Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
martyrs is grim as in horrific
let him have it is grim as in depressing
let him have it is grim as in depressing
Grim Films
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Any of the British kitchen sink/sink estate films that nobody else in the world could make like the British.
Start off with Ken Loach. Then watch "This Is England" followed by sepia toned "Vera Drake".
And if you've not had your fill with that lot watch anything by the Dardenne Brothers - clones in law of Loach whom also don't use professional actors and who don't like anything other than ambient soundtracks and long meaningless takes. Their films include: "La promesse", "Rosetta", "Le fils", "L’Enfant", "Le silence de Lorna".
And to add to your list: Red Road and the new one by the same director: "Fish Tank."
Razor blades at the ready and enough of the working class angst.
the Chinese can match it on occasion. Watch Beijing Bicycle or Blind shaft to see what I mean
And no, before anyone makes the predictable joke, it's not a disabled blaxpoitation film.
Biglittlefish
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Breaking the waves.
Palindrome.
2046
Fanboys(For different reasons)
Palindrome.
2046
Fanboys(For different reasons)
Zabo
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Yoiu may also want to watch: "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" An abortion film set in the latter days of communist Romania.
For grim satire try "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu". It's actually quite moving in a grim sort of way.
The early films of Aki Kaurismäki are very grim in a Finnish kind of way. You'll have to be selective.
For grim satire try "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu". It's actually quite moving in a grim sort of way.
The early films of Aki Kaurismäki are very grim in a Finnish kind of way. You'll have to be selective.
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Biglittlefish
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4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days is an great film. Not uplifting but far from boring.
DaveCinzano
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The Great Ecstasy Of Robert Carmichael plods along through banality into grimness before ending in a particularly grim crescendo.
Biglittlefish
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Hunger is pretty grim.
FabricLiveBaby!
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But that's the point. It builds you up then knock you right back down. Which makes things even grimmer.
I like the , where she says "It's all going to be OK harold", then the title pops up. And THAT is the requiem (prayer) for the dream. "It's all going to be OK".
But it never is, is it?
RubyBlue
faded and jaded
When I first saw this movie - my mate was living in a rehab and we spent the entire time watching it whilst trying to not get depressed on the phone ... it's depressing as hell but I love it.
^^ read the book - all of Hubert Selbys works are great reads.
Hustler White was depressing..
RubyBlue
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Boycey
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not as grim as many mentioned but not exactly a film to make you feel warm and fuzzy: the young poisoners handbook. worth a mention as it is IMO criminally underrated.
'Family Life', the film that Ken Loach made next after 'Kes' is extremely grim and depressing. Its about a teenage girl who is sectioned by her very controlling/strict parents after she gets pregnant. She's treated compassionately to begin with by a psychotherapist character in an experimental ward (the character was modelled on R.D.Laing and his anti-psychiatry ideas), but when she's moved to another ward things get worse and worse. It really is grim, but fascinating in the way it shows a completely different side to the Swinging Sixties image of Britain in this period and suggests how little, arguably, had changed in the majority of people's lives e.g. parents still being very authoritarian. Brilliant film, but very hard to watch. (On a lighter note, Harry Cross from Brookside plays her dad!)
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
Naked is pretty grim.
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
Its not exactly grim but, kinda black black comedy. I was in Peter Pan with the kid who was the lead.
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
Oh and the lead in Young Poisoners Handbook was in the film Lamb in 1986. Liam Neelson is a priest who rescues a young boy from sexual abuse in residential care. V. Grim.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
i dunno, it's pretty dark - esp when he's poisoning his mum and her hair falls out
ooh thought of another Chinese film which is fucking grim (well it was made by a Chinese Canadian and was filmed elsewhere, so it's not a Chinese film per se, but it's in Mandarin and covers some soul-wrenchingly shit stuff that happens to a girl during the Cultural Revolution..Xiu Xiu, The Sent Down Girl
I'd say easily as bad as Lilja 4 Ever
I'd say easily as bad as Lilja 4 Ever
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Scum is pretty devoid of any hope or comfort.
That film's very sad, when he can't drown himself at the end, it's tragic
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