Or even if you haven’t.
The 2 movies I came in to mention have both been listed- Saving Private Ryan and Leaving Las Vegas.
Leaving Las Vegas is the single most disturbing movie I have ever seen in my life.
United 93. The only movie I’ve seen in adulthood that actually left me shaken after I walked out of the theater.
Ditto on Grave of the Fireflies.
After watching Children of Men, I was an absolute wreck. Great cinematography, but I’ll never watch it again.
Capturing the Friedmans.
Brilliant, but…no, never again.
Monster was the first one I thought of when I saw this thread. Theron was terrific but it was so hard to watch and the rape scene was particularly awful.
The Changeling
For me it’s Lawrence of Arabia, oddly enough…
Try Shoah.
What I came in to say.
Grave of the Fireflies and La Vita e Bella.
Lilja 4-Ever
How come? That’s one of my favorite movies ever.
I came to say Elephant Man.
I have never seen **Schindler’s List ** or **The Passion of the Christ **because I know it’ll put me in a weeklong funk. I don’t enjoy watching people hurt people.
Really? It was epic and long but I could watch it again.
Heh, there are actually several scenes I could think of that would qualify, though I think I know which one you’re talking about.
Haneke’s Time of the Wolf - not necessarily because of the unpleasant subject matter (though it is an unpleasant film) - more because it seems to have been intended to provoke a very deliberate sense of tedium and alienation. It’s good at accomplishing that, and I remember really liking it, but I don’t feel the need to sit through it again anytime soon.
The Green Mile
The execution scene was so horrible I can’t watch any part of that movie again.
So . . . how many movies would you watch, even once?
Dear Zachary, which I saw on recommendation from the SDMB, was the first one that came to mind for me.