My tenth-grade history teacher made us watch Schindler’s List last year, and the entire thing was just so unbelievably sad. Especially the little girl in the red coat . . . Ugh.
I haven’t read this thread as I don’t want to be bummed out for the rest of the night, but the first movie that came to mind, and always comes to mind that just *ruined me * was
*Somewhere in Time *.
I was *devastated * by the ending.
When Christopher Reeves character dies from basically a broken heart . Yeah, sure he meets up with Jane Seymour/Dr. Quinn in heaven, but no woman or man already dead is worth dying for.
I was 11 or 12.
I can’t watch it to this day.
“I am darn curious about Grave of the Fireflies now and will rent it in due time”
Well it’s one of the greatest films I have ever seen and gets my vote ,too, for the saddest. Roger Ebert put it on his Great Movies list and here is his review:
http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/greatmovies/gravefireflies.html
BTW if you do rent it try to get a subtitled version if possible. And in case you want to buy the DVD make sure you buy the new special edition with the extra disk rather than the older version which is still around at more or less the same price.
Ok, now that I’ve braved the bummed out possibilities, I’ve read this thread.
I really want to see *Grave of the Fireflies now. *
And I mean this straightforward, thanks for the spoiler on it, making it that much easier to emotionally handle it.
Ebert’s write up on it says that there is a book…I am assuming only in japanese?
Yet another vote for Old Yeller. Brings me to tears every time.
Saddest movie of all time: Dumbo
The scene with Mrs. Jumbo swinging Dumbo in her trunk and singing “Baby Mine” makes me :
:
Oh gosh how could I have forgotten The Green Mile?
I read the book (again) right before seeing the movie in the theater; I started crying as soon as the opening credits began rolling.
I wonder if I was PMSing that day.
Ethan Frome (Liam Neeson, Patricia Arquette).
Grave of the Fireflies is animated?
I don’t understand how an animated film can be sad. Still, I want to rent it.
There’s a scene in the 1987(I believe) version of ‘Made in Heaven’ with Timothy Hutton and Kelly McGillis that breaks me.
Timothy Hutton is sitting at a table, looking into a mirror and drinking. He’s on the verge of losing his soul mate, and doesn’t know it. That moment, when he’s just drowning in despair-- I just completely lose it. Ha! I’m tearing up just writing about it.
Finally somebody mentioned this movie! Good god, I was crying so hard when
his mom finally died for the last time, and he was laying in bed next to her holding her hand
Sniff :(
-foxy
I can’t believe we made it almost to the end of page 2 without anyone mentioning Midnight Cowboy. I can’t think of a sadder, more depressing movie.
It annoys me sometimes, that I get teary eyed more often with animated films than any oher type!
Dumbo - check.
The Iron Giant - check.
Watership Down made me howl as a child, I remember that, and scarcely remember the movie!
And I’m a sodding animator! I really should know better than to be suckered in by those pencil drawn heartstrings.
:rolleyes:
Real movie? I found Amilie depressed me for a good half hour afterwards - I felt so miserable! (it reminded me of my then loneliness)
And how could I have forgotten Ordinary People?
Oh, well…talking children’s movies?
Charlotte’s Web.
worthy of a 7 Kleenex rating.
Little Nemo in Slumberland. Saddest piece of shit I’ve ever seen.
Twelve Monkeys
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
I cried harder over “Testament” than any other movie I can ever remember seeing. I’ve never been tempted to watch it again, though it was very well done.
I’ll also agree re “Grave of the Fireflies.” Saw it on TV. My SO came home to find me sobbing in the bedroom.
I saw “Threads” not long after I saw “Testament.” (That was the year of the nuclear holocaust movies, I think.) Threads was disturbing more than tear-inducing to me. I saw it on TBS. In what I considered an inspired piece of programming, they followed it with “Harvey” (the Jimmy Stewart giant white rabbit movie). I stayed up late watching it just so I wouldn’t have to go to sleep with “Threads” still in my head.
Brian’s Song
The original, not the pointless remake.
Man, that’s some good cryin’
I saw Requiem for a Dream reduce a roomful of cynical college kids to tears. I heard one say he had to talk a cold shower just to get the feel off. I second that-- near the end of the movie, i felt as if someone were beating me with a stick. Still a good movie, though.
And i’m with everyone else who said Grave of the Fireflies. Barefoot Gen of Hiroshima is another movie about a similar subject which can induce similar reactions…