9 Fantastic Movies Too Devastating To Watch More Than Once

Steven Spielberg, the man whose films thrive on their rewatchability, managed to create a historical drama so tragic and viscerally distressing that to sit through any portion of the film more than once would mean that someone has tied you up and is forcing your eyes open like they're trying to reenact the Clockwork Orange torture sequence with you as their victim.

Shot primarily in black and white to preserve the cultural milieu of the time, Schindler's List is masterful in its gloom, making sure that five minutes doesn't go by without reminding you just how horrific and hopeless the Holocaust was.

Obviously a movie like this is not meant to be a feel-good laugh fest, nor should it be taken lightly in any respect; however, the deeply dark performances in Schindler's List make the experience so painstaking that anyone who doesn't cover their eyes for at least a small portion of the film deserves a trophy of some kind.

The tears will flow heavy and hard once Liam Neeson breaks down and screams through sobs that he "could've got more out" and that he "didn't do enough."

And while Itzhak Stern tries to reassure Oskar that he did a lot of good and to look at the faces of those he did save, the viewers, much like Schindler, will find it impossible to stop thinking about those who didn't make it out.

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