what was the saddest movie you ever saw?

[sundog]

[bicentennial_baby]

1. So many...

but 'Au Revoir Les Enfants' kills me every time...

[sundog]

2. i saw one about a lady who died... that was a really sad one

[bicentennial_baby]

3. it's sad when ladies die...

and gentlemen too...

[sundog]

5. or sadder still when a man & woman die together

[bicentennial_baby]

8. yeah, that's really really sad

i no longer watch sad movies, because they make me....


sad.

[sundog]

12. there are also sad movies about people who get eaten by animals

or who die in plane crashes

[bicentennial_baby]

16. yep...and babies too

i saw one where a dingo ate a lady's baby..it was really sad

she was from awwstralya.

[MissMarple]

23. You guys are hysterical.

Funniest thread I've seen in days. :rofl:

[maveric]

43. Mystic River was pretty sad. No happy ending there.

[sundog]

27. babies who get eaten by animals is the saddest of all

[bicentennial_baby]

36. it thought i saw a dingo yesterday

i looked around for babies...there weren't any and it was sad too, because i like babies.

[FuzzySlippers]

18. Then there was that one where all those people drowned.

[sundog]

31. getting trapped in a snowstorm is sadder than drowning

[FuzzySlippers]

42. What would be really sad would be someone falling through the ice

and drowning while trapped by a snowstorm in an ice fishing hut. That would make a super sad movie.

[MissMarple]

44. And it was a group of kids on a field trip.

Orphans.

[sundog]

53. on a bus... before the plane crashed into the ice, the bus did

[sundog]

46. or even sadder if the rescue plane crashed & the huskies fell in the ice

[bicentennial_baby]

45. i saw one like that...

shelly winters died of a heart attack...she was a good swimmer though.

it was sad

[sundog]

48. shelly winters was also in tentacles... which was was double sad cause

tentacles ate a baby

[bicentennial_baby]

49. omg...that's SO sad

henry fonda, 'eh? he was in 'On Golden Pond'...it was sad.

[sundog]

52. shelly winters was also in 'cleopatra jones' - and she played a very mean

lady... it makes me sad to think about it...

but on golden pond is probably sadder

[bicentennial_baby]

55. i used to have a huge Cleopatra Jones poster on my wall, but

it got ripped, and i was really, really sad, because it was so cool.

[sundog]

56. i love cleopatra jones, though i haven't seen it in years

maybe it's on dvd... sometimes i forget to look for stuff like that

sorry about your poster

[stanwyck]

15. Schindler's List

definitely. So many of the images from that film haunt me. As they should. The horror of the inhumanity was over-whelming. My son and daughter (twins) were 14 when they watched it...and I had to remind them later that everything they saw -- and more, much more -- actually happened.
A teacher at their high school wanted to show the movie...and, of course, the usual parents complained. The rightwing evangelicals who somehow find any mention of the Holocaust as inappropriate. The school administration caved. So parents rented the movie and showed it to their kids at home.

[rosalux]

4. My Dog Skip

endless sobbing

runners up:
Joy Luck Club
The Way We Were

[UrbScotty]

39. Me too

:cry:

[henslee]

58. That was heartbreaking.

[Wetzelbill]

6. Journey Of Hope

About a Kurdish family in Turkey who try to immigrate to Switzerland. It is heartbreaking. 1990 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Film (maybe 1991, not sure)

[Enraged_Ape]

7. Dancer in the Dark

This movie is the Lance Armstrong of dark, depressing, sad films. No other movie in cinema history comes close.

[sundog]

9. i love lars von trier

dogville was even better, but not as sad as ditd

[LeftyDarthBrodie]

28. Breaking the Waves

is, in my opinion, the saddest von Trier movie and is up there with the all time saddest. I like both Dogville, which I found more disturbing than sad, and DitD, which hits you over the head with sadness in the last 40 minutes, but Breaking the Waves is two hours and forty minutes of emotionally draining film watching.

[sundog]

33. dogville is probably in my top five fave flicks of all time

it's a mental cookie... everytime i watch it i pull out something new... it's a very good social analysis

[LeftyDarthBrodie]

60. I totally agree

I've caught bits and pieces on Sundance Channel recently, haven't watched the film in its entirety since early this year. I'm very eager to see Manderlay, hopefully that will be out here by the end of the year. If not I've got my multi-region DVD player and an ebay account for the DVD.

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

10. Big Fish

[mike_c]

11. gallipoli....

Not sure sad is the right word-- devastating is more like it.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

13. My Life as a Dog

sobbed through the whole fuckin thing

[I Know How To Do it]

21. That's my first choice too.

It's crushing.

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

14. Grave of the Fireflies was pretty sad.

Don't know if it qualifies as the saddest, but it is pretty damn sad.

[seemunkee]

22. That would be my choice.

[pnorman]

35. I'll go with that also.

That's probably the "saddest" in my video collection, but unlike Shindler's List, there isn't even a glimmer of "hope" in it. It's not only "sad", but depressing. However, the intended audience ... Japanese (including young people) ... probably weren't as affected by it as we are. They're not NEARLY as addicted to "Happy Endings" as we are.

pnorman

[MissMarple]

17. Sophie's Choice. And I don't want to think about it anymore.

I hate sad movies. Reality is quite bad enough, thank you.

[auntAgonist]

19. Sybil n/m

[ailsagirl]

26. Your sig line... that has always been a favourite poem of mine

Good choice.

I'd never seen Sybil but did catch parts of it a few weeks ago.
Wow.

At least the woman survived all that bizarre abuse!!

[auntAgonist]

29. I have always been touched by that poem.

he was from Guelph Ontario, very close to where I spent most of my life.

Sybil, haunts me whenever I think of certain scenes. It's in my mind for days, then goes away again. I don't think I've ever had a movie do that to me before.

I hesitate to watch Hotel Rwanda for that same reason.


:hi:

[barb162]

20. Tess of the Durbervilles

[Liberalynn]

24. Other Side of the Mountain

The one about the skier who has a tragic accident in a compettition. I think it was because of it being a true story and I felt so sorry for "Jill" wasn't it? becoming a paraplegic and then Dick Buick dying in that plane crash.

I cried so much after seeing that.

[ailsagirl]

25. Fahrenheit 9/11, Elephant Man, Elvira Madigan

[texas1928]

30. My Life.

I can not watch that movie. I have come to close to death to many times.

[Greyhound]

32. Brian's Song (Original), but I've never been able to bring myself...

to see Schindler's List, or Mitt liv som hund. Just don't like being that sad.:D

[blm]

34. An old movie called All Mine to Give....

And any documentary film of historical events.

[Rising Phoenix]

37. I don't know the name

but I was a little kid when I saw it. A mother and her child, around 6 years old, were homeless. It was all about them living on the street and at the end the mom set it up with a social worker to make it look like the daughter was abandoned so she would go into foster care and have somewhere to live, I cried for hours. I think it was my intro to the lifetime movie

[no_hypocrisy]

38. Terms of Endearment.

I've seen it a gazillion times and cry every time.

[terrya]

40. "The Elephant Man"

[pretzel4gore]

41. 'gigot'

with jackie gleason.
it was actually a very funny movie (a deafmute guy is chased by a mob and he somehow eludes them but the mob think he drowned....they hold a funeral very sad crowd, and gigot, the deafmute, is there crying his eyes out)...as a little kid, gleason's portrayal of the simpleton was so effective, though the movie itself was badly panned. Still, i recall all the kids were struck by gleason's gigot; and even though his death was fake, and a joke, it still seemed very sad (i remember some kids crying!) ...in the end, the crowd sees gigot in back sobbing away at his own funeral, they yell 'gigot!' and the chase is on again....lol

[ovidsen]

64. Gigot... Groundhog Day with tears! nt

[arwalden]

47. The Color Purple -- Longtime Companion

[Misunderestimator]

51. The Color Purple made me cry like a baby...

as did Longtime Companion

[SouthernDem2004]

50. Of Mice and Men /nt

[I Have A Dream]

54. One of the saddest movies that I ever saw was 'Ponette'.

It was about how a 4-year old girl deals with the death of her mother. (The fact that the actress who played the little girl was absolutely precious and extremely authentic really added to the movie.) It's in French with subtitles, but none of the impact was lost because of the subtitles.

:cry:

[Kire]

57. My Girl

[newsguyatl]

59. it's my party

[hyphenate]

61. Charlie

starring Cliff Robertson.

The title of the short story/novel was Flowers for Algernon, about a young man of low IQ who works as a janitor in a scientific lab which is experimenting on rats and mice with a formula to increase brain power. Charlie gets the formula and it increases his IQ, but in the end, the formula is flawed, and Algernon, the experiment animal, dies. Charlie realizes that his new found intelligence is going to fade as well, and that he himself will die soon from the formula as well. VERY, VERY sad. I read the short story a long time ago, then the novel, and then saw the film. I needed practically a whole box of Kleenex to get through it.

[tridim]

62. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"

It busted me up bad.

"Watership Down" is also a guaranteed tear jerker.

[JohnKleeb]

63. Probably a common answer but Schindler's List

Since you are made to feel whether intentional or not some responsiblity for what happened, it only adds for me since I happen to be part German. The other obvious sadness that it is all true. The music by Williams and Itzhak Perlman only adds. It's a beautiful movie for sure but its also one that makes you think and weep in my case. Seeing that movie is part of why I guess I have little tolerance for people who use nazi to compare things that dont even come close. The ultimate redemption of Oskar Schindler to me however is one of the most beautiful things Ive seen in cinema, his eventual warmth and love of his workers. Its so sad that he later had problems in life. The movie just shows how inhumane people really can be.

[jonnyblitz]

65. dancer in the dark or house of sand and fog nt

[General Zod]

66. Penny Serenade

With Irene Dunn and Cary Grant. A classic tear-jerker.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034012/

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

67. La Strada by Fellini with Giulietta Massina and Anthony Quinn

The ending where Anthony Quinn looks for the simple girl he had bought from her parents and mistreated and finds out she's dead, and then collapses into tears on the beach really got to me. Another favorite sad movie is Ikiru (existence) by Kurosawa, which is at the top of my list of all-time greatest films.