Purely Nihilistic Films

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NeoBugman

Naked (1993, Mike Leigh)
Reckless british edgelord chatterbox date-rapes some girl in a alley in Manchester, flees to London, wanders through the post-modern gas chambers of urban 90s England, meeting the assorted subhumans residents in a black hole of disgust, depression and aimless indulgence. Feels much like a Houellebecq novel in movie format.

Calvary, 2014, follows the same vein, the protagonist is an embittered and cynical priest in Ireland who struggles to bring some salvation and piety to the flock of mud-sharks, murderers, sodomites, niggers, freaks and degenerates from his small community, who shun and mock him and his presence despite their participation in church rituals and nominal adherence to the Catholic faith.

Niccolo and Donkey
NeoBugman O'Zebedee

Naked is a fucking gem that they used to play all the time on A&E back in the late 90s. The most awful central character which your description as being a 'Reckless British Edgelord Chatterbox" is simply perfect.
Kobresia

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Thoughts
Full film here, apparently:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/gMwzvAt84P8
perkunos
I Stand Alone (1998) - was recommended in one of the film threads.
For something just as French but less bleak, " Man Bites Dog " was a lot of fun.
Finally Happiness (1998) -suggested by John Dolan as best movie about America.
Thoughts

I always thought James Cameron's Titanic was a purely nihilistic film, as it takes a gigantic shit on the entire class of titans who built and rode it.. John Dolan put it best:

"Happy" for shitlibs, subhumans, and the various associated Irish mutoids in Calvary of course.
HR Professional of Color
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/EEhk8v47UGY

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Nihilism probably isn't the right diagnosis here: mad human ambition is utterly defeated and erased by nature, but the struggle is heroic. ( Ze strrruggle iz ze ART! )

"Safe" is maybe a purer example of nihilism in several modes.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/p6uwjhkFu1o

Moral nihilism the default pose for every shit filmmaker who wants to be "serious" and "complicated", except of course when it comes to really core Western values like celebrating pederasty. You can usually spot these films because they win all the Academy awards. Probably these are purer examples still, because whatever moral core the movie has is worse than nothing, and also the people and system who created it are black holes, and you just gave them $23 for your ticket, $23 which you could have spent on any of the fine abusable inhalants available at your local chain hardware store.

Evelyn Waugh argued that Alice in Wonderland was a retelling of Dante's Inferno - down the hole into a world without God, and therefore without meaning, characters trapped by nonsense and complete despair. So the old Disney Alice deserves a mention.
Bronze Age Pervert

I found the movie Voyager with Sam Shepard ( Homo Faber in German after a novel) very depressing ...can't vouch for it being a great movie, but for showing a black pit of nihilism at the end, it's very good. And it's not an inspiring nihilism either...just a feeling of complete destitution.

OrganicShadow
Longface

I actually think true nihilistic movies are smth like Amy Schumer's Trainwreck, Captain America, and the like. Such movies seriously make me feel that it's pointless to live, that life is ugly.