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Can't think of a film. But books! Anything by ~~Tolstoy~~ Dostoyevsky. Younger me thought Orwell tested my limits of gloom in 1984. Then I read Crime and Punishment...
In apology to OP for the film>book derailment, I will say film has a hard time disturbing me because it's so complete and direct. Even the really nasty stuff can't phase me, because I know its just a film, and the picture it paints always feels like its coming from the outside, trying to get in. It has to get through natural mental barriers that just exists. No conscious effort required.
Books give both far more detail, and room for your mind to contextualize what's missing. That contextualization is done internally so it doesn't have to slip past your conscious defenses. The disturbance, if there is one, was born in your deeper psyche. As clear a case of "the call is coming from inside the house" as there is.
Crime and Punishment took a lot longer than it should have. I loved every minute of it, but had to take breaks. It was emotionally taxing and no one writes like him.
Derail away, it's all good. Great explanation. I'll have to visit Tolstoy sometime.
I'll concede that books can offer a whole lot more to disturb you. There are some stories that would probably be worse off as film adaptations.
Clive Barker's novels had me taking a lot of breaks. Nothing like a blood orgy of Mortal Kombat fatalities to make you put a book down.