10 Most Disturbing British Movies Ever
3. Nil By Mouth
Another actor-turned-filmmaker’s directorial debut, 1997’s Nil By Mouth also shares Ray Winstone with this list’s earlier Scum and the bleak kitchen sink drama aesthetic of and dysfunctional family themes of The War Zone.
Once a world record holder for the most f***s uttered in a single film, this unbelievably bleak and heavy drama follows Winstone's abusive father, his addict son, and his brutalized wife through a "normal" day in the life.
Although the abuses endured by its characters are not as dramatically disturbing as some of this list's entries, the vicious effectiveness of this Gary Oldman directed kitchen sink drama comes from its verisimilitude.
There isn't a moment of its horror which doesn't ring true, and nothing about its banal evil seems hard to imagine in this crushingly cruel but nonetheless brilliantly tragic drama.