My list of most disturbing movies I've seen
While the discriptions seem mostly negative, it has to be noted that I enjoyed and apprieciated some of the qualities in several of the films but find them difficult to watch because of the subject matters, or strong violence. Watch them if you're brave enough.
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- DirectorJennifer KentStarsAisling FranciosiMaya ChristieBaykali GanambarrSet in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.While many on this list feature only a couple of disturbing scenes, this one has it all ALL the way. Rape, infanticide, violence against women, gang rape, racial violence, genocidal massacres and children getting murdered. A rough two hours, I'll tell you!
- DirectorGaspar NoéStarsMonica BellucciVincent CasselAlbert DupontelEvents over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in an underpass tunnel.I get annoyed when the rape scene is shown on either documenteries or on the internet. I never want to see this again, ever. That's how badly disturbing it is.
- DirectorPascal LaugierStarsMorjana AlaouiMylène JampanoïCatherine BéginA young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.Sick, horrible and makes you feel so dirty you feel like it's never going to wash off.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsRyo IshibashiEihi ShiinaTetsu SawakiA widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.So creepy and disturbing I couldn't even finish watching it. Can't even begin to discribe how f - ucked up it is.
- DirectorTom SixStarsDieter LaserWinter WilliamsAshlynn YennieA mad scientist kidnaps and mutilates a trio of tourists in order to reassemble them into a human centipede, created by stitching their mouths to each others' rectums.Ultimately, nothing more than a sick and gleeful fantasy put on screen. Not the best film on this list, but notorious enough.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsJack NanceCharlotte StewartAllen JosephHenry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.David Lynch's first film. And possibly the most unsettling of his collection.
- DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsHaruhiko KatôKumiko AsôKoyukiTwo groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet.If you want something scarier and creepier than the Shining, turn to this one. It's scary in ways you wouldn't even imagine!
- DirectorNiels Arden OplevStarsMichael NyqvistNoomi RapaceEwa FrölingA journalist is aided by a young female hacker in his search for the killer of a woman who has been dead for forty years.Considering the dark premise of its source material, its bound to be graphic, but as a movie it's even more disturbing and horrific. However, it's such a great film and the acting is terrific, I recommend seeing it!
- DirectorHideo NakataStarsNanako MatsushimaMiki NakataniYûko TakeuchiA reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.Forget the American remake, the original is absolutely terrifying!
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsEllen BurstynMax von SydowLinda BlairWhen a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.Very famously disturbing. Not just because of a little girl being possessed by the devil and doing the most insanely horrible things, but the demons who appear on screen for mearly half a second.
- DirectorBernard RoseStarsVirginia MadsenXander BerkeleyTony ToddThe Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.So frightening, unfairly cruel and violent, I'm too afraid to watch it again.
- DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsEllen BurstynJared LetoJennifer ConnellyThe drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep..Dead hopes and dreams. All because of the drugs. But saddest story lies with a character whose drugs were diet pills. Very smartly filmed.
- DirectorMary LambertStarsDale MidkiffDenise CrosbyFred GwynneAfter tragedy strikes, a grieving father discovers an ancient burial ground behind his home with the power to raise the dead.I swear this film has some sort of a plague on it, as it makes you so horribly depressed after witnessing the emotional atrocity on screen.
- DirectorCherNancy SavocaStarsDemi MooreShirley KnightCatherine KeenerThe movie examines the abortion issue through three stories set in different eras: 1952, 1974 and 1996.This made me so angry at the amount of bigotry and sexism that's shown in the 1996 and 1952 parts. I know it wasn't a true story but the religious fanatic's attitudes continue to cast a shadow on the freedom of people who simply want to make a choice with their lives.
- DirectorKimberly PeirceStarsHilary SwankChloë SevignyPeter SarsgaardA young man named Brandon Teena navigates love, life, and being transgender in rural Nebraska.One of the saddest stories ever told. Brutally and unflinchyingly honest account of the rape and murder of transgender Brandon Teena.
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsJack NicholsonShelley DuvallDanny LloydA family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.Brilliant film that has something most American horror films don't have: The use of music, flashes of disturbing images and great acting.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsWesley SnipesAnnabella SciorraSpike LeeFriends and family of a married Black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary.What kind of maniac would beat his own daughter half to death just for seeing a black man? People should be allowed to date who they like and not have a problem with it. Of course the director doesn't see it that way, at least not with a black man and a white woman.
- DirectorMike FiggisStarsNicolas CageElisabeth ShueJulian SandsBen Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.The rape scene and how the victim was treated afterwards was absolutely atrocious. Overall a very depressing movie.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroJodie FosterCybill ShepherdA mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.Dangerously addicting. The main character is like a drug. You like him, compare your life to him and ultimately try to become him. Possibly one of the best American films in history.
- DirectorRobert De NiroStarsRobert De NiroChazz PalminteriLillo BrancatoAn intense drama about a boy torn between his tough, hard-working father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss.A bit like a Spike Lee movie, it has racial fights, fierce beatings, killings, but yet has a very tender side with relationships.
- DirectorTony KayeStarsEdward NortonEdward FurlongBeverly D'AngeloLiving a life marked by violence, neo-Nazi Derek finally goes to prison after killing two black youths. Upon his release, Derek vows to change; he hopes to prevent his brother, Danny, who idolizes Derek, from following in his footsteps.Racist fights, curb stomp, anal rape, graphic shootings, all based on hate and intent to humiliate. Beware.
- DirectorLee TamahoriStarsRena OwenTemuera MorrisonMamaengaroa Kerr-BellA family descended from Maori warriors is bedeviled by a violent father and the societal problems of being treated as outcasts.Graphic domestic violence, brutal bar fights, child rape and suicide and emotional battery, but yet the characters have the strength to move on from these horrible events and build a new life. Also a depiction of how a good number of homes are all around the world, not just New Zealand.
- DirectorAlan ParkerStarsGene HackmanWillem DafoeFrances McDormandTwo F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.Brutal account of the most extreme of insane prejudices that plagued the American south in the early 1960s. The picture of Dafoe and Hackman looking up at a burning cross and the tagline "1964 when America was at war with itself." sums up but does not explore the content of the movie.
- DirectorBrian GibsonStarsAngela BassettLaurence FishburneRaéVen KellyThe story of singer Tina Turner's rise to stardom and how she gained the courage to break free from her abusive husband, Ike Turner.Depicts the domestic horrors that Tina suffered at the hands of Ike Turner, only to turn into one of the most fearless and brilliant singers of all time. The ending is very fufiling.
- DirectorGina Prince-BythewoodStarsDakota FanningJennifer HudsonQueen LatifahIn 1964, a teenage girl in search of the truth about her mother runs away to a small town in South Carolina and finds a family of independent women who can connect her to her past.Set in such hateful time, the sweetness of the characters make the terrible things that happen to them even sadder
- DirectorAlbert HughesAllen HughesStarsLarenz TateKeith DavidChris TuckerA Vietnam vet adjusts to life after the war while trying to support his family, but the chance of a better life may involve crime and bloodshed.Over the top graphic, and not intended to be funny, it doesn't make the characters redeamable or worth feeling strongly about them.
- DirectorWayne KramerStarsPaul WalkerCameron BrightChazz PalminteriA low-ranking thug is entrusted by his crime boss to dispose of a gun that killed corrupt cops, but things get out of control when the gun ends up in wrong hands.Such a corrupt society, it looks more like a video game than anything else.
- DirectorJason EisenerStarsRutger HauerPasha EbrahimiRobb WellsA homeless vigilante blows away crooked cops, pedophile Santas, and other scumbags with his trusty pump-action shotgun.The violence is so over the top gory and frequent, guaranteed it's bound to be funny in a sick way, but when it concerns children, it goes too far.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsElizabeth BerkleyKyle MacLachlanGina GershonA mysterious young drifter who calls herself Nomi Malone hitches a ride to Las Vegas, Nevada, and begins working as a strip club dancer, and sets about clawing her way to the top of the Vegas showgirls.One of the worst movies ever, its so floozy it doesn't even focus on things. The horrible rape scene just made it look 10 times worse than Glitter.
- StarsRobert CarlyleMira SorvinoDonald SutherlandGirls that have been kidnapped a d sold as slaves, police find and help them back to their home and family.Based on thousands of true stories, it doesn't hold back on anything you can imagine.
- DirectorDavid AnspaughStarsMira SorvinoMariah CareyMelora WaltersA new waitress working at an Italian restaurant in New York City finds herself entangled in a mob-run underworld of drug dealing and murder.Very refreshing to see Mariah Carey act so well in this mob girl story.
Neither the police or the mob are perfect in their organisations and Mira Sorvino's character become the target victim of both. - DirectorSergio LeoneStarsRobert De NiroJames WoodsElizabeth McGovernA former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.Two rape accounts, constant woman stereotyping and despicable "heroes" just makes this lengthy film bad.
- DirectorSimon StahoStarsNoomi RapaceThure LindhardtBenedikte HansenAnna dreams of being an actress when she becomes pregnant. Though she struggles to give her daughter a good life, she fails to unite her dream of acting with creating a safe environment for her child.Heartbreaking misanthropic tale about a struggling actress who's life is put in misery by her constantly crying baby, and it all leads to an extreme and dramatic act.
- DirectorMatthew BrightStarsReese WitherspoonKiefer SutherlandBokeem WoodbineA twisted take on "Little Red Riding Hood", with a teenage juvenile delinquent on the run from a social worker travelling to her grandmother's house and being hounded by a charming, but sadistic, serial killer and pedophile.Has almost everything: Pedophilia, racial violence, woman beaters, rapists and girl on girl prison fights. Reese Witherspoons character just travels from one absurd situation to the other.
- DirectorJack HillStarsPam GrierBooker BradshawRobert DoQuiA sexy Black nurse takes vigilante justice against inner-city drug dealers after her sister becomes their latest victim.At a time when blacks and women were brutalized, run down and kept in the mud, one woman is finally able to stand up to them all: Meet Coffy!
- DirectorJack HillStarsPam GrierAntonio FargasPeter BrownA voluptuous vigilante takes a job as a high-class prostitute to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.Pretty much the same as above. Only in this one she's Foxy Brown and a whole lotta woman!
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsMalcolm McDowellPatrick MageeMichael BatesIn the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.Strange and disturbing. Perhaps not the best film to watch in order to enjoy yourself. But what a thoroughly brilliant film this is!
- DirectorDanny SteinmannTom DeSimoneStarsLinda BlairJohn VernonRobert DryerA teenage vigilante seeks revenge on a group of violent thugs who raped her handicapped sister and killed her best friend.So trashy it's funny, maybe, but the blatent misogyny, constant female nudity and sensless violence, you're waiting for moment where the rapists get killed, which makes it a long wait.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsNaomi WattsLaura HarringJustin TherouxAfter a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.Unsettling dream-like situations such as a dead body, a recorded band, hallucinations and a hobo behind a fast food restaurant (shudders) make this film a true lynchian thriller. Also features a hot lesbian scene.
- DirectorJohn SingletonStarsOmar EppsKristy SwansonMichael RapaportPeople from all different walks of life, encounter racial tension, rape, responsibility, and the meaning of an education on a university campus.Exploitation not done in a good way. Black power, Nazis, lesbian feminists that lead to a shootout at a peace rally. Could have been avoided very easily.
- DirectorBarry LevinsonStarsRobert De NiroKevin BaconBrad PittAfter a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized. Thirteen years later, an unexpected random encounter with a former guard gives them a chance for revenge.Supposedly based on a true story, it tells a chilling tale about institutional corruption and damaged children.
- DirectorKathryn BigelowStarsRalph FiennesAngela BassettJuliette LewisA former cop turned street-hustler accidentally uncovers a conspiracy in Los Angeles in 1999.Unflinching violence against women, political corruption regarding police brutality and black market tools has Ralph Fiennes unusually playing the good guy and Angela Basset doing her best as a kick ass female heroine.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsBjörkCatherine DeneuveDavid MorseAn Eastern European US immigrant with a love for musicals has to cope with the gradual loss of her vision.Very brutal in terms of emotion. Bjork is really the person that makes the film work like it works.
- DirectorVirginie DespentesCoralie Trinh ThiStarsRaffaëla AndersonKaren LancaumeCéline BeugnotTwo young women, marginalised by society, go on a destructive tour of sex and violence. Breaking norms and killing men - and shattering the complacency of polite cinema audiences.I'm confused. Is this a porno? A fetish film for rape enthusiasts? A crime drama that's an extreme version of Thelma and Louise? It's not very clear.
- DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsKurt RussellWilford BrimleyKeith DavidA research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.It's about this alien "Thing" that can replicate itself into any living species and create horrible and monsterous beings. Some of it almost made me throw up.
- DirectorLynne RamsayStarsTilda SwintonJohn C. ReillyEzra MillerKevin's mother struggles to love her strange child despite the increasingly dangerous things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.Just the thought of this actually happening is absoultely terrifying.
- DirectorTom SixStarsLaurence R. HarveyAshlynn YennieMaddi BlackInspired by the fictional Dr. Heiter, disturbed loner Martin dreams of creating a 12-person centipede and sets out to realize his sick fantasy.Huge mistake to be watching this in the middle of the night. Let's just say you get enough warnings and despite them, I did watch it and I was traumatized for a day, not eating.
- DirectorLucky McKeeStarsPollyanna McIntoshBrandon Gerald FullerLauren Ashley CarterWhen a successful country lawyer captures and attempts to "civilize" the last remaining member of a violent clan that has roamed the Northeast coast for decades, he puts the lives of his family in jeopardy.CONSTANT misogyny and violence against women in this film, however, the most graphic moments of violence are saved for the men that do it.
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsDaniel CraigRooney MaraChristopher PlummerJournalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for 40 years by young computer hacker Lisbeth Salander.The horribly long and graphic rape scene and animal cruelty are really disturbing and hard to watch scenes but the whole movie is worth watching because its so damn good!
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsDanny GloverWhoopi GoldbergOprah WinfreyA tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.If there isn't racism from whites, there is sexual discrimination and abuse from the black men. Ultimately this is one of the most refreshing, beautiful and best female empowered movies ever.
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsDanny MulheronDonna AkerstenStuart DevenieMultiple animals and insects experience the sleazier side of show business while working on a variety show.The opposite of the Muppets? That's putting it mildly. This film is extremely messed up in every way.
- DirectorJohn SchlesingerStarsSally FieldKiefer SutherlandEd HarrisWhen the courts fail to keep behind bars the man who raped and murdered her daughter, a woman seeks her own form of justice.Twice in a row, a sex offending disgusting murderer is let off to a technicallity???
Since Dexter was not around when this happend, Sally Field delivers a powerful sting of justice and powerful acting in this film. Beware, the rape scenes are very graphic here. - DirectorDaniel BarberStarsMichael CaineEmily MortimerDavid BradleyAn elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.It's terrible to think this is what parts of England have been reduced to now. The yobs in the film are not just bullies, they're absolute f — ucking scum. Michael Caine, still as tough as nails, delivers a truly brilliant performance.
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJeff GoldblumGeena DavisJohn GetzA brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.This is a true horror film, with a tragic love story added to it. Some parts are so disgusting it turn me temporally off eating meat.
- DirectorJohn SingletonStarsJanet JacksonTupac ShakurRegina KingGrieving hairdresser Justice goes on a road trip from South Central L.A. to Oakland on a mail truck alongside her friend and an obnoxious postal worker.Didn't like it. The way women are treated and the way they're portrayed in this film is horrible. The lead character has no spice whatsoever, the male leads are arrogent and misogynisic and the story doesn't particularly go anywhere
- DirectorMartha CoolidgeStarsHalle BerryBrent SpinerKlaus Maria BrandauerDorothy Dandridge's way to fame and fortune as a dancer, singer and actress.She went through hell, raped by a woman, brutalized by her husband, gave birth to a retarded daughter, treated like dirt by the community and film industry because of her race and gender and caught the same drug addiction that also killed Marilyn.
- DirectorJoel SchumacherStarsMatthew McConaugheySandra BullockSamuel L. JacksonIn Canton, Mississippi, a fearless young lawyer and his assistant defend a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter, inciting violent retribution and revenge from the Ku Klux Klan.Matthew Mconaughey plays a lawyer defending a black man accused of killing his daughter's rapists, and ends up endangering all those close to him. Contains horrible racist violence against children and women.
- DirectorAnjelica HustonStarsJennifer Jason LeighRon EldardGlenne HeadlyA mother and daughter find their lives adversely affected when a new man enters the picture. Will their family ever be what they expect?I couldn't watch all of it. Anyone subjected to the worst kind of abuse, be it a woman, animal or child, who cannot defend themselves is just horrible to watch. And to think this happens every day in some parts of the world is just unnacceptable.
- DirectorLucky McKeeStarsAngela BettisJeremy SistoAnna FarisA socially awkward veterinary assistant with a lazy eye and obsession with perfection descends into depravity after developing a crush on a boy with perfect hands.Do you like weird now? I don't think so....
- CreatorAlan BallStarsAnna PaquinStephen MoyerSam TrammellTelepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse encounters a strange new supernatural world when she meets the mysterious Bill Compton, a southern Louisiana gentleman and vampire.Addictive? Yes. But for blood, vicious beatings, intensive gore and too many sex scenes? All in the first season? It's a bit much.
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsJamie FoxxChristoph WaltzLeonardo DiCaprioWith the help of a German bounty-hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner in Mississippi.Extreme racism, over use of the n word and brutal violence makes the film terribly uncomfortable to watch, but the film and the script is so breathtakingly beautiful, it's worth it. Definitely a Tarantino classic!
- DirectorAlex SteyermarkStarsGina GershonLori PettyMarc BlucasPrey For Rock & Roll is the story of Jacki and her all-girl rock and roll band, Clam Dandy, who are trying to make it in the LA club scene of the late 1980s. After ten years of being ignored by record producers, Jacki and the band find hope in one producer who promises to see them play and consider them for a contract. Jacki resolves to play this one last gig and then throw in the towel if she does not find success. Personal tragedies, however, threaten to rip the band apart, rocking the foundation of friendship and trust the women have built together. Ultimately, the band must find its strength in the music that is their passion and the thread that holds them together, inspiring them to prevail.The rape and beating scene of the drummer Sally just came out of absolutely no where, and it really freaked me out. Also, incest, prostitution, drug abuse and loss of friends are also part of the film's themes.
Gina Gershon is brilliant however, and has a great singing voice. - CreatorDavid BenioffD.B. WeissStarsEmilia ClarkePeter DinklageKit HaringtonNine noble families fight for control over the lands of Westeros, while an ancient enemy returns after being dormant for millennia.The entire series gives me a bitter taste in my mouth because of the constant threat and scenes of rape and abuse against women and men. But none of them can match the sheer horror of the infamous Red Wedding.
- DirectorSteve McQueenStarsChiwetel EjioforMichael Kenneth WilliamsMichael FassbenderIn the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free Black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.Very frank and pulls no punches on the accurate depictions on the horrors of slavery.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsCharlotte GainsbourgStellan SkarsgårdWillem DafoeThe continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adulthood, obsessions and what led to her being in Seligman's care.The second part was much more violent and disturbing than the first. Violent beatings of women, pedophilia and an ending so bleak, it makes you hate human beings for a long time. It's pretty easy to say now that absolutely none of Lars Von Tiers' movies are an easy or pleasent watch. Most of which are very misanthropic.
- DirectorJames Cullen BressackStarsJody BartonNicholas Adam ClarkGregory DePetroA Jewish family, that just arrived in a new neighborhood, are recording their youngest son's birthday celebrations on video when their home is suddenly invaded by a bunch of crystal-meth-crazed Neo-Nazi lunatics.The title says it all. Positively an unbreathable, vile, heartbreaking, horrific, terrifying, intense and torturous film. I watched it with the DVD commentary on, which made it more or less tolerable, but frightening all the same.
- DirectorAva DuVernayStarsDavid OyelowoCarmen EjogoOprah WinfreyA chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.Details the horrific hate crimes done by white police against peaceful black voters during the Selma To Montgomery march, for the civil rights movement in the early 1960s. It was systematic brutality and murder back then. But the most disturbing thing is, is that things like this still happen today, with Ferguson and New York.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsSigourney WeaverBen KingsleyStuart WilsonA political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.Like a reviewer on here pointed out, this film is unbreathable. I was hyperventilating during the second half of this thriller because of its intensity.
- DirectorFrank DarabontStarsThomas JaneMarcia Gay HardenLaurie HoldenA freak storm unleashes a species of bloodthirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole up in a supermarket and fight for their lives.Definitely reevaluates the meaning of the word "horror". Like Stephan King does with many of his stories, he makes a plot about humans in peril from monsters, but its core premise is how far humans are willing to go to survive.
It also has one of the most brutally tragic endings of all time. - DirectorLee DanielsStarsGabourey SidibeMo'NiquePaula PattonIn New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that she can re-route her life in a better direction.The *CONSTANT* abuse that the main character suffers is almost unbearable to watch. The mother (played by Monique) is horrifically monstrous, and poor Precious doesn't seem to catch a break at all, even by the end of it.
- DirectorJonathan GlazerStarsScarlett JohanssonJeremy McWilliamsLynsey Taylor MackayA mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. However, events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.There is a scene where a toddler is left stranded on an abandoned beach for a long time after his parents accidentally drown. And several aliens walk past him and take no notice. That was very hard to watch.
- DirectorFlorian GallenbergerStarsEmma WatsonDaniel BrühlMichael NyqvistA young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody has ever escaped from.There's a hell of a lot of physical violence towards women, as well as child molestation scenes and torture. The worst thing is, many of these nasty perpetrators went free in real life. It's repulsive.
- CreatorBruce MillerStarsElisabeth MossYvonne StrahovskiAnn DowdSet in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.This is probably the most disturbing series of the moment because this dystopian world could actually happen, and in some countries, these kinds of barbaric laws and tortures are actually happening right at this moment.
- DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsJennifer LawrenceJavier BardemEd HarrisA couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.It starts out as an allegory for Mother Nature and her relationship with God - but it quickly descends into the most sickly disturbing, violent and CRAZY chaos you can ever imagine.
- DirectorJonas ÅkerlundStarsRory CulkinEmory CohenJack KilmerA teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the early 1990s results in a very violent outcome.Animal abuse, brutal prolonged stabbings and intense misanthropy - all in the name of death metal? They are the real posers.
- DirectorTodd PhillipsStarsJoaquin PhoenixRobert De NiroZazie BeetzDuring the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.Disturbing because of its bleak tone, the descent of the main character's madness and what people find funny. Amazing film, though.
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsLeonardo DiCaprioBrad PittMargot RobbieA faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.Although certain people found the ultra violent fate of the Manson followers at the end funny, it haunted me profoundly.
- CreatorSam LevinsonStarsZendayaHunter SchaferJacob ElordiA look at life for a group of high school students as they grapple with issues of drugs, sex, and violence.Disturbing because of how realistic and graphic it is in its portrayal of teen drug abuse and mental illness. It combines truly heartbreaking and shocking scenes with genuinely good writing and acting.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsLiam NeesonRalph FiennesBen KingsleyIn German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.A rough but important film about the holocaust, the nature of good and evil and where kindness can be found in the absolute darkest of places. Not happy a movie, but a very moving picture.