Come and See (1985)
A poor teenage farmer in Belarus joins the partisans fighting the nazis in 1943, in this famously haunting anti-war drama from the USSR. Even knowing some of the more famous images from the film beforehand, I still found this tough viewing, with seemingly any respite poor Flor manages to grasp amid the atrocities happening around him, snatched away almost immediately, leading up to the horrific village raid that dominates the second half. Not for the feint hearted, but an astonishing work of performance and cinematography, if you’re prepared for it