I like dark movies

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Machinist
Testament

 

Glengarry Glen Ross
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
The Lobster

 

Sicario

 

Arlington Road... heck of a twist at the end...

 

D. O. A. - Both versions, although I like the 1988 remake much better.

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Salo - 120 Days of Sodom (Criterion) - The most god-awful thing I've ever seen (well, next to documentary footage of WWII atrocities). It will sicken your soul. I'm mad at myself for ever buying it (I read all the warnings before buying, but thought they were surely exaggerated, so did not heed them...big mistake). Won't even display it on my movie shelf - cast away in a storage box.

 

come and see
taxi driver
naked
unforgiven
the grey
shame
hunger
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this film (the grey) seriously surprised me .... it looked like something that was going to be a derivative adventure film ... it ended up being far more important and impacting than that ....

 

Didn't someone brutally murder the creator of this a couple of years later.

 

WHITE HEAT-Top Of The World, Ma!

 

incredibly sad...: (

 

this movie bothered me I could not watch this again...

 

it is actually one of my favourite films .... i watch it every once in a while when i need a reminder about ..... certain things.

i understand what you're saying though, as it is a heavy load of a film. great acting all around and great craftsmanship in the making of this film ..... (the same director went on to make 'all is lost', which i suppose is another film i'd add to the list here .... he also made 'margin call'



hardly any dialogue ... a very cinematic experience ... sound design by randy thom (apocalypse now etc)

 

another great film! just picked this up on BD...captivating to say the least.

 

I’d venture to say the most mainstream movie with the darkest ending is “Beneath the Planet of the Apes”. (But I do realize this isn’t what you’re looking for)

 

The Medusa Touch 1978
The Changeling 1980

 

"Tell him I'm coming!" --- Wilson

 

That film resonates very much with me, partly due to personal reasons but also because of the performances. All around.

 

The Harder They Fall
Death Note
Insidious

 

The Changeling scared the heck out of me.

 

The Prestige
Vertigo
Citizen Kane
Touch of Evil
Soylent Green
Stalker

Another vote for
The Changeling
The Innocents

 

House of Games, and Heart of Midnight. Two films that helped define "dark" for me.

 

The Road was the first film that came to mind for this topic, so grim and scary.

I’ll add a second vote for River’s Edge

Amour

Melancholia

Max (the one with John Cusack)

 

I don’t see this film mentioned very often, but it really is a clever gem.

 

Leaving Las Vegas

 

"I forgave myself." --- Dr. Margaret Ford