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?

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

"Schindler's List"

The main character behaves in a way all people should emulate

By killing Jews?

Sicario to some extent, because it shows that even the people who could fix the problem have given up long time ago. There is no point in fighting.

A favorite of mine but never considered it a sad movie.

Dark and blackpilled for sure.

Thread tax: I remember thinking I am Sam (2001) was the saddest movie ever when I saw it contemporaneously.

Before the Internet taught me that Sean Penn also played a retard in IRL as well.

 

[booklover]

Watch Dear Zachary ( 2008 ). Don't read anything about it, don't do anything beyond finding a decent torrent/streaming site and watching it. Trust me.

Report back later with your thoughts/feelings.

And it's a documentary, no less.

Documentaries are cheating a bit, still its the saddest and most enraging thing put to film.

I'd nominate "Abducted In Plain Sight" for that, and one wonders what the OTHER family's story was! IYKYK.

 

[Cardinal Cardinal]

"Arrival" watching the opening after knowing the end makes it extra sad for me.
"30 Days of Night" Not the whole movie, just the end where they wait for the sun to rise.

 

[Marc]

The Room by Tommy Wiseau, I cry everytime.

This person understands life.

 

[Poonocchio]

I'd nominate "Abducted In Plain Sight" for that, and one wonders what the OTHER family's story was! IYKYK.

I'd go for "The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez" for a docu but Abducted In Plain Sight was fucking insane. I just read the synopsis for Dear Zachary though (sorry. I cheated) and that's one I won't be watching.

 

[Aunt Carol]

The Match Factory Girl.

I know it's part of his "Proletariat Trilogy" and there's deeper meaning and everything, but it just hits me on the level of a plain girl who does nothing but work and observe from the outside. She tries to mimic social behavior, and for a moment thinks she's figured it out and life is going to start happening, but haha, no; you don't get to be people, little sperg.

It probably doesn't hurt that 1990 Finland reads as 1980s US, or that I seem to have an emotional weakness for Scandinavian films, especially Aki Kaurismaki. I'm not crying over Leningrad Cowboys Go America but everything else of his is just inexorable mundane tragedy.

Along similar lines, Dancer in the Dark, even if on paper the plot seems hamfisted, executed it's just like a spiral of fate and depression. Lars von Trier is a turd but he can sure make a movie when he gets over himself, and Bjork made me worried that I could potentially be attracted to someone with Down syndrome but she acts her little heart out here.

 

[(((I am NOT a jew)))]

The Fire Inside and Oslo, 31 August

Both adaptions of the book Will o' the Wisps.

A drug addict is released from rehab for a day and goes around talking to friends debating if he should kill himself.

There's just an honesty and frankness about it all. It's rare to have a film where the character dealing with depression isn't just shown as being overly cynical or pessimistic. There's a logic the character has in both versions that makes it continually harder for anyone to actually debate against. There's a diner scene in both versions that shows the loneliness the man has that are done masterfully.

 

[Moody Fallon]

Lilya 4-ever (2002). I can't believe it hasn't been mentioned. It's cold, bleak, depressing...that ending...

 

[Cloaca Rimjob]

casualties of war kinda wound me up.
there's probably a lot more but that's the one I can remember off the top of my head.

 

[soup peddler]

I rewatched The Brave Little Toaster recently and within fifteen minutes a character got so enraged he killed himself in front of a dozen terrified onlookers

 

[lester]

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

Tried this one yesterday based on your post.
Liked it, sad at times. The reincarnation bits do soften it. That and the more or less happy go lucky narration. Kinda appreciate though they didn't put pedal to the floor.

 

[Marc]

I rewatched The Brave Little Toaster recently and within fifteen minutes a character got so enraged he killed himself in front of a dozen terrified onlookers

I blame Andy Dick.

 

[Womble of Wimbledon]

The Room by Tommy Wiseau, I cry everytime.

I unironically find the ending quite moving. Like, fuck, Johnny was such a great guy, and everybody betray him. Sad shit.

There are a lot of tear-jerkers but the most miserable, depressing movie I have ever seen is Tyrannosaur (2011). Peter Mullan drunkenly kicks his dog to death in the first 2 minutes and it only gets worse from there. One of those that you finish and think, "I just spent two hours making myself completely depressed for no reason."

 

[Procrastinhater]

Johnny Got His Gun.
It's from the novel by Dalton Trombo about a guy who stepped on a landmine and ended up with his arms and legs blown off and deaf and blind, basically locked in syndrome.
The book is even worse because he didn't have his arms and legs blown off, the doctors thought he was basically a vegetable with no thoughts only autonomic functions so they used him as a Guinea Pig and amputated his arms and legs.
It's messed up.
The movie and book Metallicas ONE is based on.

Watership Down.

That movie is fucking horrific.
The part where the rabbit is trapped in the Warren with the fucking gas, all the bodies... its so fucked up.
I can't believe they marketed that shit for kids because that's not a fucking kids movie.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

Vanishing Point

 

[Procrastinhater]

Vanishing Point

No shit if Kowalski's last run doesn't stir your heart you may have no testicles.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

No shit if Kowalski's last run doesn't stir you're heart you may have no testicles.

Rip one r/t

 

[sadbird]

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.

Didn't that movie straight up have like a 5 minute sex scene? Someone cluelessly played this for our church group and that's as far as I got seeing it, dunce pastor didn't turn it off until the part where Schindler started pissing in the toilet with the door open, probably one of the funniest things that ever happened there.
My pick is "A Man Who Was Superman" (200 A korean film based around the true story of an eccentric homeless guy who believes he's superman. It comes with it's own shoot the rodeo style scene where there's some in town climate change rally. Anyway the ending makes me cry bitch tears, it's really worth at least one go around.

 

[Butterschmalz]

Didn't that movie straight up have like a 5 minute sex scene? Someone cluelessly played this for our church group and that's as far as I got seeing it, dunce pastor didn't turn it off until the part where Schindler started pissing in the toilet with the door open, probably one of the funniest things that ever happened there.

Someone called it holocaust porn. Or misery porn. You re supposed to cry when you watch it, but its somehow over the top. To the point when it becomes funny.

 

[Heem 'em all.]

Bridge to Terabithia (2007)

When I was a little potato nibbler, for some reason, the teachers in my primary school would show this movie at least once a year, every year. I became so sick of it that I began to laugh at that scene when it would come up.