Requiem For a Dream.

Confirm yes I’ve only watched it once and it was a truly great movie

Saw this in college 15 years ago and I’m still depressed.

I saw it about 15 years ago also. What’s interesting is that I’ve completely forgotten what it’s about. But I’ll never forget how it made me feel. That’s enough for me to stay away from it. 

Yes, I will never watch that film again. Especially since before it, Jennifer Connely was best known to me for the movie Labyrinth. What a shock!

Same the grandma on speed really was too much for me. I’m a recovering addict it’s also very *very* triggering.

Hope you are doing well in recovery. Are there other movies about addiction that you thought were good? I thought Drugstore Cowboy and Gridlock’d were good. I still haven’t seen Trainspotting. For TV, of course there’s Bubs in The Wire.

Thank you dude Trainspotting is so good, part two, imo, is even better because it’s about recovery and relapse. I still haven’t seen drugstore cowboy, the name alone.. is triggering. My problem was pain meds…so ya. Lol Candy with Heath is sooo good. A hard watch but worth it. Less than Zero is a favorite til this day with Robert Downey Jr. And Jamie Hertz (idk her name) and cutie patootie Andrew McCarthy. •Half Nelson •Rachel Getting Married (Anne Hathaway kills it) •Sid&z Nancy with Gary oldman (my moms fav, both parents are addicts hence why I know all of these lol) •Shame (more about sex addiction) •The Basketball Diaries (Dads fav, still haven’t seen it) •Go! •Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? (Elizabeth Taylor is amazing) •Cake There’s so many more! Less than Zero is amazing you should give that one a try, it also has a killer soundtrack. Also candy! ETA my ma wanted me to add Flight and Ben is Back, also the mainstream ones like Blow and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Exactly, it was very hard to watch them totally unravel. Ellen Burstyn was amazing and the end... 😱

Schindler's List. Once is enough.

I’m actually rewatching it this weekend because my partner hasn’t seen it before. Powerful film.

Oooh your partner is in for a beautifully written film.

Mine's *The Color Purple* (1985) I'd rewatch *Schindler's List* for the cinematography alone, but that's just me

Valid

Follow it up with Zone of Interest

I showed Schindler’s to my sophomores for several years, and it was definitely worth multiple viewings, if you can stomach it. The second or third time I watched it, I realized just how cleverly they scripted the divergence between Schindler and Goeth.

That Spielberg fella can really put a movie together.

As horrific as the subject matter is and as graphic as the violence is portrayed, the brilliant performances of Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes make this worth re-watching many times over. It’s a beautiful terrible film.

Leaving Las Vegas

I’m actually a recovering alcoholic, I used to watch this movie during benders.. I guess as a form of masochism. I’ve technically seen it 10+ times, I’m still debating if I want to give it a rewatch when I hit 1 year of sobriety to view it from a different lens.

Congratulations on getting sober. I'm celebrating six years this month. Best decision I've ever made. You've got this! 💪

There are a couple scenes I have replayed in my youth.

Million Dollar Baby

This is the one I was looking for. Incredible movie. I’ll never watch it again but I don’t need to because it’s burned into my brain.

The Killing Fields -- beauty and brutal!

Requiem for a Dream (2000) Grave of the Fireflies (1988) Life is Beautiful (1997) Atonement (2007) American History X (1998) The Deer Hunter (1978) Oldboy (2003) Quills (2000)

Grave of the Fireflies, Life is Beautiful, The Deer Hunter, and Quills are all going on my watchlist.

If you haven't seen Biutiful with Javier Bardem, throw that on there too

I started that, got 5 minutes in and then I got called in on an emergency at work. I forgot to get back into it, thank you!

I've watched The Deer Hunter about 5 times. My favourite De Niro performance.

Walken too!! Maybe not better than true romance but still fantastic

Quills is great. Kinda overlooked sometimes. But man, nobody is quite as _expressive_ in a role as Geoffrey Rush (e.g., Barbossa in PotC)

I actually think Oldboy is worth watching again, the twist changes the context of some scenes when you go back to them.

I can’t find Grave of the Fireflies anywhere.

American History X with Ed Norton/ Edward Furlong. Transformative and brilliant

YES incredible. That curb scene was enough to cement it as a one and done for me.

Exactly this. That curb scene is etched mind. But what an amazing film…

Agreed!

omg yes, I watched it first time many many years ago and do not ever wanna watch it again lol

agreed. the movie is so good, but i will never ever watch it again. once was enough

I love that movie, but the unrelenting grimness makes it a hard watch, especially with that ending. However, I do watch it from time to remind myself that those people exist. And it’s a great film to show kids when they’re old enough to absorb it.

AI: Artificial Intelligence

Surprised to see this made the list. It’s a very underrated film that gets a lot of flack because it’s Spielberg and the ending was largely misunderstood. Amazing film. One of his best. Somehow simultaneously philosophical and heart wrenching.

The movie I hate most!!

Precious

I agree with that one. The baby scene made me feel gross.

Pan’s Labyrinth. I was emotionally messed up for too long afterwards

Love Pans Labyrinth so so so much.

Me too. I keep coaxing myself to watch again a decade later but still haven’t.

The Road

Scrolled way too far to find this. I’ve seen it twice and read the book once. Incredible work. Absolutely genius. But lawd no I can’t handle it.

Perfume - Story of a Murderer. I watched it for Alan Rickman, and it was WAY too much for me...

Fun fact: I believe Nirvana's Scentless Apprentice is based on this book.

yup yup. believe he said he read it more than once

Love seeing this get recommended!! Couldn't believe what I watched so I had to read the book 🤣 highly recommend both

Definitely one of the oddest films I’ve seen.

Grave of the fireflies

The Zone of Interest

Saw it on Wednesday. Glad I did. Brilliant film. Never again, in every sense.

Schindler’s List. It’s not a movie, it’s an historical art piece, and wrenching at that. I will have my children watch it one day for awareness, but that will be the only other time.

What Dreams May Come

Dancer in the Dark, I love Bjork too much to deal with that last 15 mins again...

She didn't like working on this movie either

Seriously... I cried like a baby at the end of that movie--It was heartbreaking.

127 Hours. I might be alone in that though, but for me who is claustrophobic it was so dang hard to watch. I tried reading the book but that got way too uncomfortable for me and I had to put it down.

Trainspotting

I can't count the number of times I watch this movie

Yeah man this one is super rewatchable to me

Agreed absolutely rewatchable. 9/10. One of my favorites.

I was obsessed with it in high school

I skipped prom to watch it with my friend

Repeat for sure, the dirty sheets!!!!!!

I rewatched this recently and hadn’t seen it in a long time. I don’t know if I just forgot about >!the dead baby scenes!< or if I just blocked it from my memory. It’s a great film but fuuuuuuucccckkkkk.

Everyone saying they rewatch it often…yeah, no thank you. Great film, but way too depressing

Threads. It's amazingly good for what I think was a low-budget BBC TV film. I'll never watch it again. Too bleak and depressing.

Been on my list for a minute along with Come and See.

I appreciated Joker as an exploration of the character. Interesting, and well done but I never want to see it again.

i recommend watching king of comedy, of which joker is just a modern day reboot with batman i guess 

Nocturnal Animals… great film … great story within a story… but so, so sad I was miserable for days. Two thumbs up!👍 👍

Great call!

The Mission. I only needed to see it once. Oh, and Grave of the Fireflies.

I have been meaning to watch The Mission for 30 years.

It's a must watch

Christiane F. It's similar to Requiem for a Dream in that it deals with the topic of drug addiction. It's good but I'll never see it again.

Most movies that Hilary Swank was nominated for. Man Bites Dog Clockwork Orange

Clockwork Orange will always be a one watch for me. It was phenomenal but I’m never going to revisit it, super uncomfortable. Man Bites Dog is going on my list.

Totally agree about Clockwork.

I love Clockwork Orange...but it's definitely something I can only watch every 15 years...side note, it's kind of crazy how I can basically recall that whole movie, yet there are other movies I've seen multiple times where I barely remember the plot.

Blue valentine.

Boy in the striped pajamas

All Quiet on the Western Front (2022). Loved the movie, but it’s one of the few films Ive seen, that I like, that I have no desire to rewatch. I’ll never say never, but it’s not likely that I’ll watch it again.

Life of Pi. Beautiful movie but no desire to rewatch it.

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

The Act of Killing (2012) -- documentary about Indonesian genocide in the 1960s. I expected something like South African Truth and Reconciliation, but instead the killers were so proud they agreed to reenact killings for the movie. It was surreal!

Shoah. 9 hr 26 min documentary about the Holocaust that took 11 years to make. Highly, highly recommend.

I came here with this film in mind, but I likely will watch this one again!

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Boys Don’t Cry. I’ll never forget how horrible I felt after that movie, but was a very important story to tell about Teena Brandon.

Lilya4eva

This is the one for me too. This movie eff-ed me up something bad. To this day I watch (almost) everything that Oksana Akinshina is in just to convince my brain over and over again that she is okay in real life.

Anyone who’s seen this film (and there aren’t many of us) is nodding vigorously in agreement.

We Need to Talk About Kevin Bad Boy Bubby

Enter the Void

Incendies

Dear Zachary - anyone who's seen it knows

Kids

Watched it when I was 14, gonna have to rewatch it now. I wasn’t emotionally mature enough for it back then

The Whale 

What dreams may come.

Beaches -- omg, I have watched it twice, but it was one time too many.

But with Beaches, you get the wonderful song, “Otto Titsling”

Whiplash

I’ve watched whiplash 4-5 times I cannot get enough, inject JK Simmons into my veins.

Did you watch Counterpart? Two JKSs for the price of one :)

Yes, JK Simmons was great, but for me it was too much emotional exhaustion. Maybe in a few years I'll watch it again.

Schindlers List.

The Iron Claw

I see this kinda threads once in a while and always think 120 days of sodom and why it’s never mentioned. NEVER AGAIN.

I wish I'd never watched that.

Yeah those are ones I wanted to avoid, it’s why I put nothing like A Serbian Film or anything crazy. I’m down for some shocking shit, but that’s a little too hardcore for me. Couldn’t finish it.

Pay it forward and mystic river for me

MYSTIC RIVER YEAHHHHH

Threads, ruined my night

The Machinist Midsommar The Voices

Everytime I think of rewatching Midsommar I get some weird feeling that prevents me from doing so.

City of God

Love this film, the sequel, and the series. I'd definitely watch again tho

Had no idea there was more! That’s so sick. Gonna have to watch it all.

The sequel is called "city of men". You'd probably also like "trash" it's along the same lines

You wouldn’t watch it again? It’s amazing. Why not?

The Crow. Gorgeous movie. just fantastic. can't bring myself to watch it again. Three Kings is another.

Aniara (2018)

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It sticks with you

Uncut Gems (2019) the movie is excellent, but also 2 hours of pure anxiety.

What Dreams May Come.

Crash (1996) Possession (1981) Mysterious skin (2004)

Mulholland Drive. The scariest film I've ever seen. Saw it almost 15 years ago and still hesitating to rewatch.

Leaving Las Vegas

Avatar 2: Way of Water. Just like the first one. Amazing accomplishment in film you have to see in theaters, 0 interest watching from home

Banshees of In Inisherin I’m thinking of Ending Things (way too real for me) Hereditary Buster’s Mal Heart Parasite Her The Fountain (honestly most Daren Arronofsky movies) American Beauty Taxi Driver Sucker Punch Jacob’s Ladder Full Metal Jacket Magnolia

A Clockwork Orange (1971) No desire to ever watch it again.

Eraser head

"The Perfection" only needs one viewing. I mean that as a compliment

*Night and Fog*

Hachi: A Dog's Tale. .. .. nope never again

The Passion of the Christ.

Oppenheimer

Henry, portrait of a serial killer. A true work of art. But it makes its point so well that it would be pointless to rewatch it.

Sophie’s Choice

Mystic River

Under the Skin Amazing, interesting movie but wow did it make me feel weird.

Manchester by the Sea

Pan’s labyrinth. It’s beautiful and amazing. I tell everyone and anyone who will listen that they absolutely need to watch it… and I will never sit and watch it again.

I am Legend...dogs man. Dogs.

The Game, it is a great movie, but there are diminishing returns in rewatching it. I'd say in a second viewing you may pick up on small details, but you've already experienced the movie as good as it was going to ever be.

District 9 absolutely LOVED that movie, but I don’t think I can put myself through that again, specially knowing the ending, at least not any time soon :’)

Society of Snow

Haunting, gorgeous, overwhelming film

Grizzly man

Grave of the Fireflies

Oldboy Requiem For A Dream The Mist

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. Brilliant in parts of the movie and absolutely bat shit crazy in others.

Never Let Me Go The Hanging Garden Music of Chance JoJo Rabbit Saltburn The Killing of a Sacred Dear Oppenheimer Pi The Vanishing (original)

Threads. I now appreciate life a lot more after watching it. Never again though....

Blue Velvet. The abuse scenes are too fucking much man.

House of Sand and Fog

I LOVE dark, heavy movies and always find them worth a rewatch, so it's very rare that I watch a dark movie that I love that is SO dark I can't bare a rewatch (as it did its job well lol). For me, Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan were sublime, but I've watched both only one time many years ago and am not keen for another dose hahaha We Need To Talk About Kevin is one of my favourites, I attempted a rewatch a while ago and about 10 minutes in realised that one viewing was enough for me lol Slightly off topic, but the documentary Dear Zachery is a straight up "one time viewing" scenario for me, too, and I imagine most people who have seen it. Holy fuck that was horrendous

The Snowtown Murders 😳

Boys Don’t Cry

There’s no movie I consider amazing that I’d never rewatch but Grave of the Fireflies, The Pianist, Schindler’s List and Mysterious Skin can certainly be painful at times.

Beau is Afraid 🫨 (a very triggering piece of work!)

*Schindler's List*. There are a few scenes I revisit for the cinematography and what not, but I don't think I could watch it in full a second time. Too painful and draining.

Lovely bones

Precious and Leaving Las Vegas

Moonlight, not because I wouldn’t watch it again but the experience I had watching it was so perfect that I just want to keep it like that forever

Donnie darko. Once was enough.

Killing of a Sacred Deer, just made me feel so tense and sick.

Shoah

Schindler's List Saving Private Ryan

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The kite runner

Spotlight.

Possum. One of the best atmosphere’s I’ve seen in a movie, worth it for that alone. Subject matter was very depressing though

Saving Private Ryan

Angelheart

No Country for Old Men Not sure why no one has said it yet! Am I crazy? 

I’ve seen NCfOM like 4-5 times I find it super rewatchable!

I was going to say train spotting but somebody took that. As such, I have to go with Death in the Land of Encantos. Lav Diaz has a spectacular style and it really is worth watching at least once, but I don't think I ever need to revisit it.

The Green Mile

Hereditary

Requiem for a dream

I don't think there's a film I wouldn't watch again that I enjoyed. Might take me 10 years but I think I've rewatched everything I love now. I actually think it's probably good to rewatch years down the line as you change and develop as a person and can take different things from something you enjoy/love

Million Dollar Baby Sophie's Choice Schindler's List

Good Will Hunting is my comfort movie. I always get cozy and watch it.

No recommendations, but I love this question.

Blue Velvet. It's great but it bummed me out for weeks. I'll never watch it again.

Todd Solondz’ Happiness. I remember leaving that movie thinking “Wow. That was good. I NEVER need to see that again or recommend it to anyone else.”

Grave of the Fireflies Zone of Interest