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You’re going to need something to cheer you up after watching these depressing and sad movies, something like a new patio furniture set or newborn puppy.

“Breaking the Waves”

Director Lars von Trier is known for putting his women protagonists through the ringer, but never has he done so as painfully as in “Breaking the Waves”, his 1996 film starring Emily Watson and Stellan Skarsgard. Watson stars as Bess, a naïve young woman who marries an oil rig worker who is injured in an accident, her husband encourages her to find fulfillment with other men and to tell him about it. As she does his condition improves but with terrible consequences. Bess’ dedication to her husband and her God is heart breaking and makes “Breaking the Waves” one of the saddest and most disturbing movies.

“The Elephant Man”

The story of the deformed and ill-treated Joseph Merrick aka “The Elephant Man” is one of the most inspiring and sad movies. Reportedly his mother was kicked by an elephant while she was pregnant with him (hence his name), Merrick was born into the sideshow, exhibited as a freak but eventually rescued and studied. Merrick was a surprisingly intelligent and witty man who did his best to fit in with society. In the film’s conclusion, the sick and dying Merrick only wishes to sleep like a normal person, recumbent with his head on his pillow, but knows that if he does, the weight of his deformed head and bronchial tubes will kill him, but he does so anyway.

“Irreversible”

This movie stars with one of the most brutal scenes ever committed to film, and rarely lets up. It’s basically a revenge story told backwards with the end at the beginning. It received a lot of controversy for two extremely violent and disturbing scenes, but what many critics failed to admit was how powerful these scenes were and how essential they were to the overall narrative. What makes the film so sad is that through these scenes we know the eventual, terrible end to the characters we watch throughout the middle of the film. It is a great film by one of France’s best new directors, Gasper Noe.