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Saddest movie ever?
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MrPing1000
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AI was definately not a good idea whilst I was suffering from depression
Rogerkiller
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" I am Sam "
it´s a very sad sad movie in the end really........
it´s a very sad sad movie in the end really........
The War Zone a truly sorrowing movie. Directed by Tim Roth the guys needs to do more.
One of the worst that sucked me in out of nowhere is My Girl. A girlfriend of mine had rented it and we never got around to watching it. So I get up on a rainy Sunday alone and figured what the hell it'll kill some time. When the girl comes in with the glasses it's killer.
One of the worst that sucked me in out of nowhere is My Girl. A girlfriend of mine had rented it and we never got around to watching it. So I get up on a rainy Sunday alone and figured what the hell it'll kill some time. When the girl comes in with the glasses it's killer.
Zelda-Bitch
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IJoel said:
I couldn't even finish this movie. I was weeping like a bitch and had to stop it. That was two years ago. The movie is still untouched in my collection. I'll have you know that it was the ONLY movie I coudn't finish watching because of emotional content. It's just god damn it, I couldn't bare watching the suckiness in this womans life a second longer! =_(
Dancer in the Dark was too painfully contrived and stupid to really depress me. I must have been in an extra-cynical mood when I saw it because it just struck me as funny in how they had to keep piling on these catastrophes. Maybe I just couldn't get over how much Bjork annoys me.
Saddest movie that I haven't seen mentioned yet:
The Plague Dogs
Jin-Roh (not sad so much as incredibly depressing in it's grim outlook on society and ppl in general)
But really, not much depresses me like the last 30 minutes of The Plague Dogs. Holy shit it's grim, and the animation just makes it extra-heartbreaking because the first time I saw it on TV I had no idea what the tone was going to be (tone = fucking bleak).
Saddest movie that I haven't seen mentioned yet:
The Plague Dogs
Jin-Roh (not sad so much as incredibly depressing in it's grim outlook on society and ppl in general)
But really, not much depresses me like the last 30 minutes of The Plague Dogs. Holy shit it's grim, and the animation just makes it extra-heartbreaking because the first time I saw it on TV I had no idea what the tone was going to be (tone = fucking bleak).
brooklyngooner
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For me, it's easily The Sweet Hereafter. To me this is one of the best, if not the best, films of the 90s, achingly human and tragic. To tie it in with the Oscar thread, while I think arguing about which should have won what when they're such silly political awards is a waste of time, that it was not nominated for so much disturbs me. Especially when manipulative nonsense such as Titanic and As Good As It Gets won so much.
brooklyngooner
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I would also add that I was quite moved by the next to last scene of The Pianist, when Adrien Brody's character is playing Chopin in the radio studio as he did prior to the occupation. First he looks up with a wonderful mixture of pride and joy at playing again, and soon after as he realizes what has befallen so many who heard him before, he looks up again with tears. A wonderfully directed scene with very nice timing by Brody to underscore Polanski's war as the absence of art theme, especially so since the film provides such an unnerving, detached view of events.
IAmtheFMan
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I'd echo the sentiments about Dancer in the Dark and Grave of the Fireflies. There's quite a bit of Korean melodramatic gut-wrenching tear jerkers out there though. Notably, Failan and Christmas in August. That Korean War movie Taegukgi gave me a lump in my throat too.
lachesis
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Shazapp said:
Well, I thought it was a sad movie and I recently re-watched it... and ended up hating it. It tried little too hard to be a tear-jerker, to be honest... even for my wife, who never saw it before. My wife was going like
"why didn't he just stay with his aunt, even if aunt was mean to him and his sister? He killed his sister."
Perhaps I was a single and lived alone when I watched it first time - and perhaps that made the difference.
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distantmantra
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Sophie's Choice (I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet)
Breaking the Waves (one of the most depressing films I've ever seen)
Dancer in the Dark
Grave of the Fireflies
Breaking the Waves (one of the most depressing films I've ever seen)
Dancer in the Dark
Grave of the Fireflies
ScientificNinja
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+1 for Edward Scissorhands
I think Grave of the Fireflies will only mean more to you if you have a little sister; and moreso if you're the eldest child.
Another movie I'd like to add: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, where
. I guess it's predictable in a Shakespearean tragedy kind of way, but it's compounded by added romantic angle where
, and something they've wanted and waited so patiently for is snatched so cruelly away from them. What was really potent for me is the moment
Oh, what I would've given for Shu Lien to cut the spoilt little brat's head off...
I think Grave of the Fireflies will only mean more to you if you have a little sister; and moreso if you're the eldest child.
Another movie I'd like to add: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, where
Li Mu Bai dies just as he achieves resolution
Li Mu Bai and Shu Lien are only just starting to open up to each other after leading a life of repression
Jen returns too late with the medicine.
If you guys want to cry .. go see "The Notebook". I went to the theatre with my wife, and nearly all the men in there were sobbing or sniffling ... it was funny watching them trying to fight it.
It's kind of a schmaltzy movie ... but it will get you in the end.
Saving Private Ryan and Big Fish are probably the two movies that made me pretty sad, recently.
Maybe one of the saddest movies I have ever seen .. is a 1987 TV movie starring Mark Harmon called "After the Promise." Harmon plays a carpenter in the 1930's. A father to 5 boys, he has to leave town to find work around the country (due to the Depression). While he is away, his wife passes away. He is heartbroken, but must still work to keep his boys fed. The house slowly goes to shit, and children services takes all 5 boys away and splits them up. He tries for years to get the boys back (1930's courts did not think children should be raised by men alone). Slowly, the boys all become broken, shattered visions of themselves.
The father finally wins back custody. The final reunion scene is devastating. I can't find this movie anywhere.
It's kind of a schmaltzy movie ... but it will get you in the end.
Saving Private Ryan and Big Fish are probably the two movies that made me pretty sad, recently.
Maybe one of the saddest movies I have ever seen .. is a 1987 TV movie starring Mark Harmon called "After the Promise." Harmon plays a carpenter in the 1930's. A father to 5 boys, he has to leave town to find work around the country (due to the Depression). While he is away, his wife passes away. He is heartbroken, but must still work to keep his boys fed. The house slowly goes to shit, and children services takes all 5 boys away and splits them up. He tries for years to get the boys back (1930's courts did not think children should be raised by men alone). Slowly, the boys all become broken, shattered visions of themselves.
The father finally wins back custody. The final reunion scene is devastating. I can't find this movie anywhere.
lachesis
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Well, you guys will laugh at me but..
Armageddon, where
. Perhaps it's the music or whatnot, but I always end up crying.
Deep Impact, where
Beauty and the Beast (seriously), where
and finally. Cinema Paradiso. Just the music itself makes my eyes teary.
lachesis
Armageddon, where
Bruce and Liv are saying goodbye to each other
Deep Impact, where
where wife of Frodo gets separated with her parents and calling each other.
gets separated with her parents and calling each other.Beauty and the Beast (seriously), where
the beast gets stabbed and dies - although I know he will rise again as that fabio looking prince again, but the scene is just really sad.
and finally. Cinema Paradiso. Just the music itself makes my eyes teary.
lachesis
Kabuki Waq
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Grave of the Fireflies is also sad Once you realize its based on a true story.
Duke Juan the Beast
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Foreign Jackass
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I don't cry at movies like Patch Adams. I'm too much aware of the whole manipulative side of it (music, fake characters, long close-ups, etc.). It's almost the same with Forrest Gump in some ways, but I cried in it. Guess it's all in the execution, though.
As for Cries and Whispers, I saw it, and I cry a lot at movies, but I don't remember crying to this movie (if I did, it's in the breast-giving maid sequence). But I don't know, it was incredibly depressing, but most of the characters were hateful and cold, so it was hard for me to cry for them. The movie IS sad and depressing, and well, a masterpiece. It's just not tears-inducing to me.
As for Cries and Whispers, I saw it, and I cry a lot at movies, but I don't remember crying to this movie (if I did, it's in the breast-giving maid sequence). But I don't know, it was incredibly depressing, but most of the characters were hateful and cold, so it was hard for me to cry for them. The movie IS sad and depressing, and well, a masterpiece. It's just not tears-inducing to me.
RonaldoSan
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Jamie Foxx's Golden Globe speech...
I know it's not a movie, but it made me speechless.
I know it's not a movie, but it made me speechless.
RonaldoSan
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In the end he wants to thank his grandmother who past away last year. He struggles to get the words out - "I used to think it was corny when people would say that people are looking down on you and I didn't believe it, but I got a feeling..."
You have to see it...
You have to see it...
"somewhere in time"(christopher reeve) i cry like a little girl at the end of that movie no matter how many times i've seen it.
"bicentenial man"(robin williams) the ending also.
"big" tom hanks
"old yeller" can't believe i didn't see this one on the list yet.
and lastly:
"alien 3" for all the damn wrong reasons.
"bicentenial man"(robin williams) the ending also.
"big" tom hanks
"old yeller" can't believe i didn't see this one on the list yet.
and lastly:
"alien 3" for all the damn wrong reasons.
radioheadrule83
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Life is Beautiful is a good one....
how about:
Hana Bi by Kitano / Beat Takeshi
His partner... his wife... just watch it already
how about:
Hana Bi by Kitano / Beat Takeshi
His partner... his wife... just watch it already
The Bookerman
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Requiem for a Dream
tree fiddy
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Very tragic indeed.Prince said:
Mama Smurf
My penis is still intact.
The very last scene in Futurama is the saddest thing in the world. Sweetly sad.
I don't really cry at movies. Not proper crying. I just get that tears in the eyes thing, can't imagine actually bawling at them.
I don't really cry at movies. Not proper crying. I just get that tears in the eyes thing, can't imagine actually bawling at them.
IAmtheFMan
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Prince said:
I'm pleasantly surprised that there's a couple of you that have seen it; it didn't get a huge release in Korea, and kinda got drowned in the waves of "Sassy Girl" and Chingoo.
This movie seriously crushed me though. The moment where Choi Min Sik is reading the letter by the beach, and he finished it and he breaks down kills me. I had never cried at a movie before, but this one had me closer than any other.
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