Dark films about death, life and our eternal pessimism. (50 titles)
Please peruse this list at your pleasure, watch as many as you can, but the chances are you'll not live long enough! But then again, who does?
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Come And See
The most disturbing war film your ever likely to see.
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Come And See
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Alexei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Lauciavicius
Director: Elem Klimov
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Elem Klimov's stunning COME AND SEE is a relentlessly brutal condemnation of war hidden in the guise of a surrealistic coming-of-age nightmare. A physically and emotionally draining viewing experience, the film follows Florya (played brilliantly by Alexei Kravchenko), a 12-year-old boy living in ..read more »
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from 3,666 members
Funny Games
This is physical torture at its most brutal.
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Funny Games
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Muhe, Frank Giering
Director: Michael Haneke
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A powerfully graphic film (even though no violence is ever shown on the screen itself) about an Austrian family who goes on a country vacation and become the victims of two cold-blooded psychopaths who are out to torture them with their "funny games." Haneke's point, that fictional violence is as ..read more »
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from 4,128 members
Salo Or The 120 Days Of Sodom
You can reject the movie as the work of an evil-minded pornographer, but you won't easily forget it.
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Salo Or The 120 Days Of Sodom
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Pasolini's final and most controversial film has been banned censored and reviled the world over since it's first release. The film is based on the Marquis de Sade's novel '120 Days of Sodom', with the setting transposed to Mussolini's miniature Fascist Republic of Salo, Italy in 1944. The ..read more »
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from 3,120 members
Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me
David Lynch closes with the darkest chapter of Twin Peaks.
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Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Sheryl Lee, Moira Kelly, Harry Dean Stanton
Director: David Lynch
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Director David Lynch returns to the Pacific Northwest territory that helped to change the face of television in 1990, making him a household name all across America. A predecessor to that series, FIRE WALK WITH ME recounts the final week in the life of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), a sparkling ..read more »
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from 5,967 members
Requiem For A Dream
A dark film, with a great soundtrack.
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Requiem For A Dream
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Jared Leto, Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Connelly
Director: Darren Aronofsky
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For his follow-up to his darkly brilliant debut, PI, director Darren Aronofsky chose to adapt a tough and meaty piece of work: Hubert Selby's 1968 novel REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, a dark spiral into the abyss of barren fantasies doomed to extinction. However, in Aronofsky's frenetic, visionary, unique, ..read more »
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from 22,215 members
Lilya 4 Ever
Unrelentingly bleak.
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Lilya 4 Ever
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Oksana Akinshina, Artiom Bogucharski, Elina Benenson
Director: Lukas Moodysson
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From the acclaimed director of the fantastic TOGETHER and SHOW ME LOVE comes this searing tale of a contemporary Russian teenage girl. Lilya (played by Oksana Akinsha) lives in a small poor town but is on her way to a better life in America with her mother and her boyfriend. But she is shockingly ..read more »
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from 7,685 members
The Sacrifice
Tarkovsky's final masterpiece, before he died.
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The Sacrifice
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Valerie Mairesse
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
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Director Andrei Tarkovsky's final film. In the hours before a nuclear holocaust, a retired actor promises God that he will gladly sacrifice all he has if the disaster can be averted. By the following morning normality is restored ...now he must keep his vow... Swedish dialogue with subtitles.
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from 1,971 member
Irreversible
Difficult to watch, but utterly brilliant.
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Irreversible
(2002)
Starring: Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel
Director: Gaspar Noe
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After what would normally be the end credits (which run backwards), IRREVERSIBLE begins with a heated hunt through a gay S&M club. It is a chaotic sequence shot from a wildly spiraling camera seamlessly edited together to appear as one single shot and culminating in one of the most violent murders ..read more »
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from 14,918 members
Man Bites Dog
For those with a disturbed sense of humour.
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Man Bites Dog
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Remy Belvaux, Andre Bonzel, Benoit Poelvoorde
Director: Remy Belvaux, Andre Bonzel, Benoit Poelvoorde
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A documentary crew is fascinated by the charismatic, unrepentant serial killer whose crimes they set out to objectively chronicle. But as the violence escalates, they become more and more complicit in his shocking actions. A disturbingly low-key satire of the connection between violence and the media.
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from 4,585 members
The King
If you have never done anything evil, you should not be worrying about devils to knock at your door.
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The King
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, William Hurt, Laura Harring
Director: James Marsh
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A troubled man, recently discharged from the Navy, returns to his childhood home in Corpus Christi, Texas to reunite with his father.
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from 6,026 members
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