Other Realist/bleak movies
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Le-Revenant — 17 years ago(March 04, 2009 07:47 AM)
Agreed. Great film.
Also check out Anjos do Sol (2006) http://www.imdb.com/board/10847154/. Both Lilja 4ever and that has very similar content. -
flowery_meerkat — 17 years ago(January 16, 2009 03:11 PM)
Anything by Ken Loach is pretty grim.As are films by Catherine Breillat,but she more deals with adolescents and sexual perception and awareness.
Never happen, Cherry. You survive the Nam, you get to live forever, man. -
cheshirecat-8 — 17 years ago(January 19, 2009 09:43 AM)
Yeah, Kaurismki! Also, check into danish dogma film ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogma_95 )
Probably easier to find are some more or less classic Hollywood films, like "Boys don't cry" (with Hilary Swank as transexual Brandon Teena in a hostile white trash environment) and "The Basketball Diaries", with Leonardo DiCaprio as a heroine addict (surprisingly good and gritty, very much prostitution and misery in that one). -
HuGore — 17 years ago(March 18, 2009 04:16 PM)
Let The Right One In IS a great "bleaky" movie and I must say (most of you may wanna kill me for mentioning it) "The Wrestler" is also a very sad movieit may not have a really profound theme but it sad
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gtsstl — 17 years ago(March 26, 2009 10:18 PM)
Lots of excellent films mentioned above. I recommend another bleak film, a documentary actually, called Children Underground. It's another one of those films which is so horribly true it makes you want to rescue the people you are watching and then, failing that, never see the film again.
By the way, this seems to be one of the better, non-polluted threads I've read on IMDB lately.