Films I have never watched because I know they would upset me..

“Seven” with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. Frightened the living daylights out of me!

I agree about Sophie's Choice - a terribly depressing book and film.

I felt very depressed after reading A Handmaid's Tale and 1984. Sad I can cope with but depressed I'd rather avoid.

Warhorse, Les Miserables are two, but can’t watch anything with the First World War or containing torture mental or physical so I miss a lot. I know these things happen and it worries me sick, how can any person be cruel. I watched the film about Christopher Robin not expecting he had such a poor childhood and wished I hadn’t seen it.

Kryptonite

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas has often been read and studied in year 7 or 8. Similarly, children are taken to the Holocaust Centre where there are educational programmes from primary age. I would argue that many children often see totally unsuitable and graphic horrors in video games and inappropriate films, which can desensitise them to violence. This book and film is told entirely from the child's point of view, and I would recommend both very highly. It is very sensitively written and desperately sad, but does show what happens when people don't respect their fellow human beings. It is to be hoped that the next generation will not repeat the mistakes of the past ...

I thought the book was much more impactful than the film, but then I usually find the book far more powerful than the reworked film.
I won't watch horror in any form, goodness I can't even watch the oldest black and white vampire films.

Well, I never knew that!
I need to find out more.

I imagine Tippi Hedren had a bird phobia after what Hitchcock did to her. Much of it was genuine and she really was injured after being shut in a room and attacked by birds.

That's a very unsettling film.

It must be, because people often say "Oh, it looks like The Birds" if they see a row of birds.

"The Birds" .. I have a bird phobia!

A certain amount of 'bloody-ness' I can cope with but I find outright violence a no-no. My borther brought me Luck Number Slevin and within 5 minutes I had to turn off.

Sophie's Choice - the book gave me nightmares for ages.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - the book was bad enough.

Horror films - can't see the point and don't like being scared.

I am not a film fan. Anything I watch is usually true life stories. I can't remember the names and instantly forget about them.

Totally uninterested in any horror film or stuff like dracula. Dont watch a great deal of films nowadays but my actual pet hate, where I do my Victor Meldrew impression every year, is the way that on Christmas Day they always choose to put war films on. For christians this is the day the Jesus is born and the message is love one another etc. So to me it is the most inappropriate choice of film. If it was just the odd time but no, every year the same.!

Never watched horror movies or anyone about WW11. Love a good murder mystery and was raised on Westerns, my dad's passion

I must be the exception to the rule as I love a good horror or sci fi movie. Years ago when the Exorcist came out I went to see it with a crowd from a pub I used to frequent. It was a bank holiday and it was a bright sunny day. Inside the cinema the lads from the pub kept shouting out funny comments during the film. When the bed started thumping up and down some wag shouted 'You can tell that's not a slumberland' and when Regan spewed out green bile another shouted 'Oh look mushy peas'. The whole audience was laughing. We came out of the cinema into bright sunny weather and I wasn't the least bit traumatised. A girl friend had gone to see it with her boyfriend. She was petrified, she made her dad sleep in her bed for a couple of weeks and she slept in bed with her mother with the bedroom door open and the landing light on! I saw 'The Exorcist' on TV recently and I thought it was quite tame compared to some other films I have watched. I dislike seeing any animals being depicted as being hurt though. One of the saddest was the deformed dog in 'The Fly'.

I hate anything frightening or violent. I really dislike fictionalised versions of terrible events, although I can watch a documentary about the same event.

At a different level, I dislike history turned into film. There are so many gross and crass errors throughout all these films. (consider recent publicity about The Crown)

Schnakia , memories of Soldier Blue have never left me.
I avoid most violent films. When watching films with my
children, any sex scenes was fast forwarded. People can say
what they want, but watching sex with your kids is very un-
comfortable.

Wished I had not watched The Boy in Striped Pyjamas - haunted me for days afterwards and avoid thinking about it even now.
Having said that, I still cry during parts of Billy Elliot not matter how many times I may have see it……..

It beyond me how any depiction of war, blood and gore, anything violent or sad can be classed as entertainment. I want to feel amused, happy and uplifted not terrified, disgusted or tearful. So that rules out most films these days!

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas has often been read and studied in year 7 or 8. Similarly, children are taken to the Holocaust Centre where there are educational programmes from primary age. I would argue that many children often see totally unsuitable and graphic horrors in video games and inappropriate films, which can desensitise them to violence. This book and film is told entirely from the child's point of view, and I would recommend both very highly. It is very sensitively written and desperately sad, but does show what happens when people don't respect their fellow human beings. It is to be hoped that the next generation will not repeat the mistakes of the past ...

Dumbo did me in as a child and later Sophie’s Choice. I can’t read about abuse to children or animals or it stays with me. Forget reading the newspaper..

Amy film that has an animal in it worries me, they always seem to die, I don't know why they have to have them if they're going to kill them off. Dances with wolves, won't watch that again, why kill the beautiful wolf??
Boy in the striped pyjamas, stated in my head a long, long time. Very upsetting but thought provoking.

I want to watch Goodnight Mr.Tom again but can’t, such a mix
of pain and love

Notting Hill
Love Actually
Any Bridget Jones
Most rom-coms
Watched The Exorcist with my 15 year old daughter and we just laughed.
Have never seen a porn movie.

must be something wrong with me, i don't get upset with any movies but i do with songs. i won't watch anything with leonardo dicaprio in it, even if it has rave reviews, same with russell crowe, have not been to the movies in the past 20+ years and don't have netflix. prefer to read a book.

I won't watch anything with torture of people or animals. I can bear most horror, thriller etc because I know it's fake/special effects. I also saw Soldier Blue when it first came out. I was about 20 and it was the first time I ever cried in anger and FURY at what it depicted. I refused to watch Shawshank Redemption as I'd heard about the torture, but eventually I recorded it, hid behind a pillow whilst fast-forwarding through the 'bad' parts, and I was so glad I did! Have the same feelings about Shindler's List - may do the same in future.