I like dark movies

The Skeleton Key is a good horror thriller and is kind of creepy too.

The Skeleton Key (2005) - IMDb

 

Tim Burton like to direct "dark" movies.

I thought that his Planet of the Apes was pretty dark and that was with watching it in subdued lighting and on my 60" TV screen.

 

Andrei Rublev by Andrei Tarkovski. I watched this movie when I was young. I don't think I will ever want to watch it again, but it's a masterpiece.
(BTW, for this thread let's forget about horror, superhero, etc. movies. More about real people )

 

Much of the film depicts scene after scene of late medieval brutality and suffering. You can almost feel the cold in your bones just watching it. However, the ending is incredibly uplifting, starting with the casting of the bell then continuing through the epilogue, which explodes into joyous colour, the transcendence of art, and wild horses loving life. It takes a while to get there, but that is the whole point of the film. I encourage you to see it again.

 

It's amazing how well I remember this movie after 35 years or so. It's like etched into my brain. I watched it in a movie theater in original language. I might rewatch it again one day, thanks, but that brutality you mentioned is too much even for not very sensitive me.

 

Kiss Of Death 1947

 

Last Exit To Brooklyn

Even the soundtrack sounds stark

 

OMG, yes. Excellent film. Which I don't think I'll ever watch again.

 

The Bad Seed...

 

Blue Velvet
King Of New York
52 Pick-Up
Cruisin
The Butterfly Effect
Taxi Driver
The Conversation
Apocalypse Now
8MM
The Fall Of The House Of Usher
River's Edge
The Virgin Suicides
Body Double
Dressed To Kill
Tightrope

 

This film is just plain nasty.

 

In case no one has mentioned these yet:
The Road (2009). Very well done, but the scenario is so darn hopeless.
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Se7en (1995)
Calvary (2014)

 

I love the movie but have never bought it, for some reason. I can get the DVD or Blu-ray for the same price. Any idea if Blu-ray is better than the DVD?

 

One of the darkest movies of the '40's The Seventh Victim (1943)

 

the deer hunter
das boot
se7en
there will be blood
prisoners
sicario

 

As dark as Ichi is, I think Visitor Q was darker.

 

Crumb ('95) - a dark documentary

I recall the movie's ads proudly quoting a review: "Possibly the most disturbing movie ever made."

The utter dysfunction of the artist's family is a looping horror show from which you cannot turn away. Crumb's art/vision at first provides occasional relief from - but then informs, and jaggedly spotlights - an all encompassing psychological torment and its manifest release.

Wiki/Crumb - reception section snippet:
In 2008, Entertainment Weekly named Crumb the 14th best film of the last 25 years.[17] In 2012 Slant Magazine ranked the film #74 on its list of the 100 Best Films of the 1990s, calling it "Arguably the greatest of all nonfiction films."[18] Morgan Spurlock named it to his list of 50 Documentaries to See Before You Die.
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Extra doses of surreal came with a couple of chance sightings of Maxon (Robert's artist brother) in the streets of SF, not long after seeing the movie. I recall actually talking to him once.