Saddest movies ever

I'm in a foul mood and want to watch a movie that'll make me cry my eyes out. Any recommendations? Not stupid things like Titanic though. It can have a happy ending- but only if there's enough tragedy in the rest of the movie to make you cry loads.

Whale Rider
great film and very sad emotional moments

The George Bush campaign video

Tom Hanks movies always seem to make me cry.

Untamed Heart
My Girl

City of Angels with Melanie Griffiths and Nicolas Cage was stupidly and unnecessarily sad at the end. maybe some people would've cried but I was angry.

film story: Nicolas cage is an angel who falls in love with Melanie Griffiths, after some umming and aahing he becomes mortal so he can be with her, they spend the night shagging, the next morning she goes out to buy bread for breakfast, she cycles with her eyes shut and without holding onto the bike's handlebars (cuz she's so happy and in lurve) then she gets run over by a tractor!!!

cried heaps during Million Dollar Baby (and I'm normally an ice maiden)

You merge bandit Jenny, try here ya bugger

Love Story
Brian's Song

Jay and Silent Bob strike back..

no seriously... Les Miserables (even if clair danes does annoy the hell out of me and the movie doesnt compare to either the musical, or the book)

BAMBI!

isn't meg ryan and not melanie?

another sad and cheesy movie: the notebook

Oh bah. Dang it, Dave. Merge me then.

Just play the record/CD "Angel Claire" by Art Garfunkel - you will flood the place.

The music makes you incontinent ?

watership downs.

Those red eyed rabbits can really scare the kids too

Dying Young...oh quite the tear jerker

Terms of Endearment

I also love to watch sad movies when I am sad or depressed. Has a reverse affect on me.

I think you've pulled, Dave.

I recently saw the film Beyond the Sea- it was amazing and made me cry.

Oooh- I'd also like to see Beyond the Sea. Is it the one with Kevin Spacey? I like him.

This is actually a remake of the German film Der Himmel über Berlin.

If you like classic B&W films check out the 1939 version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

"Dangerous Liaison", when John Malkovitch is dying in the snow, asking Keanu Reeves to tell Michelle Pfeiffer how much he loved her and wrong her... It makes me cry everytime...

Yep Jenny L, with Kevin Spacey, who by the way was brilliant. Does his own singing and everything. It's one of the best movies I've seen in ages. A bit of an emotional rollercoaster.

does he die in the end too or does he go back to being an angel. never saw the film, but a few weeks ago it was on german t.v.

i saw himmel über berlin and remember not "getting it". must have had to do with the subtitles (at a time when i knew no lick of german.) but now it makes sense why meg ryan gets run over it the end. german films never have happy endings.

Ronin - They destroyed far too many lovely cars.

Titanic - I nearly cried during this movie. I have never in my life seen a movie that literally nearly bored me to tears.

Alternately known as Tombstone for Fireflies, Grave is a very somber film about the struggle of two children to survive during World War II. Seita and his younger sister Setsuko are left to fend for themselves when their mother passes away from severe burns inflicted by the American fire-bombing of their town. Their father is serving in the Japanese navy, but the children have not heard from him in a long time, so Seita and Setsuko try staying with a distant relative. However, Seita doesn't get along well with this relative and decides to leave, taking Setsuko with him, to live on their own.
( http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/grave/ )

Ronin- with Robert DeNiro? My roommate and I watched that once in college when we were drunk and almost pissed ourselves laughing.

would make just about any human being cry... right Antonio???

Mask (the movie about a guy with a massive skull deformation, had Cher in it) was very sad I remember.

Mask- yeah, I saw that years and years ago as well-- very sad movie- I think it'd be worth watching again.

Steele Magnolias
Ya Ya Sisterhood
Gone with the Wind- the end at least when Melli dies

Beaches

ET

Aw, you guys are so good at this!!

or the soap operas- like General Hospital when Anna and Scorpio die and everyone attends the funeral.

Eight Below - good if you've ever owned a pet. Cried my eyes out on the plane and then again 5 days later when I saw it with my parents (who had a Siberian Husky - thought for sure they would cry).
Oh, and that babe, Paul Walker, is in it. What a hottie!

American History X, intense, but very sad ending

Also a vote for Mask

Gladiator (the soundtrack is just so awesome... and the scene where he is walking back to his dead wife and child...)

Sophie's Choice

may only work if you have kids though

In America is a real tear jerker and I'm not normally a person that cries at movies...

If you're a mouse lover:

The Green Mile
Flowers for Algernon (no idea if they made this into a movie but the story always made me cry buckets)

Million Dollar Baby... cheery as fuck!!

This must be a real tear-jerker (found by Googling 'saddest movie ever') http://youcantmakeitup.blogspot.com/2006/0...ic-history.html


He of course names it after Helen Keller.

A personal recommendation though is La Vita è Bella (Life is Beautiful) directed by Roberto Benigni, which is by turn comical, harrowing, and redemptive. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/

In Italian but available with subtitles on DVD.

"Once were warriors" has a pretty sad bit in it too.

It is a movie: Charly. Made in 1968. Cliff Robertson won Best Oscar for it. It's good, but a bit 60s-psychadelic, if you know what I mean. Remembering the book from Grade 9 is probably better.

The World's Fastest Indian is a bit of a tear jerker...so I've heard.

The Notebook...totally sappy chick flick and horrible tear jerker. I NEVER cry during movies but this one made me sob.

and for some reason, Man Without a Face (Mel Gibson). I'm sure I'll think of a few others...

Thanks showem, that is now on my must see list.

It looks like the Albertan educational curriculum remains pretty consistent.

Ray
I am Sam
Mystic River
Million Dollar Baby
Forrest Gump
Fried Green Tomatoes
Somewhere in Time

a variety of movies that made me cry...

Serenissima - you beat me to it.

Also, 'The Constant Gardner' - very moving.

The Deer Hunter

Debbie does dallas...

Tragic ending... poor girl ending up in a place like that...