What's the most heart-wrenching, saddest movie you have ever seen (or at least can recall)? Here's mine:

It might not be the saddest ever, but by the end my waterworks turned on full blast

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unique said:

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REALLY??!!!

lmao

Brokeback Mountain is certainly one.

Schindler's List

The Pianist

Amistad

Antwone Fisher

when Baby G died in hardball omg so sad and unexpected

but i really cried like a baby on My sisters keeper

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SUPRMAN said:

Brokeback Mountain is certainly one.

Schindler's List

The Pianist

Amistad

Antwone Fisher

when he confronted his foster mother ...i threw a shoe a the screen because it was so intense

and schindler list was sad but i didnt cry

formallypickles said:

SUPRMAN said:

Brokeback Mountain is certainly one.

Schindler's List

The Pianist

Amistad

Antwone Fisher

when he confronted his foster mother ...i threw a shoe a the screen because it was so intense

and schindler list was sad but i didnt cry

In Atwone Fisher, I was with a good friend.

We were sitting next to some women. All of us were sitting there in the theatre crying. I cried several times.

I honestly can't give a true opinion on this movie because i couldn't finish it. I think I made it about twenty minutes into it before I had to turn it off. I just found it too painful to watch.

Grave of the Fireflies 火垂るの墓

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Spinlight said:

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I have not seen Antwone Fisher, Grave of the Fireflies or Monster. Would any of you care to give synopses of these films?

Monster is based on the story of Aileen Wuornos, the "first female serial killer"...

Clearly mentally unstable woman is pushed through "The System" and ends up reducing her life to that of a prostitute before meeting a young woman she falls in love with.

Spinlight said:

Monster is based on the story of Aileen Wuornos, the "first female serial killer"...

Clearly mentally unstable woman is pushed through "The System" and ends up reducing her life to that of a prostitute before meeting a young woman she falls in love with.

Yeah, now I remember reading about that when it came out. So, is it the love story part that makes it so sad or the fact that she has been incarcerated/institutionalized or something else?

strmn said:

Spinlight said:

I have not seen Antwone Fisher, Grave of the Fireflies or Monster. Would any of you care to give synopses of these films?

Antwone Fisher (2002) 120 min - Biography | Drama | Romance - 10 January 2003 (USA) 7.3/10 Users: (13,995 votes) 151 reviews | Critics: 118 reviews Metascore: 62/100 (based on 32 reviews from Metacritic.com) Antwone Fisher, a young navy man, is forced to see a psychiatrist after a violent outburst against a fellow crewman. During the course of treatment a painful past is revealed and a new hope begins.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168786/

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damosuzuki said:

I honestly can't give a true opinion on this movie because i couldn't finish it. I think I made it about twenty minutes into it before I had to turn it off. I just found it too painful to watch.

Grave of the Fireflies 火垂るの墓

I have not even dared to watch it yet, it's the only one I didn't see yet

Engelchen

Breaking the Waves (I refuse to watch any more Von Trier after this one, I know I couldn't cope with the emotional manipulation of Dancer in the Dark or Anti-Christ)

Camino

El Orfanato

A.I.

maybe the whole movie isn't SAD, but there are scenes in these movies that reduce me to a snotty mess.

I don't enjoy being sad like that I certainly don't seek it out. A traditional "weepie" doesn't do much to me though

Life is beautiful

Winter Cicada

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Dancer In THe Dark!

I usually never cry during movies but I lost it watching "Titanic".

It wasnt the love story (screw Jack and Rose) that got me...it was the scene when the one lifeboat goes back to look for survivors. Knowing that really happened had me choked up.

Then we got the shot of the lady and her frozen baby...ABSOLUTELY LOST IT.

damosuzuki said:

I honestly can't give a true opinion on this movie because i couldn't finish it. I think I made it about twenty minutes into it before I had to turn it off. I just found it too painful to watch.

Grave of the Fireflies 火垂るの墓

This movie made me laugh my ass off. And I've never seen it.

I was on tour in Vancouver, Canada with my band. It wasn't a show night, so me and my cousin (guitarist/producer of the band) went out to try and find someplace to eat near the hotel.

We were right in the middle of Chinatown. After we'd eaten, we stopped in this rinky-dink family owned corner store cos I wanted to buy a bottle of water. While we were queueing, I flicked through the stack of DVD's they had on display. This one was there. Except it was obviously a bootleg, and the Roger Ebert quote had a typo so it said - "It Relongs on any list of the greatest war films ever made".

We laughed about it all the way back to the hotel.

Anyway, back on topic...

This movie was pretty sad.

scenes from:

the notebook ( my latest)

definitely brian piccalo's recount

no country for old men

for starters...

purple rain

the color purple

ZombieKitten said:

damosuzuki said:

I honestly can't give a true opinion on this movie because i couldn't finish it. I think I made it about twenty minutes into it before I had to turn it off. I just found it too painful to watch.

Grave of the Fireflies 火垂るの墓

I have not even dared to watch it yet, it's the only one I didn't see yet

I don’t cry at the drop of a hat. I really do my best to be a cold, heartless bastard, but from the first scene I was crying like a little girl. Perhaps I was just in a soft mood that day, and certainly I have a tough time with children in peril, exacerbated here due to knowing there’s no nice end to their story, but at a certain point I just couldn’t take the overwhelming sadness of the movie and I had to abandon it. Maybe I’ll try again one day, but I don’t think it will be any time soon.

strmn said:

I have not seen Antwone Fisher, Grave of the Fireflies or Monster. Would any of you care to give synopses of these films?

I can’t really do one myself since I couldn’t actually watch the film, but here’s a synopsis copied and pasted from Roger Ebert’s review:

This is another one that really destroys me.

Million Dollar Baby (wow, just fuckin' wow )

Mystic River

A Perfect World

Bridges of Madison

White Hunter, Black Heart

Dirty Harry

The Enforcer (Dirty Harry III)

(hell, nearly any modern Clint Eastwood flick)

Brokeback Mountain (definitely, heart-wrenching final scene)

The Godfathet Part. II

The Godfather Part. III

Platoon

Barry Lyndon

Planet of the Apes

The Empire Strikes Back

Revenge of the Sith

Carlito's Way

The Fly

strmn said:

Spinlight said:

Monster is based on the story of Aileen Wuornos, the "first female serial killer"...

Clearly mentally unstable woman is pushed through "The System" and ends up reducing her life to that of a prostitute before meeting a young woman she falls in love with.

Yeah, now I remember reading about that when it came out. So, is it the love story part that makes it so sad or the fact that she has been incarcerated/institutionalized or something else?

The love story. The woman isn't gay, but she finds herself at the "last stop" in life, so to speak. And just as she was ready to kill herself, she meets this young woman and falls in love. The whole process from her being repelled to her silently praying to God about it is very haunting, but the desperation she feels to maintain that relationship leads her back down the same broken paths she was lead down her whole life.

Once Were Warriors made my cry so hard.....

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