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Grave of the fireflies.

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Everyone that welcomes the fall of society or post war survivalist fantasies should watch this for a reality check.

I was going to say OpenWater but apparently that is horror film

and I was horrified. lol

but no, a not at all related to marine life movie, Swimming with the Sharks was really impactful. Kevin Spacey yelling at you "What is it you really really want?!“ was good. but yeah fuck him.

anyway, lots of good films to check out - thanks for the thread!

Spy Kids disturbed me as a kid because of the idea of people being turned into fooglies. The film doesn't even show them being changed back, I guess we're supposed to assume it. Why couldn't they have a scene at the end where the rescued agents videochat with the cortezes and thank them? The movie also has kind of a creepy atmosphere. I revisited it a bunch of times and kept being disturbed. Then I watched it again at age 30, fully prepared to be triggered by certain scenes but weirdly, I wasn't. It's just a normal movie to me now, and a pretty good one for what it is

All quiet on the western front

It's a movie about a German soldier during WWI, really trying to convey the horrors of war.

Pasolini's Salo/120 Days of Sodom - Nobody ever regrets watching it.

Bad Boy Bubby - One of many grim Aussie films of that era. A classic.

The Warzone - Tim Roth's directorial feature. Incestuous rape introducing Colin Farrell in his feature debut.

Drowning By Numbers/ A Zed and Two Noughts - Peter Greenaway shoots his films like renaissance paintings. Do you like lots and lots of snails on naked bodies? No? Tough. The Michael Nyman scores are terrific though.

You can pretty much take your pic with any of Lars Von Triers films. Breaking the Waves, Antichrist, Dogville etc.

Festen - which is Danish but NOT a Lars Von Trier film is probably the best Dogme 95 films of all. Including that fucking MAGAT Harmony Korine. Don't know if this is that haunting but a good film anyway.

Come and See - Yes yes come and see! and in the vein of horrible WW2 films...

Salon Kitty - Tinto Brass before he went full porno.

Baise Moi - FUCK ME! No really that's what its called.

Christiane F : Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo - Not a documentary but based on fact.

Reckon that should be enough. Happy viewing! LOL.

Badlands

On The Beach

Fail-Safe

I remember when they filmed that movie near me.

Kids, Requiem for a Dream

Not a movie but an episode of Fringe I watched last night (s2e11, "Unearthed"), that started with a teenage girl being taken off life support at the hospital. It hit a little too close to home, and the presentation was so effective, watching it was very traumatic. I mean Fringe can be horror-ish but it's generally more in the sci-fi realm.

Grave of the Fireflies. You don't see any fighting and most people the protagonists meet are good, AND YET it's so depressing. Seeing how bad the horrors of war are, even in the best case scenario, was eye-opening for me.

AI: Artificial intelligence

Messed me up a little because I watched it so young. I was old enough to understand the themes and moral dilemmas, but some scenes were just so heartbreaking. What matters? What's real? What does it mean to be alive or to be human?

Seeing Robin Williams play a creep in 1 Hour Photo was unsettling. Especially the scene where he is imagining being part of the family whose home he has broken into and is just casually doing stuff in.

Also Grave of the Fireflies for being the greatest movie I never want to see again for reasons that will only be clear ig you also watch it.

Dancer in the dark. Sad story of a woman who does everything to be happy ans still cant.

Testament.

The slow death of living in a post-nuclear world. Terrifying in its hopelessness. You don’t actually see the destruction from the nuclear detonation, only people slowly dying. I know there are other films like Day After or Threads, but in those they depict the epicenters of the bombs destruction, not the slow death outside of the worst hit area. I found it crushing in a way that the other movies didn’t match.

Happiness.

There is no on screen violent or sexual acts but it still got a NC-17 rating. It's the darkest of dark comedies, if you're after disturbing for the sake of disturbing, you won't be able to top this.

Kids (1995)

Similar to Requiem, a one-time-only must-watch.

Trainspotting

Requiem for a Dream

Both movies were good. Both movies were absolutely a one time watch and never again.

Old Boy. The 2003 Korean one, at least.

I thought Johnny Got His Gun was disturbing when I watched it in school. May have been because I was a kid though.

Dogville, and most of everything else by Lars von Trier (as others have mentioned).

Some of the Black Mirror episodes give that existential dread. The one where a conciousness is imprisoned in a teddybear comes to mind.

They've both been mentioned below but mine are 'Grave of the Fireflies,' and 'When the Wind Blows.' They hit harder than 'horror' movies because they are, in a way, the real human horror for which a 'genre:horror' movie would be an abstraction.