist in the ending

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Sooploosh MacSchnibble 1 year ago

Howl From Beyond the Fog. Great film. Loved Nebula.

0points

Lucie Van Pelt 1 year ago

Coming Home

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Steve 1 year ago

Cats - A woman sitting next to me gouged her own eyes out with her fingers while her date set his ears on fire with a lighter. At the same time an older Asian gentleman in front of me stabbed himself in the carotid with a straw and was spraying blood like a fire hose. This was in the first 30 seconds

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Panda-sized Potato 1 year ago

Watership Down. Saw it when I was younger. Mistake.

33points

Elita One 1 year ago

That movie traumatised me as a kid, still can't watch it.

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Moosy Girl 1 year ago

We watched it on TV every Easter when I was little… and then mom would make rabbit for dinner… and then they act surprised when you become a vegetarian. :p

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Lilsomms 1 year ago

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Greta Kolding 1 year ago

It's shown on TV for children because it's a cartoon with bunnies. Yeah, right!

1point

Willow Scammell 1 year ago

I literally just came here to comment this. I didn't watch it until grade 12 for an assignment and it messed me up badly 🥲

1point

Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago

That and the animals of farthing wood scarred me. :(

1point

HARRY KOPPERS 1 year ago

NOT for preteens

0points

TotallyNOTaFox 1 year ago (edited)

"I am Legend" would be mine because Sam dies. Millions of people bit the dust - no problem, but killing the dog was too much for the audience

25points

talliloo 1 year ago

with you on this. i don't care who dies in the film as long as the dog lives.

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Trish Christoffersen 1 year ago

Agreed! When the dog started to get sick...I left the theatre.

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Bex 1 year ago

There is another ending. Try to find that version and rewatch

0points

Tarryn Ball 1 year ago

Think I cried myself void of tears for 10 years after that. Then my own dog died.

0points

Alexandra Hughes 1 year ago

The Deer Hunter. Saw it when it first came out. We all got in the car and just sat there. And then I cried all the way home.

18points

ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago

I was too young to understand it when I saw it as a young child, but it floored me as a teen.

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Phred 1 year ago

17points

Silre 1 year ago

First time I watched it, I was okay. Second time? Blubbering mess.

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Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago

Amazing, beautiful, disturbing, and heartbreaking. Great movie 💙

3points

Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago (edited)

It's a beautiful film, but also... yikes. And the pale man still freaks me out

2points

norabest321 1 year ago

The end...when she sees her father with her mother and she and they are each others royalty....tears even now.

1point

Jacky Newman 1 year ago

What dreams may come. I cried so much while watching it as a teen. Sad, but wholesome Movie in the end.

13points

MakeupMama68 1 year ago

Same!!!

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Amy Broderick 1 year ago

One of my favorite movies and I never fail to ugly sob most of the way through

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Selena McGowan 1 year ago

2points

Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago

YES. This was the first one I thought of. Sooo saaadd >_< I ugly cried through the entire movie the last time I watched it. And the ending was so beautiful.

2points

Erin King 1 year ago

Hotel Rwanda. I watched it in school and my teacher looked at me like 👀

12points

Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 1 year ago

That one tore into me when I watched it.

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VonBlade 1 year ago

About Time. Sat quietly for ten minutes. Rang my Dad.

10points

Goose of the Ahonkalypse 1 year ago

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Auntriarch 1 year ago

Thank you all for the heads up on films that I need to never watch

10points

Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago

most of these are more sad than disturbing, and are still well worth the watch, but again, completely understandable for someone to decide not to watch them xP

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Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago

surprised "My Girl" isn't on the list. That movie tackled some insanely heavy stuff for a childrens movie to tackle. The scene with the glasses still makes me cry thinking about it.

9points

Panda-sized Potato 1 year ago

I had forgotten about that one. Thanks for returning my feelings for the movie. I didn't need them.

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Lousha 1 year ago

Brokeback Mountain. Had the pause it halfway through to go outside and get some air. The despair was suffocating me.

9points

Melissa Powell 1 year ago

That is the only movie in this that I saw. So sad. I have not been in a movie theater in 20 years.

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Bart 1 year ago

Hotel Rwanda didn't make it but should have...

8points

Masha Zlotkina 1 year ago

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Hands down. Watched with a friend at the cinema. Lived every bloody second with them. Still think it's been the strongest film in my lifetime.

8points

Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago

Love this one. So powerful, emotional, and thought provoking; and it put Frances McDormand on my top favorites list.

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Laughing otter 1 year ago

Das Boot has such an unexpected and shocking ending that I was stunned. I actually couldn't move after the movie was over.

8points

HARRY KOPPERS 1 year ago

It was raw. Also kinda depressing. The valor shown was simple and hard. Loved the subtitled version. Can you say, Stupid war for stupid things?

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Shannon Mallory 1 year ago

8points

Cat Chat 1 year ago

That one tear coming out of his eye.

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SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago

City of Angels. Had me low key depressed for two weeks afterwards. About Time has haunted me for a few years now.

8points

Cat Chat 1 year ago

7points

Selena McGowan 1 year ago

I watched this one without the emergency. The entire theater sat in silence for about 10 minutes after it ended.

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Amo Mazzuchelli 1 year ago

7points

Lyone Fein 1 year ago

Incredible film

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Hotrodmom 1 year ago

The Killing Field...So much silence leaving the theater...

7points

Sergio Bicerra 1 year ago

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Maren Gärtner 1 year ago

Melancholia. It is getting more and more disturbing.

7points

tuzdayschild 1 year ago

6points

Melissa Peck 1 year ago

Million Dollar Baby. When it was over there was total silence, could hear a pin drop and remained that way as we all went to our cars. My friend and I barely spoke on the way home.

6points

Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago (edited)

Yep, the whole time I was hoping some miracle would happen and she would somehow get better....nope. :

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David Paterson 1 year ago

Thank you for the list of movies never to watch. I solumnly swear never to watch any of these movies.

6points

Ample Aardvark 1 year ago

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Spellflinger 1 year ago

The Crying Game.

5points

missbutterflyjh89 1 year ago

One flew over the cuckoo's nest and changeling

5points

Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 1 year ago

I didn't watch the movie, but the book was so disturbing. Especially because I'm mentally ill.

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Frances Pitchounetta 1 year ago

5points

Blarrg 1 year ago

Ordinary People. 6 Oscar nominations with 4 wins (1981) including Best Picture. Powerful movie.

4points

Kalon Suszko 1 year ago (edited)

4points

ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago (edited)

4points

Q B F T 1 year ago

San Soleil also by Chris Marker knocked the audience I was with for six - particularly the footage of the giraffe being killed.

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Frances Pitchounetta 1 year ago

This movie inspired Twelve Monkeys

0points

Laughing otter 1 year ago

I first saw La Jetée when I was about 10 years old. I can still see the images in my head.

0points

Annik Perrot 1 year ago

4points

XenoMurph 1 year ago

4points

Rostit . 1 year ago

im looking forward to movie's with substance again.

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BoredMomster 1 year ago

Shoah. Saw it at the Ogden Theater in Denver over two nights. It's something like 8 hours of interviews. The theater emptied silent, both nights.

4points

ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago

I watched this entire film on a trunk load of VHS tapes. More horrific than Schindler’s List, imo

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Caroline Nagel 1 year ago

4points

MakeupMama68 1 year ago

I worked with the actor (Michael Rooker) who played Henry after and told him how much it disturbed me. He said he had a hard time after those scenes too.

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HARRY KOPPERS 1 year ago

Who can forget Life of Brian? Perfect comedic storm. Laughed so hard that I was literally slipping out of the theater seat (I'm that old.)

3points

DBear 1 year ago (edited)

3points

Martine 1 year ago

The piano. (Probably because I play piano myself ...)

3points

CrunChewy McSandybutt 1 year ago

"The Lobster." I watched it before bed and then lay there for a couple of hours thinking about that strange film.

3points

Mariele Scherzinger 1 year ago (edited)

Lilya 4--Ever. Sophie Scholl - The Final Days. Nocturnal Animals. Platoon. Smoke Signals. Black 47.

3points

Laughing otter 1 year ago

The scene in Platoon in which the Lt. is running for the helicopter reduced me to sobs. Using Barber's Serenade for Strings as part of the soundtrack in that section just made it more heartbreaking.

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Panda-sized Potato 1 year ago

2points

Theoretical Empiricist 1 year ago

At the end of Platoon, I was surprised I was still breathing.

1point

Nadine Debard 1 year ago

Martin Scorsese 's Silence, with Liam Neeson and Adam Driver. Left me speechless.

3points

Ian Webling 1 year ago

I'm amazed no one mentioned Shine. I was in a bad way mentally when I saw it. I didn't speak for two days.

3points

GFSTaylor 1 year ago

2points

Cecilia 7603 1 year ago

The Lovely Bones would be my pick, it devastates me every time.

2points

Trish 1 year ago

Buried. The phone calls he was making put me into a whirlwind of emotions.

2points

Skye Ragsdale 1 year ago

I made the mistake of getting hella baked with my friend before we went to see that 😅

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Nizumi 1 year ago

2points

InfamousBerry34 1 year ago

Bridge to Teribithia. Watched it as a kid, I was fine. Watched it years later, I don't cry because of movies, but I cried at the end.

2points

Jonathan Labelle 1 year ago

Encanto when we discover what happer to abuela

2points

LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago

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Tarryn Ball 1 year ago

May top 5 fav movies on order, RUSH (Niki Lauder, James Hunt) Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile, Men of Honour, Fried Green Tomatoes.

2points

the_harbinger_of_doom s/t/h 1 year ago

Homeward bound really messed me up, havent seen it again

2points

Lyric 1 year ago

There is an anime called belle, it’s slightly based off of beauty and the beast, I was sobbing by the end. I also listen to just the music a lot still and I saw it months ago

2points

Panda-sized Potato 1 year ago

I love Belle. And it is amazing they found an English voice actor for Suzu who sings very similar to the Japanese VA.

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JonandLynn Venable 1 year ago

Field of Dreams. I remember the adults leaving crying. For anyone who has lost a parent…

2points

Philly Bobcat 1 year ago

Hair, The Rose and Steel Magnolias all got to me at the end.

1point

Quinn McKinlay 1 year ago

One I didn't see mentioned was "bridge to terabithia". Great book and good movie. Even though I knew what was gonna happen the movie blew my thoughts out of the water and still was devastated.

1point

Keks 1 year ago

Plague Dogs. It's just depressing.

1point

Marc 1 year ago

Where were Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and The Usual Suspects?

1point

norabest321 1 year ago

The Whale. The whole theater was crying and no one spoke or wanted to make eye contact.

1point

Lara Verne 1 year ago

Not a movie, but K-drama, Beyond Evil. Its detective thriller drama.

1point

Ivona 1 year ago

1point

PazDores 1 year ago

Recently watched one: "Sound of Freedom." It follows a man helping free kids from child trafficking. Hard to watch and was super quiet afterwards. Everyone I saw in the theater was crying.

1point

PazDores 1 year ago

It's still in theaters and people have been getting refunds from the theaters bc theaters don't want it to be #1 in the box office. Check it out.

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A perfect Nightmare 1 year ago

Brokeback Mountain. That movie broke me. After it finished I cried for at least 25 minutes and felt like I was never going to be happy again

1point

Bex 1 year ago

1point

Willow Scammell 1 year ago

Watership Down & Shawshank Redemption for me. Didn't watch either until my teens but they had me bawling/in shock at times.

1point

KLo 1 year ago

The Curious story of Benjamin Button

1point

Sara Wilson 1 year ago

Predestination with Ethan Hawke! Easily one of my favorite movies and a TOTAL mind f*ck

1point

Otis B Driftwood 1 year ago

I bought the movie Men without seeing it first. I was confused when I watched it. Then I looked up an explanation and it made a lot of sense.

1point

The Doom Song 1 year ago

"The power of one" excellent book and excellent movie. I thought about both for ages afterwards

1point

Rose the Cook 1 year ago

Great book buy damn awful film.

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Anni 1 year ago

The Father. Brilliantly done but boy did I bawl in the theatre. Almost got to loud sobs.

1point

Heather W 1 year ago

A Time to Kill was that way for me. Glad I watched it once, but will never be able to watch it again.

1point

Trish Christoffersen 1 year ago

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Amy Broderick 1 year ago

For me it would be The Crow. Saw it in the theater when it first came out and it just broke me for a while.

0points

B Jones 1 year ago

Sanctum. I bought it partly because I have a 3d TV. Didn't really know what to expect but definitely played on some deep dark fears.

0points

Shannon Mallory 1 year ago

The marble game episode of Squid Game. Tears for the old man (and i want them back, he didn't deserve them!) and for the 2 girls, who deserved them and more.

0points

Cathy Roberts 1 year ago

0points

Cassandra Redmond 1 year ago

Sound of Freedom. Just came out on 7/4

0points

Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 1 year ago

Decent list! Good job! I'd add Silence of the Lambs.

0points

Amanda Beveridge 1 year ago

Bastard Out of Carolina. This movie broke me.

0points

Nattie Rice 1 year ago

0points

COCO puff 1 year ago

90% American movies and still a lot of movies are greater than the list.

0points

Donkey boi 1 year ago

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FunOldGuy 1 year ago

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0points

Grouchy Bear 1 year ago

Watched The Day After in my 9th grade science class. We all left class in complete stunned silence.

0points

AngelWingsYT 1 year ago

0points

MasterJoseph 1 year ago

Not a movie, but the official music video for Tally Hall's Hidden in the Sand.

0points

Spring Ortis 1 year ago

0points

Greta Kolding 1 year ago

Not without my daughter. Left me speechless.

0points

Greta Kolding 1 year ago

Sophie's Choice. Saw the movie and read the book. Hated Germans for years after that.

0points

Lisa H 1 year ago

Irreversible and All Over Me. Both VERY powerful and intense movies in their own ways, especially Irreversible

0points

Carla Olavarría 1 year ago

The Dyatlov Pass Incident

0points

LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago

0points

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

Annihilation. F*****g disturbing. That bear thing. I cannot watch it again.

0points

Rick 1 year ago

Didn't see The Exorcist on the list. Thought about that movie for days after I saw it.

0points

Griffy 1 year ago

Das Boot. Saw the end and went "wow". The actors literally lived in something like the sub during the making of the movie, so when you see them at the end, it's not all makeup.

0points

Lyone Fein 1 year ago

0points

Juliana Blewett 1 year ago

Amistad is breathtaking.

0points

Ken Beattie 1 year ago

0points

JustinTime 1 year ago

Sicario

0points

Der Kommissar 1 year ago

Paris By Night (Une Nuit) (France, 2012). Now THAT was shocking.

0points

DaBoizMaccasRun 1 year ago

Wonder, show's what the world is really like for people. Cried my eyes out

0points

K- THULU 1 year ago

0points

Quantum Zyzyx 1 year ago

Under the Skin.

0points

Beff Jezos 1 year ago

I have tons of movies that traumatized me such as Piggy, Martyr, Skins, (and this isn’t a movie but it shook me up)Salad fingers

0points

MakeupMama68 1 year ago

0points

Q B F T 1 year ago

A screening of Punishment Park just after the Iraq war started left the audience in palpable silence filing out the auditorium

0points

cerinamroth 1 year ago

Son of Saul

0points

marianne eliza 1 year ago

Easy Rider and Paradise Road.

0points

jasper 1 year ago

For me, a highly underrated movie called "A Love Song for Bobby Long." John Travolta, Scarlett Jo, Gabriel Macht. Heartbreaking and lovely. Amazing performance by Travolta.

0points

Mrs. Dearly Regret 1 year ago

Beyond the horizon - it shattered my world

0points

kansasmagic 1 year ago

The Fellowship of the Ring, after Gandalf dies. Packed theater, total silence.

0points

talliloo 1 year ago

0points

Vermonta 1 year ago

Flipping channels and I watched Women Talking. I would never watch it on purpose but I was glued to my seat. If it was a book I would call it a page turner

0points

C K Sharpe 1 year ago

It is a book! Good one, too.

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~MushroomFrog~ 1 year ago

Hunger games for me. When rue dieeeeeess

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ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 1 year ago

The Hunger Games for me, before I even watched it, when people went apesh*t over the black characters being played by actual black actors. Devastating.

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Michelle W 1 year ago

I'm so surprised no one said Uncut Gems. I was shook to my core.

0points

kansasmagic 1 year ago

Didn't see that one, but Good Time is stunning, visceral and heartbreaking.

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Arrow 1 year ago

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Rostit . 1 year ago

Serbian film, drugstore cowboys, and Stalker

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ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 1 year ago

How did you watch a Serbian Flim? I was scarred just by reading a paragraph about it.

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Ebony 1 year ago

The last 10 minutes of Blackkansman. The entire theater was silent. The amount of hate that people have towards others because of the color of their skin is still mind blowing.

0points

Monsen 1 year ago

My sister's keeper

0points

Must Be Bored Again 1 year ago

Ode to Billy Joe.

0points

ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago (edited)

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Agfox 1 year ago

The original Austrian film "Ich seh, Ich seh" but released in English as Goodnight Mummy/Mommy. Very unexpected twist in the ending

0points

Sooploosh MacSchnibble 1 year ago

Howl From Beyond the Fog. Great film. Loved Nebula.

0points

Lucie Van Pelt 1 year ago

Coming Home

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Steve 1 year ago

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