Some movies you should only watch when you’re on pretty solid psychological grounds. They are good in themselves, so they’re worth watching. But they tend to reflect aspects of the human minds that are, let’s say, not very pretty. I decided to make a wee list of my top depressing movies.

1. Darwin’s nightmare: OK, a documentary. But the pits of the pits, and deserves number 1.
2. Black rain: the life of a family of japanese survivors of the Hiroshima bomb. Strong movie
3. Brazil: Kafkaian fantasy classic by Terry Gilliam.
4. There will be blood
5. Before the devil knows you’re dead: saw it last night. Not a minute of joy.

Those last two are obviously recent, so i don’t know if they’ll make it into the classics. There are others that might drift up later – these are the ones that were memorable to me. What’s your list ?

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