10 Hardest-To-Watch Movie Scenes

10. 127 Hours - The 127th Hour

Bringing a whole new dimension to getting caught between a rock and a hard place, 127 Hours is a gritty endurance test of how far one man will go to survive.

When Aron Ralston (James Franco) falls whilst out on a climbing trip, he finds himself at the bottom of a canyon with his arm pinned between a dislodged boulder and the canyon wall. He's thoroughly stuck and alone in the middle of the desert. No one knows where he is, where he's gone, or what has happened to him - leaving Ralston's fate, very literally, in his own hands.

Just like the true story, director Danny Boyle subjects the audience to watch Ralston cut his own arm off with a dull, two-inch blade. Working his way through veins, arteries, tendons, and in one particularly wince-inducing chop, nerves - Franco depicts the torturous ordeal as painful reality. Coupled with some horrible sound editing and the tense build up to Ralston's last resort moment throughout the rest of the film, it really is a difficult watch, one that you feel just as much as you see.