Favorite sad movies

Hey all! I'm a sucker for sad movies and was wondering, if anyone could recommend any? Some of my favourites are Precious, For Colored Girls, The Color Purple and Prayers For Bobby. I also cry everytime I watch The Sixth Sense during the scene with Toni Collette and Haley Osment in the car.

Shadowlands

And I can't even think about La Bamba without crying!

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Amour, Winter's Bone, Blade Runner, Life of Pi, The Lost Weekend, Brokeback Mountain, The Nun's Story, Story of Women, Cries and Whispers, Sounder, Brief Encounter, Waterloo Bridge (Leigh, Taylor), A Christmas Carol (Sim), A Star is Born (Garland, Mason), Capote, The Night of the Hunter, Nights of Cabiria, Life is Beautiful, Gone With the Wind, The Garden of the Finzi Continis, The Children's Hour, Pixote, Pan's Labyrinth, Opening Night, Boys Don't Cry, The Member of the Wedding, The Heiress, A Cry in the Dark, Far From Heaven, Raise the Red Lantern, Great Expectations, Jude, Heavenly Creatures, Wild Strawberries, A Tale of Two Cities, Anna Karenina, Camille, Terms of Endearment, Vertigo, Modern Times, Days of Heaven, Jane Eyre (Welles, Fontaine), Rebecca, The Reader, Secrets and Lies, Vera Drake, Enemies: A Love Story, Les Miserables (Bauer), The Remains of the Day, The Sixth Sense, Stand by Me, Dolores Claiborne, Chinatown, The Devil's Backbone, Stella Dallas, Waltzing with Bashir, It's A Wonderful Life, The Apartment, The Purple Ross of Cairo, Tokyo Story, My Left Foot, Spartacus, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, The Emigrants/The New Land, I Want to Live!, Requiem for a Dream, A Portrait of Jenny

Updated On: 4/14/13 at 05:07 PM

Need to separate this:

Non-Disney animated movies:
Grave of the Fireflies
The Iron Giant
Waltz with Bashir

Disney animated movies:
Dumbo
Bambi
Pinocchio

Pixar:
Toy Story 3
The first 15 minutes of Up

Haneke:
All of them.

Spielberg:
A.I.
The Color Purple
E.T.

Live-action:
Sirk's version of Imitation of Life
Edward Yang's A Brighter Summer Day
Make Way for Tomorrow
Clean, Shaven
The Ice Storm
The Shootist
The Kid
City Lights
The Bicycle Thieves
Umberto D.
Zhang Yimou's To Live
Ivan's Childhood
Ballad of a Soldier
It's A Wonderful Life
David Cronenberg's The Fly
Mulholland Drive
Brief Encounter
In the Mood for Love
Once
Birth
Never Let Me Go
The Gospel According to St. Matthew- Nobody does a bible story like the atheist Pasolini

Updated On: 4/15/13 at 06:43 PM

I try to avoid sad movies, preferring upbeat musicals.

Brian's Song
Love Story
Stepmom
Prince of Tides (parts of it especially)

I'm sure there are a million others I'll think of later. Well, maybe not a million.

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As awful as it is to some, Beaches gave me emotional trauma at some point.

And gay, it gave me gay too.

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Oh I forgot Steel Magnolias. Probably because it is also pretty funny. And Philadelphia. I seriously lost my **** in the car for 20 minutes after that movie before I could drive.

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That's funny because I'm actually the same way. But show me a Hallmark commercial and I'm an emotional mess for the rest of the night.

"Let the Right One In" was way sad on so many levels

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Updated On: 4/15/13 at 09:44 AM

For me, as well, the first 15 minutes of Up.

The end of Marley and Me. I knew it was coming, and that didn't help it at all.

I often cry when a movie brings up a painful subject in my life. I only cried during one viewing of The Notebook, and that was mostly because a grandmother was suffering through dementia and forgetting me all the time.

It sounds crazy to throw in an Adam Sandler movie, but there's a scene in Click that 100% of the time will make me cry. It's when he realizes he fast-forwarded through the last time he saw his dad. When he has to rewind and watch that moment as a silent observer, it is painful to him (and me) how he treats his dad. He then pauses it so he could just stand next to his dad and say the Goodbye he didn't get to.

I forgot about LOGGERHEADS. Man, that was a sad one.

MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS always makes me sob, also. And if you've never seen LORENZO'S OIL, be prepared to cry like someone turned on a faucet in your eyes.

I don't normally cry from movies either. Now I remember, I did cry at the end of Les Miserables. Except for some of the really popular music, it was my first exposure to it.

I've been noticing as I get older that a lot of Disney movies seem sad before the ending. Except The Fox and the Hound. That ended really sad. I was watching Homeward Bound one night recently and cried when the dog fell in the hole & couldn't get out. I saw the movie before and knew the outcome, but it seemed sadder for some reason.

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