What is the saddest Movie you've ever seen?
for me personally it would have to be schindler’s list. It was the saddest and most horrifying movie I’ve ever seen.
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no one will know the movie but for me it was phar lap
green mile or life of David gale.
“Seven”. It was a movie with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. Its about two detectives who search for a serial killer who bases his kills off the seven deadly sins. If you’ve seen the movie, then you know where I’m gong here. The end just makes your stomach turn and your heart wrench. I’m not a crier, but I felt horrible after watching that one.
Oh, also “The Passion of the Christ”. Although I do consider myself a christian, I’m not a bible thumper. I believe people should practice religion how they please. Even if it wasn’t a representation of Jesus Christ in that movie, I would’ve felt sad just because that’s horrible for anyone to go through. In that one, I did tear up mind you.
Oh, for a second I thought you meant the other kind of Sad, as in Lame… Uh it would have to be Sideways.
Ordinary People. 1980 oscar, best film. Robert Redford’s first film as director. You will never hear Pachabel’s canon (I think that’s what it is) the same…
So many movies nowadays—even the sad ones—end on a high note, wrapped up neatly in a little bow. Ordinary people does not; it’s very real.
Mine would be Saving Private Ryan because what happened on those beaches was actually true and probably a lot worse in reality. Amazing film.
The Color Purple. I just watched it again over the weekend.
Brokeback is the only one I can think of, although I wonder why the didn’t just go to SF.
Another one was Steele Magnolias. The writers did an excellent job. And the graveyard scene, what an emottional roller coaster! At the very saddest moment in the scene, something happens to make you laugh hysterically. It was simply brilliant!
The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, and Selena
I have seen phar lap. You are not alone! Although just to clarify Its a New Zealand horse not an Australian horse
the end was pretty sad after you fall in love with the horse dont you think
Sad as in I paid money to watch this…
Or sad as in someone produced this piece ‘o crapolla and foisted it on an unsupecting public…
Or sad like in boo hoo, I need a hanky….
I know this sounds stupid but when I saw Shine I couldn’t believe how moved I was when we see the father wearing glasses with the scotch tape on the cracked lens. It was so humilating yet so powerful. Deservedly nominated for Best Picture.
It’s an Anime called ‘Grave of the Fireflies’ (Hotaru No Haka) directed by Isao Takahata (Studio Ghibli) about two orphaned children trying to survive after the firebombing of their home in WWII.
@bofin Sad as in “boo hoo i need a hankey” if you read the other posts you would know this.
Sally Fields in “Two Weeks” ripped my heart out.
Schindler’s List is a movie is probably the most powerful, sad movie I have ever seen, and I never tire of watching it
@ Riser- I agree, that image is pretty powerful. I thouroughly enjoyed the film.
The saddest I’ve seen was Dancer in the Dark.
Definitely “The Green Mile” and “Steele Magnolias”-I actually found myself bawling the other night while watching “Cast Away” and also “Into the Wild”.
Oh and I forgot to add the classics, Beaches and Terms of Endearment. Also Pay it Forward totally killed me! : )
hey joe. ‘dot and the kangaroo’ and the first ‘land before time’. not even joking.
easily, Requiem for a Dream
A Beautiful Life; and Leaving Las Vegas.
My vote would have to be for m ost of the above, but one I have not seen mentioned, is ‘night, Mother (1986). The synopsis reads:
What would you do if someone you loved sat down with you one night and calmly told you that they were going to end their life before morning? This is Thelma Cates’ dilemma. Her daughter, Jessie, has had it. A middle-aged epileptic unable to hold a job, with a failed marriage and a drug-addicted son on the wrong side of the law, Jessie can find no reason to go on living. Adapted from the play by Marsha Norman, ”‘night, Mother” is the story of a parent’s worst nightmare. How can Thelma convince her daughter that life is worth living if she can’t feel her pain? How can she end her daughter’s embrace of death before morning? Written by Mark Fleetwood mfleetwo@mail.coin.missouri.edu}/Reid Taylor
August 23, 2008, 5:21 AM EDT
Brokeback Mountain left me speechless… you look at other “sad movies” about death, or war and so on and you could “know someone” or possibly have “had the same happen”, but as for the events of Brokeback Mountain, I would liken the sadness to the time when I broke up with my first-ever girlfriend back in high school. It was a totally different kind of trouble, one that you couldn’t compare it to and be able to say “Well, these things happen” about.
I also thought the movie “Grave of the Fireflies” was unbearably heart-wrenching. First animated thing I had seen that made me cry, and the only one.
I cried during Children of Men because, “There they were, at the end of the world” pretty much, and they were still fighting each other over the same BS that they’re fighting over now.
I agree with Requiem For A Dream. The Fountain was also incredibly sad but beautiful.
Definitely Terms of Endearment
I just recently watched p.s i love you and that was very sad, and probably a walk to remember
Probably the Passion of the Christ number one, and The Last Samurai. The last Samurai, with that whole culture dying will push you over the edge if seeing such likable characters die did not.
Hair. It was a wonderful movie, but the ending is so sad that I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to watch it again.
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