10 Harrowing Movies You Can’t Watch Twice
6. Landscape In The Mist
John Hillcoat's The Road is a depressing slog through a dying world, but it's a joyous walk in the park compared to Landscape In The Mist.
Theo Angelopoulos's Greek tragedy follows two children who run away to find their estranged father in Germany, travelling by any means they can and learning one grievous life lesson after another. This is the bleakest road movie ever made.
At its core is a tale about the loss of childhood innocence, but in this case, the protagonists' innocence is violently stolen from them. Early on, it becomes clear that the children are on a doomed journey, having ventured out into a cruel world they have little understanding of and are woefully unprepared for.
Along the way, they are arrested, subjected to sexual assault and suffer immensely at the hands of various unpleasent people, and the worst part is that you know from the beginning they have no hope of finding the man they're looking for.