People Share Movies They Loved, But Are Too Emotionally Traumatic To Watch Again

People love movies. We love being captivated by a good story, but sometimes that story is just a little too potent. There are some emotionally traumatic movies that, though loved,  folks can only make it through once.

People in this thread share the movies that they “loved but could only watch once”. As someone who loves to rewatch his favorite movies, that is a powerful statement.

First, a compiled list of all the moves shared. After that is a more nuanced list with explanations. Feel free to share any movies they missed in the comments.

My contribution to this list is The Neverending Story. That movie hit hard in a lot of ways but I still haven’t gotten over Artax and the Swamp of Sadness 🙁

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Emotionally Traumatic Movies:

• Come and see

• Dancer in the Dark

• The Neverending Story

• Mary and Max

• Threads

• The Hunt

• Boys don’t cry

• Once were warriors

• We need to talk about Kevin

• Melancholia

• Life is Beautiful

• Leaving Las Vegas

• What’s eating Gilbert Grape

• The pianist

• Wind River

• The road

• Grave of fire flies

• What dreams may come

• Dear zachary

• Stand by me

• American History X

• Schindlers List

• The mist

• Requiem for a dream

• Manchester By the sea

• When the wind blows

• kids

• Hachi: A Dog’s Tale

• Trainspotting

• City of God.

• Philadelphia

• Elephant

• Martyrs

• Brokeback Mountain

• Earthlings

• Pay It Forward:

• Moonlight

• Nightcrawler

• Mystic River

• Se7en

• Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

• Sorry to bother you

• Where the red fern grows

• Atonement.

• Children of Men

• The Deer Hunter

• Johnny got his gun.

• AI

• The Accused.

• The Game.

• The Last Unicorn

• Big Fish

• Click

• Beautiful Boy

• DONNIE DARKO.

• Bridge to Terabithia

• The lobster

• 5cm per seconds

• your lie in april

• Clannad

• Breaking the waves

• The Lighthouse

• Coco

• Precious

• About Time

• Gone girl

• A marriage story

• The Lovely Bones

• Million Dollar Baby

• A Clockwork Orange

• The Haunting of Hill House

• Interstellar

• Blue Valentine

• Jacob’s Ladder

• The platform

• I saw the devil

• Amistad

• Paprika

• 1917

• Ordinary People

• Uncut gems

• Spun

• Lost in Translation

• Map of the Human Heart

• Wolf Children

• The Sweet Hereafter

• The Vanishing

• Legends of the fall.

• Glengarry Glen Ross.

• Lilya 4-ever

• The Butterfly Effect

• Jojo rabbit

• Bone tomahawk

• Enter the Void

• The Nightingale

• Blue valentine

• Sophie’s Choice

• Promising young woman

• Pink Floyd’s The Wall

• Sarah’s Key

• Heaven Knows What

• Prisoners

• Seven Pounds

• Sometimes in April

• Cry Freetown

• 12 Years a slave

• Serbian Flim

• Hotel Rwanda

• Antichrist

• When the Wind blows

• Salo

• End of Watch

• Green Mile

• Buried

• Incendies

• Hard Candy

• A Slient Voice

• Okja

• Whiplash

• Love Kenny

• Event Horizon

• Away from her

• Raw

• The Chumscrubber

• Tracey Fragments

• World’s Greatest Dad

• The Future

• Unthinkable

• Irreversible

• Love and Mercy

• Last King of Scotland

• Blood Diamond

• Full Metal Jacket

• Memento

• Reign Over Me

• My Sister’s Keeper

1. Elephant

 

2. Come And See

3. Mary And Max

4. Threads

5. Boys Don’t Cry

6. Dancer In The Dark

7. The Road

8. Life Is Beautiful

9. We Need To Talk About Kevin

10. Melancholia

11. Leaving Las Vegas

12. Stand By Me

13. Wind River

14. The Pianist

15. Full Metal Jacket

16. What Dreams May Come

17. Pan’s Labyrinth

18. Dear Zachary

19. American History X

20. Old Boy

21. Bridge to Terabithia

22. The Boy In The Striped Pajamas

23. Schindler’s List

24. Requiem for a Dream

25. The Mist

26. The Grave of the Fireflies