What movies made you angry in a way that actually added to the experience?

Whiplash for sure. I was so stressed and angry the whole time watching how far Fletcher pushed him, but it made that ending hit way harder.

Uncut Gems did that to me, the whole movie is just nonstop stress lol

Uncut Gems felt like a 2-hour panic attack… and somehow that’s exactly why it works.

Gone Girl did that for me, I was annoyed the whole time but couldn’t look away and it made the payoff hit way harder. also Prisoners, that movie just keeps you tense and frustrated in the best way, you feel stuck in it with the characters.

The Big Short. It’s deliberate, and often times satirized, but it succeeds in both explaining what happened and getting you mad about it.

A Clockwork Orange always gets me

Atonement definitely creates a sense of anger over what transpired. This gives the film a nice bit of meta longevity as people try to grapple with whether that anger at the situation justifies the vilification of a child.

Spotlight

Any time Commodus is on screen in gladiator

Delores Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Mother!, Speak No Evil and The Square. It has these stages of passive characters that just drive me mad. Mother! at least has a pretty active main character, but she's overshadowed by a more dominant character and she's forced to go along with it. In Speak No Evil the Danish couple is played with by the way more dominant Dutch couple, even when they're about to die. In The Square so many characters (and especially the main character) are so painfully and annoyingly passive, as they avoid conflict and responsibility for their actions. There's [a scene](https://youtu.be/uwbSMIuVdLM?si=YvjPn33z-FHKORD_) that could be its own short film that perfectly reflects this. It's great.

Mississippi Burning

I was angry for *weeks* after watching "Dear Zachary"

Prisoners, Nightcrawler, Gone Girl, and Uncut Gems all do that for me. They make you tense or mad on purpose, and that feeling is a big part of why they work.

Compliance (2012) I've never been closer to shouting at the screen because of the sheer stupidity and/or naivety of multiple characters. Knowing it's based on a true story makes it so much worse, or better, as the case may be.

American History X

Atonement...just...f*** you Briony.

I don't know if it can be termed as Anger, but what I felt at the ending of La La Land can be definitely compared to that . It was a kind of amalgamation of frustration, anger and irritation.

Bugonia

Eden Lake (2008)

Funny Games (1997)

Dancer in the Dark

If I Had Legs Id Kick You

Dear Zachary.  Consider yourself warned though, if you don't exit that movie a different person something is wrong with you. 

Guilty By Suspicion (1991) McCarthyism was one of those things that doesn't make you feel safe in your own home, much less your own country. It's on par with the Spanish Inquisition and the Salem witch trials.

Inside Out 2. The way they potrayed her insecurity, overthinking, anxiety, panic attack! I was so stressed! 🙆‍♂️

I just watched If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, and in the discussions I hear it’s a lot like Uncut Gems. The whole time I wanted to reach through the screen and both hug/shake the protagonist. It’s so frustrating to watch her be both consistently unsupported by what are supposed to be helpful mental health resources while she’s also completely overwhelmingly incapable of accepting help. It captures very eloquently the frustration of therapy/therapists that they are meant to help you help yourself, not actually emotionally support or entangle with a patient.

Fargo. It's somehow compelling to watch how utterly spineless Jerry is.

The Departed. I don't think I've ever seen a movie death that had me so worked up about how unfair and wrong it is.

Not a movie, but all the characters in Succession made me upset. And at any time I feel empathy for any of them, they do something that makes me angry at how horrible they are and how everyone around them eat their shit up.

GotG 3 which is why I damn near hopped out of my seat when High Evolutionary got fucked up 

It's my favorite movie, so I'm probably biased, but the ending of "Goodfellas" is supposed to make you angry. >!Henry has escaped the mob life. He's still alive. He still has his wife and children. He's safe. He didn't have to serve any time. And he still yearns for how things were, despite the fact that he got out by the skin of his teeth.!<

Braveheart.

Uncut Gems

Requiem for a Dream made me genuinely angry at the characters and their choices, but that’s kind of why it sticks with you. It’s hard to watch in a way that feels intentional.

The Bicycle Thieves One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest

Nightcrawler for sure

The ending to Blackkklansman

Dark Waters

Social Network

The Lodge pissed me off pretty bad, especially with seeing >!how petty & vindictive the two kids were towards Riley Keough's character simply because she wasn't their mom, even though she didn't do anything to antagonize them!<

Dolores Umbridge started the rage inside me

Requiem for a Dream

Dinner for Schmucks. I thought that there was going to be a turning point where I stop cringing and it just ramped up. Great movie but hard for me to watch and keep my stress levels low

Dolores Umbridge in Order of the Phoenix. Her little “ahem” and downright disrespect to all the teachers at Hogwarts. I wanted someone to punch her in the face so much.

Punishment Park

“the girl with all the gifts” she used a dog as bait 😒 lame ass kid

Nocturnal animals for sure. I don't want to watch it anymore, lots of triggers, I end up getting angry for a whole week.

I was very hateful during Bring Her Back, which was definitely by design.

Dream Scenario

Hud. If Paul Newman shows up while I am watching the film, I would have slapped the hell out of him.

Irréversible (2002). Thanks, Mr. Noé.

The Nightingale. Amazing movies but not for the faint of heart. It's ruthlessly brutal and the intro will likely have your blood boiling. I would recommend only looking into it if you can stomach that subject matter but yeah. I was yelling at my tv watching it. It is a fantastic and important movie but one that goes to some very dark places.

Talvar (2015), a true story about a double murder. The police incompetence leaves you so mad cause they could have solved the murders if they'd done their job properly in the first 24 hours.

I struggle to watch any films directed by Ken Loach as they reflect the unfairness of British society, and so they make me angry. That’s the point, but I’m avoiding being reminded of how this country works.

Big Short

Promised Land - there’s an unsettling twist. No spoilers here. But the movie was just unsettling in general.

Dark Waters Nurse Ratchet in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Bring Her Back had me so frustrated to the point of tears. beautiful and tragic movie. will never watch again.

Atonement. IYKYK

Nightcrawler. The main character made me so angry (in a good writing/acting way).

I definitely had some feelings of anger and frustration, when watching Hideaki Anno's Love & Pop.

Melancholia. Oh, and The House that Jack Built.

Arlington Road

Iron Lung. Mainly because that's 2+ hrs I'm never going to get back!

Watchmen >!When Dr. Manhattan agrees with Veidt and then obliterates Rorschach!< messed me up for a couple weeks.

Train dreams. That movie is depressing and just shows a normal man never quite able to get ahead or realize his hopes and dreams fully. It really stung to finish it the way it did.

Dark Waters. I almost wish I didn't know everything it helped me learn. I've been cooking on cast iron ever since I watched that movie.

Eighth Grade, specially the car scene

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Funny Games. Both versions.

The old man Lebowski, not The Dude. The actual Mr. Lebowski. What a d*****, all around.

Funny Games

When They See Us. It's about the central park 5. I'm white but my wife is not, and our kids, though technically "mixed", will only be seen by this world as black. Realizing that these people who I love so much will be discarded and disregarded by everyone else who lookes like me (okay, not everyone but a sickeningly large fraction) makes me want to rage in a way that I couldn't have imagined, but black parents already know all too well. Watch it, and try your best to make yourself understand that those are YOUR kids. Then use that feeling you never want to feel again to make the world a slightly better place for mine and so many others. Please.

Uncut Gems The Brutalist Don't Look Up

WALL-E

The dog specifically in Die My Love. I was so irritated. We saw it with another couple, both of us expecting our first babies. Our immediate reaction was "absolutely no dogs while there's an infant in the house."

Come and See

requiem for a dream. the anger is almost the point. coming out of it feeling like that is part of what the film is doing, not a side effect

Margin Call The company is on the verge of bankruptcy, but everybody who sells 90% of their available assets gets a million dollar bonus, and if the whole crew sells 90%, they all get another million dollar bonus. *How are you going out of business if you can give 30+ people 2 million dollars each?* When Jeremy Irons is eating and Kevin Spacey wants to quit, but Irons convinces him to stay, and brushes off the idea that the entire system is tanking, because it has happened over and over again in history, like it’s no big deal causing a recession, because they are already rich and will face minimal consequences, yet when there is a recession, the poor and middle class struggle for years.

The Plague (2026) It's a very realistic portrayal of middle school boys bullying a weird kid with a rash at a water polo camp. Just felt too damn real. It did a very good job of putting yourself in the main character's shoes and you could feel how torn he was between wanting to be a good person but also getting pulled by peer pressure into bullying. It was probably the most uncomfortable I've felt in a theater and I hated every second of watching. I assume that was their aim and it was really successful but yeah I'm never watching it again.

A film that rarely gets mentioned here is Nocturnal Animals with Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal + a directorial debut for Tom Ford of all people. My sense of justice and fairness were tested and it hit a few personal notes in a way I just didn't expect going in blind.

Sirat - couldn't tell if I was being emotionally manipulated or if this was the most cathartic experience that cinema can deliver.

Sharon stone in c***** I hate hate hate her, but that makes it so much better. She’s so damn good in that role and so annoying but not annoying in a way like a whiny annoying character is with bad writing, I can’t explain but her character just absolutely sucks but she crushes it and it makes you feel that much worse for Ace

The Bridge to Teribithia pissed me off...(you know the scene), for someone who didn't read the book, it came out of nowhere.

Red Rocket and Anora (less so than Red Rocket) Uncut Gems Those Ben Stiller movies like Duplex and Meet the Parents

We need to talk about kevin

Funny Games. It is literally written to do this to the viewer.

Mother!

Beau is afraid did this to me. I felt all of the anxiety but wanted him to take himself out of the situations. Thinking back on it I realized he tried his best. I was angry that he had to face all those things without a choice.

Well not a movie but Dexter - I grew to hate LaGuerta so badly I clapped and cheered when she finally got got.

Not me personally, but I remember my year 12 English teacher saying that the ending of [Easy Rider](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Rider) was meant to make the audience angry. Here's an explanation (from ChatGPT - but please don't downvote this just because you dislike AI): >!*Easy Rider* deliberately ends in a way that provokes anger: the sudden, senseless violence is meant to shock and frustrate the audience, stripping away the film’s earlier sense of freedom and replacing it with a stark reminder of the hostility and intolerance beneath mainstream society; Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda crafted the ending to feel unjust and unresolved, leaving viewers with a sense of outrage and disillusionment rather than closure.!<