Saddest film you've ever seen

Bananaleaf

Every time I watch Leon I keep hoping it will end differently

dublinman1990

There are a few sad films in I have watched that left me in tears or being depressed.

The Lion King - Two of Elton John's songs Circle of Life & Can you feel the love tonight leave me in bits.

The Secret Garden - My mam & I were watching it a few years ago on RTÉ One & the end scene left us both in tears.

Thomas & The Magic Railroad - Great movie. But the song Shining Time made me cry my eyes out afterwards.

Storks - My mam & I saw that in Dun Laoghaire recently & the end scene of the movie left me in tears.

The boy in the striped pyjamas - I only watched that once & just left me depressed.

Batman V Superman DOJ - Near the end of the movie where Superman "dies" left me to cry for a while.

The Dark Knight Rises - The scene where Bruce Wayne "dies" when killed with the bomb & Alfred is crying tears at his grave side.

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit - Great Movie. The end scene where the 3 nuns cried after they heard their school was to remain open after winning the choir competiton.

toadfly

Marley & Me, Me Before You, Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Seven Pounds, The Notebook.

el_gaucho

Mar Adentro (The Sea Inside), Spanish film about a quadriplegic and his campaign for euthanasia.

The Passion of the Christ, very powerful film I thought.

youngblood

The Color Purple...


Scene where they are being seperated...heartbreaking

This first 15 mins of Up....how an animated Pixar movie stirred such emotion is incredible

Hector Savage

Hachi a dogs tale .

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1028532/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Im still upset after seeing it last Friday..

optogirl

Life is Beautiful (La Vita è Bella)

Always in floods by the end

Aglomerado

Ring of Bright Water had me bawling at the end...

Stone Deaf 4evr

The Mist - the very ending is such a gut punch, one of the few times I've actually felt physically sick to my stomach after watching something.

appledrop

Manchester by the Sea is absolutely heartbreaking. Especially as it takes you a little while to work out what has happened. I haven't been able to watch it a second time even though it's a brilliant film as just too upsetting.

granturismo

Inn Of The Sixth Happiness & The Killing Fields.

osarusan

Breaking the Waves

con___manx1

This is my father. I cried at the end : (

El Duda

appledrop wrote: »

Manchester by the Sea is absolutely heartbreaking. Especially as it takes you a little while to work out what has happened. I haven't been able to watch it a second time even though it's a brilliant film as just too upsetting.

I cry at ANYTHING but this film left me cold. It's a well made film with great acting but it just made me feel dead inside.


The films that have made me cry in recent years;

The Notebook
Lion
Inside Out
Up
Stand By Me
Toy Story 3
A Monster Calls

bb12

wendy and lucy

matthew the statue

Saving Private Ryan

ozzy78

I saw Coco in the cinema a few months ago with my ten year old son. Tears were flowing at the end with the scene with his Gran.. great movie.

Hector Savage

ozzy78 wrote: »

I saw Coco in the cinema a few months ago with my ten year old son. Tears were flowing at the end with the scene with his Gran.. great movie.

My 6 year old got so upset watching that film ... poor kid..

hairyslug

I cried the 1st and 2nd time watching Coco, probably the saddest film I've seen as an adult.

Lockheed

Trainspotting, when the baby dies it's pretty heart wrenching

beefburrito

Bridge to Terabethia, I watched it with my son a good few years ago.

I was one of those lads who had a Tomboy Friend, she was a great pal.
Often got me in a headlock, she was very pretty.
Had a crush on her, she loved getting mucky, jumping into River's etc...
Staying out late at night.
Haven't seen her in year's....

So when Leslie died it really hit me hard.....

ruahead

Fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe ( when Idgy's girlfriend Ruth dies)
Up was too sad at the start
Legends of the fall ( a lot of times )

trashcan

fando wrote: »

Come and See, 1985

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091251/

My God, that is one harrowing film. Very tough to watch. It's absolutely unforgiving in its brutality. The boy in it is magnificent. You can see him visibly age through the film due to the horrors he witnesses. I don't think I could watch it again.

Didn't make me blurb though. That's a fairly rare occurrence, more likely to happen to me with a song than a movie tbh. The ending of Dead Poets Society where they all stand up on the desks did get me though.

messrs

Hachi: A Dog's Tale - sobbed watching this

Ipso

Ipso wrote: »

Great film. Another New Zealand film, but on the other side of the emotion spectrum is Whale Rider. There's a couple weepyvscenes in that also.

+1 this one really got me when I watched it in the cinema.

DominoDub

I kill Giants .

Watched it with someone who's mother had just died

metaoblivia

The Breadwinner. Everything about that film is heartbreaking.

SpatialPlanning

I think the score of a film often plays a huge part in how emotional some scenes are. Here were some films/moments from films where I felt particularly emotional:

About Time - scene with father near end of film.

Braveheart - throwing the sword at the end.

Return of the King - scene where they bow to hobbits (not sad, more like a long awaited release of emotion).

Dead Poets Society - climbing onto desks.

Marley and Me - if you have ever had a dog as a pet.

Beaches - Bette Midler.

hmmm

On the Beach - I read the book beforehand (which is showing its age, but is still a poignant story) and was prepared to be disappointed with the film, but the ending stirred the same sense of emotion.

Kerplunk124

Hachi: a dogs tale, at least with Marley and Me I only cried at the end but ****ing hell i cried for the entire second half of the Hachi movie

The ending of Cinema Paradiso never fails to make me cry a lot.

job seeker

Mr. Church

It really gets me in the feels..However definitely worth a watch..

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Dr Bill V1.5

Shane

http://ibb.co/bK1Lbc

hairyslug

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The ending of Cinema Paradiso never fails to make me cry a lot.

I always get that mixed up with Guest House Paradiso

kennethrhcp

it's probably been mentioned already but the 1st 10/15mins of UP

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.

Arrival
Brokeback Mountain
Mr Church
Me before You
Manchester by the Sea
Live by Night
Legends of the Fall
The man who knew Infinity
Love and other drugs
Our Souls at Night
Road to Perdition
Brief Encounter
Bridges of Madison County
The Last Unicorn
Pans Labyrinth
UP
Love Actually


I'm an awful sap

EndaHonesty

Forrest Gump

When Forrest meets his son for the first time and asks Jenny if little Forrest is smart or...

You suddenly see that Forrest is aware of his own limitations.

That his first thought on finding out about and meeting his son is whether the child has the same intellect, is very touching.

Really beautiful acting from Tom Hanks.

metaoblivia

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

Posy

Turner and Hooch.

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."