5. The Killing Fields (1984)

The movie:: Roland Joff's masterpiece is predictably upsetting, given its concern with the atrocities committed by Cambodia's Khmer Rouge. Less frequently documented than the t🌊roubles in neighbouring Vietnam, it's a horrific look back at a dark an🎐d very recent passage of history.

Most miserable moment: The scene in which Dith Pran awakes in a field full of rotting corpses will stay🐻 with you long after the final credits roll.

4. The Passion of the Christ (2004)

The movie: Mel Gibson's d🐷ivisive look into the last days of Jesus Christ. Regardless of your religious beliefs, watching a man brutally beaten, tortured and killed for the best part of two hours will likely leave you feeling a little down.

Most miserable moment: Jesus' repe🧔ated col🌱lapse under the weight of the cross is as sickeningly painful as it is frustratingly drawn out.

3. Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

The movie: Nicolas Cage plays a profoundly miserable man on the brisk of suicide who opts to take his leave of this mortal coil in Las Vegas. He befriends Elisabeth Shu꧂e's hooker-with-a-hear🦩t-of-gold but even she can't save him. You're essentially using your Friday night trip to the movies to watch a deeply unhappy man drink himself to death for two hours. Uplifting, it ain't.

Most miserable moment: You know it's coming, but when Cage snuffs it in Elisabeth Shue's arms.🅰 Oh, its just too sa🎃d!

2. Requiem for a Dream (2000)

The movie: Darren Aronofsky's waking nightmare follows four lives as they slowly descend into desperation. Ravaged by various forms of addiction, Jared Leto, Marlon W🦄ayans, Ellen Burstyn and Jennifer Connelly all get put through the emotional wringer. Electro-shock therapy, intravenous drug use, prostitution... it's no🅺t exactly a laugh riot.

Most miserable moment: That end-of-movie montage wh♒en all four of the main characters succumb to misery and assume the fetal position. You'll feel like doing the same.