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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.
Astrid 1 year ago
I agree this is not something you want to watch twice. But I think it's a film EVERYONE should watch at least once!
RagDollLali 1 year ago
43 years old and I still can't bring myself to watch it. My grandparents escaped Auschwitz to the Ukraine, but they were the only ones of the entire family to make it out alive. The stories my grandmother told me will stick with me until the day I day, and gave me terrible nightmares for years. One day I will sit down and let myself have a full breakdown while watching it.
MP Deco 1 year ago
nope...never watched it....can't deal with all that horror.....i would not be able to view it through all my tears....
Child of the Stars 1 year ago
I had an older German friend who grew up in West Germany. He couldn't watch anything about the Holocaust because it made him feel guilty.
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James016 1 year ago
This. Saw it once when it came out. Don’t think I could sit through it again.
Sven Horlemann 1 year ago
Yes. We were at a premiere, day before official start. Including police raid because of bomb warning. There was an official champagne reception after the film. We just fled. The film made such an impact... we needed time for ourselves. Great picture, by the way.
Michelle Critchet 1 year ago
I wept at all the people waiting in line to visit his gravestone, so many people, my heart would burst.
Lost Panda 1 year ago
I own this movie, was the first Christmas present from my wife. I will watch it at least once a year.
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#2
Grave of the Fireflies.
Surly Scot 1 year 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.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Same. I was in tears. It was so much more intimate following these two characters. War is a terrible thing and it makes people do terrible things. The atrocities committed by the Allies toward the end are not talked about enough. Everyone knows about Hiroshima and Nagasaki but do they know about the fire bombings of Tokyo? 1/4 of Tokyo was burned to the ground in a single night. Curtis Lemay was a vicious bastard. He was running a campaign of depopulation.
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Ni Na 1 year ago
I watched in once, years ago. Saddest movie I have ever seen in my life. Will not watch it again. heartbreaking.
Giles McArdell 1 year ago
Couldn't get through it, IWILL watch it again one day, when I'm feeling brave.
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zovjraar me 1 year ago
this is the one for me. absolutely brilliant movie, but my hubby and i both felt so devastated and hopeless at the end... DO NOT WATCH if you're not in a safe mental space!! it really makes you feel like life is meaningless, unfair, and not worth the pain. :(
Floeckchen 1 year ago
This was the film I intantly thought about when reading the title of this list
Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
I said this too... until I got the chance to see it on the big screen in 2018. Man, I JUMPED at that chance.
detective miller's hat 1 year ago
That movie was absolutely devastating. We watched it in a college class I took about WW2.
#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.
Christine Stewart 1 year ago
I watched the last few minutes of this movie the other day- a tiny bit of a happy ending...
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
My Mom suggested this one after she knew my son & I had watched "Schindler's List". I never realized she had such an evil streak. Just kidding - she just thought Joshua might get even more out of it. I did love the way the father dealt with the horribleness of their situation (trying to win a tank? Brilliant), but again had both of us bawling by the end.
Pferdchen 1 year ago
I have this sitting on the DVR waiting to be seen. I'm kind of dreading it, of course, having just seen "From Darkness to Light," a documentary about Jerry Lewis' attempt to film a similarly themed movie called "The Day the Clown Cried." It was an even more controversial topic back in 1972. Doomed from the start, as the producer never exercised the option on the novel, so the entire production was a copyright violation.
Linda Riebel 1 year ago
Either this or another of Benigni movie starts with a loooong sequence of him stalking and harassing a woman. Not funny.
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.
#4
Boy In The Striped Pajamas.
Klara Lorinczi 1 year ago
The Thing 1980’s remake. Really scared movie and I don’t scare easily.
#5
The green mile.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year 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.
Eunice Probert 1 year ago
I remember when the book came out in serial form. One slim paperback , released every month for six months, I think it was. Before it was collected into one volume. It was so innovative.
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Kim Landfather 1 year ago
For me, this is a movie I could watch again and again. It can't be an edited version though, every detail needs to be shown.
Anna Drever 1 year ago
Ok, maybe I’m weird but I’ve rewatched this film many times. It’s sad and disturbing in parts, as it’s meant to be, but also very good and sweet in other parts.
That_One_Harry_Potter_Nerd 1 year ago
Absolutely stunning movie. Loved almost every minute. Will not watch it again.
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
Oh, my husband & I have watched this several times, and will again. The acting is stellar (miss you Michael Clarke Duncan!) and really says a lot about the people who "care" for our incarcerated. Yes, it's incredibly sad, but such a good movie!
#6
Requiem for a Dream—brilliantly made but absolutely devastating.
Floeckchen 1 year ago
I remember when pretty much every single at least somewhat serious video on youtube had "Lux Aeterna" as background music
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
One of my unpopular movie opinions is that I really dislike this movie. I have a good friend who was getting ECT at the time and not only was it the most effective treatment for him, but the way it’s portrayed in this movie is not at all how it’s done, even at the time this was made. ECT patients are put under general anesthesia; they are not awake - nor suffering! - when it’s done
Coffee loving panda 1 year ago
Watched it one time about 20 years ago. Can not watch it again. The scènes are still hard copied in my mind
Child of the Stars 1 year ago
This is one I used to say I'd insist my kids watch at an appropriate age. But I'm in recovery myself, and I've never made a secret of it nor have I sugar-coated my addiction with my kids (although any explanations have always been age-appropriate), So I'm on the fence about whether I should insist or not.
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.
#7
What Dreams May Come. Absolutely wrecked me.
Carilyn Beverly 1 year ago (edited)
phenomenal scenery, heartbreaking story, great acting, has a happy ending
Anxiety Panda 1 year ago
That's on my list of once was enough. It was so well done, but I can't watch it again.
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Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
This made me sob uncontrollably from beginning to end. The story is so tragic, and the ending is so beautiful 😭
Dorothy Reiser 1 year ago
Freaked the heck out of me. Losing children, husband...I would go nuts too.
#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.
Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
Lost count of the number of times I've seen this. Astonishing movie on so many levels.
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
I've already tormented myself more than once with this one. GREAT movie, but made me ugly cry both times.
Christine Stewart 1 year ago
The scene with the wine bottle being used to torture/kill was so traumatizing for me!
#9
Hotel Rwanda.
Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
The movie that should've made Don Cheadle a space at the top of the A list.
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
If he didn't get an award for that, he really should've.
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Uncle Schmickle 1 year ago
Yes, and the United Nations should hand its head in shame for allowing this to happen.
tarryn norwich 1 year ago
We watched this in high school, the whole class after needed a moment.
Mason Kronol 1 year ago
I’ve actually watched this twice. Great, gripping movie and story. And Don Cheadle should be seen more.
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
I actually did watch this twice because I was crying so much the first time I thought I may have missed something. Nope, I didn't miss a thing. Don Cheadle so deserved an Oscar for his performance.
"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
American History X.
Surly Scot 1 year ago
This movie taught me what "bite the kerb" was. Good grief. (for grammar nazi's, we use Kerb in the UK, not Curb, for the pavement edging at the side of a road).
GalPalAl 1 year ago
As much as I really did not enjoy watching this movie, the story is important. Also said the same thing about Hard Candy. Can really only watch once but cannot unsee or unknow.
Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
Hard Candy is ABSOLUTELY a movie that belongs here.
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I agree whole heartedly with distant_echo. The curb scene made my stomach hurt.
Anon822209 1 year ago
I can't watch this movie. Can't do it. I get the theme, I understand purpose behind the violence. But I can't get through it. I start crying and turn it off or walk away. Or both.
#11
The Elephant Man. I cried at that movie. It was just a very brutal film emotionally.
Sylvia Harris 1 year ago
I sobbed so hard during this movie and could not stop for at least half an hour. My friend thought she’d have to take me to the emergency room. I will never watch it again.
Anne Young 1 year ago
ERs don't handle emotional stuff. That's really weird. I don't think your friend's that smart.
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Kim Landfather 1 year ago
This is the one movie that actually made me cry out loud. A truly heart breaking, sole crushing movie.
Christine Stewart 1 year ago
I cried too! But was mesmerized by Anthony Hopkins as the compassionate doctor!
#12
Hachi: a dog's tale, its an incredible story, but seeing that movie broke something inside of me, cried for hours.
Tabitha 1 year ago
Me too. So did Marley and Me. Hell, I can’t even watch Lassie movies. I won’t even go into how much making that last trip to the vet tears me up.
Leesa DeAndrea 1 year ago
I've done that so often in reality I don't want to see it on the screen or read it in a book.
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ReadBannedBooks 1 year ago
I refuse to watch it at all. Or Marley and Me. I cried enough over the book to know never to watch the movie.
Laurie Hengel 1 year ago
I won't watch them either. Turner and Hooch was looking to be my fav film ever, until the ending scenes. Wont watch even 5 minutes of it now. Check out the website doesthedogdie.com - warns you of any animal death or abuse. Pretty up-to-date. Glad to see I have good company in this regard 😁
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Serious question for someone who has seen the movie: is it literally a whitewashed Americanized bastardization of the actual real story because Hollywood isn't the greatest at giving star billing to Asian/POC actors?
Simon Chen 1 year ago
A god story is a good story. Also, you want people to watch it, so you choose richard gere rather then byron chung ( korean, i know). I believe that any movie is rather watched when the star is a rather well known actor then an unknown. So, i agree that they could have surely made it with asian actors but fewer people would have watched it. When you make a movie, you want to make money, it is that simple.
Load More Replies... Rebecca Ferguson 1 year ago
This is the movie that slayed me. I fell apart at the end of this movie. It should have a caution advice before each viewing.
Lost Panda 1 year ago
I bawled my eyes out... Then bawled my eyes out when my own Akita passed... fun times...
BrownEyedPanda 1 year ago
I saw clips of this movie on YouTube. I totally lost it. Nope, can't handle it.
Frances Pitchoune 1 year ago
My boyfriend teases me by saying “There’s Hachi on TV tonight!” I want to cry every time. I only saw it once and I cried the whole time. I prefer "Marley and me". Yes, I cry at the end. But Marley is so funny! That consoles me a little. (And I tease my boyfriend in turn by quoting Marley, because HE cried his life to death over Marley.)
"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
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.
Fred L. 1 year ago
A surprisingly good film for most of it. Have to say I really don't like the ending though.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
That's exactly how a normal, moral person should feel about the ending. You shouldn't like the ending. None of us should like the ending. It's abhorrent when someone's daughter is raped and murdered and the killer is never found or brought to justice. So many children, spouses, friends, partners, and family members are brutally murdered every day and the killer(s) are never caught or punished. It's horrible. I hate that it's part of our reality. I hate that there are human beings who can do that to other human beings. The ending of this movie is all that the families of the victims get - no conclusion. No neat little bow tying things up. No killer delivered to the authorities. If it sucks for us to go through as just the end of a fictional story, I cannot fathom how it must feel for a victim's loved ones to go through it in real life.
Load More Replies... Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
AMAZING movie! Love Frances McDormand in it (and everything else she's in, for that matter) and Sam Rockwell's character's development through it. I actually do want to watch it again.
Alessa Gillespie 1 year ago
I've been waiting ages for catching this on a streaming service so I can re-watch it. Saw it on a plane years ago and thought it was brilliant!
Michelle Critchet 1 year ago
This was an excellent movie with an extraordinary cast. If you need to have a movie's end tied up with a bow, watch some Disney. This is like real life, you don't always catch the bad guy.
Crouching hippo hidden panda 1 year ago
This was brilliant and caught me by surprise, just happened across it. Phenomenal, I was thinking about it for days after
#14
12 Years a Slave.
Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
Steve McQueen excels at these. Both Shame and Hunger have that same core of bleakness.
Frances Pitchoune 1 year ago
I couldn't watch the movie until the end. Terrible. I should have done it, because we need to be aware of this part of history. And what's more, it's a true story.
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
I saw this back when I was drinking, so I may have to watch it again.
Graf666Orlok 1 year ago
"Who is a slave? I'm not a slave.....UH OH! TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE!!!" Any Key and Peele fans out there?
#15
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) 1 year 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.
XenoMurph 1 year ago
Yes the movie took the ordinary banal despair of the book and tried to turn it into heroic anti hero or something.
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Brian Droste 1 year ago
I seen a much earlier version of this movie. It was in black and white. Made in 1930.
Arenite 1 year ago
That is the original, German film. The only version to watch.
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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
So sad. Our history teacher made us watch the old one. Shattering.
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
The Whale. Great story and acting, but don’t want to experience that again.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
He does a great job in ANY movie he's in. He is such a fantastic actor. Yes, even in Encino Man <3
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Brendan Fraser blew me away in this movie. It's a movie that hits you in the face like a baseball bat and actually brings a lot of things into perspective. He completely deserved the Oscar win for this film.
RagDollLali 1 year ago
This is on my queue to watch, I keep hearing that it's beautiful and incredibly sad and I really want to carve some time out to watch it!
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
Brilliant film. But I love Brendan Fraser anyway so I'm probably biased! A dafty comment I read about this as a review though? Was critising him for wearing a "fat suit"... Errrm? How is anyone supposed to get up to 42stones in weight healthily and then lose it again healthily for an acting role? Of course he wore a "fat suit".
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
Yeah, I may watch it again, but not anytime soon. I assumed "the whale" referred to Brendan Fraser's character's size (spoiler alert - it doesn't). Extremely well done and with such compassion. He absolutely deserved the award for this one!
Silberwolf 1 year ago
Such a great movie. Don't know when I'll be emotionally capable to rewatch it.
#17
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.
Dirk Daring 1 year ago (edited)
doesthedogdie dot com is an absolute necessity for me before watching any movie with a dog in it.
_-DungeonKeeper-_ 1 year ago
I am so glad I found that because my grandmother was watching a movie about a tsunami or something along those lines and I had to say wait one second ì need to tell you if the dog dies
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Just a ray of f'ing sunshine 1 year ago
It's not just that the dog dies, it's what the man says right after that got to me. I cried for an hour!
Load More Replies... Jay Scales 1 year ago
I don't think this is a devastating movie. It's a movie about life moving forward over the years, & anyone who loves animals knows that they simply don't live long enough. But he was loved absolutely, & that's the best we can give our pets.
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
Oh gosh... If you cannot handle "Marley and Me"? For goshs sake don't ever watch "A Dogs Purpose"! You'll drown in your own tears!
Frances Pitchoune 1 year ago
It's on my Christmas movie list. I love Marley so much! But hey, I can't help but cry every time, at the end 😭😭😭
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
Anything where the dog dies automatically goes on my never watch list
#18
My wife feels that way about *The Pianist.*
Excellent movie, but she will never ever subject herself to that again.
#19
The Road.
Un rewatchable now that I'm a Dad.
Surly Scot 1 year 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 1 year ago
Such an eye opening book. But it's super depressing.
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Alessa Gillespie 1 year ago
I read the book years ago. You couldn't pay me enough to watch the movie.
DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago
Never saw the movie but damn the book was good....very scary too.
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Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
I read the book and decided I didn't want to watch the movie. I'm fine with that.
Michelle Critchet 1 year ago
An extraordinary movie set in a post-apocalyptic hell that makes the harshest demands for every step you want to take.
Graf666Orlok 1 year 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.
#20
Misery.
Once was more than enough for me.
Ray Bolen 1 year ago
I read the book when it came out. Told the wife that whoever get the lead for the movie will will the oscar.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Stephen King is my favorite author. I regularly re-read all of his books/short story collections. Misery is the ONLY one that is hard for me to re-read. Paul goes through SO much physical and emotional suffering, and Annie reminds me (quite literally) of my own mother, who was very physically and emotionally/verbally abusive towards me in my childhood. When Paul's typewriter throws its E key and he has to fill in the letters by hand, actually SEEING that on the page is just so heartbreaking.
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StrangeOne 1 year ago
I had a friend who owned this movie. So we ended up watching it a couple times. I can't say I plan to add it to my own movie collection.
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
I have the book, watching the movie and Cathy Bates using a sledgehammer to break ankles..... once was enough.
Foxglove🇮🇪 1 year ago
Book and film twice at least. Kathy Bates was the perfect choice for her character
#21
The Father. Anthony Hopkins' best performance.
My mother's Alzheimer's mirrors his so much that I can't watch it again.
Robert Beveridge 1 year 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.
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
I loved Kate Winslet as her younger self. Dame Judi and Jim Broadbent were excellent as the elder couple.
Load More Replies... Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
Have not seen this one yet. Since I am an absolute Anthony Hopkins fan, as well as that of Olivia Coleman, I think I'll need to watch it at least once.
#22
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.
ginshun 1 year ago
This one for sure can be re-watched. It should be actually. It's not easy to catch everything that happens fully on the first watch.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Watched it for the first time this year. It's my friend's favorite movie so we went for it. It's really good and I would watch it again. Not by myself though.
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Chris DiFonso 1 year ago
I've only seen a little of this film. I want to read the book. Is the film very faithful to the book?
#23
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.
Antony Aston 1 year ago
I love this film! Magical and thought provoking. I can watch it over and over.
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago (edited)
I love this movie. I've probably watched it 4 or 5 times now. It became more poignant AFTER my Dad died. The acting is just amazing & I loved the ending - where (spoiler alert!) we find out he wasn't lying per se, just doing a bit of embellishment. PS: if anyone is interested, Dan and Erin Napier of HGTV's "Home Town Takeover" restored the house used in the film in Wetumpka, AL. It is currently for sale for $899,000
Carol DeBeaussaert 1 year ago
I really dislike this movie. Would only not watch it again for that reason. It didn't touch me.
Alessa Gillespie 1 year ago
This movie makes me think of my grandpa every time. The ending makes cry and cry, and even the Eddie Vedder song makes me teary.
#24
We Need to Talk About Kevin.
Pencil 1 year ago
The movie was terrible but the book was brilliant. The device in the book is that the mother is writing letters to the father. You only know that the mother and Kevin are in each other's lives but the father and daughter are together... elsewhere. The letters slowly reveal the couple's relationship and the births of their children and their growing up. They explore the deepest truths in the mother's heart. But through all of this you have no idea what happened or where the father and daughter are. It's finally revealed at the very end. It's a beautiful exploration of humanity and the movie just flipped it completely around, putting the end at the beginning. Totally ruined the entire premise.
Load More Replies... Mason Kronol 1 year ago
Oh wow. I’ve been meaning to watch it again because I liked it. I love Tilda. So TIL.
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Brandi Nicole 1 year ago
This movie disturbed me so much that I unknowingly blocked it from my memory
#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.
Lisa Galway 1 year ago (edited)
I used to work in the jail where she was before released and met the grandparents and Zachary. I did not see the movie as I had experienced the real situation.
Radha Gopinath Mandir 1 year ago
I am happy it made it here. That "happy family" under the Christmas tree was the single worst thing I have ever seen.
#26
Dancer in the Dark.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Been recommended to me multiple times because I'm a huge Bjork fan. Still afraid.
Sherribobbins 1 year ago
This is my number one film I can’t ever watch again. The whole thing was so very sad but the ending killed me. I cried so much!
#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.
Becca not Becky 1 year ago
They did not hold back with this movie. Amazing but also a harsh reality check
Harry Gondalf 1 year ago
I've downloaded the torrent and watched it several times, I've even replayed a scene in a grief counseling group.
#28
I don't know if I would say quite a 10, but Oldboy isn't getting rewatched. .
Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
The hallway fight scene is the single best piece of choreography I've ever seen on celluloid.
#29
Manchester by the Sea. Absolutely devastating.
#30
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.
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
Just watched this a couple weeks ago; very well done and very f****d up!
Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
Saw this in the theater when it came out. Was in no way expecting that level of intensity, even with that incredible cast.
#31
I watched Melancholia at exactly the wrong time, and it threw me into an existential crisis.
CP 1 year ago (edited)
The whole trilogy this movie is a part of could be put on this list. Any von Trier movie should make this list for that matter.
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
It's part of a trilogy? O.o I didn't know that
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BlackCatWithWhiteSocks 1 year ago
Probably my favourite movie and I have watched it more than once. And I will watch it again.
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
So dark and depressing, but very good and thought provoking as well!
#32
1917. GREAT MOVIE, I just get in my feels when watching it.
#33
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.
Mason Kronol 1 year ago
I watched it twice. thought I missed something the first time so I read other people’s reviews and spoilers. I still thought it was annoying.
Harry Gondalf 1 year ago
One good thing about the movie, if you're a student of counseling psychology, is Florence Pugh's opening monologue -- a textbook depiction of toxic co-dependency.
Anony Mouse 1 year ago
This one…. I get it, but for some reason on the second watch it becomes a wildly dark comedy. It’s still disturbing, but once the shock is gone, you find yourself laughing at most of it. I don’t know why I rewatched it, but I’m glad I did.
#34
Come and see.
Kiki Likes Sweets 1 year ago
Oh, yeah, seen this a few times. Hard to watch but should be seen.
Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
This movie is damn near impossible to get through in the best of ways.
Rebecca Ferguson 1 year ago
I have never watched this film and I don't think I ever will 'cause I think it would scar me for life.
#35
Uncut Gems. Clearly a very good movie. But I’m never putting myself through that again, no thank you.
Mark Karol-Chik 1 year ago
Adam Sandler delivers in this grimy film. It is just full of awful people, doing what bad people do. Amazing, and I won't watch it ever again-
#36
Zone of Interest.
#37
Wolf of Wallstreet. Amazing movie, but 0 wolfs seen….
StrangeOne 1 year ago
I've watched and rewatched some raunchy films. I just can't with this one. I know you're supposed to hate the main protagonist. But I can't sit an listen to the most conceited, misogynistic, jerk off ever.
Tesla Sulu 1 year ago
"most conceited, misogynistic, jerk ever" ? clealry you have never met Gordon Gekko
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Featherytoad 1 year ago
I have no qualms about people cussing, but the overuse of the F word was getting so annoying, I almost stopped watching it.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
It was like... how can I put this? it was like watching a film made by a bunch of try-hard, macho men who wrote in the backrooms of a strip club, completely hosed out of their minds.
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I feel this way about a lot of Scorsese's movies. Great movies, but once is usually enough.
What do you think ?
CP 1 year 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 1 year ago
Angelas ash's can't rewatch it, it killed me off the first time
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MP Deco 1 year ago
how could "Saving Private Ryan" NOT make this list?? devastating....will NEVER watch this heartbreaking movie ever again....
Dorma Hughes 1 year ago
As a mother of military men, never watch this movie.
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Roberta Surprenant 1 year ago
For me it would be What Dreams May Come, excellent film but HEAVY.
Jeanne 1 year 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 1 year ago
Sleepers. Watched in the cinema, amazing acting but wow, I've never seen a cinema so quiet after it finished
Queeqec 1 year 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 1 year 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.
LadyManx 1 year ago
Th Killing Fields. Watch that and then say, we should be that cruel to those around us.
BrownEyedPanda 1 year 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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Jennifer Howe 1 year 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 1 year 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... CP 1 year 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 1 year ago
Angelas ash's can't rewatch it, it killed me off the first time
Load More Replies... MP Deco 1 year ago
how could "Saving Private Ryan" NOT make this list?? devastating....will NEVER watch this heartbreaking movie ever again....
Dorma Hughes 1 year ago
As a mother of military men, never watch this movie.
Load More Replies... Roberta Surprenant 1 year ago
For me it would be What Dreams May Come, excellent film but HEAVY.
Jeanne 1 year ago
I agree. Another one is The Lovely Bones. I highly recommend it, yet it’s a hard subject.
Load More Replies... jeff stone 1 year ago
Sleepers. Watched in the cinema, amazing acting but wow, I've never seen a cinema so quiet after it finished
Queeqec 1 year 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 1 year 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.
LadyManx 1 year ago
Th Killing Fields. Watch that and then say, we should be that cruel to those around us.
BrownEyedPanda 1 year 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... Jennifer Howe 1 year 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 1 year 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.
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