Saddest film you've ever seen

wakka12

Wonder had me in floods

Brian Lighthouse

Umberto D - The most adamantine heart will grate tear ducts to flood.

I see there is an updated version due out next year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_D. (Original)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1327604/ (updated due 2019)

EPAndlee

The Fox and the hound gets me everytime so I stopped watching it

quickbeam

hairyslug wrote: »

I always get that mixed up with Guest House Paradiso

Ha! Slightly different kettle of fish!

Deleted User wrote: »

Films don't have to be sad for me to cry. Some of them leave me in tears if there are very moving scenes of happiness.

Me too. I cry at the end of Parenthood - that scan around the hospital waiting room after the Dianne Weist character has had the baby - the whole family together, all happy for that one moment in time, even though there were troubles previously and likely to be troubles ahead, but for that one moment, everyone is okay .... except me who's balling crying.

Or Dead Poet's Society - barely twitched when Neil died, but during the standing on desks scene, I'm in bits.

There's probably dozens of other examples.

And the thing about these movies is that I don't just cry the first time. On repeat viewings I cry again and again, even when I know what's coming and am expecting it.

Snake Plisken

Somewhere in Time Christopher Reeves & Jane Seymour time travel love story, I cry every time I watch it and it’s even more sad that Christopher Reeves is no longer with us.

Brian Lighthouse

Patrick's Day - unbelievable - One of the top Irish movies ever made. This one will throw you around the room.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2889112/

TheBoyConor

The saddest film I have watched recently has to Pilgrim Hill. Being a country boy myself I knew isolated bachelor farmers like the main character while growing up can understand the isolation and loneliness that kind of life can bring. It was an absolutely excellently made but very very sad film. Even the fact that there is no soundtrack in the film (which some criticised it for not knowing the significance of it) was a great decision - instead you have the sounds an isolated bachelor farmer would hear - the ticking kitchen clock, the fridge flicking on, the hum of the milking machine, the sheepdog barking.
The two saddest moments are 1) the kitchen scene with Jimmys voiceover as he contemplates his life "is this all there is?". 2) the scene where he on the way home from a rare night out, in good form when he gets bagged by the guards and fails. Just when he was starting to have a tiny semblance of a social life, everything is taken away from him again, and his herd is soon to come down with TB.
It's not the type of film to watch if You're in bad form of a wet Saturday. It would drive you into depression.



Another great sad film is Adam and Paul. A day in the life of two hopeless inner city junkies whose mission in life is to get some money and score the next drug fix.
The two saddest moments. 1) When they go into Janine's flat and go to streal her telly and discover the baby. Not knowing which might be her father they both daydream they meet Janine and reunite. But she comes back and effs them out of it.
2) the final scene. Paul wakes up on the beach on the morning and tries to wake Adam but find he has died during the night of an overdose or the cold. Visibly shaken, Paul takes a moment before moving shuffling off screen. A moment passed with the camera fixed on Adams lifeless body on the beach. Paul shuffles back into the frame, kneels down and roots through Adams pockets to find the bag of heroine and any money before shuffling away again. With the camera still fixed on Adam, a moment passes again before fade out and credits.
While Adam and Paul definitely has its comedic moments of outrageous hilarity it is also a masterpiece of the saddest misery porn.

pc7

Always. Richard Dreyfuss and Holly Hunter, gets me every time, absolutely heaving sobs watching it, great for releasing emotion.

barney shamrock

A Little Princess (1995)

Liam Cunningham's in it as a soldier suffering from amnesia and thought dead by his young daughter who's stuck with an evil stepmother type.
They finally meet and the girl pleads for him to remember her but he can't.
As the father of a young daughter it's unbearably heartbreaking to watch.

'The Book Thief' broke my heart as well. :-(

storker

The Elephant Man and What Dreams May Come are the ones that jump into my head.

John Merrick: "If only I could find her, so she could see me with such lovely friends here now; perhaps she could love me as I am. I've tried so hard to be good." Feckin' dust in my eye...

One that caught me completely by surprise was the ending of Raising Arizona, when Hi has a dream of the future. Something about how he could dream such a hopeful dream, a dream not of owning things, or being rich, but just of being simply happy...after what they'd been through and lost, really choked me up when I saw it.

" [..]This whole dream, was it wishful thinking? Was I just fleeing reality like I know I'm liable to do? But me and Ed, we can be good too. And it seemed real. It seemed like us and it seemed like, well, our home. If not Arizona, then a land not too far away. Where all parents are strong and wise and capable and all children are happy and beloved. I don't know. Maybe it was Utah."

MissGriff

The Bridges if Madison County.....oh dear god.....its like my soul is crying.

Life is Beautiful......don't know what I could say. only, watch it.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.......the innocence of the two boys frirnddhip and then the barbarity of WW2 ......destroying it.

Danny Donut

Deleted User wrote: »

Love Actually


I'm an awful sap

Oh Good - me too

Glory always gets to me a bit those poor feckers the only way they could gain any sort of acceptance was to lead a suicide charge.

The Bridge - sigh. difficult to watch again. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052654/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Fortress of War - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343703/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Its a grim film but the bit that always gets me is when they have hardly any water, one of the guys shares his last drop with his doggie

Ipso

The Sixth Sense. I know everyone just talks about the twist but there are some great emotional moments in it. The relationship between Cole and his mother is great, she is obviously under pressure and doesn't know how to deal with Cole (probably thinks there is something wrong with him).
When she accuses him of taking her mother's necklace and he is being honest and she just gets angry with him, and then at the end when he tells her his secret. The way she looks horrified as if her son is completely insane and then starts to realize.
Also after he tells Bruce Willis' character and then he goes of and says he thinks Cole is delusional.

Venom

Million Dollar Baby.

The change in tone halfway through is a serious buzzkill

Zirconia

Jean de Florette

tomofson

"The heart is deceitful above all things" is quite a sad one.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368774/

Akrasia

"A tale of two sisters"

It reaches inside your heart and wrenches it out mercilessly.

SimonTemplar

Ipso wrote: »

The Sixth Sense. I know everyone just talks about the twist but there are some great emotional moments in it. The relationship between Cole and his mother is great, she is obviously under pressure and doesn't know how to deal with Cole (probably thinks there is something wrong with him).
When she accuses him of taking her mother's necklace and he is being honest and she just gets angry with him, and then at the end when he tells her his secret. The way she looks horrified as if her son is completely insane and then starts to realize.
Also after he tells Bruce Willis' character and then he goes of and says he thinks Cole is delusional.

The scene at the end between the two in the car is so powerful especially Toni Collette's raw emotion.

Conor Bourke

“Philomena” with Judi Dench and Steve Coogan, I bawled.

Watched Dumbo the other day, the elephants were so cruel

Also One Million Dubliners left me a snotty, sobbing mess

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shamrock55

Can't remember if I posted this already but the pursuit of happiness when they have to sleep in the cubicle always gets me

Burgo

Song of the Sea. Watched it for the first time with the missus when she was about 7 months pregnant with our daughter, pretty sure we bawled for the whole thing.

Heckler

Not a sad film as such but The Intouchables brought a manly tear or two to my eyes for sure. Excellent film.

LeperKing

"Trade" Sex trafficking and Kevin Kline, something I wish I could have unseen.

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valoren

metaoblivia wrote: »

Also, Okja. That film will rip your heart out. And Beasts of the Southern Wild. I also cried at Atonement.

Agreed on Atonement. The twist was very cleverly done. The ending is a stark sadness as we realise what devastating damage a simple lie can do to other people.

sightband

Deerhunter

La Vita é Bella

Cinema Paradiso

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ct5amr2ig1nfhp

Philadelphia gets me each time I watch it.

Keyzer

chicorytip wrote: »

The Champ

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