What is the saddest movie you've seen?

[Zomby Woof]

For me, it's "Harry and Tonto". When he says goodbye to Tonto... and when he chases that cat on the beach at the end... :cry:

I can't watch it anymore. It is TOO DAMN SAD.

[Deja Q]

1. In terms of emotional content? "Serenity"...

In terms of being pathetic, Star Trek Nemesis or Star Wars episode 1, 2, or 3...

[FoxOnTheRun]

28. It has a high rating on imdb

Is it good?

[hotforteacher]

2. "Hotel Rwanda" or "Wit"

Both had me in a fetal position weeping in universal sorrow.

Seriously.

[huskerlaw]

74. Agreed.

Both amazingly sad movies.

[Cannikin]

3. "Showgirls"

[bigwillq]

4. Brokeback Mountain

The Constant Gardener
Leaving Las Vegas
Cold Mountain

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. Ghost World.

Weird movie.

[KFC]

64. Seconded

Good, weird, and sad.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

65. I think it's Steve Buscemi's greatest role.

It's a good character too.

He always plays some "funny lookin'" ancillary character. I had no idea he could carry a movie so well.

[WhollyHeretic]

6. Philadelphia

[GoddessOfGuinness]

50. I can't watch Philadelphia without

a large box of tissues.

[nini]

7. Terms of Endearment

when that poor baby has to say goodbye to his mama. wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh


:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[lizziegrace]

8. That gets my vote

:cry:

[nini]

13. waaaaaaaaaahhhhh..

let's all cry togehter :grouphug: :cry:


I'm getting teared up just thinking about it :-(

[CTyankee]

75. Yes, it is by far the saddest

Perhaps because it was made with such authenticity of emotion. It just rips your heart out.

[Zomby Woof]

10. Yeah, that is terribly sad!!!!

:cry:

[nini]

12. I cry every time..

there's a reason I won't watch that scene very often. :cry:







:hug:

[Haole Girl]

23. It gets my vote, too.

I can't watch it without bawling. I'll go a couple of years, then forget, and then curse myself for watching it. :cry:

[hickman]

9. Grand Avenue. A mini series though, not a movie.

For sadness, it beat any movie I ever saw. I haven't seen Brokeback Mountain yet though.

[unsavedtrash]

11. Love Story

there are several but that one gets me every time.

[BrotherBuzz]

14. A Thousand Clowns

[MiniMandaRuth]

15. Brokeback Mountain.

Just because of how hard it hit me when I looked at my friend and his boyfriend and swore to myself that I would never let that happen to him.

[speedoo]

16. Gallipoli

Just a crushing anti-war film. Unlike almost every other film that contains sadness, this one has absolutely nothing in it to make one less sad. And the music (Albinoni's "Adagio in G minor") multiplies the tragedy.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082432/

[cobalt1999]

18. excellent choice

I often wondered what I would have done at the end in that situation.

[speedoo]

19. You mean, if you were Archie?

Me too. Jumping out of that trench, to certain death. My God.

Now if I were the commanding officer, I pray that I would not have given the order to go.

[cobalt1999]

21. Both, but especially Archie

How does someone do that knowing it's a pointless death. I may have to Netflix it now just to watch it again...it's been years.

[Karenca]

17. The Deer Hunter. . eom

[NC_Nurse]

20. Sophie's Choice.

I was ruined for days after that one. :(

[idgiehkt]

33. yeah that one would get my vote too.

no worse dilmemna to be put in, I think, than what she had to go through. At that moment, I think, and then later when she found out her son was dead, was when her fate was sealed.

[reyd reid reed]

22. "Imitation of Life"

[Lautremont]

35. Me too.

Best (and saddest) funeral scene ever.

[reyd reid reed]

49. Yup.

I see that movie's coming on, I'll just cut to the chase and get my Kleenex ready before it starts.

Without a doubt, the most heartwrenching.

[Divameow77]

79. That's my choice too

Steel Magnolias always makes me cry too, and The Notebook.

[Bucky]

24. Elephant Man. Sophies Choice was NOT sad

Sophies Choice was NOT sad. Those brats had it coming to them!

:hide:

[NC_Nurse]

26. LOL!

You're BAD!

[Left Is Write]

25. I don't know, but I cried at Fried Green Tomatoes.

I'm sure I've seen something sadder, though.

[jobycom]

27. A Grave for Fireflies. The only question is what is the second saddest.

[Rabrrrrrr]

38. Grave of the Fireflies is the title. And yes, it is the saddest movie ever

Absolute heartwrenching sad movie. Highly emotional, but never manipulative like Spielberg or exploitative like a Lifetime movie.

[jobycom]

40. "Hotaru no haka" gets translated a number of ways. But it's still sad. nt

[Rabrrrrrr]

59. Yes, it can be translated a few ways - however, in English, on the DVD,

that's what it's called.

I couldn't watch for a number of years after 9-11, and just finally managed to be able to sit through it all this year.

[undeterred]

29. Schindler's List

[Burma Jones]

30. Monster's Ball

[speedoo]

31. Another sad one: "The Grifters".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099703/

[Floogeldy]

32. Miracle Mile

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

34. "Boys Don't Cry"

The first time I saw it, it was with the FTM boyfriend I had at the time. It just added even more reality to the movie. I cry everytime I see it.

[jonnyblitz]

36. I agree. that one.

the rape scene and the ending are quite bothersome to say the least.. i found Dancer in the Dark with Bjork and Catherine DeNeuve to be quite sad as well as "THe house of sand and fog".

[femmocrat]

37. The English Patient n/t

[StellaBlue]

39. Fahrenheit 9/11

nt

[mitchum]

41. "Ali: Fear Eats The Soul"

[Red State Rebel]

42. Penny Serenade n/t

[LA lady]

45. OMG

That was the first time I saw my husband cry.

The original Brian's Song is another heart breaker.

[Redstone]

43. 1) Bury my Heart as Wounded Knee. 2) Hamburger Hill.

3) The one about Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce.

Redstone

[ET Awful]

67. It amazed me how little credit Hamburger Hill gets.

It's a wonderful film.

[Drum]

44. Dirty Pretty Things

(I think that was the title.) Very sad to me...about exploited illegals working in London, falling prey to some bad bad people. I really hated the way that the main characters were preyed upon, just to keep their secrets and earn a few pounds for their loved-ones and to provide the simplest things (like hope of escape) for themselves.
It gave me a sense of colossal (and largely unknown) unfairness, which for me is the saddest thing.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301199/

ALSO: Dark Water (from a couple of years ago, the lost-divers one...yikes.)

[momophile]

46. Once Were Warriors

dang that was hard to watch. mainly because of all the tears running down my face.

[WCGreen]

47. All Quiet On the Western Front.....

The old one...

[ChoralScholar]

48. 'Old School'

tears me the hell up. When Blue dies, I usually lose consciousness from the agressive sobbing.

:)

Just kidding.

Armageddon really gets to me for some reason.

[enigmatic]

51. "Testament"

w/ Jane Alexander; wow..

[UrbScotty]

52. "My Dog Skip" (nt)

[PassingFair]

53. GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES

Bar none.
The SADDEST thing I've EVER SEEN.

[rockymountaindem]

54. Ballady Soldatye (Ballad of a Soldier)

At least, that's the one that has stayed in my mind most recently since I saw it in a history class. It is simple, both in terms of its story and its cinematography. We watched it because from a historical point of view, some of the particular events of the film indicated a new openness in Soviet historiography (pre-dating Glastnost by over 20 years).

The thing that gets you about the story itself is that the opening narration tells you that the main character does not survive the war. So early on, you think you know what to expect. But the mere fact that you know the ending doesn't prepare you for it at all. The storytelling is so rich, and you become so sympathetic to the characters, that at the end of the movie you can't believe the guy actually dies.

For those of you who've mentioned Gallipoli, I've seen Gallipoli, and it didn't really have a big impact on me. I mean, here's a complex, compelling movie, but when it ended all I could think was "It's WWI, what did anyone expect?"

Ballad of a Soldier kept me awake at night. *That's* how good it was. 10 times better than Gallipoli.

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/02/23/ballad_soldier.html

[judaspriestess]

55. Moll Flanders - with Robin Wright Penn

I hope I spelled it right :)

[smtpgirl]

56. Requim for a Dream, Ellen Burstyn was in that too

Ellen Burstyn is a great actress

[wickerwoman]

57. Something like "Westlake Life"

I can't remember the exact title. Maybe someone can help me out. It's a documentary about a gay couple living with AIDS.

[pokerfan]

58. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Sure, Chief escapes but McMurphy receives a lobotomy, destroying his mind.

The Great Escape (1963) which is based on a true story. The SS selected fifty escapees at random, took them aside and murdered them.

[Ramsey]

60. Gorillas in the Mist

I find some scenes so sad, so disturbing that I really cannot watch the film, even though I think it's a great movie. The scene where Dian Fosse finds the silverback gorilla's body with just its head and feet cut off is just about the most horrible scene imaginable. It really distills into a single moment how truly evil human beings can be.

[Phillycat]

61. The Killing Fields

I cried my freaking eyes out.

[redwitch]

73. That gets my vote as well.

Hubby and I sat in the car after and wept in each other's arms. Devastating. Which is why I mostly go to romances and comedies these days.

[bif]

62. "The Times of Harvey Milk"

[MrCoffee]

63. Old Yeller

[YankeyMCC]

72. I will second this one

I'm not sure if it's really the one that gave me the deepest feeling of sadness I ever felt in reaction to a movie but it was the First movie I remember that I reacted to in that way. I remember I saw it in school (elementary school) and I had to struggle real hard not to let anyone see how it was affecting me.

It didn't help I suppose that was during the time we had a dog which we found as a stray and took in and not long after had to be put down due to a severe heart worm infestation.

[underpants]

66. OMG!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BEACHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:cry:

Actually "From Justin to Kelly" until at the very end when they just happen to meet (he is walking down the sidewalk going to the airport) and they get back together.

[pork medley]

68. la strada

[cemaphonic]

69. Once Upon a Time in America is up there.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

70. When the Wind Blows

A retired couple, who believe the Government cares about them, slowly die from the fallout of a nuclear attack on Britain.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090315/

I saw a film last week called The Death of Mr. Lazarescu which was heartbreaking, made all the worse by coming home to learn my Nan had been admitted to hospital.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0456149/

[dback]

71. Killer double feature: "Distant Voices Still Lives"/"The Long Day Closes"

There are a handful of tearjerking scenes in each--the Christmas day meltdown in the former, and the young protagonists' heartbreak as he watches his best friend run off with someone else in the latter. But the overall tone of both (the second is the sequel to the first) is so mournful and heartbreaking, it's almost too much to bear.

You have to be very, very patient with these two films--one very extended shot in "Long Day" is nothing but a brick wall in the rain as Nat King Cole sings "Stardust." Yet it's so perfectly composed and put together, it's an example of genuine motion picture art.

Shockingly, I don't think there's ever been a soundtrack released for either film--amazing, since it's some of the best use of music you'll ever see or hear in a movie.

[Sequoia]

76. The original "Madame X" (1966) and "Biscuit Eater" (1940)

"Madame X". Mean ole mother-in-law made her give up her baby and husband because she would ruin hubby's chances in politics as she was a show-girl. Later on as a homeless woman she goes to court and her son defends her but doesn't know she's his mom. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060645/

"Biscuit Eater", http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032254/
Sad enough it made grown men cry. Two little boys have faith in a dog they name Promise, so much faith that they enter him in the championship trials for bird dogs. The favorite is Georgia Boy bred and trained by the boys' fathers. And if Georgia Boy doesn't win, the fathers may both lose their jobs.

[Guy Fawkes]

77. Bloody Sunday

[Mz Pip]

78. The Pianist

I was too numb to cry after watching that movie. Like being kicked in the gut.

Mz Pip
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