Saddest movies I've seen? La Strada. Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon. Glory (I sat there as they were marching to their doom and wanted to scream, "STOP!!!") The Glass Menagerie (the Katherine Hepburn/Sam Waterston version, not the Joanne Woodward/John Malkovich version - Malkovich was way too unapologetic to be a sympathetic character)
I have to agree with Grave of the Fireflies, but I think the most heartbreaking movie I ever watched was Nobody Knows, a Japanese drama. So sad.
This is like the fifth time I have seen a recommendation for the film in the past couple of weeks, and it's been sitting in my queue forever. A shame it's not available on Netflix, but I probably need to check it out sooner rather than later.
The saddest movie I've ever seen was this documentary called Project Nim. I was completely blind sided because when you first start the movie, this chimp is getting the best treatment ever. He's part of this experiment exploring the human side of chimps and how you can train them to act and learn like humans. But after about 5 years the experiment is terminated and the chimp goes from having normal human life full of love and people to being placed into chimp refugees and labs and it just keeps getting worse and worse. I was crying throughout most of the second half of the movie. I'm still not over how awful it was for poor Nim. I did talk about it for days after though, so kudos to filmmaker.
I can't remember too far back so I am sure there must be some other films that saddened me. The one I can recall however, is "The Last Emperor". The story of the last emperor of China during the Chinese revolution. Rough stuff.
Crouching tiger hidden dragon always makes me so sad at the end, when they confess their love for each other, and there's such regret. Also, curse of the golden flower, because there are so many sad moments, and the characters are so trapped in their respective roles that they have no choice but to play them out until the bitter end. Basically, whenever chow yun-fat appears, I just burst into tears.
My list of sad movies thus far are: Irreversible, I am Sam, Titanic, Cast away, Boy in the striped pajamas, everything must go, Jeff who stays at home, blue valentine, the pianist
For me, it's the Norwegian film 'Only the clouds move the stars'. It's about a girl whose little brother is killed by cancer. Her mother stops talking and does nothing but lie in bed all day, so her father takes her to her grandparents in another city. She's very alone and sad, and she feels like her parents don't love her anymore. She makes a friend there, and the way things progress are written with such emotion and intensity that I always cry like a child when I watch certain scenes. 'Lost and delirious' is also incredibly sad, in my opinion, and E.T is sad in certain ways.
My Life Without Me I choke up at the closing line 'I loved dancing with you.' The Million Dollar Hotel See my Avatar The Girl in the Cafe I choke up at the near closing line 'Does it matter whos child?' Garage This little indie Irish film is seriously sad. Marty A Very Long Engagement Wendy and Lucy Synechdoche New York It's like a sad dream, and the closing monologue is the best bit of writing I've ever heard or read. Requiem for a Dream Leaving Las Vegas Beyond Borders The landmine scene. I mean.... Farq. Atonement I choke up when he walks past the cafe, double takes on seeing her sitting, and when he goes back she's standing staring at him Christiane F.
This writing spoke to me like nothing before in my life. The closing dialogue from Synecdoche, New York, written by Charlie Kaufman:
WAC...that's our past, please put these things behind us. The fact I stalked you as a delicious NY poetry goddess for nearly 72 full psycological hours is irrelevant. Instead, turns out I'm dating bookshop beardy with his arm patches - till he goes and blows cappuccino froth down my ear. It's not the same. Whatever, anyways it's either/or for me, I'm not fussy, barely lucid.
The Horse Whisperer. I still regret watching that movie. I don't remember it being that great, anyway.
Despite the fact that I absolutely hated this film, The Passion of the Christ was quite depressing. Whether you believe in this or not, you at least have to admit that you got choked up at the scene where Mary runs towards her son after he's fallen for the second time while bearing the cross.
The Illusionist is one I can think of right now. Very unfulfilling, with only a small hope for one character at the end. I won't spoil it, because I think it's one of those "everybody should watch it" films. Go. GO WATCH IT NOW.
This my second post on here, but I just recently watched Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and let me tell you, the kid in that movie just makes me so depressed. For anyone who's seen it, the part near the end where he devastatingly collapses after to the floor after the phone rings just killed me.
