What is an emotionally devastating movie that you would rewatch?

Asked by Justin Khoo

What is an emotionally devastating movie that you would rewatch?

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The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
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Grouchy Marx 4mos

Ugh, +1. So painful, but so good.

Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
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Charlie Torres 4mos

I vote Threads as well, especially if you're looking for anti-war gut punching.

After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
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Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
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Trojan Borscht 4mos

Arrival sort of snuck up on me (though I haven't rewatched yet and am unsure if it would be as effective the second time around)

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Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
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Justin Khoo 4mos

Whiplash! I think that would speak to a lot of MIT undergrads...

Tavneet Suri 4mos

Let me caveat this by saying that, as a general rule, I try to avoid many emotionally devastating movies. And most of the ones I do end up watching I would never ever watch again. One of the only ones that I can think of that I would watch again is Whiplash...

A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the sam
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Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, escaping
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A barren soundstage is stylishly utilized to create a minimalist small-town setting in which a mysterious woman named Grace hides from the criminals who pursue her. The town is two-faced and offers to harbor Grace as long as she can make it worth their effort, so Grace works hard under the employ of
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When an interdimensional rupture unravels reality, an unlikely hero must channel her newfound powers to fight bewildering dangers from the multiverse, as the fate of everything hangs in the balance.
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At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum. As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood. Twenty years later, Sophie's tender recollections of t
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Nick Kline 4mos

Aftersun (2022). Let's go!

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Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them t
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Chelsea Victoria 4mos

I watched melancholia twice 😂 also midsommar.

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In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.
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