40 Movies People Praise As Great But Too “Emotionally Traumatizing” To Be Watched Again

My dad told me about this movie when it first came out, and I said I would watch it, but didn't...just didn't get around to it. Then in 2016, Dad died, and the movie was in his belongings. I still haven't been able to watch it.

Haven't seen it but i want to and don't know if i can handle it

Good grief! I remember seeing this. It was on TV on a Sunday afternoon. I was watching it with my son, who was about six or seven at the time - Learning about the Holocaust isn't bad, even for a young child, if it is taught right. Most of the movie was OK. Then, right at the end, when I realised what was going to happen, I told him to leave the room for a while. It brought a serious lump my throat.

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A professor in university was the only Holocaust survivor in his family. The ending was such beautiful karma on the little boy's parents.

Jestli je to film, kdy německá rodina se svým malým synem bydlí vedle koncetráku, pak ten závěr filmu je devastační.

And a 100% True story. Read the book as well.

World War 2 makes my stomach turn, every single timed think of its horrors, not just because of what happened to the Jews but that it was possible for it to happen to anyone. How could there be so many human monsters ready to inflict these things on others hiding in what were civilized societies before the war brought them all out in the open. It's terrifying and every war since has proven that there are hundreds and thousands of people who are ready to do these things if the opportunity allows them to again.

I knew many people in my neighborhood in Brooklyn that were Holocaust survivors- tattooed numbers on their arms..I watched this movie once and was so affected by it, I will never watch it again. But a great movie, nonetheless.

a movie everyone should watch. This and the opening scene of Saving private ryan.

I watch this movie at least once a year.

Director Rob Reiner took Stephen King to the premiere. As the movie wound down, just before the credits, King got up and left. Reiner thought, "oh man, I pissed him off with my vision of *his* work." He found King in the lobby, who had to go to the bathroom to compose himself, and more or less told Reiner that was exactly how he envisioned his story.

YES Im still friends with the guys I met when I was 13 in 1992.

Have rewatched.

I love this movie and I cry every time I see it.

I'll never know, since I didn't really have any friends when I was 12.

I've seen this a zillion times. Tearjerker moment for me? When John says "I'm tired, boss. Mostly tired of people being ugly to each other." (On a side note, I won at a fundraising auction years ago a screenplay signed by all the main actors in the movie.) One of my favorite King books ever.

Mr Jingles. Sobbing even now. And the waterworks infection too close for comfort.

It ramps up the emotional all the way through, right to the last line, with the camera on old Mr Jingles sleeping in his cigar box - "but, oh God, sometimes the Green Mile seems so long" ... getting watery eyes just thinking about it!

I cry every time. Same with Shawshank.

This is honestly one of my favourite movies. I watch it every about three months and just sob for three hours. It's very cathartic. Also huge shout out to Mr Jingles

It should be noted there are some seriously graphic scenes of violence in this one, too. You will never look at a wine bottle the same way again.

I sing the lullaby to my kids. Love it and watch it often.

A masterpiece. Guts me

Love the movie it was sadly beautiful.

It was very good. I could never watch it again.

The author of the original book wrote it as an apology to his little sister, for not being able to save her.

I had to watch this movie in class and I cried for days. I still cry just thinking about it.

Oh god. I just read the wiki on this film and I was crying. Can't imagine I'd make it through the movie.

The most beautiful movie you only want to see once.

Totally agree

Oh yes,! I totally agree! I had heard the term "curb stomp" before seeing that movie, but I was never really able to picture it in my mind. I thought it was some made up term that might be said to intimidate people, but that would NEVER be done in real life. The way they visually represented it and the sounds they used to bring it to life in the film was absolutely stunning. The sound that it makes is absolutely terrifying and so, so haunting. I do not know anyone who saw that scene that was not disturbed by it or was every able to forget about it.

Ya. Just knowing about that scene has kept me from viewing any part of the movie.

Omg, I had to look up the definition of a curb stomp. That is absolutely horrific. I would not be able to watch this movie.

The ending speech is really good.

I look away and block my ears at that part.