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Not quite sure how well they fit, but the movies that come to my mind are: Grave of the Fireflies, Requiem for a Dream and Enter the Void.
They are overtly about different themes, but suffering and loss play big roles in each. Great movies that you'll probably only going to want to watch once.
Rocco's Modern Life
"In November 1992, two months before the production of season 1 of Rocko's Modern Life, Murray's [the shows creator] first wife committed suicide. Murray had often blamed his wife's suicide on the show being picked up. He said, "It was always an awful connection because I look at Rocko as such a positive in my life." He felt that he had emotional and physical "unresolved issues" when he moved to Los Angeles, describing the experience as participating in a "marathon with my pants around my ankles."
it always felt like there was this anti-capitalist undertones with this show with Conglom-O Corporation and Heffer's wolf family; i'm glad to know now that there was more to it.
I only watch anime, so maybe Full Metal Alchemist or anything like Clannad, Angel Beats, Air, Kino no Tabi, Kimi ga Nozomu Eien, Elfen lied. At least those were the core painful ones that defined me pretty early.
How is grave of the fireflies not at the top of this list?
I've seen like only 2 or 3 of those ghibli movies and I don't think that was one of them.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Arrival
these 2 are my list as well as "everything everywhere all at once"
i cry every time i see that movie because it hits so close to home for me.