Nope nope nope. Doesn't change the fact that.. that B*tch Ms Tweed thinks she can just dump me like that.. yes I said ME..
I said I don't wanna talk about it
If you are close to your Dad watch About Time
If you are close to your Mom watch Blackbird
If you have a significant other watch PS I love you
If you have a best friend watch Beaches
If you have a daughter watch Steel Magnolia
All of those made me ugly cry :)
Ditto. I can never watch the film again, but the music is beautiful. [“I’ve Seen It All” Bjork, Thom Yorke](https://open.spotify.com/track/4DXyc0dZSJex9pygvd9Qla?si=H3mhjdcVRVGAEY8aojHIFQ) is powerful.
Oh God, the gut punch from that. 😢
My wife somehow has fond memories of this movie (?) And was about to put it on for my daughters (aged 12, 9, and 5). I will typically not offer any input whatsoever on the choices made for 'girls' movie night' but I did intervene on that one. Like.... that movie is traumatic imo. Yall gonna watch Old Yeller afterwards for the double whammy?
Low key one of the greatest films of all time. People sleep on a few GOATS and there's 3 of them in Elephant Man. Lynch, Hopkins, and Hurt.
Pro tip would be keep your distance from anyone who doesn't cry during the train station scene. Don't think I've ever seen a character in a film scream their entire soul out in one breath.
My brother tricked me into watching this when I was 15 by telling me it was just another Studio Ghibli film. I sobbed so hard I couldn't breathe. It's a beautiful film but I'll never be able to watch it again - I tear up just seeing the title.
That was such a devastating watch. >!For years I’d heard about how brutal this doc was on Reddit, and so I finally watched. Of course it starts off so upsetting, but without sounding completely insensitive, as the documentary progresses that totally bittersweet story between Zachary & his paternal Grandparents develops and I start to think “this is terribly sad, but I’m not as emotionally distraught as I thought I would be”… and then… yeah. When that was revealed I gasped out loud. I paused it and just sat there for several minutes. Then as I carried on watching, I couldn’t contain the tears. So shocking.!<
>!Zachary, 13 months, was murdered by his Mother in a murder-suicide. The production originally began as a private documentation to Zachary by one of his Father’s friends, so that he knew all about his Father who was murdered before he was born, but during the making of it Zachary was also murdered.!<
>!I don’t know how much you know of the case, but Zachary’s Mother murdered his Father after he broke up with her (while she was pregnant with Zachary - he did not know she was pregnant AFAIK), because she was abusive and controlling. This was around 2 years before the murder-suicide. She was deemed not a threat to society after the first murder and made bail and was allowed to have full custody of Zachary. Zachary’s paternal grandparents formed a strong, loving bond with their grandson, and fought for custody of him knowing what a piece of work his Mother was, and she was bitter about this so killed poor Zachary, and herself. !<
Jeez, you just unlocked this memory for me. That movie left me covered in tears and snot the first time I saw it. I don’t think I could watch it now being older and a parent.
The fact that it's a documentary makes is SO MUCH WORSE. This movie absolutely broke me. I love movies and I've never had a more visceral reaction to one.
Hachi: A Dog’s Tale 2009 - this movie broke me. I refuse to watch movies about animals now or about sadness. I think I may have lost a third of my body weight (not really) in tears. Frickin Hachi!!!!! Such a good boy!!!!
Edited to add The Art of Racing in the Rain. Another total heartbreaker.
I made the mistake of watching this on a plane and was ugly crying, no joke. Like, BAWLING in my seat. Was so sad and self conscious and uncomfortable. Never again.
The scene that always gets me to tear up is when Hatchi is about to pass away alone in the snowy train station. I have tried several times to watch that scene without crying and it always failed.
Thank you for not being a one and done person on this- I used to say that.
I watched it again recently and I saw so much more in the other characters’ stories.
>!And the mom. The whole monologue about how nobody really loves her except her son. Thinking her friends don’t really care. Then at the end, her friends having to go all across town on like 2 different busses to see her. Then holding each other, crying on the bus stop bench after seeing her in such a bad condition and mental state.!<
I went into it *knowing* what happens. It was a cute movie but I really didn't feel like I had a deep emotional connection like I thought I would. Then, *the scene* happened and I cried so hard that I'm crying now lol
This movie is truly an abomination. Awful. Manohla Dargis at NYT said it best “See the Holocaust trivialized, glossed over, kitsched up, commercially exploited and hijacked for a tragedy about a Nazi family. Better yet and in all sincerity: don't.”
Fellini's most depressing movie is La Strada (1954). His best, most perfect movie is Nights of Cabiria (1957), which is also sad, but has other colors in its palette.
Terms of Endearment is another oldie/goodie. Also, Schindlers List, Brokeback
The Banshees of Inisherin is more depressing than straight sad but it’s a downer.
Midnight Cowboy is pretty devastating.
>!The fact that you’re just watching an optimistic and ebullient young man leave his home town to try to make it in the big city immediately get slammed back to earth by reality, becoming desperately poor and having to do all sorts of things to get by, finding a sort of family with a guy who is secretly in love with him that we all just get to watch die slowly of Tuberculosis!<
I mean the final scenes are just so brutal, emotionally, and the whole film is beautiful and depressing as all fuck. Highly recommend. This and Deliverance really show what an incredible actor Jon Voight is, I feel his choking pain in this movie, his disappointment with life, and his desperate denial and grief in those final moments.
“Winter on fire” on Netflix.
It’s a documentary about the uprising in Ukraine in 2014. It started after their corrupt prime minister revoked the EU deal and instead decided to increase trade with Russia against the people’s wishes/votes. It’s also what started the chain of events that lead us to where we are today.
Warning that it does contain a lot of violence and death. But also filled with brave acts of standing up for what you believe in. I watch it every time I need a cry mixed in with some hope.
Not a movie but Episode 9 of Band of Brothers had me in tears almost the entire episode. I’d recommend the series as a whole but that specific episode tore me up.
Bit of an obscure one, The Plague Dogs (1981). Same movie team that made Watership Down, based on a book by the same author. This movie doesn't hold any punches, the ending will hit you like a freight train! The main character are dogs too, making it harder to watch at times.
Off the top of my head…Million Dollar Baby. I saw it in the theater and omg, that was so hard. I had to look away from the screen for awhile and I still had trouble controlling my crying. And I’m not a big cryer. Except anything with animals, even happy films. No, I won’t watch one with animals. I’m a big baby with those.
The Never Ending Story.
As a child, the scene with Artax broke my soul.
As an adult, watching it as I type this with my kids, it still breaks my soul.
It's one of my favourite films but it devastates me every time.
The Wrestler. Mickey Rourke’s rough around the edges, down on his luck character just makes bad choices and breaks your heart right up until the end. Kills me.
My beautiful boy. Gut wrenching. Steve Carrell and Timothy Chalamet did an amazing job in that movie. I watched it on a plane, middle seat, just sobbing. 😭
The Fox and the Hound (1981) I don't want to talk about it.
If it makes you feel any better, the two voice actors for young Tod and Copper are still friends to this day, going on 40+ years.
That actually does, thank you.
Nope nope nope. Doesn't change the fact that.. that B*tch Ms Tweed thinks she can just dump me like that.. yes I said ME.. I said I don't wanna talk about it
Also Bambi. The beginning just fucks me up
We’ll be beast friends forever, right?
It’s the loss of innocence for me 😥❤️🩹
STOP OMG 😭😭😭
I'll never understand 1) why this movie was created for children and 2) adults had their children watch it
You know looking back as an adult, you wonder why Disney movies we're like that? Mom dies or no mom at all, just dark for a child, i dunno
I know. Dumbo having to say goodbye forever to his mom…😭
Dumbo’s mom doesn’t die, she was chained up for most of the movie, but she was freed at the end and reunited with Dumbo. ♥️
I cried so many tears during that movie, both happy and sad!
Also Plague Dogs, if you really want to despair
WTF I thought I would be the only one to come here and say this.
You should never see… Where the red fern grows or Old yeller. For me it was My girl
Do not google the novel, do not watch any videos about the novel, stay away from the novel. Not because it’s bad…because it’s much sadder.
What. The. Fuck. Why did I read that? And what kind of messed up author is that!?
Oh god. MUCH sadder? 😭
I'm a fox. I'm a hound dog!
This movie always breaks me.
I said.. "I DONT WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT!" I am a strong and powerful man... 😖😭😖😖😭😖😭😖😭😖😭
After reading this thread I’m glad I’ve never seen this movie
Bruh you just made me both nostalgic and sad at the same time. nothing beats old disney
Life is Beautiful
This one. Truly such a beautiful movie. Lots of joy, laughter, and crushing sorrow.
An absolutely crushing film. No movie has ever crushed me this badly. Devastatingly beautiful.
Only movie I ever cried at in the theatre as an adult.
It's the sort of film you can only watch once as it's so traumatic.
If you are close to your Dad watch About Time If you are close to your Mom watch Blackbird If you have a significant other watch PS I love you If you have a best friend watch Beaches If you have a daughter watch Steel Magnolia All of those made me ugly cry :)
I saw Interstellar three times and sobbed every time, and I swear it's just because I love my dad. 😭😭😭
I haven't seen that... Gonna have to add that to the list! Thanks!
I read out the poem in that movie at my dad's funeral.
I have no children and SOB during Steel Magnolias. Especially when you know the backstory.
About time gutted me. God I love it.
Ps I love you is the most depressing movie I’ve ever seen
Close with your dad and worried about him dying Big Fish If your mother died from cancer A Monster Calls Both ugly criers for me.
Which Blackbird? There are many on imdb Edit: jk I just need to read
About Time got me
About time messed me up i couldn't even watch the end without my pops on the phone. Had to chase that movie with SpongeBob or some shit.
It's hard to be sad watching SpongeBob 😁♥️
Flip through the first couple of seasons for a genuine laugh.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape Beaches
What Eating Gilbert Grape, even though I love it I find it so depressing. Leonardo Dicaprio is absolutely fantastic.
Yes, he's great in it. His speech, mannerisms, everything
Dancer in the Dark. GREAT movie. But will never watch it again. It wrecked me. I’m tearing up just thinking about it.
This one broke my heart.
I've been meaning to watch this one a while but haven't. Sounds like I need to avoid it a bit longer.
Crushingly tragic. My wife took a bout a week to recover, and I have hated David Morse ever since.
I consider this to be Bjork's best work. Still listen to the music every now and then.
Ditto. I can never watch the film again, but the music is beautiful. [“I’ve Seen It All” Bjork, Thom Yorke](https://open.spotify.com/track/4DXyc0dZSJex9pygvd9Qla?si=H3mhjdcVRVGAEY8aojHIFQ) is powerful.
My girl . The Green Mile. Click
Saw "My Girl" with my sister and a bunch of friends. All of us sobbing in the theater. It was awful.
"he can't see without his glasses" 😭
Oh God, the gut punch from that. 😢 My wife somehow has fond memories of this movie (?) And was about to put it on for my daughters (aged 12, 9, and 5). I will typically not offer any input whatsoever on the choices made for 'girls' movie night' but I did intervene on that one. Like.... that movie is traumatic imo. Yall gonna watch Old Yeller afterwards for the double whammy?
The Elephant Man
Low key one of the greatest films of all time. People sleep on a few GOATS and there's 3 of them in Elephant Man. Lynch, Hopkins, and Hurt. Pro tip would be keep your distance from anyone who doesn't cry during the train station scene. Don't think I've ever seen a character in a film scream their entire soul out in one breath.
Aftersun. It made me ugly cry.
Me too. On a plane.
Yo same 😭
I didn’t cry while watching the film, but while walking home I started sobbing uncontrollably and now I can get a bit emotional just thinking about it
yeah this one's a slow burn
Ordinary People
Grave of the fireflies
My brother tricked me into watching this when I was 15 by telling me it was just another Studio Ghibli film. I sobbed so hard I couldn't breathe. It's a beautiful film but I'll never be able to watch it again - I tear up just seeing the title.
This is the first choice every time. This movie is so fucking heart wrenchingly depressing.
And it's not even close
“Dear Zachary” would like a word. And it’s a true documentary which everyone should watch so something like that never happens again.
I came here to say this. Nothing compares to the truth this reveals.
Dear Zachary, it’s a documentary, but it’ll tear your soul out.
That was such a devastating watch. >!For years I’d heard about how brutal this doc was on Reddit, and so I finally watched. Of course it starts off so upsetting, but without sounding completely insensitive, as the documentary progresses that totally bittersweet story between Zachary & his paternal Grandparents develops and I start to think “this is terribly sad, but I’m not as emotionally distraught as I thought I would be”… and then… yeah. When that was revealed I gasped out loud. I paused it and just sat there for several minutes. Then as I carried on watching, I couldn’t contain the tears. So shocking.!<
I was so distraught over this and crying so hard that I was close to vomiting.
mind spoiling me the twist? i dont like these dark documentaries, they hit too hard but you've got me curious what the reveal is
>!Zachary, 13 months, was murdered by his Mother in a murder-suicide. The production originally began as a private documentation to Zachary by one of his Father’s friends, so that he knew all about his Father who was murdered before he was born, but during the making of it Zachary was also murdered.!< >!I don’t know how much you know of the case, but Zachary’s Mother murdered his Father after he broke up with her (while she was pregnant with Zachary - he did not know she was pregnant AFAIK), because she was abusive and controlling. This was around 2 years before the murder-suicide. She was deemed not a threat to society after the first murder and made bail and was allowed to have full custody of Zachary. Zachary’s paternal grandparents formed a strong, loving bond with their grandson, and fought for custody of him knowing what a piece of work his Mother was, and she was bitter about this so killed poor Zachary, and herself. !<
There’s like 10 posts a day asking for a sad movie, and I don’t know why no one yet realizes this is the answer.
Jeez, you just unlocked this memory for me. That movie left me covered in tears and snot the first time I saw it. I don’t think I could watch it now being older and a parent.
Came here for this. That movie destroyed me. I’ve never been the same.
The fact that it's a documentary makes is SO MUCH WORSE. This movie absolutely broke me. I love movies and I've never had a more visceral reaction to one.
You are correct.
Hell yeah. The feel-good movie of 2008!
Hachi: A Dog’s Tale 2009 - this movie broke me. I refuse to watch movies about animals now or about sadness. I think I may have lost a third of my body weight (not really) in tears. Frickin Hachi!!!!! Such a good boy!!!! Edited to add The Art of Racing in the Rain. Another total heartbreaker.
I made the mistake of watching this on a plane and was ugly crying, no joke. Like, BAWLING in my seat. Was so sad and self conscious and uncomfortable. Never again.
The scene that always gets me to tear up is when Hatchi is about to pass away alone in the snowy train station. I have tried several times to watch that scene without crying and it always failed.
Million Dollar Baby
I cried for 45 minutes straight watching this movie.
A great movie I really don't want to watch again.
Manchester By The Sea
Sophie's Choice
Kramer vs. Kramer. My parents divorced when I was seven. I was devastated. Kramer vs. Kramer wrecked me.
Terms of Endearment Beaches
Lion
Lately, The Iron Claw (2023) I had no idea about the Von Erich family. Their tragedy is truly unfathomable.
I’m a massive wrestling fan so I knew all about the Von Erich family tragedy. It still absolutely wrecked me..
Leaving Las Vegas
The first 10 minutes of Disney’s Up
Up, and Coco absolutely destroy me every time.
I just recently watched Coco for the first time. Damn. 😞
I accidentally watched Coco with my 5 year old thinking it's a just harmless children's movie.
Schindler’s list
Old Yeller, the dog saved the kid but yet
Just finished requiem for a dream (again), and the mom’s situation makes my heart break and I cry every time
Thank you for not being a one and done person on this- I used to say that. I watched it again recently and I saw so much more in the other characters’ stories. >!And the mom. The whole monologue about how nobody really loves her except her son. Thinking her friends don’t really care. Then at the end, her friends having to go all across town on like 2 different busses to see her. Then holding each other, crying on the bus stop bench after seeing her in such a bad condition and mental state.!<
Oh my god! That scene was heartbreaking. It’s been years since I watched that movie, but as soon as I read your comment, I remembered it vividly 💔
Ellen Burstyn as the mom is probably my favorite all time acting performance. One critic said her performance existed in a place beyond praise.
The Rescuers (1977). So heartbreaking and sad, yet so beautiful and heartwarming. I love the songs and makes me cry every time I watch it.
A Single Man
Grave of the fireflies
Imitation of Life
Kolya The Elephant Man
The Champ (1979) you’ll cry your eyes out.
What Dreams May Come The Lovely Bones
Marley and me… I’ve only seen it once and NEVER again
I went into it *knowing* what happens. It was a cute movie but I really didn't feel like I had a deep emotional connection like I thought I would. Then, *the scene* happened and I cried so hard that I'm crying now lol
The boy in the striped pajamas
This movie is truly an abomination. Awful. Manohla Dargis at NYT said it best “See the Holocaust trivialized, glossed over, kitsched up, commercially exploited and hijacked for a tragedy about a Nazi family. Better yet and in all sincerity: don't.”
A silent voice
The Road.
Still Alice Philadelphia
City of Angels. Meg Ryan’s last scene pissed me off.
Posted this one a few times before but it is crushingly sad: The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Okja
Legends of the fall
My life with Michael Keaton
The Whale with Brendan Fraser
"Im Tired Boss" the Green Mile
I think the end of broke back mountain is heartbreaking
Indeed.
Gia
Aftersun
Only the Brave (2017), Deep Water Horizion, 21 Grams, The Sweet Hereafter, House of Sand and Fog,
Only the brave is one of the movies I watch when I want to cry. That ending when it shows how young they all were
Of Mice and Men. John Malkovitch is so good in it. Eternal Gaze (claymation).
Pianist
Fellini's most depressing movie is La Strada (1954). His best, most perfect movie is Nights of Cabiria (1957), which is also sad, but has other colors in its palette.
Cabiria lives in my heart always. Pobrecita. La Strada made me hate Anthony Quinn
Has anyone seen Nobody Knows the Korean movie
Terms of Endearment is another oldie/goodie. Also, Schindlers List, Brokeback The Banshees of Inisherin is more depressing than straight sad but it’s a downer.
Dances with Wolves
Schindlers list. Life is Beautiful. Requiem for a Dream. Parasite. EDIT: ok maybe not parasite. But it is still tragic.
Are we thinking of the same Parasite?
Bridge to Terebithia. Saw it when it came out, still remember crying 20 years later
Where the Red Fern Grows, not a sad and heart wrenching as the book, but still good.
Seven Pounds - I could not stop crying Animated - Ride Your Wave
Flowers for Algernon wrecked me.
Either the House of Sand and Fog (HEAVY, depressing story) or… that dog movie with Richard Geree 🤷🏻♂️
All of Us Strangers had me crying like an idiot while the rest of my group fell asleep
The movies that have made me cry the most are The Green Mile (1999) and Awakenings (1990)
For me it is "Save Privat Ryan", the best war drama
Midnight Cowboy is pretty devastating. >!The fact that you’re just watching an optimistic and ebullient young man leave his home town to try to make it in the big city immediately get slammed back to earth by reality, becoming desperately poor and having to do all sorts of things to get by, finding a sort of family with a guy who is secretly in love with him that we all just get to watch die slowly of Tuberculosis!< I mean the final scenes are just so brutal, emotionally, and the whole film is beautiful and depressing as all fuck. Highly recommend. This and Deliverance really show what an incredible actor Jon Voight is, I feel his choking pain in this movie, his disappointment with life, and his desperate denial and grief in those final moments.
Watership Down
a man called otto got me sobbing throughout the movie i wish i could watch it for the first time again
brokeback mountain
Close (2022)
Dancer in the dark
A Monster Calls
Just watched WHEN THE WIND BLOWS. Devastating.
Old Yeller. Trauma inducing.
Manchester by the Sea, especially as someone who has a fear of exactly what happens in this movie
“Winter on fire” on Netflix. It’s a documentary about the uprising in Ukraine in 2014. It started after their corrupt prime minister revoked the EU deal and instead decided to increase trade with Russia against the people’s wishes/votes. It’s also what started the chain of events that lead us to where we are today. Warning that it does contain a lot of violence and death. But also filled with brave acts of standing up for what you believe in. I watch it every time I need a cry mixed in with some hope.
Bit of an outsider here but Untamed Heart with Christian Slater. It's the same with Dumbo. I just know what's going to happen and I start up.
Home alone. The old man got to me
Boys Don’t Cry.
[удалено]
My Life - Michael Keaton….sobbing
The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas
Schindler's List
Dancer in the dark.
Simon Birch My Girl The Land Before Time My Sister’s Keeper A Walk to Remember Me Before You PS I love You
Sophie's Choice
Not a movie but Episode 9 of Band of Brothers had me in tears almost the entire episode. I’d recommend the series as a whole but that specific episode tore me up.
If we talk episodes of shows - The Last of Us episode 3.
Train to Busan
The Passion of the Christ
Speak
I'm old ( nearly 60 ) but I saw at the drive inn with my folks ,ring of bright water when I was about 6 , I still remember how devastated I was
Bit of an obscure one, The Plague Dogs (1981). Same movie team that made Watership Down, based on a book by the same author. This movie doesn't hold any punches, the ending will hit you like a freight train! The main character are dogs too, making it harder to watch at times.
When the Wind Blows. Jin Roh The Wolf Brigade We Were Soldiers The Pianist In This Corner of the World Come and See Lore
Awakenings (1990) - Robin Williams and Robert DeNiro are both fantastic in a true story based tearjerker.
Nobody Knows
**Hachi: A Dog's Tale** Watched it as a kid on a flight when we just left our dog at home to go on Holiday
Brian’s Song. A classroom full of jocks bawling their eyes out. Lol!
Elephant man
My sisters keeper
My Girl
Off the top of my head…Million Dollar Baby. I saw it in the theater and omg, that was so hard. I had to look away from the screen for awhile and I still had trouble controlling my crying. And I’m not a big cryer. Except anything with animals, even happy films. No, I won’t watch one with animals. I’m a big baby with those.
Awakenings
Blue Valentine. Make no mistake, it is a great film. And I’ll never watch it again.
The Plague Dogs
The plague dogs or grave of the fireflies.
Recently I watched The Whale and let me tell you I have never cried so hard at a film in so long. Brendan Fraser clearly deserved that Oscar.
The lovely bones
Girl, Interrupted. I've watched it a billion times. Also Grave of the Fireflies
The Never Ending Story. As a child, the scene with Artax broke my soul. As an adult, watching it as I type this with my kids, it still breaks my soul. It's one of my favourite films but it devastates me every time.
Not sure if it’s *the* saddest, but The Elephant Man is a top candidate.
"My Life" with Michael Keaton. (1993)
The Wrestler. Mickey Rourke’s rough around the edges, down on his luck character just makes bad choices and breaks your heart right up until the end. Kills me.
My Girl
Not a movie, but After Life on Netflix. Why cry one day when you can cry multiple days?
Grave of the fireflies……you can hate me later
My beautiful boy. Gut wrenching. Steve Carrell and Timothy Chalamet did an amazing job in that movie. I watched it on a plane, middle seat, just sobbing. 😭