What is the saddest movie you've ever seen?

[VasonJoorhees]

Personally the saddest I've seen is Grave of the Fireflies, created by Studio Ghibli. Without giving too much away it's an animated movie about WWII and the cost of war. I've been emotionally impacted by many movies, but this one has stuck with me the most. Highly recommend to watch but be warned it's not for the faint of heart.

What's your pick?

 

[CallmeCicada]

The Lives of Others (2006), Bridge to Terabithia (2007), A Man Called Ove (2015)

 

[Hepativore]

Sorcerer (1977) This is a movie about four expatriates who have committed crimes in their home countries and have ended up in some South American third world hellhole. One thing leads to another and they end up being desperate enough to be hired to drive trucks full of unstable explosives to put out an oil well fire over two hundred miles away.

The movie drives the point home at how badly they need the money in order to be able to get out of said town, and as the movie progresses, how well and truly FUCKED they are.

There is a prior movie based on the original novel called Wages of Fear. It is in black and white and came out in the 1950's, but I think Sorcerer is better as it is even grittier and more cynical.

 

[.iota.]

the reflecting skin (1990)
i don't really know why. it's a horror film, but it's always just kind of lingered with me in a melancholic way.
"sometimes, terrible things happen quite naturally."

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Even though it's 100% Jewish propaganda, "Schindler's List". If you watch it as fiction or just with a based on a """true""" story mentality, then it's an incredibly sad and beautiful film. The main character behaves in a way all people should emulate, ironically displaying great Christian values in a very manipulative film.

 

[One Sixth Native American]

“What Dreams May Come” ( 1998 )Not the best movie, but the themes it dealt with were hard for me at that time in my life.

 

[OrionBalls]

A Dog's Purpose had me crying like a baby.

 

[Cat tit bingo]

Ikiru by akira kurosawa is fucking devastating. It's not just dealing with impending death but also dealing with the regret of having wasted the time you did have. He does find a purpose and peace in the end but christ that song he sings makes me cry like a bitch.

 

[macrodegenerate]

The Lives of Others (2006)

"What is the name of your... Ball?". That's really the point that sealed the movie for me. This man who has interrogated and convicted hundreds of other people, actively knows what he is doing is wrong, and chooses to do so willingly. It's this small act of kindness which demonstrates that he can actively choose not to, without a negative outcome to himself or others. It makes the ending even more devastating.

"Never Look Away" by the same director is exceptional as well. It has that same melancholy energy.

 

[isalaide]

Edward Scissorhands. "I want him to remember me as I was" is not an ending that should have been given a PG rating.

Schindler's List. For some reason we were made to watch this five times in one school year; I think to balance out the eight times we were made to watch Triumph of the Will. We started to think if we cried enough during the ghetto sequence maybe our history teacher would stop. She did not stop.

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

Now, Voyager.

Dumbo. Dumbo is fucking traumatising. The shot of their trunks being pulled apart is fucking nightmare fuel.

The English Patient. The book is even fucking worse.

The End of the Affair. Do not ever think about watching this back to back with The English Patient if you value your eyes.

Blue Valentine. This ought to come with a fucking health warning. I felt legitimately depressed leaving the cinema.

12 Years a Slave. I can't describe how this made me feel beyond saying that I have never been able to rewatch it. One of only two times I've ever heard audible sobbing in the cinema.

 

[D_Tractor]

Casper

 

[We Are The Witches]

One of them could be: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, but it has been a long time since I watched it.

I think also: A Tale Of Two Sisters, which I also have not watched in many years; it has a great track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1obSsV_dgU

 

[gorgoroth7134]

Casper

 

[Aiōn]

I don't watch many sad movies but Titanic made me tear up, and Romeo & Juliet.

 

[Poonocchio]

Green Mile or Watership Down.

 

[Neodanthril]

The road has an incredibly grim outlook on things

 

[Beastie]

Watership Down

If you watch this for the first time after about 12 years old it's sad, if you watch it before that? Congrats, you've been traumatized for life by a "kids" movie.

 

[lester]

Lars Von Trier's - Breaking the Waves

 

[MadStan]

I saw a Triple feature feating Old Yeller, followed by Requiem for a Dream and fished with Remains of the Day.

They handed out hand guns at the end so we could just finish ourselves off.

 

[Butterschmalz]

Since everyone is mentioning Schindlers list: funniest movie ever. Especially when they shoot the Jew shoveling snow: "A one armed Jew? Twice as useless." Brilliant.